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Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Miracle on 34th Street at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. on Sunday. $15 for adults, $10 for children. When a department store Santa claims he’s the real deal, his case goes all the way to the Supreme Court. A little girl’s belief makes the difference. Radio style show with live sound effects and holiday carols. Be our studio audience!
Christmas Cabaret at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave, St. Augustine. 2 p.m. This Christmas Cabaret concert showcases our talent throughout Northeastern Florida for all to see, with performances of Modern Christmas songs.
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.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Notably: Arthurdale is a tiny burg in northeast West Virginia, not far from Morgantown, home of the University of West Virginia. It was a different sort of Babcock Ranch, that massive development in Charlotte and Lee counties run almost entirely on solar power. It was a 1,200-acre Depression-era anti-poverty experiment called Arthurdale Homestead launched by Eleanor Roosevelt to house and employ former coal miners and “woodsmen.” Dailey and Eleanor were similarly established communities further south and west, also in West Virginia, as were 94 other communities across the country. FDR delivered a commencement address at the Arthurdale Homestead school in 1938. Calling the experiment an “outstanding contribution” to the New Deal, though Gore Vidal described Arthurdale differently in a review of a book on Eleanor in 1971: “This was a fine dream and a bureaucratic catastrophe. The houses were haphazardly designed, while the factory was not forthcoming (for years any industrialist who wanted to be invited to the White House had only to suggest to Eleanor that he might bring industry to Arthurdale). The right wing of course howled about socialism.” o the New York Times in 1965, “New Deal Antipoverty Projects Now Are Prosperous Suburbs,” it headlined in a 1965 article on page 12 (page 1 had a two-column article about the 1964 New York World’s Fair–incidentally, where Walt Disney introduced his Carousel of Progress, still staged at Magic Kingdom–running up a $17.5 million deficit, the equivalent of $178 million today.) A hosiery mill was built at Arthurdale, but it didn’t function long. It eventually became part of the Sterling Faucet Company of Morgantown, just as “many of the attractive stone houses are owned or rented by members of the faculty at the University of West Virginia.” Today Arturdail hails as “The Nation’s First New Deal Community,” or “Eleanor’s Little Village.” But it has mostly been forgotten by the United States of Amnesia (to borrow Vidal’s phrase, which he attributed, I think, to Louis Auchincloss), though the Preston County Economic Development Authority likes to point out that “The New Deal Homestead Museum is a multi-building museum comprises a forge filled with original tools, an Esso service station reminiscent of a bygone era, the historic Center Hall, the original federal government administration building, and a fully restored Arthurdale homestead. The museum Craft Shop specializes in handmade items created by WV artisans! Today, the area’s population is approximately 780.” Clicking on the link in the quote leads to a page that announces: “Museum Closed in Observation of Independence Day, July 3, 2019.”
—P.T.
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December 2024
Sunday, Dec 22
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Presbyterian Church
Sunday, Dec 22
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Dec 22
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Sunday, Dec 22
Christmas Cabaret at Limelight Theatre
Sunday, Dec 22
Miracle on 34th Street at Daytona Playhouse
Sunday, Dec 22
Al-Anon Family Groups
Sunday, Dec 22
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
Monday, Dec 23
Nar-Anon Family Group
St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Dec 23
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Flagler Agricultural Center
Monday, Dec 23
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Central Park in Town Center
Monday, Dec 23
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
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Quote: As I told you, I flew to Arthurdale yesterday morning. The National Editorial Association had been touring West Virginia and a number of people thought a picnic lunch in the auditorium of the Arthurdale school would be a pleasant end to the trip. I was told quite firmly that my presence was essential and Dr. Adams, the head of the Tri-State Aviation Corporation, offered to come for me in his plane and take me down and bring me back on the same day. My reason for doing this was that I did not wish to lose Saturday evening with Anna and John, who will be leaving this week for Seattle, and I wanted to be at Hyde Park to have some friends for dinner. I had been asked some time ago to visit a pottery project at Blacksville, West Virginia, and so it was decided that, if I was willing to start early in the morning, I could go both to Blacksville and Arthurdale. Dr. Adams and his pilot spent Saturday night with us. We breakfasted at 7:00 A.M. and were actually off the ground at 7:45 daylight time. Headwinds kept us back, however, and instead of reaching Morgantown at 9:30 standard time, we arrived at eleven. I had one friend with me who had never seen that part of the country, so, fortunately, though we had grey skies part of the time, the weather was fairly pleasant during the entire day with occasional blue skies and real sunshine. In spite of our late arrival, we went to Blacksville and I was much interested in the ingenuity they have shown in starting the pottery project. Their machinery is made from parts of old cars and washing machines. In fact, all they could do for themselves, they have done. Mr. Tennant, under whose direction the work is being carried on, is certainly an inspiration. They made a lovely blue tea set for me, which I shall always enjoy using. We travelled over the mountain roads rather more speedily than I enjoyed, but we reached Arthurdale ahead of the editors. Everything went off well there. Mr. Baruch, who joined me on my arrival, voiced what I have been feeling for some time. Namely, that there is a greater sense of solidarity and security among the homesteaders than ever before. I only hope that the work which has been done in Arthurdale, in spite of all the mistakes and drawbacks, will give the 200 families there real security and will, therefore, give more courage to those in other homesteads all over the nation. Our return trip was eventful. We ran into bad weather, skirted some storms, flew under some black clouds, and finally landed at Lancaster, where we were told we could go no further. So four of us were sent in Col. J. Hale Stineman’s car, to Philadelphia in a downpour of rain and what looked like small floods in various places.
–From Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” Column, June 28, 1938..
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