Secret Jacksonville walking tours and events
On Saturday Oct. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 6, Jaxson cofounder Bill Delaney will host a walking tour of Downtown spots featured in his new book Secret Jacksonville. They're just some of the events coming up to celebrate the new book.
Secret Jacksonville events
Writer Bill Delaney, co-owner of TheJaxsonMag.com and Edible Northeast Florida Magazine, has spent years researching Jacksonville’s underknown and underrepresented stories. His new book, Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure is dedicated to profiling the forgotten, mysterious and just plain interesting spots across Jacksonville and the First Coast. To celebrate the release, he’s hosting a number of events, including readings, book signings and walking tours.
On Tuesday, Sept. 28, Bill is joining fellow authors Tim Gilmore and Darlyn Finch Kuhn for Word by Word Presents Jacksonville Stories Vol. One RSVP here at the UNF Art Gallery. The authors will read from their work, answer questions, sign books, and generally raise our spirits. The free event begins at 6:30.
Or Saturday Oct. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 6, Bill is hosting walking tours of a few of the places featured in the book. Hear the stories of Jacksonville’s underground tunnels, the locomotive buried beneath a skyscraper, a lost (and fictitious) Native American city, a long destroyed sculptural masterpiece that will soon be reborn in Jacksonville, underknown Jax music history and much more lying just off the beaten path. The tours begin at James Weldon Johnson Park and tickets are $15 (kids 12 and under are free).
Signed copies of Secret Jacksonville are available at each of these events. You can also order online at thejaxsonmag.com/books.
Upcoming events
Secret Jacksonville Book Launch Party
Saturday, September 25 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Alewife Craft Beer Bottle Shop
1035 Park Street
Jacksonville, FL 32204
Word by Word Presents Jacksonville Stories Vol. One
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Tuesday, September 28 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Three writers devoted to Jacksonville - Bill Delaney, Tim Gilmore and Darlyn Finch Kuhn - will read from their work, answer questions, sign books, and generally raise our spirits despite pandemic, political lunacy, and possible extinction.
UNF Gallery of Art (Founders Hall, Building 2)
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224
Cost: Free
Book signing at San Marco Books
Saturday, October 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
San Marco Books & More
1971 San Marco Boulevard
Jacksonville, FL 32207
Cost: Free
Return of ArtWalk and Wolf & Cub’s 5th Anniversary Party
Downtown boutique Wolf & Cub will be toasting five years in #dtjax and the return of ArtWalk with a shop stocked with all kinds of amazing products, tees and vintage for your shopping pleasure. We’ll be dancin’ to the tunes of RickoLus and DJ Wes Reed. Plus, Bill Delaney will be slinging his new book, Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure right in front of the shop on Laura Street.
Wednesday, Oct. 6 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Wolf & Cub
205 N. Laura Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Cost: Free
Secret Jacksonville Walking Tour
Saturday, October 9 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
James Weldon Johnson Park
135 West Monroe Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Cost: $15 (kids 12 and under are free)
Book signing at the BookMark
Saturday, October 16 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The BookMark
220 First Street
Neptune Beach, FL 32266
Cost: Free
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VIII
Saturday, October 16 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Bill Delaney will read from (and sell and sign) his new book Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival, the eighth annual event featuring “Jacksonville writers writing Jacksonville.”
Jessie Ball duPont Center: Loading Dock venue
40 E. Adams Street
Jacksonville, Florida 32206
Cost: Free
Book signing at the Book Loft
Saturday October 30 from 12 to 2 p.m.
The Book Loft
214 Centre Street
Fernandina Beach, FL 32034
Cost: Free
Secret Jacksonville Walking Tour
Saturday, November 6 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. James Weldon Johnson Park
135 West Monroe Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Open to the public
Cost: $15
Jacksonville Library Lit Chat
Saturday, December 4 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Jacksonville Main Library
303 N Laura Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202