Editorial: Question anything that government does under cover of night HISTORIC CITY NEWS I am a native Floridian. A St Augustinian, to be exact. When the world was young, my business took me to Georgia where I had occasion to travel to a few large cities as well as a state-full of small rural communities. After all those years spent growing up here, the southeastern-most state in the nation, it was during those seven years in Georgia that I learned something else about me. I am also “a Southerner”; a heritage to be celebrated. Friday we will celebrate the birthday of Pedro Menendez de Aviles; the conquistador and European explorer who settled St Augustine in 1565. Florida grew up under the flags of five nations. It is the Second Spanish Period that has been the focus of our restored architecture, historic education and, except for the Fountain of Youth Archeological Park, most of our attractions.