AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. – American Beach has a storied history of being a safe place for Black Americans, and one woman made sure the beach’s history wasn’t erased. MaVynne Betsch, affectionally known as ...
A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...
When I telephoned my friend MaVynee Betsch in American Beach, Florida, recently, I got her answering machine. It would be hard to overstate my amazement. An answering machine! In all the years I’ve ...
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