• San Marco Square: An Afternoon in the Most Walkable Pocket of Jacksonville,Joey Larsen

    San Marco Square: An Afternoon in the Most Walkable Pocket of Jacksonville

    Where Do You Go in Jacksonville When You Want to Park Once and Walk? Three bronze lions sit in a small park where three streets come together, and around them is a block of low stucco buildings with arched windows and tile roofs that somebody in the 1920s built to look like Venice. There is a theate

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  • Living in Mandarin: Old Jacksonville Under the Oaks,Joey Larsen

    Living in Mandarin: Old Jacksonville Under the Oaks

    Is There Anywhere in Jacksonville That Still Feels Like a Village? Drive Mandarin Road on a weekday morning and the pavement narrows to something barely two lanes wide with oaks meeting overhead and glimpses of the St. Johns River flashing between old houses on the water side. There is a park with a

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  • Moving From South Carolina to Northeast Florida: Two Coasts, Two Different Lives,Joey Larsen

    Moving From South Carolina to Northeast Florida: Two Coasts, Two Different Lives

    Why Would Anyone Leave the Lowcountry? This is the one move people apologize for. South Carolina is beautiful, the Lowcountry marsh is the same marsh we have here, and if you have spent years in Charleston or Bluffton or Mount Pleasant you already know what a live oak does to a street. But the peopl

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