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Today and Sunday: Creekside Music and Arts Festival 2023, the 18th edition, at Princess Place Preserve, 2500 Princess Place Road, Palm Coast, Fla., Saturday and Sunday, October 7 and 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, admission is $10 per person, kids 12 and under get in free. Free parking. Gather under the majestic oaks for this local tradition that celebrates the natural beauty of Northeast Florida. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy a variety of music including bluegrass, country, rock & classic hits. Shop rows of unique arts & craft vendors. There’ll be historic demonstrations from a blacksmith, a fur trapper and pottery wheel creations. Kids zone with train rides, pony rides, petting zoo, hayrides, bounce houses. Big food court. Fall festival brews in the beer garden. Explore the Princess Lodge and other historic sites. Organized by Flagler Broadcasting.
The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up starting at 9 a.m. in front of the Flagler Beach pier. All volunteers welcome.
Monthly Volunteer Clean-Up Day at the Florida Agriculture Museum, 2 to 5 p.m. at 7900 Old Kings Road N., Palm Coast. All chores will be light-duty cleanup. You’ll be working on things like cleaning exhibits and keeping the farm and venue in tip-top shape for visitors, staff and animals. This is a perfect opportunity for teenagers who need community service hours for school; or any volunteer services who need community service hours. The museum provides all supplies. Just bring your gloves and drinking water. Check-in at the Gift Shop to fill out the volunteer form. Call (386) 446-7630.
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Maze Dayz Fall Festival, Cowart Ranch and Farms, 8185 West Highway 100, Bunnell. $15 per person. Get lost in our walk through maze, pumpkin Patch with lots of picture opportunities, buy local produce from our sunflower patch, tractor driven hayrides and a lot more.
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone: Every first Saturday we invite new residents out to learn everything about Flagler County at Cornerstone Center, 608 E. Moody Blvd, Bunnell, 1 to 2:30 p.m. We have a great time going over dog friendly beaches and parks, local social clubs you can be a part of as well as local favorite restaurants.
Stetson Choral Festival: The Stetson University Choral Festival features a select high school choir performing S.A.T.B. repertoire. Led by Dr. Timothy Peter, Stetson University’s Director of Choral Activities, and Dr. Sandra Peter, this two-day festival focuses on healthy singing, spirited rehearsals and outstanding performances as we develop the joy of singing through musical excellence. Starting at 9 a.m., with a 7 p.m. public concert, at no cost, at at Stetson Baptist, 1025 W Minnesota Ave, DeLand, featuring the Stetson Concert Choir and the Festival High School Honor Choir.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Notably: Is this sustainable? From Statista: “The price of single-family homes in the U.S. has been climbing upwards since first reaching a new high in February of 2022, releases by the Federal Housing Finance Agency show. The FHFA House Price Index increased to more than 409 index points in July, the latest month on record, up from 406 points in June and 396 in February. […] Between June 2022 and February 2023, the market had broken its relentless upward trajectory as mortgage rate increases put pressure on the market by deterring buyers and investors. One factor driving rates up was the Fed’s measures to rein in inflation caused by responses to the war in Ukraine. […] Another factor in prices that are rising once more are tight inventories, a consequence of long-term trends like the new-found tendency of older Americans to “age in place” rather than to downgrade, snowbird or move into retirement communities.” No aging in place in Palm Coast’s trends.
Now this: Víkingur Ólafsson has a new recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Here’s the opening Aria:
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Gone are gender-neutral bathrooms, hallway art that in some cases featured nudity and student murals that had been completed in February and were expected to remain for several years. Student orientation leaders had to remove Black Lives Matter and Pride pins from their polo shirts. A student government election this week pitted a returning student against a new student backed by a newly formed campus chapter of the conservative organization Turning Point USA. Dan Duprez, a former New College admissions officer, said he was troubled by the tactics used to grow the incoming class, noting that the grade-point averages and standardized test scores of new students were lower than those of past freshman classes. He recalled a colleague showing him an admissions essay that was a screenshot of cellphone notes, “riddled with incorrect spelling and grammar, saying, basically, ‘I just want to play ball.’” “That person went on to be accepted,” Mr. Duprez said. Administrators say they had little time to recruit the large incoming class that they wanted. Many top athletes had already committed to other schools, and critics say New College recruited students heavily from Christian schools. Mr. DeSantis has said he wants New College to model itself after Hillsdale College, a private Christian institution in Michigan.
–From “Sports Are In, Gender Studies Are Out at College Targeted by DeSantis,” by Patricia Mazzei, The New York Times, Sept. 22, 2023.
Ray W. says
So, the effort to recreate Hilldale College results in a lowering of the academic standards for admission to New College?
The original definition of woke was the state of being “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.”
Now, Merriam-Webster defines it as “… aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).”
Certain FlaglerLive commenters present as being bent on redefining “woke” to mean whatever it is that they resent at whatever moment in time they are thinking of their ever-changing resentments. One actually decried as “woke” the field of climate science.
In context of the newer Merriam-Webster definition, I recently read a New York Times article published around the date of the release of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, with the article being based on a book published by Marissa Moss, a scientific historian who has been researching a large set of correspondence between a chemist and a physicist in the late 1930’s.
The article focused on the work of an Austrian Jewish physicist, Dr. Lise Meitner, who collaborated for many years in Germany with Dr. Otto Hahn in his lab prior to her having to flee Germany in 1938 after the Austrian Anschluss (she had lost her protected status as an Austrian when Austria was absorbed into Germany). Indeed, they had already successfully proved the existence of a new atom, protactinium. Dr. Niels Bohr, perhaps one of the most respected and celebrated physicists in Germany at that time, and still so today, arranged for train passage for Dr. Meitner out of Germany; she eventually made her way to Sweden.
Dr. Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contribution to the effort to understand the physics and chemistry involved in splitting an atom, in this case uranium, which led to the development of the atomic bomb. He was credited with publishing a paper in 1938 that described the results of a collision between a neutron and a uranium atom. On accepting his prize, Dr. Hahn referred to Dr. Meitner with a German word that, translated into English, loosely means assistant or employee.
In reality, Dr. Meitner had come up with and then shared her idea that solved the atom-splitting question. Physics theory of the day held that the collision between a neutron and uranium should result in a heavier atom. But their experiments revealed that the collision created barium, an element lighter than uranium. One snowy Swedish day, Dr. Meitner theorized in conversation with a nephew that if barium was created in the collision, then instead of looking for a heavier element, she should be looking for a second lighter element, meaning that what was happening in the collision was a splitting of a heavy element into two lighter elements. If the creation of two lighter elements was the accurate answer to the problem, then Dr. Meitner theorized that the second element should be krypton. She then shared her theory via letter with Dr. Hahn, who used her theory to prove in his laboratory the splitting of an atom into the two lighter elements. In further correspondence between the two, Dr. Hahn acknowledged that she was responsible for the success of his work. Both scientists acknowledged in their correspondence the problem of dealing with an authoritarian German government that would not permit him to acknowledge the importance of her work.
The rest, of course, is history. A male German chemist wins the Nobel for the theory of splitting the atom. A female Jewish Austrian physicist (later to be repeatedly nominated for the prize in physics, only to be passed over), only the second woman to earn a doctorate from the University of Vienna, is officially referred to as an “assistant” or “employee.”
Is it socially just to take credit for another’s ideas? If not, is it woke to engage in an effort to correct the injustice? More importantly, is it possible that there is a political effort underway to split the definition of woke into two camps? One definition centering on a positive, constructive, and intellectually accurate effort to correct injustice? The other constituting a negative, destructive, and intellectually careless effort to create more injustice?
Pogo says
@FWIW
This day, and date, should end, once and for all, the phrase lucky seven.
Until the next time.
Pogo says
@Rat W.
Thank you.
James says
Just don’t tell Lady Luck that Pogo, that’s one of her favorite numbers. :-)
Just my opinion.
candice cornelssen says
Disappointed that the Palm Coast Observer has shown their lack of credibility as journalists by publishing a cartoon so biased. You hurt your own community with a message whose sole purpose is to create division. You don’t need me to point out that Americans are tired of the dirty game of politics. Bring us together. You have an audience.
Laurel says
Ray W.: No. If you are looking for yet another definition of woke, just as you pointed out the many meanings of “run,” maybe, but I don’t think it will hold. It’s a passing fad, and I don’t think the *evolution* of woke will continue. To define it, as one dictionary does, as being alert to social injustice is slang, and a stretching of the definition. The negative usage of the word, as you stated, to mean practically anything the using person wants it to be, is not a definition.
The duality of the word, as you have pointed out, is a very interesting, though.
Now, the English language does change, much to my chagrin. I cringe when I hear someone use the word “groceries” and pronounce it as “growshuries,” yet, our dictionary states both pronunciations are correct. Aaaghh!
Pogo says
@Ray W.
Good grief! Sorry for the typo.
Pierre Tristam says
Candice, I resent in the strongest possible terms that the Palm Coast Observer had done any such thing!