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Weather: Partly cloudy. Highs around 70. Low in the mid-40s.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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Today at a Glance:
The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, where the City Commission is holding its meetings until it is able to occupy its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway in 2025. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
The Flagler County Beekeepers Association holds its monthly meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Flagler Agricultural Center, 150 Sawgrass Rd., Bunnell (the county fairgrounds). This is a meeting for beekeepers in Flagler and surrounding counties (and those interested in the trade). The meetings have a speaker, Q & A, and refreshments are served. It is a great way to gain support as a beekeeper or learn how to become one. All are welcome. Meetings take place the fourth Monday of every month. Contact Kris Daniels at 704-200-8075.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Byblos: The Library of America just delivered Black Writers of the Founding Era, 1760-1800, a 700-page addition to the ever-growing magnificence of the Library’s unique anthologies: not just compendiums of period pieces, but chronologically arranged pieces that give you the immersive feel of the era, like reading a great correspondence. It’s history in real time, written by men and women who usually were unknowing atoms of greater explosive power than they knew, in historical movements not yet drawn out. Those volumes have included the two years of the debates on the Constitution, World War I’s peace movement, World War II, the civil rights era, the Vietnam war, the Civil War, Reconstruction, American sermons, two superb volumes of American speeches (words more than ideas keep remaking this nation: a double-edged sword, because words can be no less lethal and empty than ideology; for every Dream speech, there’s a few Calhoon poisons, and Reagan’s plagiarisms are more often remembered and quoted than Adlai Stevenson’s original wit). Now we have Black Writers of the Founding Era, edited by James Basker, a (white) American Studies and literary history specialist of the 18th century at Barnard College. We get writers we, most of us anyway, have never heard of, which is just the point: this book has shades of the 1619 Project, upending our assumptions and finally re-placing voices of the past in their rightful place: Jupiter Hammond, Phillis Cogsqwell, Phillis Wheatley, Newton Prince, Cuffee Wright, Sezor Phelps, and so on. It is, as the Library’s blurb puts it, “by far the richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled,” writers enslaved and free, painters, poets, preachers and cooks, those leaves of grass so long trampled and buried under whiter presumptions. They may not have known the weight of their voices yet, but as James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw put it in his life narrative (this one I vaguely recalled having been anthologized in the Library’s Slave Narratives a couple of decades ago), “It is possible the circumstance I am going to relate will not gain credit with many; but this I know, that the joy and comfort it conveyed to me, cannot be expressed and only conceived by those who have experienced the like.”
—P.T.
Now this: James G. Basker: Black Writers of the Founding Era
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June 2025
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Food Truck Tuesday
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Contractor Review Board Meeting
Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board
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Our philosopher tells us, that amongst animated beings, the weakest is ruled by the strongest. This we are to suppose is a law of nature–a law for man–that whoever is stronger than his neighbor, may seize him and sell or force him to till his ground, or whoever is wiser than another, may over reach and despoil him of his property–What becomes of the generous principle which teaches the strong to protect the weak? No, this is not the nature of man–the savage does not so–’tis the civilized European that takes advantage of the superiority, civilization gives him over the untutored African? and robs him of the liberty to indulge himself in luxury–‘Tis the civilized European that corrupts the African, and prompts him like the white to betray his brother and such philosophers as Rusticus, would persuade the European that he is right. Neither is the sheep hairy African inferior in strength of body or mind to the European. Civilization is all that gives the boasted superiority, and according to our philosopher’s principle, the most powerful nation has a natural right to seize on the property and persons of the weaker. So not only the sheep hairy negro is born for slavery, but the horse hairy native of America, or in short, people of black, brown or red hair, if another people have force or cunning to subdue them. Most admirable philosophy! After all his pains and trouble to convince the world that from our inferior nature, we black, sheep hairy negroes are marked out for slaves.
–From a letter to the editor of the Gazette of the United States, by Africanus, March 6, 1790, in Black Writers of the Founding Era, Library of America (2023).
Dennis C Rathsam says
As TRUMP hits the ground running, acomplishing more things in 4 days than BIDEN did in 4 years.Promises made, promises kept! We still have some sore losers, trying to sabatoge his presidency. Anyone that calls TRUMP a psychopath, needs to look closely into the mirror.Mr King, has hated TRUMP for years, that’s his problem.Americans voted for change loud & clear, & change is coming day by day. It’s funny since TRUMP was reelected, all the powerfull people, are running to MARALAGO, to kiss the ring. A lot of them, Kamala,s doners…. FLIP FLOP FOOLS! I laugh as I watch TRUMP look right through them. I call it the kiss ass team! TRUMP smiles & says THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. He listens & then goes about the job Americans ELLECTED him to do.
Pogo says
@Does anyone else care
…that the malignant sack of pus in “the oval” is nakedly boasting of conquest?
Anyway, have a nice day.
Patrick. says
He is not helping the American people, from his first day in back in office all it is about is his REVENGE PERIOD. Stop watching trash Fox and get the real news.
Also he is putting into effect PROJECT 25, you remember voters the one he said he knew nothing about. Boy did he sucker you all.
Ed P says
Just an observation. Maybe, the left who is looking for anything to criticize Trump over, might want to wait until he does something unpopular with the majority of Americans.
Radical policies week one, but popular. Pick which sword to fall on. Cry wolf daily, and everyone quit listening.
It’s much like name calling the right, didn’t work, won’t work.
Let’s spend our energies and focus on locating 300,000 misplaced unaccompanied minors.
FlaPharmTech says
Dennis, please at least use Spell Check. Your comments are hard enough to read (let alone stomach) with the plethora of spelling and grammar errors. Stephen King is a brilliant writer and keeper of sanity. Learn something today, anything.
Good luck. This won’t end well for any of us, but mostly you who have swallowed the orange idiot’s pee.