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Sue Rupnarain
In this video interview library employee, Sue Rupnarain, tells how much she enjoys living and working in the city of Ocoee, Florida. She came to Ocoee in 1998 after her sister moved to Ocoee from Orlando. She remembers there were...
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Cody Cleek
Cody Cleek recalls memories of growing up in Ocoee, where he now returns to on a daily basis for his career with the Orange County Library System.
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Cassaundra Durant
In this video interview Cassaundra Durant shares how she came to live here in Central Florida and fall in love with the beautiful city of Ocoee. The interview is conducted by Orange County Library System librarian Warren French at the...
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Felix Ramos, Jr.
Felix Ramos, Jr. loves Ocoee and looks forward to the day when he can move back to this great city. Felix shares how he moved to Ocoee years ago, left to serve our country, moved back to Central Florida, what...
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The Reverend Canon Nelson Wardell Pinder
ABOVE: Walter Hawkins and Father Pinder at the Dr. Jerry B. Callahan Exhibit Dedication Ceremony on February 20, 2013. The Reverend Canon Nelson Wardell Pinder (Father Pinder), Rector Emeritus of The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, gave the Invoca...
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Margaret Ekdahl - "Miss America 1930"
Margaret Ekdahl - Florida's first "Miss America"
While there has been much controversy surrounding her title, there was no doubt about the beauty of Margaret Ekdahl. Born in Sweden in 1912, Margaret and her family arrived in Orlando in 1926....
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Leon H. Handley: Icon of a Southern Gentleman
Oral history interview with Mr. Leon H. Handley at his law office in downtown Orlando, December 11, 2012.
Growing up in Lakeland.
My father joined the company that was called the Mulberry Explosives Supply Company formed to serve the phosphate mines and...
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Critical Thinking with Pat and Edee Greene
Pat Greene of Urban Rethink tells us how his grandmother Orlando Sentinel editor, columnist, and groundbreaking reporter, Edee Greene taught him critical thinking skills: She got the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Fort Lauderdale paper, and The...
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Aspects of War by Hardin Moore
ABOVE IMAGE: James Manley Milligan in this U.S. Army Air Corps uniform.
This information is from an interview I had with my great uncle, Bill Milligan, the son of James Manly Milligan.
James Manly Milligan, my great grandfather, was born in...
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Helen Greenspun with Displacement Camp Theater Group
ABOVE: Helen Garfinkel, center in white coat, is pictured with the theater performers at Displacement Camp in Ainring, Germany.
Ms. Garfinkel was liberated from Allach concentration camp on April 29th, 1945 by the United States Military. After recuperating in...
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Orlando Lutheran Towers: It's a Good Community for People to Live In
Above: Evelyn Powers is a welcoming presence to the downtown community of Orlando Lutheran Towers who stop in to pick up a danish and coffee at the lovely cafe shop.
We invite you to listen as she tells her story...
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Altamese Pritchett: Mount. Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church Oral History
ABOVE: Atlamese Pritchett.
It took 7 years to build the church because nobody, no institution would loan Mt. Zion the money to build the church...Because they wouldn't let black folk do it. But guess how we got it? The officers of...
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