Mayor john marks biography of christopher
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So long, Mayor John Marks
John Marks cooks to relax.
Mayor john marks biography of christopher
On this late October night, he prepared snapper, black beans and rice and chilled gazpacho splashed with lime juice.
Jane Marks, his emotional backbone and wife of 45 years, relinquishes any control in the kitchen while handfuls of spinach wilt in an oil-drizzled pan.
Minutes tick by.
He monitors the food, fluttering from one counter or drawer to another in the white-cabinet kitchen. Soon dinner is served, eaten and dishes cleared. Marks sits in the sun room of his Bobbin Brook home, which is more like an art gallery with collectables from Tallahassee to Thailand.
He settles in and starts sharing the highs and lows of being Tallahassee's longest serving mayor.
Three terms later, the last one in many ways was the worst, even painful.
At times, Jane Marks said, it was awful.
The end of an era
This week wraps up the last of his 12 years in office.
The John Marks era means different things to different people.
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