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The Real McCoy: Meehan’s Irish Pub and Eco Relics

August 5, 2015

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is no plastic paddy. A stone’s throw from might seem an unlikely place to find a traditional Irish pub, but Ireland traces its St. Augustine diaspora back to 1595, with the arrival of , an adventurer and soldier who had helped establish the lost colony of Roanoke with Sir Walter Raleigh a decade earlier. In 1597, from Limerick arrived in

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The 14 Best Things that Happened in Jacksonville in 2014

Now that it is possible to fully reflect on the year that was 2014 it is safe to say it was the most energized and productive 12 months seen in Jacksonville in decades! EU Jacksonville invites you to be inspired by our listing of the 14 Best Things of 2014.

Going Green with Eco Relics

Every tree product from seed to sawdust is a candidate for reuse

A Visit to Mixon Studios

likes to bring together disparate and incongruous objects and see what beautiful

Grote Reber Listens to Space: Out Of This World Hobbies at Eco Relics

January 15, 2017

Business·Feature

January is national hobby month, a time to acknowledge our interests that fall outside of our professions. Hobbyists and amateurs have reached the highest levels of human creativity, from backyard astronomers and garage chemists to Sunday painters and midnight scrawlers. Consider , for instance, an American original born in Wheaton,

Eco Relics: Cast Iron Relics and the Weight of History

November 4, 2016

Business·Feature·King Street District·Lifestyle·Riverside

Cast iron is a building material with weight, distinguishing itself from more flimsy alloys and plastics that are common today. Behind that weight is the 8,000 year history of human experiments with smelting and metallurgy to develop crafted metal tools. To behold a cast iron object is to feel the

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Eco Relics: Let’s Talk Trash

September 5, 2016

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You know the old saying, “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.” It might as well be the Code of Hammurabi at . If it can be reused, recycled, or repurposed, it’s not trash! The crew takes great pride in the length of time between visits from the dumpster truck.

Eco Relics: Constructing Reality From an Old Family Recipe

June 6, 2016

Feature·Learning·Lifestyle·Ponte Vedra·Restaurants

Sara Frasca is making her grandmother proud. In 1974, Evey Frasca invented the panino in her Colorado Springs pizzeria, a unique combination of dough, sauce, and toppings that is rolled up into a sandwich and baked. Evey’s children carried on her culinary legacy and now Frasca, who literally grew up

Eco-Relics wants to save our landfills: Waste Not Want Not

December 2, 2015

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As an underground fire encroaches on nuclear material in St. Louis’ Bridgeton landfill, another half-eaten meal winds up in the trashcan. Food is the largest single category of municipal waste. As it rots underground, it generates flammable methane gas. When the gas ignites, the the resulting smolder is difficult to

Fashioning Atmosphere from Salvage

November 4, 2015

Feature·Neighborhoods·Restaurants·Shopping

One of the most important aspects of opening a restaurant or cafe is crafting a physical environment that connects the food and beverage offerings with a particular history, style, and culture. Authenticity is important to today’s savvy customers. Targeted by thousands of marketers every day, they can smell a fake

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Salvaging the St Johns – Eco Relics

October 5, 2015

Business·Feature·History·Lifestyle·Shopping

The mighty defines Jacksonville. Carving through the landscape, swelling and receding with the salty tide, its cadence sets the rhythm of life along its banks. The river often appears lazy on the surface, drifting along to empty in the great sea. Dive deep, however, and a swift current works silently,

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Jacksonville’s First Klutho: The Dyal-Upchurch Building

September 3, 2015

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The morning of May 4, 1901, a young architect named opened his New York Times to discover that a great fire had burned downtown Jacksonville nearly to the ground. In June, Klutho left his two-year-old New York City architecture practice to board a steamer bound for Jacksonville. He arrived to

Eco Relics: The Biggest Selection of Old Wood in Town

July 5, 2015

Business·Feature·Lifestyle·Neighborhoods·Riverside·Shopping

If reclaimed wood is your thing, well then partner, have I got some exciting news to share with you. The team at has recently salvaged a large load of heart pine beams from the historic building in downtown Jacksonville. The building, constructed in 1904, was the first skyscraper built in

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Eco Relics: Home Decor with a bit of Southbank History

June 2, 2015

Business·History·Lifestyle·Southbank·Urban Planning

The Southbank area’s history is quite the study in vicissitude, full of highs and lows and ornamented with unfulfilled promises and ideas. It’s a beautiful area and should be one of Jacksonville’s most desirable attractions—you know, that postcard shot. , considered the grandfather of Florida’s major tourist attractions, was once