Year: 2022
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Gregg Gronlund Retires After 29 Years with the Orange County Library System!
Gregg Gronlund began his nearly thirty-year career at the Orange County Library System in 1991 at the Southwest Branch in the Dr. Phillips area, back in the "good old days" of card catalogs and pay phones. Between 1991 and his...
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Time Lapse of the Demolition of the Murrell Building
Demolition of the Murrell Building
Disappointed by the growth of office spaces and high rises in Orlando, Eugenia Sefnik and Lynn Long formed the Orlando Land Trust in 2015. They had previously gone to the City of Orlando to talk about...
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Pull for the library! - 1980 Campaign for Library Expansion
1980 Campaign for Library Expansion
Pull for the Library!
After expecting a library expansion millage referendum to be on the ballot "any time now" since 1976, the measure was finally put before voters in the Orange County, Florida, district served by the...
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Oral History Interview with Theoretical Physicist Dr. S. James "Jim" Gates, Jr.
I am an actual research scientist who is still active discovering things that no one else in the world has found prior to my finding them... Excerpt from an Oral History Interview with Dr. S. James "Jim" Gates, Jr. on Presidents'...
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Adam Ant at the Hard Rock Live
Adam Ant at Hard Rock Live
Coming from punk's first wave in the United Kingdom, Adam Ant got his start in a band called Adam and the Ants. They released three albums before Adam Ant went solo in 1982. His first...
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Pale Waves at The Social
Pale Waves at the Social
Pale Waves is an indie rock/dream pop group from Manchester, England.
The band formed in 2014 when Heather Baron-Gracie and Ciara Doran met while studying at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute. They released a couple...
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Gogol Bordello at the Beacham
Gogol Bordello is a popular "gypsy punk" group, as they call themselves, with members coming from many different parts of the world, although their sound is most influenced by the folk music of Eastern Europe and punk.
They played at the...
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Yesterday's News Today with Tom Webb
Yesterday's News Today with Tom Webb
Yesterday's News Today with Tom Webb, from WORL Radio
These recordings by Tom Webb were donated to the Friends of the Orlando Public Library's Oral History Committee.
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Part One
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Joseph Wittenstein
Joseph Wittenstein
Joseph Wittenstein presents a Jewish History of Orange County, 1875 to 1925, and early Jewish settlers in Orlando.
Joseph Wittenstein reads from his Chronology of the Early Jewish Settlers in the Orange County Area from 1875 to about 1925, ...
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Margaret Normant Thornton
Margaret Normant Thornton
First generation Orlandoan born in 1893, in her grandfather's home on Lucerne Circle. Mrs. Normant Thornton was also the mother of Betty Robinson and Peggy Petris.
This interview was conducted by Sandra Hinson on April 12, 1975 for the...
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Records from Early Sheriffs in Orange County
Records from Early Sheriffs in Orange County
In this recording, Hatabel Hyer and another woman (perhaps Eileen Willis of the Orlando Public Library) discuss information included in the Florida Mortality Schedules from the last half of the 1800s. They also disc...
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Carl Rodenbaugh
Carl Rodenbaugh
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Carl Rodenbaugh was born in Sumter County, Florida on December 4, 1896. He served...
