Day: January 28, 2012
Events
The Wedding
When Frank Sevick came to Orlando the only tall building downtown was the bank on Robinson Street across from Saint James Cathedral. Mary Jane Sevick remembers Orlando ending at Colonial Plaza on the east and Montgomery Ward on the west....
Places
Orlando's African American Libraries - From Booker T. Washington to Washington Park
ABOVE: Alice Grace at the Booker T. Washington Library
Plaque Commemorating the Booker T. Washington Library
On December 30, 2001, the Orange County Library System and the Shiloh Baptist Church celebrated the history of the former Booker T. Washington Library ...
People
Interview with Minette Elias
Orlando resident Minette Elias discusses her family's tradition of preserving family history through photography and home movies in Puerto Rico when she was a little child with Orange County Library System librarians Jane Tracy and John Mierose on January 27,...
