The online publication of Poynter’s Summer Program for Recent College Graduates.
At Dorene Day’s booths at Maxi Mall in St. Petersburg, you’ll find towels hand-edged in lace, and inspired service.
At Dorene’s Floral and Furnishings you won’t find an endless ocean of merchandise, workers in blue vests,… Read more
Two St. Petersburg coffeehouses show that friendships can thrive in any environment, as long as there’s a cup of joe.
By John Sutter
Arthur James “A.J.” Wilkerson Jr. sits at his table on a recent Sunday decked out in… Read more
A retired civil rights attorney spreads the word in Lake Maggiore: It’s righteous to recycle.
By Anna Sowa
Stuffed in a muggy living room before 11 tired-looking church leaders, Ed Helm hopes he is preaching to the choir.
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Congress summarized the following customs in 1942 for displaying the flag:
Nine-year-old Kayla Becker knows the Pledge of Allegiance by heart. She says it once a week at school. She can’t sing the national anthem from memory, but when she drew the picture of the American flag… Read more
Deep down, these veterans are always with the flag.
Sixty-two-year-old Tommy Teal, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10174 in Gulfport, learned as a child to salute it. In the jungles of Vietnam,… Read more
In here, you might say every day is the Fourth of July.
Red, white and blue are everywhere inside Gulfport’s American Legion Andy Anderson Post 125. Veterans and guests share drinks at the bar under… Read more
If you saw this neighborhood, you might fall in love. So, better not: To buy there, it’s not what you love, but who you know.
By Anne Jungen
If the walls of the stucco house on Driftwood Road could… Read more
By Meg Martin
He was a frequent customer at Haslam’s Book Store. The notorious Jack Kerouac. Jack, who would duck in the front door and slink over to the trade fiction section. Jack, who pulled all of his books… Read more