Weather: Mostly cloudy. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Thursday Night: Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Near steady temperature in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
‘Tuck Everlasting,’ at Limelight Theater, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. Tickets: $22.50. Book here. 7:30 p.m., except on Sundays, when the show is at 2 p.m. What would you do if you had all eternity? Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. When Winnie learns of the magic behind the Tuck’s unending youth, she must fight to protect their secret from those who would do anything for a chance at eternal life. As her adventure unfolds, Winnie faces an extraordinary choice: return to her life, or continue with the Tucks on their infinite journey.
Notably: The unfortunate events and people whose memory and anniversaries are limited to leap years: St. Petersburg–our own St. Petersburg in Florida, not the one the cruel and far=-seeing Peter called “the Great” built on the bones of thousands on the banks of the Neva) was incorporated on this day in 1892, though Wikipedia is confused about that: in the article on St. Petersburg, the incorporation of the city is placed in June 1903, while St. Petersburg the town was incorporated in 1892. Did Palm Coast leap over the town part? But I can’t find much else of great note on this day. A coup in Haiti? Those are all over the calendar, so Feb. 29 was bound to hit (Aristide, removed in 2004). Rossini and Jimmy Dorsey, those two comparable musicians, were both Feb. 29 babies, so was Balthus, the French painter who liked to paint little girls in their nickers, and sometimes without them (I recall the semi-scandalous retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art sometime in the 1980s), there’s also Hermione Lee, born in 1948, the New Yorker critic, but again, not a day rich in notable births. I tried to find something witty Voltaire had said about leap years, couldn’t, but he did once propose that, unlike his near-contemporary Retif de la Bretonne, who wrote a delightful Mon Calendrier, about his daily conquests of women (and an even more delightful autobiography that I far prefer to that of the dour and narcissistic Rousseau), there should be a calendar of injustices: each day of the year should have its history of horrors. I think it would defeat any scholar, any amateur: it would be like the Book of the Dead. It would be endless. But it could be segmented, the way the The Equal Justice Initiative devised the History of Racial Injustice Calendar. For example, Feb. 29, 1960: “Alabama Governor Demands Student Organizers Be Expelled For Anti-Segregation Protests.” See below.
—P.T.
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Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
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Leap year is upon us again, a year when maidens’ unclaimed hearts are supposed to flutter hopefully. Tomorrow is “leap day” itself, when 120,000 Americans will celebrate their first true birthday since 1956, and all of us will get an extra day’s worth for our February rent and mortgage checks. […] While being born on Feb. 29 is beyond the victim’s control, it is surprising that local churches and City Hall report little or no observable decline in weddings on leap day. It is, when you think of it, rather a neat trick–no male married tomorrow is likely to forget his anniversary, and he can remember it at four-year intervals if he chooses. Whatever the marriage incidence tomorrow, there is a good chance that 1960 as a whole will be a poor year for marriages. According to the records, the marriage rate has dropped in six out of the past nine leap years, both nationally and in New York City. True, leap years are also election vears (which explains nothing), and a few leap years. like 1932, have been economicallv unpropitious for marriage. But there is no discoverable reason for the 2-1 odds on this being a slow year for weddings unless today’s males are at last taking their revenge.
–From Charles Leedham’s About column, :Leap Year,” The New York Times, Feb. 28, 1960.
