Stephendare speaks on Preservation

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from HPC minutes, July 28, 2010:

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[Live_Oak]

Nice.

Is there a link to the rest of the minutes?

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http://www.coj.net/Departments/Advisory+Boards+and+Commissions/Jacksonville+Historic+Preservation+Commission.htm

The July 28th meeting.

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Stephen's speech makes me want to sing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8921j20e8

He makes reference to LaVilla.  Excellent MJ article here:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2006-nov-downtown-frankenstein-lavilla-style

[Kay]

Stephen:

You were wonderful!

Kay

[Wacca Pilatka]

Wish I'd had been there to hear it.  As moving and eloquent as I've come to expect.

[Ocklawaha]

For over a thousand years...

   
                   
...Roman conquerors
returning from the wars...

   
                   
...enjoyed the honor of a triumph,
a tumultuous parade.

   
                   
In the procession came trumpeters
and musicians and strange animals...

   
                   
...from the conquered territories...

   
                   
... together with carts laden with
treasure and captured armaments.

   
                   
The conqueror rode
in a triumphal chariot...

   
                   
... the dazed prisoners
walking in chains before him.

   
                   
Sometimes, his children,
robed in white...

   
                   
...stood with him in the chariot,
or rode the trace horses.

   
                   
A slave stood behind the conqueror...

   
                   
...holding a golden crown...

   
                   
...and whispering in his ear
a warning...

   
                   
... that all glory...

   
                   
...is fleeting.



...so it is JACKSONVILLE



...so it is...



(APOLOGIES TO 20Th CENTURY FOX FOR BENDING THE QUOTE)

OCKLAWAHA