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Palm Coast and Flagler Beach Independence Day Activities and Evening Fireworks: The beloved Stars and Stripes parade down A1A in Flagler Beach, organized by the Flagler Beach Rotary Club, kicks off the day’s events at 9 a.m. The parade will go along A1A at Flagler Beach along its customary path from North 6th Street to South 6th Street, passing the pier that is set to be removed and rebuilt (together with that boardwalk). Residents and guests can enjoy the beach (be sure to wear sunscreen) and the music and entertainment offered by DJ Vern of SURF 97.3 FM at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach after the parade. Hula hoops, corn hole toss, limbo, and a Kona Ice brain-freeze competition are among the daytime diversions offered there. The Fireworks Over the Runways, held at the Flagler Executive Airport off of Fin Way in Palm Coast, will be the day’s high point. Gates open at 5 p.m., and everyone in the neighborhood is welcome to attend. At nine o’clock at night, the fireworks show starts.Details can be found here.
Flagler Beach’s monthly celebration of music, cuisine, and leisure, First Friday, is set to take place today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Veterans Park in Downtown, located at 105 South 2nd Street, from 5 to 9 p.m. Under the direction of Laverne M. Shank Jr. and Surf 97.3, the event is managed by the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
Notably:After all, Emerson gave his famous American Scholar lecture at Harvard on August 31, 1837, which accomplished for American literature what Jefferson’s Declaration had accomplished for American politics by announcing the country’s independence from the old world. Emerson wrote, “We have listened to the courtly muses of Europe for too long.” Therefore, why did Harvard invite Prince Charles, now King Charles (John Harvard, whose donation of 300 books founded the school, was an English immigrant), and Ahmed Yamani, who was 25 years into his term as Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, a former Harvard student, and the not-so-bright mastermind of the 1973 oil embargo that followed the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and collapsed within a few weeks, as its two keynote speakers for its 350th anniversary in September 1986? Due in part to his 1986 speech’s adoption of policy stances that the Saudi king deemed to be at odds with the kingdom’s, he would be fired right away. That isn’t important. Because Charles had a distant relationship with John Harvard, he may be forgiven. However, Yamani? One of those great hypocrites of Saudi power and presumption, Yamani was the darling of the Georgetown set and carried on bromances with every president under his watch. He was glibly, ruthlessly repressing a country on a scale that is only comparable to that of North Korea today and the Taliban in Afghanistan, while lecturing at Harvard from a location close to where Emerson once lectured. Yamani had given funds to the school’s Islamic studies program, which the Shah of Maga is now targeting. Therefore, it is relative to criticize Harvard’s 1986 judgment. Unless you take into account the source, there is nothing wrong with funding Islamic studies programs. This is an irony that Emerson would have considered unscholarly. There was a little more melody in the 375th.
P.T.
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According to all causes, all prophecies, and all preparations, the American scholar is the rightful owner of this faith in the unexplored power of man, Mr. President and Gentlemen. We have spent too much time listening to Europe’s courtly muses. It is already thought that the American freeman has a timid, docile, and imitative spirit. The air we breathe is thick and fat due to both individual and public greed. The scholar is good-natured, lazy, and complacent. You can already see the sad outcome. This nation’s mentality consumes itself because it was trained to aim for low targets. Only those who are complaisant and decorous have a job. When young men of the highest promise arrive on our shores, inflated by the mountain winds and illuminated by all of God’s stars, they discover that the earth below is not in harmony with these. Instead, they are prevented from acting by the disgust that the principles that govern business inspire, and they either turn into drudges or die of disgust—some of them commit suicide. What is the cure? They did not yet realize that if a single man follows his impulses and stays there, the entire world will come to him. Thousands of young men who are now swarming to the barriers for a profession do not yet realize this. For work, the study and sharing of principles, the making of those instincts prevalent, the conversion of the world, and the viewpoint of your own limitless existence, patience, patience, and the shades of all the good and great for companionship. Not being a single entity, not being regarded as a single character, and not bearing the unique fruit that every human being was made to bear—rather than being regarded as a member of the party or section to which we belong—and having our opinions predicted geographically as the north or the south—is the greatest shame in the world, isn’t it? Please God, it won’t be that way for ours, brothers and friends. We will stand on our own two feet, use our own hands, and express our own opinions. Studying letters will no longer be associated with sympathy, skepticism, or sexual excess. Human fear and love will serve as a barrier of protection and a banner of happiness for everyone. Because everyone believes that they are inspired by the Divine Soul, which also inspires all men, a country of men will exist for the first time.
The American Scholar, Emerson, 1837.
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