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News-Journal’s Mark Lane, Chronicler of the Darwinian, Will Try to Explain Florida In Library Talk Friday

March 31, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Mark Lane.
Mark Lane in Boston, where he graduated college. (Cindi Lane).
Mark Lane has been writing columns at the Daytona Beach News-Journal since the end of Bill Clinton’s reign and the beginning of SpongeBob SquarePants’s in 1999. He’s managed to combine the sensibilities of both: a keen affinity for centrist politics and a keener flair for humor well suited for Florida’s spongy weirdness. Through it all Lane has managed to survive the years of Jeb Bush, Charlie Crist, Rick Scott, Tippen Davidson and even Michael Redding–the latter two being the last two owners of the paper in whose journalistically irreconcilable pages Lane’s remains the only voice common to both.

As survivors go, he’s a rare breed.

Lane will be bringing his wit, observations and histories to the Flagler County Public Library in Palm Coast on Friday, April 4, at 2 p.m., for a talk entitled, “Trying to Explain Florida in Print.” The talk is hosted by the Friends of the Library of Flagler County.

Lane is a three-times-a-week metro columnist at the News-Journal, at home analyzing legislative shenanigans as comfortably as he spots the latest spring-break trends, measures the ecological health if State Road A1A or, more assiduously, the state of the culture, at least from the ground up, through his recurring Darwinian Gardener pieces: as a survivor in newspapering, he knows a few things about the survival of print’s fittest.

Lane, a history graduate of Boston College, worked in a variety of positions at the News Journal since 1980 before becoming a full time columnist. He’s the recipient of innumerable awards for columns and editorials from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists (its Sunshine State Awards) and the Florida Press Club. A collection of his columns, “Sandspurs: Notes from a Coastal Columnist,” was published by University Press of Florida in 2008.

The library is at 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy in Palm Coast. Refreshments will be served, and the talk is free and open to the public.

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  1. Lilly says

    March 31, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    Perhaps I’m going to have to play hookey from work! Big fan!

  2. rickg says

    March 31, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Oh yeah… I’ll be there to hear and see one of my favorite columnists.

  3. orphan says

    March 31, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    I read all of his articles. He puts out the sanest writing that that paper puts out-and that paper DOES put out!

  4. Bob Cuff says

    March 31, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    Worth the price of admission (it is free, right?) if only for his steadfast support for making Boxing Day a national holiday.

  5. Mary Cannady says

    April 3, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    Is anyone from the “F” section going? if so, can I hitch a ride? Thanks!!

  6. markingthedays says

    April 12, 2014 at 9:42 am

    Always been a big fan of his!

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