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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, December 26, 2024

December 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Psychiatrist Tells Patient to Stop Watching News by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA
Psychiatrist Tells Patient to Stop Watching News by Monte Wolverton, Battle Ground, Washington.

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Weather: Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s.

  • Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
  • Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
  • Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
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Today at a Glance:

Bachfest continues: click here.

Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 55 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.



Byblos: For a book so slim–maybe 120 pages–it took me a couple of weeks to make it through Sarah Orne Jewett’s County of the Pointed Firs, a sort of novel in the form of successive sketches published in 1896 after the author spent a summer somewhere on the Maine coast. The prose is elegant, the setting is often limpid, because it’s Maine, where–logging’s ravages aside–there can’t possibly be a square inch of ugliness, and a couple of characters have a memorable moment or two, but this minor classic of American literature was a bit of a slog for me. “In the life of each of us,” the author tells us she said to herself, “there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.” A line like this promises a lot, but the delivery didn’t seem to be there. I finally picked up the book after learning that Jewett had been an influence on Willa Cather. Aside from Jewett’s strength of character and gliding prose, it appears Cather sped past her mentor very quickly, though Cather had also noted that a lot of us would have no way to connect with Jewett: “Imagine,” she’d written in a 1936 essay, ” young man, or woman, born in New York City, educated at a New York university, violently inoculated with Freud, hurried into journalism, knowing no more about New England country people (or country folk anywhere) than he has caught from motor trips or observed from summer hotels: what is there for him in The Country of the Pointed Firs?” I feel accused, but I’ll plead no contest.

—P.T.

 

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August 2025
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Monday, Aug 25
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Aug 25
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting

Palm Coast City Hall
Monday, Aug 25
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Bunnell City Commission Meeting

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Tuesday, Aug 26
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Palm Coast City Council Workshop

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Tuesday, Aug 26
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Flagler County School Board Information Workshop

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Tuesday, Aug 26
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee Meeting

Emergency Operations Center
Tuesday, Aug 26
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Aug 26
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Free Know Your Rights Workshop for Renters by Community Legal Services at Flagler Cares

Flagler Cares' Flagler County Village
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Tuesday, Aug 26
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NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting

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Tuesday, Aug 26
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Flagler County School Board Meeting

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Tuesday, Aug 26
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy

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When I went in again the little house had suddenly grown lonely, and my room looked empty as it had the day I came. I and all my belongings had died out of it, and I knew how it would seem when Mrs. Todd came back and found her lodger gone. So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

–From Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

 

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