Memories
People
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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Father Pinder Speaks
ABOVE photograph: Father Pinder and Walter Hawkins at the Dr. Jerry B. Callahan Exhibit at the 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...
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At Home with Roy and Connie Brand
On this visit to Villa Con Roy in College Park, Roy and Connie Brand share their life experiences with art and the people of Orlando. It is at one and the same an oral history interview detailing the people and...
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Father Pinder Speaks
ABOVE: Father Pinder with City of Orlando guests at the Callahan Neighborhood Center reception for the Dr. Jerry B. Callahan Exhibit Dedication Ceremony on February 20, 2013.
Father Nelson Pinder led the peaceful integration of Orlando's community during the C...
Places
Walt Disney World
Having grown up in Orlando, I have many memories of going to Disney World. In the early 90s my family always had annual passes so we knew the parks like the back of hands. I remember that the first roller...
People
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....
Organizations
Orlando City Soccer
About Orlando City Soccer Club:
Orlando City Soccer Club (OCSC) is the premier professional soccer sports franchise in the State of Florida. The Lion's pro team has won two regular season titles and one postseason championship during their short time...
Events
College Park Oral History Night with The Pickerills
ABOVE: Bob Pickerill shows photos of the Pickerill Baseball Team at the College Park Oral History Night with The Pickerill Family, April 22, 2013 at Infusion Tea in College Park.
Paul Pickerill was out on a boat fishing with Mike Cook one...
People
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...
People
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...
Places
Bertie Hunt's Concord Park School Day Memories
ABOVE: The 4th grade Girl Scout Troop of Concord Park Elementary School, circa 1950.
Concord Park Elementary School was truly a beautiful school... pristine white, bells in the towers, built about 1925, as Bertie Hunt remembers it from her school days...
People
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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