A holiday visit to St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city
Its popular Nights of Lights festival runs through January.
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Its popular Nights of Lights festival runs through January.
America's Oldest city is just a few hours away
Otto C. Lightner, was one of the world’s most renowned collectors — of everything. Unexpected odds and ends fill his museum in St. Augustine, Florida.
Angela de Gregory, Engagement Manager for the Lightner Museum, informed Historic City News that a new exhibition, Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts, will be on view from October 7, 2022, through January 20, 2023. The rare pieces on display invite viewers to read quilts as maps -- tracing the paths of individual stories and…
How The Financial Panic Of 33 AD Helped Cause The Crucifixion Share Share Trending [The argument I’m about to make depends on using the traditional date for the crucifixion of Jesus, which I do accept. If Jesus was, as conservative scholars have tended to hold historically, in 33 AD, then a financial crisis which began in 32 AD and crested in 33, could (and I will show, likely did) influence it. If however, the crucifixion occurred in 31 AD (the other year in which the date of the Passover is consistent with the Gospel accounts), then the connection would need to be reinterpreted, as ...