Year: 2025
Organizations
Oral History Interview with Minnette Mullings of the Pine Castle Woman's Club
Minnette Mullings, standing, at the Pine Castle Woman's Club Black History Month Community Event, February 2022. Guest Speaker Belvin Perry, Jr. is seated to the left.
The Corner Rose Tea Room Orlando, not to be bias but I consider it the...
Places
A Central Florida LGBTQ Cultural Landmark — 4910 Edgewater Drive
The Palace Club
On New Year’s Eve, 1969 (shortly following the Stonewall riots, which had occurred in the summer of that year) the Palace Club opened its doors at 4910 Edgewater Drive. The Palace Club was owned and operated by...
Events
Oral History Interview with Carol Ann Dykes Logue, Director of Programs & Operations for the University of Central Florida's Innovation Districts and Business Incubation Program
In all the time I've been here, just by the nature of the kinds of companies that have been part of the UCF Program, companies in Research Park, the work UCF does, I've always had the opportunity to be engaged...
Places
Jones High School and Callahan Elementary School Historic Marker Unveiling at the Callahan Neighborhood Center, February 2025
City of Orlando Commissioners Shan Rose, District 5, and Bakari Burns, District 6 unveil the State Historic Marker for the original Jones High School and Callahan Elementary School, Saturday, February 15, 2025. Next to Bakari Burns is his mother and...
Events
The 150 Year Celebration of Orlando: 1875 - 2025
City of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, center, and from left to right, City of Orlando Commissioners Bakari Burns, District 6, Shan Rose, District 5, Patty Sheehan, District 4, and Jim Gray, District 1, at the 150th Anniversary kickoff event at...
People
Oral History Interview: Alan Hirschkorn, 9/11 Firefighter
Alan Hirschkorn served with the New York Fire Department, and responded to the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In the months following, Alan facilitated in the recovery and cleanup efforts. His health suffered as a...
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Books and Beyond 2023-2035
Books and Beyond
Books and Beyond, the Orange County Library System newsletter has come a long way since the first issue was published in 1996. Early library publications include Footnotes 1966-1970, the Friends of the Library Newsletter, and simpler versi...