Hemming Park, pre 1977

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Judith Geftner, was an award winning photographer whose home was Jacksonville. In 1976, the National Endowment of the Arts gave the city a grant for public Art. Part of that was a series of experience in Hemming Park. Judith took picutres that became slides of the entire experience from music to ballet. The carousel of slides was given to the Art Assembly, now the Cutlural Arts Council while Bob White was the Director and is , I assume, still there. Metro Jax might find it interesting to secure these or borrow them and put them on this website. Judith, thanks to Ed Ball, was the first woman in slacks and the first woman ever to eat on the Men'sside of the River Club in the old days. He came in with her, she was doing shots of him for Life and Time, the staff stopped her, and Mr. Ball, said, that she was with him, So guess what, the staff caved in immediately. She had great stories about the people and things she photographed around town.