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Orlando Opera Oral History Interview with Nancy Phipps
So when I moved down here I was ready to help work with the opera...
Nancy Phipps started working with the Junior League in Orlando just after their first opera performance in 1958 and has been giving life to opera...
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Democratic Statewide Jefferson Jackson Dinner 1960
James Milligan of Orlando served as chairman of the Democratic Statewide Jefferson Jackson Dinner on February 27, 1960 at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach.
View images from the menu, program and lists of contributors and guests under Attachments.
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Oral History of Colonel William P. Hayman, Jr. DVM
My name is William P. Hayman, Jr. and I was born in Winter Haven, Florida, August 4, 1923. My father at this time was engaged in the fertilizer business, selling fertilizer to the citrus groves...
Read the Oral history of Col....
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Joe Sikora, Lockheed Martin Engineer
The Martin Company - so they put me on the company plane with a few other guys and down to Orlando we come. When we left Baltimore it was snowing, cold, messy, you know really bad and when we landed...
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Steamboats And Trains Exhibit
Florida's First Transportation System: Steamboats & Trains exhibit sponsored by the Pine Castle History Committee at the Pine Castle Women's Club features original paintings by Wayne Hovis. The history exhibit was on display December 2013 through February ...
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Thomas Tart: Florida's First Transportation System
Thomas Tart, a fifth generation Floridian, has been selected to receive the University of Florida's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Civil War expert, works diligently to get WWII historic markers placed in our state, and has a legacy of...
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New Year's Day Reception at the Chamber, 1941
ABOVE: Mayor William Beardall from program for the dedication of Beardall Park.
Several thousand winter visitors and permanent citizens greeted Mayor and Mrs. William Beardall and other public and civic officials at the annual New Year's reception held at the...
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Thomas Tart
Thomas Tart, a fifth generation Floridian, has been selected to receive the University of Florida's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Civil War expert, works diligently to get WWII historic markers placed in our state, and has a legacy of...
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City Leaders Bring a Holiday Welcome to All!
For many growing up in Orlando, the lighting of the Merry Christmas sign overlooking Lake Ivanhoe marked the beginning of the holiday season.
Pictured clockwise from top left are District 4 Commissioner Patty Sheehan, District 6 Commissioner Samuel In...
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Fishing on Lake Adair
ABOVE IMAGE: Eddie Martin, age 6, with the fish he caught at Lake Adair, circa 1952.
Eddie's grandparents, Joseph and Bertie Carrie Martin, moved to College Park in 1915.
Grandpa and his free range chickens. College Park circa 1940s.
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Indian Friend
Dorothy Louise Nash's great grandfather Charles Franklin McQuaig came to Orlando in 1871.
Her grandmother, Lorena McQuaig, was born on a little lake in Conway in 1878. Dorothy tells the story of the day her great grandfather's friend, a seven...
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Grand Avenue School Friends Joyce & Herkie
ABOVE: Joyce (Bossi) Erickson's Florida souvenir photo album with Grand Avenue School photos of her happy times growing up in the City Beautiful. Joyce Bossi is pictured in the center left, 1940-1941 student at Grand Avenue School.
Joyce and I were...
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