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The legal aid service will receive $130,121 through the Technology Initiative Grants program to replace its aging phone system and integrate it with their existing cloud-based Case Management, Document Management, and messaging systems. The Technology Initiative Grants program supports legal aid organizations to develop and replicate technologies that improve efficiency and provide greater access to high-quality legal assistance.

DELANO STREET Escambia County has been awarded a FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program grant for the Delano Street Area Drainage Project to reduce flooding in the area bound by Fairfield Drive, Pace Boulevard, Massachusetts Avenue, and W Street. The grant totals more than $2.3 million and will implement long-term mitigation measures. The funds will cover Phase One of the project.

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BEN CARSON Retired neurosurgeon an-

nounced he isn't interested in serving as secretary of Health and Human Services.

His business manager told the media that Dr. Carson felt he didn't have the experience to run a federal agency. What? But he had the experience to be president?

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Some 78,301 of the accounts were registered to .mil email addresses, which are used by the U.S. military, and another 5,650 were .gov addresses used by U.S. government agencies— which means Pensacola City Administrator Eric Olson has a lot of tattling to do.

JEWEL CANNADA-WYNN The Pensacola councilwoman had made the recommendation that the City permanently close the playground in Morris Court at the corner of J and Lloyd Streets and let ownership revert to the Area Housing Commission for more low-income housing. The neighbors objected, and Cannada-Wynn pulled the item off the agenda. She may need to hire new political advisors.

ALLISON TANT Florida Democratic Party

chairwoman Allison Tant announced that she will leave the post when her term expires.

Democrats lost presidential and U.S. Senate races in Florida and failed to make serious dents in the Republican majorities in the Florida Legislature.

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by Rick Outzen

LINCOLN PULLED IT OFF When I see President-elect Donald Trump meet with a range of potential cabinet members, including some who opposed his presidency, like Mitt Romney, I'm reminded of Abraham Lincoln and the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

In 1860, the nation was deeply divided.

The Republican Party's presidential field was crowded. When the Republican Party held its national convention, New York Senator William H. Seward, Ohio Governor Salmon P. Chase and former Missouri Attorney General Edward Bates were the most likely contenders for the party's nomination.

Lincoln, a former Congressman, surprisingly won by being everyone's second choice.

Sounds familiar right? Billionaire Donald Trump started his run as few people's first choice. However, he had a solid 25%-30% of the vote in the early primaries, which was enough to push him ahead in the field of sixteen candidates. As candidates dropped out of the race, Trump's base grew, leading him to win the GOP nomination.

The 1860 presidential race pitted Republican Abraham Lincoln against Northern Democratic Stephen A. Douglas, Southern Democratic John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party. Lincoln needed to get 150 electoral votes to win the White House.

The voter turnout was over 80 percent.

Lincoln won 11 states and earned 180 electoral votes. However, he received less than 40 percent of the popular votes cast. Sixty percent of the voters wanted someone else to be president.

Lincoln did not have a mandate. The newspapers weren't his fans. Horace Greely, the publisher of the powerful New York World, was a persistent critic. To get out his message, Lincoln was the first U.S. president to write letters to the editor—the 1860's version of a tweet.

The newly elected president also did something that shocked the media and his supporters. He appointed three Cabinet members that had run against him in the 1860 election: Attorney General Edward Bates, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, and Secretary of State William H. Seward.

Lincoln successfully managed the disparate personalities of his cabinet and marshaled their talents for the good of a nation that was at war with itself. Even when Chase schemed to make him a one-term president, Lincoln kept him as Treasury Secretary and appointed him the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after the election.

Trump's victory, his dealing with a critical media and his interviewing of former political opponents aren't unprecedented. What we don't know is—can he pull it all together into a successful presidency? {in} rick@inweekly.net

Lincoln successfully managed the disparate personalities of his cabinet and marshaled their talents for the good of a nation that was at war with itself.

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ONE DOOR CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS?

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By Rick Outzen Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson announced last week that he would not seek a fourth term to his District 4 seat in 2018. However, he did not rule out seeking another political office.

"I make this announcement today in hopes of providing sufficient time to everyone in the district so good people can plan now if they wish to run in two years," Robinson told the media that had gathered in the conference room of Duncan McCall.

"While I greatly appreciate the support of District 4 citizens to allow me three terms to serve them, the seat is far more important than the person who temporarily occupies it," he said.

In 2006, Robinson beat veteran Commissioner Tom Banjanin, the only county commissioner not indicted four years earlier by a grand jury. Many considered Banjanin unbeatable because of his solid support from Pensacola Christian College.

Robinson defeated Banjanin, 62 % -38%, in the Republican primary.

"We need to go back to 2006 and remember what Escambia County government was like," he said.

"The County was just coming off

the heels of the Sunshine Scandal that removed four commissioners. The County was seen statewide as a joke. The board and administration under George Touart were seen as one of the most political.

The budget had escalated significantly.

The local economy, which had roared in the wake of Ivan, was based on a house of cards that was about to fold in the Great Recession. Such was the atmosphere when I was elected by a near 2-to-1 margin over a three-term incumbent."

Robinson took pride in how the commission has reduced the county budget during his tenure.

In 2006, the county budget was $452 million budget. In the years after his election, the BCC approved the single largest millage reduction in Escambia County history.

"This moved the budget to $363 million," said Robinson. "Even today, 10 years later, the budget is $434 million—still below that 2006 amount. Bringing a fiscal discipline to the county will always be one of my biggest accomplishments while serving."

He also talked about the county's success in creating jobs.

"My second term did see a number of economic development successes, including helping GE or others in Ellyson, such as Pall Corporation, expand jobs in District 4,"

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he said. "After that was the major work to negotiate one of the single largest expansions in Escambia County in 40 years at Navy Federal...

Finally, the recent contribution and financing for the city to bring in VT-MAE at the airport."

Robinson also championed the moving tourism marketing out from under the Greater Pensacola Chamber into the standalone Visit Pensacola, Inc. "Over 10 years, we have doubled our collections and seen visitation to our community nearly double as well, which has allowed us to export the burden of county taxes," he said. "While now it is so easy to see that success, it was not clear when the BCC made that move."

Robinson served as the commission chairman during the BP Oil Spill.

"While I will certainly always remember the never-ending effort to battle that four-month environmental catastrophe, the subsequent work to secure legislation that would ensure over $70 million dollars would come back to support our community for its losses was truly my greatest accomplishment while serving as Commissioner," he said.

"The Florida response to the BP claims is so different than any other state, and my fingerprints are all over that decision. Being able to be such an integral part of federal legislation and being able to represent Escambia County in a statewide position as President of the Florida Association of Counties will always be highlights of my service. " While he is stepping away from the BCC in two years, Robinson may not completely retire from politics. He said that he had been asked this year to consider running for Congress or State Senate but had turned them down because his passion is to serve locally.

"I don't necessarily think I'm done with politics, if the right thing comes open," said Robinson. “I think it would be something that I would want to do, something that I would see is interesting."

He believes that local government is important and the place where some-

one has the most impact. The mayor of Pensacola is one position that he sees as "interesting," but he hesitated to tell the media he would seek it in 2018.

"The only thing out there that's really an executive from this point is the Mayor of Pensacola," he said. "There are all kind of things that could be there, but it's not necessarily about me, it's about what the people want me to participate in."

He added, "I'll be happy to look at anything, but at the same time I don't have to do anything."

The commissioner said the people of District 4 initially asked him to run 10 years ago. He said, "I didn't choose to come out and run for County Commission. People came to me and said, ‘Our county's in trouble. We need you to do something.' They knew me because of my father and they said, ‘Hey we'd like you to get involved.'"

Robinson believes that he has been able to set the community on a different trajectory over the past decade. He said that public service is a "calling."

"That's all you hope when you sign up for one of these jobs, you run for office," he said. "So many things you do don't show up for years after you have done them, but I do think at some point we change the direction. If you look at where we were in 2006 and where we are in 2016, I would say Escambia County's true trajectory is vastly different."

He did hint at how a Robinson administration might be different from the current Hayward administration.

"I think we make good decisions when we make honest and informed decisions."

Said Robinson. "I'm not afraid of debate.

We ought to be different. We ought to have differing views.

We ought to have disagreements, but if we handle it respectfully and honestly, we'll get to a good decision. It will eventually lead us to a good decision."

He lamented the rise of attacks on people who have different views.

"I think we sometimes color arguments too much with emotion," he said. “Emotion is a huge part of politics, I get it, but I don't think emotion leads us to very good decisions."

When asked what makes the Pensacola mayor position so appealing, he said, "I think the interesting part about the Mayor position is it is the only executive position in Northwest Florida. It's a unique situation."

Robinson still hesitated to commit.

"It certainly has appeal, but again it's not up to me to figure that out. If there was an opportunity and people wanted me to serve, I'm not saying that I would say no." {in}

“We ought to have disagreements, but if we handle it respectfully and honestly, we'll get to a good decision.” Robinson

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NEW HOUSE SPEAKER CHALLENGES LOCAL OFFICIALS

Richard Corcoran / Photo Courtesy of Florida House

By Rick Outzen For years, people have said that lobbyists run the Florida Legislature—writing bills, rewarding those lawmakers who support their causes, and punishing those who don't. Richard Corcoran threw a wrench into the cozy relationship between lobbyists and state legislators.

The incoming Speaker of the Florida House from Land O' Lakes announced new House rules that place more restrictions on lobbyists.

"It is time that government embodies the very highest of standards and serve citizens and not self," said Corcoran. "The Florida House, in adopting these rules, will take a transformational leap into a new era of accountability, professionalism, transparency, and fairness."

Before being allowed to lobby the House on a specific issue, a lobbyist would be required to file an electronic notice of appearance that discloses they are lobbying on that specific issue. House members can no longer fly on private planes owned by lobbyists or principals even if they pay the commercial rate. They will be prohibited from entering into business deals or financial relationships with registered lobbyists or principles.

Also, lobbyists cannot lobby a House member via email, text message, or any other form of electronic communication when the House is in session or the member is in a committee or subcommittee meeting.

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Speaker Corcoran explained to Inweekly why he chose to challenge the lobbying industry.

"Go all the way back to Adams, Smith, or any of the great philosophers. Burke, Locke, Hobbes, the Founding Fathers based their belief and our Constitution off the fact that, left to their own devices, political people will tend to be selfish and look out for their own interest, to the detriment of all," he said.

"One thing that I believe, and our leadership team believes, is that we have to continually renew those checks and balances every chance we get to continue to make sure that the legislative body and institutions, that are there to protect the people, are pure."

He said, "When you start looking at where all of the cracks were in the foundation, we started seeing a bunch of them, so we decided, you know what? We're going to create additional levels of checks and balances to try to make sure that we create an institution that works for the people. That's where we started getting all these ideas."

Corcoran and his leadership team questioned the wisdom of cities and municipalities using taxpayers' dollars to hire firms to lobby the Florida House. The speaker told the Tampa Bay Times/Miami

Herald that it is was a "disgrace for cities and counties to hire lobbyists."

The new House rule requires lobbyists to disclose any contracts paid with taxpayers' funds, but Corcoran wanted to completely ban the practice.

"What we wanted to put in the rules was that we could bar the people that they hired as lobbyists from lobbying us at all," Corcoran told Inweekly.

"Probably not going to get that far but we are going to require that they have to disclose the contracts of the people that they've hired."

He added, "The point is this, the concept that a public government would pay, with taxpayer dollars, somebody to go to another level of government and see what they can extract out of the taxpayers at that level, is one of the most reprehensible things that I think goes on in government today."

Corcoran believes that county commissioners, city council members, and mayors are elected based on the promise that they would fight for their citizens. They should be the ones going to Tallahassee fighting for the needs of their communities.

"I think we're going to crack the door open," he said. "Hopefully, maybe later, if we're blessed, and it's us, or somebody after us, will kick that door all the way down at some point."

Marion Hammer, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, wrote a viewpoint in the Tallahassee Democrat that echoed Corcoran's sentiments.

"I don't get paid with taxpayer dollars.

Yet almost without exception when I testify to protect Second Amendment rights, those who testify against me and against protecting your rights are lobbyists who are paid with taxpayer dollars," she wrote. "In short, your tax dollars are being used to lobby against your constitutional rights and best interests."

She said that lobbyists are hired to further the political agendas of government officials and by associations representing local governments, not the public.

"Our tax dollars should not be used to pay for lobbying the political agendas of these local governments and officials," wrote Hammer.

Corcoran agreed with Hammer's point about the fairness of elected officials using tax dollars on issues that the voters may have a very different opinion.

"In many incidences, they're going to Tallahassee, and they're lobbying against

“We're going to govern unabashedly principled, and we're going to govern unabashedly conservative.” Richard Corcoran

your constitutional rights," said the House speaker. "How can that ever be fair? How can that ever be allowed? It's a very valid point."

Both Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and the Escambia Board of County Commissioners have hired lobbyists. Over the past three years, Hayward has paid The Fiorentino Group over $370,000 to lobby the state and federal governments. The Escambia County Commission has hired Bill Williams of Statecraft LLC from Defuniak Springs to lobby for RESTORE funds.

Mayor Hayward was out of town attending a conference and unable to comment on Corcoran's position. However, Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill sat down with Inweekly and discussed the issue of cities and counties hiring lobbyists.

"We, elected officials, need to do our jobs and not hire somebody else to do it, so personally I support it," said Underhill.

"We know that the old way of doing business is out. What we don't know yet is what is the new way of doing business, and it's our goal to be the best at the new way of doing business."

He doesn't expect the county to continue using Statecraft. He said, "We hired Statecraft for some very specific things regarding RESTORE, and actually I think that was a mistake, as I stated on the dais, so no, I do not anticipate us using Statecraft."

Underhill pointed out that the Florida Senate hasn't taken up the issue of cities and county hiring lobbyists.

"The Senate is the other side of it, and you've got to be able to play both sides," he said. "You've got to win both of those games in order to get what we need here in the County, so we'll continue to use those services where that's the rules of the game."

He added, "I, as the chairman, and hopefully the rest of the County Commissioners, will spend time in Tallahassee carrying the water for Escambia County."

At the commission's agenda review on Nov. 17, Commissioner Grover Robinson expressed some concerns.

"If the Speaker is sincere about not dealing with pre-emptions and allowing home rule to make those decisions, if the Speaker certainly is willing and able to talk about unfunded mandates and figuring out ways not to pass things like Medicaid and DJJ onto local governments, then I will look forward to certainly being there this year," said Robinson.

Speaker Corcoran also looks forward to the upcoming legislative session.

"We're going to govern unabashedly principled, and we're going to govern unabashedly conservative. It's nice now because we know that, ultimately, we will succeed or fail on those goals, based on our own actions and nobody else's." {in} 7

Toll Bridge at Pensacola Beach

FOR WHOM THE BRIDGE TOLLS The people spoke up and the Escambia Board of County Commissioners listened. The toll booths on Pensacola Beach will not become fully automated until more input is received from the citizens.

An online petition asking the BCC to reverse the decision gathered nearly 2,000 signatures. A telephone poll by Panhandle Politico revealed 69-percent of county residents were against making all toll payments electronic.

Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson took calls from listeners on “Pensacola Speaks” on the issue.

He said that the county had been trying to figure out for several years what to do about the traffic jams caused by the tollbooth on Pensacola Beach.

“The issue is if you want to make people move, the best way to do it is to get rid of the cash, to take that interaction out. We can speed up a stoplight.

We can change that. I cannot change when somebody comes through there and they decide they’ve only got a $20 or $5 or they don’t have it.”

The commissioner said the county had been using the new system for several months to send bills to those who sped past the toll without paying.

“We never could keep track of them.

Now, we’ve got a picture of it. We send them a thing and they get billed for it. It happens.

We’ve been operating. We hadn’t seen any problems in the billing in that process.”

At the Nov. 17 commission meeting, the citizens let the BCC know their feelings in

person, and the commissioners listened.

The Board voted unanimously to keep the current toll system, with its three cash lanes and one SunPass lane, until the board and the public could come to a consensus on the future of the toll system.

NO MORE PORK BARREL PROJECTS

Incoming Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran has proposed a requirement that all appropriations projects must be filed as stand-alone bills and made as non-recurring appropriations. The rule prevents backroom deals that let lawmakers add their pet projects without a debate on the House floor.

“I was the Budget Chair,” Speaker Corcoran told Inweekly. “Trust me, I've swallowed this pill, unfortunately, way too many times. Now that we actually get to lead, it's a great opportunity to fix these things.”

He added, “Keep in mind, we're talking projects. We're not talking about operations or things that are long-standing.

School funding, we're not talking about that. We're talking about earmarks, we're talking about pork barrel.”

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presents Lawmakers will be required to file projects as a standalone bill. They have to put their name on it and answer a detailed questionnaire from how much does the entity take in, is it private or public.

“It will literally do two things. One is you'll know from the very get-go of session exactly what every single project is in detail,” said Corcoran. “The second thing you're going to do is it will slow down the waste of government wasting taxpayers' dollars.

The Florida Senate has not enacted the same rule, but Speaker Corcoran isn’t deterred.

“We've said that even if we get the conference and the Senate wants to put something in the conference, that when it comes back to the floor, it's in violation of our House rules and we've got to start all over again.”

MORE EXPLAINING TO DO Pensacola

Mayor Ashton Hayward and his staff have been working for months on a plan for the redevelopment of the Blount Middle School site on the corner of C and Gregory streets into workforce housing. However, residents around the site haven’t heard anything about the plan.

At the Nov. 14 Agenda Review, Olson said city staff hadn’t quite come up with the right program that would let developers build housing at market rates but have “some type of incentive provided to get workforce related workers into that housing development.”

Council President Charles Bare asked him if the neighborhood had been contacted about the proposed redevelopment.

“We had looked at it originally as possibly a park, possibly something we could use for storm water infrastructure,” said Olson.

“The feedback that we got was some support for all of them but the direction that the neighborhood went in was some type of housing development.”

The Escambia County School District closed the school in 1982. There was an attempt to convert one of the buildings into low-cost apartments for the elderly, but that went nowhere. In August 2011, Mayor Hayward announced that the city would buy and demolish the school. To help fund the demolition, Escambia County contributed $200,000 in Community Development Block Grant dollars toward the project’s total cost of $466,700. It has sat dormant since the demolition was completed in late 2012.

Before moving to the next item in his report, Olson added, “We believe we’ve got good community support for the direction we’re going in.”

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Residents in the Blount school neighborhood told Inweekly that they have had no recent contact with anyone from the city about how Mayor Hayward wants redevelop the city block.

Escambia County Deputy Steve Sharp moved across from the Blount site in April 2015. He said he has received no notification from Pensacola City Hall or been asked to attend a meeting on a proposed plan.

“I like the idea of some residential but would like to see what they are talking about,” said Sharp in a phone interview.

Inweekly searched its archives and found that the Hayward administration did hold a town meeting in June 2013, two months before Olson went to work for the city as an initiatives coordinator.

At the meeting, there was no clear consensus on possible use for the site.

While housing was mentioned, other ideas discussed included a park, senior center, recreation center with swimming pool, museum, and regional campus for the University of West Florida or Pensacola State College. No one mentioned a stormwater pond.

We searched the city’s and PNJ’s websites and could not find when the city held another meeting in the neighborhood to further discuss options for the site.

Commissioner Lumon May attended the June 2013 meeting. His aunt’s home faces the site. He said that she has not received any information on Hayward’s proposal or been asked to attend a meeting on it since that first meeting was held three years ago.

MASTER PLAN THIS Studer Properties will hire a master developer to develop the entire 19-acre parcel of land on Main Street that formerly was home to the ECUA Main Street Sewage Treatment Plant.

“After the first of the year, we’re going to RFP (Request for Proposal) it nationally and look for a national master developer,” Studer told Inweekly.

“It doesn’t mean they might not partner with some local people, but we’ve had people come to us about a hotel. We’ve had people come to us about condominiums.

We’ve had people come to us about healthcare. We’ve had people come to us about apartments, movie theaters and we just want to make sure it’s not hodgepodge.”

The Studers will hire an expert to develop the RFP. “We’re going to follow a strict guideline that’ll be transparent, and everybody will know it. We’ll go national and see what interest there is in somebody coming in.” {in}

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ost cities approach graffiti in one of two ways: they criminalize it or they embrace it. But is there a third way? In some rare instances, there is.

Pensacola is a city that, to some extent, takes a third way—at least when the target

of graffiti is a particular railroad bridge at the bottom of 17th Avenue.

The first time I saw the graffiti-covered bridge was when I moved to Pensacola in the mid-1990s. I clearly remember riding underneath the bridge and thinking this was cool. I

was a big Prince fan, and my first thought was automatically to call this overpass "Graffiti Bridge." While Prince's "Graffiti Bridge" has nothing to do with Pensacola, he put the term into our lexicon, and apparently it stuck—at least that's my theory.

By C. S. Satterwhite All Photos by Rachael Pongetti

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Decades before Prince started making movies and records about graffiti-covered bridges, Pensacola's bridge was known simply as the 17th Avenue Viaduct, sometimes the 17th Avenue Overpass, or "you know, that train bridge that has all the graffiti on it."

Today, the bridge is much more than an overpass for trains or an underpass for cars. Graffiti Bridge is a landmark—a landmark that changes its look nearly every day.

Over the course of a year, Pensacola artist and educator Rachael Pongetti brought her camera and tripod to the bridge and took pictures as its face-changed daily—sometimes by the hour and even by the minute.

This December, Pongetti releases her Kickstarter-funded book: "Uncovering The Layers: The Pensacola Graffiti Bridge Project," a large collection of her photos of our very own Graffiti Bridge.

Up until recently, these photos were only available through various exhibitions.

While many Pensacolians have found joy in these images, reading the spray painted messages photographed and displayed in area galleries, the project itself came from a sad place in the photographer's life.

"I started this project out of grief and extreme heartache," said Pongetti describing a move and a divorce.

"I was really having a hard time accepting the changes," said Pongetti about her life. "It was a very painful experience."

At one point, Pongetti said that she felt her life was falling apart. To understand what was happening in her life, she read books on change. This led her to study Buddhist philosophy as a means to cope with the great changes taking place in her life.

She also turned to her friends. One friend familiar with Pongetti's artistic work, as well as her recent exploration of change, suggested she consider taking pictures of the Graffiti Bridge.

"I wasn't particularly interested," said Pongetti, "until he said [the graffiti] changed every day."

At that moment, she decided she would photograph the bridge on a daily basis to observe the changes taking place.

"I'm a visual person, so I process things through observation," she said.

"I was in a time of huge transition and knew it was the right time to plunge into a project."

Plunge, she did.

The project was a year-long effort to photograph one of Pensacola's most iconic locations.

Unlike all of our city's other symbols—Pensacola Beach Sign, various water towers, certain old houses, the Saenger Theatre, the San Carlos Hotel—the Graffiti Bridge is a site for democratic, verging on anarchistic, engagement.

Sometimes the messages are political, but most often the messages are personal.

“I started this project out of grief and extreme heartache.”

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One is just as likely to see a memorial for a dead friend or a marriage proposal as a "Free Palestine" mural or an American flag.

If there's one certainty on that bridge it's this; everything will change. This fact was true for Pongetti as it was for her subjects—both the bridge and the people who came out every day to tell the city who they were and what they thought.

In many ways, this is the purpose of graffiti.

"Graffiti brings the mark of the human hand into the increasingly corporate and controlled environment," said writer Erick Lyle.

Lyle wrote the book "Streetopia" and visited Pensacola to promote his book discussing gentrification and the ways in which people regain their voice. Graffiti is one of those ways.

"For [people] who feel like they have no control over the way the city is made or what kinds of advertising are displayed," said Lyle, "graffiti can be a way to simply claim space, to say literally, ‘I exist!'"

"FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT:" A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BRIDGE

Yet existence implies a history, which until now did not formally exist for the ever-changing bridge. Pongetti, an educator who teaches art at Pensacola High School, offers the first history of the iconic bridge in "Uncovering the Layers."

Culling together the sources for such an ambitious project are difficult, to say

the least, ranging from historical markers, newspaper articles, and interviews, to name but a few. Most of the information in her book is collected here for the first time in an effort to place the bridge in its historical context: a gift to social historians of the city.

Pongetti's timeline places the bridge's story (and that of the surrounding area) within Pensacola's early days as an American city.

The area adjacent to where the 17th Avenue bridge currently stands was, at one time, a famous local dueling ground in the early 1800s. Dueling was eventually outlawed as Florida became a territory of the United States and the area became more industrialized.

As with much of America, the railroad changed the city and allowed commerce to dictate much of the terrain. The drastic evolution of this area took place over a century, culminating in the early 1900s when the L & N Railroad built the Bayou Texar train trestle simply out of a need to link the city with points east and west.

The bridge itself, as we see it today, was not officially built until 1912.

Originally called the "17th Avenue Viaduct," the bridge was heralded to be "of concrete and will be first-class in every respect," according to a contemporary story in the Pensacola News Journal*.

As the Great Depression hit Pensacola, thousands of unemployed locals built make-shift camps called Hoovervilles— named after Republican President Herbert Hoover—in the surrounding area of the bridge. As trains slow down to take the

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Once Democrat Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, his New Deal relief programs put thousands of Pensacolians back to work. One of his administration's many local projects was repair work on the 17th Avenue Viaduct.

Though the Hoovervilles dissipated, the camps in some form or another, remain to this day. Hobo Beach, or Hobo Island as the location is sometimes referred to, is a long-standing remnant of that era which grew under the Great Depression but never went away—and most likely never will.

Two of the most dramatic single moments in the bridge's history both came in 1977 within a month of each other when two separate L & N trains derailed—the first on the bridge itself. The ammonia leakage from the train forced the evacuation of hundreds of local residents for over a day. A second derailment occurred on the same track, also leaking ammonia, but further down on Scenic Highway. The second derailment took the lives of two people and injured 46 others.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE GRAFFITI?

Just as with the blank canvas of any freshly painted bathroom wall, surely some vandals hit this bridge at some point much earlier than anything recorded. Anecdotal evidence, however, points to the first tagging somewhere in the 1950s, according to Pongetti.

While she admits this is difficult to prove conclusively, what is clear is that the first tagging was evidently not the last.

Historically, most cities look down on graffiti and Pensacola is no exception.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the local government tried numerous time to stop people from putting graffiti on the bridge.

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and fined, but the graffiti continued. In a pattern which must've been dizzying, the bridge was painted and tagged, re-painted and re-tagged, etcetera. The city used new graffiti resistant paints, but the graffiti artists kept up their slow and methodical resistance and won.

As Pensacola moved into the 21st century, the city as a whole appeared to come to terms with the bridge. Local artists sold images of the Graffiti Bridge alongside pictures of McGuire's, the Saenger Theatre, the Blue Angels, and the Pensacola Beach Ball.

A customized textbook at the University of West Florida even uses the bridge for its cover.

By 2007, the daily paper listed the Graffiti Bridge as one of the "Seven Wonders of Pensacola." Though somewhat significant, the true acceptance of the bridge came in 2009 when the City of Pensacola approved City Code 12-2-223 (n) Section 302.9.

This city code clarified its previous policy concerning graffiti and the defacement of property to make room for one exception: "No person shall willfully or wantonly damage, mutilate or deface any exterior surface of any structure or building on any private or public property by placing thereon any marking, carving or graffiti.

Exception: The 17th Street CSX Railroad Trestle shall be exempted."

Graffiti Bridge was now an officially sanctioned landmark. Yet unlike most landmarks tagged with spray paint, such as Andrew Jackson's bust or the Confederate Memorial, this graffiti is legal.

Pongetti captured the various duels during her year photographing the bridge.

One of the most interesting moments captured was when city government removed the Confederate Flag from the city's flagpoles after the mass shooting at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The local decision to lower the Confederate Flag came at the same time as the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage.

The symbolism of the two flags, one of the past and one of the present, could not be starker.

"The two sides were at the bridge at the same time," said Pongetti recalling the instance.

"They kept painting [over] each other's message. I think there must have been 50 to 100 people all gathering at the bridge at the same time."

Pongetti takes her role as a documentarian seriously, which shows in her objectivity and empathy for her subjects.

"In order to photograph in a situation like the above, I have to be very mindful when approaching people with a camera. I never try to hide from them or sneak a photo. I let them know what I'm doing and usually they just keep going about their business and I keep making images," said Pongetti.

"I never like being photographed, so I'm trying to be very respectful of the person I'm photographing. I may adamantly disagree with what they are doing, but they are a person, not an object. I try to always remember that."

The challenges of this project did not end with her concerns about graffiti wars, but in many ways began after she set her camera down.

Although this is only a small line in the book itself, one of the most timeconsuming phases of the project was the research into the bridge's history. Until now, few looked seriously at the bridge as historical. This is understandable as the most unique quality of the bridge isn't that it's a static mural.

Visually, this is appealing. For historians, this is a problem.

Most infrastructure is built with little fanfare. Even if there is a ribbon cutting

CAPTURING THE MOMENT

One of the great ironies of the area is its history as dueling ground. Though dueling with pistols in Florida was outlawed nearly 200 years ago, paint replaces bullets, and the duels continue to this day.

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Pongetti and her editor-in-chief, none other than Pensacola's Poet Laureate Jamey Jones, went to the bridge with a tape measure, braving traffic, to see if the measurements from the century old newspaper article aligned with the Graffiti Bridge.

"I still remember us waiting for a break in the traffic to measure the inside of the bridge," recalled Pongetti.

"Jamey took off running across the street with one end of the tape measure, and I held the other end. It all matched.

We were so excited."

GIVING THE SILENT A VOICE

ceremony, the public quickly forgets dates once the infrastructure starts being used.

What many people think is historic when it happens rarely holds the same significance in the future. A quick glance at several of Pensacola's official historic markers demonstrates what was once seen as historic feels irrelevant generations later. Vice versa.

For Pongetti, much of her research time was spent laboriously pouring over microfilm of old newspapers trying to find the unwritten history of a viaduct. The most elusive fact she was trying to uncover was its most simple and primary: the Graffiti Bridge's birthday.

"Trying to find the date it was built became very difficult," said Pongetti.

"All of the historical illustrations and photos stopped just short of the trestle. It started to become funny. In addition the trestle at the time it was built was called a ‘viaduct,' which I later learned from [the university's downtown historical archives] UWF Voices," said Pongetti.

"So I was searching under the wrong name. Once I started to search under that [name], I was able to find a little information.

Her first big break came when a graduate student at UWF, researching a promi-

nent Pensacola newspaper owner, "found a little side note to a reference of a viaduct," said Pongetti.

After going through "a lot of microfilm," Pongetti eventually found an "article that explained a viaduct was scheduled to be built in a few weeks. But I had a hard time finding a follow up article."

Eventually, Pongetti uncovered a "small notice in the paper [congratulating] Pensacolians for their persistence with the [railroad] company." Yet there was a small glitch in her research.

The article did not list the bridge as being on 17th Avenue, but 16th and Wright.

"Well, I was very confused since the bridge is on 17th," said Pongetti.

"I even drove to 16th and Wright and found nothing that indicated there was anything ever there.

The article, however, gave exact measurements of the viaduct."

The photographic aspect of The Pensacola Graffiti Bridge Project took one year exactly. The post-photography aspect has taken much longer than Pongetti expected.

"Like any book worth reading, it is a work of art from cover to cover," said Jones.

"Yesterday Rachael and I dropped

by Tom White, [the book's printer] and watched the colorful pages coming out of the big Heidleberg presses, and man was it exciting!"

Jones, who worked for the City of Pensacola as a printer, described the process very enthusiastically.

"The noise and wind of the press, the smell of the ink and paper, and to watch these top-notch pressmen and bookmakers doing their thing—real pros, real artists— it was profound," said Jones.

"The quality printing accurately honors the content of this beautiful book." When it's officially published in December, "Uncovering the Layers" will be a 184 pages, have a Smythsewn linen cover, with a dust jacket along with essays, poetry, a timeline, and updated photos from 2012-2016.

Books and printing aside, the enormity of capturing an ever-changing moment was not lost on Pongetti. Neither was the importance of what she was photographing.

"I've been very touched by all the memorials left on the bridge," said Pongetti.

“Like any book worth reading, it is a work of art from cover to cover.” Jamey Jones

"I've met some of the families, and it is always been very meaningful. One mother told me during my exhibition at the [Pensacola Museum of Art] that I was helping to keep her son's memory alive. I never thought of it that way. It makes me feel like what I'm doing is beneficial to others and that brings a smile to my face," said Pongetti.

Graffiti Bridge means many things to many people. As a space where someone could voice her support for the Black Lives Matter Movement, the Graffiti Bridge is that billboard not otherwise allowed. As a space to memorialize a friend who committed suicide, Graffiti Bridge is an outlet. As a space where Joe could tell Patricia he loves her, Graffiti Bridge is like a large-scale, concrete love note.

There was even a large mural dedicated to Prince the day after he died, a fitting tribute considering my earlier theory.

There's really nothing like it, and the graffiti on the bridge speaks to our most intimate moments and our most visceral emotions.

To Pongetti, graffiti is both personal and political, all in the same space, and as impermanent as we are.

"I think it is part of our nature to want to communicate and be heard, validated… [graffiti] gives the silent a voice."

"Of course, what is of benefit is subjective, and what I think is appropriate someone else may not," said Pongetti.

"The gray area, the questions, the difficulty of defining what is art and what is inappropriate are all aspects of what I love about [graffiti]. It leads to more questions than answers. It is a language that it very much about the here and now. I find that part exciting and valuable. It's not a language of the academics or the dictionary. It is a language of the times."

For The Pensacola Graffiti Bridge Project, that time is now. {in} For more information about Pongetti’s "Uncovering The Layers: The Pensacola Graffiti Bridge Project," go to pensacolagraffitibridgeproject.com and to buy a copy locally next month visit Open Books at 1040 N. Guillemard St. *Editors note: Pensacola Journal is one of the early names of the local daily paper that we now call Pensacola News Journal.

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Gentlemen Prefer Whiskey

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can be difficult with the band's schedules, which is one reason why it took longer than expected to release "Oh! Whiskey."

"We recorded the EP at Pensacola Audio Documentation with our friend Sean Peterson, because he's awesome," Daw said. "It took way too long to put out, because we all had such busy schedules at the time that we would come in, be very productive and record an entire song in less than six hours, then not

“Our friend Grant came up with the name and it's just so long and ridiculous sounding that we couldn't not use it.” Michael Daw

Colonel Gentleman and the Intangible Fancies Like something from the pages of Faulkner, or from the dark corners of McCarthy's imagination, Colonel Gentleman and the Intangible Fancies blend traditional styles of folk and blues with the distinct sounds of the American South.

Members Michael Daw, bass and vocals; Adam "Tex" Wall, guitar and vocals; Kevin Mooney, drums; Ben Rockwell, guitar; and Molly Rockwell, background vocals, bring a psychedelic edge to classic tried and true Americana, paying homage to the barroom drunks and the brokenhearted fools.

They just released their four-song EP, "Oh! Whiskey" in September and will play a local showcase at Vinyl this Saturday with Pablo Lavoe and Sour.

Daw, local graphic artist, said that he got the idea to form the band in 2012 after moving back to Pensacola from Birmingham.

"My other band, Chainsaw Kelly, was not playing a lot of shows because our vocalist/guitar player still lived in Birmingham," Daw said, "At the time, I was working for Deluna Fest, and my boss booked me on a pre-Deluna Fest show in town. He told me to do whatever I wanted. Before I moved to Alabama, I lived with my friend Tex, and during that time, we would record November 24, 2016

together on an eight-track digital recorder.

He had some really awesome songs, and I had some songs that I wasn't doing anything with due to my other band's unofficial hiatus, so I thought this would be a great chance to get a band together."

Daw said that unlike most bands he's been in, where it's a group of friends who decide to start a band, no one knew each other when they first started, with the exception of Daw. "I just kind of picked a group of friends that I thought would bring something unique to the table and put them together to see what would happen," he said. "Luckily, it worked out pretty well."

Daw and Wall both share songwriting responsibilities, and it's up to each member to write the parts for their respective instruments. Daw said that he and Wall were both raised in the church and grew up on old gospel music, which comes through in their songs.

"Like, church hymnal gospel, not the weird big-haired shit most people think of," Daw said. "We were all raised in the south, so I think that's just something that comes through. A lot of our influences are Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, stuff like that. I don't think we ever had a meeting and were like,

be able to make it back in the studio for weeks or months. Once it was recorded we just kind of sat on it for a while, and recently decided it was time to release it, so we sent it to our friend Paul Kimsal in Nashville to master it, and we released it digitally a few months ago."

Daw said that the band is hoping that it won't be nearly as long for the next one to be released.

As for their unique band name, Daw said it comes from a combination of two characters from The Venture Brothers, a cartoon series on Adult Swim.

"Our friend Grant came up with the name and it's just so long and ridiculous sounding that we couldn't not use it," Daw said. "Coming up with band names is probably the dumbest part of being in a band, and some of the best bands have the stupidest band names." {in}

‘What do we want to sound like?' It just kind of naturally occurred."

Daw said that the more psychedelic sound in their songs come from lead guitar player Ben Rockwell.

"Usually when we record a song, the whole thing just sounds wrong until Ben comes in and plays his parts. Without it, they just sound like simple folk songs. Usually, the whole thing feels off, and no-one can quite put their finger on it, then Ben comes in and plays something, and we're immediately like, ‘Oh, that's what it was missing."

Daw said that feedback so far has been pretty good and that they've gotten really good responses from shows. They have opened for some bigger acts at Vinyl Music Hall, like Dax Riggs from Acid Bath and most recently, Unknown Hinson. They will be playWHAT: Pablo Lavoe with Colonel Gentlemen ing songs from their new EP at this and the Intangible Fancies and Sour Saturday's show.

WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26 "This show is particularly exciting WHERE: Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox because it's right after Thanksgiving, COST: $5 so everyone will be in town, and it's a DETAILS: vinylmusichall.com local showcase, so we'll be playing at the best sounding venue around here ”Oh! Whiskey” can be streamed or downloaded from with some of the best local bands," colonelgentlemen.bandcamp.com/releases.

Daw said.

Although Colonel Gentlemen would like to tour in the future, it

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THANKSGIVING AT FIVE SISTERS BLUES CAFÉ 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. $21.95 for

adults and $12.95 for children 12 and under.

Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. fivesistersbluescafe.com THANKSGIVING AT JACKSON’S STEAKHOUSE 11 a.m.-6 p.m. $29 per person. Jack-

son’s Steakhouse, 400 S. Palafox. jacksonsrestaurant.com THANKSGIVING AT THE FISH HOUSE 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $24 per person. The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. greatsouthernrestaurants.com THANKSGIVING AT SKOPELOS 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox. skopelosatnewworld.com

FRIDAY 11.25

ELF PARADE 4:45 p.m. Free. Begins at T.T. Wentworth Museum and ends at Escambia County Courthouse. pensacolawinterfest.org WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m. Free. City Grocery, 2050 N. 12th Ave. HAPPY HOUR COOK OUTS 5 p.m. Drink specials, free cookout. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com VINYASA YOGA FLOW 6-7 p.m. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org DATE NIGHT DANCING 6:30-8:30 p.m. Learn the basics of several ballroom and country dance styles. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com MICHEAL JACKSON: A THRILLING TRIBUTE

7-8:30 p.m. $20-$50. Benefits Autism Pensacola Inc. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. pensacolasaenger.com OPEN MIC 7-11 p.m. Single Fin Cafe, 380 N. 9th Ave. facebook.com/singlefincafe RUMOURS: A FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE 7 p.m. $10-$12. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

SATURDAY 11.26

SANTA ROSA FARMERS MARKET 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Fresh local produce, honey, baked goods and live music. Pace Presbyterian Church, Woodbine Road, Pace.

CLEAN UP WITH OCEAN HOUR 8:45 a.m. All supplies are provided. Meet at the fishing pier parking lot at the very end of Ft Pickens

Road, seven to eight miles from the park entrance. For more information, contact oceanhourfl@gmail.com.

PALAFOX MARKET 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Fresh produce, live plants, baked goods, fine art and antiques are just a few of the items offered at the weekly Palafox Market. Items originate directly from participating vendors, including dozens of local farmers, home gardeners and area artists. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

"Eat with the Seasons." Palafox Market.

Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com THE SOUL IN MYTHOLOGY 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Free. West Florida Public Library, 239 N. Spring St. HAWGS, PAWS, AND CLAUS 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Harley-Davidson of Pensacola is hosting a pictures with Santa event to benefit Pensacola Humane Society. Harley-Davidson of Pensacola, 6385 Pensacola Blvd. pensacolahumane.org DEMO DAY AT SO GOURMET 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

So Gourmet, 407-D S. Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com WINTERFEST PERFORMANCE TROLLEY TOURS

5-9 p.m. $7-$12. Old Courthouse, 223 S. Palafox. pensacolawinterfest.org ICE FLYERS VS. HUNTSVILLE HAVOC 7:05 p.m. $15-$29. Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. pensacolabaycenter.com PABLO LAVOE, COLONEL GENTLEMAN & THE INTANGIBLE FANCIES, SOUR 8 p.m. $5. Vinyl

Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com DANCE PARTY 8-midnight. Strictly ballroom.

DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com AFTER GAME SKATE 9:30 p.m. $9-$12. Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. pensacolabaycenter.com

SUNDAY 11.27

WAKE UP HIKE 7 a.m. Meet at Bay Bluffs Park,

Scenic Highway at Summit Ave., for a brisk one to two-hour walk with brunch to follow at an area restaurant.

LULULEMON TRUNK SHOW AND OPEN HOUSE

1-4 p.m. Beyond Barre Pensacola, 5022-A W. Fairfield. beyondbarrepensacola.com PUBLIC ICE SKATE 1:30, 3 and 4:30 p.m. $9-$12.

Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. pensacolabaycenter.com

MONDAY 11.28

PILATES MAT 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org SEVILLE QUARTER MILERS 5:30 p.m. Runners meet in front of Seville Quarter for a run around downtown Pensacola. Free pasta and drink specials after the run at Fast Eddie's.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com RESTORATIVE PILATES 5:30-6:20 p.m. Free.

Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org SOUPS 101: BUTTERNUT SQUASH 6-6:45 p.m. $15. SoGourmet, 407-D S. Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com BLESSTHEFALL 6 p.m. $15. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

TUESDAY 11.29

COMPLEMENTARY WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m.

SoGourmet, 407-D S. Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com FUNKY YOGA FLOW 6-7 p.m. Free.

Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org DANCE LESSONS 6:30 p.m. Country, Swing, and Ballroom. Professional partner dance instruction for all skill levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com

BENTLEY COLLARDS 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. $23.65 per person. SoGourmet, 407-D S. Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com CELEBRATE THE SEASON 12 p.m. Free. UWF Dept. of Music Chamber Band. Old Christ Church, 405 S. Adams St. uwf.edu VINO MAGNIFICO 5:30 p.m. $10. V. Paul's Italian Ristorante, 29 S. Palafox.

WATERBOYZ SLOW SKATE 6-7 p.m. Every Wednesday. Skate starts and ends at Waterboyz, 380 N. 9th Ave. waterboyz.com RESTORATIVE YOGA 6-7 p.m. Free. Ever'man.

327 W. Garden St. everman.org DANCE LESSONS 6:30 p.m. West Coast Swing.

Professional partner dance instruction for all skill levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com CROWBAR, GOATWHORE 7 p.m. $15. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com MEDITATION 7:15-8:30 p.m. Free. Ever'man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org DANCE PARTY 8-10 p.m. A mix of swing, country, and ballroom music for partner dancing on the best wood dance floor in the area. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com

MEDITATION /PRANIC HEALING

7:15-8:30 p.m. Free. Ever'man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org DOLLY PARTON 7:30 p.m. $51.50$129.50. Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. pensacolabaycenter.com TUNESDAY SOUND CAFE 7:30 p.m.

Enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and tunes from the baby grand piano.

Pensacola Library lobby, 239 North Spring St.

WEDNESDAY 11.30

LUNCH CLASS: OLD SCHOOL SOUTHERN CORNBREAD AND

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION Various media

from PSC students.

On view through Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, 1000 College Blvd. pensacolastate.edu

OLD SOUTH, NEW SOUTH: A RETROSPECTIVE Paintings

by Svend Damhave.

On view through Dec. 31. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org SYNTHESIS: A GROUP BFA EXIT EXHIBITION RECEPTION Various media

from students Patti Gillespie, Lexie Reames, Emily Teets and Chance Wallis.

On view through Dec. 11. The Art Gallery at UWF, 11000 University Parkway.

ART OF ADOPTION PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT On view

through Dec. 2.

Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org

INSPIRED BY: A CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATION

Photography by Dottie King. Gallery 88 at WUWF, 11000 University Parkway. wuwf.org

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

BY JOSEPH CONSTANTINO On view

through Dec. 31.

Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org 3D BLEND 3D works including pottery, metal and tile work.

Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S. Palafox. bluemorninggallery. com CONTROVERSIAL LINES: LATE PRINTS

BY SALVADOR DALI

On view through

Jan. 7. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org

classes & workshops

POTTERY ON THE WHEEL Six-week

workshops are held Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m., Wednesdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center, 1060 Guillemard St. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for nonmembers. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.

INTRODUCTION TO POTTERY ON THE WHEEL Every Mon-

day from 6-8:30 p.m. at First City Art Center. Classes are $40. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.

CLAY HAND BUILD-

ING Six-week workshops are held Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for nonmembers. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.

CLAY SCULPTURE

Six-week workshops held Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for nonmembers. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.

BELLY DANCING

Eight-week beginner and advanced classes on Tuesday nights. For beginner, intermediate and advanced students.

Classes held at First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St For more

information and to sign up for a class visit pensacolabellydance.com LIFE DRAWING

Artists of any skill level are welcome to draw life figures.

6-9 p.m. Monday nights. Cost is $5$10 a person. Contact phayes@ihmc. us if interested. First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. The group is always looking for new models, contact Pat at the email address above if interested.

bars & nightlife

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Thursdays POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Road. ticketsportsbar.com POOL TOURNAMENT 8 p.m. The

Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9

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COLLEGE NIGHT 10

p.m. Drink specials, beer pong tournament starts at 10 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com.

Fridays WINE TASTING 5-7

p.m. Informative wine tasting in Seville Quarter Wine and Gift Shop. No charge for the tasting. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com DRAG BINGO 6-8 p.m. Ages 21 and over. Emerald City’s

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130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com Sundays BAR AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEE (B.A.R.E. NIGHT) 7

p.m. Special prices for B.A.R.E. Card membership holders. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com Mondays

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM FOR FUN AND TRIVIA 7 p.m. The

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com TRIVIA NIGHT 7-9 p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. wobusa.com/locations/ Palafox BAR BINGO 8 p.m.

Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MONDAY NIGHT TRIVIA 9:30-10:30

p.m. Mugs and Jugs, 12080 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ mugsjugs Tuesdays TUESDAY TRIVIA 8 p.m. The Bridge Bar and Sunset Lounge, 33 Gulf Breeze Parkway. facebook.com/ thebridgebargb TICKET TEAM TRIVIA 8 p.m. The Ticket

1, 7250 Plantation Road. ticketsportsbar.com POKER 8 p.m. The Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Road. ticketsportsbar.com TEAM TRIVIA 9 p.m. Hopjacks. 10 S. Palafox. hopjacks. com Wednesdays WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS 11

a.m. Half- priced bottles of wine every Wednesday. Jackson's Steakhouse, 226 S. Palafox. jacksonsrestaurant.com November 24, 2016

LADIES NIGHT ON THE DECK 5 p.m. $2

drinks and music.

The Deck Bar, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com PUB TRIVIA NIGHT

7-9:30 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. facebook.com/ goatlipsdeli

WEDNESDAY QUIZ TRIVIA 8 p.m. The

Cabaret, 101 S. Jefferson St. cabaretpensacola.com

TICKET BAR BINGO

8 p.m. The Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Road. ticketsportsbar.com BAR BINGO 10 p.m.

Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com

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Thursdays Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 8 p.m.

130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com Saturdays Krazy George 9 p.m.

Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com Sundays The Sandshaker Lounge, 9 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com Mondays The Cabaret, 9 p.m.

101 S. Jefferson St. 607-2020 or cabaretpensacola.com Tuesdays Sandshaker Lounge, 8 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com Play, 9 p.m. 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com

≥live music

THURSDAY 11.24 JOHN RIPLEY 6-9

p.m. Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox AL MARTIN 6 p.m.

The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Highway.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The

Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com DUELING PIANOS

8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

JORDAN RICHARDS BAND 9 p.m. End o'

The Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com CHRIS COOK 9 p.m. Lili Marlene's.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com SCENIC HEIGHTS

8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com MOSSY MORAN 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com

FRIDAY 11.25

LEE MELTON 12-4

p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes. com LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD & MO JILES

5 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com GREG LYON 5 p.m.

End o' The Alley.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com AL MARTIN 6-11 p.m. The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Highway.

VINTAGE 30 6 p.m.

Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebar-grill. com BEAN SOUP 6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes. com JOHN RIPLEY 7-10 p.m. Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox DUELING PIANOS

8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show. Seville

Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com THE BLENDERS 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com MOSSY MORAN 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com DJ MR LAO 9 p.m.

Phineas Phogg's Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

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9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com THE MODERN ELDORADOS 9

p.m. Lili Marlene's.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

LOCAL BROADCAST 9 p.m. Apple

Annie’s. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

JORDAN RICHARDS BAND 9 p.m. End o'

The Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SATURDAY 11.26 MO JILES 5 p.m.

The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola. com GREG LYON 5 p.m.

End o' The Alley.

Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com THE GILLS 6 p.m.

Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebar-grill.com PLATINUM PREMIER

6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com

SHOW ME DRAGON

6-8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com

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BANANA REPUBLIC

9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com LOCAL BROADCAST 9 p.m. Apple

Annie’s. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SUNDAY 11.27

SEVILLE QUARTER JAZZ BRUNCH 11 a.m.-

3 p.m. Apple Annie’s Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com JOSH TYRONE 12-4

p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes. com FISH OUT OF WATER

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MIKE MAGAZINNE

3 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebar-grill. com DUNNOTAR 4-8 p.m.

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com3 AMIGOS 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com BROOKS HUBBERT 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com

6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com JAZZ JAM 7 p.m.

Horizen Restaurant, 3103 E. Strong St.

o' The Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

SCOOT AND JEREMY

JORDAN RICHARDS BAND 9 p.m. End

MONDAY 11.28

JAZZ GUMBO 6 p.m.

MONDAY NIGHT BLUES 8 p.m. Blues

Society of Northwest Florida presents and open jam at Lili Marlene's. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com BROOKS HUBBERT 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com

FIELD 6 p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com

JOHN RIPLEY

p.m. Lili Marlene's in Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MOSSY MORAN 8 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com MIKE QUINN 9 p.m.

End O' The Alley Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com BLUES IN THE CITY 9 p.m. Apple Annie's, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

6-10 p.m. Peg Leg Pete's, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes. com

AN EVENING OF GREAT JAZZ 6:30-10

10 p.m. End O' the Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

WEDNESDAY 11.30

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Hemingway's Island Grill, 400 Quietwater Beach Road.

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music

by Jennifer Leigh

Hello, Dolly Dolly still takes a lot of pride in her home"I was certainly impressed with town of Sevier County, Tennessee, which is Whitney Houston's version of ‘I Will not too far from Dollywood. She enjoys doing Always Love You,'" she added. concerts back home and seeing family.

Dolly is a prolific writer with a It's also her hometown that inspires catalog of more than 3,000 songs. her to do good work, such as the Imagination Whether she's working on an album Library. The program sends books to children or not, she tries to sit down on her from birth to 5 years of age. Nearly 950,000 birthday (Jan. 19) and write somechildren are registered in the free program. thing new.

"It came from a very pure place since "I try to write something, sometimes my Daddy couldn't read or write," she said.

I get it finished and sometimes I don't," "I love my people. I never left because I she said. "One of the songs I wrote on wasn't proud of (Sevier County) … I was my birthday is called ‘Only Dreaming.' never leaving the country; I was going to It's one of my favorite songs." take it with me wherever I went. And it Of course with that extensive gives me a lot of pride to be able to go back catalog, putting a set list together is home and do something for my people." not an easy task.

Dolly's "people" goes beyond her immedi"You have to have your big hits, ate family. As she said, she loves all people. the ones people would kill you if you Over the years, didn't do," she she has become said. "It racks an icon for the LGmy brain trying BTQ community. to figure it out.

Look around the A lot goes into audience at many a show, even a of her shows, and pure and simple you may see a few show like mine."

Dolly drag queens From music wearing blond wigs to movies, and stuffed bras. amusement "I always say they look more like me parks to books, Dolly has seemed to than I do," she joked. have done it all. Look for another TV Country musicians and their fans movie, "Christmas of Many Colors: haven't always been an accepting bunch as Circle of Love" Nov. 30 on NBC. one journalist pointed out. In these changEarlier this month, she even took ing times, especially after the U.S. Supreme home the Willie Nelson Lifetime Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, Achievement Award at the 2016 Dolly said she hopes for a future of tolerCounty Music Awards. It was an award ance and acceptance. that has a special meaning since it's "I don't think you're ever going to named after "one of the sweetest guys I change the minds of everyone, but it is my know," she said. opinion that it is not up to us to pass judgBut even at 70, she's not done ment," she said. "I go right to the heart and dreaming. soul of a person. I'm proud of all of my friends "I really have accomplished a lot from the gay and lesbian community." of things in my life, and I'm proud After a long and successful career, of every one of them," she said. "I'm Dolly has a lot to be proud of. But what she proud of every award … It makes you feel holds most dear is the recognition she has like you might've done something right. It received among other great artists. makes you feel like people think you're old, "I think the fact that I am in the County but it's such an honor to be recognized and appreciated for what I always wanted to do, Music Hall of Fame and the bigger Songwriter's Hall of Fame is really important to and I'm grateful for that." me because I really take a lot of pride in my "I have a new dream every day of my songwriting, I remember how special I felt with life," she continued. "So I have a lot of all those big ones," she said. "I'm proud that I plans, some TV thing, more movie things, accomplished my little girl dreams." {in} produce some things; possibly have a line of makeup."

One of her biggest successes beyond music was the creation of Dollywood. An idea that was initially scoffed at.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29 "I knew it would be a good busiWHERE: Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. ness venture and I was right," she COST: $51.50-$129.50 said. "It's been all for families, and I DETAILS: pensacolabaycenter.com was able to provide jobs for people

“I really have accomplished a lot of things in my life, and I'm proud of every one of them.” Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton / Courtesy Photo Stock up on hairspray and dig out your bedazzled jacket, Dolly is coming to town.

Making a stop in Pensacola for her Pure & Simple tour, Dolly Parton will be singing some new tunes, some classic hits, and sharing a few stories from her 50-plus year career.

Named after her 43rd studio album— which topped Billboard's Top Country Album chart — the Pure & Simple tour is meant to be just that. Even though she can pack an arena, Dolly said her show is the same no matter where she plays.

"I just think of it as I have people in my house," she said recently on a conference call to promote the tour. "The bigger arenas as well as the very intimate ones … I enjoy both. I connect with the people. I'm from a big family, so I like to think of it as a big, family reunion."

The idea for the Pure & Simple tour came to Dolly a few years ago when she November 24, 2016

was doing a few charity shows at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

"I pulled together the guys that work with me and we put together a little show," she said.

Beyond the big hair, makeup, and tight dresses, Dolly considers herself to be "pure and simple," she said.

"I feel like people can relate to my story," she said. "It's kind of a Cinderella story."

Dolly took to music early on and started playing with a homemade guitar at the age of 7. A year later, she was gifted a real guitar. She performed as a child and right after she graduated high school, she moved to Nashville. Her first break was in songwriting and to this day, she considers herself a songwriter "first and foremost," she said.

Songs such as "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You," are constantly covered by musicians, which Dolly says is a compliment.

DOLLY PARTON: PURE & SIMPLE TOUR

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DIFFERENCE MAKERS NATIONAL PHILANTHROPY DAY WINNERS ANNOUNCED The Association of Fundraising Professionals West Florida Chapter announced the winners of the 2016 National Philanthropy Day during its annual awards luncheon held at the Pensacola Grand Hotel.

•Laverne Baker was named Outstanding Fundraising Professional, an award designed for an

outstanding individual fundraising professional who practices his or her profession in an exemplary manner.

•Sue Straughn was named Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, presented to an individual with a

proven track record of ongoing, significant commitment to fundraising for one or more organizations.

•Washington High School Student Government Association was named Outstanding

Youth in Philanthropy, which recognizes services by individuals 10 to 20 years old who have demonstrated outstanding results to one or more organizations through their commitment to time, talent and demonstration of leadership in philanthropy.

•Cat Country 98.7 was named Philanthropic Business of the Year, an award that recognizes a business for its philanthropic impact in the community through direct and indirect support of charitable projects.

•Epps Christian Center was named Philanthropic Faith-Based Organization of the Year for an organization that gives of itself to motivate and support its members’ service-related efforts.

•Tip McAlpin was named Philanthropist of the Year, which recognizes an individual or family

for exceptional generosity and civic responsibility demonstrated by significant financial contributions to charitable organizations in the community.

•Seville Rotary Club Of Pensacola was named Philanthropic Service Organization of the

Year, recognizing a community-based organization whose grant programs, donations and charitable activities significantly enrich the community.

Each year, APF West Florida Chapter participates in National Philanthropy Day, which is designed to celebrate and highlight the accomplishments of giving, volunteering and charitable engagement within our community.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), an international organization comprised of over 30,000 fundraisers in more than 230 chapters from around the world works to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education, and certification programs. The West Florida Chapter is comprised of members primarily from Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. For additional information on the organization including information on membership, visit the West Florida Chapter website at afpwestflorida.afpnet.org.

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The JB-10 (developed by Mayman and designer Nelson Tyler) has made about 400 test runs in Monaco and over downtown London and New York City, but the partners realize that ultimate success will require that the fuel tanks be downsized so that the craft can be powered electrically—and thus seek crowdfunding both for that model and a larger one to accommodate the Pentagon's (Special Operations Command) tactical needs.

THE CONTINUING CRISIS Wild Life: The state agency Colorado Parks and Wildlife filed 21 criminal charges in October against the Squirrel Creek Wildlife Rescue center in Littleton, alleging that some of the orphaned and rehabbing animals Kendall Seifert houses are not being kept according to the state's strict standards—and that Seifert's 15-year-old center is also home to his popular swingers' club (Scarlet Ranch) featuring weekend sex parties. One of the criminal charges suggests that rescue animals could be stressed by gazing at activity in the ranch's bar area. Seifert said he will challenge the charges out of fear that many of the raccoons, foxes, song birds, coyotes, skunks, rabbits and squirrels he would have to relinquish would not find suitable facilities elsewhere.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT (1) In a retail market long dominated by priests, "nonsectarian" funeral eulogizers now offer to give individually tailored remembrances of the deceased for a fee, according to an October report by a New York Post reporter who interviewed two local "celebrants," who cited the declining appeal of "prayers."

(2) The British retailer ASOS announced in August that 3-foot-long clip-on dinosaur tails had sold out in one of its two models (although New York magazine, which reported it in the U.S., was, for obvious reasons, baffled about why).

THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS Brittany Maynard, then 29, became "the face of the Right to Die movement" in 2014, according to a New York Post column, when she chose a legal physician-assisted suicide rather than awaiting the growth of her terminal brain tumor. In October, terminally ill California mother Stephanie Packer hoped to be "the face of the Right to Live movement" after revealing that her insurance company denied coverage for a drug that could extend her life—but at the same time disclosed that her suicide drugs are covered, and even disclosed her co-pay ($1.20).

by Chuck Shepherd

MEDICAL MARVELS Margaret Boemer's baby LynLee was "born" twice. In an October Texas Children's Hospital interview, doctors described how the need to rid Boemer's fetus of a rapidly growing tumor required them, at Boemer's 23rd week of pregnancy, to remove the fetus completely from the uterus until it was "hanging out in the air" so that they could cut away the tumor and then reposition the fetus into the uterus. LynLee was "born" again by Csection 13 weeks later.

SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED San Francisco State University researchers revealed in April that no fungi or fecal bacteria were found on the seats of the city's bus line or rapid transit trains (unlike their findings in 2011 before officials adopted easier-toclean seats), but that a "rare" and "unusual" strain, called Pigmentiphaga was found —previously associated only with South Korean wastewater and the South China Sea. The city's Department of Health said, of course, not to worry.

PERSPECTIVE A high-level policy document released by the Chinese government in September detailed plans to use technology to monitor citizen behavior to such a degree that each person would receive a "social credit" score (similar to a FICO score in the U.S. but covering a range of conduct beyond financial) that would be the basis for allotting perks such as government support in starting businesses and whether parents' children are eligible for the best schools. "(K) eeping trust is glorious," according to the document, and "good" behavior promotes a "harmonious socialist society."

THE PASSING PARADE (1) At press time, "Bugs Bunny" and "Pink Panther" were on trial in St. Catharines, Ontario, on aggravated-assault charges from a Halloween 2015 bar fight in which "Dracula's" ear was severely slashed with a broken bottle. "There was a lot of blood," said a witness (but coming from Dracula, not being sucked out by Dracula). (Update: The judge cleared Bugs, but was still deliberating on Panther.) (2) The tardigrade is an ugly micro-organism that is perhaps the sturdiest animal on Earth, able to endure otherwise-impossible living conditions and (thanks to gene- sequencing) known to be composed of DNA not seen elsewhere. A Japanese company recently began selling an oversized, cuddlable tardigrade toy "plushie" authenticated by science's leading tardigrade authority, professor Kazuharu Arakawa of Keio University. {in}

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