Month: July 2015
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All Souls Catholic Church Sunday Bulletins
All Souls Catholic Church parishioner Paul Brefka typed the Sunday Church Bulletins for more than a decade. Prior to his death in 1977, he gave the collection to the Bogeajis family (also long time parishioners of All Souls Catholic Church)...
Organizations
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church
ABOVE: The first church structure of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church was according to church history, "a bush harbor or bush arbor, so called because it was an open area enclosed by loose bushes, vines and branches bent over...
Organizations
All Souls Catholic Parish History
Bishop John Moore purchased land for All Souls parish in 1881 in Sanford, Florida, however, that would not be the land upon which the first church was built. The property on which the first church was ultimately constructed was purchased...
People
Richard Griffin
Longtime Ocoee resident Richard Griffin talks about growing up in Central Florida with staff at the West Oaks Library on May 27, 2015.
His family has lived in Ocoee since the 1890s.
Listen and watch this interview with Richard Griffin in two...
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Donald Hickman: Director of the Pershing Missile Project Oral History Interview
ABOVE: Colonel Quill in charge of Pershing Missile training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, General Boyle, Commander of the 56th Brigade, Donald Hickman, Pershing Program Manager for Martin Marietta Orlando, and Colonel William J. Fiorentino, Army Program Manager base...
People
Walter M. Winsor, 1918 - 2008
Walter moved to Orlando as the general manager of WFTV-Channel 9. Many viewers remember him as the editorial spokesman for the station and his appearances on the show, "Filmography." He is also remembered as the Master of Ceremonies for the...
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The Senator - 3500 year old bald cypress
The oldest living resident of Florida and fifth oldest in the world was an ancient bald cypress known as "The Senator". It was the reason the park surrounding it in Longwood, Florida was named Big Tree Park. The Senator measured...
