Big Things Coming !

St. Augustine citizens are starting to prepare for the city's 450th birthday celebration in 2015. Jamestown, Va had it's 400th anniversary last year and it brought out the Queen of England and the President of the United States. Pensacola Fla. has begun it's preparations for a 450th celebration in 2009,billing itself arguably as"North America’s First Major European Settlement". The term North America may mean different things to different people in the world according to the context.

Parts of the programs at Colonial Williamsburg has been mentioned as a model for St. Augustine. It is important to note that Colonial Williamsburg is a privately owned recreation of 17th century life and has many inaccuracies. To some critics Colonial Williamsburg has become a sort of "theme park" with its many reenactments and "living history " programs.

No one needs to remind people that St. Augustine is a "living city". When we celebrate our own birthdates we think of the present and future as well as the past.

Let's also remember that the geographic area of St. Augustine was a busy population center when the Spanish landed. See Seloy

It's going to be fun !

Support Free Speech (Even For The Ignorant)

From The St. Augustine Record: Mayor Boles speaking of our 450th Birthday gala:

"This was the birthplace of Christianity in the New World," (Mayor)Boles said. "This is not putting together an arts and crafts festival. This is not something we can have in the Plaza." He hoped the "birthplace of Christianity" aspect would bring a visit from the Pope. Boles said the Pope's visit cannot be planned further than two years out and added that His Holiness will only respond to an invitation by the president anyway, so talk is premature.

Well ,we gotta say that the extreme hubris of this city must partially emanate from our Mayor Boles. He wants the Pope to be here for our 450th anniversary? His wholly innacurate view of history is astounding. Christianity was unheard of in the New World before Menendez? Man, the French Calvinists and Huegonauts at Fort Caroline near Jacksonville were not they Christian? Fray Bernardo Boil celebrated Catholic Mass at La Isabela, Dominican Republic on January 6, 1494 seventy one years before St. Augustine existed. It appears that Mayor Boles views Catholicism as the only Christian church and The United States is the only nation in the "New World" . Doctor Adams (City Historian).......set this boy down for a history lesson.

Commissioners, do not embarass yourselves and the city by extending the German Pope an invitation to our fair city based upon ridiculously absurd mistatements. We already gave our ideas here. Let's add Placido Domingo and Pedro Almodóvar to the invitation list.