Day: December 17, 2023

  • DIE AUGENKLAPPE

    DIE AUGENKLAPPE

     The north end of St. Augustine’s Anastasia Island was a lowland salt swamp until 1925, when millionaire developer David P. Davis purchased 1,500 acres of sand spit and mangrove swamp and began dredging. No one imagined he’d plunge from a luxury liner’s stateroom window, never to be seen again. The word “shores” usually conjures impressionist…

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