Where to Find a View and a Drink: Rooftop Spots on the First Coast

Where do you take somebody when you want them to see the whole thing at once? There is a moment, maybe forty minutes before sunset in October, when the light here turns a color you do not get anywhere north of about Savannah. The humidity has dropped. The river goes from brown to bronze. The bridges

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When Half the Street Leaves in April: Living Among Snowbirds

Have You Ever Watched a Street Exhale? It happens over about two weeks in April. You notice it on a Thursday when you're taking the trash out. The house on the corner has its hurricane shutters down on the side windows. The blue sedan that was always in the driveway across the street is gone, and th

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Moving From Louisiana to Northeast Florida: What Feels Familiar and What Does Not

Will Northeast Florida Feel Like Home or Like a Foreign Country? It's a Saturday in April and there's a pot going in the driveway. Somebody brought a table. The newspaper is down, the corn and potatoes are in, and the whole street smells like cayenne and boiling water. Somebody's uncle is arguing ab

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