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Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Contributor
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
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Title
Transmittal of Schedule of Assistance of the Board of Supervisers of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1949
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Transmittal of Schedule of Assistance, 1949
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Description
The Transmittal of Schedule of Assistance of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District for 1949. The organization began in 1948 with a goal to assist in agricultural interests. Over the years, the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District began to also concentrate on the development and management of recreational enterprises. Their interests also entailed inventory and evaluations for land uses and solving issues concerning soil and water resources. In the four page Transmittal of Schedule of Assistance from 1949, Robert R. Witherell writes to C.A. Wales and states the kinds of assistance that would be made available between July 1st, 1949 and June 30th, 1950, such as a Soil Conservationist, a Drainage Engineer, a Soil Scientist, an Engineer Aid, and a Conservation Aid. The document is signed by Robert E. Witherell, and Colin D. Gunn.
Type
Text
Source
Original 4-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District,1949: Folder SSWCD Statistical and Historical Information, 1948-1977, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Folder SSWCD Statistical and Historical Information, 1948-1977, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/204" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 4-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1949.
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Creator
Witherell, Robert E.
Publisher
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Witherell, Robert E.
Date Created
ca. 1949
Date Issued
ca. 1949
Format
application/pdf
Extent
1.43 MB
Medium
4-page typewritten report
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by the <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a> and Robert E. Witherell.
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This resource is not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative works, distribution, performance, or display of the work. Anyone may, without restriction under U.S. of state copyright laws:<ul class="one_column_bullet"><li>reproduce the work in print or digital form</li><li>create derivative works</li><li>perform the work publicly</li><li>display the work</li><li>distribute copies or digitally transfer the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.</li></ul>This resource is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only. For more information on copyright, please refer to <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?submenu=3#A1S24" target="_blank">Section 24 of the Florida Constitution</a>.
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Donation
Curator
Baker, Holly
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
External Reference
Helms, Douglas. "<a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/about/history/?cid=nrcs143_021384" target="_blank">Hugh Hammond Bennett and the Creation of the Soil Conservation Service</a>." <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em> 65, no. 2, March/April 2010, 37-47. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/about/history/?cid=nrcs143_021384.
Helms, Douglas. "<a href="https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/home/?cid=nrcs143_021380" target="_blank">Eroding the Color Line: The Soil Conservation Service and the Civil Rights Act of 1964</a>." <em>Journal of Soil and Water Conservation</em> 65, no. 2, Spring 1991, 35-53. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/home/?cid=nrcs143_021380.
Rasmussen, Wayne D. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/795510987" target="_blank"><em>Taking the University To The People: Seventy-five years of Cooperative Extension</em></a>. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 9189.
Shofner, Jerrell H. "<a href="https://ucf.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25480/datastream/OBJ/view" target="_blank">Roosevelt's 'Tree Army'</a>." <em>Florida Historical Quarterly</em> 65, no. 4, April 1987, 433-465. https://ucf.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A25480/datastream/OBJ/view.
DeFreese, Duane E. "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20700248?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank">Florida and the Environment: From 'La Florida' to Global Warming: 2008 Jillian Prescott Memorial Lecture</a>." <em>Florida Historical Quarterly</em> 87, no. 4, Spring 2009, 465-483. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20700248?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
C.A. Wales
Colin D. Gunn
conservation
drainage
engineer
engineering
Fern Park
Robert E. Witherell, District Conservationist
Sanford
Seminole County
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District
soil
Soil conservation
Soil Conservation Service
soil scientist
SSCD
SSWCD
State Conservationist
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
water control
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Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Contributor
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
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Title
Annual Report of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1963
Alternative Title
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation Annual Report
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Environmental protection--Florida
Description
The annual report of the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District for 1963. The organization began in 1948 with a goal to assist in agricultural interests. Over the years, the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District began to also concentrate on the development and management of recreational enterprises. Their interests also entailed inventory and evaluations for land uses and solving issues concerning soil and water resources. In this year's report, the board gives an annual review of the accomplishments of the past and a summation of the objectives for the next year.
Type
Text
Source
Original 9-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District,1963: Folder SSWCD Annual Reports, 1949-1975, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Folder SSWCD Annual Reports, 1949-1974, <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/204" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 9-page typewritten report by the Board of Supervisors of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District, 1963.
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Creator
Linz, W. W.
Publisher
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
Linz, W. W.
Date Created
ca. 1963
Date Issued
ca. 1963
Format
application/pdf
Extent
1.23 MB
Medium
6-page typewritten report
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by the <a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a> and W. W. Linz.
Rights Holder
This resource is not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative works, distribution, performance, or display of the work. Anyone may, without restriction under U.S. of state copyright laws:
<ul class="one_column_bullet"><li>reproduce the work in print or digital form</li>
<li>create derivative works</li>
<li>perform the work publicly</li>
<li>display the work</li>
<li>distribute copies or digitally transfer the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.</li>
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This resource is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only. For more information on copyright, please refer to <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?submenu=3#A1S24" target="_blank">Section 24 of the Florida Constitution</a>.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Baker, Holly
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.conserveseminole.org/" target="_blank">Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</a>
External Reference
Linz, W. W. 1963. <em>1963 Annual Report of the Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District</em>. Sanford, Florida.
agriculture
Al Furman
bass
Ben Wiggins
Boy Scouts
bream
Cape Kennedy
Cecil Tucker
Charles A. Wales
Chuluota
conservation
development
Don Sipes
drainage
Elbert Cammack
Farm Bureau
farmers
farming
farmland
Fern Park
FFA
fish
fishing
flowing wells
Forrest City
Groveland
H. L. Hunt
H. L. Hunt Plant
Horace White
housing development
Hubert Bagwell
industrial
irrigation
Jack Dodd
James E. Hughes
Jim Hughes
John Winter
Mark Bullock
martin company
orlando
Oviedo
Phil Westgate
R. V. Forbes
Ralph Hammond
recreation
Richard Schultz
Sanford
Sanford Rotary Club
Seminole County
Seminole Soil and Water Conservation District
Soil and Conservation Service
SSWCD
Terrell Davis
The Sanford Herald
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
W. W. Linz
water control
Wilber Arp
wildlife
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Title
Watermark Collection
Alternative Title
The Watermark Collection
Subject
Gay culture--United States
Description
Since 1994, <em>The Watermark</em> has been the cornerstone source of LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, and others) centered news for the Central Florida region. Founded by Tom Dyer in Orlando, the publication began generating bi-weekly issues beginning August 31, 1994. Since then, <em>The Watermark</em> has consistently published newspaper style issues every other Thursday. Gaining traction, the publication expanded in 1995 to include Tampa and, in 1997, <em>The Watermark</em> became a permanent piece of LGBTQ+ culture when the publication initiated the first large-scale Gay Days Weekend event, the Beach Ball at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon. Before 1999, the publication printed 20,000 copies every week, distributing them to over 500 locations between its two major cities. Following 1999, the publication launched watermarkonline.com shifting to an online publication style. In 2016, Rick Claggett purchased <em>The Watermark</em>.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/" target="_blank">RICHES Program</a>
Type
Collection
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.floridalgbtqmuseum.org/%20" target="_blank">GLBT History Museum of Central Florida</a>
<a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/">The Watermark</a>
Curator
Smith, Robert
Cepero, Laura
O'Neal, Rhiannon
Hearn, Nikki
Greene, Quintella
Rodriguez, Sharon
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.floridalgbtqmuseum.org/%20" target="_blank">GLBT History Museum of Central Florida</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/aboutcontact/" target="_blank">About/Contact</a>." WatermarkOnline.com, accessed July 11, 2016. http://www.watermarkonline.com/aboutcontact/.
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Title
The Watermark, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 14, 1994
Alternative Title
Watermark, Vol. 1, No. 2
Subject
Gay culture--United States
Description
The second issue of <em>The Watermark</em> was published on September 14, 1994, and focused on a wider spectrum of LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, and others) topics. Kicking off the news was the cover article covering the "Gayby Boom," which was the push for LGBTQ+ members to have children. Continuing a more family-focused set of articles was an article covering the harassment of gay teens at Apopka High School, a look at the LGBTQ+ community housing market, and a new section of restaurant reviews. This issue also included a larger selection of national news stories, including Oregon’s Anti-Gay initiative, Seattle’s Domestic Partnership Registration, North Carolina’s attempt to keep records of unmarried couples, and the U.S. Navy’s reinstatement of a gay sailor are among the highlights. Notably missing are articles covering the nightlife of the area, through advertisements are still present. As the publication ages and spreads, nightlife becomes one of its primary sections so seeing an early issue without demonstrates the evolving nature of the publication during its early years.<br /><br />Since 1994, <em>The Watermark</em> has been the cornerstone source of LGBTQ+ centered news for the Central Florida region. Founded by Tom Dyer in Orlando, the publication began generating bi-weekly issues beginning August 31, 1994. Since then, <em>The Watermark</em> has consistently published newspaper-style issues every other Thursday. Gaining traction, the publication expanded in 1995 to include Tampa and, in 1997, <em>The Watermark</em> became a permanent piece of LGBTQ+ culture when the publication initiated the first large-scale Gay Days Weekend event, the Beach Ball at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon. Before 1999, the publication printed 20,000 copies every week, distributing them to over 500 locations between its two major cities. Following 1999, the publication launched watermarkonline.com shifting to an online publication style. In 2016, Rick Claggett purchased <em>The Watermark</em>.
Type
Text
Source
Original 24-page newspaper: <a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Watermark</em></a>, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 14, 1994: Publications Collection, <a href="http://glbthistorymuseum.com/joomla25/index.php?lang=en" target="_blank">GLBT History Museum of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/203" target="_blank">The Watermark Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 24-page newspaper: <a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Watermark</em></a>, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 14, 1994.
Coverage
Orlando, Florida
Apopka High School, Apopka, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida
Salem, Oregon
Seattle, Washington
Carrboro, North Carolina
Jacksonville, North Carolina
Des Moines, Iowa
Tallahassee, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
San Francisco, California
Creator
Barber, Keith
Brenner, Harmony
Crescitelli, James A.
De Mattels, Stephen
Dyer, Tom
Maines, Ted
Newman, Lesléa
O'Lay, Lola
Sloan, Rosanne
Toscas, Dimitri
Publisher
<a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/" target="_blank">Watermark Media</a>
Date Created
ca. 1994-09-14
Date Issued
1994-09-14
Date Copyrighted
1994-09-14
Format
application/pdf
Medium
24-page newspaper
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/" target="_blank">Watermark Media</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/" target="_blank">Watermark Publishing Group</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://glbthistorymuseum.com/joomla25/index.php?lang=en" target="_blank">GLBT History Museum of Central Florida</a>
Curator
Smith, Robert
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://glbthistorymuseum.com/joomla25/index.php?lang=en" target="_blank">GLBT History Museum of Central Florida</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.watermarkonline.com/aboutcontact/" target="_blank">About/Contact</a>." WatermarkOnline.com, accessed July 11, 2016. http://www.watermarkonline.com/aboutcontact/.
Transcript
V
FLORIDA'S DISTINCTIVE GAY AND LESBIAN PUBLICATION.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2
SEPTEMBER 14,1994
HIGH SCHOOL HARASSMENT
Gay teens are threatened, abused...often ignored.
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Each time Brandon Ethridge returned to " school jt bet^meA-#tat hipi ijjore ^ afraid of the next. What started off as an occa- .. sionai occurrence became a daily thing. A ra-
School and certain students were not w illing to j
let if go, he said. 1
“Ever since seventh grade, minors had been 1 spread and kids started saying things and occa* sionally doing things like flicking me on die ears. But it was my last year at Apopka that things got really bad,’* said Ethridge, 18.
“My close friends knew I was gay, but 1 had tried to keep it secret otherwise. But people I didn't even know would grab me in die halls and punch me. It got so I didn't want to go back/’ he added.
fared, 17, is in the process of studying for his G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) after dropping out last semester from Dr, Phillips >' High School Jared said he was daily taunted jf for being gay and, because of his perception that the administration was both uncaring and able to do little to help him, he never pursued complaints and insteadchose to leave/
Michael (not his real name), a 16-year-old student at Lyman Hign School in Longwood, said he witnessed a fellow student being repeat- I edly harassed because of his “feminine” de- ||g meaner. Although he never witnessed any . physical abuse, he said tie graduating senior was regularly taunted by being called a “child molester”, “germ” and “fag”.
“It happened a lot and people didn't talk to him. I didn't talk to him. I felt very sorry for Mm hut I never said anything,” Michael said.
Several educators interviewed said harassment of kids by other kids is, unfortunately, a regular part of school life. And, in a reflection of the general society, kids will use sexual ori-
Continued Page 5
GAYBY BOOM
More and More, Lesbians Are Choosing To Be Mothers
by Harmony Brenner
Janice and Marcia.
Janice is 36 years old and seven months pregnant. She works as a healthcare manager at a local medical facility. She explained her initial reaction when she discovered she was carrying a child: “I got pregnant on the first try, which is extremely unusual. We were afraid it was too easy.. .like if something comes too easy, it must not be true or important. But this experience gets more significant every day^ Janice’" pirtne : wed zr •
vant, nods in agreement.
This may be a common reaction among expecting couples, but Janice’s situation is unusual. She and her partner Marcia are among the increasing numbers of lesbians who are choosing to be mothers. Like many lesbian couples, Janice and Marcia chose to conceive by means of artificial insemination. Marcia will fully participate in the birth and co-parenting of their unborn baby girl, whom they have decided to name “Taylor”.
To initiate the process of conception, a nurse practitioner at a local birthing center referred Janice and Marcia to The Sperm Bank of California, in Oakland. Reflecting recent trends, this sperm bank states in their marketing literature: “The donor insemination program at our center is for all women, regardless of race, marital status or sexual orientation. Lesbians, single women and women with in-
fertile partners are encouraged to participate.” But Marcia said that at first, “it was hard to find a place to serve lesbians.”
Janice and Marcia’s total cost for the donor insemination process was $276.00, including specimen, shipping, and evaluation fees. This cost was unusually low, however, because Janice conceived after the first insemination.
They first considered asking a friend to donate, but both
women ar* satisfied with their choice to use
dbhbr. Both legally and emotionally, anonymous donors »an make the process less complicated. Taylor’s donor wants no contact with the child until she reaches 18.
Anonymous donors also offer more flexibility and choice. For instance, since Marcia is a redhead with fair complexion, and Janice is brunette, they attempted to blend physical characteristics when choosing a donor.
Awkwardly, Janice will be their daughters only legal parent. Thus far, only two states have allowed lesbian partners to legally adopt their partner’s biological child(ren). Janice and Marcia have no desire to test Florida law in that regard. Instead, they are presently using a local attorney to draft several legal documents which evidence Marcia’s parenting rights in the event Janice dies or becomes incapacitated. They have also drafted detailed wills reflecting their wishes and the nature of their relationship. To avoid
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Election Results
Orange County Chairman
Linda Chapin Eton Pignone Tom Dorman
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Orange County Deborah Ble
Bruce Nants
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Roger McDonald Bob Wattles
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Stele House, District 35, Democrat
Susan Pickman %53
Dan Spoone lt30.
LOCAL & STATE NEWS
GAY-SUPPORTIVE CANDIDATES MAKE STRONG SHOWING IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS
Four of five candidates who have openly embraced the gay community made strong showings in the primary races held September 8. Of the five candidates, three won positions in run-off elections to be held November 8, including Orange County Chairman candidate Fran Pignone. One candidate - Susan Pickman - won her election outright.
State House Democratic candidate Pickman won her District 35 race handily against Dan Spoone and will face Republican Bob Brooks in the November 8 election.
Of the five candidates, only Insurance Commissioner candidate Karen Gievers failed to gamer enough votes to claim a spot in the run-off elections.
Orange County Judge Group 5 candidate Deborah Bleckman surprised many political observers by her strong showing in a primary race against George Winslow, Jr. and Bruce Nants. Blechman finished first in the race with 42 percent of the vote, compared to 41 percent for Winslow and 17 percent for Nants. Blechman will face Winslow in the Nov. 8 run-off. (In these primary races, if no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote or more, the top two finishers compete in a runoff election.)
Roger McDonald, candidate for 9th Circuit Court Judge, Group 28, also qualified for the run-off election. His 34 percent placed him above competitors Dan Mathews (32 percent) and Bob Wattles (33 percent).
In the Orange County Chairman race, the most hotly-contested local match-up in this
election, Orange County Commissioner Fran Pignone garnered 31 percent of the vote in an effort to unseat incumbent Linda Chapin. Chapin finished first in the primary with 42 percent, while Republican Tom Dorman finished a close third to Pignone, collecting 27 percent. Dorman is expected to support Pignone in the run-off election.
According to Pignone campaign manager Linda Stewart, Pignone’s chances in the November 8 election are good, although she concedes there is a lot of work to be done.
“We are going to concentrate on areas where we didn’t do quite as well as we should have,” Stewart said. This includes heavily African-American areas such as Washington Shores, Eatonville, Apopka, and Azalea Park, as well as Chapin strong-holds in Winter Park and Maitland.
“Of course we won’t ignore the areas where Fran did well: the working class neighborhoods all across Orange County,” Stewart said.
While Stewart recognized the contribution the gay and lesbian community made to Pignone’s success, she said that without adequate statistics, it would be impossible to discern what impact the gay and lesbian vote had on the outcome of the election.
Strangely perhaps, the Orlando Sentinel stated in a September 10 article that a strong gay and lesbian voting block in east Orange County helped Pignone. The article, however, did not list which communities would be included in that block.
ACLU CHANGES STRATEGY IN SAME SEX MARRIAGE SUIT; PUTS CASE ON HOLD
The ACLU of Central Florida will voluntarily dismiss its action for declaratory judgment in a lawsuit it filed challenging the constitutionality of a Florida Statute which prohibits same-sex marriages.
The suit was filed in July 1993 on behalf of two Central Florida women, Shauna Underwood and Deina Davis, who were denied a marriage license by an Orange County Clerk. Although the case had been recently argued before Orange County Circuit Judge James Hauser, a number of interested groups agreed that voluntary dismissal was an appropriate strategy at this time.
ACLU Cooperating attorney Peter Warren Kenny, who represents the two women says, “We want to coordinate our efforts with theirs as much as we can. After recent discussions with the Florida and national ACLU offices and the LAMBDA Legal Education and Defense Fund, we decided that our efforts in Florida were duplicating the same-sex marriage suit brought by LAMBDA in Hawaii several years ago. We expect a final decision in that lawsuit long before we could get a final decision in Florida.”
Marti Mackenzie, Chairman of the Central Florida ACLU says, “We intend to follow developments in the Hawaii suit closely. Since the lawsuit was dismissed voluntarily, it can be refiled whenever we choose to do so. The ACLU will continue to support the right of any two consenting adults to marry and have the protection and
benefits that a legal marriage can guarantee.”
PROSECUTOR’S ANTI-GAY TIRADE DISMISSED
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Broward County prosecutor accused of shouting anti-gay slurs and trashing a gay bar with a group of fellow rugby players won’t be tried on disorderly conduct or hate-crime charges. Mark McHugh, a felony division supervisor in Broward’s state attorney’s office, and three other men were arrested after about a dozen men wearing women’s clothing raided the Paradise Club in Boca Raton on June 17.
There is insufficient evidence to pursue any charges against McHugh, Palm Beach County Assistant State Attorney Moira Lasch concluded Wednesday in a nine-page report. Christopher Hynes will be charged with disorderly conduct, and Edward Murphy faces a charge of resisting arrest without violence. Both charges are misdemeanors. Charges were dropped against a fourth man.
Lasch, the losing prosecutor in the William Kennedy Smith case, said in a report she could not prove “that any one individual was targeted as a victim because of his sexual orientation.” But the Gay and Lesbian Lawyers Association of South Florida believes the state should pursue the charges. “If during the course of a disorderly conduct they say things that evidence prejudice, that’s the definition of a hate crime,” said Mark Leban, a Miami attorney and board member for the 60-member group.
A dozen men were accused of jumping on tables, shouting anti-gay insults, smashing picture frames and pulling down plants at the bar. They went bar-hopping after finishing their rugby club’s annual cross-dressing golf tournament. Hynes was identified as wearing a black cocktail dress with spaghetti straps. Bartenders and a patron described the incident as “a mob scene”.
WILL GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS?
The Parliament House and the Full Moon Saloon sit contiguously on N. Orange
Blossom Trail, near Colonial Drive. Those visiting the adjoining properties this month noticed a new feature; a wire fence, ostensibly separating the two gay entertainment complexes. Although no official explanation has been offered, few seemed willing to accept the barrier as a logical division between separately owned and managed properties. Many patrons were outraged, calling the action childish and further evidence of divisiveness within the gay community.
When contacted by Watermark, representatives of both the Parliament House and the Full Moon Saloon stated that the fence was constructed in compliance with a legal settlement agreement between the establishments. Both parties also indicated that the settlement restricted them from discussing the nature of the disagreement or the terms of the settlement.
The wire fence constructed between the Parliament House and the Full Moon Saloon has not yet been closed off.
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unnecessary complications, Taylor will use Janice’s surname.
Perhaps surprisingly, Janice is concerned about how their gay friends will react to Taylor. “Having a child will drastically change our lives. We just won’t be able to get up and go like we used to. Also, typically in the gay community, kids aren’t around or their parents share custody. There aren’t many women in our church (Joy MCC) with babies. I wouldn’t be surprised if we lose some friends.”
Marcia is more optimistic. “I don’t worry about the gay community, because if anybody should be supportive it’s them. As gay people, we know what being different is like.”
Janice and Marcia are also concerned about Taylor’s acceptance in school. “Children can be cruel,” observes Janice. To prepare her, they plan to involve Taylor in counseling before she attends classes. “We want to be totally honest, and counseling will help us do that. We want her to know that we love her and God loves her,” Marcia explained.
Both Janice and Marcia’s families are pleased about their pregnancy. “They are thrilled.. .ecstatic, really,” Marcia said, and Janice added, “They started sending baby gifts when I reached my first trimester.”
Joy MCC, their church, has also shared their happiness, holding a baby shower for them. Both have received gifts and showers at work, as well.
Lynn, Cathy and Wayne.
Donor insemination via sperm bank is only one method for lesbian couples to get pregnant. Lynn and Cathy decided to ask their close friend Wayne to father their child.
Wayne is a 40 year old gay male, recently separated from a longterm relationship. Lynn is 36 and three months pregnant. They met at a work-related seminar. “Lynn was wearing a shirt with a pink triangle on it,” Wayne smiled. “It’s always been a dream to have a baby. It’s something that’s missing in my life.” Lynn also shared this dream, and after six months of discussion, Lynn, Cathy and Wayne decided to try to conceive.
Wayne feels his desire to father a child contributed to the end of his relationship. “He didn’t want a child. This dream of mine made him look at his own issues,” Wayne explained. His ex-partner was also concerned that the child’s legal rights would supercede his own.
Lynn and Cathy discussed parenting for more than two years. Ultimately, they agreed to share in a mutual parenting relationship and iron out the issue of roles as they went along. But first they had to decide how to father the child. They originally planned to use an anonymous donor, but changed their minds. “My father died when I was very young,” Lynn explained, “and I really missed having that connection.” They also considered using a straight male friend as donor, but Wayne’s circumstances seemed ideal.
Wayne and Lynn inseminated at home without medical assistance. “At first we tried using a turkey baster. Then we used a medical syringe,” Lynn said. Ultimately they were successful by inseminating one day before ovulation, the day of ovulation, and the day after ovulation. It took 19 attempts.
By mutual agreement, Lynn and Cathy will assume custody and support responsibilities and Wayne will have liberal visitation. With the assistance of an attorney, they drafted a co-parenting contract that specified, among other things, that Wayne would never seek custody of the child and Lynn
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would never seek child support from Wayne. Wayne will be listed as father on the baby,’s birth certificate.
Wayne initially hoped that baby would be a girl, but as the pregnancy evolved, he states, “gender preference was no longer an issue.” Lynn however, is hoping for a girl, feeling this would be easier since the child will be living primarily with two women. Cathy hopes for a boy, but has some fears that a boy may be rejected by their lesbian friends. “After a boy reaches a certain age, lesbians may restrict his presence at their events.” A recent sonogram suggests that the baby will, in fact, likely be a boy.
Wayne observed, “I really see this as an ongoing process. We’re going to learn and experience things as we go along.” Lynn
ability to be his or her own person, whatever that will be.” She plans to discuss these issues, “according to the child’s level of maturity and understanding. “Wayne feels, “Since Lynn, Cathy and I are all friends, our child will understand what friendship is about and how important it is. It’s golden.”
The Donor Insemination Process.
Donor insemination, also called artificial or alternative insemination, refers to the process whereby semen is donated by volunteers who remain anonymous to the recipients. These donors are rigorously interviewed and tested for a battery of communicable diseases and for sperm viability. Genetic histories are evaluated, and addi-
JANICE AND MARCIA’S NURSERY IS READY FOR TAYLOR’S ARRIVAL IN APPROXIMATELY 6 WEEKS.
agreed. “We have an open enough relationship to discuss anything that comes up and we’ll address these issues accordingly.”
Addressing the subject of potential discrimination, Wayne stated, “As a gay man of color, I will know how to help my child deal with prejudice.” Lynn appears less concerned. “I haven’t thought about it that much. The people I deal with are my true friends, and my family accepts my pregnancy.”
Wayne added, “Lots of family and friends have opinions [about the baby]. It’s a struggle to differentiate between what someone else wants and what we want. I have to act as an advocate for the baby and myself, and not get caught up in other people’s issues.” He believes the child will be, “healthy in all respects and have lots of opportunities because he or she will have three important people loving and caring for it. This child is wanted and cared about.”
As regards any speculation they may have about the child’s sexual orientation, Lynn said, “I want my child to have the
tional testing is done if indicated. If a donor meets all requirements, their specimens are quarantined for six months and then retested for HIV antibodies. The specimens then remain frozen, available for purchase by a doctor or nurse practitioner.
Recipients can select donors for certain physical characteristics, such as height, weight, hair and eye color, and ethnicity. Recipients are asked to choose at least four donor candidates in case a certain donor is unavailable. The Sperm Bank of California limits each donor to contributing to six live births, but this policy varies with each provider.
Currently, about 65,000 annual live births each year result from donor insemination. It is likely that, as technology improves, prices decrease, and success rates soar, donor insemination will be an increasingly popular option, particularly for potential gay parents. As Janice, Marcia, Lynn, Cathy and Wayne demonstrate, all that’s needed is a little extra motivation and flexibility, and a lot of love.
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HARASSMENT VICTIM BRANDON ETHRIDGE HAD FEW “GREAT DAYS” AT APOPKA HIGH SCHOOL
entation against someone whenever they feel they can get away with it.
“In the 20 years I’ve been with the school system I’ve only had two children actually talk to me about being gay and getting harassed. The other kids dealt with it and tried to keep it quiet. They did not want to get us (staff) involved,” said Tom Johnston, a guidance counselor at Boone High School.
Ethridge, during his final year at Apopka, did begin complaining to the school administration. But, according to Dr. John Edwards, principal at Apopka High, at no time during his complaints did Ethridge say he was being harassed on suspicion of being gay.
“Brandon never said he was gay or he was being harassed for being gay. This is the first time I have even heard that mentioned. My understanding was he was being bothered because of the clothes he wore and the fact he kept coming to school with different colored hair,” Edwards said.
Ethridge said his clothes and hair were a factor, as he often wore baggy, “skaters” clothes and at one point had his hair dyed purple. However, those were not the only reasons for his torment, he said, and the administration knew that.
He accumulated a lot of absences and his parents talked to Edwards about what could be done to ensure he graduated. Ethridge credits Edwards with being willing to work with him so he would not flunk out of school, but said he resents the fact that nothing was ever done against his tormentors.
“I honestly don’t think they did all they could. They would just tell the kids bothering me ‘You shouldn’t be doing this,”’ Ethridge said.
He eventually finished the last few weeks of school by combining schoolwork done at home with attending classes for final tests.
Edwards said he was unable to discuss specifics of Ethridge’s time at Apopka High but noted, in general, it is difficult to take disciplinary action if specific individuals are not identified and all the details are not given to the school administration. For example, Ethridge alleges he was often hit by other students and at one time was beaten up.
“The only harassment I mostly heard about was verbal. I also heard he’d been pushed and someone flicked the back of his head. Nothing about being beaten up,” Edwards said.
The 130-school Orange County School System annually racks up its share of assaults and battery. According to the system’s 1992-94 incident reports, there were 423 incidents of battery (physical attacks with harm) and 321 incidents of assault (threat of physical harm), said Orange County Pub-
lic Schools spokeswoman, Patty Villane. But during those two school years there were zero incidents of sexual harassment listed.
“I don’t know why that is so. I wouldn’t even speculate,” said Villane, adding that she had no way of knowing if sexual harassment based on sexual orientation was a regular occurrence in the schools. The annual report lists only incidents resulting in some type of disciplinary action, suspension or expulsion, Villane said. Therefore, any sexual harassment complaints not resulting in any of those would not be reported to the school board.
“I’ve overheard talk of individual cases but I don’t know if there’s an actual report anywhere,” she said. “There is no way to track such incidents without it being in reports.”
Rick Johnson, an assistant principal at Lyman High School, said he has the perception it happens everywhere.
“Kids are kids,” Johnson said. “I can’t speak for the school or the school system, but I, personally, don’t know of any incidents at Lyman. We try and keep our eyes and ears open but if they (students) don’t come and let us know, we can’t do anything. If they come to us, we always investigate,” he added.
Villane said the school system, in its training of teachers, seeks to impart respect for the sexuality of students, but said she does not know how focused it is on sensitizing educators to the issue of sexual preference. Within the schools students are sensitized in courses such as Humanities and Life Management, she said.
The stated policy of the Orange County School Board is that no student is to be disparaged or offended because of their “race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, marital status, handicap or any other reason prohibited by law.”
The state Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s colleges and universities, goes further in its Code of Ethics by including “sexual orientation or social and family background” as factors no student should be harassed for or discriminated against.
Ethridge said, in the claustrophobic world of the schools, being gay is not something you talk about.
“I wasn’t ever really out. I told my close friends and that was it. I didn’t even tell my parents until recently. The other gay kids kept it real secretive,” he said.
Michael, the Lyman student, said witnessing the other student’s harassment made him paranoid about being thought to be gay.
“I’ve never had a girlfriend. I just can’t bring myself to do that, although I know other gay guys who do that to cover up. But,
I’m very masculine in appearance and I have two best friends who are girls so they (fellow students) assume I’m dating them,” Michael said.
Gay and lesbian Community Services (GLCS) of Central Florida reports it receives calls from gay teenagers on an almost daily basis. “Unfortunately, I get a lot who have been abused physically, psychologically, and emotionally,” said Larry, a GLCS Center volunteer.
Locally, teenagers who are seeking to have contact with other gay teens are referred to the Delta Youth Alliance, which sponsors a weekly discussion group, the Center volunteer said. Up to 30 teens regularly attend the group which, for their protection and privacy, does not meet at the Center.
While Delta has individuals up to 21 years old attending, the Center recently started a new group called Rainbow Con-
nection, a social and discussion group, for 18 to 25-year-olds. It meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Center, 714 E. Colonial Drive.
Such groups are important, Ethridge said, for young people who are trying to come to terms with their sexual orientation in an often hostile world where their friends and, often, their parents and families are in the dark about who they are.
It is through talking that Ethridge can find himself laughing at the irony of an incident he was recently involved in.
“I just started at U.C.F. (University of Central Florida) and I went to the event where you try to get into fraternities. I have a lot of buttons on my backpack that indicate I’m gay. I was going to try for this one fraternity but one of the members pulled me aside and said he’s seen my buttons and I’m not the kind of person they are looking for,” Ethridge said.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) - An anti-gay rights measure will be on Oregon’s ballot in November after a court challenge failed.
The Oregon Court of Appeals on Thursday unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision that the proposal unconstitutionally contains more than one subject. Opponents of the measure decided not to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
“On to the campaign,” said Lon Mabon, chairman of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, which sponsored the measure. “I feel really vindicated. Being unanimous says something about the argument they have been pursuing.”
The initiative is a revised version of a more harshly worded measure defeated by Oregon voters in 1992. It would forbid spending public money in any way that promotes or expresses approval of homosexuality. It also would outlaw teaching children that homosexuality is a classification similar to race, religion, gender, age or national origin, and it would allow adults-only access to library books on homosexuality. Opponents contended those prohibitions were separate subjects.
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DOMESTIC PARTNER REGISTRATION
SEATTLE (AP) - Carolyn Sue enjoyed a celebratory piece of chocolate raspberry cake with Linda Gonzalez outside the city clerk’s office after the couple registered as domestic partners. “It’s about time,” said Sue, a 57-year-old health educator for Group Health. “Now it’s official: We are a family.”
The city officially recognized their domestic relationship for the first time when a new Seattle ordinance went into effect, allowing homosexual and heterosexual live-in couples to register at the clerk’s office as domestic partners. About 90 couples, mostly gay or lesbian, registered Tuesday, said Judith Pippin, city clerk.
Mayor Norm Rice signed the Domestic Partnership Registration ordinance Aug. 5, after it was unanimously approved by the City Council. Seattle follows a dozen or so other cities that have similar domestic-partnership laws, including New York, San Francisco and Madison, Wis.
Registrants must certify they are not married, are at least 18 years old, are not related by blood in a manner that would bar their marriage in Washington, are in a relationship of mutual support, caring and commitment, and are each other’s sole domestic partner. The cost to register is $25. Terminating a partnership requires only one notarized signature and costs nothing more. For the $25, the couples receive a certificate, but the document provides no legal benefits. It is not official acknowledgement of a gay marriage, since marriages are regulated by the state.
One of the few opposite-sex couples waiting to register said they wanted to support the concept behind the ordinance. And, they said, domestic partnership suits them better than marriage now.
TOWN DEBATES
REGISTRATION OF UNMARRIED COUPLES
CARRBORO, N.C. (AP) - Carrboro aldermen, who will decide next week whether to allow unmarried heterosexual and homosexual couples to register as domestic partners, heard religious arguments from both sides.
“God’s word teaches us that fornication and adultery are a sin,” Jack Godley said at a Tuesday hearing. Gary Webb, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Carrboro, said the board will break both the laws of God and North Carolina if it passes laws that condone adultery and homosexuality. “Each of you, when you took office, swore to uphold the laws of North Carolina,” he told the aldermen.
A number of those in favor of the proposal said they are Christians who regularly attend church. Gay activist Doug Ferguson said voting for the measures will promote family values because it would strengthen the commitments of unmarried couples. Gloria Faley, a lesbian activist, said the ordinances would help bring people together in an accepting way. “Let this ordinance be the first step toward what Jesus tried to teach us,” she said.
About 25 cities and a growing number of corporations provide for health benefits to their workers’ domestic partners. An ordinance in Seattle, which went into effect earlier this month, provides for no legal benefits.
The board will vote on whether to approve or reject three measures. The first would allow the town clerk to accept and record statements of domestic partnership of unmarried Carrboro residents. The unions would be considered similar to marriages. The second proposal would require elected officials who are registered as domestic partners to file financial disclosure statements that include their partners. The third proposal would extend health and other benefits to the domestic partners of town employees. Carrboro does not pay health benefits for employees’ dependents, but it would allow employees to pay for their partners’ health insurance through the town’s plan.
REINSTATEMENT OF GAY SAILOR PROVIDES LEGAL BOOST
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The reinstatement of a homosexual sailor to the Navy is a legal boost for a Camp Lejeune Marine who admitted he was homosexual, the Marine’s lawyer said.
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week upheld the reinstatement of sailor Keith Meinhold, who was discharged after revealing his sexual preference on television after President Clinton announced his intention to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. The court ruled that the military can bar homosexuals for sexual acts, but not for merely saying they are homosexuals.
“Clearly the Meinhold decision will be very helpful to us,” said attorney Lanny Breuer, who represents Marine Sgt. Justin Elzie. “The court found exactly what we’ve been arguing.”
Elzie disclosed his homosexuality on national television in 1993 after hearing Clinton’s announcement about lifting the ban on homosexuals in the military. An administrative board at Camp Lejeune voted in March 1993 to remove Elzie from the Marine Corps. Elzie filed a lawsuit against the government, claiming that the discharge violates his rights to free speech and due process.
Last year, U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin of Washington, D.C., forbade military officials from discharging Elzie or taking any other “adverse action” until Elzie’s lawsuit is resolved. “He continues to serve and do his job every day,” Breuer said.
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STUDY FINDS MANY AMERICANS HAVE HAD HOMOSEXUAL STIRRINGS
WASHINGTON (AP) - A survey indicating that nearly one in five Americans has been attracted to someone of the same sex at some time since age 15 illustrates that sexual orientation isn’t a simple question of gay or straight, one of its authors says. “I think in most individuals there is some sort of range,” said David Wypij, a Harvard University statistician and co-author of the study. “You may be more heterosexual, you may be more homosexual.”
The research, conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Center for Health Policy Studies in Washington, has been criticized by some statisticians but touted by gay rights activists. The study found that between 6.2 percent and 20.8 percent of American men and 3.3 percent and 17.8 percent of American women could be considered “incidentally homosexual”. The lower estimates are based on reported same-sex sexual behavior during the previous five years. The higher numbers are based on reported homosexual behavior or attraction since age 15.
“Our perspective is that sexual orientation isn’t just a yes-no, heterosexual-homosexual (question),” Wypij said.
Research that might help define the size of the homosexual community plays directly into the debate over extending civil rights protections to this minority. Congress is considering legislation that would outlaw job discrimination based on sexual orientation. Opponents have cited research that they say shows only 1 percent of the population is gay, suggesting that gay people have little political clout.
The study, which was presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto in August and is being published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, is the first national survey to look at the question of homosexual attraction. Interviewers spoke with 1,288 American men and 674 women, ages 16 to 50, and asked them each to complete questionnaires. The study said 1,200 men completed face-to-face interviews, which included 100 questions, and 1,130 answered 68 questions in the written survey. A total of 634 women completed the interviews and 588 finished the written portion.
Other studies that have examined sexual attraction - such as those published by Alfred J. Kinsey in 1948 and 1953 - were not based on samples that could be extrapolated to the population as a whole. More recent national surveys have focused on behavior, not same-sex attraction.
Randall Sell, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate at Harvard, said he hopes the research will help elucidate the complexity of sexual orientation. “It’s more than just behavior; that’s only one measure,” he said.
Tom W. Smith, a statistician at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, called the study useful, but warned that the question on attraction was imprecise. “They basically asked whether you were ever attracted to a member of the same sex at any time since you were age 15 - which can mean one very fleeting, very trivial sensation or feeling,” Smith said.
Despite such caveats, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force immediately seized on the report, noting the figures are much higher than those last year from the Battelle Human Affairs Research Center, which reported 2 percent of the men surveyed had engaged in same-sex sexual behavior and 1 percent identified themselves as exclusively gay. That report has been used by religious conservatives to argue that homosexuals are a far smaller minority than previously believed.
FEDERAL LEGISLATION WOULD HURT STUDENTS
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - They say it’s silly, unrealistic and would hurt students who need help the most. But they’re not pushing for anything to be done about it. That, Iowa school leaders say, would start a public debate, and that’s just what ultraconservatives want about the amendment they’ve added to a federal funding bill to take money away from schools that teach acceptance of homosexuality.
Cedar Rapids Superintendent Lew Finch says there’s no doubt about it - the amendment would hurt some students’ performance in school. “I’d hate to call it catastrophic, but it would be, at the least, devastating,” he said.
U.S. Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Bob Smith, R-N.H., got the Senate in August to add the amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which would give $12.5 billion to the nation’s schools. Under the amendment, schools that distribute instructional materials or offer counseling services that have “the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative” could lose that federal funding. So could those that refer students to gay organizations for counseling.
The U.S. House also put a similar statement in its funding bill, and now the legislation has been sent to a conference committee that will work out the differences.
But how do you know a school is “supporting” homosexuality? Iowa leaders say that depends on who is doing the interpreting.
“We’re saying that someone isn’t an evil, sick person who has these tendencies,” said Janelle Cowles, a high school counselor for the Des Moines School District, the largest in the state. “I don’t think that’s promoting.”
Gary Wegenke, the Des Moines superintendent, says that in 1990 the district added sexual orientation to the issues included in its nondiscrimination policy. Others include gender, race, ethnicity and language. The federal amendment violates that policy, he said. “We are an educational enterprise and we do try to remove ignorance,” he said. “In doing so, we do make our young people aware of issues. You have to be educated to what you’re not discriminating against.” He also believes the amendment puts Iowa schools in a Catch-22 because the state requires them to teach AIDS education. That means they have to teach students about the homosexual lifestyle.
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CITING DRUG FAILURES, FEDS EXPAND ALTERNATE PROGRAM TREATMENTS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Less than a month after an international AIDS conference in Japan reported little progress in drug therapy, the federal government has launched a $25 million program for alternative treatments. More money and applications are slated to be approved next year, officials of tlje National Institutes of Health said Thursday. They acknowledged that the future of drug and vaccine therapies appears gloomy in the battle against AIDS.
The treatments getting the money aim to strengthen the immune system and genetically attack HIV, said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “This effort is crucial because currently available anti-HIV drugs only partially and temporarily suppress replication of the virus, and their use is hampered by toxicity and drug resistance,” he said. More than 14 million people worldwide are now infected by HIV; the World Health Organization projects that the disease could kill 121 million by the year 2020.
The NIH money will be divided among six institutions: The New England Medical Center in Boston, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Stanford University and the University of California at San Diego. All must begin human trials by at least the third year of the four-year grants.
The Stanford team is taking infection-fighting cells out of healthy people, treating them and inserting them into a sibling with AIDS. Along the same line, the New England researchers seek to boost the number of the body’s so-called killer T cells, the AIDS fighters the body initially produces when infected.
So far, the new grants represent only a small part of the NIAID’s $558 million budget. But the agency says it is committed to expanding the initiative.
Experts studying how to halt the AIDS epidemic say this week in the journal Science that a powerful vaccine alone will not conquer AIDS and could even make the epidemic worse, because it might create a false sense of safety and cause people to ignore risks. They emphasize that it will take safe sex and other changes in behavior to stop the virus.
CDC FINDS GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN MINORITY AIDS CASES
ATLANTA (AP) - Minorities continue to outnumber whites in new cases of AIDS, but as the epidemic ages scientists are uncovering differences in how ethnic groups around the country spread the virus.
Fifty-five percent, or 58,538, of the 106,949 AIDS cases reported last year in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands were among minorities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. It was the third consecutive year that AIDS cases were greater among minorities than among whites. In 1992, minority cases accounted for 52 percent of new cases, up from 50.9 percent the year before.
As the epidemic develops, its pace has slowed among gay white men while quickening among minorities, particularly among blacks. But geography also makes a difference in how the virus spreads, said Dr. Teresa Diaz of the CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases.
The Northeast - particularly New York state _ has the highest rates of AIDS infection for both blacks and His-panics, while the South and Midwest are generally lower. In some states, vast differences between minorities exist. In Florida, the rate for blacks is almost three times greater than for Hispanics.
Such state-by-state or regional data help CDC prevention efforts, Ms. Diaz said. The CDC is collaborating with state and city officials to design programs that will target groups at highest risk in a specific area. “This way, we have a chance here to prevent it (the epidemic) from getting bigger” and spreading to new groups, Ms. Diaz said.
In 1993, minorities accounted for 45,039, or 51 percent, of 89,165 AIDS cases among men, while minorities accounted for 12,696, or 75 percent, of the 16,824 cases among women, the CDC said. Minority men were most likely to transmit HIV through homosexual contact (39 percent) and IV drug use (38 percent). Among women, IV drug use accounted for 47 percent of cases and heterosexual contact 37 percent. Rates were higher among blacks (162 cases per 100,000 people) and Hispanics (90), and lower among American Indians/Eskimos (24) and Asians/Pacific Islanders (12). The AIDS rate for black women (73) was about 15 times greater than for white women (5), and the
rate for black males (266) was nearly five times that for whites (57).
Last year, the CDC expanded its definition of AIDS to include those infected with the HIV virus who also have a severely suppressed immune system, tuberculosis, recurrent pneumonia or invasive cervical cancer. The groups most affected by the expanded definition were women, blacks, heterosexual intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs. The cumulative number of AIDS cases in the United States through Dec. 31, 1993, was 361,164. The number of deaths from AIDS through the same time period was 220,736, according to the CDC.
STATE WANTS DOCTORS TO TREAT PREGNANT HIV WOMEN WITH AZT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida’s state health officer plans to write thousands of doctors, asking them to treat pregnant women who have the AIDS virus with AZT to reduce the number of babies infected with HIV. “We can spare perhaps 200 Florida children each year the suffering and eventual death due to HIV disease,” Dr. Charles Mahan said.in the letter, which officials plan to mail next week.
More than 1,000 women infected with HIV are expected to give birth this year, according to the state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. An estimated 30 percent of their babies will also be infected with the virus. But results from a national study earlier this year documented a two-thirds reduction in the rate of transmission of HIV from mother to child when the woman is treated with AZT.
Mahan also urged doctors to make HIV testing a standard of obstetrical practice. “The stakes now are simply too high to do otherwise,” he wrote.
A bill that would have required that every pregnant woman be tested for AIDS died in the Legislature this spring.
HRS secretary Jim Towey said Wednesday that testing pregnant women and then treating those who carry HIV with AZT “is the first area where we feel we can make a difference.”
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No one at MBA’s September general meeting needed to be told when their guest speaker had arrived. A full six feet tall, Erin Somers is riveting. With long black hair, black dress and black ankle boots, the popular radio host turned even the guys’ heads.
In less than a year, Somers has tripled the ratings of her popular radio talk show, “Passion Phones.” She is at once witty, warm, sensitive, informed and open. Somehow, when Somers talks about sex it seems more... fun. “People are afraid of sex. They take it all too seriously,” she told approximately 100 MBA members and guests. “We weren’t put on this earth to make our parents happy.”
Somers shared that gay and lesian sex has long been a regular feature of “Passion Phones”. And while she’s a master of witty repartee, it usually leads to a more thoughtful response. Responding to a question about masturbation, Somers endorsed the practice. “What do you think I did this afternoon?” But she then pointed out that teenage girls are discouraged from mastur-
bating; possibly one reason that only 30% of women are regularly orgasmic. “With a little practice I have no doubt we’d get it down better than the guys.”
Somers is not an advocate of swinging or indiscriminate sex. Responding to one questioner, Somers stated that, “To the best of my knowledge and experience, only about 10% of non-monogomous relationships really work. For the other 90%, they can be unsatisfying, threatening, and at worst disastrous.”
Somers most difficult call concerned a gay man whose lover had committed suicide after being rejected by his father. Her next caller was the father, inconsolable in his grief. Somers assured him that his experience would move and inform others.
Somers also stated her amazement at the divisiveness she sees within the gay and lesbian community. “You all have some real enemies... some powerful, organized enemies... and you need to stop fighting with each other and get it together.”
WATERMARK / September 14,1994 10
VIEWPOINT
VISIBLE
INVISIBLE
hr Rosaline Sloan
I have always felt that Florida was my home. When I was nine, my family and I vacationed here. Over time, I became enamored with the temperate climate, slow southern charm and unique beauty of the state. Although bom and raised in northern New Jersey, I welcomed the recent opportunity to relocate to Central Florida with my life partner. But here among the palm trees and sultry Spanish moss, I have been forced to accept some drastic changes in my gay lifestyle.
When I began coming out in the late seventies, I could hop on public transportation and roam streets at the center of Manhattan’s burgeoning gay area; all no more than twenty minutes from my straight,
Catholic upbringing. As time went on, I confidently walked the neighborhoods surrounding Christopher Street, often for up to six hours at a time. A decade after first discovering this eastern epicenter of gay culture, I had become so accustomed to its freedoms that I would spend five nights out of seven being gay as I ate at outdoor cafes, browsed in gay stores, and socialized in the many different clubs.
When my partner and I moved here, I eagerly began searching for places where I could experience the same relaxed, friendly openness of the Village. Instead I found that I now belonged to a hidden subculture. I felt as though my struggle to become a truly free lesbian on the streets of New York was
wasted. When I considered what Key West, South Beach, or even Pensacola offered in terms of lifestyle options, I wondered why our community in this part of the Bible Belt had been unable to flourish freely, even in small pockets. After participating in the most recent Pride Parade in downtown Orlando, I realized that this is not because we don’t exist in large numbers.
I want to feel the strength of
our sheer presence in the streets.. .who we are and what we are about as a community...
Is the voice of the religious right really threatening our community in 1994? Is there not enough safety in numbers that we can’t commit ourselves to seek what we deserve; the freedom to walk down the
street hand-in-hand with our lovers, or to roam a park without someone writing down our license plate number? Must we continue to gather only behind closed doors, or at events where there is no risk of exposing who we really are to our neighbors, friends and co-workers?
Now when I visit the Northeast, my first desire...rain, snow, or sunshine...is to go to the Village. I want to feel the acceptance I once took for granted. I want to feel the strength of our sheer presence in the streets. I want to see love in and among lesbians and gay men; open, unrestrained love that requires freedom to attain full expression. I want to feel the sense of who we are and what we are about as a community in our voices and in our hearts.
That community in Central Florida needs to be visible, not vulnerable. We must seek the strength and the will to be free, just like in the Village. Until then, maybe we should just pretend.
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I would like to congratulate Watermark on its premier issue.
I wish to respond to the article ‘TRACKS DERAILS - BOXCARS OPENS”. Several comments that Mr. Barlow made in the article are simply just not true. One, his quote, ‘‘In Tampa, the bars network and work together to benefit each other and the community.” Not once did Mr. Barlow ever make any attempt to contact myself or any member of management at Southern Nights with regard to networking within the gay community of Orlando!
Mr. Barlow further alleges that Southern Nights, The Edge and The Club at Firestone had authorized Tracks’ advertising removed from the publications at our locations. Mr. Barlow’s statement is one hundred (100%) percent false. Southern Nights, The Edge and The Club at Firestone do network together and not one of these establishments ever authorized removal of advertisements.
Maybe, Mr. Barlow and TRACKS/OR-LANDO just did not deliver what the competitive Orlando market is seeking.
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I just wanted to write and wish you the best for your new publication. Having seen your ads in other area outlets, I think that you have tapped into a very important niche in the Central Florida gay and lesbian community. It’s about time Orlando supported a higher-end publication such as yours.
Once again, I wish you and your staff the best.
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Bravo!
How grand that there is finally a forum for the diversity of culture that is the gay community. We are not simply visual cliches, but rather an evolution of old and new, traditional and avant garde, private and unabashed. Mostly, though, we are worthy of celebration. Thank you for validating that.
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Congratulations on the premier issue of your paper. Great looks and impressive content.
One gentle criticism, though. If your goal is to reflect the positive, non-stereo-typical side of our community, Lola O’Lay is a step in the wrong direction. The general population already thinks we’re campy transvestites with lots of attitude and a tenuous grip on reality. Why reinforce this stereotype?
Other than that, it was nice to read about Amanda Bearse, and I particularly enjoyed your article on Fran Pignone. The Sports page is a great idea. Keep up the good work.
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WATERMARK / September 14, 1994 11
VIEWPOINT
WHERE WERE YOU IN 1969?
by James A. Crescitelli
Next year I’m going to be forty years old. Forty. Four-O. Well, as Margo Channing said: “That slipped out, I hadn’t quite made up my mind to admit it.” I’m not complaining; they’ve been very good years, but I wonder what it would be like to be a gay teenager in 1994 instead of 1969...
For gay people, the nineties certainly seem to offer a plethora of support systems. Community centers, specialized interest groups, publishers, magazines...We’ve come a long way from the days when checking The Well of Loneliness out of the library was a major psychological ordeal. I remember buying a copy of Playgirl at my local neighborhood newsstand in Brooklyn; I told the vendor that it was for my sister, who was in the hospital with two broken legs. The webs we weave.
What sustained us in those days? Who was there to turn to? I had an idea that I was perhaps not the only member of my ilk walking the earth but, as a late sixties teenager, my resources were limited. Being gay wasn’t something I could casually bring up during supper.
“Dad, there’s this guy I like in school but he doesn’t seem to know I exist. What should I do?”
“WHAT?!”
Fanciful conversations such as these ran through my mind daily like frightened mice. Better, I decided, to keep silent. I had had no problem with my own personal coming out - a realization, really - but I thought others perhaps might: my family, my friends, and the nuns. In other words, everybody.
High school...in September of 1969 I put on my bellbottoms, my Nik-Nik shirt, and took the bus to a Catholic boys’ high school in Brooklyn which, for some strange reason, had a reputation. It was whispered that only fairies and queers went to this particular grove of academe, and I was ribbed unmercifully in my neighborhood.
“I’m only going because it’s close,” I countered to any friend who dared to cast
aspersions on my adolescent masculinity. It was true; the school itself was only a ten-minute bus ride away. Secretly, I was intrigued.
Orientation day brought no major revelations other than the fact that we were not expected to shower after gym; it was optional, and I was relieved. Curious as I was about a high school filled with homosexuals, I was not quite ready to bare it all in a shower room crammed with boys I did not know.
I spent that first month looking at everybody intensely, trying to discern whether or not they were like me. It was a difficult task; I mean, nobody came right out and announced it, and I certainly didn’t ask anybody if they were gay.
I found my peers after a time but did not realize it at first. Some magic radar had conspired to pull us all together, but it took
I will always be amazed at how we “found” each other during those dim freshman months, perhaps groping subconsciously toward the light.
us until our senior year to verbally come out to one another. As I look back, however, it is plain to me just how unspokenly gay we really were.
We went to a lot of movies together, and any one of us could be counted on to know the dialogue from obscure Hollywood classics. Week after week, ensconced in dusty revival cinemas, we immersed ourselves in camp, unwittingly educating our psyches toward a more open future.
Theater matinees - orchestra seats were ridiculously inexpensive in those years -
were another mainstay, as well as the dinners afterward in Broadway restaurants in which we engaged in what we thought was highly witty repartee...I thought, heterosexual men don’t do this as a group. Here we are discussing Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer in great detail. What, I wondered, was up? Could we ALL be...?
Straight men go to the movies and they attend the theatre, and they know about art and literature and even a little bit about fashion, but would they have spent ALL their time discussing the finer points of these subjects? Would a straight man even know that Claudettte Colbert was offered the lead in All About Eve before Bette Davis, but had to withdraw because of back problems? Do you think my father knew or even cared that Norma Shearer turned down the starring role in Gone with the because her fans did not want her to play a bitch?
Even as we grew closer over the years, the G-word remained unspoken when referring to ourselves. Occasionally I would catch one of our “Theater Group” eyeing somebody on the subway, and I suppose I myself was caught, but nobody was saying.
Then, in gym class during senior year, one of these friends told me he had just finished reading his sister’s copy of Portnoy’s Complaint. He related the famous scene with the liver, and then had some news.
“.. .and by the way, i just wanted to tell you that I’m gay.”
I was hardly shocked, as the expression on his face seemed to hope for.
“Oh, really? So am I!” I replied.
“What? No you’re not!!”
He was angry that I had stolen his thunder, as apparently he was treating this as a major step in his life. I - seventeen, smug -was pleased with his revelation, yet treated it more as a “homecoming.” Yes, somebody had actually come over to MY side.
The news traveled s wiftly through the group. I confided in another, he confided in somebody else, and soon we were all privy to a rather unwieldy open secret. It took a third friend’s coming out to bring the rest of the group stampeding to the fore. Nobody wanted to be left behind.
I look back often and realize that every one of my little group blossomed into a full-fledged gay man. I will always be amazed at how we “found” each other during those dim freshman months, perhaps groping subconsciously toward the light.
It must be less of a challenge for young gay people to find each other these days, what with the network of support we’ve erected within our community. I suppose it’s easy enough to look up “Gay” in the yellow pages and find a listing - a telephone number, maybe even the address of a community center. There are counselors, groups, and sub-groups, but I can’t help feeling that, while positive, it has suddenly become so easy to come out...the furtiveness is gone. Maybe today’s young people don’t care that gay people once lived their lives as if played out on the pages of a gothic novel.
Maybe I’m too much of a romantic, but
do I REALLY wish it were 1969 again?
Not at all.
OUT OF THE CLOSET AND NOTHING TO WEAR
by Leslea Newman
When my girlfriend, Flash, and I were evicted last summer, I immediately called my mother. I don’t know why. I wanted sympathy, I suppose. After all, we hadn’t done anything wrong; our building got sold and we had to move. And having our apartment, funky as it was, yanked out from under us was more traumatic than I thought it would be. “It’s our home,” I wailed in a voice not unlike a 5-year-old’s. “I want my mommy.”
The trouble is, I don’t have a mommy. I have a mother. A mommy gives you milk and cookies, kisses it where it hurts and makes you feel all better. A mother means well, but misses the mark. A mother says things like, “Your room is always here if you need it,” as if the 20 years since I’ve inhabited that room can be dismissed with the wave of a hand.
My mother likes the fact that Flash and I have to move. This is a normal thing that happens to people other than lesbians. This is something we can talk about. Better yet, this is something my mother feels qualified to give me advice about. Never mind the fact that my mother hasn’t moved in 34 years, ever since my family migrated from Brooklyn to Long Island, and I, in typical dyke fashion, have lived in 23 different apartments since 1985. She is the expert.
“Have you looked in the paper,” she asks, as if I am an idiot.
“Yes, I’ve looked in the paper,” I answer in my most condescending voice, as if she is
an idiot.
“What about calling a realtor?” she asks.
“Ma, we have to come up with first and last month’s rent, a security deposit and money to pay the movers. We can’t afford a realtor.”
This is the opening my mother has been waiting for. All of a sudden she is certain that no one with nice apartments lists in the papers anymore; anyone with something halfway decent is sure to list with a realtor. Why, oh why, did I bother to call?
Weeks pass. Finally Flash and I find an apartment. Not just any apartment. A fabulous apartment. A dream of an apartment with six rooms, wood floors, oak window frames, french doors, two porches. I call my mother, feeling smug. All this and without a realtor, too.
“How did you find it?” is the first question she asks.
How do I explain the dyke grapevine to my mother? Flash took a walk after supper one night and bumped into the shortstop on her softball team who had heard from her chiropractor who had heard from one of her client’s that her ex-lover’s hairdresser had an apartment for rent. Would my mother ever understand this?
“Word of mouth,” I translate, and of course she has to have the final say: “I told you not to bother looking in the paper.”
Moving day approaches and my mother
is full of advice. “Pack the dishes first,” she tells me. “Why?” I ask. “Because it’s easier,” she says, and I let it go at that, as I don’t have the time to argue. Moving is a full-time job: packing, unpacking, turning on the electricity and the gas, forwarding the mail, reconnecting the phone. And who is our very first caller? Why, my mother, of course.
What she’s calling about surprises me. “What should I get you and Flash for ahouse-warming present?”
“Ma, you don’t have to get us anything.”
“I know I don’t have to get you something,” she says. “I want to get you something.”
“But it’s not like we’ve bought a house or anything,” I say, wondering why I am arguing with her. “It’s just another apartment.”
“It’s your first apartment together,” she says, and I’m amazed that she know this. Our last apartment had been Flash’s place until I moved in with her, and before that we had both lived alone. This is the first home we’ve created together and it does feel different.
“All right,” I say, and make a joke. “How about a washing machine?”
“OK,” she says, and I almost fall over. “It was a joke, Ma.”
“What joke,” she asks. “Do you need one or not?”
“I don’t know, I guess so.”
“Fine,” she says.
Disbelief makes me brave. “Do we get a dryer, too?”
She thinks for a minute. “The washing machine will be your housewarming present, and the dryer will be for Chanukah.”
I am floored. This is the closest my mother has ever come to giving Flash and I her blessings. This is the woman who, when f came out to her, called me selfish, self-centered, self-obsessed and self-absorbed. The same
woman who was convinced I was under the influence of someone, because I could never think for myself, or as she put it, “You were always a follower. Why, if they were all walking up Fifth Avenue stark naked with frying pans on their foreheads, you’d be the first in line.”
This was the woman who had never given up hope that someday I would return to my childhood bedroom and sleep like a virgin in that single bed until Prince Charming arrived to sweep me off my feet. This was the woman who was buying her only daughter and her lover a washer/dryer so their underwear, bras, socks, sweaters, shirts, blouses, pants, and pantyhose would toss and spin side by side, year in and year out, happily ever after?
Of course, I had to listen to a lecture on spin cycles, bleach dispensers, gas hook-ups and the like. Of course, I had to go to Sears, pick out the machines I wanted, write down the numbers, and call them in to my mother for her approval (she picked out a different dryer). Of course, now we have to talk about the washer and dryer every time my mother calls.
“How’s the washer?” she asks me.
“Fine,” I answer. I mean, how can it be?
“And how’s the dryer?”
“Fine.” I am tempted to say it had a slight cold last week, but I know better.
“It’s drying?”
“It’s drying.”
“Are you using fabric softener?”
As I listen to her advising me on detergents (after all, she has been a housewife for 40 years), all I can think of is you’ve come a long way, Mommy. Thank you.
Leslea Newman is author or editor of 14 books, including “Heather Has Two Mommies” and Gloria Goes to Gay Pride”. She lives and works in Northampton, Mass.
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Greg Dawson: Tales of the City Room
by Tom Dyer
Watermark Interview:
What immediately strikes you about Greg Dawson are his intelligent, laughing eyes. This is a guy who’s easy to talk to; full of ideas and well-informed opinions. Interested as well as interesting. He’s also just plain nice. Tall, thin, polite and accommodating to a fault, a young Jimmy Stewart would be perfectly cast in the Greg Dawson story. No doubt a mini-series.
Greg Dawson has covered television for the last ten years, first at The Boston Herald, and for the last eight years at The Orlando Sentinel. This summer the Sentinel unchained him from his television set (where he spent up to 40 hours per week) to cover real life.
During his TV tenure, Greg made few attempts to disguise his decidedly liberal (some would say “evolved”) perspective. He praised Channel 24 for airing Tongues Untied, the controversial documentary about black homosexuals. He was highly critical of the same station for then refusing to air the more conventional gay drama, The Lost Language of Cranes. He also panned Channel 6 for refusing to air an After-School Special about lesbian mothers.
Greg and I met for breakfast at the International House of Pancakes. While waitresses schlepped pancakes and attitude, we covered a broad range of topics. I asked questions with my mouth full. Greg paid for breakfast. I told you he’s nice.
Where did you grow up?
In Bloomington, Indiana...a wonderful, liberal college town. I was one of the original Crest kids testing fluoride toothpaste. I still got cavities, and found out years later that I got the placebo.
I know that you have an essentially liberal viewpoint. Where did that come from?
Well, both my parents were musicians, and for different reasons very liberal. My mother was a holocaust survivor and a raging liberal. She was sincerely disappointed that I didn’t marry a black woman. She always felt them superior as a race. And my father came out against the Vietnam war before I did.
Your mother was a holocaust survivor?
Yes. She was originally from the Ukraine, and her family was being marched out of town by German soldiers, presumably on the way to a concentration camp. Her father bribed a soldier to look the other way while my mother and her sister bolted out of line. They were on the run for years, often finding shelter and protection because of their musical skills. Very much like Playing For Time, except my mother played the piano. Eventually my father’s uncle heard them and brought them to America, and got my mother into Julliard. That’s where she met my father.
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PAGES: Every lesbian and gay man who works for a living should take the time to ready Gay Issues In the Workplace, by Brian McNaught {On Being Gay). It’s a veritable handbook on how to address issues effecting gay men and lesbians in the work environment. This is an easy read and I promise you will find it enlightening and a great tool for diversity training. After you read it, do yourself a favor and give a copy to your boss and co-workers. NOT SO GOOD GARDEN: Recently read Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, by John Berendt. This book came highly recommended by several reliable sources. It sure is a pretty book, and it will look great on your coffee table. If you actually read it, however, be prepared for a big snooze. It’s boring!! Why is this book a bestseller? I was hoping for Truman Capote and ended up with Danielle Steele minus the pulp. The story itself had enormous potential: a gay murder in Savannah circa 1981. Instead of a gothic potboiler, it descends into a series of character studies lighter than angel food cake.
PASSION FOR ERIN, PART II: Erin Somers, the sultry voiced host of Real Radio’s “Passion Phones”, was the guest speaker at the September 1 Metropolitan Business Association (MBA) meeting. Erin is loaded with charisma, and yes, the face and body match the voice! Somers was intelligent, eloquent and entertaining. An astute observation: Based on her call-ins, Erin remarked that she has noticed how divisive the gay and lesbian community can be. She advised us to work together in fighting against discrimination and in pursuit of equal rights. Like I said, a smart lady! Later that evening, Erin thanked the MBA on the air for giving her a standing ovation.. .her first ever. There will be many more, Erin! MUSIC: Ah, the end of summer. Spent labor Day weekend listening to the new soundtrack, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Highlights include disco classics “I Will Survive”, “Shake Your Groove Thing”, “Finally”, mixed right in with standards such as “I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine” and “A Fine Romance”. As if that weren’t enough, great 70s trash songs like “I’ve Never Been to Me” (considered by some music critics to be the worst record ever...I disagree, of course) and “Billy Don’t Be a Hero” should bring back some bad memories. This CD is a must have, especially if the movie is as good as its press. We’ll all find out soon enough. Priscilla, opens at Enzian sometime in October.
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IN REVIEW
Stephen Sondhiem has been turning Broadway on its ear for years, and 1994 is no exception. His newest artistic endeavor is overwhelmingly beautiful, passionate, and strange. Passion, a seamless musical drama, explores the facets of obsession, loss, and love.
Just released on Angel Records, Passion received the 1994 Tony Award for Best Musical. Its recording captures the depth and genius of Sondheim’s vision. His desire for pure love, his obsession with the darkness of reality, and his glaring rays of hope are woven within James Lapine’s book, creating a recording that is as over-the-top as grande opera and as real as modem poetry.
The seed of Passion begins in word. Based on an 1869 Italian novel by Igino Ugo Tarchetti called Fosca, it gathered a literary audience. Fosca was transformed into “film noir”, when Ettore Scola told the story in Passione d'Amore, and a new audience was tom by the love story’s twisting darkness. Now years later it has blossomed into an extraordinary musical and theatrical experience.
Following the romance of Giorgio,a young, handsome soldier, listeners whirl in the discoveries of truth and love. In the midst of a passionate affair with the beautiful Clara, he is tom apart by the deep, brooding Fosca, an ugly, withering woman, tortured by pain, sickness, and a crushing understanding of harsh reality.
The dreamlike music and desperate drama of Passion are captured clearly and honestly throughout this recording. True to
Sondhiem’s form, and unlike other Broadway cast albums, Passion’s disc maintains a coherent, elaborate story that will transform its listeners into an “audience” -including those who may not get a chance to actually see the production.
Passion gives this listening audience every resource it needs to be swept away by the story’s universal struggle: to love and be loved. Feeling much like a wave, Passion’s melodies swirl and circle upward through some of Sondhiem’s most sound and profound writing.
Songs like “Happiness” (an ode to oblivious infatuation) and Fosca’s relentlessly painful “I Read” (a bizarre anthem of denial) quickly build to a hauntingly beautiful and unexpected calm. By far the recordings most heart-rendering moment, “Loving You”, finds Fosca revealing her pure and blameless love for Giorgio, as she sets him free. Then the spiraling tide begins again, crashing down into the depths of dark reality.. .Giorgio’s breakdown, and the death of Fosca.
The orchestration, with strings added for the recording, drives Sondheim’s beautiful music. Brilliantly conducted by longitme collaborator Paul Gemignani, the orchestra sweeps over the shallowness of Clara (Marin Mazzie), swells under the heavy brooding of Fosca (Tony Award winner, Donna Murphy), and surrenders to the passion and commitment of Giorgio (Jere Shea). The recording gives their exceptional performances breath and depth.
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This specialty Italian grill, opened in 1992, enticed me with its fresh gladiolas and old world style patio. Originally from Dallas, Romano’s welcomes gay men and lesbian patrons.
There is a woodbuming stove smell that draws you into this restaurant. Inside, an extra large open kitchen delightfully adds a sense of hominess. The tables are covered with paper, crayons are supplied, doodling is encouraged. Each table has a bottle of Colavita Extra Virgin Oil for the traditional garlic focaccia (bread) to be dipped with fresh ground pepper.
Romano’s uses the honor system with gallons of Chianti wine lined up on the right wall. Each glass is $2.50, tallied at the end of the meal. Other wines average $4.50 a glass and $21.00 a bottle.
Like at my grandmother’s on Sunday, the menu is extensive. We began our meal with the special appetizer of the evening, a cream of mushroom soup. It was extra smooth with fresh parsley sprinkles and plenty of fresh mushroom slices. Very tasty. I ordered the Pasta di Tre Formaggio (fresh pasta with asiago, a type of cheese). My partner had Pasta della Casa (pasta, roasted garlic, fresh tomatoes, olives, basil, mushrooms and bell
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To top off the evening meal, our server brought us a dessert tray featuring lady fingers cake soaked in espresso with dark chocolate shavings, a chocolate cannoli, a chocolate fudge cake with whipped cream, and a cheese cake with raspberry sauce and chocolate shavings, which we chose to share...my only disappointment. Although it looked delicious, the ricotta was curdy and the chocolate crepe was thick and stale from being kept cold. After the third bite, the raspberry sauce became overwhelming. Espresso and chocolate cappuccino complemented our dessert.
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How did you get into journalism?
Purely by accident. I wrote a letter to the editor of the Bloomington Herald Telephone and he ended up hiring me to call around small towns to get sports scores...places like Monrovia and Greencastle. I’ve basically worked in newspapers ever since. I covered sports, city hall...eventually I got a column.
In fact, I did several stories on gay issues and gay people. I remember one of the first.. .1 went to a gay encounter group at a Unitarian Church. It must have been around 1972. It was me and about 50 gay guys and I did a column about it and the gist was that it was OK for football players to hug and pat each others “tight ends” in front of 50,000 people, but not for two men to do the same thing on a street comer.
When AIDS first surfaced and Christians started saying it was divine punishment, I wrote a column saying that using that logic, coronary heart disease among obese CEO’s must be god’s punishment for unseemly greed.
When did you start reporting about television?
When I moved to The Boston Herald in 1984.1 applied for the job of TV critic, and I think I got the job because the Herald was a Rupert Murdoch paper and no reputable reporter wanted to work for him back then.. .certainly not as a TV critic.
Was there much to learn? Was it a difficult transition watching all that TV?
Not really. The hardest part was the reviews. I never got real comfortable with that. I did not enjoy reviewing shows, probably because I often had no real strong
opinion about a show. The truth is that my reaction to 90% of the shows I ever saw was a big shoulder shrug.
What sort of things stand out about TV during the time you wrote about it?
Well I think the period from ’84 to ’94 may be one of the true golden eras of television. There were some excellent programs during that period...far more than during the so-called golden era of the ’50s, which had some good shows but also an awful lot of dross.
Which shows stand out?
The first show I reviewed was The Cosby Show, and I thought, “Hey, this isn’t going to be bad at all.” That was an excellent show, and it kind of elevated my expectations. Certainly The Civil War documentary was a great piece of television. Thirty something. Lonesome Dove was in that period.
Any major trends?
What’s happened, and one of the reasons a lot of conservatives have such difficulty with TV nowadays, is that it’s getting closer and closer to reality. The biggest myth about TV is that it sets a liberal agenda. In fact, television has always been a lagging cultural institution. I mean, c’mon.. .in 1971 they were afraid to present Mary Tyler Moore as a divorcee because they thought it would be too disconcerting to the TV viewing public. And more recently, Thirtysomething had a prime example. They had that one chaste scene between two gay men in bed.. .1 don’t think they even kissed...and ABC claimed they lost a million dollars in advertising over it.
What about the trend toward more and more tabloid television?
The country is kind of schizophrenic about that. Nobody admits to watching the stuff. In fact everyone says they hate tabloid TV, but if you compare the ratings for Hard Copy, A Current Affair, and of course, Wheel of Fortune, with the ratings for MacNeil-Lehrer, which airs at the same time.. .well, if you could make a bar graph, tabloid shows would be the World Trade Center and MacNeil-Lehrer would be a stack of three pancakes. And I do believe in Neilson ratings...again the denial. It’s like denying the validity of a bathroom scale because you don’t like what it tells you.
Speaking of MacNeil-Lehrer...what do you make of the way Channel 24 has bounced back and forth on gay programming? Are they just terrified of their conservative financial backers?
In a word.. .yes. I don’t believe the Channel 24 programmers are homophobes or Ander Crenshaws. They are people under intense pressure to raise money and this is a very conservative community. I have a lot of sympathy for them. They face problems the public TV stations in Boston or Minneapolis never face. This is not a congenial place where its easy to raise money, particularly for an institution that may want to do something sympathetic or supportive of the gay and lesbian community.
They did the right thing when they broadcast Tongues Untied, but according to the people I talked with out there, they took a terrible financial hit as a result. They were punished by their sponsors for that decision and apparently they retreated.
Do you remember the first gay characters you saw on TV?
Well I think That Certain Summer... a TV movie-of-the-week with Hal Holbrook.. .was the first gay-themed show
I remember. And of course there were always characters that were implicitly gay. You had to wonder about the Bonanza boys, too. I think Little Joe had a few dates but that was it.
There are a few regular gay characters on TV now.
I think its evolved in a good way. There was Billy Crystal on Soap. His character was not really demeaning, but his homosexuality was also sort of a running joke. Now there are characters like Martin Mull on Rosanne who just happen to be gay. No gay central characters, though.
Do you think that will happen?
It would be nice if there were a groundbreaking show like Cosby, but who knows where it would lead. I mean 10 years after that groundbreaking show we have blacks in atrocious, pandering shows like Martin and Living Single.
How do you like your new job?
The best thing about my new job is that it’s not my old job. I’ve been liberated from my TV room. I can get out in the community and see some live action...some real lives instead of video lives.
How much TV did you watch?
It would vary from week-to-week, depending on the programming. Usually 35 to 40 hours.. .more if there were a mini-series.
I think that’s actually not much more than the average person watches TV.
I know and that’s sad.
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change lives. Schneider’s direction gave these actors no way to find and develop that depth.
Through most of the production, the actors “Acting” was apparent. By using “theatre voices” and affected posturing, the actors added to the gap that the director had already established between the show and the audience. Only rarely was this gap bridged.
Bradenton Scott, who played the young Ned , broke through in the second act. His commentary on love and the relationship he destroyed was honest, heart felt, and profoundly moving. His discoveries about his relationship with his brother Ben (Lou Burnstein), were equally as involving, and were helped along by Bowser’s genuine attentiveness and commentary. But as the play moved* on, the “Acting” kicked in again, and the audience was kicked right out. The end result: emotions that were disconnected and not believable.
Speaking of believable, what a profound impact this show would have if the main character actually appeared to be hooked up to all those blood pumping machines. Ailing and surrounded by constant death; every moment heightened by the urgency of survival and validation. Then, when Ned breaks free from that hideous machine, splattering infected blood all over the sterile white sheets of society, we’d have a sense of accomplishment.
Gay Theatre has a responsibility to set a standard as yet unrealized in Orlando. A responsibility to entertain, to teach, to validate, to elevate, and not to accommodate. Until that happens, we are all hooked up to that hideous, blood pumping machine...waiting. The beat goes on.
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OUR CULTURE
GAY COMEDY JAM FREEDOM TOUR VISITS ORLANDO
LoneStar Entertainment has announced that the national “Gay Comedy Jam Freedom Tout” will visit Orlando on Wednesday, September 21. The show will be at The Comedy Zone on International Drive, starting at 8:00 PM.
The Gay Comedy Jam is sponsored by The Advocate magazine, and features Scott Kennedy and Kevin Maye. In addition to being two of the hottest nationally touring comedians today, Scott and Kevin are also domestic partners (two stars sharing the same bathroom!).
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Harvey Fierstein will participate in another first this television season, when he becomes the first openly gay actor to play a substantial role as a gay character on a weekly series. CBS' Daddy's Girls will feature Fierstien as the very creative, very nervous, very neurotic Dennis Sinclair, a clothing designer working for series star Dudley Moore.
Scott and Kevin have performed at comedy clubs world-wide as well as major Las Vegas Showrooms. They have worked with entertainers such as Garth Brooks, The Temptations, David Sanborn, Judy Tenuta, and Richard Jeni. Their two man show is an exclusive event for the gay community, and has gained national attention in the mainstream press. Conceived to celebrate Gay Pride and the 20th anniversary of Stonewall, the show has been produced in over 20 cities.
Scott and Kevin will also perform in Tampa on September 12 at the Comedy Works, Jacksonville on September 19 at The Punchline, Ft. Lauderdale on September 20 at Uncle Funny’s, and W. Palm Beach on September 27 at The Comedy Corner. For more information regarding the Orlando show, call (407) 351 -3500.
In fact, CBS says nothing about Fierstien’s character’s homosexuality in its publicity material, preferring to describe Dennis euphemistically as “highly strung”. Fierstien, however, states “Dennis is openly gay. They’re still sort of deciding whether he has a long-term relationship or whether he’ll be a slut.”
Two openly gay actors appear regularly on weekly television series: Amanda Bearse of Fox’s Married.. .WithChildren (see is-
sue 1.01), and Dan Butler, who plays Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe on NBC’s popular Frasier. In the past, gay characters on television have been played by straight actors, such as Soaps’ Billy Crystal.
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I am a 25 year old gay guy, healthy, with an average-plus sex drive. My problem is that when I meet someone I might be interested in for a serious relationship, I get cold feet in the bedroom. On the other, hand, strictly sexual encounters are great. How do I learn to get wild on a “serious” date?
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sex with any sex partner. However, I understand your confusion. I wonder whether you have been deeply hurt in the past by someone you trusted. Clearly you receive sexual/geni-tal pleasure from anonymous sex. Without being judgmental, I also wonder if you are scared of getting too close to someone. You may want to explore this issue with a close friend or therapist. Personally and professionally, I believe it is best to form friendship first and relish physical intimacy later. Songwriter Michael Johnson says, “Love will get you through time of no sex better than sex will get you through times of love.” If he’s your friend, you can talk with him about your sexual concerns.
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T Congratulations to Blair and Steve for opening of the first bed & breakfast in the City of Orlando. Their grand opening party on Sep. 10 was memorable, as is The Veranda itself. All paddle fans, porches and rocking chairs, The Veranda suggests the Deep South. Grab your mint julep and check it out, or better yet, book a one-night vacation. It’s a beautiful place, and an important new addition to the rapidly changing.Thomton Park neighborhood.
▼ The Civic Theatre of Central Florida opens its 1994-95 Mainstage season with the song and dance sensation, Me and My Girl, Sep. 15 thru Oct. 9. A recent hit on Broadway, Me and My Girl is a charming musical that mixes razzle-dazzle showmanship with a delightfully romantic story. Me and My Girl will run Thursdays thru Saturdays at 8 PM, and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 PM. Tickets are $16 and $ 18. For tickets call the Civic Theatre Box Office at (407) 896-7365.
T The Aids Resource Alliance (ARA) presents an Open House and Evening of Art on Friday, Septemer 16 at 6 PM at their headquarters on Colonial Dr. near Orange Blossom Tr. Artists Pete Clarke, Ondra Gary, Marian Simmons and Linda Lenhardt will donate a portion of any art sales made during the evening to ARA. For more informaion, call (407) 425-2233.
T The Rainbow Democratic Club presents La Cage. RDC has bought out the theater on Friday, Sep. 23 for a “Family Night Out”. Tickets are $45.00 and include dinner, show, tax and gratuity. Proceeds will benefit RDC. Call (407) 649-7875 for more details.
▼ LCN (Loving Committed Network) and the Unitarian Church present Lesbian Movie Comedy Night, Saturday, Sep. 24 at 7 PM at the Unitarian Church on the comer of Robinson and Hampton in downtown Orlando. This month features several different short videos by lesbian comedians Suzanne Westenhoefer, Karen Williams and more. Tickets are $3.00 to $5.00. Call (407) 831-2971 for more information.
T The 5th Annual International Pride Film Festival in Tampa begins on Sept. 30 and runs through Oct. 9. The festival will be held at the historic Tampa Theatre, as well as other venues.
This year’s festival will feature over 25 film events, including: Director Arthur Dong introducing his award winning documentary about gays in the military, Coming Out Under Fire; the Florida premier of Zero Patience, an outrageously camp AIDS musical named best feature film at the 1993 San Francisco Festival; the Florida premier of Totally Fucked Up, Greg Araki’s (The Living End) latest Gen X noir drama; the much anticipated Salmonberries, starring k.d. lang in her feature film debut. The festival opens with the Sandra Bernhard bio, Confession of a Pretty Lady.
On Oct. 8 and 9, a Gala Celebration is scheduled, including a street festival and musical and theatrical performances (including Orlando’s Improvabilities). More than 5,000 attended last year’s festival.
Speaking of Tampa, Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice, a play about the murder trial of Harvey Milk’s killer, Dan White, is playing at the Tmpa Theater from Sep. 30 thru Oct. 9.
▼ The Orlando Gay Chorus begins their fall season with a concert and party at the Maitland Art Center on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 6 PM. A new venue for the chorus, hors d’oeuvres and entertainment are promised. Tickets are $15.00. Call (407) 645-5866 for more information.
T The Aids Resource Alliance (ARA) will hold their 2nd annual Echoes On The Green Golf Tournament on Oct. 10 at Metro West Country Club. Monies raised will go to support the needs of those suffering from AIDS. Those interested in participating, or in becoming an event sponsor, should call (407) 425-2233.
▼ Lewis Routh’s outrageous Whores of a Different Color returns to Orlando after
a five year hiatus. The off-beat comedy played to packed houses at the Parliament House last time around, and in fact, the play is set on the Parliament House stage, as six gay actors rehearse a play based on a Greek myth about male/male love. According to Routh, the play is a “fun-filled romp that still packs a punch with its message.” Tickets are on sale now and limited to 100 seats per performance. Opening night, Thursday Oct. 13, will be a benefit for Gay & Lesbian Community Services. For information, call (407) 521-8134. TTTT
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▼ According to an Agriculture Department study, 8.5 percent of male sheep are gay. We’re not kidding.
▼ When he dines out, our bold and outrageous friend Eric always asks to be seated at a table with a gay waiter. He says everyone relaxes and its always fun to watch the forewarned waiter make his initial, usually tentative approach to the table. Eric tells us that he’s never been to a restaurant where his request couldn’t be granted.
▼ We count three gay characters in Disney’s summer mega-hit, The Lion King. Jeremy Irons’villianous Scar, Simba’s bearish buddy Pumbaa the wart hog, and of course Timon, the meerkat who does drag and is voiced by the wonderful, adorable Nathan Lane.
▼ We’re big David Letterman fans, and it concerns us that although his show is top-rated nationwide, in Central Florida it consistently ranks behind sober Nightline and the tired Tonight Show with Jay Leno. No matter. Letterman always makes us want to create our own Top Ten lists. Top Ten Lesbian Names: Kim, Rocky, Pam, Debbie, Jo, Pat, Mickie, Spike, Lynn and B.J./D.J./C.J....anything J.
▼ Ex-Mission Impossible hunk Peter Lupus is reportedly hawking sprayable vitamins. We’re not kidding. During the ’70s, he and a bunch of B-type actors posed nude for Playgirl. Hey...when Burt Reynolds did it for Cosmopolitan it made him a household name. Fabian, George Maharis, Jim Brown, Chris George, Lyle Waggoner, never achieved the same notoriety. Do B-type actors still pose for Play? Are there any B-type actors we’d like to see pose for Playgirl? How ‘bout that guy who plays the next-door neighbor’s husband on Grace Under Fire? Did B-type actresses ever pose for Playboy or Penthouse? Obviously B-type celebrities do, as evidenced by Tonya Harding’s recent “spread” in Penthouse.
▼ While we’re on the topic of television, was there ever a TV show with better looking actors than The Big Valley? Linda Evans was a stunner. Heath, Nick, Jarrod, all hunks. Barbara Stanwyck was handsome as well. Could it be true that she was the lesbian shrew from hell as alleged in her most recent bio? T Elections don’t have to be a complete drag. At Wigstock, New York’s annual Labor Day festival of drag, one candidate for state attorney general handed out nail files with his name and the date of the primary stamped on them.
TRANSITS & LUNATIONS
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): With Mars in transit through your house of the home, it may be time to move.. .or at least redecorate. But be careful with those power tools, dear; use both hands, because you’re accident-prone. If you’ve been depressed lately, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s called Saturn in retrograde. You’ll love feeiing homy again. It gives life such a sense of... purpose!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Mercury has packed and moved into your seventh house, bringing energy for travel and significant others. Perfect timing because everyone’s bored with your old stories. Go somewhere foreign; someplace with some history. Look marvelous while you solve a friend’s love problems over capuccino at a waterfront cafe. Then go create some problems for yourself. And by all means get political.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Earth continues to rotate while your head is in the clouds. It’s working. Don’t fight it. Others will attend to the mundane while you play. Just play healthy, and try to avoid anything clandestine. All earning potential thrusters are operational.. .a good time for gambling? But don’t spend it ‘til you’ve got it, dear. Jupiter sends you a kiss and says to watch your health for a while.
CANCER (June 21-JuIy 22): Venus is with you, so be sure to create opportunities for quiet, meaningful romance near the hearth.. .just what you live for. If you’re in a relationship, this could be a time of great bonding and sexual excitement. Even pregnancy may be achievable! As Mars conjuncts the Sun, fight your tendency to overextend. And by all means, reschedule visits by family and friends. Make love, not war!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If there’s a sandbox available, take it. You have real access to childhood memories and it wouldn’t hurt to wallow in them for a while. Your Karma will thank you. Watch yourself before entering into any “deals”; somebody may have a hidden agenda. As always, lions, temper your appetite for food, and for life in general. I know it tastes good. I know if feels good. But moderation is a virtue (even for you).
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept 22): It’s time to stop obsessing about finances and your future.. .right NOW. You hate taking advice, but consult a friend and listen, no matter how far-fetched. It feels like you’ve been missing out on things. You have. Choose a course of action and hit cruise-control at about 80 mph. When you arrive at your new destination, some familiar problems (like that relationship thing) will be there waiting for you. But the scenery will be better.
LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 23): Venus visits. Mercury mixes. Jupiter jumps. All in your (not so) humble house this month! It won’t last long, but in this madcap world, one good month is one good month. Besides, your stagnant routines have become depressing. Now’s the time to get centered so you can move. Meditate if necessary, but by all means rediscover the beauty of surprise. Just act surprised when that unexpected money turns up.
SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov. 21): Are you paranoid if you think people are saying good things about you behind your back? They must detect your animal magnetism, which has always worked for you like a splash of Paco Rabanne.. .everyone senses it (cough) but you. Children, however, are oblivious, and that’s a pain in the ass. If things seem a bit foggy, lose the cologne and look to your distant past.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Are you a
little, shall we say, overextended? Are you losing track of meetings and agendas? Are you even contributing? Reevaluate. Prioritize. Quit. Instead, pull out your London Fog and take up cigarettes. You are ripe for a very steamy, very atypical ...affair. Avoid that judgmental mother for a while, and by all means avoid legal surprises.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): That tug of war in your relationship isn’t over yet. Bummer. Friends and group activities will see you through while you decide whether to dig in your heels or let go of the rope. You may feel a bit like a Christmas glass ball that’s just been shaken furiously. Focus inward until your personal snow flakes have settled enough for you to see out.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aperiod of revelations. That plug that’s been blocking your career will dislodge...finally. And you’ll get to know that person you’ve been getting to know. Cut your losses. Anything that’s not readily apparent should be investigated. Ladies, pay close attention to whatever your body may be trying to tell you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stock hankies and prozac. The full moon on the 19th means emotional release. Johnstown flood. Let it happen. The planets are aligned to protect you like a five-day deoderant. But decide now that you will not decide anything until the new moon on Oct 14th. Instead, gather data like a whale gathering plankton. Perhaps that relationship would work better as a friendship.
Mark Lawhon is certified by the American Federation of Astrologers, and is available for consultations by calling 407-894-1506.
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Some of the Ballbusters celebrate the end of another practice. Front: Lisa, Doug, Becky Vickie, Donna.
BALLBUSTERS PREPARE FOR TOURNEY
They’ve practiced. They’ve oiled their gloves. They’ve booked their hotel rooms. They’ve raised close to $1000 to cover costs. The Ballbusters, one of Orlando’s premier women’s softball teams, are ready for the ASA’s Women’s Class-C Nationals in St. Augustine. Psyched as a matter of fact.
Eighty women’s softball teams will compete for national bragging rights at the tournament, held from Thursday, Sept. 22
thru Sunday, Sept. 25. According to Coach Doug Atkins, who has coached the team for six years, the “Busters” have “a lot of great players. We also have a lot of fun. We’re a close team.”
The Ballbusters, who are sponsored by Contemporary Awnings, earned the right to participate in the tournament by finishing fourth in the city’s Metro Tournaments. Some of the core “Busters” can’t participate in the four-day tournament, so Coach Atkins and his team have hand-picked talented ball-players from competing teams. Atkins states, “I don’t claim to be a great coach, but I’m smart enough to surround myself with great players.”
The Ballbusters is comprised mostly of
“professional women who love to play soft-ball.” At least half are lesbian, Atkins notes. “Many have kids, so they bring their kids, I bring my kids...its just a real family atmosphere with this team.” “In fact,” he adds, “softball is a great equalizer. All we care about is that our players have the right skills and the right attitude.”
Based on their performance at a recent Sunday morning practice, the Ballbusters have that right attitude. After two hours in the hot sun, players were chasing down line drives and throwing the softball with a real sense of purpose. Teammates could be heard encouraging each other and applauding extra effort. “We’re going to win,” says Coach Atkins.
ORLANDO SEEKS NATL BOWLING EVENT
A dedicated and ambitious group and lesbian bowlers is trying to bring the massive 1995 IGBO (International Gay Bowling Organization) Mid-year Bowling Tournament to Orlando. The tournament will be held November 10, 11 and 12. The IGBO tournament is expected to draw up to 600 gay and lesbian bowlers to the area, who will compete for $15,000 in prize money.
Tournament Director Robert Young, Co-Directors James Cardinal, Merri Wedemeyer, Keith McDaniel, Treasurer James Hunt and Secretary Ron Carpenter will make their presentation to IGBO officials on October 27 in Tucson, Arizona. They propose a “Fantasy ’95" theme, and will highlight Orlando’s weather, many attractions and accomodations. If Orlando is
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The Watermark, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 31, 1994
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Gay culture--United States
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The inaugural issue of <em>The Watermark</em> was published on August 31, 1994, and focused on several hot topics that were abuzz in the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, and others) community. Hit topics included the cover story interviewing <em>Married… With Children</em> co-star Amanda Bearse (b. 1958) who was promoting her new special <em>Out There II</em>, an all LGBTQ+ comedy special. Similar topics of LGBTQ+ public exposure are scattered throughout the issue, including Fran Pigone, a pro-LGBTQ candidate for Orange County Commission Chairman, "Florida’s Freshest Fruit," an all LGBTQ improv troupe, and Brian Fagan, a gay man and one of Orlando’s premier runners. This first issue also included national LGBTQ+ news stories such as California’s Spousal Rights Bill, Yale’s same-sex partner health care plans, and Maine’s anti-gay initiatives. Another major component of the issue was discussion about Orlando’s LGBTQ+ nightlife locations and opportunities. In this issue, it was discussed that Tracks, a prominent bar had closed, and that Boxcars had opened in its place. Boxcars subsequently published a full page ad on the final page of the issue.<br /><br />Since 1994, <em>The Watermark</em> has been the cornerstone source of LGBTQ+ centered news for the Central Florida region. Founded by Tom Dyer in Orlando, the publication began generating bi-weekly issues beginning August 31, 1994. Since then, <em>The Watermark</em> has consistently published newspaper-style issues every other Thursday. Gaining traction, the publication expanded in 1995 to include Tampa and, in 1997, <em>The Watermark</em> became a permanent piece of LGBTQ+ culture when the publication initiated the first large-scale Gay Days Weekend event, the Beach Ball at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon. Before 1999, the publication printed 20,000 copies every week, distributing them to over 500 locations between its two major cities. Following 1999, the publication launched watermarkonline.com shifting to an online publication style. In 2016, Rick Claggett purchased <em>The Watermark</em>.
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Winter Park, Florida
Augusta, Maine
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Sacramento, California
Boxcars, Casselberry, Florida
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Bach, R. A.
Dyer, Tom
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Liebman, Marvin
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O'Lay, Lola
Schultz, Nan
Sheldon, Laurence
Singhaus, Sam
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Transcript
FLORIDA'S DISTINCTIVE GAY AND LESBIAN PUBLICATION.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 AUGUST 31,1994
AMANDA’S OUT THERE!
Amanda Bearse is well known as the flighty, flaky Marcy D’Arcy on TV’s Married.. .With Children. Many also know that she’s very comfortably out as a lesbian. In the past she has stated, “I feel no shame about being a homosexual. I live my life in the light. The more we stand up and be counted, the harder it will be to discount our community. We need to put a face on gay America.” She was an active participant in this summer’s gay pride festivities in New York, and she will host Comedy Central’s upcoming gay and lesbian comedy special.
Many don’t know, however, that Amanda grew up right here in Central Florida, attending Winter Park High School and acting at the Central Florida Civic Theater. Her sister still lives in Winter Park. In conversation, Amanda is funny, upbeat, intelligent, articulate, and clearly committed to gay equality. Her comedy special, “Out There II”, will begin airing on Comedy Central on National Coming Out Day, October 11.
Would you talk a little about your role in the television series Married...with Children?
We’re starting our ninth season. Doing a show for 8 years, all of the characters have evolved in different directions. All of the women on the show are portrayed as sort of overly sexed, aggressive “types”. Our show isn’t something you could call positive when it comes to female role models, but then I don’t know that it’s positive about male role models either (laughs). Everybody has their faults...[they are] very visible to the audience at home...and that’s where we try to get the comedy from.
What about Marcy?
My character is probably the most polar opposite from the lead character A1 Bundy and that makes for a lot of good conflict; we just have to find excuses for us to be in the same room at the same time. I like Marcy very much [although] we’re not really that much alike. We have the same eye color (laughing)...and the same legs, which they make fun of, usually on a weekly basis!
What about the future of Mar?
I’ll be with the show as long as they’ll have me. I plan on going down with the ship. [Not only] because it’s been a great job, but also because of the group of people I’ve been working with. It’s really sort of a family situation and I’m not quick to say goodbye to those folks. Although I do hope there’s life after Married with Children.
Since you came out publicly, what has been the response of other cast members?
We know each other very well...and the cast knew that I was gay before I made that sort of “professional” political statement last year. They were very supportive of the fact
interviewed by Nan Schultz
that I did what I did by making such a public statement. That support continues to this day.
What about being out in your personal life?
I’ve been out of the closet for many, many year s, and as people come to know me, they come to know that about me. It’s not something that I wear as a badge or on my sleeve or anything. It’s definitely a part of who I am, [although] it’s not all of who I am. It’s more like a one-on-one relationship that I have with people. As you make new friends, you get
AMANDA BEARSE HOSTS COMEDY CENTRAL’S SECOND ALL GAY AND LESBIAN COMEDY SPECIAL, “OUT THERE II”, DEBUTING OCTOBER 11.
to know one another, and certainly that’s something to know about me.
Do you feel that shows like “Out There II” are good public relations for gays and lesbians?
Well, most definitely, but it’s not limited to that. That’s what was so wonderful about the success of the first one,
“Out There”. Yes, it was a gay lineup of talent, both men and women, and a lot of their material is oriented toward the fact that these are gay people, but they had great success in crossing over into the heterosexual audience. Comedy Central had great response to that show both from a gay and a straight audience
So, is it important in some larger context?
Yes, I think it’s important first of all to put more faces to the gay community because the more of us who are visible and out there, the harder it is to sort of pass us by. Gay people are really good at being invisible and what our movement is about is putting that visibility out there so that we cannot be discriminated against. It’s easier to discriminate against something you don’t Know. So, I think in that way, to show that these are people who are talented, who are funny, who are working professionally, and who are successful at what they do, [and] who also happen to be gay, I think it’s an important statement to make.
I understand you’re going to host the show.
Yes, we taped the show at the Stonewall celebration in New York City this summer. It went very well; it was an exciting week to be in New York and be a part of the Gay Games, as well as the Stonewall event. They deliberately chose that venue to tape this special. The first “Out There” was taped on National Coming Out Day in San Francisco and shown later, so it’s nice that this one will be aired for the first time on Coming Out Day.
You also participated at the Gay Games this summer. How did that feel?
I was very busy with the work that I was doing for “Out There II” so I didn’t get to go to any of the sporting events. But I did get to participate in the closing ceremonies at Yankee Stadium. I got to walk out onto the field at Yankee Stadium all by myself. It was awesome to look up at the thousands and thousands of people, mostly gay, and have them respond to me because of who I am and what I’ve done.
And the Stonewall activities?
I marched and I got to be onstage at the rally. I hosted an hour at the grandstand in Central Park. Just to look out over all those people...unified with one purpose. To say simply, “Yes. We’re here. Don’t count us out.” It was a very powerful experience.
You graduated from Winter Park High School. What impressions do you still carry from there?
I had a wonderful childhood growing up in Winter Park. It was a wonderful place to grow up...a very safe place for me so I have a lot of good memories. The strongest one in terms of high school is that I really got a lot of direction in my life from one of my teachers there, a woman by the name
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FRAN PIGNONE TELLS US WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT
by Tom Dyer
Talking with Fran Pignone is like playing a good video game. Both are stimulating, unpredictable, and difficult to quit. She has intelligent, often unexpected opinions, expressed with none of the conversational reticence endemic to politicians.
Fran Pignone wants to be Orange County’s next Chairman; responsible for 8000 employees and a $2 billion budget. She faces an uphill battle against incumbent Linda Chapin, who has raised twice the money and is spending it as the election draws closer. But Pignone has adopted a bold “take me as I am” approach to the election, Preferring to lure voters with her candor rather than tiptoeing through the campaign mine field without setting off any voting blocks.
Pignone is outspoken in her belief that the present county administration has attended to growth and development while neglecting quality of life issues. A longtime Orange County resident, she asserts that, “Since I’ve been a child, two things have always been left behind; the declining school system and the lack of a rich cultural life.” She’s quick to point out the paradox. “The
stellar landmarks for attracting new business to a community are the quality of your education system and the quality of your cultural richness.”
Pignone is also outspoken about the loss of our symphony. “It takes political leadership. I was one of the few who voted for that last $50,000 to try and keep the symphony alive because I knew intuitively that its easier to try and keep something alive than to recreate it.” She also faults present local government for not addressing the issue of a performing arts center. “I’ve been in Bob Carr when the sound was so distorted that it was a worthless experience.”
She faults current leaders for not sufficiently tapping some conspicuous local revenue sources; Orlando’s mega-tourist destinations. “We’re like a third world country. The conquerors have arrived to extract the riches, then they go home. Disney, Universal, Anheuser Busch...they make their money here, but none of them have their headquarters here. Each provides enormous support for the arts in what they perceive as their home community.”
Inevitably, Pignone has run into a few
mines during the course of her high energy campaign. Pignone has been criticized by many for her support of the gay and lesbian community and participation in June’s Gay Pride Parade. According to Pignone, some of this criticism has come from her peers on the county commission.
But Pignone firmly asserts that, “Political campaigns ought to be about what’s going on in the community. And among other things, government ought to be about access and diversity.”
Pignone’s opinions are often punctuated by personal experience. “I’ll tell you what I found to be the most extraordinary thing. Last summer my son and I were at a museum in New York on a Sunday and we ran into their Gay Pride Parade. We stayed there on the sidewalk absolutely spellbound for three full hours. I’ve never seen such an enormous diversity ©f people and such a tremendous feeling of good will, among the paraders, the police, the spectators. I was absolutely transfixed.”
When asked whether politicians had been present, Pignone nods. “Yes. Every candidate and elected official was walking in the parade, and probably would have been considered somehow derelict in their duties if they didn’t. Quite different from what people in Orange County apparently expect.”
Refreshingly, few of Pignone’s opinions are restricted to sound bytes. “Some in our community try to preach a certain moral and ethic, while at the same time the whole community is changing. These people want to keep their blinders on. We say out of one side of our mouth, ‘Move here.. .come here and have your vacation.. .all of you of every culture, race and experience’...and these people would say, ’Come here but only be a certain kind of person.’”
It is rare that a politician and elected official in Central Florida openly accesses the gay and lesbian community. But Pignone is clearly not campaigning on this issue; she is simply being true to her value system. “I mean it sincerely. Regardless of how the election turns out, I don’t want to look back at my life and say, ‘Gee.. .these folks asked me to do something and the first thing I thought about was my political future, and not what it felt like or whether it was congruent with who I am.’”
Note: Watermark requested an interview with all candidates for County Chairman prior to the September 8 primary election. Linda Chapin declined, citing scheduling difficulties. Tom Dorman did not respond to our request.
TONY CHILDRESS & ROCKY WARD SPEAK WITH REPORTERS
MARRIAGE
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On any given day, dozens of couples apply fora marriage license, and hence, a change in their legal status. They become presumed heirs and guardians. They can file taxes as a unit. They gain access to insurance coverage. And perhaps most importantly, their love is made legitimate.
On August 12,1994, Rocky Ward and Tony Childress sought this status for their committed relationship. Accompanied by TV and radio news crews, they walked up to the county clerk’s office and asked to apply for a marriage license. A clerk directed them to another clerk, this one with an office, who referred them to Florida Statute 741.041. “No clerk of the circuit court shall issue a license for marriage unless.. .one party is a male and the other party a female.”
Ward and Childress are the third same sex couple to apply for a marriage license in Orange County. Like one female couple before them, they have decided to challenge this statute. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing both couples.
Ward and his companion took this step because, “every individual should have access to the same benefits as citizens. Tony and I are as much a couple as most men and women who get married.” After widespread news coverage, Ward says, “We’ve received all kinds of cards and letters of support” One threatening caller also left this message: “You fucking faggots deserve to die just like the abortion doctor.” Ward and Childress have notified law enforcement.
AMANDA BEARSE
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my life from one of my teachers there, a woman by the name of Ann Derflinger. She passed away in the early 80’s at far too young an age...she was only 44. She was the director of the theater department, and she was one of the strongest mentors I had in my life.
So you began your association with acting and theatre at Winter Park High?
I was immersed in the theatre department, which was a very safe place for someone like me. You can be who you are. You can be different and you can be creativeand there doesn’t seem to be the judgement that can accompany other cliques, other circles. However, I did have friends outside of the theater department. My brother was a “surf rat”, so I knew a lot of the beach-types. Plus I grew up, in Winter Park, so I went to elementary and junior high with all the same people.
Did you identify yourself as gay while you were there?
No, I wasn’t out of the closet. I mean those terms weren’t even defined then. As far as I knew, I was the only gay woman anywhere. At some point in time, I started sleeping with other women. Even then you still sort of feel like you’re very much alone in it. I identified myself in terms of what was inside myself...my own feelings. It was a part of me that I was already beginning to
explore. I also explored dating boys, and I knew there was something else going on...something beyond that for me.
So what effect did being gay have on your personal life, your social life?
Well, I didn’t go to Winter Park’s Prom! I didn’t do a lot of the, I guess “traditional” things one might do. My time was occupied by doing theater. Not only did I do the theaterat the high school, but also I worked at the Central Florida Civic Theater, the Edyth Bush Theater. I was very active in that direction. I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything, my life was very full. But I felt like I was doing something subversive, something that wasn’t going to be generally accepted, so I was closeted.
But my first job out of acting school was on ’’All My Children”. I played a high school kid...a very straight high school kid, so I got to go to the Prom in Pine Valley! I got to date boys...that sort of thing so, I sort of made up for it.
What about your current relationship to Central Florida?
Well, I still have strong ties to that community because my sister lives in Orlando. I actually spent a couple of weeks down there this summer with her and her family. I brought my daughter and we just had a nice, easy time. We did Park Avenue, and hung out at Cocoa Beach .
In closing, could you tell us a little about the recent adoption of your child?
Zoe, my daughter, is now 16 months old.
I have always been somewhat ambivalent about carrying a child. Some women know biologically, physiologically, that this is something they want to do with their bodies in this lifetime. I’ve gone back and forth about it. The fact that I’m the wage-earner in my family also factored into this. You never know how you’re going to feel with a pregnancy. If I had to go to bed for three months, it would certainly affect my job, my income. Doing what I do for a living it’s so very public. And being lesbian... it was just too precious of an event to have it exposed in that way.
And so you began looking into adoption?
The more I read, the more seminars I attended, the morespiritually “right” this decision became for me. I knew that if and when I made a match with the birth parent, this was going to be the child I was supposed to raise. I’m very providential that way. I did make a match with a young woman who was in her sixth month of pregnancy. We had the opportunity to make a connection which we hold onto to this day. Despite the fact that we live in different states and her life is hers, there’s still a very strong bond...one that I don’t think will ever go away. I hope that my daughter has the opportunity to know this woman and her family because it’s a wonderful heritage.
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perience...I’m sure a very difficult decision for this young woman...to place her child [for adoption]. But she had the maturity to know that she wasn’t ready to parent at this time in her life. She said to me that she definitely wants to be a parent some day. I think she feels very good about the home, the family, that Zoe has. Life is good; life is really good. I feel very lucky.
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An Alabama judge has ruled that three children would be better off in the stable Orlando home of their lesbian mother than in the troubled and sometimes abusive home of their heterosexual father. Family Court Judge Sandra Ross, citing the lack of expert evidence on such cases, awarded custody of the children to Gretchen Chateau even though she lost custody six years ago because she physically abused them.
Fred Chateau said he never expected a judge to put the children with his ex-wife since she openly lives with another woman. “Judge Ross has sent a message to my children that homosexuality is OK,” Chateau said. “Two young girls going into puberty and putting them with two lesbians in a gay neighborhood. Is that smart?”
Ms. Chateau admitted she thought her chances were “pretty slim.” “My main concern was they are three very bright, intelligent kids who deserve to be cultivated for their adult life and that’s not going to happen with my ex-husband,” she said. Ms. Chateau’s ex-husband conceded that other than her lifestyle, which he disapproves of, she has overcome her past problems and become a good and stable person.
He also admitted having used harsh discipline in the past, that the house had been disheveled and had little furniture, and that two of the children slept on the floor. The children - a 9-year-old boy and girls 12 and 14 - had been living in Chateau’s home near Columbiana, 20 miles south of Birmingham, until the judge ruled in May. All three children testified they wanted to live with their mother.
DISNEY WINS AIDS CONFIDENTIALITY CASE
An Orange County Judge has rejected a former Disney employee’s claim that his supervisors violated Florida law by disclosing his AIDS status. The former Disney employee, listed as John Doe, alleged that he informed his supervisor of his medical status to facilitate absences from work. Doe claimed that his supervisor then disclosed his medical condition to others, worsening his medical condition and forcing him to quit his job.
Circuit Court Judge Gary L. Formet found that, if anything, Doe’s supervisor only confirmed suspicions already held by fellow employees. “Because it is commonly known that the plaintiff was a gay male, a number of witnesses speculated he had AIDS after he took medical leave.” Formet ruled that Florida Statute 760.50, which requires confidentiality of employee medical records and information, is not applicable “when that information is given to [the employer] by [the employee] for reasons other than administration of health and life insurance benefits.”
Doe’s attorney, Jonathan Holingshead, feels this construction of the statute is unfortunate. “The kind of disclosure alleged in this case is exactly what the legislature hoped to prevent. Employees with AIDS should not be afraid to share this information with their employer for fear that it will be gossiped about.”
HOPE & HELP OPENS NEW CENTER
The Hope & Help Center dedicated their new Winter Park facility on Sunday, August 14. Winter Park Mayor Gary Brewer was among hundreds, including new neighbors, who welcomed the AIDS resource center to its suburban location. Located off Lakemont Avenue near Winter Park High School, the new center doubles their available space.
According to development director Michael Fuchs, Hope & Help needed more room. “We’ve grown from 7 employees when we moved downtown, to 23 employees now.”
Hope & Help has an annual operating budget of approximately $ l million.
Hope & Help’s major fund raising event, the outrageous, elegant, and wildly popular “Headdress Ball”, will be held Saturday, September 17 at the Hilton Walt Disney World Village. For tickets call (407) 645-2577.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES AT GLCS
The Board of Directors at Gay and Lesbian Community Services has created a new administrative position, appointing Bart R. Zarcone as Center Director. Mr. Zarcone will have overall responsibility for management of the GLCS Center. Lyle Miller will continue as Office Manager.
GLCS is also reconvening a young adults group for gays, lesbians and bisexuals between the ages of 18 and 25. Called the “Rainbow Connection”, this group will begin Thursday meetings on September 8th at 7:30 PM.
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Leaders of a referendum drive to ban protections for gays under Maine human rights laws turned in petitions Monday which they said will ensure their proposal will go to a statewide vote next year.
Leaders of the petition drive submitted 10 cartons containing nearly 66,502 voters’ signatures - nearly 62,000 of them already certified by municipal officials - to the Secretary of State’s office. At least 52,308 signatures must be certified in order to force a statewide vote in November 1995.
“Shall a wealthy special interest group achieve the status and benefits equal to those of legitimate, needy, civil rights classes?” Concerned Maine Families leader Carolyn H. T. Cosby said. “Shall we... literally rewrite the civil rights code in our nation to now include self-proclaimed groups that can only be identified by their mere say-so?”
The proposal would restrict the classifications of people who can be protected by state and local anti-discrimination laws. People could be protected on the basis of race, color, sex, disabilities, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, family and marital status. But no protections on the basis of sexual orientation would be permitted. Passage would scuttle Portland’s gay rights ordinance.
The Legislature last year sent a gay rights bill to Gov. John R. McKernan, but he vetoed it.
CALIFORNIA SPOUSAL RIGHTS BILL PASSES SENATE
SACRAMENTO (AP) - A bill to give unmarried couples some of the same rights as spouses is one step from the governor’s desk after conservative lawmakers failed to bottle it up in the Senate. Final approval by the Assembly, which passed an earlier version of the legislation in May, will send the bill to Gov. Pete Wilson.
The bill would give unmarried “domestic partners” who registered with the state the right to visit their partners in the hospital and would make it easier for them to be selected as a conservator for an incapacitated partner. To register with the state, domestic partners would have to maintain a common primary residence, agree to share basic living expenses, not be married or related by blood in a way that would prevent them from marrying and be over age 18. Also, they could not have been a member of another domestic partnership in the previous six months unless that relationship ended with the death of the other member.
YALE OFFERS HEALTH CARE TO SAME SEX PARTNERS
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale University is offering health care coverage to same-sex domestic partners of graduate and professional students. Yale extended full spousal health benefits to partners of gay and lesbian faculty members, administrators and managerial staff in October. Those interested must show evidence of joint residence and economic interdependence.
Other universities offering health coverage to same-sex partners of graduate students include Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa and the University of Oregon. More companies are offering benefits to gay employees and their partners because fear of high costs have proved largely unfounded, and it gives some companies another edge in the recruiting game.
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LOCAL PHYSICIANS REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE
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Contrary to reports of doom and gloom coming from the Tenth International Conference on AIDS, there are some promising therapies now in place, and others being presently pursued are worth noting. Dr. Jeff Goodgame attended the conference in Japan and presented news and findings to an enthusiastic audience at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Orlando on Thursday, August 25.
At the conference, noted French researcher, Dr. Luc Montagnier, advanced a global therapeutic approach in which antivirals, antibiotics, antioxidants, and vaccines involving Interluken 2 are all ap-plied simultaneously to curb HIV replication. Along with Dr. Lynn Hopkins, Dr. Goodgame also reported that new antiviral drug strategies are being created to overcome the problems of drug resistance. One of these strategies is a class of drugs called Protease Inhibitors, which attempt to stop viral replication within cells.
Dr. Hopkins described some of the new therapies that are constantly being studied and examined. The most promising include gene therapy, which seeks to create a gene that would interrupt viral replication, and immune based therapy using Interluken 2 (and potentially 12).
Dr. Eileen Wright presented an explanation of psycho-neuro-immunology. She gave numerous examples of case studies involving mind-body interactions. This particular field of medicine originated thousands of years ago, and is based on the theory that thoughts, emotions, and the central nervous system are intrinsically linked.
Looking to the future, Dr. Goodgame described three major challenges: 1) curb the alarming spread of AIDS in the third world; 2) prioritize and expand research; and 3) provide the best possible care and treatment for HIV patients. According to Dr. Goodgame, about 4 million people worldwide have developed full blown AIDS in the last 10 years. 3000 women are infected each day by HIV; tragic proof that AIDS has never been confined to specific populations.
Drs. Goodgame and Hopkins are currently involved with 11 clinical studies and have 4 more pending necessary approvals. Any HIV infected man or woman interested in participating in one of these clinical trials is urged to contact their Maitland office at (407) 647-6000.
HALF WITH HIV GET NO TREATMENT
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A study believed to be the first of its kind in California found that more than half the people in Santa Clara County with the AIDS virus don’t receive any treatment. “They don’t necessarily know they’re infected,” said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, the county’s acting health officer. “They may be spreading the illness and not know it.”
The study by the county public health department estimated that 4,100 residents have the human immunodeficiency virus but that as many as 2,500 aren’t being treated. Health officials, who released the survey results on Thursday, called for an education program to fight the spread of AIDS.
The survey also found that HIV infections are increasing the fastest among blacks and that the percentage of women with the virus also has increased. The department’s survey was conducted at 29 hospitals and
clinics that reported AIDS cases over the past two years.
MINERAL MAY PLAY ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF AIDS
ATLANTA (AP) - University of Georgia researchers published a theory in Friday’s Journal of Medicinal Chemistry suggesting that HIV produces proteins that consume the body’s supply of selenium. Although the proteins have yet to be found, scientists are trying to prove their existence.
According to the researchers’ theory, HIV needs selenium, which preserves the elasticity of body tissue and slows the aging process, to trigger its growth. Once the virus exhausts
the selenium in an infected cell, it breaks out in search of more, spreading the infection to new cells. Many AIDS patients lack selenium and have taken supplements on their own. For several years, a number of researchers and doctors have encouraged selenium as part of the patients’ dietary supplement.
It was thought that AIDS patients had trouble absorbing the nutrient from food, but the new work suggests the disease actually depletes the mineral from the body. “If this is true, then selenium biochemistry may be the key to understanding the control of the life cycle of HIV and perhaps some of the pathology of AIDS,” said Will Taylor, who headed the research team at Georgia College of Pharmacy. He said the length of time it takes to deplete the body’s stores of selenium could help account for HIV’s latency period, which can last for years. “This suggests that nutritional status may be a factor in some HIVpositive long-term survivors,” Taylor said.
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TRACKS DERAILS — BOXCARS OPENS
If it seems like gay bars in Orlando open and close like railroad crossing bars, August was no exception. In early August, Tracks on Lee Road in Winter Park ceased operations. The venerable Tampa bar hoped to reproduce their success in what was perceived as a similar market. That was not the case, according to Operations Manager, Barry Barlow. “In Tampa, the bars network and work together to benefit each other and the community, too,” said Barlow. “Orlando was a completely different world.” Barlow has alleged that competing bars such as The Club, The Edge and Southern Nights authorized removal of Tracks’ advertising from publications distributed at their locations.
Barlow also thinks Orlando has a more conservative climate than Tampa. He cited difficulties using the words “gay and lesbian” in advertising, and speculated that gays in Orlando were unused to going to a bar not “hidden away or in some sleazy part of town.”
Barlow stated that, “No one in Orlando wanted to work with me, but I learned some
things while I was there. I thought your Pride Parade was great, even though almost none of your local politicians participated.” Meanwhile, Boxcars opened on August 12 in Fern Park, across from the Jai Alai fronton. The grand opening is scheduled for Labor Day weekend. Boxcars is located in
the unique railroad car building that housed two gay bars in the 70s and 80s, Old Plantation and then Central Station.
Owner Chris Dahn, who is gay, stated that it has long been his dream to open a gay bar in greater Orlando, particularly on the north side of town. Dahn is from Indiana, but he was stationed at the Naval Training Center in the early 80s and has wanted to relocate here ever since.
Dahn hopes to fill a void with Boxcars. “I think people in Orlando want to dance and be entertained, but they also want to sit, relax, talk and hear each other,” he Says. For that reason, Boxcars sound and light system will be focused primarily on the dance floor. Dahn states that Boxcars welcomes both lesbians and gay men.
PRUDENTIAL CHAIRMAN TAKES STAND AGAINST DISCRIMINATION
Robert C. Winters, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Prudential, has taken a bold stand against discrimination based on sexual orientation. In a letter to all Prudential associates, dated June 30, 1994, Winters stated:
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MBA PLANS FUTURE GROWTH. ERIN SOMERS SPEAKS.
At their annual retreat in August, board members for the Metropolitan Business Association made plans for more activities and increased membership. According to President Debbie Simmons, MBA has 172 members and hopes to break the 200 barrier during 1995. Plans also call for MBA to expand their annual business expo in February, to be held this year at the Bahia Shrine Auditorium in Maitland.
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WINNING:
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Chicago cubs fans are walking by the open window where I write. From the roars I’d heard over the past few hours and now from the animated cadence of their conversations, I gather it was one of those rare events in Wrigleyville — a Cubs win. Winning is an American passion. Almost all of us grow up believing that if we don’t overcome someone or something that somehow we’re the less for it. As the fans pass by reliving the day’s victory, my thoughts drift back to last night’s speeches and other conversations about winning.
I’d attended the Human Rights Campaign Fund dinner the evening before. The front cover of the program read, the People: A promise not yet fulfilled. ” while the back cover announced in graphic red, white and blue, “Because fighting for the rights of all people is a battle, we can, will, and must WIN.’’ In addition to the hundreds of thousands already raised in ticket sales, there is a special appeal to raise extra funds. We must defeat the anti-gay initiatives on the ballots this year in Oregon and Idaho. Everyone at my table takes out his or her checkbook. The smallest check I see passed to the table captain is for $100. An addi-
tional $1,500 is raised at our table alone. There are ninety-six tables. We know our fundamental rights as American citizens, perhaps even our lives, are threatened because of who we are. We’ve got to win.
The words of Dr. Mel White, author of Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America and former ghostwriter for Radical Right heavyweights Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, punctuate the evening. He’s telling us about standing outside a convention hall in Texas just a few weeks before. It’s a gathering of the so-called Christian Coalition, the American Family Association, and other assorted hatemongers who are also intent on winning. Their agenda is one which explicitly rejects gays and lesbians, “There will be much rejoicing in heaven when America no longer tolerates the presence of gay men and women.”
The convention hall setting he describes is a place where only a few years ago Dr. White would have been a welcome participant. Now out as an openly gay man, not only is he not welcome, but he’s physically threatened. A man shoved his finger in White’s face and screamed, “Where are you going to live, when we win?” The words
are chilling. They have their effect. We write more checks, and get out our charge cards. The silent auction is a huge success. Many items are going for significantly more than their retail value. An Art Modeme vase listed for $350 closes at $525. There are over two hundred silent auction items. The mathematics of this evening are staggering; but we’ve got to win.
Since I’d moved from Chicago to Orlando only two years before, I keep running into old friends as I wander through the maze of silent auction items. Despite the gravity of the cause the mood is upbeat. “Hey, how are you? Florida now?” “The chocolate torte was fabulous.” “Outstanding event; the speeches were short. They finally got that part right.” “Great to see you, you look great.” The dance music is now at fever pitch. The evening is a success — hundreds of thousands raised for the HRCF cause. People are feeling like they’ve done their part. Yet as I move through the crush of bodies, I feel out of step with the mood of the evening. I don’t know why.
One of the people I run into is an old acquaintance, Dan. We’d attended the same church and had had a cocktail party “friends of friends” type of relationship. He’s even better looking and funnier than I remember. He’s done well for himself and is now working in the Governor’s office in a major policy-making role. As we chat, he shares with me that he wants to start getting more active with human rights issues, especially after the election. But as he talks about his
job, I begin to realize that he hasn’t come out at work. He rationalizes by saying that it wouldn’t help anyone to know. I hear all the practical reasons and understand why. We exchange cards and promise to stay in touch.
Dan’s story is a gift. It makes me realize why I feel out of touch with the evening, and more importantly, what the real challenge is. I understand that the sum of all the checks written this evening will not defeat the Radical Right. Their power is
The power of the Radical Right isn't so much in their hatred of us, but in their keen understanding about how to manipulate the self-hatred of gay men and
neither in their well financed political campaigns, their numbers nor their passionate positions. The power of the Radical Right isn’t so much in their hatred of us, but in their keen understanding about how to manipulate the self-hatred of gay men and lesbians. They know that they’ll win if we don’t say who we are.
The voices outside my window are growing quieter as the baseball crowd thins. A child’s high pitched voice knifes through my thoughts, “It was a great game, Dad. Who won? I’m tired. When do we go home?”
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In recent years, it is a rare event indeed for an American politician — of either major party — to take a stand based solely on principle and conviction rather than on whatever expedience is required to keep or win a well-paying government job with all the power and perks of office. Such a rare event occurred not long ago at a Human Rights Campaign Fund leadership conference in Washington, when U. S. Sen. Charles Robb (D-Va.) appeared to express his appreciation for a contribution of $ 10,000.
But he went far beyond just saying thanks.
Robb, running a tough and close race for reelection against radical extremists, “gave his strongest endorsement ever to homosexual rights, saying he will speak out on the issues even if it jeopardizes his reelection campaign,” reported The Washington Post in a story on the conference. “He condemned the ‘fundamental unfairness’ of anti-gay discrimination and called efforts to end it ‘the last front of the true civil rights struggle.’ He promised that ‘we’re going to get it right in the very near future.’”
There was no reason for Chuck Robb to stick out his political neck other than deep personal conviction. Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money but relatively insignificant in a campaign that will cost millions. His major opponent is the Republican nominee, Oliver L. North — public liar, hypocritical opportunist and a proud bigot whose targets include gays, lesbians and most likely every other minority group different from his white-bread, phony Norman Rockwell hero image, bought and paid for by direct-mail professionals who raise millions of hard-earned dollars from all too many impoverished and frightened Americans.
Is there a choice for those in the Virginia electorate who still value honor and decency? Is there even a question in the minds of gay men and lesbians? For me, there is none and only one choice: Charles Robb (who is every bit the Vietnam veteran that North is).
I have worked on the campaigns of, and voted for, Republicans most of my professional life, with only one exception in 1992 — Bill Clinton. I voted for him because I was repelled by the moral weakness and hypocrisy of the Republican Party and its candidate, as epitomized by the loathsome GOP national convention in Houston. In
retrospect, I would still have voted against the Republicans, even though Bill Clinton has reneged on too many campaign promises to the gay and lesbian community and to the nation.
I find myself in the same position once again. I am a conservative Republican who finds himself supporting Senator Chuck Robb, a liberal Democrat. Why this contradiction? It is because I am a gay man. Any politician — Republican or Democrat — who speaks out for us, who stands against bigotry and hatred, is my candidate. Even though we may differ on economic and other issues, we stand together in support of common humanity and the constitutional civil rights of all Americans. Our country can survive Democrats in the Senate and even Clinton in the White House. It cannot survive the bigotry, fear and hatred that have become the prime weapons of the radical extremists of the right, whether they be Democrat or Republican.
To the radical right, gay men and lesbians have replaced the Jews and Negroes of the past as prime targets. We have become the Reds of the ‘90’s, objects of fear and loathing. We are now the corrupters — of the media, the schools, the family, every “value” the professional extremists can think up on which they can raise money. Gay men and lesbians are stereotyped fuel for their fund-raising machines, all in the name of God.
Any friend of these radical extremists is our enemy. Anyone opposed to their ugly campaigns of hatred and bigotry is our friend. It has become that simple. The danger posed to our community is that critical. They promote raw hatred of each and every one of us. They proclaim their fundamentalist beliefs as religious gospel. The penalty for sodomy is death, they say. Do they really want us dead? Probably. We need all the real friends we can get. Those who stand with us against hate deserve all the support we can give them. Chuck Robb is one of those courageous few.
An additional note: In the past, I’ve criti-
by Marvin Liebman
cized the Human Rights Campaign Fund as being too “establishment”; too fearful of change. However, like it or not, HRCF is our establishment organization — the largest, the best-financed and the most widely recognized. It is because of this that it can provide the most comfortable platform for the Chuck Robbs to speak out for us. For this, all gay men and lesbians must be grateful. If it did nothing else but provide such a platform, HRCF would have sufficient value. For providing Chuck Robb that venue, I salute my HRCF friends and comrades.
I urge all who read this to provide whatever support you are able to keep Sen. Charles S. Robb in Washington. If you live in Virginia, offer your services as volunteers. But no matter where you live, send this man a check.
Marvin Liebman, author of Coming Out Conservative (1992, Chronical Books), lives and works in Washington, D. C.
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JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
by Nan Schultz
“Who are we? Where have we come from? What are we here for?” The Mattachine Society, a pioneering gay organization, reportedly set itself to the task of exploring these questions. Formed at a time when the dearth of available information and the secrecy and shame surrounding homosexual activities caused many to doubt their sanity, or to believe themselves “the only ones”, the Society provided a vehicle for self-discovery and self-definition apart from prevailing social attitudes; attitudes which yielded such labels as “pervert”, “deviant”, and “criminal”.
Although the Mattachine quickly became a pragmatic and thus conservative organization providing mostly social opportunities and legal protection for its members, the questions they posed are still debated within gay and lesbian organizations. Since the results of this query are almost always divisive, I am prompted to add a fourth question: “What difference does it make?” Is self-definition a worthy goal, or is it a trap creating a group identity which confines us to our own stereotypes? What positive purpose might be served by exploring th2 ways being gay means more than simply being homosexual?
Who are we? Are we just doctors and lawyers and shop keepers whose primary sexual interest is in members of our own sex? Are we, as many among us would argue, “just like everybody else” except for who we sleep with? Or do we possess a sensibility which is the result of our unique experience in American society? Could we be possessed of an “outsider” consciousness which alters the perspective of our cultural observations? And might not our
tendency to stretch the limits of gender identity give us an insight into wholeness that may be hard to come by if one accepts the constraints of socially imposed sex roles?
Might we also have what Advocate senior editor Mark Thompson calls “a differentness that accentuates the gifts of compassion, empathy, healing, interpretation, and enabling?” Is it possible that, as one drag queen said, “when a man is feminine and a woman masculine...that person is more in touch with the total range of human experience?” I wouldn’t presume
.. .we are reaching a point in our social evolution where breakthrough change is not only possible, but critical to our survival...
to give you a definitive answer, but I suspect that we have at least the potential to add something unique and valuable to the American social/political fabric.
What are we here for? Good question! What is anybody here for? Can’t we just be here? Yes and no, for, as Judy Grahn, feminist poet and lesbian activist notes, her mere presence has an impact on society. Her clothes and bearing model a “certain freedom for women.” As she and her partner parent a child, they “present an obvious example of alternate family structure.” With very little effort she has become a one-
woman “alternative thought structure.” Without conscious thought or effort, and just as likely without our permission, we may be, as Ms. Grahn points out, “inextricably bound, historically and politically with ideas of pluralism, tolerance, multiculturality, sexual expression and free choice.” Not bad for people who are just like everybody else.
Buy this “we’re different” argument or don’t. Whether this makes any difference is far more relevant to our political and social choices, because what you aspire to is far more critical than what you really are. And because right now, right here, we face the political choice to either “breakthrough or break even.” We can continue to work for our piece of the same old pie, or we can get in the kitchen and bake up something new and better.
There is almost no way to deny that we are reaching a point in our social evolution where breakthrough change is not only possible, but critical to our survival and future chances for happiness and self-actualization. The new science of chaos and the study of change dynamics teaches us that systems are characterized by long periods of equilibrium punctuated by evolutionary branchings called bifurcations. According to Riane Eisler, historian and
futurist, the current rapid rate of technological change has precipitated the instability that makes such a branching likely. And while such branchings in chemical or biological systems are largely the product of chance, humans have the ability to act consciously and collectively to choose their own evolutionary path.
We can stay focused on the civil rights aspects of our struggle, reforming laws and securing our legal rights. We can recreate government and business-as-usual with tolerance for same sex pronouns. But as journalist Michael Bronski notes, “the legislative approach to gay liberation runs the risk of giving social power only to those homosexuals deemed ‘acceptable’, i.e. straight looking and acting.” Not to mention that such change is limited by existing social standards and the rigidity of legal and governmental systems.
Or we can seek to effect more far-reaching social change. We can seize the prerogative of being different. We can call on those unique experiences and insights gained through both the pain and joy of our “otherness” to imagine and create new social relationships based on the ideas of equality, partnership and connectedness to one another, to the environment, and to the world at large.
WATERMARK: LET THE SUN SHINE THROUGH
bj G. K. Fowler
Not too long ago the best advice for Orlando’s gay and lesbian residents was to leave town. If you wanted to be out, you had to get out. Those of us who stayed, or improbably arrived, joked about putting up a sign: WELCOME TO ORLANDO. SET YOUR CLOCKS BACK TEN YEARS.
Those days are over now. This is no longer the land that time and cranial development forgot. Orlando’s large gay and lesbian population is developing into a vibrant community. Like other minorities we celebrate our distinctiveness and choose empowerment. More and more we do business together, vote together, and work
Watermark was conceived during a visit to Atlanta; sperm met egg in the south’s most inviting gay ghetto, Virginia Highlands. At lunch one day, I noticed almost everyone, alone and in groups, perusing the same newspaper. Southern Voice had been distributed that day, and I was witness to the way this excellent weekly informs, energizes and unifies Atlanta’s gay and lesbian community.
Watermark's admittedly ambitious goal is to do the same for Orlando and the rest of Central Florida. Every other week we hope you’ll tuck us into your beach bag, spill eggs on us at Brian’s, and sneak looks at us during Reverend Brock’s sermon. We hope you’ll be aroused by our editorials, amused by our gossip and cartoons, and inspired by our “Transitions” section. Most importantly, we hope you’ll participate and take pride in our newspaper.
At present, we’re a full-time staff of three: myself, layout gal April Gustetter, and ad guy Keith Peterson. But the paper is clearly a collaborative effort, and there are many
together to defend our freedom and values. With Watermark, we have a twice-monthly newspaper to read together.
We named our paper Watermark because that word reminds us of what we love about Florida: the ocean, the gulf, our lakes and rivers, and the diversity of life they support. It’s classy too, like our community. It’s a myth we all have good taste, but no one can deny us, as a group, a certain flair.
Even better, it connotes honesty and excellence. On foreign currency, a watermark certifies that what you hold is genuine, the real thing. The watermark on fine bond
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talented writers and photographers working with us. We’ve been overwhelmed by their shared enthusiasm
Tor this paper. Most will be featured regularly, and we hope you’ll come to know them and look forward to their contributions.
We also have four bright and energetic student interns who will cut their journalistic teeth with us. Importantly, to those friends in the gay and lesbian community who helped us get off the ground with their fi-
guarantees quality. Such marks, made by pressing wire patterns on new paper, are so pale they seem drawn in water. They are nearly invisible, like we’ve been for so long. But once brought to light, a watermark shines with an unmistakable quality, just like we do.
It’s been some time now since honest misconceptions about homosexuality congealed into hard, cold lies. But truth can’t hurt us. We know that it is human, not criminal, to value beauty and love. “Our kind” has always been defined by others, too often the fate and doom of powerless minorities. We won’t play that way anymore.
Hence one of our major goals at Watermark will be to help our community know itself and define for itself what it means to be gay in Central Florida, and in America, today. We’ll hold our community up to the light to see what shines through. We’ll search for the watermarks of what is true and essential in gay life. What we learn we’ll share with you, and with our hetero-
nancial support, my sincere thanks. You know who you are, so take a bow.
The paper has three sections. At the outset you’ll find news, including health, HIV, and business news. In the middle of the paper you’ll encounter “Artful Living”, containing entertainment news, reviews, personal announcements, astrology, gossip, cartoons, and a calender of events. The last few pages are devoted to the “Marketplace” directory, real estate and classified ads, and the sports page. These last pages will also soon contain “Voiceboard” telepersonal listings. In all sections, we’re committed to balanced content for lesbians and gay men.
Reading is passive; Watermark is intended to be an interactive process. We need you to share a little of your life with us. We need to know what you do at work and away from work. We need your ideas and opinions. We also hope you’ll be ambitious with your advertising. Let’s replace those business card ads with attractive, state-of-the-art advertising concepts that reflect the vital-
sexual neighbors. Too many of them are misguided by fear, the prey de luxe of cynical politicians and so-called religious leaders who peddle hate for power but settle for cash.
We’re writing for savvy, self-assertive gay people determined to live full lives despite the madness. We’ve got news you can use: what’s hot, what’s not, what hurts, what heals, what’s fun, and what requires serious voter turnout. News, sports, letters, comics...hey, it’s a gay world out there!
There’s too much joy and laughter, excitement, achievement, beauty and love in us for any of it to remain in restraints. Although bom into every race and creed we are a people of our own, a people in the making, and like all peoples, wonderful in our way. So here we are, God bless us. We hope we do us right. Maybe someday the best advice a local lesbian or gay man in Central Florida can get will be to pick up a copy of Watermark.
ity of the gay patrons you seek.
We’re excited about Watermark and the whole process of creating each issue. Call us with news tips. Send us letters. Show off photos in the “Gallery”. Place a classified ad. Tell us where you’d like to see Watermark distributed. And by all means, read our paper, pass it around, and as we change and grow with our first issues, let us know what you think.
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GAY COMEDY WITHOUT A NET
The Improvabilities are “Florida’s Freshest Fruit”
by R. A. Bach
The man and woman are center stage, acting out a horrific and hilarious free association about robots and exploding internal organs. Offstage, someone yells “Freeze! Tennessee Williams.” Instantaneously the actors begin fanning themselves and talking about mendacity in drippy southern voices filled with pent-up sexual frustration. The scenario continues on its new course until we hear “Freeze! Stephen Sondheim.” The actors become urban sophisticates as they begin singing about their neurotic, self-important lives...on the mansion...in outer space. This madcap display of inventiveness continues as a Greek tragedy with chorus, a Rogers and Hammerstein musical, an Oscar Wilde comedy of manners, and finally Shakespeare.
Improvisation is comedy without a net; part of the entertainment lies in the potential for disaster. Can they pull it off? Can they invent something funny without benefit of prior thought? Like a trapeze act, when the Improvabilities do pull it off you don’t know whether to laugh, applaud or gasp in amazement. And they pull it off time after time, often brilliantly, sometimes
just barely, and that’s fun too.
For almost a year, the Improvabilities have been providing Central Florida with hilarious, intelligent, insightful sketch comedy that assumes a gay sensibility. They are also one of the best entertainment values in town. On weekends, its no longer necessary to go to a bar after dinner to stay gay. Go to the Eola Theater, wave at friends, have a seat and prepare to be wildly entertained. These are funny, funny people, and it’s a privilege to catch them at this stage of their promising collective career.
Troy Tinker founded the Improvabilities after four years of improv work in Cleveland. His dream was “to form a comedy troupe that would make people laugh while shedding light on gay experience.” Several members were recruited from the Comedy Warehouse at Pleasure Island, and others were mined from Universal Studios, the Hat Box Revue, and local children’s theater.
Along with Troy, Dave Almeida is the group’s most versatile performer, comfortable and funny as daddy or diva. Catherine
Goodison has the wry wit and deadpan delivery of Roseanne’s Sara Gilbert John Connon,
his handsome face topped by a shock of peroxide blonde hair, could be the twisted anchorman for the John Waters Network.
Talented Rae L’Heureaux can be petite then brassy, stem then bawdy as she calls on a broad range of characters with impres-
THE IMPROVABILITIES: (clockwise from top left) Dave Almeida, John Connon, Rae LHeureaux, Martin Kunz, Troy Tinker. Not pictured: Catherine Goodison
sive ease. She’s Lucy, Bette, Roseanne and more. With his expressive face, a real artist’s tool, the hilarious Martin Kunz can draw laughter with little more than an arched eyebrow. At a recent show, he created a boy-in-the-bubble cruising the Parliament house by rolling his big orb up and down the balconies (“Look but don’t touch, baby”). It was comedic inventiveness worthy of Jonathan Winters.
One of the great pleasures of watching this versatile group is sharing their delight in each other’s courage and wit. It’s easy to tell when a peer has been impressed. Actors uninvolved in a partic-ular sketch will often jump in when an inspired comedic idea sparks their imagination. The hilarity builds exponentially as troupe members bounce off each other like speeding pinballs.
Performances last approximately two hours, with one fifteen minute intermission. The audience is involved throughout, calling out suggestions and often participating onstage. Catch these wonderful performers often and while you still can. After opening for the Fabulous Flirtations in May at The Club, The Improvabilities will be performing with them at selected upcoming concerts. The Improvabilities are also pursuing regional bookings.
Don’t miss The Improvabilities, “Florida’s Freshest Fruit”, at one of their upcoming Friday shows at the Eola Theatre on Wall Street Plaza. Showtimes are at 10:30 PM on Friday, September 2nd, 9th, 16th and 30th. Call (407) 521-7499.
ONE OF BROADWAY’S ORIGINAL “C AGELLES” REMEMBERS FIVE YEARS IN HEELS
by Tom Dyer
La Cage Aux Folles is landmark gay entertainment. Based on a play by Jean Poiret, the French movie about ZaZa, a tightly wound female impersonator, and his longtime companion Georges, was funny, touching, and a surprise hit in the 70s. The transformation to Broadway musical several years later was an overwhelming creative and financial success.
La Cage Aux Folles will be performed at the Mark Two Dinner Theater through October 2nd; the perfect excuse to visit with Orlando’s Sam Singhaus, one of the original “Cagelles” in the Broadway production. Sam is known to many as the charismatic co-owner and driving force behind the fondly remembered downtown club “Big Bang”, and through his association with the popular Club At Firestone.
Musical by nature, Sam developed his interest in dance while attending Boone High School. After graduating, he took dance classes with Kip Watson and worked with what eventually became the Southern Ballet Theater.
Encouraged by his teachers, he went to New York to study dance and within weeks was awarded a scholarship
with the Richard Thomas Ballet Company. “The whole thing was really unbelievable,” said Sam. “I went to New York for three months and ended up staying ten years.”
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Sam was drawn to musical comedy, and he eventually left the ballet to train and take a job at Radio City. He did skit work on Saturday Night Live, and in time started auditioning for Broadway shows. His first big show was a national tour of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with Debbie Boone. “It was a great show and a lot of fun,” said Singhaus. “Debbie was great in it, but the New York critics couldn’t get over themselves enough to give her a good review.” After a successful tour, the show closed soon after reaching Broadway.
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Then auditions for La Cage Aux Folles began. “For some reason I just had the feeling that this was the right show for me,” he remembered. “I didn’t know that much about it, just that it was Jerry Herman, Arthur Laurents and Harvey Fierstein and it was going to be a six million dollar musical and it was going to be a hit.” Apparently others felt the same way. Along with 1000 other dancers, Sam sought a role as one of the energetic “cagelles”. Auditions lasted for three full months as dancers were pared to the final ten.
According to Sam, “We weren’t told we would be in drag half the show until the very end. We were told to bring high heels to the final auditions.” So Sam went shopping. “I lived on the upper west side at the time, so I walked up to Harlem figuring I’d find larger sizes there. I went into this women’s shoe store and started looking, and after watching me for a while this saleslady asked if she could help me. Fortunately, Tootsie had just come out, so I asked her if she’d seen the movie. She said she had, so I told her it was a Tootsie thing. She sold me a great pair of shoes.”
In fact, Sam had never appeared in drag before La Cage, and it took weeks to get
used to the specially braced high heel shoes. “We tried out in Boston and changed the show every day. It was tough. I definitely hit my ‘Butterfield 8’ weight.” But he says it was clear that the show would be a hit from the start, and he ended up staying with La Cage until it closed almost five years later.
During the show’s run, Sam worked with the likes of George Hearn, Keene Curtis, Gene Barry, Peter Marshall, and his favorite, Van Johnson. “A real old Hollywood star. He’s sure nice and real, real fun. He always wore red socks, so when he came back to see the show after he’d left it, I snuck out and bought red socks for the cast. When the curtain came up for ovations, we lifted our pant legs and you could hear his boisterous laugh everywhere. He was great.”
Sam notes that there was initial criticism of the show from some gay quarters because, like the recent movie Philadelphia, there was almost no affection displayed between the principal gay couple. Sam thinks this criticism is misplaced. “First of all, Georges and ZaZa had been together for decades, so let’s be real. Also, much of the audience would have been turned off by them kissing and stuff. Instead, everyone who saw the play left thinking that the love between two men can be beautiful. After all, love is what the play is really about.”
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Visually, Natural Born Killers is exciting. Trippy in fact. The actors, with one exception, are memorable. Standouts include the ubiquitous Tommy Lee Jones as a fiendish prison warden, and Juliette Lewis, who has perfected the role of mentally-unstable-woman-confined-in-a-hospital-room-or-jail-cell. Robert Downey, Jr.’s insipid Robin Leach impersonation was distracting, however. Why couldn’t Stone get Hugh Grant or Rupert Everett to play the smarmy British tabloid journalist?
Natural Born Killers presents a scathing portrait of our sick obsession with tabloid press and TV. And if you think it’s over-the-top, check out the “real-life” clips of those darling orphaned Menendez boys, our national hero O. J. Simpson the pitiful victim Lorena Bobbit, and the list goes on and on. Is this movie realistic? Yes and more. I left the theatre amazed at what I had just viewed, and feeling the same calm experienced after serious “anger work” with my therapist. This movie is cathartic.
I refuse to comment on how “violence begets violence”, and how teenagers will imitate the anti-heroes Micky and Mallory, played so magnificently by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis. Take a look at this movie and see it for what it is; a stunning, chilling portrait of our society and our sick obsession with gore, violence and scandal.
• Barcelona is pretentious, boring, and yes, obnoxious. The actors are miscast, the dialogue is stilted, the characters unappealing and implausible. I didn’t like Whitt Stillman’s last film, Metropolitan (1990); Barcelona annoyed the hell out of me. I left Enzian in a bad mood and had to cancel my plans to meet a friend at The Club for a nightcap.
• On video, check out Six Degrees of Separation, a sophisticated movie with outstanding performances, and witty, intellegent dialogue (are you listening Whitt Stillman?). Better than the Broadway play on which it was based. Also, take a look at Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. Despite its epic length, it was without doubt one of last year’s best films. The ensemble cast is unforgettable.
• My sister took me to my very first rock concert over twenty years ago (can that be real ???). I’ve loved Steely Dan ever since. And I might have loved them at their recent St. Petersburg concert if I had heard them. The Thunderdome is acoustics HELL. Its no excuse that the arena wasn’t designed for concerts, but for the baseball team that never was.
• I can’t believe I’m recommending a restaurant on I-Drive, but if you’re looking for a truly unique night out with friends or a date, visit Cafe Tu Tu Tango. Food, drink, artwork, artists and dancers all blend to make for one of the coolest, most original places to hang out in O-Town.
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“I am what l am, and what I am needs no excuses,..” is just one of the lines in what has become the anthem of modern gay culture. It is part of the score to La CageAux Folks, a wonderful old-fashioned musical guaranteed to reach in and tug at those rusty old heart strings that we all hide so well. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one misty-eyed in the audience - the opening night onlookers seemed to adore the show. The audience consisted mainly of “mainstream” Americans - the kinds of mothers, fathers, relatives, and neighbors that we all might find ourselves “coming out” to, perhaps borrowing some of the above-mentioned score to plea our case. This show, as poignant as it is campy, was the winner of 6 Tony awards on Broadway in 1984. With the collaboration of Arthur Laurents (West Side Gypsy. The Way We Were) Jerry Herman C , Dolly!, Mame), and Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy), an incredible treasure of musical theater was created.
The show revolves around two gay male characters whose son is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing morals crusader. The story is one of “forbidden love” vs. family traditions (sound familiar?). It’s a bit Romeo And Juliet, a bit Side Story, and a bit of Thanksgiving dinner with your parents and your new “significant other”.
In this production, Biyce Ward stars as ZaZa, the headline female impersonator/entertainer in his lover’s night club. It’s hard to find enough good things to say about Mr. Ward. His performance k; filled with warmth, humor, showmanship, and professional artistry. He leaves you wanting more (and he looks so glamorous in those beaded dresses!). Michael
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Edwards plays his lover George; the solid support that ZaZa needs to keep at least one foot on the ground. Mr. Edwards gives a likeable performance, creating a very complimentary, believable character with the wisdom to sustain a twenty-year marriage to a true diva. As Jean-Michel (the “traitor” son), Todd Lee Piorier is a pleasure to listen to and look at, acting the role with integrity. He and Mr. Edwards make a convincing father-son casting choice.
Other performances worth kudos are Colleen Ashton as the bubbly and delicious Jacqueline, Ann Hurst as the “bridled-gone-giddy” Mme. Dindon, and Bob Perry’s “second-fiddle” Mercedes. Mary Rose Gray’s Mme. Renaud Ls the quintessential French country barmaid.
It’s difficult for me to criticize any theatrical endeavor, but since the Mark Two is a legitimate Equity (union) theatre, the few disappointing aspects of the performance I attended bear mentioning. The Cagelles were a bit too rough around the edges and their costumes far from flattering. But what they lacked in grace they certainly made up for with enthusiasm and shenanigans. Mr. Dindon was played a little too “Lower East Side” for an uptight French moralist, and Jacob was pleasant but lacked the fire of a drag-diva wannabe (just go for it, girl!).
Mark Howard’s direction and Bob Perry’s choreography (much of the original Broadway steps were recreated) kept the production swiftly on course. As we left the theatre singing “The Best ofTImes is No w”, Mark Two’s La Cage Aux Folles movingly reminded us to be proud of who we really are.
Thank you cast and crew for an inspirational and enjoyable evening of theatre.
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Okay. Who are those two women who are creeping into our culture? You know, the heavy one whose outrageous clothes don’t fit her anymore, and the blonde one who hasn’t changed her hair style since the sixties?
They’re popping up everywhere. On postcards. In our clubs. Hosting “drag races”. On our televisions. They are becoming a cultural landmark for the 90s...right up there with Ru Paul and Hillary Clinton.
Of course, Sweetie, darling.. .they’re Edina and Patsy of Absolutely Fabulous, the hit series that just arrived from England on Comedy Central. It’s been a craze on the BBC since 1992, so why has it taken so long to reach us?
“I think you’ll find, America, that Patsy and Edina have no redeeming qualities whatsoever,” the show’s producer,
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Jon Plowman, proudly spouts. “It’s been one of the reasons that America’s been reluctant.” But if you ask me, that’s the very reason Edina and Patsy are so attractive to this sterile, politically correct generation.
Before you clamor to your tele, America, there are a few things you need to know to assimilate yourselves to AbFab, as it is affectionately known. Here are some tips to help you.
1) Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) are fortysomething fashion gals. Their major addictions: smokes, alcohol, and drugs (every kind you can find), their obsessive issues: slaves to fashion, wealth, and other current trends, from psychic friends to Buddhist chant, from fad diets to isolation tanks (which Edina can only use if Patsy’s with her).
Edina’s hard up and heavy. Patsy’s coked up and homy (a confirmed nymphomaniac). Basically, they’re everyday people.
2) “Fags” are cigarettes, so don’t get offended.
3) Saffron is Edina’s daughter. She’s a smart, young, science student; the only stable thing in the house, but watch her tongue.. .it’s sharp.
4) Don’t be surprised if you recognize some odd characters. Since the show’s instant fame, stars like Germaine Greer, Miranda Richardson, and Helena Bonham Carter pop up in unexpected cameos.
5) “Colonic irrigation” is merely an ad-
vanced enema.
6) “LaCroix” is the name of a fashion line.
7) A television season at the BBC is only SIX episodes. So don’t be alarmed when you begin to see reruns of the twelve existing episodes. The third season is due in Spring of 1995, and then, according to Saunders, who is also writer and co-creator, the girls may be hitting the big screen.
8) You’ll find Comedy Central’s Absolutely Fabulous on Mondays at 8:30 PM, Saturdays at 4:30 PM, and Sundays at 11:00 PM, but before you set your VCR, be aware that the show is an odd 40 minutes or so. Check the listings.
Extra Bonus: Keep an ear out for the Pet Shop Boys’ dance track devoted to Patsy and Edie. It’s a groove.
Our suggestion for beginners: Tape the show and watch it a few times, until you can understand what the girls are saying.
And while trying to keep up with Patsy and Edina for you, we’ve discovered a major plot line for next season. Get this: Patsy and Edina are coming to New York!
“I just hope people think it’s funny,” Lumley states, no doubt maneuvering the words between her fag and her crooked smile. “I hope they will. And if it doesn’t work, it’s not my fault. I’m simply an actress.”
Don’t worry, Pats, as always, your adventures around Manhattan promise to be exhilarating, exhausting, and absolutely fabulous.
I GAY POLITICAL POTBOILER
Flashpoint by Katherine V. Forrest Reviewed by Harmony Brenner
In September, 1991, a California radio station broadcasts the governor’s plan to veto a crucial gay-rights bill. This news causes Donnelly, Flashpoint's central figure, to mobilize her diverse gay and lesbian cohorts in a rustic cabin retreat, thus setting the stage for Katherine V. Forrest’s latest novel. Flashpoint spins a provoking fictional web of reference around real political struggle.
Forrest animates and humanizes these characters by showing them simultaneously at their best and worst, as they challenge and comfort each other through loss and discovery. Donnelly is a multi-faceted activist with impressive connections, and she leads the group body and soul. Pat Decker owns the cabin, and thus serves as the group’s reluctant hostess. Averill Calder Harmon, a professional golfer with a dislike for activism, lives in self-hating fear with her secretary and lover, Angela. Rounding out the female characters is Querida Quemada, a successful Latina professional and Donnelly’s current lover. Donnelly’s ex-husband and his male lover complete the cast.
Throughout the book’s uncharacteristically terse chapters, each character shares common pain, common shame, and uncommon healing. They process their own unique experiences as homosexuals while Donnelly prepares to test their commitment. Challenges created by homophobic employers, families, schools and peers unite Forrest’s characters despite clear differences in gender, class and ethnicity.
Like many cohesive cliques, intriguing yet painful love triangles once existed within the group. As their shared bond, Donnelly helps each of them cope, passing from Bradley to Averill to Pat like an Olympic torch of optimism and activism.
As usual, Forrest spices the entire story with wonderful snippets of dialogue and detail. The tranquility and provincial charm of the woodsy cabin pleasantly contrast the cosmopolitan lifestyles and concerns of its inhabitants. Her characters banter naturally, observe unobtrusively, and soliloquize elo-
quently. Each offers insight into the gay and lesbian experience rarely found in contemporary fiction. Forrest’s polished yet believable style of characterization remains the trademark of her bestselling fiction.
At times Flashpoint may seem ponderous, but when the governor finally issues his veto, crisis dynamics reverberate within the secluded cabin’s walls. Donnelly confronts her friends with a mission, testing the bounds of their delicately woven friendships. Each character must weigh the consequences of solidarity and true political commitment.
The choices made range from startling to satisfying, but each is ultimately credible. For the ardent Forrest reader, Flashpoint breaks new and significant ground .Forrest is not typically political, thus excluding most reference to current events. This story is a well-timed exception. I highly recommend it to Forrest fans and to anyone who enjoys the struggles of determined underdogs. If for no other reason, read Flashpoint to ignite your own sense of pride, energy, and activism.
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Lesbian Pioneer, Rikki Streicher, 68, died on Sunday, August 21st. Ms. Streicher was a pioneer in San Francisco’s gay civil rights movement and owner of two of the city’s most famous lesbian bars, Maud’s and Amanda’s. Following Ms. Streicher’s death, San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan ordered flags flown at half-staff in her honor. Ms. Streicher is survived by her partner of many years, Mary Sager.
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SOUTHERN COUNTRY HOSTS “O’TOWN HOEDOWN”. Southern Country Orlando will hold their second annual “O’Town Hoedown” on September 9th, 1 Oth, and 11 th. All events will be held at the Harley Hotel’s Eola Ballroom and at the Full Moon Saloon. According to Jerry Murtha, Souther Country President, anywhere from 300 to 500 people are expected. Proceeds from this year’s hoedown will benefit CENTAUR and the Hope & Help Center. Southern Country Orlando is one of 41 gay country/westem dancing clubs nationwide.
DESTINY OF ME OPENS AT ACTING STUDIO. The Acting Studio continues to offer innovative gay theatre with its upcoming production of The Destiny of Me. Destiny is Larry Kramer’s 1993 Obie Award-winning sequel to his earlier AIDS play, The Normal Heart. Destiny is directed by Ron Schneider, and will run from Friday, September 9th, through Sunday, October 16th.
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COMING OUT UNDER FIRE.
Award-winning documentary about gays in the military. 5:30 PM. Enzian. 644-4662.
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10:30 PM. 521-7499.
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How could this have happened? I was once the QUEEN of Hollywood - now I’m reduced to fighting for tabloid headlines with Charlene Tilton and Leigh Shannon. Whatever happened to great pictures like “Love On a Pogo Stick”, “Dial S For Suicide”, and “Shut Up Sweet Lurlene”? We didn’t have talent then, we had pussies! If you needed a hit picture, all it took was some "fancy footwork” on the ceiling. But like everything else in life, what goes up must come down. It seems to be hard-knocks time again - better stock up on the bulletproof Aqua Net. Oh, I’m not too worried - there’s always Aaron Spelling. Look what he did for Joan Collins! (Once a C-cup, always a B-girl!) And of course there are the wonderful product-endorsement opportu-
nities for television stars. I can see it now - “This is Lola O’Lay for Gold Bond Medicated Feminine Hygiene Time-Released Laxative Squares (in the “temper-resistant” packaging).” Perhaps Cher has the right idea - stand next to a fat lady and you can’t help but look good!
As bitter as a pot of day-old coffee? You bet! Wouldn’t you be if every career vehicle that came along had a dead battery?. This new writing assignment for Watermark will be just the ticket I need to get back in touch with my fans - the little people. Each issue, I’ll be bringing you juicy bits from the front lines and all the local watering holes of “Hollywood East”. So, mind your P’s and Q’s - information is pouring in by the thimbleful, and I want to share every morsel with you.
Here’s one that’s hot off the press. Hang on to your wigs, Girls! Rumor has it that a certain once-infamous downtown hot spot is currently about to "explode” again...I hope my booth is still available!
Oh, and about that new script - you’re all invited to a barbecue in Bungalow B! Who knows, the next dish served up could be YOU!
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• If you’re out and about on Sunday, or any time over the weekend for that matter, make it a point to check out the east shore of Lake Ivanhoe, across from Antique Row. Wild lesbians with jet skis. Shirtless and sweaty gay volleyballers. When did this happen? Why weren’t we told immediately?
• Speaking of out and about, our hero Bruce Ground is converting the back room at his wonderful book store into a coffee shop...the “Stage Door Canteen.” Only a perfect idea. Bruce should be serving you his own special blend by Thanksgiving. We pray every night that we’ll be stuck at Out and About Books if there’s a nuclear holocaust and nobody can go outside for three months. “Is it time to go already?”
• Do you well up with pride every time one of our gay superstars makes a public appearance? Elton, Martina, k.d., Melissa... each time I’ve seen them interviewed, they’ve been articulate, interesting, confident, comfortable, humble, witty and just
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• Around 8:30 PM, dial up 106.7 FM and listen to “Just Plain Mark” play Guess The Lesbian. Mark gets two women on the phone, one gay and one straight, and asks them some loaded questions: “Who are the Indigo Girls?” “How many times have you seen Fried Green Tomatoes?” “Do you have a tattoo?” A guy contestant is then asked to Guess The Lesbian based on their answers. By all accounts, it’s done in good fun and can be a real hoot (lesbian for “funny”).
• Richard Simmons has replaced Terri Garr as David Letterman’s favorite foil. Personally, we can’t decide if Richard Simmons sitting on his feet in exercise shorts with greasy thighs mooning at David Letterman is a positive development in gay evolution or not. But we think it is.
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Title
Rock Collection
Alternative Title
Rock Collection
Subject
Music--United States
Rock music--United States
Lakeland (Fla.)
Maitland (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of rock music in Central Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Rock music is uniquely American, emerging in the late 1940s and 1950s, with the influence of African-American blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and gospel, mixed with predominantly white country and Western swing music. This hybrid genre helped define a generation, breaking down color barriers in the South by merging African musical traditions with European instrumentation. The popularization of rock music coincided with the African-American Civil Rights Movement, which sought to end racial segregation and discrimination in the South. The sudden interest of white teens in black “race music” provoked a backlash among traditionalists and Americans found themselves in the middle of a “culture war.” The counterculture youth of the 1950s and 1960s rejected many of the mainstream cultural standards of their parents’ generation, especially in regards to race.
During the First and Second Great Migration of the 20th century, African Americans and whites began living in closer proximity to one another, more so than ever before, resulting in both races emulating the other’s style in fashion, art, and music. Rock music influenced the language, attitudes, ideas, and trends of a generation. The genre continued to evolve, incorporating new elements with each subsequent decade. During the 1960s, the subgenres of folk rock, jazz rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, glam rock, and progressive rock emerged. Musicians in the 1970s and 1980s created punk rock, Southern rock, heavy metal, new wave, and alternative rock. By the 1990s, artist continued to expand the genre by creating rap rock, reggae rock, grunge, and indie rock.
Florida has been at the heart of rock music and the “culture war” since the 1950s. The recording industry was actively making rock records in Tampa during the 1960s and in Miami during the 1970s. Gram Parsons, a native of Winter Haven, is credited as the father of the country rock movement of the late 1960s, and Southern rock emerged from Jacksonville during the 1970s and 1980s, with bands such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Outlaws, and Molly Hatchet. These contributions played an integral part in the history of rock music.
Contributor
Knickerbocker, Carl
Wahl, Julie
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Type
Collection
Coverage
Bob Carr Theater, Orlando, Florida
Enzian Theater, Maitland, Florida
Great Southern Music Hall, Orlando, Florida
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orange County Civic Center, Orlando, Florida
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Fern Park, Florida
Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, Florida
Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Altschuler, Glenn C. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51518334" target="_blank"><em>All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America</em></a>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Fisher, Marc. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69594101" target="_blank"><em>Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation</em></a>. New York: Random House, 2007.
Studwell, William E., and D. F. Lonergan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41090615" target="_blank"><em>The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s</em></a>. New York: Haworth Press, 1999.
Language
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
4 color digital images
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Title
Fern Park Station T-Shirt
Alternative Title
Fern Park Station Shirt
Subject
Nightclubs
Casselberry (Fla.)
Description
A t-shirt for the music venue and bar, Fern Park Station. Also known as The Station at Fern Park, the bar was located at 140 Fernwood Boulevard in Casselberry. The former hard rock club with 1980s décor hosted local and national acts. While acting as drummer for the Orlando-based rock band, Dorian Gray, Jani Lane, who would go on to international fame as the lead vocalist for the glam rock band, Warrant, performed his vocal debut at the venue. The Station closed around 2003.
Type
Physical Object
Source
Original color digital images: Private Collection of Mick Dolan.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/142" target="_blank">Rock Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original color digital images.
Coverage
Fern Park Station, Casselberry, Florida
Contributor
Dolan, Mick
Date Created
ca. 1980-2003
Format
image/jpg
Extent
127 KB
226 KB
192 KB
112 KB
Medium
4 color digital images
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Fern Park Station and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of Mick Dolan
External Reference
Gettelman, Parry. "<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rw8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA55&lpg=RA1-PA55&dq=screaming+iguanas+of+love+florida&source=bl&ots=WxFz-baPVJ&sig=YyO2QPmzEmSucQuDhhC6PxnwhxM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CD8Q6AEwCGoVChMI_KjDnarRyAIVhqceCh3PsQ2F#v=onepage&q=screaming%20iguanas%20of%20love%20florida&f=false" target="_blank">Deep Blues and Alternative Iguanas. Orlando: In the Shadow of ‘Tourist World,’ Real Music Breaks on Through</a>." <em>Billboard</em> (March 6, 1993): 55-57.
bars
Casselberry
clubs
Fern Park
Fern Park Station
Fernwood Boulevard
logo
Mick Dolan
music
nightclubs
railroads
shirts
Still Rocking Orlando
t-shirts
The Station
trains
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Title
Rock Collection
Alternative Title
Rock Collection
Subject
Music--United States
Rock music--United States
Lakeland (Fla.)
Maitland (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of rock music in Central Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Rock music is uniquely American, emerging in the late 1940s and 1950s, with the influence of African-American blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and gospel, mixed with predominantly white country and Western swing music. This hybrid genre helped define a generation, breaking down color barriers in the South by merging African musical traditions with European instrumentation. The popularization of rock music coincided with the African-American Civil Rights Movement, which sought to end racial segregation and discrimination in the South. The sudden interest of white teens in black “race music” provoked a backlash among traditionalists and Americans found themselves in the middle of a “culture war.” The counterculture youth of the 1950s and 1960s rejected many of the mainstream cultural standards of their parents’ generation, especially in regards to race.
During the First and Second Great Migration of the 20th century, African Americans and whites began living in closer proximity to one another, more so than ever before, resulting in both races emulating the other’s style in fashion, art, and music. Rock music influenced the language, attitudes, ideas, and trends of a generation. The genre continued to evolve, incorporating new elements with each subsequent decade. During the 1960s, the subgenres of folk rock, jazz rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, glam rock, and progressive rock emerged. Musicians in the 1970s and 1980s created punk rock, Southern rock, heavy metal, new wave, and alternative rock. By the 1990s, artist continued to expand the genre by creating rap rock, reggae rock, grunge, and indie rock.
Florida has been at the heart of rock music and the “culture war” since the 1950s. The recording industry was actively making rock records in Tampa during the 1960s and in Miami during the 1970s. Gram Parsons, a native of Winter Haven, is credited as the father of the country rock movement of the late 1960s, and Southern rock emerged from Jacksonville during the 1970s and 1980s, with bands such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Outlaws, and Molly Hatchet. These contributions played an integral part in the history of rock music.
Contributor
Knickerbocker, Carl
Wahl, Julie
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Type
Collection
Coverage
Bob Carr Theater, Orlando, Florida
Enzian Theater, Maitland, Florida
Great Southern Music Hall, Orlando, Florida
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orange County Civic Center, Orlando, Florida
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Fern Park, Florida
Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, Florida
Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Altschuler, Glenn C. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51518334" target="_blank"><em>All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America</em></a>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Fisher, Marc. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69594101" target="_blank"><em>Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation</em></a>. New York: Random House, 2007.
Studwell, William E., and D. F. Lonergan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41090615" target="_blank"><em>The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s</em></a>. New York: Haworth Press, 1999.
Language
eng
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<a href="https://youtu.be/hw7cnP6DoyY" target="_blank">Oral History of Mick Dolan</a>
Title
Oral History of Mick Dolan
Alternative Title
Oral History, Dolan
Subject
Disc jockeys--United States
Shock radio
Orlando (Fla.)
Altamonte Springs (Fla.)
Music--Florida
Description
An oral history interview of Mick Dolan, a radio personality, news and traffic reporter, voiceover actor, promotions director, talk show producer and social media blogger based in Central Florida. The interview was conducted by Geoffrey Cravero at the Salem Media Group radio stations in Altamonte Springs, on July 30, 2015. Topics covered in the interview include how Dolan got into broadcasting, his experiences working on <em>The Baxter and Mark Show</em>, Clear Channel’s impact on broadcasting, the evolution of the Orlando music scene, including some of his favorite musicians and venues, Rock Super Bowls at the Tangerine Bowl, interviewing David Lee Roth and George Thorogood, being onstage for The Who, his attempt to put together a country music fantasy camp with CMT’s Camp Nashville, what he’s been up to lately, and his final thoughts and advice to young musical artists and broadcasters.
Abstract
Oral history interview of Mick Dolan. Interview conducted by Geoffrey Cravero in Orlando, Florida.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction<br />0:02:46 <em>The Baxter and Mark Show</em><br />0:05:54 Clear Channel's impact on broadcasting<br />0:08:31 Evolution of the Orlando's music scene<br />0:11:48 Rock Super Bowls<br />0:14:17 Backstage stories<br />0:17:15 Camp Nashville<br />0:19:04 Closing remarks
Creator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Dolan, Mick
Source
Dolan, Mick. Interviewed by Geoffrey Cravero. Audio/video record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida.
Date Created
2015-07-30
Date Copyrighted
2015-07-30
Has Format
Digital transcript of original 21-minute, and 11-second oral history: Dolan, Mick. Interviewed by Geoffrey Cravero. Audio/video record available. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>, Orlando, Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/142" target="_blank">Rock Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Language
eng
Type
Moving Image
Coverage
Amway Arena, Orlando, Florida
Camp Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee
Fern Park Station, Longwood, Florida
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium, Orlando, Florida
Salem Media Group, Altamonte Springs, Florida
WDIZ-FM, Orlando, Florida
WLOQ-FM, Maitland, Florida
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Mediator
History Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Mick Dolan and Geoffrey Cravero and published by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Rights Holder
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
External Reference
Brewster, Bill, and Frank Broughton. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43445660" target="_blank"><em>Last Night a Dj Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey</em></a>. New York: Grove Press, 2000.<a href="%E2%80%9Dhttp%3A//www.rockshowvideos.com/rocksuperbowl12.html%E2%80%9D"><br /></a>
Neer, Richard. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46713260" target="_blank"><em>FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio</em></a>. New York: Villard Books, 2001.
Willis, Nicole A. "<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-04-06/news/os-obituary-mark-samansky-20110406_1_baxter-and-mark-show-mark-samansky-rock-station" target="_blank">Mark Samansky: Radio antics hooked his audience</a>." <em>The </em><em>Orlando Sentinel</em>, April 6, 2011. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-04-06/news/os-obituary-mark-samansky-20110406_1_baxter-and-mark-show-mark-samansky-rock-station.
"<a href="%E2%80%9Dhttp%3A//www.rockshowvideos.com/rocksuperbowl12.html%E2%80%9D">Rock Super Bowl XII</a>.” <em>Orlando Rock Super Bowls</em>. Rock Show Videos.com http://www.rockshowvideos.com/rocksuperbowl12.html.
Transcript
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Today’s Thursday, July 30, 2015. My name’s Geoff Cravero. I’m speaking with Mick Dolan at the Salem Media Group radio stations in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Thanks for speaking with me today, Mick.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>No problem.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Uh, let’s just begin I guess with a little of your biography. Could you, uh, tell us a little about where you’re from originally and, uh, early kind of bio details?</p>
<p><strong>Dolan</strong>I was found under a rock…</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>About, uh 64 years ago.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] Uh, my radio career started in, uh, Topeka, Kansas. I was, uh, at a station there. Then I went to Kansas City[, Missouri], spent a couple years there, and, uh, about five years in Louisville[, Kentucky], but, on July 28, uh, 1980, I came here, uh, and started at [W]DIZ[–FM 100.3]. So uh, 35 years—I’m celebrating my 35<sup>th</sup>, eh, on the radio here.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Uh, DIZ, uh, was a great radio station. It’s gone now. Uh, then I went on—took a break, got out of the, eh—the business completely, and about three or four years later, uh, somebody—I saw a friend at a—in line at the post office and she goes, “You know what? They’re looking for people over at WLOQ[-FM 107.7], the smooth jazz station.” So I said, “Eh.” I went over there—I actually interviewed for the promotions director job, but, uh, I didn’t get it. The program director says, “Hey, man, we need to get you back on the air here.” So they—they—we did a part-time job for a while. It worked into a full-time job. I was a morning host with another guy, Mark Taylor.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>And, uh, then went to the nights, and then the station got sold. So [<em>laughs</em>] I’ve actually killed two radio stations in my career here, but, uh, after that, uh, took another little break and found a job here doing news and traffic now at, uh, the Salem [Salem Media Group] stations: WORL[-AM 660] and WBZW[–AM 1520]. So afternoon drive, man. I’m the news guy and the traffic guy. So, you know, what goes around comes around.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>And, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>But, you know what? It—it is always beat working.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>I’ve never, uh—you know, I—I never really wanted a real job.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>I wanted to do what I liked to do, and isn’t that the whole reason? Uh, I mean, come on. If you can’t like what you’re doing, then what are you—what are you doing? So that’s what I tell people: “Always beats working.”</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Let’s close that door.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Alright [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>That’s awful noise in here.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>We make a lot of noise here at Salem.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] That’s okay.</p>
<p>[<em>door closes</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Dolan</strong> <br />Most of it’s good.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Yeah [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Alright. Should I be looking at there? Or…</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Oh, no. Just—this works fine.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Okay, alright, okay.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>That’s good. Um, yeah, I guess, uh—let’s see. Tell us a little about the, uh—the<em> Baxter and Mark Show</em>.<a title="">[1]</a> I noticed you—you sent us some photos of them, and, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Unbelievable.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>I read a little bit about, uh, the shock jock-era kind of thing. Uh…</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Yeah, that was before your time. Right?</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>You young guys—I just don’t—well, uh, they were one of the best morning shows ever, and the thing that they did was they interacted with people. They—they’re not talking to ya. They’re getting ya—they had callers all the time. They were always pulling stunts and pranks and, uh, just [<em>laughs</em>]—just some amazing stuff on the radio, and, uh, unfortunately, uh, because the business is the business, uh, the management, uh, felt that, uh, after a while that they’d outlived, uh, you know, their—their run, and they replaced them with <em>Ron and Ron</em>—another good show—but, just kind of kicking them to the curb after five, six, seven years, that’s—that’s crazy, but, uh, they were not able to carry on the team.</p>
<p>So they split up, and Mark Samansky died back in 2011, uh, and we try to do a, uh, reunion for him. I haven’t been able to do it the last couple of years. Uh, it’s kind of a—it’s a lot of work, but, uh, just in his memory, because he was such as talented guy. I mean, “Dr. Zonas” and, uh, you know, the [<em>laughs</em>]—“Opie Gets Nookie”, all these songs that they did that, uh, just—you—you know, they would take a song—a popular song—and—and, uh—and change it around a little bit and—and make a funny out of it, and, you know, it’s such[?], uh—the wake-up calls were legendary. Uh, they were doing this stuff before anybody else did. So they were—they were true groundbreakers. They really were, and Baxter’s still around. He’s up in, uh, Washington D.C. He’s doing voice work, but, um, you know, he’s the kind of guy who just anything in radio. I mean, he can do the commercials, he’s—he was an operations guy. Uh, he was really the—he sort of kept them on the ground [<em>laughs</em>]. [inaudible]. Samansky was out of his mind, so they worked so well together.</p>
<p>It was a great show, but, uh, long live Baxter and Mark. You can still see them, uh—I can’t think of the—it’s—it’s Baxterradio.com. He’s got a bunch of their old bits. Uh, one of my favorites ev—ever was Mr. Bradley. This was an old black guy that thought he was calling the radio station to win Michael Jackson tickets, and they [<em>laughs</em>]—they turned that poor boy every which way. They recorded the bit and then later would split it, you know, chop it up. They could make him say anything. It was the most unbelievable thing, and they got—I don’t know how many bits they did. It wa—you know, every once in a while Mr. Bradley would call, and, uh, so you know—it just—stuff like that that was just epic. Unbelievable [<em>laughs</em>], but, anyway, we’ve got the memories.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>Uh, and, you know, it’s hard to believe that radio station went away—it’ll be 20 years next year. 1996. Uh, Clear Channel bought them, turned them into soft rock, and then they went to Spanish and then, uh—I don’t know. what is it now? I—I don’t know, but, I—I think it’s still Spanish, and—but, uh, it was pretty amazing. That’s the way radio is. Nothing ever stays the same. Well, that’s an—any media it’s like, uh, it’s always changing, and you’ve got to stay one step ahead, and, uh, quite frankly that—that—that’s[sic] has been a problem. I haven’t been able to do that [<em>laughs</em>], but, you know, it’s hard to be a 64 year old disc jockey in rock radio, and, uh, I can—I can still bring a lot to the table, but, it—it is what it is—what it is.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>When you talked about, uh, you know, Clear Channel in ’96, buying out a lot of the…</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>[inaudible].</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>The radio stations, yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>104. Uh, that’s—that was—these were all free standing radio stations, ‘cause back then, you could only own an AM and an FM [<em>clears throat</em>]. That was it. Now, I think it’s like seven total, uh, you can own. So you’ve got three companies that dominate the market here: Cox [Media Group], uh, Clear Channel, and, uh<em> inaudible</em> what is it? CBS [Columbia Broadcasting System], I think. I’m not sure. Maybe they call it something else. I have no idea, but those three guys dominate, uh, still, and, you know, it’s what deregulation did. Can’t win them all. Put a lot of good people out of work, I can tell you that, and, uh, is the quality of radio any better? [<em>buzzer noise</em>] I don’t think so. No, no.</p>
<p>I mean what [W]MMO[-FM 98.9] does, what [W]JRR[-FM 101.1] does—they do what they do. That’s good, but it just doesn’t have the soul. It doesn’t have the heart that—that we had back in the day, because those guys are doing a bunch of other jobs. You don’t just do radio. When I was hired back in the day, I—I mean, in my case I was promotions director, too, and—and, uh—so I did that, as well as be on the air, and I was also the production director. I had three jobs there, but really, most people just did one—you were on the air. You did your four hour shift and you were done. It’s like, “Wow.” What a job that is. Not anymore. Now, uh, you gotta pay the piper. So anyway, business has changed. You can’t win them all [<em>laughs</em>].<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>What was the, uh—the Orlando music scene like, uh, when you first came and—and kind of had, you know—how did it evolve?</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Uh, it—it—it was—it blew up in the ‘80s. I mean, uh, there was a rock club on every corner. Point After [Tom’s Point After], Fern Park Station, Plus 3 Lounge, uh, gosh, the ABC Lounges were doing live music, uh, and I’m, uh—I’m forgetting a bunch of others, but, uh, you know, it was—it was fun. I mean, you could—and it didn’t hurt that I lived like two blocks from Fern Park Station, and my car knew the way home. So I had no problems there, but it was just a fun time. It was kind of an innocent time. It was anything goes. It was back when you could get away with stuff, and—and now you’ve got laws. So uh, it—it was just a really special time and there was—there were booking agents that—oh, my god—Ricky Young and Steve, uh, Brewton— “Brewster” Brewton—uh, these—Steve Peck. These guys—Earl Tennent—these guys made big money booking bands. Now, the clubs don’t want to pay for it. That’s the—that’s the problem. The clubs don’t want to pay for their entertainment. Plus, everybody think he can be a rock star, and so there’s a million bands out there, and there’s some good bands. You’re in a good band.<a title="">[2]</a> So [<em>laughs</em>] where’s the outlet? How do you guys make money? I should be asking you that.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Uh, so it—it’s—it was real special, and then I think just a combination of the economy just kind of went another direction and, you know, the deregulation of—of radio, and, uh, I—I think that just—it really hurt, and now, there’s still clubs out there—there’s still—you can still hear a good band, but, they’re not making any money. Uh, it’s too bad, but they’re just not. So…</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Do you have any, uh—any favorites? Like local bands from the ‘80s, or ‘90s, or…</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Oh, then there re was the Bobby Friss Band, and Stranger, and Foreign Legion, and, uh, uh—in fact, Stranger Band, uh, they lost a couple of people. They lost their guitar player.<a title="">[3]</a> He, uh, passed, uh, years ago, and then their drummer, uh, [John] “J.P.” [Price], recently had, uh—he had cancer or something, but—so they’re all getting old and dying, but Greg Billings was in that band. He still has his band, the Greg Billings Band. So—but, those were special bands. Uh, oh, I don’t know. I—I—I can’t—there’s a million of them.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>I can’t remember any of them right now, but, uh, those bands were able to make a living and have a lot of fun. You know, back in—opening up for Van Halen and, you know, things like that. So they were big, uh, but, it’s all gone now. There was a band called Sons of Doctors [<em>laughs</em>]. That was great too. They were a little bit later—late ‘80s—but, uh, Angelo Jannotti, those guys—they’re still around, you know? So, uh, it—it—it was a special time. It really was.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>What about, um—I read a little about the Rock Super Bowls they did…</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>At the Citrus Bowl.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Epic, epic. Unbelievable. I came from Louisville in 1980, and it was funny, because they—those big stadium shows were just starting back, you know, late ‘70s, early ‘80s, and I had seen, uh, ZZ Top and, uh, Lynyrd Skynyrd, uh, in—in Louisville, and that same show that had Bob Seger, and they came that [<em>clears throat</em>]—that summer. So I—I caught them there too, but those Super Bowl[s], they—they had big name acts, every one of them, and I think that fell victim to the times, as well. The people—the bands, who are big and popular, they want too much money, and—and a show like that, you just couldn’t put it together, uh, like they—they could then. Uh, then, of course, there was The [Rolling] Stones and The Who, and, uh, Stones came back—I did not see that show. I wanted to, but I missed it, and, uh—well, because I had to pay now.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] I didn’t have to pay back then, and I ain’t going to pay hundreds of dollars. I’m sorry. I love the band, but uh-uh. I’ve got better things to do with that money. I shouldn’t say that. I probably shot myself in the foot, but that’s alright. It’s only rock and roll. So uh—but those—that was a community thing, man, and the memories, and—and again, what you can get away with. It’s like—it’s crazy. It was all good, and you—you talk to anybody who’s been around a while and you mention Rock Super Bowls, and they’re going to go, “Oh, oh, I remember that one, yeah.” Ted Nugent, uh—it was pretty cool. Very nice, but I don’t think they could pull that off now. You just can’t do that. It would have to be part of a tour, and—and I know there’s tours like that, but—but not in that environment. I mean, it’s just something else, and the—and the Citrus Bowl wasn’t even that big back then. They still put 50,000 in there. So, you know, promoters made a lot of money. Everybody was happy, and the tickets—I don’t know—I—those Super Bowl tickets probably weren’t more than 20 dollars. Oh, my god. How—can you imagine that? You know, those were the days. It is.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Yeah, did you, uh, have any interesting, uh, stories about being backstage at any of them? </p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] That you can share.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>That I can talk about today?</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>One of my favorites was, uh, uh, David Lee Roth of Van Halen and—because I got to do an interview with him, and, you know, it—those days it wasn’t, you know, wireless—there wasn’t any of that, but—so I recorded it on a cassette player, and we took a bus over there to see him. It was in Lakeland[, Florida], and, uh—that’s where—that’s where the concerts were—was Lakeland Civic Center. There was no Orlando Arena. There was no Amway Center. There was nothing. So you had to go to Lakeland to see a show, and the same for Tampa. So the—the two converged—the markets converged there, and—and it was kind of cool because backstage you’d see the Tampa radio guys and, you know, it was a kind of a family, but, uh, David Lee Roth was out of his mind. Took over the interview. I mean—I—he was interviewing me. So I had that and I—I played it for the people on the bus back home, uh—on the way back, and it was just epic. Uh, I had a—I’ll tell you the worst interview I ever had was George Thorogood. Guy was a total asshole.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>I’m sorry. He was. Great music. Love the guy.</p>
<p>[<em>cell phone beeps</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Couldn’t believe that—that—but, he was obnoxious, he was making fun of radio, he was, you know, uh, dissing on everybody…</p>
<p>[<em>cell phone beeps</em>]</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>And it was like, “What?” You know, “Hey, man, I’m sorry. I’m trying to help you. I’m doing this for you as much as for me.” So just left a really bad taste in my mouth, but, uh, um—and then, you know, I got to be onstage for The Who. I got to bring on The B-52’s. They opened for The Who, and [<em>laughs</em>] that was the punk rock scene there, and that was—they were considered, you know, new wave. Uh, that was, uh [<em>makes sound</em>]—the rock guys did not like—they were booed[sic] ‘em. They were throwing stuff onstage. I’m bringing them on and I dodge a can—a Converse [Chuck Taylor] All Star [shoe] that—a red one. I’ll never forget it. So I dodged that one, brought on the band. They lasted maybe three songs, and while I was onstage, the other Converse All Star—the other red one—came flying up on the stage. So they only lasted three songs and walked off and I can’t blame them, but, uh [<em>laughs</em>] there’s just—just epic stuff like that, but, uh, there’s no—I mean, you can’t even describe what it’s like to be out on that stage in front of 50,000 people, and when you speak, there’s a delay. There’s like a half to a full second delay. So you’re hearing, you know—that’s very—that’s hard to get used to, but, you know, the—the—the—the experience was just unbelievable. Great stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>That’s cool.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>I read also you did, uh,—you, uh—CMT’s [Country Music Television], uh—they did like a fantasy camp?</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Yeah, Camp Nashville [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>What was that?</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>My—my friend and I, Lee Bailey, who was a promoter himself—in fact, he was of the only guys to lose money on Larry the Cable Guy,<a title="">[4]</a> if you can believe that, uh, and—so he had some bad luck, but, uh, we—we were trying to do, uh—it was patterned after Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, uh, which is hugely successful. I—and what the concept is: you gather musicians, you pay to be a camper, and, you know, they jam with you, they teach you some stuff, they have sessions. You know, it’s all—it’s very cool. Very cool concept. Well, we thought we could do it and we went to Nashville and, uh, found out that it was a little harder than we thought, and so it never even got off the ground. Uh, we—we had—we opened it, uh, we were taking camper, you know, registrations, but, uh, just didn’t have the money or the contacts to—to make it happen, and I still think it’s a good idea, but we just couldn’t pull it off.</p>
<p>So, uh—I like all kinds of music. I mean, I’ve worked rock and smooth jazz, always, you know, news and traffic, but, I like country. Uh, I’m not real fond of rap, but, uh—I mean, every music has something in it, and every music—Americana? uh, I mean, come on. Bon Iver? I like that guy.<a title="">[5]</a> I think that guy is talented, uh, but—but, you know, I don’t know all of the new music. I—I don’t know how anybody keeps up with it. There’s just so much out there, and so much that’s never heard by, you know, anybody but the real fans. Uh, so I depend on my two, uh, sons to keep me up on that.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>But, uh, it’s—it’s just a great—a great career, if you can find your niche. That’s the whole key, and you’ve got to remember that it changes every day [<em>laughs</em>] practically, and so uh, be ready to move, you know?</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Well, I know you’ve got a show to get to.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Yeah, man.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>So, uh…</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>The news and traffic never stops.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>And there’s plenty to do, but, uh, let’s make sure—yeah, I’m good.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Alright.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Okay, but, uh, you know—just in closing, it—it—it’s so good to be remembered, I think, in a positive way, and I just try to be myself and—and try to connect, try to—I mean, I love people, and—and that’s what you have to have. You have to have that empathy for your audience, and, uh—onstage, as well. Uh, I love to do onstage, love to bring bands on. I—I just brought, uh—uh—uh, Blandini—Jeff Blando was an old rocker. It’s—he’s still around, and, uh, you know, played with, uh, uh, uh, Slaughter and, uh, I can’t think of it. Anyway—but—but he—he’s got his own band, Blandini. I just brought him on. It’s a new place called Paradise Cove in Seminole County, right by the river. Man, it’s got a pool, boat slips—you can pull your boat right up, uh, and so my friend, uh, Randy—he’s—he’s got that, uh, place, and so you know, I still do that all the time. I’ll bring—I love these—especially these bands that have been around for a while and are still doing it, and it’s like, hey. You know, one relic introduces the others.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Right? So it—it’s just—it’s—it beats working always, and I appreciate you coming by and talking to me [<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>I appreciate you talking to us, Mick. Thanks a lot.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>And get the word out. We’re still here.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero <br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>].</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Will do.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p><strong>Cravero<br /></strong>Alright, man. Thanks.</p>
<p><strong>Dolan<br /></strong>Thank you. Alright.</p>
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<p><a title="">[1]</a> Starring Alan Baxter and Mark Samansky.</p>
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<p><a title="">[2]</a> Prison Wine.</p>
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<p><a title="">[3]</a> Ronald “Ronnie” Wayne Garvin.</p>
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<p><a title="">[4]</a> Daniel Lawrence Whitney.</p>
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<p><a title="">[5]</a> Justin Vernon.</p>
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"Brewster" Brewton
ABC Lounge
Alan Baxter
Altamonte Springs
AM radio
Amway Arena
Angelo Jannotti
Blandini
blogger
Bob Seger
Bobby Friss Band
Bon Iver
booking agent
Camp Nashville
CBS
Cinco de Marko
Citrus Bowl
Clear Channel
Clear Channel Radio
CMT
Columbia Broadcasting System
concert
Converse All Star
Converse Chuck Taylor All Star
country music
Country Music Television
Cox Media Group
Daniel Lawrence Whitney
David Lee Roth
deregulation
disc jockey
DJ
Dr. Zonas
Earl Tennent
fantasy camp
Fern Park
Fern Park Station
Florida Citrus Bowl
FM radio
Foreign Legion
George Thorogood
Greg Billings
Greg Billings Band
J.P. Price
jazz
Jeff Blando
John "J.P." Price
Justin Vernon
Kansas City, Missouri
Lakeland
Lakeland Civic Center
Larry the Cable Guy
Lee Bailey
Louisville, Kentucky
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mark Samansky
Mark Taylor
Michael Jackson
Mick Dolan
Mr. Bradley
music
music fantasy camp
music venue
Nashville, Tennessee
new wave
new wave music
news reporter
Opie Gets Nookie
orlando
Orlando Arena
Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium
Paradise Cove
Plus 3 Lounge
Point After
production director
promotions director
punk rock
radio
radio personality
radio station
reporter
Rick Young
rock
Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp
rock club
rock music
rock radio
Rock Super Bowl
Rock Super Bowl 12
Rock Super Bowl XII
Rolling Stones American Tour 1981
Ron and Ron
Ronald ''Ronnie'' Wayne Garvin
Ronnie Garvin
Salem Media Group
Sanford
Seminole County
shock jock
shock radio
smooth jazz
smooth jazz radio
social media
song parody
Sons of Doctors
Steve "Brewster" Brewton
Steve Brewton
Steve Peck
Stranger
talk show
talk show producer
Tangerine Bowl
Ted Nugent
The B-52's
The Baxter and Mark Show
The Rolling Stones
The Who
Tom's Point After
Topeka, Kansas
traffic reporter
Van Halen
voiceover actor
Washington, D.C.
WBZW-AM
WDIZ-FM
WJRR-FM
WLOQ-FM
WMMO-FM
WORL-AM
ZZ Top
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Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Alternative Title
Oviedo Historical Society Collection
Subject
Oviedo (Fla).
Description
The Oviedo Historical Society Collection encompasses historical artifacts donated for digitization at the Oviedo Historical Society's History Harvest in the Spring semester of 2015.
The Oviedo Historical Society was organized in November 1973 by a group of citizens. The society is a 501(3) non-profit organization. Its purpose is to help preserve the community identity of Oviedo by collecting and disseminating knowledge about local history, serve as a repository for documents and artifacts relating to Oviedo history, promote the preservation and marking of historic sites and buildings in the Oviedo area and foster interest in local, state, national, and world history.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Oviedo, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>." Oviedo Historical Society, Inc. http://oviedohs.com/.
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
1 map
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Title
Oviedo Area Map and Business Guide
Alternative Title
Oviedo Map
Subject
Oviedo (Fla.)
Description
An area map of Oviedo, Florida, and its surrounding areas. A number of advertisements from the businesses surrond the perimeter of the map. While the date is unknown, the map is believed to have been published sometime between 1970 and 1978. <br /><br /> The Timucuan Native Americans originally inhabited the area of present-day Oviedo, although the remains of their settlements have disappeared. Homesteaders arrived along the shores of Lake Jesup in 1865 just after the Civil War ended and began growing celery and citrus. The area was called the Lake Jesup Community until March 13, 1879, when postmaster Andrew Aulin, a Swedish immigrant, chose the name Oviedo.
Type
Still Image
Source
Original map by Willett Ad Maps: Private Collection of Sue Blackwood.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original map by Willett Ad Maps.
Coverage
Citizen's Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Saw and Mower, Oviedo, Florida
Meat World, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Body and Paint Shop, Oviedo, Florida
RCA C&R TV Sales and Services, Oviedo, Florida
Eileen's Creative Mud Ceramics, Oviedo, Florida
Albert's Jewelers, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Florists, Oviedo, Florida
Ci Gi's, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo Child Care Center, Inc., Oviedo, Florida
Cedar Chest of Fashion Fabrics, Oviedo, Florida
Publisher
Willett Ad Map
Contributor
Blackwood, Sue
Date Created
ca. 1974-1979-1978
Date Issued
ca. 1974-1979-1978
Format
image/jpg
Extent
473 KB
Medium
1 map
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by Willett Ad Map.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Willett Ad Map and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
Oviedo History Harvest
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=304" target="_blank">Dr. Connie L. Lester</a>'s Introduction to Public History course, Spring 2015
Curator
Dossie, Porsha
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of Sue Blackwood
External Reference
Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank"><em>Oviedo, Biography of a Town</em></a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979.
Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank"><em>Around Oviedo</em></a>. 2012.
"<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68.
"<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3" target="_blank">RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 41: Oviedo, with Dr. Richard Adicks</a>." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep41-Oviedo.mp3.
1st Street
2nd Street
3rd Street
4th Street
A. L. Yates, Jr.
Academy Street
Albert Cornelison
Albert's Jewelers
Allendale Drive
Altamonte Springs
art
Artesia Street
Ash Street
Audley Street
Auline Avenue
Austin Avenue
Avenue A
Avenue B
Avenue C
bank
banking industry
Bay Street
Beasley Road
Beech Street
Beverly Street
Big Tree
Bird Island
Bob Slaton
Boston Avenue
Boston Cemetery Road
Boston Street
Broadway Avenue
Broadway Street
Bumby View Drive
business
Cameron City
Canaan
Carib Lane
Carissa Lane
Carolyn Drive
Carver Avenue
Casselberry
Cedar Chest of Fashion Fabrics
Celery Avenue
Celery Circle
Central Avenue
ceramic
Chapel Street
Chapman Road
Ci Gi's
Citizens Bank of Oviedo
Citrus Avenue
Clark Street
Clonts Street
Colonial Drive
Crystal Avenue
Crystal Circle
Cypress Avenue
day care
Division Avenue
Dixie Gas Industries, Inc.
Doctor's Drive
Douglas Avenue
Downtown Oviedo
drug store
Eatonville
Eileen's Creative Mud Ceramics
Evans Street
Fairvilla
Faulk road
Fern Avenue
Fern Park
fertilizer
fertilizer industry
Field Street
First Street
Florida State Road 17-92
Florida State Road 415
Florida State Road 419
Florida State Road 420
Florida State Road 426
Florida State Road 431
Florida State Road 436
Florida State Road 46
Florida State Road 50
Florida Technological University
florist
Forest City
Forest Grove
Forest Trail
Fourth Street
Franklin Street
FTU
Gabriella
Garden Street
GE
General Electric
Geneva Drive
Goldenrod
Graham Avenue
H. P. Leu Botanical Gardens
Hamilton Avenue
hardware
Harrison Street
High Street
highway
hwardware industry
I-4
Interstate Highway 4
Italian
Jackson Street
Jamestown
jewelert
Kandel
Kimble Avenue
King Street
Kraft Azalea Gardens
Lake Charm
Lake Charm Circle
Lake Charm Drive
Lake Gem
Lake Hayes
Lake Hayes Road
Lake Jessup Avenue
Lake Mary
Lake Norma
Lake Road
Lake Rogers
Lake Rosa
Lawn Street
Lawton Avenue
Lee Avenuie
Lee Road
Lightwood Knot Canal
Lightwood Knot Creek
Lincoln Parkway
Lindsay Lane
Lingo Street
Little Econockhatchee Creek
Live Oak Lane
Long Lake
Longwood
Louise Avenue
Magnolia Street
Maitland
map
Maple Court
Mead Botanical Gardens
Mead Drive
meat
meat industry
Meat World
Middle Street
Midget City
Mimosa Trail
Mission Road
Mitchell Avenue
Mitchell Hammock Road
Muck Street
Myrtle Street
Naval Training Center Orlando
Nelson Hardware Store
Norma Avenue
Norwood Court
NTC Orlando
nursery
Nursery Street
Oak Circle
Oak Drive
Orange Avenue
Orangewood Drive
orlando
Orlando Sports Stadium
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Front
Oviedo
Oviedo Body and Paint Shop
Oviedo Child Care Center, Inc.
Oviedo Country Smoke House
Oviedo Drug Store
Oviedo Florists
Oviedo Saw and Mower
Oviedo Shopping Center
Palm Drive
Palm Way
Palmetto Street
Pemberton Street
Pembrple Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
pharmacy
Pine Avenue
Pine Street
Poulan
preschool
RCA
Red Bug Lake Road
Reed Road
restaurant
retail
Rich Drive
road
Rollings College
Rose Texaco
Round Lake
Ruth Street
Sanford
Sanford-Orlando Kennel Club
school
SCL
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Second Street
Shady Lane
Sharon Court
Slavia
Smith Street
Snapper
Southwood Court
SR 17-92
SR 415
SR 419
SR 420
SR 426
SR 431
SR 436
SR 46
SR 50
Stale Avenue
Stephen Avenue
street
Sweetwater Canal
Sylvan Lake
Tangerine Avenue
Taylor Street
Teleflora
television
Temple Terrace
Terrace Drivel Domer Street
Tesinsky Automotive
Third Street
Tomoka Drive
Tranquil Oaks Lane
True Value Hardware Stores
UCF
Union Park
University of Central Florida
Valenica Court
Vicki Vourt
Vine Street
Wagner
Washington Drive
Wekiwa Springs
Wheelco
Wheeler Fertilizer Company
Wilkerson Street
Willet Ad Maps
Winter Park
Wood Street
Woodcrest Circle
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Title
Rock Collection
Alternative Title
Rock Collection
Subject
Music--United States
Rock music--United States
Lakeland (Fla.)
Maitland (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of rock music in Central Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Rock music is uniquely American, emerging in the late 1940s and 1950s, with the influence of African-American blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and gospel, mixed with predominantly white country and Western swing music. This hybrid genre helped define a generation, breaking down color barriers in the South by merging African musical traditions with European instrumentation. The popularization of rock music coincided with the African-American Civil Rights Movement, which sought to end racial segregation and discrimination in the South. The sudden interest of white teens in black “race music” provoked a backlash among traditionalists and Americans found themselves in the middle of a “culture war.” The counterculture youth of the 1950s and 1960s rejected many of the mainstream cultural standards of their parents’ generation, especially in regards to race.
During the First and Second Great Migration of the 20th century, African Americans and whites began living in closer proximity to one another, more so than ever before, resulting in both races emulating the other’s style in fashion, art, and music. Rock music influenced the language, attitudes, ideas, and trends of a generation. The genre continued to evolve, incorporating new elements with each subsequent decade. During the 1960s, the subgenres of folk rock, jazz rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, glam rock, and progressive rock emerged. Musicians in the 1970s and 1980s created punk rock, Southern rock, heavy metal, new wave, and alternative rock. By the 1990s, artist continued to expand the genre by creating rap rock, reggae rock, grunge, and indie rock.
Florida has been at the heart of rock music and the “culture war” since the 1950s. The recording industry was actively making rock records in Tampa during the 1960s and in Miami during the 1970s. Gram Parsons, a native of Winter Haven, is credited as the father of the country rock movement of the late 1960s, and Southern rock emerged from Jacksonville during the 1970s and 1980s, with bands such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Outlaws, and Molly Hatchet. These contributions played an integral part in the history of rock music.
Contributor
Knickerbocker, Carl
Wahl, Julie
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Type
Collection
Coverage
Bob Carr Theater, Orlando, Florida
Enzian Theater, Maitland, Florida
Great Southern Music Hall, Orlando, Florida
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orange County Civic Center, Orlando, Florida
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Fern Park, Florida
Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, Florida
Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Altschuler, Glenn C. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51518334" target="_blank"><em>All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America</em></a>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Fisher, Marc. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69594101" target="_blank"><em>Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation</em></a>. New York: Random House, 2007.
Studwell, William E., and D. F. Lonergan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41090615" target="_blank"><em>The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s</em></a>. New York: Haworth Press, 1999.
Language
eng
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
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Title
Nazareth Tops Bill
Alternative Title
Nazareth Tops Bill
Subject
Music--United States
Rock music--United States
Description
A newspaper clipping about a concert featuring Nazareth with Mahogany Rush and Sammy Hagar (b. 1947) at the Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton in Fern Park, Florida. The concert took place on February 24, 1978, and was presented by Albert Promotions and FM 107. The ticket price was $6.50. This clipping contains a photograph of the members of Nazareth, from left to right, bottom to top: Darrell Sweet (1947-1999), Manny Charlton (b. 1941), Dan McCafferty (b. 1946), and Pete Agnew (b. 1946).<br /><br />Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton was built in 1962 and hosted concerts, graduations and events in addition to jai-alai matches, which remained popular through the mid-1980s, when its popularity began to decline. The building was rebranded Orlando Live Events (OLE) in 2014. It is located at 6405 South U.S. Route 17-92 (U.S. 17-92) in Fern Park.
Type
Text
Source
Original newspaper article: "Nazareth tops bill." February 24, 1978: Private Collection of Julie Wahl.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/142" target="_blank">Rock Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: "Nazareth tops bill." February 24, 1978.
Coverage
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Fern Park, Florida
Contributor
Wahl, Julie
Date Created
ca. 1978-02-24
Date Issued
ca. 1978-02-24
Format
image/jpg
Extent
113 KB
Medium
1 newspaper article
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Julie Wahl and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of Julie Wahl
External Reference
Comas, Martin E. "<a href="orlando-jai-alai-fronton-events-20131020_1_orlando-jai-alai-francisco-elorriaga-national-jai-alai-association" target="_blank">As sport declines, Orlando Jai-Alai adds movies, other events</a>." <em>The Orlando Sentinel</em>. (October 20, 2013). Accessed February 24, 2015. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-10-20/news/os-orlando-jai-alai-fronton-events-20131020_1_orlando-jai-alai-francisco-elorriaga-national-jai-alai-association.
Agnew, Pete
Albert Promotions
Altamonte Mall
Altamonte Springs
concert
concerts
Dan Cafferty
Darrell Anthony Sweet
Darrell Sweet
Fern Park
FM 107
funk rock
hard rock
heavy metal
Infinite Mushroom
Mahogany Rush
Manny Charlton
Manual Charlton
metal
Nazareth
OLE
orlando
Orlando Fashion Square
Orlando Live Events
Orlando-Seminole Jai-Alai Fronton
Pete Agnew
pop music
pop rock
psychedelic rock
rock music
Sammy Hagar
Samuel Roy Hagar
Southern Music Hall
William Daniel McCafferty
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Dublin Core
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Title
Rock Collection
Alternative Title
Rock Collection
Subject
Music--United States
Rock music--United States
Lakeland (Fla.)
Maitland (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of rock music in Central Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Rock music is uniquely American, emerging in the late 1940s and 1950s, with the influence of African-American blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and gospel, mixed with predominantly white country and Western swing music. This hybrid genre helped define a generation, breaking down color barriers in the South by merging African musical traditions with European instrumentation. The popularization of rock music coincided with the African-American Civil Rights Movement, which sought to end racial segregation and discrimination in the South. The sudden interest of white teens in black “race music” provoked a backlash among traditionalists and Americans found themselves in the middle of a “culture war.” The counterculture youth of the 1950s and 1960s rejected many of the mainstream cultural standards of their parents’ generation, especially in regards to race.
During the First and Second Great Migration of the 20th century, African Americans and whites began living in closer proximity to one another, more so than ever before, resulting in both races emulating the other’s style in fashion, art, and music. Rock music influenced the language, attitudes, ideas, and trends of a generation. The genre continued to evolve, incorporating new elements with each subsequent decade. During the 1960s, the subgenres of folk rock, jazz rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, glam rock, and progressive rock emerged. Musicians in the 1970s and 1980s created punk rock, Southern rock, heavy metal, new wave, and alternative rock. By the 1990s, artist continued to expand the genre by creating rap rock, reggae rock, grunge, and indie rock.
Florida has been at the heart of rock music and the “culture war” since the 1950s. The recording industry was actively making rock records in Tampa during the 1960s and in Miami during the 1970s. Gram Parsons, a native of Winter Haven, is credited as the father of the country rock movement of the late 1960s, and Southern rock emerged from Jacksonville during the 1970s and 1980s, with bands such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Outlaws, and Molly Hatchet. These contributions played an integral part in the history of rock music.
Contributor
Knickerbocker, Carl
Wahl, Julie
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Type
Collection
Coverage
Bob Carr Theater, Orlando, Florida
Enzian Theater, Maitland, Florida
Great Southern Music Hall, Orlando, Florida
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orange County Civic Center, Orlando, Florida
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Fern Park, Florida
Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, Florida
Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Altschuler, Glenn C. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51518334" target="_blank"><em>All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America</em></a>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Fisher, Marc. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69594101" target="_blank"><em>Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation</em></a>. New York: Random House, 2007.
Studwell, William E., and D. F. Lonergan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41090615" target="_blank"><em>The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s</em></a>. New York: Haworth Press, 1999.
Language
eng
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Nazareth Ticket Stub
Alternative Title
Nazareth Ticket
Subject
Music--United States
Rock music--United States
Description
A ticket stub for a concert featuring Nazareth at Orlando Seminole Jai-Alai Fonton in Fern Park, Florida. The opening bands were Mahogany Rush and Sammy Hagar (b. 1947). The concert took place on February 24, 1978, and was presented by Albert Promotions and FM 107. The ticket price was $6.50.<br /><br />Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton was built in 1962 and hosted concerts, graduations, and events in addition to jai-alai matches, which remained popular through the mid-1980s, when its popularity began to decline. The building was re-branded Orlando Live Events (OLE) in 2014. It is located at 6405 South U.S. Route 17-92 in Fern Park.
Type
Text
Source
Original ticket stub: Private Collection of Julie Wahl.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/142" target="_blank">Rock Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original ticket stub.
Coverage
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Fern Park, Florida
Contributor
Wahl, Julie
Date Created
ca. 1978-02-24
Date Issued
ca. 1978-02-24
Format
image/jpg
Extent
58.4
Medium
1 ticket stub
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Julie Wahl and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
Private Collection of Julie Wahl
External Reference
Hagar, Sammy, and Joel Selvin. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/641532203" target="_blank"><em>Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock</em></a>. New York: !t Books, 2011.
Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nazareth-mn0000377891/biography" target="_blank">Nazareth: Artist Biography</a>." AllMusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nazareth-mn0000377891/biography (accessed February 24, 2015).
Comas, Martin E. "<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-10-20/news/os-orlando-jai-alai-fronton-events-20131020_1_orlando-jai-alai-francisco-elorriaga-national-jai-alai-association" target="_blank">As sport declines, Orlando Jai-Alai adds movies, other events</a>." <em>The Orlando Sentinel</em>. (October 20, 2013). Accessed February 24, 2015. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-10-20/news/os-orlando-jai-alai-fronton-events-20131020_1_orlando-jai-alai-francisco-elorriaga-national-jai-alai-association.
Albert Promotions
concerts
Fern Park
FM 107
funk rock
hard rock
heavy metal
Mahogany Rush
Nazareth
orlando
Orlando Jai-Alai
Orlando Live Events
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton
Orlando-Seminole Jai-Alai Fronton
pop music
pop rock
psychedelic rock
Sammy Hagar
Samuel Roy Hagar
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Title
Seminole County Public Schools Collection
Alternative Title
SCPS Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Schools
High schools--Florida
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
Middle schools--Florida
Education--Florida
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the educational history of Seminole County, Florida. Items from this collection are donated by the Student Museum and UCF Public History Center.
The Student Museum has collaborated with the University of Central Florida and established the UCF Public History Center (PHC). All of the Student Museum's collections are presently housed at the PHC. The goal of the PHC is to promote access to history through ground-breaking research connecting local to global, provide cutting-edge hands-on educational programs for students and visitors, and to engage the community in contributing to and learning from history.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/31" target="_blank">Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Cameron City, Sanford, Florida
Crooms Academy, Goldsoboro, Sanford, Florida
Chuluota Primary School, Chuluota, Florida
East Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Forest City School, Forest City, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Fort Reed, Sanford, Florida
Gabriella Colored School, Gabriella, Oviedo, Florida
Geneva Colored School, Geneva, Florida
Geneva Elementary, Geneva, Florida
Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Goldsboro Primary School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Hungerford School, Florida
Kolokee, Geneva, Florida
Lake Howell High School, Winter Park, Florida
Lake Mary School, Lake Mary, Florida
Lake Monroe Colored School, Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Longwood School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman Elementary School, Longwood, Florida
Midway, Sanford, Florida
Osceola School, Osceola, Geneva, Florida
Oviedo Colored School, Curryville, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo School, Oviedo, Florida
Paola, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole County Public Schools, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
South Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
Wagner Colored School, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
West Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Wilson School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a><span>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a><span>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.</span>
Accrual Method
Donation
Document
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Title
Sanford Grammar School Faculty Directory, 1970
Alternative Title
Sanford Grammar School Faculty
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Education--Florida
Schools
Teachers--Florida
Description
The faculty directory for Sanford Grammar School. Originally established as Sanford High School, the main building was constructed at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida, in 1902. The building was designed by W. G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on the corner of East Ninth Street and South Palmetto Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. After a desperate need for an addition to the school developed, the city granted the school $75,000. The school's lunchroom was opened on October 10, 1921, after months of fundraising efforts hosted by the Woman's Club.<br /><br />In November 23, 1984, the main school building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. However, despite objections from the community, the lunchroom was demolished on September 25, 2008. The main school building reopened as the University of Central Florida's Public History Center in 2012.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original directory: Sanford Grammar Collection, Archives Box 4B, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Is Part Of
Sanford Grammar Collection, Archives Box 4B, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
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Cepero, Laura
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"<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a>"." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
"<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.
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Title
Altamonte Springs Collection
Alternative Title
Altamonte Collection
Subject
Altamonte Springs (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of Altamonte Springs, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
In 1870, Dr. Washington Kilmer of Cincinnati, Ohio, became the first Euro-American to settle in Altamont. In 1882, the area was renamed Altamonte Springs. The Altamonte Land, Hotel and Navigation Company was one of the major developers of the area. On November 11, 1920, residents voted in favor of incorporation.
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<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.altamonte.org/" target="_blank">Altamonte Springs, Florida</a>." Altamonte Springs, Florida. http://www.altamonte.org/.
Robison, Jim. <em><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49963391" target="_blank">Altamonte Springs</a></em>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.
Shofner, Jerrell H. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32274737" target="_blank"><em>A History of Altamonte Springs, Florida</em></a>. Altamonte Springs, Fla: City of Altamonte Springs in association with Tabby House Charlotte Harbor, Florida, 1995.
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
Motta, Daniel
Interviewee
Hattaway, Bob
Location
<a href="http://www.adulttoystorage.com/" target="_blank">Adult Toy Storage</a><span>, Altamonte Springs, Florida.</span>
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Title
Oral History of Bob Hattaway
Alternative Title
Oral History, Hattaway
Subject
Altamonte Springs (Fla.)
Ferns--Florida
Casselberry (Fla.)
Sanford (Fla.)
Zellwood (Fla.)
Oviedo (Fla.)
Airports--Florida
Description
An oral history of Bob Hattaway, conducted by Daniel Motta on June 14, 2012. Hattaway was born and raised in Altamonte Springs, Florida. In the interview, Hattaway discusses growing up in Altamonte Springs, working in the fern industry, his real estate and agricultural endeavors, his family's influence in Altamonte Springs and Casselberry, the greenhouse business, local politics, and the air travel industry.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:46 Altamonte Springs during Hattaway’s childhood
0:04:26 Hattaway’s father
0:05:36 Childhood memories working in the fields
0:08:27 Education
0:09:58 Life after high school
0:13:16 Rivalry between Seminole County and Volusia County
0:15:24 Decline of the fern industry
0:19:20 Fern industry in Zellwood and shift to the tropical plant business
0:23:24 Interest in agriculture
0:24:11 Influence of the Hattaway family on Altamonte Springs and Casselberry
0:25:51 The Casselberry family
0:29:14 Greenhouse business
0:34:25 Local politics and involvement in the air travel industry
0:42:30 Evolution of the fern industry
0:45:28 How Altamonte Springs has changed over time
Abstract
Oral history interview of Bob Hattaway. Interview conducted by Daniel Motta at the <a href="http://www.adulttoystorage.com/" target="_blank">Adult Toy Storage</a> in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
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Sound
Source
Original 49-minute and 20-second oral history:Hattaway, Bob. Interviewed by Daniel Motta. June 14, 2012. Audio record available. <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/118" target="_blank">Altamonte Springs Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Coverage
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Winter Park High School, Winter Park, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Oviedo, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Casselberry, Florida
Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida
Orlando-Sanford International Airport, Sanford, Florida
Opp, Alabama
Adult Toy Storage, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Creator
Motta, Daniel
Hattaway, Bob
Contributor
Vickers, Savannah
Date Created
2012-06-14
Date Modified
2014-12-10
Date Copyrighted
2012-06-14
Format
audio/mp3
application/pdf
Extent
498 MB
175 KB
Medium
49-minute and 20-second audio recording
22-page typed transcript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Economics Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Daniel Motta and Bob Hattaway, and transcribed by Savannah Vickers.
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Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
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Donation
Curator
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External Reference
"<a href="http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=2876&SessionId=50/" target="_blank">Representative Bob Hattaway</a>." Florida House of Representatives. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=2876&SessionId=50.
"<a href="http://www.altamonte.org/" target="_blank">Altamonte Springs, Florida</a>." Altamonte Springs, Florida. http://www.altamonte.org/.
Robison, Jim. <em><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49963391" target="_blank">Altamonte Springs</a></em>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.
Shofner, Jerrell H. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32274737" target="_blank"><em>A History of Altamonte Springs, Florida</em></a>. Altamonte Springs, Fla: City of Altamonte Springs in association with Tabby House Charlotte Harbor, Florida, 1995.
Transcript
<p><strong>Motta<br /></strong>This is Daniel Motta.I am interviewing Mr. Bob Hattaway at his business, Adult Toy Storage, in Altamonte Springs.To start, Mr. Hattaway, could you tell me where you were born?</p>
<p><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I was born in the city of Altamonte Springs in 1936, which today, the location is on Lake Orienta, which at one time was called Orienta Ferneries, later in years.And the Hattaway family lived on that property for a number of years, probably 30 years, or something.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So you were born on the property?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I was born on the property, yeah.At that time, when I was born, 1936, a lot of people did not go to hospitals.They couldn’t afford it.So I was born at home.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And could you tell me a little about the neighborhood, the house, property?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>The property, basically—it was 150 acres of property.Thirty acres of the property was into a fernery slat shed growing tropical foliage and plants, mostly <em>asparagus plumosus</em> fern, and then another fern called leatherleaf fern, which came on in a later date, which became very popular in the flower industry.But we were growing plants and flowers and a lot of different products back at that time, to sell.So it was a very rural area.Altamonte Springs had one road leading in and one road leading out, and it was Highway 436 [Florida State Road 436].If you wanted to go shopping, you would get on 436 and travel [US Route] 17-92 to Downtown Orlando, because there were no stores in Altamonte Springs, or Casselberry.You had to go to Orlando to shop.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And I imagine 436 looked a lot different then.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah, 436 was probably a two-lane road, and going through the middle of Altamonte Springs was a four-lane road divided in the middle by two very large rows of oak trees, from about where the Altamonte Mall is today, all the way to the railroad track in Altamonte Springs.That’s going from west to the east.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Were any of these paved roads?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It was paved, yeah.Sometimes.But Maitland Avenue also was there, which was a two-lane road itself.But very rural.I mean, there was really nothing out here.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And you said, on the property, only part of it was ferns?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.Of the hundred acres, a lot of it, 30-something acres of it was slat shed fern itself, and the other was open fields, and we were growing <em>plumosus</em> or <em>podocarpus</em>, and were using that.We’d grow the podocarpus and cut that as cuttings and ship that to the northern market, to flower shops as well.So, and everything at that time, back when the fern business back in the [19]50s, and [19]60s, most of the freight was moved by rail, and not by truck.So there was a big depot in Altamonte Springs, and the depot itself, the major portion of it, was people like us—Hattaways, Casselberrys, Vaughns, etc.—shipping boxes and boxes and boxes of cut fern to the northern market, to flower shops.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And that would all take place here, or would it go to Sanford first, and go from there?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Just directly?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>There was a direct stop in Altamonte Springs and a direct stop in Casselberry, and also a direct stop in Longwood and Maitland.So they were little whistle stops, but most of the time they were stopping to pick up a product, like the fern product, and then some passengers.But there were no 7-Elevens, and there was absolutely nothing out here at that particular point in time.Not any tourists as well.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>About how many families lived in this area, you think?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Well, you know, on the Orienta Fernery side, which was known as the Royal Ferneries at one time, there were probably—it was a housing development there, row houses for the migrant workers, or the workers, to live on the premise and work there, and [inaudible] 40-something houses with a church, [inaudible] on Hattaway Drive today, this long, long, long, then gone?.But they provided housing for people, and they were not great to live in and to be able to work.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And did your father build the houses and the church?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No, those were built back in the—golly.My father went in, they bought from Hibbard Casselberry, 1951.They bought what at that time they called the Royal Ferneries, and they bought that from Hibbard, and Hibbard bought it, I think, in 1946—‘45.And then my father worked for Mr. Casselberry, and my grandfather worked for Mr. Casselberry, and my two uncles, also, worked for Mr. Casselberry. All of them in stooped labor, cutting ferns by hand and taking it to the packinghouses, and then being able to ship the product to the northern market.And there were no Kmarts, and there were no big Walmarts, and those kind of things.Flower shops were flourishing.That was the mainstay of the fern business at that time, corsages and bouquets and things of that nature.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So what year did you say your father procured the property?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>He bought the property from Hibbard in 1951.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. So, when you were born, he was working in the industry?He just didn’t…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway <br /></strong>He was working with Mr. Casselberry.Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. And what were your experiences like as a child? Did you also have any contact with—did you work in fields at all?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yes, yes.Oh, yeah<em>[laughs]</em>. Those were wonderful moments.<em>[laughs]</em></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Could you tell me a little about them?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Out there with stooped labor, working in the—I would work in the summer months when I was out of school, high school and grammar school.I would pull weeds in the fernery.And they would hire a lot of young people like myself at that time—ten, twelve years old.And our job was—the fernery was full of weeds of various kinds, and so we’d line up ten, fifteen, or twenty of us in rows.We’d go down through and pull the weeds out of each row.That was a terrible job.I knew when that was happening I didn’t want to stay in the nursery business, or fern business.I darn sure didn’t want to be a stooped laborer in the field.But that’s where my family came from.I mean, they worked for every Casselberry.And Hibbard brought my grandfather and my father both out of the fernery, out of the field, and put my grandfather in charge of the fernery over[?]—which was the Royal Fernery at that time, Casselberry Ferneries as well—and put my grandfather in charge of that side of the fernery, and then my father went over to the main plant over in the middle of Casselberry, and he became the main foreman over there, in an office, working for Mr. Casselberry.And so Mr. Casselberry brought him out of the field, very little education, and put him in charge of a number of people.At that time, you know, back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, the fern business, it was a big business, and they were employing probably two, three hundred people.So it was a lot of people depending on the Casselberrys and the Foleys[?] in the fern business at that time as well.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So when you were in the fields doing that work that you loved so much, were you paid for that, or was that just something expected of you?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Oh, yeah.Yeah, we got paid for it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Do you remember…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Twenty-five cent an hour.And I was, you know—I’ve always loved to work.That’s been my mainstay, and I’ve got great work habits.And I think most people back then did.I’m not sure what they have today.I know it’s not as good as it was back then.But Mr. Casselberry provided a lot of employment for young people when school was out, that they could work during the summer.And pulling those weeds was part of what you did.And I would get out, and we’d help with the repair of the slat sheds, repairing the irrigation systems, just to keep the fernery back in good repair, so we could grow the fern itself.But it’s hard work.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>I’d imagine.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>But, you know, I did that every summer.When I got out of school, the following week I’d be working in the field.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Could you tell me a little about where you went to school?Did you—high school, or did you go to college after?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Sure.I went to Lyman High School, grades one through twelve.I went to Winter Park High School the 10th grade to the 11th grade, and then came back to Lyman for the 12th grade itself.So I was actually grade one through ten at Lyman High School, the old school.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>It wasn’t called Lyman High School then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It was called Lyman High School, yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>But it was one through twelve?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway </strong>One through twelve, yeah.There were, when I graduated, in 1954—’55 there were twelve boys and one girl in my class.Thirteen class.And the class behind us, I think, had 25.So it was a very small school back then, and grade one was, you know—all the way through.And I think they stopped that just before—no, it was still going on in 1955.It was still grade one through twelve, I think, at that time.But Lyman today is probably graduating one thousand kids at one whack.And you got Oviedo, and etc., etc.Great changes, but, you know, we had small classes.Probably the max in a class was 20, 25.Teachers were very personal.Teachers knew us all, and it turned out, had a good education.When I graduated from Lyman, I think there was only two people in our class went to college, and the rest of us went into the work field.And I immediately, when I graduated, I started buying real estate, starting my own fernery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Graduated from high school?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah, high school.I didn’t go to college. Didn’t go to college.And I was working—I got a job in Winter Garden with Continental Can Company, and they were making small cans to put orange juice into, frozen orange juice, and that was a—you’d put three cups of water with it…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>The concentrate?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Concentrate, and do all those.I worked there at night, the night shift from 3:30 ‘til 12:00 or something of that nature.And then during the day, I bought a piece of property in Oviedo on Chapman Avenue[sic], and built my first nursery under oak trees.And I started my own business back in 1956—I guess ’57, ’58, something like that.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Where did you say the canning company was?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway <br /></strong>Continental Can Company.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Where was that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>In Winter Garden.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, okay.So those…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It was a big canning company.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Pretty far from each other, the two?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I’m sorry?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>The two jobs you had were pretty far from each other.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.Yeah.One was working in the can company, the other was working in the field, in a nursery.And started my own place.I bought an oak tree hammock.And we’d found by that time, in the nursery business, in the fern business, that slat sheds were very expensive, and you couldn’t keep them up because of cost, wood rot, and it became—they were falling down.So, we started…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>How often do you have to replace those?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Oh, you were constantly working on the building, on the fields themselves, and you’re talking about 30 acres of slat shed.Just slats are, you know, four inches wide.And sometimes they would kind of fall down.If you’re tall like I am, you’d run into a slat and hit your head and etc.So we went from the slat sheds into buying oak tree hammocks, and putting fern under the oak tree hammocks.And we also started planting in the ferneries—the old ferneries, oak trees inside of the fernery itself—to grow up through the slat sheds for shade.You were looking for a certain amount of shade.And so we started that, and that’s where the slat sheds kind of disappeared, and everybody, especially Mr. Casselberry, his whole side was nothing but oak trees.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, really?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>The side we had, and my father and grandfather had, over on Orienta Fernery side, they planted orange trees, which was a really, really smart move, because they always had orange trees—they also had the product of fern under that.The problem was, when they planted the orange trees, they budded the orange tree to Valencia, navels, or whatever it’s going to be.When they sprayed the orange tree spray on the fern, to kill worms, etc., it killed the buds on all the orange trees.Ended up with 25 acres of sour orange trees, and there’s not a lot of market for sour orange trees.So it was just a good concept, but it didn’t work.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So, by that time, there was pretty much the natural solution of replacing the slats with the trees?Like, is that what all the fern owners pretty much moved to?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.Yeah.Everybody was doing that.Everybody was doing that.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Fern business was big not only here in Central Florida, in the Orlando area, Altamonte Springs, Casselberry, Fern Park, but it was big up in Crescent City and Pierson, which it still is today.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It’s the mainstay up there as well.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Was there any kind of rivalry between, like, here and Volusia County?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Oh, yeah.Oh my god.Yeah.Yeah.They would—and I’ve heard my father talk about the stories that the price of the ferns had become very cheap—and so the industry got together and met someplace up in DeLand or something, some little community, with the main growers all meeting at one concept.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Woman<br /></strong>Excuse me, do you need anything before I go to lunch?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No, I’m good.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Unidentified<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I’m good.They all went back to discuss the pricing, and I guess they were trying to do what you’d call the price fixing.But the typical agriculture business, they all got together, they all decided, shook hands, and this is what we’re gonna charge to the fern.All of them couldn’t wait to run back to the phone and call their customers in Chicago[, Illinois] or New York or where it is, and say, “Hattaway’s going up on the price of his fern by three cent.I’m gonna stay the same price” or “I’m gonna drop the price.”It never worked.And so they cut their throat time and time again.But there was great rivalry, especially, that I’m familiar with, between the Barnetts, the Casselberrys, the Vaughns.And there was a rivalry there because Mr. Casselberry started the tax-free town of Casselberry, and the Barnetts were a big, very wealthy family, had a lot of ferneries in the Fern Park, Casselberry area, and they didn’t like Mr. Casselberry, because he was so aggressive, and he was a new guy in town.And they got into a hell of a rivalry.So it was always a shootout.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And the Vaughns, you said?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Vaughns.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>They were also in Seminole County already.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>That’s right.Yeah.They were up in Casselberry—which you would never say “Casselberry,” you would say “Fern Park”—which today is the location of the Home Depot.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Near Lake Concord?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>On 17-92 and Concord.That area.So yeah, there was a real rivalry going on between the small families with the Casselberrys.And those three, those were the three players.So.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>And this was like the ‘50s, early ‘60s?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah, ‘40s and ‘50s.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So when did the fern industry kind of start slowing down, in the area?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Oh, god.My father—I read this this morning—and it had so many ups and downs that I wasn’t even aware of—when I read his notes.And the, you know, just the price of fuel became so high, and labor became so expensive, that we really saw it when my father bought the place in 1951 from Hibbard, like 130 acres, Orienta Ferneries.He, within five years, was subdividing the fernery.And he became involved in real estate, which was a really smart move.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And these, the plots, were they designed for the houses and also, like, partially for ferns?Like, if somebody wanted to grow, like, a little on the side…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No. That was way before that ever happened.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>That was a lot of little nurseries that were back in the ‘20s and ‘30s.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So this was purely real estate?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah. purely real estate.Yeah.He started taking the fernery, which had a hundred and some odd acres, and started selling the land off itself to people that wanted to move.By this time, Altamonte Springs and Casselberry and the community started growing, and so people were starting to migrate, if you want to say that, from Orlando out into the country.And we were selling real estate lots on Lake Orienta—that was a fernery—and we took some of the slat sheds down and were selling real estate lots 100 feet wide, anywhere from 250 to 300 feet deep, for $2,000, for a lot, on paved road.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Around what year was this?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>In the ‘50s—’58, somewhere along there, ’57, ’58.That area where Hattaway Drive is today, that drive that was all Orienta Ferneries, all the property that my father bought from Mr. Casselberry.But he went in like Hibbard.Hibbard went into the real estate business big time.He had a lot of land.And he saw the handwriting on the wall itself.The fern business was just not thriving.There was—and, a lot of artificial stuff coming down the line.People were using <em>podocarpus</em>.People were using [?], using a lot of fillers instead of using the fern.It was cheaper to buy a filler and put inside, in that corsage, for the price.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh.I was about to ask what were some of the reasons it kind of went down.That was pretty much just the artificial—were other parts of the country…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It wasn’t artificial, then.It was just shrubs and things they were cutting that they could stick into a bouquet of flowers.Bouquet of flowers won’t last, you know, a week, four or five days.So they could take <em>sphagnum</em> moss, or they could take a <em>ligustrum</em>, or something that’s leafy and green, and put it in a corsage at a cheaper rate than they could a sprig of fern, or a sprig of leatherleaf fern.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>But if people did want those kind of ferns, were they still dependent on this area, or were there other parts of the country, do you know of?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Not from what I remember.It was mainly this area, plus the Pierson-Crescent City area, that was the mainstays.Later on, it became, everybody started to go off—not everybody.Several of the nurserymen started going off to Costa Rica and islands, and growing fern down there.In fact, one of the largest growers, probably still today, moved from Zellwood.Name was John Marcell.He moved to Costa Rica, and the last I heard, and I haven’t seen John in a long time, he had over 1,000 acres of saran shade cloth, growing leatherleaf fern, and ferns shipping all over the world.Actually, I’ve been told he controls the fern market in Costa Rica.This[?] big.<em>[laughs]</em></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Was Zellwood into the fern industry, or were they in other agriculture?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>And actually Zellwood was—it was a small little town, still today.Marcell was the main grower at that time of leatherleaf fern.Went over to Lockhart, there was another grower over there, name of Joe Wofford, and he had a small fernery, probably ten or fifteen acres.He was growing leatherleaf fern.And Apopka itself had started transitioning over from the fern business—the Ustlers, Mahaffeys—golly, some other families there.But they were more into the tropical foliage business, and growing—building—greenhouses, taking slat sheds and growing tropical plants, which were now becoming very popular.So they shifted from the fern business over to the tropical plant business.And I shifted, also.I saw the handwriting on the wall.The one I built over in Oviedo, myself, it was only small as ten acres.But I sold that to another fernery guy out of Crescent City, took the money of that and started buying property in Altamonte Springs, off Hattaway Drive, and built my first greenhouses.And I went in the greenhouse business.So I shifted from the fern business over to the tropical foliage business.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>More broad[sic].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah. broader opportunity of selling to a greater amount of people.And my first greenhouse I built was out of used lumber, and I took a saw mill myself, and cut the two-by-fours and four-by-fours out of used lumber, and built my first building, which was 30 feet wide and a hundred feet long, which I have pictures of it there.And, gosh, over the years, became a pretty good size.<em>[laughs]</em></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And where did you say this first one was?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It was over just off of Hattaway Drive there in Altamonte Springs.Small place.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.So how long were you—your property in Chapman, you said it was on Chapman Road?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.I was over there—I was in Chapman, probably, I had that nursery probably ten years.A good while, long enough that I’d made enough money working at night.At the Continental Can Company, they were paying me union wages, and I never joined the union.But I was making big bucks, and I was able to buy the land and do the things I’d need to do to get a business going.And it was pretty successful, but when I had the opportunity of selling that property to another person, then take that money and come back over into Altamonte, and go into a different business—although I was still in the agriculture business, it was a good shift.I ended up—well, the fernery there had 20 acres there on Hattaway Drive, and greenhouses—had probably ten acres of greenhouses there.And grew there for a number of years.To build the buildings, [?], build the buildings, I was—to get the lumber for that place—I was going, also to get the used lumber, I was going up and down the railroad tracks.They were taking down power poles and telephone poles, and I would cut the telephone poles and take the arms.At that time, they had arms going out with wires on them, and those were like three-by-fours, and they were like eight feet long, and I would use those for posts, as I gathered used stuff to build my whole nursery.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Were they just, like, the ones that they left there?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Was it okay that you took those?<em>[laughs]</em></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah. definitely.They knew I was doing it.They were taking them down.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And, so, you pretty much built all those house, the original houses, yourself?It sounds like you’re a jack of all trades.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway</strong>I am. <em>[laughs]</em></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did you enjoy the growing aspect?Like, did you have a green thumb, or was it like…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did you enjoy the business?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I enjoyed the business, and I definitely did not have a green thumb.But I enjoyed the business, and I didn’t know anything else.What else could a guy do?There wasno—there was nothing out here.You either worked for the Hattaways, you worked for the Vaughns, you worked for the Casselberrys, or you worked for the Bradshaws in the grove business.This was agriculture community.There was nothing to do.Or, work at the dog track, something like that.So it was, you know—happy as a pig in slop.<em>[laughs] </em>What else can you do?This is what it is.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>This might be going back a little bit, but did your family have any influence on early Altamonte Springs, like developing and like with the government?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No, my father did.He was elected a constable.He worked for Hibbard.And when Hibbard incorporated the City of Casselberry—I’ve heard my mother and father talk about that the night that they did the incorporation, they had a town hall meeting before it was ever incorporated in Mr. Casselberry’s office.There was a—had to have a certain amount of people in the meeting to have a quorum and to be able to appeal to the legislature for incorporation.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And this—as a town?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>As a town.As a town.And they didn’t have four[?] people…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>This was around 1940?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>In the room, so my father left the meeting, went home—we lived on Concord Drive—and brought my mother to the meeting, and she voted, and that’s how, that was part of the process of incorporating the City of Casselberry.My father was elected in 1941 as the first constable of the City of Casselberry.And it was a, I guess, kind of a window-dressing job, but he was constable for eleven years in the City of Casselberry.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And that’s kind of like the police chief of the town?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>That’s right.Yeah.He was the police chief.<em>[laughs] </em>I don’t think he even had a badge.<em>[laughs] </em>But that’s old time there.</p>
<p class="Body">Yeah.But you know, again, you know, this was small town, U.S.A.Hibbard would have—and I can remember this so well—he would, at Christmas time, he would have a big Christmas party on the front lawn of the offices, and for all the employees that worked for Mr. Casselberry, his entire operation.And he would get every kid a gift at Christmas time.And this was black, white, whatever it was be.He would always throw this big Christmas party.Big deal.You’d either get a knife or get a yo-yo or something like that.<em>[laughs] </em>But, and he was quite a—he was a good man.A lot of people, you know, just—vision, had great vision.And smart, wasn’t hard to talk to.He was a young man at that time.He was just good to us.He was very good for the community.Barnetts won’t tell you that.And the Vaughns won’t tell you that.But the Hattaways damn sure will tell you that real quick.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did you know Mr. Casselberry personally, as a young man?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Mm-hm.Yeah.I knew him.He, and especially Leonard [Casselberry]. I don’t know if you’ve interviewed Leonard, Jane [Casselberry]?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Yeah. about a week or two ago.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Leonard used to come to my mother and father’s house, and Leonard would love to read comic books.<em>[laughs] </em>He—he wasn’t too energetic.<em>[laughs] </em>But he would come in and read the comic books, and Jane—they lived over off of the old race track road [Dog Track Road], at the horse track.He probably told you that’s what they built there, as well.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Yeah.Was knowing the founder and, I guess, owner at that time of Casselberry, was that like a—in this year, that seems kind of, like, strange, or maybe not strange, but—was it, did it seem like a big deal, or was he just like any normal citizen?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No. It was—to the normal person, it was probably a big deal.But because my father worked for him, and with him, I would go into my father’s office, and Mr. Casselberry’s office was right there.And he had a big picture window that he could look out into my father’s office, and then be able to look out into the grading there.They graded fern—longs, shorts, mediums, whatever you were looking for in the size of fern to ship.And, you know, he was just there all the time.He had a—I can remember so well—he had a big, big tarpon fish mounted in his office in back there.He would go to—my father, in fact, I’ve seen some pictures of him—he would go to the flower shows in Chicago or New York, where they might be, and Martha [Casselberry], his wife at that time—he married three times—Martha would wear, he would wear white riding pants—horses, cows?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Mm-hm.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>And boots, real knee boots up there.With a big coat on.All in white.And a fern spray on this thing.Promoter.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Yeah. representing his…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.He was a promoter, as well.Promoted, and he had a knack about doing that, much better than the Vaughns and the Barnetts, as well.But, yeah, he was a good man.I can’t tell you that enough times.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So you started getting into the nursery, would it be considered nursery business or the greenhouse…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Greenhouses.Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>How long were you involved with that before you looked more towards retail?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I started in the fern business when I got out of high school, 1954-55.I was in the fern business by 1960, with the fernery over in Chapman Avenue in Oviedo.And then started the first greenhouses and then grew that business.And I went out of the business in 1988, of the foliage business.So I graduated, basically, from the fern business over to the foliage, from the foliage into the foliage business itself.Ended up with this place, which is 500,000 square feet of what was greenhouses.But I built steel structure buildings, I told you.And today it’s now the steel structure buildings that are storing boats, cars, and recreational vehicles.1974-75, I bought a farm in Puerto Rico, and I started out with thirty, three thousand, building 3,000 square feet—300—yeah, 3,000, 30-feet wide and 100-feet long.And I bought a farm in Puerto Rico that was 80 hectares of greenhouses.And I was shipping fern or foliage plants from Puerto Rico, by sea freight, to Europe.So I moved from 33,000 square feet, to a farm here, and a farm in Puerto Rico.And I farmed in Puerto Rico, foliage plants, for twenty years, twenty-two years.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did you sell that land, or still…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah, I did.I sold it.I sold it.I wanted to go out of the nursery business.My brother, and then, by then graduated from University of Florida, had a degree in horticulture, and he wanted the nursery in Puerto Rico, so I sold the nursery to him in Puerto Rico.And he farmed in Puerto Rico for, I don’t know, another eight,-nine years.And we had three major hurricanes hitting back to back.First time we had insurance.We rebuilt.Second time, had insurance.Insurance company went belly up, and we rebuilt.And the third time, we said, “That’s it.”And we sold it.And then I was here all the time, and I just started converting all the buildings over to what you see today.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So about what time did you decide you wanted to get out of that business?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>1988.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.I already had another vision, what you see today.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Works out for you.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah, it worked out.Yes.Yeah.It really—what was my whole plan at that time, was—I had roughly 30 acres here—was to add on a trailer park in front of me, which today is a public shopping center.And I was trying to buy their property, and I wanted to build a big industrial park, 40-45-acre industrial park.And I couldn’t buy that trailer park, and made them some ridiculous offers.I’m glad they didn’t take it, ‘cause the market went to hell in a handbag.I ended up, you know, basically looking at what they were doing, and I said, “If they will pay $35.00 a month to park a boat outside in an open field, with grass and grasshoppers, what will they pay to put it inside the building?”And from there, you know, it grew from there.So, in 1988, I was in the foliage business.In 2012, I’m now in the storage business.And the place is doing fairly well.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>That sounds like a pretty brilliant idea, just converting the fields to this.Do you know if any other growers have took that...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No, no.They can’t.They all built buildings that were not convertible.They couldn’t do what I did.In fact, I saw Earl Vaughn two weeks ago. Had a funeral up in Apopka, and went over and we were talking—and I know Earl.Great guy.I like Earl.I don’t know if you’ve met him or not.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>You need to meet him.You need to meet Earl Vaughn.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>I would love to.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Vaughn Greenhouses.They’re in the book.He’s no longer in the foliage business, but he has a farm, a foliage place up on [Florida State Road] Highway 46 up in Sanford.And saw him, and I said something, and he said, “Hattaway, what you did is brilliant.”He said, “I’ve been trying to do the same thing, except I can’t get my zoning.I’m in the Wekiva [River] Protection Area.”And so, he can do nothing other than what he’s doing.So, you know, fortunately, when I started building the buildings, I then started working politically to change the zoning on this place.And so I did it back early.If I tried to do it today, I’d probably never get it done.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Are you still involved in local politics?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /> </strong>I just write checks.<em>[laughs]</em></p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong><em>[laughs] </em>Well…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>No, I’m still involved.I have a lot of friends in the political scene.I help them.You know, I served eight years in the [Florida] Legislature.Loved it, and had fun with it.Eight years at Orlando International Airport.That’s a full-time, non-paid political job, and did that for eight years.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And what was your—for the airport, what was your…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I was the—actually, I was chairman for four years, and vice chairman for two years, and on the board for eight.And the governor appointed me.Lawton Chiles appointed me.And so, I served there, and when I went on the board, there was $10 million worth of construction going at the Orlando International Airport.When I left, eight years later—yeah, eight years later it was—it was $500 million worth of construction going.And they had another $500 million committed to build the south terminal, and the new board decided that they didn’t want to do that, and so the new board today is trying to figure out how they can get the money to build the south terminal for international rivals.And, you know, that was a group of Democrats—John Rich, Bill Miller, Howard McNelty, myself—four really strong Democrats.We got in and got aggressive, said, “This place is gonna grow.”And we went from 22 million passengers—eight years later, it was like 31 million passengers.That’s growth.And all we did, we went out and started marketing the Orlando International Airport, as a board, as a group of people, with the mayor of Orlando, Linda Hood, and the county chairman, Linda Chapin.And we were a hell of a team, and we moved around this country, all around this world, basically.And brought airlines in, British Airlines[sic], Southwest [Airlines], Virgin [Atlantic].Those were all new carriers that came in that eight-year period of time.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Were you involved in the [Orlando-] Sanford [International] Airport or the…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>That was my first venture.Back when we did that one, Kay Shoemaker was the chairman, and John—what was the name—Steve, he was the executive director.I can’t think of his last name now.But he came to me, I was a new board member, and he said, “You know, we need to go after international passengers for the Sanford airport.”So we went to Kay Shoemaker and talked Kay into letting us fly, I think it was, Toronto, Canada.And the concept that Steve had—and I was just the baggage, went along with him—that we need to go to Holiday Travel, and talk to them about direct flights from Toronto to Sanford, and not from Toronto to Orlando.And we met with the Holiday Travel, they thought it was a good idea, and he was very much in favor of it, but the issue was that the travel time coming from the Sanford Airport to [Walt] Disney [World], you didn’t have the 414, I think it is, or 4…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh,[State Road] 408, [State Road] 417?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>417, yeah, coming across the lake.You didn’t have that segment built, and, so, that was a stopping point.When that segment was built, Holiday Travel and a lot of those guys started flying into Sanford, and bypassing Orlando.Well, in the meantime, I moved from the Sanford Airport board, over to the Orlando Airport.<em>[laughs] </em>So, it was quite a conflict there for a while.<em>[laughs] </em>And Larry Dale—and I don’t know if you know Larry—but Larry Dale and I had some real knockdowns and drag-outs about the airports.He’s the executive director of the Sanford Airport.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, yeah?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah.Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>I’m curious how you, how did you even get involved with the airport, like the industry?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>The governor.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>The governor.Yeah, I—when Lawton was elected—Lawton Chiles—I’d been in the Legislature.I knew him very well, and I worked with him for his election.And he was elected.He appointed me to the lottery commission.I didn’t believe in the lottery.I didn’t like the lottery.When it was approved, I was in the Legislature.I voted against it.And was opposed against it then, and Lawton told me, said, “I want you to be on that board.You’re the first Democrat to be appointed, and I want to get rid of the executive director.”I forget her name.She was really good, too.But he wanted to get rid of her and he wanted to change the entire board.He wanted to make changes.And so, I did that for a couple of years.And I was tired of it, and finally we just got enough Democrats on the board that I went to the governor, said, “I’m out of here.I don’t want to do this anymore.”In the meantime, when that happened, the [Greater Orlando] Aviation Authority thing came up available in Orlando, and I was supporting a Republican, Sue [inaudible] was her name, and Sue wanted to be appointed to the board.And I went to the governor to appoint her from Seminole County, and the governor says, “No, I’m not going to appoint a Republican.But I will appoint you if you want to take the job.”So I said, “Well, okay. I’ll do it.”</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did you have an interest in air travel?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Yeah, I did, because of Sanford.And I knew that it was a very, very important job.The Orlando International Airport is the economic engine that really runs this community today.And the things they’ve accomplished, and the size of the airport.This is number one around the state of Florida, certainly, that I enjoyed that.But I did, I was able to go into that segment having eight years in Tallahassee being a legislator, that I knew a little bit about politics, and I knew that a lot of my newfound friends that I found in Tallahassee, of eight years, when I was no longer elected, they didn’t know my first name or my last name.And when I was appointed to the Aviation Authority in Orlando, I told my wife, Charlotte, I said, “This is altogether different.We’re going to have a lot of brand new friends, and they’re going to love us for eight years.And when we’re gone, they won’t know our name.So we’re gonna do this different.We’re gonna do what the hell we want to do, and we’re gonna do the things that we think are right, and eight years from now, we’ll be good.”And that’s how we prefaced that.So it was fun.It was, like I said, it was a full-time—as a chairman—non-paid, political job.But would I do that again?Probably not.It was the right time.You know, I’ve been very fortunate that I’ve lived at the right time, when things were just starting to peak or things were really going smoothly, and everybody was getting along.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>It seems like you’ve always been able to do what makes you happy.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I’ve been lucky.You’ll never sit across the table from a more blessed, lucky guy than me.Life has been good.With high school education, I’ve competed with all of them.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Work ethic.Whistling[?] away[?].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It’s worked out, worked out fine.<em>[laughs] </em>So, and I laugh about. In fact, I’ve brought my report cards in today for some reason, and I looked at those report cards, looking through stuff, and I said, “Man, I was a straight-F student.”<em>[laughs] </em>So, but, it’s been fun.Life’s been good, been good.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>I wanted to ask you, for the Sanford Airport, when did that start becoming—when was it under construction?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>It was, you know, it was a naval base [Naval Air Station Sanford], and then they converted over into a commercial airport, and I don’t remember the years.But I was on that board—phew.It wasn’t in the—must have been in the late ‘70s when they started converting it over.Yeah, I can’t remember the dates on that one.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So, did—it might have been the fern industry—I mean, it might have been kind of already low at that time, but was there any kind of transition?‘Cause you said the railroads, in the early days, that was like the artery.Was there, like, did the airports start to be more of a central thing with transportation?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>With ferns, no.No.With the fern business, it became trucks.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Everybody moved from the—we did some air freight, not a lot.Most of it was done by—the whole industry changed from trains and rail over to the trucking industry.So there was a—trucking lines were moving strictly either foliage plants or ferns by truck itself to the destination.The fern business itself—the labor, cost of labor, the cost of materials, the cost of land—all those things just became cost-prohibited to be able to do anything with it.You asked a question earlier about, you know, do I miss it?I loved the plant business.I really enjoyed it, and still today would like to be in the business, except I know I can’t make any money at it.And I’m not gonna fool around with something I can’t make money at as well.But, you know, the guys in Apopka and the guys that been in the fern business, and growing something, you know, a plant or product, I think they all will tell you, you know, it’s just a great place to—it’s a fun thing to do.And it’s really rewarding to put a little plant on a stem into a piece of <em>sphagnum</em> moss, and grow it to a finished product, and ship it.If I had a nickel for every plant that I’ve grown, I’d be a very wealthy man.Rick [Hattaway] enjoyed it.My brother enjoyed it very much.And I kept telling him, “You don’t want to go into the greenhouse business.You want to stay out of it.”My mother told me that as well.But, you know, he followed the family trade and did that as well.But, it’s a good life.It’s a good opportunity.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>That whole watching something grow, that seems almost kind of like a good metaphor for your, all your business [inaudible].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong><em>[laughs ] </em>Yeah.Yeah.I read an article today, an old one, gosh, about when I developed that orange grove over there, and it was—Phil [inaudible] was the city manager.It was quoting him about what I was doing over there, and how I environmentally was taking care of Lake Lotus, and all the things I did back then.But, you know, to see the growth, or where we were back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, and where we are today, people have opportunities.There were no opportunities when I was growing up.Either you worked in a fernery or you worked in an orange grove.There wasn’t high school education.People weren’t going to college.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>You had to find your own…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>You had to find your own, you had to make your own way at that particular point in time.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Since you brought that up, I’m curious what you think about how this area—I probably can’t imagine what it was like when you were a kid.What do you think?How do you think it’s progressed?Are you…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>I’m for growth.I’m growth.Opportunities.I mean, I had a farm, sold it a couple years ago up in Alabama, little town called Opp, Alabama.And it was heavy agriculture, farming area.And today—Opp, Alabama—you can take a shotgun down the main street and not hit a soul.There’s just nothing to do there.And that’s the way it was here.The growth has been really, really, to me, healthy.It’s been giving good opportunities to people having good jobs.Our way of life—there are no poor people in this community today.You see some not as well off as others, but everybody either has a television, or everybody has food on the table.Everybody has an opportunity to make something of themselves, you see, if they want to take that opportunity.And back then, there was no opportunities.You had to make it yourself.And today there’s many doors open for employment, and it’s not all agriculture.At that time, it was.But am I in favor of growth?Absolutely.Has it been good for this community?Absolutely.Has it been good for this state?Absolutely.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Is there anything that you see in this community, that you don’t find good about—<strong>l</strong>ike, obviously, there’s a lot of good growth brings, but is there anything you lament that has changed, or any nostalgia?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway <br /></strong>I think the one problem that we have in our community is that we have not been able to keep up with the road—the growth with our road network—and mainly because of the lack of proper leadership from the Legislature.We’ve never had the political voting power to be able to build a road network they have on the south coast, South Florida—they have on the west coast.And our group has been splintered—Democrat, Republican— and many times have not worked together to have the power base in Tallahassee to get the state dollars to build—FDOT [Florida Department of Transportation]—to build our community.So we’ve not done a good job on our roads.And you have one major road going through this entire community, from Daytona Beach into Tampa, and that’s I-4.Other than that, you have very limited roads.If it wasn’t for the East-West Expressway [SR 408], the [Central Florida] Expressway Authority, we wouldn’t have any roads.So that’s been a blessing to us, but I think that’s our biggest problem.Our growth has been handled with zoning—comprehensive land plan—where the commercial’s going to be built, where the residential’s going to be built—all those things, I think, have been handled very well.We have a great water system, sewer system in Central Florida.We have all the things conducive to solid development, except the roads.And you get on these roads, and you know what it’s like.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Gridlock.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>But I’m kind of surprised to hear that—weren’t a lot of the old, like ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, Florida Republicans, weren’t they kind of pro-growth and infrastructure?Wouldn’t they…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong>Well, when I was in the Legislature back in the ‘70s, the [Florida] House [of Representatives] and the [Florida] Senate was controlled by the Democrats, and the Republicans were along for the ride.And then, when power shifted chains, we didn’t see a lot of growth coming here.I mean, we’ve had—I don’t want you to write this.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>What’s that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Hattaway<br /></strong><em>[laughs] I</em> don’t want you to write this.This is off the record on this one.Yeah.</p>
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Title
Seminole County Public Schools Collection
Alternative Title
SCPS Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Schools
High schools--Florida
Elementary schools
Grammar schools
Middle schools--Florida
Education--Florida
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the educational history of Seminole County, Florida. Items from this collection are donated by the Student Museum and UCF Public History Center.
The Student Museum has collaborated with the University of Central Florida and established the UCF Public History Center (PHC). All of the Student Museum's collections are presently housed at the PHC. The goal of the PHC is to promote access to history through ground-breaking research connecting local to global, provide cutting-edge hands-on educational programs for students and visitors, and to engage the community in contributing to and learning from history.
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<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a>
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/31" target="_blank">Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Cameron City, Sanford, Florida
Crooms Academy, Goldsoboro, Sanford, Florida
Chuluota Primary School, Chuluota, Florida
East Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Forest City School, Forest City, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Fort Reed, Sanford, Florida
Gabriella Colored School, Gabriella, Oviedo, Florida
Geneva Colored School, Geneva, Florida
Geneva Elementary, Geneva, Florida
Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Goldsboro Primary School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Hungerford School, Florida
Kolokee, Geneva, Florida
Lake Howell High School, Winter Park, Florida
Lake Mary School, Lake Mary, Florida
Lake Monroe Colored School, Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Longwood School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Lyman Elementary School, Longwood, Florida
Midway, Sanford, Florida
Osceola School, Osceola, Geneva, Florida
Oviedo Colored School, Curryville, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Oviedo School, Oviedo, Florida
Paola, Florida
Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Junior High School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Middle School, Sanford, Florida
Sanford Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole County Public Schools, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
South Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Student Museum, Sanford, Florida
UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida
Wagner Colored School, Florida
Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
West Side Primary School, Sanford, Florida
Wilson School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Public History Center</a><span>." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/.</span>
<span>"</span><a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Student Museum</a><span>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx.</span>
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Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
116 page loose-leaf ledger
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Title
Seminole County Public Schools Teachers and Salaries, 1913-1954
Alternative Title
Seminole County Teacher Salaries
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Seminole County (Fla.)
Schools
Elementary schools
High schools--Florida
Teachers--Florida
Educators--Florida
Employees--Florida
Description
Seminole County Public Schools' Teacher Records from 1913 to 1954. When the Seminole County School Board was established in 1913, it began recording teachers' names, ages, certifications, years of experience, number of months contracted, and salaries in a loose-leaf ledger. Over the years, the records began including new categories of information, such as home addresses and colleges/universities attended. In total, the ledger includes 116 pages and details the teachers employed at both Caucasian and African-American schools. Schools were located in various towns in Seminole County including Sanford, Lake Mary, Geneva, Longwood, Oviedo, Clyde, Gabriella, Altamonte Springs, Chuluota, Paola, Lake Monroe, Goldsboro, Markham, Forest City, Curryville, and Midway-Canaan.
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Original ledger by <a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>: Seminole County Public School System Collection, box 2, folder 1A, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Seminole County Public School System Collection, box 2, folder 1A, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original ledger by <a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>.
Coverage
Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida
Lake Mary, Florida
Geneva Elementary School, Geneva, Florida
Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida
Gabriella, Oviedo, Florida
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Chuluota, Florida
Goldsboro Primary School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Paola, Florida
Forest City Elementary School, Forest City, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Curryville, Oviedo, Florida
Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida
Midway Elementary School, Midway, Sanford, Florida
Kolokee School, Kolokee, Geneva, Florida
Osceola, Geneva, Florida
Fort Reed, Sanford, Florida
Hopper Academy, Georgetown, Sanford, Florida
Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida
Cameron City, Sanford, Florida
Crooms High School, Goldsboro, Sanford, Florida
Wilson Elementary School, Sanford, Florida
Seminole-Rosenwald School, Altamonte Springs, Florida
Creator
<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>
Date Created
ca. 1913-1954
Format
application/pdf
Extent
70.2 MB
Medium
116-page loose-leaf ledger
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created and published by the <a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/schoolboard/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County School Board</a>.
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Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
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Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center/Student Museum</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/communityinvolvement/AboutUs.aspx" target="_blank">About Us</a>." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/communityinvolvement/AboutUs.aspx.
Bentley, Altermese Smith. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45705201" target="_blank"><em>Seminole County</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
"<a href="http://www.geneva.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Geneva Elementary School</a>." Geneva Elementary School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.geneva.scps.k12.fl.us/.
Martin, Mal. "<a href="http://www.ruralheritagecenter.net/geneva-schoolhouse/item/27-history-schoolhouse" target="_blank">History of the Geneva School House</a>." Rural Heritage Center. http://www.ruralheritagecenter.net/geneva-schoolhouse/item/27-history-schoolhouse.
"<a href="http://www.lyman7576.com/history.html" target="_blank">The History of Lyman High School</a>." Lyman High School Classes of 1975 & 1976. http://www.lyman7576.com/history.html.
"<a href="http://www.lymanhigh.org/lymanhistory.html" target="_blank">Lyman History</a>." Lyman High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://lyman.scps.k12.fl.us/Parents/ParentsAH/HistoryofLyman.aspx.
"<a href="http://www.milwee.scps.k12.fl.us/Home/HomeRedirects/OurHistory.aspx" target="_blank">Milwee History</a>." Milwee Middle School. http://www.milwee.scps.k12.fl.us/Home/HomeRedirects/OurHistory.aspx.
"<a href="http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/" target="_blank">Oviedo High School</a>." Oviedo High School, Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.oviedo.scps.k12.fl.us/.
"<a href="http://www.ohsr.net/about-oviedo-high-school" target="_blank">About Oviedo High School</a>." Oviedo High School Reunions. http://www.ohsr.net/about-oviedo-high-school.
"<a href="http://www.mwms.scps.k12.fl.us/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Markham Woods Middle School</a>." Markham Woods Middle School. http://www.mwms.scps.k12.fl.us/Home.aspx.
"<a href="http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/layout/default.php?sectionid=15&url_redirect=1" target="_blank">Forest City Elementary School</a>." Forest City Elementary School. http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/layout/default.php?sectionid=15&url_redirect=1.
"<a href="http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=69124" target="_blank">About Us</a>." Midway Elementary School of the Arts. http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=69124.
"<a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/extinct_towns_.htm" target="_blank">Extinct Towns in the Geneva Area*</a>." Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc.. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/extinct_towns_.htm.
"<a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/schools.htm" target="_blank">The Geneva Area Schools</a>." Geneva Historical & Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/schools.htm.
"<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/about-the-museum-of-seminole-county-hi/museum-resources-historical-informatio/1878-1913-black-schools-in-seminole-co.stml" target="_blank">1878 -1913 Black Schools in Seminole County</a>." Parks and Preservation, Seminole County Government. http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/about-the-museum-of-seminole-county-hi/museum-resources-historical-informatio/1878-1913-black-schools-in-seminole-co.stml.
Bentley, Altermese. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21264645" target="_blank"><em>Georgetown, The History of A Black Neighborhood</em></a>. Sanford: Reprinted by the Sanford Museum, 1995.
"<a href="http://croomsaoit.org/#about" target="_blank">About Crooms Academy</a>." Crooms Academy of Information Technology, Seminole County Public Schools. http://croomsaoit.org/#about.
"<a href="http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-Education-In-Goldsboro.html" target="_blank">Education In Goldsboro & Sanford</a>." Goldsboro Historical Museum. http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-Education-In-Goldsboro.html.
Flewellyn, Valada S. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320804616" target="_blank"><em>African Americans of Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009.
"<a href="http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=607&" target="_blank">School Information</a>." Wilson Elementary. http://teachercenter.scps.k12.fl.us/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=607&.
"<a href="http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-History-of-Goldsboro.html" target="_blank">The Rich History of Goldsboro</a>." Goldsboro Historical Museum. http://www.goldsboromuseum.com/The-History-of-Goldsboro.html.
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Title
St. Luke's Episcopal Church Collection
Subject
Merritt Island (Fla.)
Episcopalians--United States
Churches--Florida
Episcopal Church--Florida
Description
St. Luke's Episcopal Church is located at 5555 North Tropical Trail in Courtenay, an unincorporated community in Merritt Island, Florida. In the 1870s, the church founding families of LaRoche, Porcher, and Sams migrated from Charleston and John's Island of South Carolina and settled in Courtenay. The Carpenter Gothic-style church was erected in 1888, with funding from Lucy A. Boardman and land from Edward Porcher. The first resident Vicar of St. Luke's, Reverend Paul A. Perrine, Jr., was appointed in 1962 and the congregation began to grow steadily. On November 15, 1974, the church was admitted as a Parish in the Diocese of Central Florida, with Rev. Perrine as the first rector. The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places under the name "Old St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery" on June 15, 1990.
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<a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>
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eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
St. Luke's Episcopal Church Collection, Courtenay, Merritt Island, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/history/" target="_blank">History</a>." St. Luke's Episcopal Church. http://www.stlukesmi.org/history/.
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St. Luke's Episcopal Church holds all rights to the items housed from the church as well as those items represented digitally on the <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>. Contact the <a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a> for the proper permissions for the use of its items.
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<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/58" target="_blank">Merritt Island Collection</a>, Brevard County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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119-page record book
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Title
St. Luke's Episcopal Church Historical Records
Alternative Title
St. Luke's Episcopal Church Records
Subject
Merritt Island (Fla.)
Episcopalians--United States
Churches--Florida
Church records and registers--Florida
Description
Selected pages from St. Luke's Episcopal Church's record book covering the period 1888 through 1959 including a brief history of the mission. The record book includes baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriagess, and burials. St. Luke's Church is located at 5555 North Tropical Trail in Courtenay, an unincorporated community in Merritt Island, Florida. In the 1870s, the church founding families of LaRoche, Porcher, and Sams migrated from Charleston and John's Island of South Carolina and settled in Courtenay, Florida. The Carpenter Gothic-style church was erected in 1888, with funding from Lucy A. Boardman and land from Edward Porcher. The first resident Vicar of St. Luke's, Reverend Paul A. Perrine Jr., was appointed in 1962 and the congregation began to grow steadily. On November 15, 1974, the church was admitted as a Parish in the Diocese of Central Florida, with Father Perrine as the first rector. The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places under the name "Old St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery" on June 15, 1990.
Creator
<a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>
Source
Original record book: <a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>, Merritt Island, Florida: <a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/library" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society Library</a>, <a href="http://www.brevardcounty.us/PublicLibraries/Branches/Central/Home" target="_blank">Central Brevard Public Library</a>, Cocoa, Florida.
Date Created
ca. 1888-1959
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original record book: <a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>, Merritt Island, Florida.
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<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/library" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society Library</a>, <a href="http://www.brevardcounty.us/PublicLibraries/Branches/Central/Home" target="_blank">Central Brevard Public Library</a>, Cocoa, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/59" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church Collection</a>, Merritt Island Collection, Brevard County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
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9.02 MB
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119-page record book
Language
eng
Type
Text
Coverage
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Courtenay, Merritt Island, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.456457, -80.716525
Temporal Coverage
1888-01-01/1959-12-31
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Donation
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History Teacher
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Originally created by <a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>.
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Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank"> RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://myfloridahistory.org/library" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://www.brevardcounty.us/publiclibraries/branches/central/home" target="_blank">Central Brevard Public Library</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.stlukesmi.org/history/" target="_blank">History</a>." St. Luke's Episcopal Church. http://www.stlukesmi.org/history/.
Transcript
{Start pg6}
The first Service at Courtney was Held on the 1st Sunday in Lent in The year 1888 by Archdeacon J.B.
1886.
Sponsors James La Roche
Henrietta R. La Roche Sadie La Roche.
Carpenter. At that service,
there were baptized the following Persons john S La Roche Child of
B. B. La Roche and Mattie E la Roche The Sponsors were Mr. James La Roche Mr Jno H Sams. And Mrs. Sarah S. Sams.
Also, John Julius La Roche Parents John J. La Roche and Marian
H. La Roche
Sponsors. James La Roche
John. H. Sams. Also... Frances Arthur la Roche Parents... Robt. B. La Roche.
Eliz. S La Roche.
Sponsors James La Roche
Rich'd J. La Roche Katharine D. La Roche.
Also... Amarintha La Roche Jenkins.
Parents. Harry H Jenkins
Julia E. Jenkins
May 5th There were also three Baptisms before
formation of the mission, by the Rev. Preston Nash from Richmond Va. I enter them here as part
{Start pg7}
of the history of the church. May 5th 1886 Walter Earnest Sams.
Parents J. H. Sams, Sarah S. Sams Sponsors Parents
Same date Fredrick Francis La Roche.
Parents John J. LaRoche, Marian H. LaRoche
Sponsors Millege B. Sams
Richard J. La Roche Eliz. E Sams
Same date Mary Oliver La Roche.
May 5th 1886 Child of B. B. La Roche Martha E LaRoche Sponsors John J La Roche.
Catharn D. Sams
A Celestina R. Sams
There were also three marriages pre- vious to the organization of the mis- sion of which the writers has {illegible} except of the fact.
Arch Deacon Carpenter left the East Coast In 1889. during his Domina
tion of the church building was erected 1889 April & May
and much hard and earnest work done. Arch deacon Carpenter was
followed by the Rev. A. P. Sharpe, whose
stay on the Rines was only a few months. His earnest faithful work won general approval.
Upon the withdrawal of the Rev. Mr Sharpe. Rev. B. F. Brown came to the work on May 1st 1890. Under him
{Start pg8}
the Mission was Organised with Mr. John H. Sams as Senior Warden Richard La Roche
Jr. Warden, Johnny J La Roche Treasurer, and Dr. Millege Sams Secty for about
one year and a half. Rev. F.C. Bayliss
Deacon appointed under Archde- acon B H Brown. In the autumn of 1895. Bishop Gray Put the work on the Island under the
entire charge of the Rev. H.B. Stuart
Martin. The Rev. H.B. Stuart Martin resigned June 2, 1903
-October 1904. The Rev. P.J. Robottom took charge, an remained in
charge until Jan. 1909. The Rev. W.H. Cresson to charge June 1909
Rev E.H. Merriman Jan 24, 1932 - March 31, 1932.
Vacant.
Wm. L Hargrave- July 17,1932- Mar. 7 1943. Harold Franklin Bache, B.D. March 10. 1943-
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sunday Dec 29
1889 St. Luke's Church Courtenay 1 Mrs. Emma Irene Mist John Mist Mrs. Madison Thompson Rev. AP Sharpe
" " 2 James Boone LaRoche Courtenay, Fla. October 1, 1889 Robert B La Roche
Mrs. Elizabeth S La Roche Miss Catharine Sams Frank LaRoche "
" " 3 Laurent Lascelles LaRoche Courtenay, Fla. November 24,
1889 John Julius LaRoche Marian S LaRoche The Parents "
" " 4 Melvin Toland Sams Courtney Fla. October 18,
1889 Dr. Millidge Braham Sams Mrs. Sarah Phoebe Sams The Parents "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sunday Jan 26,
1890 " 5 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth LaRoche Miss Catharine Sams Frank LaRoche "
" " 6 William Henry Webb Frank LaRoche
& Congregation "
Sunday Mar 30
1890 " 7 Robert Stanyarm LaRoche Courtenay, Fla February 18, 1890 Benjamin B La Roche
Mrs. Martha E La Roche John De Veaux Sams Sturner Stann Sams Sarah K. Sams "
" Parents Residence 8 Beatrice Mora Porcher Courtenay, Fla November 29,
1887 Edward P. Porcher
Mrs. Benjamin
M. Porcher Mrs. Beatrice Dayas Miss D.A. Peck "
" " 9 Adrian Alma Porcher Courtenay, Fla September 13,
1888 " Mrs. C G. Matthews Miss S J. Porcher "
" " 10 Arthur Gignilliatt Porcher Courtenay, Fla December 21,
1889 " Mrs. Bertha P Schaefer "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
June 29
1890 St. Luke’s Church Courtenay 11 Richard LaRoche Jenkins Courtenay, Fla. June 7, 1895 Henry H Jenkins Julia E.Jenkins Rich R La Roche Edward K. LaRoche Cathrine La Roche Rev. B.F.
Brown
Sunday Nov 15
1891 " 12 Richard Hallonquist LaRoche Courtenay, Fla August 20,
1891 Richard J LaRoche Martha T LaRoche John J La Roche Robert B La Roche Adelaide A Hallonquist "
Friday Nov- 1892 " 13 Judson W LaRoche Courtenay, Fla Daniel LaRoche Junnie LaRoche F. W. LaRoche
M. E. LaRoche "
Sunday Jan 29
1893 " 14 Charles Clement LaRoche Courtenay, Fla August 31,
1892 Robt'. B. LaRoche Elizabeth LaRoche Rev B.B. Sams Jas'. J LaRoche Sarah S. Sams "
‘
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
" " 15 Janus LaRoche Jenkins Courtenay, Fla. Dec 10, 1892 Henry H. & Julia E. Jenkins Jas. J. La Roche Francis W. LaRoche Henrietta R. LaRoche "
Sunday April 29
1894 " 16 Henry Reynolds LaRoche Courtney, Fla. Feb 16, 1894 Benjamin B. LaRoche Martha E. LaRoche Robert B. LaRoche Francis W. LaRoche
Adelaide E. Sams Rev. F.C.
Bayliss
" 17 Sunday March 31
1895 Muttock June 8,1880 Frank W. LaRoche Cathrine D. Sams B.F. Brown
" " 18 Mrs Mary Nancy Blythe F.C. Bayliss (doc. by B.F. Brown)
July 6th 1894 " 19 Kenneth Gray LaRoche Courtenay, Fla. May 28,1894 Richard LaRoche Mattie LaRoche Bennie LaRoche Sadie LaRoche "[Entry] omitted at time. -B.F. Brown"
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sept 30
1894 " 20 Adelaide H. LaRoche Courtenay, Fla. Aug 14, 1894 John J. & Marian H LaRoche Mr. Robt. B. LaRoche Mrs. Eliz S. LaRoche Mrs. Julia Jenkins
"
pgs 46-47
May 6,1900 Richard LaRoche Residence Courtenay, Fla. 21 Dorthea Clinie LaRoche Courtenay, FL Oct 6, 1889 Richard and Sophia LaRoche Francis Elizabeth Marian LaRoche Rev.
H. B.
Stuart
Martin
1st Sunday Dec 1896 St Luke's Church Courtenay 22 Emily Judson La Roche Dawson, Terrell Co., Ga.
Aug 3, 1863 A. Judson Whitlock Martha Whitlock Daniel J la Roche Catharine D. Sams "
Mar 1897 " 23 Benjamin Bailey La Roche Courtenay, Fla. Feb 11, 1897 Benjamin Bailey La Roche Martha E. La Roche Francis W. La Roche Rob't B La Roche Mrs. Julia E. Jenkins Wm. Crane Gray Bishop of
S. Fla.
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Nov 4,
1896 " 24 Fredrick Littleton LaRoche Courtenay, Fla. Jun 6, 1896 Daniel Jenkins Emily Judson LaRoche Robert Boone LaRoche
Elizabeth Hallonquist LaRoche
Frederick Littleton Whitlock H.B.
Stuart
Martin
Apr 7,
1901 " 25 Frank Gould Black Faustina, Fla. Feb 1, 1901 Fredrick H Black Adelaide Black David Wingood Horace S. Sams Anna C. Sams "
Mar 1,
1903 " 26 Lawrence Daniel Allen Courtenay, Fla. Mar 30, 1902 Lawrence Porcher Allen Margaret McG. Allen Wm
Mrs A.A. Hallonquist
& J. DeVeaux Sams "
" " 27 Mrs. Jennie May Sams Coquina, Fla. Mar 8 1880 J Brady Bowers May L. Bowers Mr. A.A. Hallonquist J De Veaux Sams "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Mar 17,
1903 " 28 Mary Kinsman Le Baron Jacksonville, Fla.
Jun 12, 1899 Earnest Thatcher Le Baron Wm. Seabrook Sams
Cathrine D. E. V. Sams
Mary Olivia LaRoche Wm. Crane Gray
" " 29 Ernest Thatcher " Jacksonville, Fla.
Sept 10, 1902 Sarah Reynolds Le Baron Horace H. Sams
W. Ernest Sams Celestina R. Sams
"
Mar 29,
1903 " 30 Daniel Francis La Roche Courtenay, Fla. Dec 9, 1902 Daniel Jenkins La Roche Emily Judson LaRoche Lawrence P Allen Edward N LaRoche
Mrs. Margaret
McG. Allen B.F. Brown Archdeacon Titusville, Fla.
Christmas Dec 25,
1903 " 31 Sarah Alyina Black City Point, Fla. Apr 14, 1903 Fred H. Black Adelaide E. Black Wm. Seabrook Sams
Walter Ernest Sams
Celestina R. Sams H. B. Stuart Martin
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Jan 3,
1904 " 32 Irene Caroline Bannatinse Grant Indianola, Fla. Apr 1, 1903 Robert Simpson Grant
Annie Eliza
Grant Irene Emma Mist Jane Caroline Miller Mrs. Wallace Joseph Edward Field "
pgs 48-49
Feb 6
1904 St Luke’s Church Courtenay 33 Bonham LaRoche Dec 17, 1903
Courtenay, Fla. Benj. B. La Roche Martha E La Roche J. H. Sams
Wm. Seabrook Sams Celestina R. Sams H.B. Stuart Martin
Nov 1,
1903 " 34 May Stanyarm Sams Sept 7, 1903 Courtenay, Fla. J. De Veaux Sams
Jennie May Sams Mrs. Julia E Jenkins Catharine De V Sams
J. H. Sams "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Nov 6
1904 " 36 Bernard Ellis Black Oct 2, 1904
Sharpes, Fla. Wm. Francis LaRoche Mary Olivia LaRoche Francis Wilkinson LaRoche
Mary Elizabeth LaRoche
Martha Edwards LaRoche (grandparents) "
March 5, 1905 " 36b Katharine Alison Jenkins Dec 21, 1904
Courtenay, Fla Fred Herbert Black Adelaide
Elizabeth Sams Benj. B. La Roche Addie M. (C.R. Sams proxy) "
June 23,
1907 " 37 Anna Lois Sams Jan 20, 1907
Courtenay, Fla. J. De Veaux Sams Jennie May Sams J. H. Sams Elizabeth S.
Hallonquist LaRoche Celestina R. Sams H.B.
Stuart
Martin Wm. Crane Gray
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Oct 30,
1907 " 38 Celestina Sams Le Baron Mar 27, 1905
Jacksonville, Fla. Ernest Thatcher Le Baron
Sarah Reynolds Le Baron Benj. Bailey La Roche Sarah Reynolds LaRoche
Anna Celestina
Robertson Sams Wm. Crane Gray
" " 39 Mary Elizabeth La Roche Jun 24, 1907
Courtenay, Fla. William Francis LaRoche
Mary Olivia LaRoche Benj. Bailey L Roche Catharine De Veaux Sams
Marie Elizabeth LaRoche "
" " 40 Emily Judson Allen Feb 3, 1907
Courtenay, Fla. Lawrence Porcher Allen Margaret McGregor Allen Dan. Jenkins LaRoche Emily Judson LaRoche Mary Elizabeth LaRoche "
Jun 21,
1908 " 41 Celestina Sams La Roche Dec 17, 1907
Courtenay, Fla. Benj. Bailey La Roche
Martha Edwards LaRoche Dan. J LaRoche
Emily Judson LaRoche Henrietta Herbert Jenkins Rev. W.H.
Cresson
pgs 50-51
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
July 8,
1908 St. Luke's Church Courtenay 42 Robert Waili LaRoche Mar 10 1908
Courtenay, Fla. Robert Boone LaRoche Elizabeth S. H. LaRoche Dr. J. O Schofield (Proxy R.J. LaRoche) Frances Arthur LaRoche
(Proxy R.B. LaRoche) Sarah Reynolds LaRoche Rev. Percy J. Robottom
Mar 13,
1910 " 43 Amarintha Caroline Whaley Dec 9, 1909
Courtenay, Fla. Marion S. Whaley Amarintha LaRoche Whaley Edward M. Whaley Julia Jenkins
Sarah R. LaRoche W. H.
Cresson
Apr 2,
1911 " 44 John Brady Bower Sams Sept 8, 1909 Courtenay, Fla. J De Veaux Sams Jennie M. B. Sams Wm. Seabrook Sams by J de V. Sams (proxy)
Annie S. Sams by C.R. Sams (proxy) "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sept 3,
1911 " 45 Beatrice Lenington Holmes Oct 21, 1910
Sharpes, Fla. Howard Lenington Holmes
Ethel Sinclair Holmes Mary Lenington Holmes
George Washington Holmes
Annie M. Arney (proxy M. Belle Neilson Sinclair) "
Sept 17,
1911 " 46 Dorothea Reynolds Black Jan 20, 1909
Titusville, Fla. Fred Herbert Black Addie E. Black J. H. Sams Celestina R. Sams Sadie R. LaRoche "
" " 47 Elise Catharine Black July 18, 1911
Titusville, Fla. Fred Herbert Black Addie E. Black Benj. B. LaRoche Martha Edwards LaRoche
Sadie S. Le Baron "
Dec 17,
1911 " 48 Julia Emily Sams Sept 18, 1911
Courtenay, Fla. John De Veaux Sams
Jennie May Sams John H. Sams Emily Judson LaRoche "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sept 15,
1912 " 49 Marion Seabrook Whaley June 5, 1912 Courtenay, Fla. Marion Seabrook Whaley Amarntha L. Jenkins Whaley J. H. Sams (proxy for Celestina R. Sams) Daniel L. Jenkins Anna S Boynard "
Dec 28,
1913 " 50 Edward LaRoche Sams July 30, 1913
Charleston, SC Edward LaRoche Gimball Henrietta H. Gimball Julia Eva Jenkins Janus LaRoche Jenkins
Benj. Bailey LaRoche
"
July 12,
1914 " 51 Eugenia La Roche LaRoche Aug 20, 1890
Brantly, Fla. Rufus B. Stewart Mary H. Stewart John H. Sams Mattie E. LaRoche Celestina "
pgs 52-53 [note: 36B- omits #52]
Oct 18,
1914 Church 53 De Veaux Lorris Sams Aug 15, 1914
Courtenay, Fla. J De Vaux Sams Jennie May Sams F.W. LaRoche
J.H. Sams Mary Olivia LaRoche W.H.
Cresson
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sun. Jan 9,
1916 " 54 Grace Christine Rummell July 5, 1915 Brooklyn, NJ Richard W. Rummell Violet Grace Rummell John H. Mills Jr (R.W. Rummell proxy)
Ann H. Grimes (Mary G La Roche proxy) Christine R. Atkinson
(V.G. Rummell proxy) "
Sun. Apr 1916 " 55 John Julius LaRoche Dec 17, 1915
Courtenay Fredric Francis La Roche Frances Davis La Roche Elizabeth H LaRoche Lawrent L LaRoche
(J.J. La Roche proxy) Harriet J Gimball (Julia L. Jenkins proxy)
John F. LaRoche
(Mary Olivia Taylor proxy) "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sun. July 23, 1916 " 56 Eva Julia Whaley Apr 26, 1916
Courtenay, Fla. Marvin S. Whaley
Annie J. Whaley Edward L. Grimball
(J.L. Jenkins proxy)
Harriet J. Grimball (Julia L Jenkins proxy)
Mary Olivia La Roche
"
July 23,
1916 " 57 Reynolds Stewart LaRoche Jan 19, 1916
Banyan, Fla. Henry Reynolds LaRoche Eugenia LaRoche B.B. LaRoche Martha E. LaRoche Frank W. LaRoche "
Feb 15,
1918 J. H.
Sams Home 58 Bertha Louise LaRoche Jan 26, 1918
Courtenay, Fla. John Sams LaRoche
Eliza Grimball
La Roche Robt. Stanyarne La Roche
Annie H. La Roche
Bertha Louise Grimball "
May 5,
1918 Church 59 Jennie Gertrude Sams May 2, 1917
Courtenay, Fla. J. DeVeaux Sams Jennie May Sams Robert M. La Roche Annie H. La Roche Mary Elizabeth La Roche "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
1918 Church 60 Richard W (3rd) Rummell Jun 20, 1918
{illegible} Richard W. Rummell Violet Grace Rummell Richard W Rummell Jr (J.R. Willis proxy) Grace W. Rummell (Annie L Willis proxy)
Wm. F. la Roche (Wm. F. Willis proxy) "
Feb 1919 " 61 Margaret Ruth Whaley Sept 28, 1918
{illegible} Marion S. Whaley
Annie J. Whaley F.W. La Roche Kathrine L. Jenkins Kathrine A. Jenkins "
Mar 30,
1919 " 62 Marjory Holmes La Roche Feb 2, 1914
Hopkins, Fla. Fred. Littleton La Roche
Birdie Thelma
La Roche W.F. La Roche
Mary Olivia La Roche Celsetina Sams Le Baron "
pgs 54-55
Mar 30,
1919 Church 63 Birdie Thelma La Roche San. Angelo, Texas Wm. Milton Carr
Birdie M. Carr Emily Judson La Roche Mary E. La Roche Frances W. La Roche "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Apr 4,
1920 " 64 Henry Reynolds La Roche Oct 1819
Banyan, Fla. Henry Reynolds La Roche Eugenia Stuart La Roche Wm. F. La Roche Mary Olivia La Roche Chas. Wilson La Roche "
" " 65 Walter David La Roche Jan 17, 1920
Courtenay, Fla. Judson W. La Roche
Rose M. La
Roche James La Roche Jenkins
Francis Daniel La
Roche
Mary Olivia La Roche "
" " 66 Francis Birt La Roche Feb 12, 1920
Courtneay, Fla. Fredric Littleton
&
Birdie Thelma La Roche Robert H. La Roche Annie T. La Roche Chas. W. La Roche "
Oct 3,
1920 " 67 Elizabeth Clement Taylor July 26, 1920
Charleston, SC Wilbur O. Taylor Adelaide La Roche Taylor Wm. F. LaRoche (Robt. LaRoche proxy) Evelyn Hart (Marvin LaRoche proxy)
Mrs. P.M. Nicoles
(Elizabeth F. LaRoche proxy) "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Nov 7,
1920 " 68 Anice Lorena Knutson Mar 13, 1899
Titusville, Fla. Wyatt Elijah Chandler Anice Bernice Chandler
wife of Samuel Knutson W.H. Cresson Mrs. E. F. LaRoche
W. F. LaRoche W.H.
Cresson
Mar 29,
1921 " 69 Eleanor Evangelina Knutson March 1900 Minneapolis, Mn Ole Knutson Anna Knutson "
" " 70 Frances Zara Sams Mar 28, 1897
Anderson, Ind. Ira Nelson Carr Birdie May Birt Carr Birdie Thelma LaRoche
Fred. L. LaRoche Mary Olivia La Roche W.H.
Cresson
J.H.Sams (Sr. W.)
" " 71 Ada Hayman Le Barron Jan 10, 1907
Jacksonville, Fla. Ernest Thatcher Le Barron Sarah Reynolds LeBarron Ernest W. Sams Martha H. LaRoche Celestina Sams LeBarron "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Jan 1,
1924 " 72 Mary Lucille LaRoche Sept 7, 1923 Palm Beach, Fla. Robert Stanyarne La Roche Annie H. LaRoche Mary Elizabeth La Roche
Celestina Sams LaRoche Bonham LaRoche Rev. John G Litch
J.H. Sams (Sr.
Warden)
pgs 56-57
Sun. Mar 22, 1925 Church 73 Cecil Williams Sams June 25, 1924
Courtenay, Fla. John De Veaux Sams
Jennie May Sams Robert LaRoche Lois Sams Dillons William LaRoche
(J.W. Sams proxy) Rev. C.H.
Bascom Priest- in- Charge
Jan. 1,
1924 " 74 Mary Lucile LaRoche Sept 7, 1923 Palm Beach, Fla. Robert S. LaRoche Annie H. LaRoche Mary Elizabeth LaRoche Celestina Sams LaRoche
Bonham La Roche Rev. John
G. Litch for C.H. Bascom
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sun. Nov 22, 1925 " 75 Maurine Emily LaRoche Aug 3, 1925
Miami, Fla. Fredrick Littleton LaRoche Birdie Thelma LaRoche James LaRoche Jenkins Mary Elizabeth LaRoche
Celestina LaRoche C.H.
Bascom
(P.i.C.)
Sun. May 23, 1926 " 76 Betty Lucile Yates Dec 15, 1925
Merritt, Fla. Reginald Clark Yates Catherine Olivia Yates Lucile Yates Bonham La Roche Elizabeth LaRoche "
Sat. Dec 4, 1926 " 77 Robert Vernon Ding- man Jun 1, 1926
Courtenay, Fla. Robert Vernon Dingman Celestina Sams Dingman Alma Klein Travis Horace H. Sams Joseph. H Graham "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
" " 78 Benjamin Tead LaRoche Jun 25, 1926
West Palm, Fla. Robert S. La Roche Annie Tead LaRoche Sara Reynolds La Roche
William F. La Roche
Horace H. Sams "
" " 80 Harold Douglas LaRoche Oct 13, 1924
Merritt, Fla. H. Reynolds LaRoche
Eugenia La Roche Benjamin B. LaRoche Mary O. LaRoche William F LaRoche "
Mon. Jan 24,1927 " 81 Richard William LaRoche Mar 20, 1926
Orlando, Fla. Herbert La Roche Christine LaRoche Sarah La Roche Richard La Roche Cline Monts DcLoy
G.W. Buttmony "
May 19,1889 " 82 Henrietta Herbert Jenkins Nov 1888
Courtenay, Fla. Henry H Jenkins Mrs. Julia E. Jenkins Kathrine De V. Sams Benj. B. LaRoche Mrs. B.B. LaRoche A.J. Sharp
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
July 19,
1931
7th Sun of
Trinity St. Luke's Church 83 Ida Lucile Yates LaRoche St. Lucie, Fla. Mar 1, 1909 Oscar Clayton Yates
Bertha Blanche
Yates Bonham La Roche Mrs. B. B. La Roche Rev. George B. Scriven
" " 84 Hortense Ione Woods LaRoche May 7, 1913
Melbourne, Fla. Walter W. Woods Josephine G. Woods Frank D. La Roche Mildred La Roche "
Mar 6,
1932 " 85 Clara Martha Dingman June 29, 1931
Courtenay, Fla. Robert Vernon Dingman Celestina La Roche Dingman Lucile Yates La Roche
Elsia Catherine Black
Benjamin Bailey La Roche Jr Rev. E.H.
Merriman
Sept 2,
1932 " 86 Walter Birt Sams Sept 4, 1920 Courtenay, Fla. Walter Ernest Sams
Frances Carr
Sams Horace H. Sams Wm. S. Sams Celestina R. Sams Wm. L.
Hargrave
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Dec 18,
1932 " 87 Dorothy Cleaver Allen Dec 10, 1923
Cocoa, Fla. Lawrence Daniel Allen Georgie Allen Thelma La Roche Mary D Cooke Littleton La Roche "
" " 89 Margaret Allen Quantock Nov 25, 1928
Orlando, Fla. Emily Allen Quantock Georgie Allen
Mrs. Margaret Allen Eva La Roche William La Roche "
" " 90 Judson Whitlock La Roche July 27, 1932
Orlando, Fla. J Whitlock La Roche Mildred La Roche Littleton La Roche Fred Harris
Beth La Roche Hortense La Roche "
June 6,
1920 " 91 Hervey Hanahan Sams Mar 21, 1920
Courtenay, Fla. J De Veaux Sams Jennie May Sams John H. Sams
W.F. La Roche May S. Sams W.H.
Cresson
Mar 27,
1921 " 92 Sarah Chase La Roche {blank} Daniel Chase Mary Palmer Chase Robert B. La Roche Mrs. R. B. La Roche W.H.
Cresson
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Palm Sun Mar 25,
1934 St. Luke's Church 93 Joyce La Roche Aug 11, 1929
Boston, Mass adopted by Richard La Roche Jr. Sara Chase LaRoche Herbert L La Roche by Robert W. La Roche
Christine M LaRoche by Martha S LaRoche Elizabeth LaRoche Wm. L
Hargrave
" " 94 Marian La Roche Grant Jan 12, 1934
Melbourne, Fla. Patrick S.J. Grant Marian La R. Grant Thomas C. Kenaton Carene Grant Taylor Mrs. Charles Goves by Elizabeth C Taylor Cathrine B. Burns "
" " 95 Barbra Allen (Godby) Smith Houston, Tex Meredith Ellen Burns Smith Victor Cloud Smith Floyd L. Coggin "
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
" " 96 Robert Elliott Smith Sept 29, 1931
Courtenay, Fla. Victor Cloud Smith Meredith Ellen Burns Smith Mildred W. LaRoche Judson LaRoche "
1st Easter Apr 19,
1936 " 97 Mary Arleen Mellon Oct 10, 1925
Rockledge, Fla. Anna Lois Sams Mellon
Jerome Henry
Mellon Celestina R. Sams Celestina La R. Dingman
B.B. La Roche "
" " 98 Marian Mellon Aug 11, 1927
Mercedes, Tex. Anna Lois Sams Mellon
Jerome Henry Mellon Marian La Roche Grant
Mildred La Roche
B. B. La Roche "
Dec 18,
1921 " 99 Robert Stanyarne La Roche Sept. 7, 1921
Courtenay, Fla. Robert S. La Roche
Annie Tead La
Roche Wm. F. La Roche Eva La Roche Chas W. La Roche John G. Litch By Wm. L.
Hargrave
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
May 22,
1938 " 100 Jane Caroline Grant Taylor Jan 29, 1938
Melbourne, Fla. W. O. E. Taylor Carrie Grant Taylor
(Irene Caroline
B. Grant) P. S. J. Grant Elizabeth Clement Taylor
Cora Lee Taylor
Michales Wm. L.
Hargrave
Jan 10,
1943 " 101 Sandra Elizabeth Brannin Oct 18, 1942
Rockledge, Fla. Robert Brannin Marjory La Roche Brannin Mildred La Roche Hortense LaRoche Frank LaRoche Judson LaRoche "
June 27,
1943 " 102 Josephine Elaine LaRoche Apr 8, 1943
Orlando, Fla. Francis Daniel La Roche Hortense Woods La Roche Mildred W. LaRoche Judson W. LaRoche Minnie W. Hargrave Rev. Wm. L. Hargrave H.F.
Bache
pgs 62-63
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sat. Sept 12,
1943 St. Luke's Church Courtenay 103 Peggy Barganier May 3, 1920
Red Level, Ala. Jewel Thomas Milton Ernest Barganier Elizabeth Hallonquist LaRoche Elizabeth C. La R. Taylor H. F. Bache
Sat. July 14,
1946 " 104 Carol Frances La Roche 1946
Orlando, Fla. Francis Daniel Hortense Woods LaRoche Georgia D. Dyal Lutie F. Clary Walter D. LaRoche Charles R. Rowlson "
Aug. 18,
1946 " 105 Michelle Marie Brannin Sept. 1, 1944
Orlando, Fla. Charles Robert Brannin Majory LaRoche Brannin Rubin B. Riley Delilah C. Riley Harold A Bornefeldt Maurine E. Bornefeldt Wm. L.
Hargrave
" " 106 Michael Wayne Brannin Mar. 5, 1946 Charles Robert Samuel D. Knight Wm. L.
Orlando, Fla. Brannin Adelaide E. Hoyt Hargrave
Marjory Adelaide R. Hoyt
LaRoche John Mott Hoyt
Brannin
Date Place No. Christian Name Surname Place and Date of Birth Parents Sponsors or Witnesses Clergy
Sun. Aug 13,
1950 " 107 Laurent Evans LaRoche Taylor Jun 14, 1949
Panama City, Fla. Laurent LaRoche Taylor
Ellise Bullock
Taylor Laurent P. LaRoche William P. Boyd Elizabeth Clement Taylor
Jane Caroline Taylor Rev. C.H.
Bascom
(Vicar)
July 22,
1951 " 108 Larry Bruce Hensley Nov. 23, 1950
Hendersonville,
NC James Aaron Hensley Joyce LaRoche Hensley Laurent LaRoche Taylor
Frances Hughlett LaRoche
Ellise Bullock Taylor "
Sun. May 13, 1956 " 109 John Allen Charles Dec 19, 1955
Orlando, Fla. John Green Charles Margret (Quantock) Charles Liota Shackelford Harold Shakelford James Rogers Hugh E. Cuthbertson
" " 110 Kenneth Green Charles " " " "
Sun. May 19, 1957 " 111 Fred Benjamin Woelk Jan 28, 1957
Ft. Pierce, Fla. Martha D. Woelk Fred Woelk Catherine O. Powers Benj, B. LaRoche III Judson W. LaRoche II W.H. Folwell Robert E Lenhard
Confirmations Title Page
Date Name Clergyman
Jun 1, 1888 James La Roche Rev. E.G. Weed
Rev. Sam B Carpenter
" Elizabeth Sams Hallonquist "
" Martha E. La Roche "
" Katharine De V. La Roche "
" A. Celestina R. Sams "
1889 Edward N, Whaley Rev. E.G. Weed
pg78
Day and Date No. Names Age Baptism Bishop and Rector
Tue Feb 25, 1890 1 Mrs Sarah T. Smith Church Rev. E G. Weed
" 2 Mrs Mary Elizabeth La Roche " "
" 3 Mrs Emma Irene Mist " "
" 4 Miss Sarah Reynolds La Roche " AJ Sharpe
" 5 Miss Martha Sophia Hallonquist " "
Day and Date No. Names Age Baptism Bishop and Rector
" 6 John Mist " "
" 7 Charles Cleveland " "
" 8 Alfred Sidney Cleveland " "
" 9 William Henry Webb " "
" 10 Frank Wilkinson La Roche " "
" 11 Richard Jenkins La Roche " "
" 12 John De Veaux Sams " "
" 19 Benj. B. La Roche " Rev. B.F. Brown
" 20 Julia Era Jenkins " "
" 21 Sarah Reynolds Sams " "
" 22 Horace Hann Sams " "
" 23 Adelaide Elizabeth Sams " Wm. Crane Gray
" 24 Fredrick Whitlock " "
25
" 26 Wm. La Roche (At Bartow, Fla.) "
Day and Date No. Names Age Baptism Bishop and Rector
27
Weds Mar 6, 1901 28 Wm. Seabrook Sams 21 Sept 18, 1881 Wm. Crane Gray
" 29 Margaret McG Whitlock 20 Mar 3, 1895 "
Tue Mar 17, 1903 30 Jennie May Sams 23 Mar 1, 1903 "
" 31 Mary Olivia La Roche 18 " "
Mar 22, 1904 32 Emily Judson La Roche 1st Sun Dec 1896 Wm Crane Gray
H.B. Stuart Martin
" 33 Daniel Jenkins La Roche
" 34 Amarintha La Roche Jenkins
" 35 Henrietta Herbert Jenkins
" 36 Lawrence Porcher Allen
" 37 John Sams La Roche
pg79
Day and Date No. Names Age Baptism Bishop and Rector
Jun 1, 1913 38 Robert Stanyarne La Roche Church Rev. Wm. Crane Gray
B.H. Brown
" 39 Judson W. La Roche " "
" 40 James La Roche Jenkins " "
" 41 Henry Reynolds La Roche " "
" 42 Benj. Bailey La Roche " "
" 43 Fredrick Littleton La Roche " "
Apr 23, 1914 44 Charles Milton La Roche 14 " Rev. Cameron Mann Rev. W.H. Cresson
" 45 Annie Tead 18 "
" 46 Albert Tead 14 "
" 47 Robert Godby 34 "
June 8, 1919 48 Katharine Jenkins 141/2 Church Rev. Cameron Mann Rev. W.H. Cresson
" 49 Birdie Thelma La Roche 17 "
Day and Date No. Names Age Baptism Bishop and Rector
" 50 Francis Daniel La Roche 161/2 "
" 51` May Stanyarne 16 "
" 52 Rose Mildred La Roche 16 {illegible} Church "
" 53 Cathrine Olivia La Roche 141/2 " "
" 54 Celestina Sams Le Barron 14 " "
" 55 Bonham La Roche 161/2 " "
" 56 Herbert L La Roche " " "
Dec 2, 1923 57 Mary Elizabeth La Roche 16 " "
" 58 Celestina Sams La Roche " " "
" 59 Anna Lore Sams " " "
Dec 22, 1929 60 Marian Hallonquist La Roche 22 Rockville, SC John D Wing D.D. George B Scriven
Sun Jan 1, 1933 61 Marjory Thelma La Roche 14 St Lukes Courtenay John D. Wing Wm. L Hargrave
Day and Date No. Names Age Baptism Bishop and Rector
" 62 Francis Birt La Roche 12 " "
" 63 Walter Daniel La Roche 12 " "
" 64 Hartense Jane La Roche 19 " "
" 65 Mrs. Sarah Chase La Roche " "
pg80
Sun Dec 16, 1934 66 Elizabeth Clement Taylor 14 St Lukes Church Courtenay, FL John D. Wing Wm. L Hargrave
" 67 Alice Cloud Godbey 54 Christian Church Palestine, TX "
" 68 Pearl Christine La Roche 28 Baptist "
Sun Dec 18, 1938 69 Robert Vernon Dingman 12 Church Service in St. Marks, Cocoa, Fla.
Sun Jan 15, 1941 70 Clara Martha Dingman 9 Church "
Dec 19, 1943 71 Judson Whitlock La Roche Jr. 11 St Luke's Church
Jan 5, 1947 72 Juanita Treadwell La Roche 21 Bap. Decatur, GA John D. Wing
" 73 Laurent La Roche Taylor 28 St. Luke's Courtenay "
Day and Date No. Names Age Baptism Bishop and Rector
" 74 Ellise Bulloch Taylor 23 Meth. Preston, GA "
Fri Oct 14, 1955 75 Marian La Roche Grant 21 Bishops Oratory Winter Park, Fla. Rev. Martin Bram Rev. C.H. Bascom Robert E Gribbin
Fri May 25, 1956 76 J. Carolyn G. Taylor 18 St. Luke's Courtenay Hugh E Cuthbertson
pgs 86-87
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
Easter Monday Apr 7
1897 1 Mrs. Adelaide Hallonquist √ Dead
" " 2 Miss Martha Sophia Hallonquist √ "
" " 3 James LaRoche √ Dead
" " 4 Mrs. Henrietta Reynolds LaRoche √ √ Dead
" " 5 Miss Sarah Reynolds LaRoche √
" " 6 Catharine LaRoche √
" " 7 Frank Wilkinson LaRoche √
" " 8 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth LaRoche
" " 9 Richard Jenkins LaRoche
" " 10 John Julius LaRoche √ Removed
" " 11 Mrs. Marian Stratton LaRoche √ Removed
" " 12 Elizabeth S. LaRoche
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
" " 13 Martha E. LaRoche Removed D. Apr. 2 1943
" " 14 Porcher Su 28 √ Dead
" " 15 Miss S. Julia " √
" " 16 John H. Sams
" " 17 Mrs. Sarah Stanyarne Sams √
" " 18 Miss Anna Celestina R. Sams
" " 19 John De Veaux Sams
" " 20 Dr. Milledge Bonham Sams √ Removed
" " 21 Mrs. Sarah Pheobe Sams √ Removed
" " 22 Miss Catharine Sams √ Removed
" " 23 Mrs. Sarah T. Smith Removed
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
" " 24 William Henry Webb √ Removed
25 Edward Whaley
" " 26 Miss Elizabeth E. Sams √ √
" " 27 R. S. S. Grant June 7, 1952 Transferred to Grace Mission Merritt
" " 28 Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Porcher √ √ Died June 10,
1892
" " 29 Benj. B. La Roche Removed
" " 30 Mrs. Julia Eva Jenkins √
pgs 88-89
31 Miss Sarah Reynolds Sams Removed
32 Mr. Horace Hann Sams
33 Miss Adelaide Sams
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
34 Fredrick R. Whitlock √ Dead
35 Wm. La Roche
Jan 1902 1 (R) Mrs. A. A. Hallonquist (1912) √
2 (R) Martha S. La Roche Died May 12,
1909
3 Miss Sarah Reynolds La Roche Married Horace H. Sams July 6, 1943
4 Catharine D. B La Roche
5 Francis Wilkenson LaRoche D
6 Mrs. Mary E. LaRoche
7 Richard J. LaRoche
8 Mrs. Elizabeth S. LaRoche
9 (R) Mrs. L. Julia Porcher Died Dec. 22,
1902
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
10 Jno H. Sams
11 (R) Mrs. Sarah S. Sams Died Oct. 6, 1902
12 Miss A. Celestina Sams
13 J. De Veaux Sams
14 (R) Edward M. Whaley Deceased
15 Horace H. Sams
16 (R) Adelaide E. S. Black Removed
17 Wm. F. La Roche
18 Mrs. Margret M. Allen Removed. Cocoa.
19 Margerie Daffern √ Died 1900
20 Thomas J Daffern √ Died June 1902
21 Mary Olivia LaRoche Mrs. Will LaRoche
22 Benj. B. LaRoche
23 Martha E. LaRoche D
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
24 Jennie May Sams
pgs90-91
25 (R) Daniel J. La Roche D
26 Emily Judson La Roche Mrs. Dan
27 (R) John Sams La Roche Removed
28 Wm. Seabrook Sams
29 (R) Julia Eva LaRoche Jenkins D
30 (R) Amarintha Whaley Cocoa
31 (R) L. P. Allen Removed Cocoa
32 Robert Stanyarm LaRoche W, P. Beach
33 Judson W. La Roche
34 James La Roche Jenkins
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
35 (R) Henry R La Roche D.
36 Benj. Bailey LaRoche Jr.
37 Fred Littleton LaRoche
38 (R)Annie Signon Sams Deceased
39 Charles W. LaRoche
40 (R) Albert Teed W.P. Beach
41 (R) Annie Teed LaRoche W.P. Beach
42 (R) Robert Godbey Transferred
43 (R) Henry H Elliston Atchison, KS Removed
44 (R) John J. LaRoche Lapsed
45 (R) Marion H. LaRoche
46 Adelaide Hallonquist LaRoche Removed
47 P. Braun Died Nov 19, 1943
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
48 Marion Hallonquist LaRoche Mrs. Sam Grant
49 Rose Mildred LaRoche Mrs. Judson LaRoche
Sunday 1/1/33 1 Hortense J. LaRoche Confirmed 1/1/33 Mrs. Frank D
2 Francis Birt LaRoche " M
3 Walter Daniel LaRoche " Mr. & Mrs. Walter LaRoche Transferred to St. Marks Cocoa 12/31/54
4 Marjory Thelma LaRoche (Mrs. Charles Brannin) " Mr. Chas R. Brannin Ft. Knox Cocoa
5 Mrs. Sarah Chase LaRoche " M
pgs 92-93
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
Sunday 12-16 -34 6 Elizabeth Clement Taylor Confirmed 12-16-34 V
" " 7 (R) Alice Cloud Godby " Deceased
" " 8 Pearl Christine La Roche " W. P. B. Mrs.
Herbert
Sunday 12-18-38 9 Robert Vernon Dingman Confirmed 12-18-38 Received From St Marks Cocoa where confirmation occurred
Sunday 12-26-40 10 (R) Dorothy Eleanor Allen St. Mark's, Cocoa ({illegible} Dyal) Transferred to St. Mark’s, Cocoa 10/14/53
" " 11 (R) Georgia Drysdale Allen " Mrs. Wesley Dyal "
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
Sunday 1-5-41 12 (R) Clara Martha Dingman Confirmed 1-5-1941
St. Mark's,
Cocoa Trans. To H. Trinity
W.P.B. Mar 1947
7-20-43 13 Horace H. Sams From old entry Died Aug 27-52
14 Mrs H. H. (Martha S. LaR) Sams Married 7-
6-43
15 Miss Sara Reynolds La Roche
16 Mrs. Mary E. La Roche Braun
17 Mrs Eliz. S (R. B.) LaRoche
18 (R) Miss A. Celestina Sams Died Feb 16,
1953 Deceased 2-16-53
19 William F. La Roche
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
20 Mary Olivia La Roche
21 (R) Benj. B La Roche Deceased March 30, 1946
22 Jennie May Sams (Rockledge)
23 Emily Judson LaRoche
24 William Seabrook Sams
25 (R) Judson W. LaRoche Died Sept 16, 1952 Deceased 9-16-
1952
26 James LaRoche Jenkins
27 Benj. B. LaRoche Jr.
28 Fred Littleton LaRoche
29 Charles W. LaRoche
30 Frank Daniel LaRoche
31 Mildred (Mrs. Judson) LaRoche
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
32 Mrs. Sam (Marian H.) Grant
33 Judson W. LaRoche, Jr. Conf. 12-
19-43
34 Laurent La R. Taylor Conf. 1-5-
47
35 (R) Ellise B. Taylor " Transferred St. Marks - Cocoa 11/15/53
pgs 94-95
1-5-47 36 Juanita Treadwell LaRoche Confirmation
3-25-
47 37 (Mrs H.L.) Pearl Christine LaRoche Tr. Holy T.
W. P. B. Transferred St. Mark’s Cocoa 3/10/52 C.H.B.
3-26-
47 38 Herbert LaRoche " Transferred 3/2/54 C.H.B.
Day Date No. Names Whence Received Removals, Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
" 39 Richard William LaRoche Transferred to Holy Trinity Church W.P.B Jan 29 1951
C.H.B.
" 40 Shirley Nell Mc Michael (Mrs. Laurent) Taylor Trinity, Newcastle
5-25-
56 41 J. Carolyn G. Taylor Confirmation
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
A.D. Res. of Fred Herbert 27 City Point Herbert & Faustina B.F. Brown Members of
1900 Jno H. Black 22 Courtenay Mary A. Black by the both families
Apr 11 Sams & Adelaide Jno. H. & Sarah Courtenay Bishop
Elizabeth Sams Sams
A.D. 1900
March Res. of Danl. J La Roche Lawrence Porcher Allen And Margret McG. Whitlock Courtenay, Fla. Courtenay Fla. A.J. Whitlock & Martha Cor Courtenay, Fla. H.B. Stuart Martin
Priest in charge
A.D. Married by John DeVeaux Courtenay Fla. Jnost & Sarah Courtenay, Fla. W.H. Cresson Members of
1903 Methodist Sams Sams This mtny. is both families
Sept. Min. Jennie May Georgiana Fla. J. Brady Georgiana, Fla. made as a
15th Church at Brannin Brannin & matter of record
Georgiana Brannin
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
A.D. St Luke's Wm. Francis La Courtenay, Fla. Frank W. & Courtenay, Fla. H. B. Stuart
1903 Church Roche Marie Martin
Sept & Mary Olivia Courtenay, Fla. Elizabeth La
30th La Roche Roche
Benj. B.&
Martha E.
La Roche
A.D. 1908
Jan. 1st St. Luke's Church Joseph Powers And Mary Catharine Sams Courtenay, Fla. Mr. Seabrook Sams
& Sarah J. Sams Courtenay, Fla. Percy J. Robottom Memb. of both families
A.D. 1907 St. Luke's Church Marion Seabrook Whaley and Amarintha La Roche Jenkins
{Courtenay, Fla. E. M. Whaley & Henry Jenkins
& Julia Eva La Roche
{Courtenay, Fla. Rev. H.B. Stuart Martin (attend) Jno. H. Sams (Warden) The Congregation
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
A.D. 1909 St. Luke's Church Courtenay Edwin Whaley La Roche
& Mary a
Formsend Courtenay, Fla. Rockville Charleston Co. So. Ca.
1910
June 29 St. Luke's Ch. Edward La Roche Grimball Henrietta Herbert Jenkins Johns Stand, S.C.
Courtenay, Fla. Henry Jenkins
& Julia E. La Roche Courtenay W.H. Cresson The Congregation
1914 Residence Henry Reynolds Courtenay, Fla. Benj. B. & Courtenay, Fla. W.H. Cresson Ben B. La
March of Rufus La Roche Banyan, Fla. Martha E. La Banyan, Fla. Roche
24 Stewart Eugenia Stewart Roche " Wm. F. La
Banyan, Rufus B. & Roche
Fla. Mary Stuart
1914
Nov. 18th St. Luke's Church Robert Stanyarm LaRoche
Annie S. Tead Courtenay, Fla. Courtenay, Fla. B. B. La Roche
&
Martha E. La
Roche Frank Tead Tead Courtenay, Fla. Courtenay, Fla. W.H. Cresson B. B. LaRoche
M. E.
LaRoche
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
January 1916 Court. W. Oliv Taylor Adilaide H.
La Roche Courtenay, Fla. Courtenay, Fla. John J. La Roche Marian H. La Roche Court. Court. W.H. Cresson Richard J. LaRoche Martha I. LaRoche Frank W. LaRoche
1916
Dec 27 Artesia, Fla. Samuel L. Knutson Anice L. Chandler Courtenay, Fla. Artesia, Fla. Knutson Chandler Court., Fla. W.H. Cresson O.H.
Chandler C.R.
Copeland
1925 St. Luke's Reginald Clark 20 Cocoa, Fla. Oscar C. Yates Courtenay, Fla. Rev C.H. R.B. LaRoche
January Ch Yates 20 Courtenay, Bertha Blanche Bascom W.F. LaRoche
28th Court. Catherine Olivia Fla. Yates Priest-in- Eva LaRoche
LaRoche William Francis Charge
La Roche
Eva LaRoche
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
1925 St. Luke's Robert Vernon 32 Rockledge, Wm. R. & Courtenay, Fla. Rev. C.H. W. F.
July 7th Ch. Dingman Fla. Clara A. Bascom LaRoche
Courtenay Celestina Sams 17 Dingman (P.i.C.) E.W. La
La Roche Courtenay, B.B. & Martha E. La Roche
Fla. Roche
1926 St. Luke's Bonham La 22 Rockledge, Benjamin Bailey & Courtenay, Fla. Rev. C.H. James J.
Novembe Ch. Roche Fla. Martha Edwards Bascom Jenkins
r 25th Courtenay Ida Lucile Yates 18 West Palm La Roche (P.i.C.) Bernard E
Beach, Fla. Oscar C. & Black
Bertha Blanche E.W. LaRoche
Yates
1930
March
19th
St. Luke's Ch. Court.
Patrick Simson Joseph Grant Marian H.
La Roche
21
22
Indianola, Fla.
Courtenay, Fla.
Robert Simpson Stevens Grant Annie Eliza Grant John Julius & Marian H.
La Roche
Indianola, Fla. Court., Fla.
Geo B. Scriven
Robert W. La Roche
John J. La Roche
1930
June
Indianola
Wm. Oliv Taylor
40
Courtenay
Cora Isabella Quimby Taylor
Deceased "
Service performed by
P.S.J. Grant
R.S.S. Grant
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
12th Irene Caroline
B. Grant 7 Indianola Wm. Evans Lee Taylor
Robert Simpson
Stevenson Grant Anne E. Fields Grant
Indianola Deceased W.W. Lait, Methodist pastor in absence of Rector of St. Luke's Ch. Marian H. LaR. Grant This entry made by Wm. L.
Hargrave (P.i.C.) Sept 20, 1934
1935
Mar. 30
Merritt
Robert Waite La Roche
Mary Elizabeth La Roche
27
27
Courtenay Merritt
Robert B. La Roche Elizabeth La Roche William F.
La Roche
Mary Olivia La Roche
Courtenay
Courtenay Merritt
Wm. L.
Hargrove
Lowell B. Fauner
P.S.J. Grant
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
1940 St. Luke's Jasper Wesley 24 Collinwod, Carnie Boswell Collinwood, Wm. L. Lulu Cloud
Oct. 28 Morgan Tenn. Morgan Tenn. Hargrave Roy M. Stone
Lillian Victoria 20 Courtenay, Taylor H. Morgan
Cloud Fla. Robert Pryor Cloud
Lula M. (Miller)
Cloud Deceased
1941 St. Luke's Charles Robert 26 Cocoa, Fla. Charles Lamdear Melbourne, Fla. Wm. L. Celestine La
May 22 Ch. Brannin Brannin Hargrave Roche
Marjorie Martha E.Brannin " Dingman
Thelma La 22 Courtenay, Littleton LaRoche Courtenay, Fla. Elizabeth H.
Roche Fla. Thelma LaRoche La Roche
pgs 106-107
Friday St. Luke's Maurine Emily 16 Court., Fla. Fredrick Littleton La Court., Fla. Wm. L June Gray
Feb. 13, Church LaRoche 21 Lexington, Roche Hargrave Raymond
1942 Carl H. Sanborn Mass. Thelma La Roche Deceased Milford
Carlton Sanborn
Mother Unknown
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
Saturday Patrick Air Edward Porcher 22 Cocoa, Lewis Sutton Andrews Cocoa, Fla. H.F. Bache Lewis S.
20 June Force Andrews Florida Myrtis Porcher B.D. Andrews III
1953 Base Janet 22 Patrick Air Andrews Grace Norris
Chapel Richardson Force William Lloyd Church Andrews
Base Richardson Patrick AFB Gainesville,
Georgia M. Richardson GA
Monday St. Luke's Joe Hunter Lee 25 Shreveport, La. Charles Hunter Fernday, La. Rev. C.H. Laurent L.
October Church Marian La Merritt Island, Lee Fernday, La. Bascom LaRoche
31st Roche Grant 21 Fla. Pauline Merritt Merritt Island, Priest-in- Mrs. P.S.J.
1955 Lee Fla. Charge Grant
Patrick Simon Merritt Island,
Joseph Grant Fla.
Marian H. L.
Grant
Day and Date Place Names Age Residence Parents Names Residence Clergy Witness and Remarks
Sunday St. Luke's Norman Hatch 38 Courtenay, Fla. George Edward Courtenay, Fla. Rev. Ch H. Anne L. King
Dec 11th Lander 39 La Roche Bascom Edward W.
1955 Marian Frances Melbourne, Fla. Esther Alice Courtenay, Fla. (P.i.C.) Porcher
Sargent Hatch
Russelll T. Melbourne, Fla.
Wright
Carrie Wright Melbourne, Fla.
Sat June 2,
1956 St. Luke's Church Court., Fla. Fred Woelk Clara Martha Dingman 23
24 Courtenay, Fla.
Courtenay, Fla. Fritz & Martha Woschik Woelk Robt. Vernon Dingman Celestina LaRoche Dingman Cologne, Ger. Cologne, Ger.
Deceased
Hobe Sound, Fla. Wm. L.
Hargrave Robert F. Meeks Celestine L. Bertine
Sat St. Luke's Hugh Gray Fulk 36 Merritt Hugh Gray Fulk, Sr. Winston-Salem, Robert E. Mrs. J.H. Lee
Feb 8th Church Jane Caroline Island, Fla. Nina Elizabeth N.C. Lenhard Jack C. Fulk
1958 Court. Grant Taylor 20 Merritt Carter-Denny
Island, Fla. Wilbur O. E. Taylor deceased
Irene Caroline B. Merritt Island, Fla.
Grant Courtenay, Fla.
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Burial Place Clergy
1 Richard La Roche Jenkins B. Courtenay, Fla. St. Luke's B.F. Brown
June 11
1902 2 Susan Elizabeth Porcher 65 Courtenay, Fla. June 10th 1892 St. Luke's B.F. Brown
April 21
1908 3 Beatrice Mira Porcher 7 Courtenay, Fla. April 20th 1898 St. Luke's Service read by Methodist. Minister
Jan 1896 4 John Seabrook Sams son of Mr. S. & S. Sams 4 " Jan 1896 H.B. Stuart- Martin
5 Kenneth Gray La Roche
Son of Rich J & Mattie H. La Roche "
Jan 18th 1897 6 Henrietta Reynolds La Roche Wife of James La Roche 62 & 5m. Jan 17,
1897 "
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Burial Place Clergy
Mar 30 1897 7 Sarah J. Sams Wife of Mr. Mikell Seabrook Sams 36 Courtenay, Fla. March 2nd "
8 Marjory Daffern 60 "
May 1899 9 James La Roche 76+ "
Sun Oct 27th 1901 10 Dorothy La Roche Dau. Of Rich J and Mattie H. La Roche 2 Courtenay, Fla. Oct 26th La Grippe [Spanish Flu] H. B. Stuart Martin (P.i.C.)
Wed Dec 4th 1901 11 Frederick L. Whitlock 30 Courtenay, Fla. Dec 3rd Inflammation of bowels H.B Stuart- Martin (P.i.C.)
May 22 1902 12 Frank Gould Black Son of Fred. H. & Adelaide S. Black 15mo
& 21d May 21st Brain Fever "
1st Sun June 1902 13 S. Bancroft Symmes " "
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C
. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Burial Clergy
June 1902 14 Thomas Daffern 62 " Consumption "
Oct 7th 1902 15 Sarah Stanyarne Sams
Wife of John H. Sams 62 " "
Nov. 7th 1902 16 A. J. Whitlock 75 " Oct 6th H.B. Stuart- Martin (P.i.C)
Dec. 22nd 1902 17 Sarah Julia Porcher " Dec 22nd, 1902
May 11 1909 18 Adelaide A. Hallonquist 79 " May 12,
1909 General Debility (old age) St. Luke's W.H. Cresson
June 5th 1910 19 William Bernard Sams 83+ " June 4,
1910 Gen. Debility (old age) " W.H. Cresson
Dec 14 1910 20 George Riley Transient 2 " Dec 14,
1910 Stomach Trouble " W.H. Cresson
Aug 9 1911 21 Catharine De Veaux Sams 81-
6 " Aug. 8th, 1911 Genr'l Debility (old age) " W.H. Cresson
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Burial Place Clergy
Dec 4 1911 22 Sarah Alzina Black 8-71/2 Delespine, Fla. Dec. 3rd 1911 Pneumonia " W.H. Cresson
Mar 24 1913 23 Clarence Walter Knutson
(Born July 28, 1819
{illegible}, M.E.) 16.4.4 Courtenay, Fla. March 22
1913 Tuberculosis " W.H. Cresson
June 26 1913 24 Mikell Seabrook Sams 66-2-
9 Courtenay, Fla. June 24,
1913 Apoplexy " W.H. Cresson
Dec 14 1915 25 William Jeremiah Teed 78 Courtenay, Fla. Dec 13,
1915 Old age Heart Failure " W.H. Cresson
28 1915 26 Jane Ann Tead Courtenay, Fla. 26th, 1915 Apoplexy & Heart Disease St. Luke's W.H. Cresson
Oct 9 1917 27 Julia Era Jenkins 53 Courtenay, Fla. Oct 8,
1917 Tuberculosis of Heart St. Luke's W.H. Cresson
Nov 22 1917 28 Anna. Knutson Courtenay, Fla. Nov. 21,
1917 Heart Failure St. Luke's W.H. Cresson
Feb 13 1918 29 Eliza Grimball La Roche 34 Courtenay, Fla. Feb.12, 1918 Blood Poisoning St. Luke's W.H. Cresson
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Burial Clergy
30 Charles Clement La Roche B. Courtenay, Fla. Killed by Philippine Outlaws on the island Churchyard Courtenay, Fla. W.H.
Cresson
Sat Jan 24
1920 1 Franklin W. LaRoche B.C. Courtenay, Fla. Jan 23,
1920 Cancer of the
{illeg.} Churchyard Courtenay W.H.
Cresson
Wed June 2
1920 2 Fanny Henrietta Bell 30 B.C. Courtenay, Fla. May 21
1920 Blood poisoning Churchyard Courtenay, Fla. W.H.
Cresson
Dec 17
1920 3 Adelaide H. Taylor 26 Courtenay, Fla. Dec. 16
1920 Pneumonia St. Luke's Church W.H.
Cresson
{illegible}
4
Friday Nov 28
1924 5 John Hanihan Sams 85-9 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. Nov. 28
1924 Old age St. Luke's Churchyard. Rev. J.G.
Litch per Rev. C.H.
Bascom
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Burial Clergy
Thur June 10
1926 Julia E. Sams 14 B. Courtenay, Fla. June 9
1926 Flu St. Luke’s Churchyard Rev. C.H.
Bascom
Wed Mar 15
1933 Ole Knutson 79 B. Daytona, Fla. Mar 11
1933 Senility St. Luke's Church Cemet. Wm. L.
Hargrave
Friday Mar 15
1935 Daniel Jenkins La Roche 76 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. Mar 14
1935 Senility St. Luke's Church Wm.L.
Hargrave
Tues May 7
1935 Richard Jenkins La Roche 84 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. May 6
1935 Senility St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
Tues Mar 10
1936 Katherine De V. Jenkins 64 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. Mar 9
1936 Pneumonia St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
41 J. De V. Sams 68 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. Dropsy St. Luke's Wm. L.
Hargrave
Mon Dec 13
1937 S.C. Michaelson 78 B. Courtenay, Fla. Dec 12
1937 Cerebral Hemorrhage St. Luke's Wm. L.
Hargrave
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Burial Clergy
Friday Sept. 30
1938 Dorothy Reynolds Black 29 B.C.C. Fern Park, Fla. Sept 28
1938 St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
Wed. Jun 25
1939 Robert Boone La Roche 78 B. Courtenay, Fla. Jan 24
1939 Carcinoma Colon St Luke's Churchyard Wm. L.
Hargrave
Fri Apr 12
1940 Lawrence Daniel Allen 32 B. Merritt, Fla. Apr 11
1940 Augina Pectoris St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
Thur June 6
1940 Marian H. La Roche 74 B.C.C. Indianola, Fla. June 6
1940 Senility St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
Mon Apr 14
1941 Floyd A. Powers 45 B. Merritt Is, Fla. Apr 13
1941 Intestinal Disorder St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
Tues July 8
1941 Sarah Sams Le Baron 70 B.C. Jacksonville
, Fla. July 7
1941 St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
Sun Sept 6
1942 John J. La Roche 88 B.C.C. Indianola, Fla. Sept 4
1942 Coronary Disease St. Luke's Church Wm. L.
Hargrave
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Burial Clergy
Sun Apr 4
1943 50 Mrs. Martha E. Sams La Roche 76 C. Courtenay, Fla. Apr 2
1943 St. Luke's Church H. F. Bache
S.n.f.A. Nov 21,
1943 51 Peter Braun 79 C. Merritt, Fla. Nov 19
1943 Prostate Tumor St. Luke’s Church H.F. Bache
Nov 9
1944 52 Mrs. Alice Godbey 63 C. Courtenay, Fla. Nov 6
1944 Coronary Sclerosis, Acute " H.F. Bache
Oct 7
1945 53 Henry H. Jenkins 85 C. " Oct 5
1945 " H.F. Bache
Dec 9
1945 54 John Sams La Roche 59 C South Merritt Island, Fla. Dec 6
1945 Apparent heart attack " H. F. Bache
55 Benj. B. La Roche “
Dec 23
1946 56 Lawrence Porcher Allen 84 B.C.C. Cocoa Dec 21
1946 Carcinoma “ H.F. Bache
Friday Nov 14
1947 Marion S. Whaley 64 B.C.C. Rockledge, Fla. Nov 10
1947 Cancer “ Rev. C.H.
Bascom
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Burial Clergy
Sat May 12,
1951 Sara Chase La Roche 58 B.C.C. Merritt Island, Fla. May 12
1951 Complications “ Rev. C.H.
Bascom
Mon Mar 17th 1952 Fred Herbert Black 78 B.C.C. Longuard, Fla. Mar 15
1952 Complications St. Luke's Church Rev. C.H.
Bascom
pgs 118-119
Mon Jun 9
1952 Patrick Simson Joseph Grant 43 B.C.C. Indianola, Fla. May 7
1952 Heart Failure St. Luke's Church Rev. C.H.
Bascom
Thur. Aug 28
1952 Horace Hahn Sams 78 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. August 27 1952 Complications St. Luke's Church "
Wed. Sept 17
1952 Judson Whitlock La Roche 60 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. Sept 15
1952 Pneumonia St. Luke's Church "
Sat Feb 21
1953 Anna Celestina Robinson Sams 80 B.C.C. Courtenay, Fla. Feb 16
1953 Bright’s Disease St. Luke's Church "
Sun Mar 8
1953 Mary E. Braun 87 B.C.C. Merritt Island, Fla. Mar 5
1953 Complications St. Luke's Church "
Day Date No Names Age B.C.C. Residence Date of Death Cause of Death Place of Burial Clergy
Tues Aug 10
1954 Richard H. La Roche 62 B.C.C. Merritt Island, Fla. Aug 9
1956 Complications St. Luke's Church Cemetery "
Thur. Nov 3
1955 Holly Lynn La Roche 3 hrs Daytona Beach, Fla. Nov 1
1955 Heart Condition St. Luke's Church Cemet. "
Taylor Indianola Cemetery
St. Luke's Church Cemetery Rev Wm H. Hargrave C.H.
Bascom R.E.
Lenhand
R.E.
Lenhand
Allen, Dorothy Cleaver
Allen, Dorothy Eleanor
Allen, Emily Judson
Allen, Georgia Drysdale
Allen, Georgie
Allen, L. P.
Allen, Lawrence Daniel
Allen, Lawrence P.
Allen, Lawrence Porcher
Allen, Margaret
Allen, Margaret M.
Allen, Margaret McG.
Allen, Margaret McGregor
Anderson, Indiana
Andrews, Edward Porcher
Andrews, Lewis S., III
Andrews, Lewis Sutton
Andrews, Myrtis Porcher
Andrews, Norris
Annie
apoplexy
Arney, Annie M.
Atchison, Kansas
Atkinson, Christine R.
augina pectoris
Bache, H. F.
Bache, Harold Franklin
Banyan
baptism
Barganier, Milton Ernest
Barganier, Peggy
Bartow
Bascom, C. H.
Bayliss, F. C.
Bell, Fanny Henrietta
Bertine, Celestine L.
Bishops Oratory
Black, Addie E.
Black, Adelaide
Black, Adelaide E.
Black, Adelaide E. S.
Black, Adelaide S.
Black, Bernard E.
Black, Bernard Ellis
Black, Dorothea Reynolds
Black, Dorothy Reynolds
Black, Elise Catharine
Black, Elsia Catherine
Black, Frank Gould
Black, Frank H.
Black, Fred H.
Black, Fred Herbert
Black, Frederick H.
Black, Herbert
Black, Mary A.
Black, Sarah Alizina
Black, Sarah Alyina
Blythe, Mary Nancy
Bornefeldt, Harold A.
Bornefeldt, Maurine E.
Boston, Massachusetts
Bowers, J. Brady
Bowers, May L.
Boynard, Anna S.
Bram, Martin
Brannin, Charles
Brannin, Charles Lamdear
Brannin, Charles Robert
Brannin, J. Brady
Brannin, Jennie May
Brannin, Marjory La Roche
Brannin, Marjory LaRoche
Brannin, Martha E.
Brannin, Michael Wayne
Brannin, Michelle Marie
Brannin, Robert
Brannin, Sandra Elizabeth
Brantly
Braun, Mary E.
Braun, Mary E. La Roche
Braun, P.
Braun, Peter
Bright's Disease
Brooklyn, New Jersey
Brown, B. F.
Brown, B. H.
burial
Burns, Cathrine B.
Buttmony, G. W.
cancer
carcinoma
carpenter
Carpenter, J. B.
Carpenter, Sam B.
Carr, Birdie M.
Carr, Birdie May Birt
Carr, Ira Nelson
Carr, William Milton
Carter-Denny, Nina Elizabeth
cemetery
cerebral hemorrhage
Chandler, Anice Bernice
Chandler, Anice L.
Chandler, O. H.
Chandler, Wyatt Elijah
Charles, John Allen
Charles, John Green
Charles, Margaret Quantock
Charleston County, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Chase, Daniel
Chase, Mary Palmer
church
church records
church register
City Point
Clary, Lutie F.
Cleveland, Alfred Sidney
Cleveland, Charles
Cloud, Lillian Victoria
Cloud, Lula M. Miller
Cloud, Lulu
Cloud, Robert Pryor
Cocoa
Coggin, Floyd L.
Collinwod, Tennessee
Cologne, Germany
communicants
confirmation
consumption
Copeland, C. R.
coquina
coronary disease
coronary sclerosis
court
Courtenay
Cresson, W. H.
Cuthbertson, Hugh E.
Daffern, Margerie
Daffern, Marjory
Daffern, Thomas
Daffern, Thomas J.
Dawson, Georgia
Dayas, Beatrice
Daytona
DcLoy, Cline Monts
Decatur, Georgia
Delespine
Dillons, Lois Sams
Dingham, Celestina La R.
Dingman, Celestina LaRoche
Dingman, Clara A.
Dingman, Clara Martha
Dingman, Robert Vernon
Dingman, William R.
Dyal, Georgia D.
Dyal, Wesley
Elliston, Henry H.
Episcopalian church
Episcopalians
Fauner, Lowell B.
Faustina
Fern Park
Fernday, Louisiana
Field, Joseph Edward
Folwell, W. H.
Formsend, Mary A.
Fort Knox
Fort Pierce
Fulk, Hugh Gray
Fulk, Hugh Gray, Jr.
Fulk, Hugh Gray, Sr.
Fulk, Jack C.
Gainesville
Georgiana
Gimball, Edward LaRoche
Gimball, Harriet J.
Gimball, Henrietta H.
Godbey, Alice
Godbey, Alice Cloud
Godbey, Robert
Godby, Alice Cloud
Godby, Robert
Goves, Charles
Grace Mission
Grace, B. D.
Graham, Joseph H.
Grant, Anne E. Fields
Grant, Annie Eliza
Grant, Irene Carolina Bannatinse
Grant, Irene Caroline B.
Grant, Marian H.
Grant, Marian H. L.
Grant, Marian La R.
Grant, Marian La Roche
Grant, P. S. J.
Grant, Patrick S. J.
Grant, Patrick Simon Joseph
Grant, Patrick Simson Joseph
Grant, R. S. S.
Grant, Robert Simpson
Grant, Robert Simpson Stevens
Grant, Robert Simpson Stevenson
Grant, Sam
Gray
Gray, June
Gribbin, Robert E.
Grimball, Bertha Louise
Grimball, Edward L.
Grimball, Edward La Roche
Grimball, Harriet J.
Grimes, Ann H.
Hallonquist, A. A.
Hallonquist, Adelaide
Hallonquist, Adelaide A.
Hallonquist, Elizabeth Sams
Hallonquist, Martha Sophia
Halloquist, Adelaide A.
Hargrave, William L.
Hargrove, Minnie W.
Hargrove, William L.
Harris, Fred
Hart, Evelyn
heart attack
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Hensley, James Aaron
Hensley, Joyce LaRoche
Hensley, Larry Bruce
Hobe Sound
Holmes, Beatrice Lenington
Holmes, Ethel Sinclair
Holmes, George Washington
Holmes, Howard Lenington
Holmes, Mary Lenington
Holy Trinity
Hopkins
Houston, Texas
Hoyt, Adelaide E.
Hoyt, Adelaide R.
Hoyt, John Mott
Indianola
Indianola Cemetery
influenza
Jacksonville
Jenkins, Amarintha La Roche
Jenkins, Daniel L.
Jenkins, Harry H.
Jenkins, Henrietta Herbert
Jenkins, Henry
Jenkins, Henry H.
Jenkins, J. L.
Jenkins, James La Roche
Jenkins, James LaRoche
Jenkins, Janus LaRoche
Jenkins, Julia
Jenkins, Julia E.
Jenkins, Julia Era
Jenkins, Julia Eva
Jenkins, Julia Eva LaRoche
Jenkins, Julia L.
Jenkins, Katharine Alison
Jenkins, Katherine
Jenkins, Katherine De V.
Jenkins, Richard La Roche
Jenkins, Richard LaRoche
Johns Stand, South Carolina
Kenaton, Thomas C.
King, Anne L.
Knight, Samuel D.
Knutson, Anice Lorena
Knutson, Anna
Knutson, Clarence Walter
Knutson, Eleanor Evangelia
Knutson, Ole
Knutson, Samuel
Knutson, Samuel L.
La Grippe
La Rioche, Johnny J.
La Rioche, Richard, Jr.
La Roch, John S.
La Roche, Adilaide H.
La Roche, Annie H.
La Roche, Annie T.
La Roche, Annie Tead
La Roche, B. B.
La Roche, Benjamin B.
La Roche, Benjamin Bailey
La Roche, Benjamin Bailey, Jr.
La Roche, Benjamin Bailey, Sr.
La Roche, Beth
La Roche, Birdie Thelma
La Roche, Birdie Thelma, Jr.
La Roche, Birdie Thelma, Sr.
La Roche, Bonham
La Roche, Carol Frances
La Roche, Cathrine Olivia
La Roche, Celestina Sams
La Roche, Celestine
La Roche, Charles Clement
La Roche, Charles Milton
La Roche, Charles W.
La Roche, Charles Wilson
La Roche, Daniel Francis
La Roche, Daniel J.
La Roche, Daniel Jenkins
La Roche, Dorothy
La Roche, E. W.
La Roche, Edward N.
La Roche, Edwin Whaley
La Roche, Eliza Grimball
La Roche, Elizabeth H.
La Roche, Elizabeth S.
La Roche, Emily Judson
La Roche, Eugenia
La Roche, Eugenia Stuart
La Roche, Eva
La Roche, F. W.
La Roche, Frances Arthur
La Roche, Frances Davis
La Roche, Frances W.
La Roche, Francis Birt
La Roche, Francis Daniel
La Roche, Frank D.
La Roche, Frank W.
La Roche, Frank Wilkinson
La Roche, Fred Littleton
La Roche, Frederic Francis
La Roche, Frederic Littleton
La Roche, Frederick Francis
La Roche, Frederick Littleton
La Roche, George Edward
La Roche, Harteuse Jane
La Roche, Henrietta
La Roche, Henrietta Reynolds
La Roche, Henry Reynolds
La Roche, Henry Reynolds, Jr.
La Roche, Henry Reynolds, Sr.
La Roche, Herbert
La Roche, Herbert L.
La Roche, Holly Lynn
La Roche, Hortense
La Roche, Hortense Woods
La Roche, J. J.
La Roche, J. Whitlock
La Roche, James
La Roche, James J.
La Roche, John J.
La Roche, John Julius
La Roche, John Sams
La Roche, Joyce
La Roche, Juanita Treadwell
La Roche, Judson W.
La Roche, Judson Whitlock
La Roche, Judson Whitlock, Jr.
La Roche, Judson Whitlock, Sr.
La Roche, Julia E.
La Roche, Julia Eva
La Roche, Katharine D.
La Roche, Katharine De V.
La Roche, Kenneth Gray
La Roche, Littleton
La Roche, Lucile Yates
La Roche, Marian H.
La Roche, Marian Hallonquist
La Roche, Marie Elizabeth
La Roche, Marjorie Thelma
La Roche, Marjory Holmes
La Roche, Marjory Thelma
La Roche, Martha E.
La Roche, Martha E. Sams
La Roche, Mary E.
La Roche, Mary Elizabeth
La Roche, Mary G.
La Roche, Mary Oliver
La Roche, Mary Olivia
La Roche, Mattie E.
La Roche, Mattie H.
La Roche, Mildred
La Roche, Pearl Christine
La Roche, R. B.
La Roche, Richard
La Roche, Richard H.
La Roche, Richard J.
La Roche, Richard Jenkins
La Roche, Richard, Jr.
La Roche, Richard, Sr.
La Roche, Robert B.
La Roche, Robert Boone
La Roche, Robert H.
La Roche, Robert M.
La Roche, Robert S.
La Roche, Robert Stanyarm
La Roche, Robert Stanyarm, Jr.
La Roche, Robert Stanyarm, Sr.
La Roche, Robert W.
La Roche, Robert Waite
La Roche, Rose M.
La Roche, Rose Mildred
La Roche, Sadie
La Roche, Sara Reynolds
La Roche, Sarah
La Roche, Sarah Chase
La Roche, Sarah Reynolds
La Roche, Thelma
La Roche, W. F.
La Roche, Walter Daniel
La Roche, Walter David
La Roche, William
La Roche, William F.
La Roche, William Francis
Lait, W. W.
Lander, Esther Alice
Lander, Norman Hatch
LaRoch, Bonham
LaRoche
LaRoche, Adelaide H.
LaRoche, Adeleaide Hallonquist
LaRoche, Anna Celestina Robertson
LaRoche, Annie H.
LaRoche, Annie Tead
LaRoche, Annie Teed
LaRoche, B. B.
LaRoche, Benjamin B.
LaRoche, Benjamin B., III
LaRoche, Benjamin Bailey, Jr.
LaRoche, Benjamin Bailey, Sr.
LaRoche, Benjamin Tead
LaRoche, Bertha Louise
LaRoche, Birdie Thelma
LaRoche, Bonham
LaRoche, Catharine
LaRoche, Catherine
LaRoche, Catherine Olivia
LaRoche, Celestina
LaRoche, Celestina Sams
LaRoche, Charles Clement
LaRoche, Charles W.
LaRoche, Christine
LaRoche, Christine M.
LaRoche, Daniel
LaRoche, Daniel J.
LaRoche, Daniel Jenkins
LaRoche, Dorthea Clinie
LaRoche, E. F.
LaRoche, Edward K.
LaRoche, Elizabeth
LaRoche, Elizabeth F.
LaRoche, Elizabeth H.
LaRoche, Elizabeth Hallonquist
LaRoche, Elizabeth S.
LaRoche, Elizabeth S. H.
LaRoche, Elizabeth S. Hallonquist
LaRoche, Elizabeth S. R. B.
LaRoche, Emily Judson
LaRoche, Eugenia
LaRoche, Eugenia La Roche
LaRoche, F. W.
LaRoche, Frances Arthur
LaRoche, Frances Hughlett
LaRoche, Francis Birt
LaRoche, Francis Daniel
LaRoche, Francis Elizabeth Marian
LaRoche, Francis W.
LaRoche, Francis Wilkinson
LaRoche, Frank
LaRoche, Frank W.
LaRoche, Frank Wilkinson
LaRoche, Franklin W.
LaRoche, Fred L.
LaRoche, Frederick Littleton
LaRoche, H. Reynolds
LaRoche, Harold Douglas
LaRoche, Henrietta R.
LaRoche, Henrietta Reynolds
LaRoche, Henry Reynolds
LaRoche, Herbert
LaRoche, Hortense
LaRoche, Hortense Ione Woods
LaRoche, Hortense J.
LaRoche, Hortense Woods
LaRoche, Ida Lucile Yates
LaRoche, James
LaRoche, James Boone
LaRoche, Jenkins, Daniel
LaRoche, John F.
LaRoche, John J.
LaRoche, John Julius
LaRoche, John Sams
LaRoche, Josephine Elaine
LaRoche, Juanita Treadwell
LaRoche, Judson
LaRoche, Judson W.
LaRoche, Judson W., Jr.
LaRoche, Junnie
LaRoche, Kenneth Gray
LaRoche, Laurent
LaRoche, Laurent Lascelles
LaRoche, Laurent P.
LaRoche, Lawrent L.
LaRoche, Littleton
LaRoche, M. E.
LaRoche, Marian H.
LaRoche, Marian Stratton
LaRoche, Marie Elizabeth
LaRoche, Marion H.
LaRoche, Marion Hallonquist
LaRoche, Marjory Thelma
LaRoche, Martha Edwards
LaRoche, Martha H.
LaRoche, Martha S.
LaRoche, Martha T.
LaRoche, Marvin
LaRoche, Mary Elizabeth
LaRoche, Mary Lucile
LaRoche, Mary Lucille
LaRoche, Mary O.
LaRoche, Mary Olivia
LaRoche, Mattie
LaRoche, Mattie E.
LaRoche, Maurine Elizabeth
LaRoche, Maurine Emily
LaRoche, Mildred
LaRoche, Mildred W.
LaRoche, Pearl Christine
LaRoche, R. B.
LaRoche, R. J.
LaRoche, R. Judson W.
LaRoche, Reynolds Stewart
LaRoche, Richard
LaRoche, Richard Boone
LaRoche, Richard Hallonquist
LaRoche, Richard J.
LaRoche, Richard Jenkins
LaRoche, Richard R.
LaRoche, Richard William
LaRoche, Robert
LaRoche, Robert B.
LaRoche, Robert Boone
LaRoche, Robert S.
LaRoche, Robert Stanyarm
LaRoche, Robert Waili
LaRoche, Rose Mildred
LaRoche, S.
LaRoche, S. Julia
LaRoche, Sadie
LaRoche, Sadie R.
LaRoche, Sara Chase
LaRoche, Sarah Chase
LaRoche, Sarah R.
LaRoche, Sarah Reynolds
LaRoche, Sarah S.
LaRoche, Sophia
LaRoche, Thelma
LaRoche, W. F.
LaRoche, Walter
LaRoche, Walter D.
LaRoche, Walter Daniel
LaRoche, Will
LaRoche, William
LaRoche, William F.
LaRoche, William Francis
Le Baron, Celestina Sams
Le Baron, Earnest Thatcher
Le Baron, Ernest Thatcher
Le Baron, Mary Kinsman
Le Baron, Sadie S.
Le Baron, Sarah Reynolds
Le Baron, Sarah Samas
Le Barron, Ada Hayman
Le Barron, Celestina Sams
Le Barron, Ernest Thatcher
Le Barron, Sarah Reynolds
Lee, Charles Hunter
Lee, J. H.
Lee, Joe Hunter
Lee, Pauline Merritt
Lenhand, R. E.
Lenhard, Robert E.
Lent
Lexington, Massachusetts
Litch, John G.
Littleton, Frederic
Longuard
Mann, Vameron
marriage
Martin, H. B. Stuart
Matthews, C. G.
Meeks, Robert F.
Melbourne
Mellon, Anna Lois Sams
Mellon, Jerome Henry
Mellon, Marian
Mellon, Mary Arleen
Mercedes, Texas
Merriman, E. H.
Merritt
Merritt Island
Miami
Michaels, Cora Lee Taylor
Michaelson, S. C.
Milford, Raymond
Miller, Jane Caroline
Mills, John H., Jr.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mist, Emma Irene
Mist, Irene Emma
Mist, John
Morgan, Carnie Boswell
Morgan, Jasper Wesley
Morgan, Taylor H.
Nash, Preston
Newcastle
Nicoles, P. M.
Old St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery
Orland
Palestine, Texas
Palm Beach
Panama City
Patrick Air Force Base
Peck, D. A.
pneumonia
Porcher
Porcher, Adrian Alma
Porcher, Arthur Gignilliatt
Porcher, Beatrice Mira
Porcher, Beatrice Mora
Porcher, Benjamin M.
Porcher, Edward P.
Porcher, Edward W.
Porcher, L. Julia
Porcher, S. J.
Porcher, Sarah Julia
Porcher, Susan Elizabeth
Powers, Catherine O.
Powers, Floyd A.
Powers, Joseph
Preston, Georgia
prostate cancer
Quantock, Emily Allen
Quantock, Margaret Allen
Red Level, Alabama
Richardson, Georgia M.
Richardson, Janet
Richardson, William Llloyd
Richmond, Virginia
Riley, Delilah C.
Riley, George
Riley, Rubin B.
Robottom, P. J.
Robottom, Percy J.
Rockledge
Rockledge, Jennie May Sams
Rockville, South Carolina
Rogers, James
Rowlson, Charles R.
Rummell, Grace Christine
Rummell, Grace W.
Rummell, R. W.
Rummell, Richard W.
Rummell, Richard W., III
Rummell, Richard W., Jr.
Rummell, Richard W., Sr.
Rummell, Richard W.Rummell, Violet Grace
Rummell, V. G.
Rummell, Violet Grace
Sams
Sams, A. Celestina
Sams, A. Celestina R.
Sams, Addie M.
Sams, Adelaide
Sams, Adelaide Elizabeth
Sams, Anna C.
Sams, Anna Celestina Robinson Sams
Sams, Anna Celestine R.
Sams, Anna Lois
Sams, Anna Lore
Sams, Annie Rignon
Sams, Annie S.
Sams, Annie Signon
Sams, B. B.
Sams, C. R.
Sams, Catharine
Sams, Catharine De Veaux
Sams, Catharn
Sams, Catherine
Sams, Catherine D.
Sams, Catherine D. E. V.
Sams, Catherine De. V.
Sams, Cecil Williams
Sams, Celestina R.
Sams, De Veaux Lorris
Sams, Edward LaRoche
Sams, Elizabeth E.
Sams, Ernest W.
Sams, Frances Carr
Sams, Frances Zara
Sams, Hervery Hanahan
Sams, Horace H.
Sams, Horace Hahn
Sams, Horace Hann
Sams, Horace S.
Sams, J. De V.
Sams, J. De Veaux
Sams, J. DeVeaux
Sams, J. H.
Sams, J. H., Sr.
Sams, J. W.
Sams, Jennie Gertrude
Sams, Jennie M. B.
Sams, Jennie May
Sams, John Brady Bower
Sams, John De Veaux
Sams, John DeVeaux
Sams, John H.
Sams, John Hanihan
Sams, John Seabrook
Sams, Julia Emily
Sams, Kathrine De V.
Sams, Martha S. LaR.
Sams, Mary Catharine
Sams, May S.
Sams, May Stanyarm
Sams, Melvin Toland
Sams, Mical Seabrook
Sams, Mikell Seabrook
Sams, Milledge Bonham
Sams, Millege B.
Sams, Millidge Braham
Sams, S. S.
Sams, Sarah
Sams, Sarah J.
Sams, Sarah L.
Sams, Sarah Phoebe
Sams, Sarah Reynolds
Sams, Sarah S.
Sams, Sarah Stanyarm
Sams, Seabrook
Sams, Sturner Stann
Sams, W. Earnest
Sams, Walter Birt
Sams, Walter Earnest
Sams, Walter Ernest
Sams, William Bernard
Sams, William S.
Sams, William Seabrook
San Angelo, Texas
Sanborn, Carl H.
Sanborn, Carlton
Saregent, Marian Frances
Schaefer, Bertha P.
Schofield, J. O.
Scrrvien, George B.
senility
Shackelford, Liota
Shakelford, Harold
Sharp, A. J.
Sharpe, A. P.
Sharpes
Shreveport, Louisiana
Sinclair, M. Belle Neilson
Smith, Barbra Allen Godby
Smith, Meredith Ellen Burns Smith
Smith, Robert Elliott
Smith, Sarah T.
Smith, Victory Cloud
South Merritt Island
Spanish influenza
St. Lucie
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
St. Marks
Stanyarm, May
Stewart, Eugenia
Stewart, Mary H.
Stewart, Rufus B.
Stone, Roy M.
Stuart, Mary
Stuart, Rufus B.
Symmes, S. Bancroft
Taylor, Adelaide H.
Taylor, Adelaide La Roche
Taylor, Carene Grant
Taylor, Carrie Grant
Taylor, Cora Isabella Quimby
Taylor, Elizabeth C.
Taylor, Elizabeth C. La R.
Taylor, Elizabeth Celemtn
Taylor, Elizabeth Clement
Taylor, Ellise B.
Taylor, Ellise Bullock
Taylor, J. Carolyn G.
Taylor, Jane Caroline
Taylor, Jane Caroline Grant
Taylor, Laurent
Taylor, Laurent Evans
Taylor, Laurent La R.
Taylor, Laurent LaRoche
Taylor, Mary Olivia
Taylor, Shirley Nell Mc Michael
Taylor, W. O. E.
Taylor, Wilbur O.
Taylor, Wilbur O. E.
Taylor, William Evans Lee
Taylor, William Oliv
Tead
Tead, Albert
Tead, Annie S.
Tead, Frank Tead
Tead, Jane Anne
Teed, Albert
Teed, William Jeremiah
Terrell County, Georgia
Thomas, Jewel
Thompson, Madison
Titusville
Travis, Alma Klein
Tropical Trail
tuberculosis
Wallace
Webb, William Henry
Weed, E. G.
West Palm Beach
Whaley, Amarintha Caroline
Whaley, Amarintha L. Jenkins
Whaley, Amarintha LaRoche
Whaley, Annie J.
Whaley, E. M.
Whaley, Edward
Whaley, Edward M.
Whaley, Edward N.
Whaley, Eva Julia
Whaley, Margaret Ruth
Whaley, Marion S.
Whaley, Marion Seabrook
Whaley, Marion Seabrook, Jr.
Whaley, Marion Seabrook, Sr.
Whaley, Marvin S.
Whitlock, A. J.
Whitlock, A. Judson
Whitlock, Frederick
Whitlock, Frederick L.
Whitlock, Frederick Littleon
Whitlock, Frederick R.
Whitlock, Margaret McG.
Whitlock, Martha
Willis, Annie L..
Willis, J. R..
Willis, William F.
Wing, John D.
Wingman, Celestina La Roche
Wingman, Celestina Sams
Wingman, Clara Martha
Wingman, Robert Vernon
Wingman, Robert Vernon, Jr.
Wingman, Robert Vernon, Sr.
Wingood, David
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winter Park
Woelk, Fred
Woelk, Fred Benjamin
Woelk, Fritz
Woelk, Martha D.
Woelk, Martha Woschik
Woods, Josephine G.
Woods, Walter W.
Wright, Carrie
Wright, Russell T.
Yates, Bertha Blanche
Yates, Betty Lucile
Yates, Catherine Olivia
Yates, Ida Lucile
Yates, Lucile
Yates, Oscar C.
Yates, Oscar Clayton
Yates, Reginald Clark
Yaylor, William Oliv