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Three times on Thursday, April 15, 1971, groups of Black Student Union members entered Tigert Hall in an attempt to speak with then-UF President Stephen C. O’Connell.
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The new exhibit to be featured at the Matheson History Museum’s grand re-opening is called “Trailblazers: 150 Years of Alachua County Women."
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For a city with mostly straight, numerical roads, the intersection provides some confusion for Gainesville drivers.
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Walking through the empty gallery halls at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville every day hurts Dixie Neilson to her core. The museum has been closed to visitors since March, and as quiet as museums typically are, these bare walls and silence felt different.
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Hilliard-Nunn – Tricia, to her friends – died at age 57 on Aug. 5. The cause of death has not been shared publicly, and the several other speakers focused instead on the many ways they knew her.
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Stanley Richardson, the Alachua County poet laureate, choked over the words Thursday evening as he read from one of his new poems, “8 Minutes and 46 Seconds”:
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E. Stanley Richardson will serve as Alachua County's first poet laureate, a position that has a two-year term.
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Sylvi Herrick, a multifaceted artist based in St. Augustine, had a vision of how her work could be a medium for conversation and change
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Besides commemorating the centennial, local residents are also noting Gainesville’s role as one of the birthplaces of the modern women’s liberation movement.