Katy Lemle News Today

Real Rosewood Foundation and Gainesville Fine Arts Association present “An Elegy to Rosewood” exhibit through March 23 at GFAA at 1314 S. Main St.

On the corner of University Avenue and Main Street sits a concrete slab. Nothing lives on that corner except the Alachua County Administration Building and the ghost of "Old Joe," the statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier taken down in 2017 after 113 years following a nationwide push to remove the politicized memorials. The Alachua County Arts Council has been trying to replace him ever since. It’s been a difficult task. Lack of artist response, budget issues and concerns over the history...