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Title: Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Author: Bill Delaney
Size: 6 x 9
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781681063348
Price: $22.50
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You could call Jacksonville the secret city of Florida because even many natives have a tough time pinning down its defining features and best spots. But for anyone willing to dig beneath the surface, there’s no shortage of incredible sights, hidden histories and unusual relics just waiting to be discovered. Want to see the world’s largest Native American woodcarving, chart the roots of Southern rock, or eat curly fries at the barbecue joint that claims to have invented them?
Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure is dedicated to telling the stories behind forgotten, mysterious and just plain interesting spots across Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Fernandina Beach and the surrounding communities. Here you’ll find out where you can see a long forgotten Florida waterfall with connections to Jacksonville’s founder, and learn why there’s a tombstone in the middle of a neighborhood sidewalk. You’ll hear the stories behind local delicacies like Jacksonville-style garlic crabs, datil peppers, Mayport shrimp and camel rider sandwiches. And of course, you’ll learn what exactly is up with that orange roadside dinosaur everyone’s always talking about.
Jacksonville writer Bill Delaney has a deep passion for his hometown and a keen interest in underrepresented stories. From folklore to history and everything in between, join him to explore a side of the Bold City you can only find by leaving the well-trodden path.
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Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure – Resident Community News Group, Inc.
An interview with the author, Mr. Delaney Jacksonville’s urban revitalization is underway and gaining momentum. This is evident in the growing high rise apartment buildings in Brooklyn, Riverside, and Murray Hill; restoration of historic landmarks, such as Renaissance Revival landmark Cowford
Media Roundtable; Jacksonville walking tours – First Coast Connect
For the next two Saturdays, author Bill Delaney will host the next in a series of walking tours of places featured in his new book Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.
Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure – River City Live
You could call Jacksonville the secret city of Florida because even many natives have a tough time pinning down its defining features and best spots. But for anyone willing to dig beneath the surface, there’s no shortage of incredible sights,
‘Secret Jacksonville’: Son of former mayor writes book on unique spots in the city – First Coast News
How well do you actually know Jacksonville? A new book is out on 84 hidden spots in the Bold City, and some are hidden in plain sight.
Bill Delaney’s new book explores ‘Secret Jacksonville’ – The Jaxson
The Jaxson is pleased to announce that one of our co-owners and editors is publishing his first book. Bill Delaney’s Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure will be released by Reedy Press on September 15, 2021.
Celebrating Jacksonville’s weird, wonderful and obscure. There are plenty. – Florida Times-Union
For Bill Delaney, the most difficult thing about writing on the "weird, wonderful and obscure" things about Jacksonville was the pain of cutting info-nuggets out to keep his book to a manageable size.
