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Pine Castle Historical Society Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker Walter Meloon
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Shiloh Baptist Church
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Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018

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Belvin Perry, Jr.
My name is Belvin Perry, Jr. I was born October 11, 1949 in Orlando, Florida on Holden Street which is now known as Anderson Street between Division and Parramore. [Were you born at home?] Yes, I was born at home....
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Betsy VanderLey
My name is Kay VanderLey, I was born in Travers City, Michigan. And my name is Betsy VanderLey, I was also born in Travers City, MI. Oral history with Orange County Commissioner Betsy VanderLey and her mother, Kay VanderLey, at the...
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Oral History Interview with Betty Robinson
Oral history interview with Orlando native Elizabeth Thornton Robinson, (Betty Robinson), at her home on Lake Conway, September 9, 2016. VIEW A view of Lake Conway from the home of Betty and Jim Robinson My name is Betty Robinson, at least that's...
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Oral History Interview with Dr. Robert Byrd
My name is Robert Byrd and I was born in Orlando, actually at my grandmother's house on Cottage Hill Road which was a little rock road off of what we then called the Old Winter Garden Highway... It was just...
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Oral History Interview with Florida Horseman Brent Bachand
Brent Bachand on little Charlie, a wild Florida Cracker horse. VIEW LISTEN Part I (20:41) Central Florida Cow Pastures I grew up on the east side of Orlando down by Jetport, Curry Ford, 436, and nothing like it is now. That was all...
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Inge Koele: I Remember, Reflections of Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust
Holocaust survivor Inge Koele speaking at The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida in Maitland, March 19, 2017. This is the third program in the 2017 Holocaust Center series entitled, I Remember: Reflections of Eyewitnesses to the...
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Oral History Interview with Pete Barr, Sr.
Pete C. Barr. I was born in Washington, D.C.. on the last day of January, 1934. My family was living in northern Virginia at the time and my father was in Maryland. He had gone to George Washington Medical School...
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Oral History Interview with Kenneth Hughey
Kenneth Hughey. I was born in Kissimmee, Florida. LISTEN Part I (17:58) How did your family come to this area? John Hughey came from Tattnall County, Georgia about 1845 to the Seminole County area which was still Orange at the time. His son...
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Reverend Eugene Zimmerman and Mrs. Emily Ann Zimmerman Oral History Interview
I'm Emily Ann Zimmerman and I was born in Night Station which is just a little bit north of Plant City, but I grew up from age six in East Palatka in Palatka, Florida. I'm Gene Zimmerman. I was born in...
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Oral History Interview with Florida Supreme Court Justice James E. C. Perry
Oral history interview with Florida Supreme Court Justice James E. C. Perry at the Orlando Public Library, December 19, 2016. My name is James Edward Clark Perry. I was born in New Bern, North Carolina. I was born in the housing...
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Henri Goodheim: I Remember: Reflections of Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust
Holocaust survivor Henri Goodheim speaking at The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida in Maitland, February 26, 2017. This is the second program in the 2017 Holocaust Center series entitled, I Remember: Reflections of Eyewitnesse...
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Oral History Interview with Jerry Chicone, Jr.
My name is Jerry Chicone and actually I've carried a junior on my name because my dad had the same name and I was born here in Orlando in the only hospital that was in Orange County and it was...
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