Month: October 2013
Places
The Open Air School
Education pioneer Erna Wentzler Achenbach was trained in Germany by Maria Montessori and Friedrich Froebel. She and her husband came to settle in College Park where she started the Open Air School and introduced our community to the concept of...
Places
Albertson Public Library
Captain Charles L. Albertson
On November 10, 1921, Captain Charles L. Albertson, a winter resident of Orlando and a retired Police Inspector from Waverly, New York, met with the Orlando City Commissioners and a committee from the Chamber of Commerce to...
People
Community Leader Sarah Milton
Above: Boy Scouts in Troop 902 led by troop leader Sarah Milton, have been marching in the Martin Luther King Parade for ten years. In this photo the troop marches through downtown Orlando on Church Street near Jackson Court. Boy...
People
Interview wth Denise Stuart
Denise Stuart, a transplant from New York, shares her memories of Ocoee, Florida. Ocoee is very posh! The town is blooming and there are many activities for everyone to enjoy.
The interview was conducted by Librarian Sharon Ricket at the Winter...
Events
I Love Ocoee
I Love Ocoee! was an Orlando Memory event held on March 4, 2013 at the West Oaks Branch Library. Additional interviews were conducted in February 2013.
Listen to a collection of interviews and reflections on growing up or living in the...
People
Hatabel Hyer
Miss Hyer was the oldest daughter of Edward Pringle Hyer who came here from Georgia with three of his brothers in 1875. Edward operated his own school books and supplies store on Orange Avenue from 1886 to 1889, and served...
People
Bishop Henry Irving Louttit
Henry Irving Louttit, retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida was interviewed on April 9, 1975, by Bart Kimball. Born the son of a telegrapher in Buffalo, NY, on January 1, 1903, Bishop Louttit served south Florida for...
Events
Lecture: America's Response to the Holocaust
"America's Response to the Holocaust" a lecture by Ian Gold of Orange County Public Schools, October 10, 2013 at the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Central Florida as part of the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht Schedule of Programs.
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Topics
My Diamond in the Sky
ABOVE: "Diamond in the sky" Nancy Strickland age 5, a friendly face in the Lawsona neighborhood of Orlando.
One of the first memories I have of Orlando is attending Hillcrest School. The original school burned down and another school has been...
