1 100 3 https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/9033e9e0d21d7fe34168f4a32125ea13.pdf 2a80b34125c69df0c7b67140b4e8dbdb 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 The Maitland News Collection Alternative Title Maitland News Collection Subject Maitland (Fla.) Description The Maitland News was a local newspaper originally published by the Maitland Realty Company (and later by The Maitland News Company) which began circulation in April 1926. This edition features articles on topics such as a new town water pump, an anniversary party, tax assessment complaints, WDBO radio programming, the opening of school, locally-grown fresh fruit, a church dinner, the health concerns of a local pastor, the housing arrangements of local residents, and a local events calendar. Also featured are several advertisements for local businesses. Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/113" target="_blank">Maitland Historical Museum Collection</a>, Maitland Collection, Orange County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/112" target="_blank">Maitland Collection</a>, Orange County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/46" target="_blank">Orange County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida. Language eng Type Collection Coverage Maitland, Florida Contributing Project <a href="http://artandhistory.org/maitland-history-museum/" target="_blank">Maitland Historical Museum, Art & History Museums - Maitland</a> Curator Settle, John Cepero, Laura Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> External Reference Poole, Leslie Kemp. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320803902" target="_blank">Maitland</a>. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009. "<a href="http://www.itsmymaitland.com/maitland_history.asp" target="_blank">Maitland History</a>." City of Maitland. http://www.itsmymaitland.com/maitland_history.asp. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format 6-page newspaper edition 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 The Maitland News, Vol. 01, No. 30, November 27, 1926 Alternative Title The Maitland News, Vol. 01, No. 30 Subject Maitland (Fla.) Description The Maitland News was a local newspaper originally published by the Maitland Realty Company (and later by the Maitland News Company) which began circulation in April 1926. This edition features articles on topics such as the completion of the city water plant, the resignation of Donald Spain from the Bank of Maitland, the beautification of Lily Lake, a Parent-Teacher Association Pie Supper, the opening of Sanlando Golf Club, new businesses, fire protection services, road improvements, local fruit, the organization of the town government, pest control, school notes, garden notes, the housing arrangements of local residents, and a local events calendar. Also featured are two jokes, a legal notice, and several advertisements for local businesses. Type Text Source Original 6-page newspaper edition: The Maitland News, Vol. 01, No. 30, November 27, 1926: Newspaper Collection, accession number 2014.002.020V, room 2, case 2, shelf 10, box GV, <a href="http://artandhistory.org/maitland-history-museum/" target="_blank">Maitland Historical Museum, Art & History Museums - Maitland</a>, Maitland, Florida. Requires <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a> Is Part Of Maitland News Collection, <a href="http://artandhistory.org/maitland-history-museum/" target="_blank">Maitland Historical Museum, Art & History Museums - Maitland</a>, Maitland, Florida. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/150" target="_blank">The Maitland News Collection</a>, Maitland Historical Museum Collection, Maitland Collection, Orange County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Is Format Of Digital reproduction of original 6-page newspaper edition: The Maitland News, Vol. 01, No. 30, November 27, 1926. Coverage Maitland, Florida Publisher The Maitland News Company Contributor Beyer, A. G. Date Created ca. 1926-11-27 Date Issued 1926-11-27 Date Copyrighted 1926-11-27 Format application/pdf Extent 1.89 MB Medium 6-page newspaper edition Language eng Mediator History Teacher Economics Teacher Geography Teacher Civics/Government Teacher Provenance Originally published by the Maitland News Company. Rights Holder Copyright to this resource is held by the Maitland Realty Company 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 Settle, John Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> Source Repository <a href="http://artandhistory.org/maitland-history-museum/" target="_blank">Maitland Historical Museum, Art & History Museums - Maitland</a> External Reference Poole, Leslie Kemp. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320803902" target="_blank">Maitland</a>. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009. "<a href="http://www.itsmymaitland.com/maitland_history.asp" target="_blank">Maitland History</a>." City of Maitland. http://www.itsmymaitland.com/maitland_history.asp. A. G. Beyer Agnes Stiggins agriculture Alexander Rowland Anna B. Treat Annie Ruth Mulkey Audrey Lampp Augusta McNair B. E. Hardacre B. M. Robinson Bank of Maitland banking banks Barbara Bennett beautification Beautification Committee Betty Jane Kilbourn Black Bear Trail books Boy Scouts of America Brown's Store C. D. Horner C. G. Galloway C. J. Woodward C. L. Pruyn Cara Nelson chambers of commerce Charles D. Horner Chevis Osteen chinch bugs Christine Ponder church churches Cleo Umphery clubs Comille Sowell Dale Orwick Dixie Highway Donald G. Spain E. A. Upmeyer E. T. Wynne Edward R. Hanson Emma Mae Sowell F. A. McNair F. G. Manning F. R. Fanning Company fire departments fire protection Flora's Studio fruit industry fruits G. L. Perryman gardening Gary's Pharmacy golf golf clubs Goodyear Tires government H. R. Peat H. S. Thompson Hill School holidays housing J. A. Brown J. A. Pinder J. F. Gardner J. G. Bennett J. G. Foster J. I. Strong J. M. Brown Jack Lee Jane Conklin Jean Springer Jimmie McNair K. E. Kilbourn L. L. Lampp Lake Catherine Lake Sybelia libraries library Lily Lake local government Louis L. Coudert Lucille Lampp Lucinda Milliman M. A. Howard M. L. Kyle M. P. Ponder Maitland Maitland Clothing and Dry Goods Store Maitland Electric Shop Maitland Garage Maitland Library Maitland Lumber Company Maitland Plumbing Company Maitland Realty Company Mamie Fugate Margaret Rice Margaret Russell Mary Belle Milliman Mary C. Ely Mary Frances Rice Max Meer May Rena McIntyre Mertice Horton Methodism Methodist Mickey Peat Mildred Boswell Minnie Moremen municipal government Myrtle Osteen Parent-Teacher Association pest control Presbyterian Presbyterianism PTA R. A. Wheeler real estate resignation Richard Pinder roads Robert Kilbourn Rollins Press Rosa Belle Allen Ruby Lake Grove Fruit Company S. B. Hill, Jr. S. J. Stiggins Sanlando Golf Club schools St. Augustine grass Thanksgiving The Maitland News Town Council town government Twila Horton Virginia Ponder W. A. Myers W. G. Johnston water plants waterworks White-Way Restaurant William Cammack Winter Park Cleaners Winter Park Telephone Company Yellowstone Tea Room zoning Zoning Commission https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/b606de13190dcf019601c47ba14dcf4b.pdf 5957cd10bcbf0bb9065c1a539101ec1b 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 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">Oviedo, Biography of a Town</a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979. Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank">Around Oviedo</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. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format 28-page booklet 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 The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition Alternative Title Oviedo Outlook Centennial Edition Subject Oviedo (Fla.) Description The centennial edition of The Oviedo Outlook published in 1979 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Oviedo, Florida. The newspaper begins with a brief history of Oviedo, followed by articles devoted to important members of the community, including Evelyn Cheek Lundy and John Lundy, Thad Lee Lingo, Jr. and Lacy Aire Lingo, Clare Wheeler Evans, Wayne Jacobs and Karen Jansen Jacobs, Thomas Moon, Marguerite Partin, Frank Wheeler, Katherine Lawton, Tom Estes, Ed Yarborough and Ima Jean Bostick Yarborough, Virginia Balkcom Mikler, Paul Mikler, Sparks Lingo Ridenour and John Ridenour, Ray "Rex" Clonts and Thelma Lee Clonts, Jean Jordan and Harold Jordan, the Malcolm family, Edward Duda, Penny Mitchem Olliff and Leon Olliff, Louise Wheeler Martin and Bill Martin, Miriam "Mimi" Wheeler Bruce and Douglas Allen, Viola Smith, and Cay Westerfield. Type Text Source Original 28-page booklet: The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition, 1979: <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida. Requires <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a> Is Part Of <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a>, Oviedo, Florida. <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 28-page booklet: The Oviedo Outlook: Centennial Edition, 1979. Coverage Oviedo High School, Oviedo, Florida First Baptist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida First Methodist Church of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida Oviedo Woman's Club, Oviedo, Florida Oviedo, Post Office, Oviedo, Florida Memorial Building, Oviedo, Florida Sweetwater Park, Oviedo, Florida Lake Charm, Oviedo, Florida Lake Jesup, Oviedo, Florida Geneva, Florida St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Slavia, Oviedo, Florida White's Wharf, Oviedo, Florida Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida Citizens Bank of Oviedo, Oviedo, Florida Publisher The Oviedo Outlook Date Created 1979 Date Issued 1979 Date Copyrighted 1979 Format application/pdf Extent 11.8 MB Medium 28-page booklet Language eng Mediator History Teacher Provenance Originally published by The Oviedo Outlook. Rights Holder Copyright to this resource is held by The Oviedo Outlook 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://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a> Curator Cepero, Laura Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> Source Repository <a href="http://oviedohs.com/" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society</a> External Reference "<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. Adicks, Richard, and Donna M. Neely. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5890131" target="_blank">Oviedo, Biography of a Town</a>. S.l: s.n.], 1979. "<a href="http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68" target="_blank">History</a>." City of Oviedo, Florida. http://www.cityofoviedo.net/node/68. Robison, Jim. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/796757419" target="_blank">Around Oviedo</a>. 2012. 4th of July A. Duda A. Duda and Sons, Inc. A. J. McCulley A. M. Jones A&W ACL African American Al Ruthberg Al Ruthberg's Dry Goods Alafaya Square Alafaya Woods Alafaya Woods Boulevard Albertsons Allen Street American Bandstand American Legion American Legion Post 243 American Radioactive Chemical Company Anderson Andrew Aulin, Sr. Andrew Duda Ann Leinhart Anna Thompson anniversary Anything for Floors Artesia Street Arthur Evans Arthur Scott Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company Augusta Covington Aulin Avenue Avenue B. B. F. Wheeler B. G Smith Babe Ruth League Bank of Oviedo Baptists Baptizing Lake Barbara Walker-Seaman baseball basketball Bean Soup Ladies Belle Glade Ben Ward Ben Wheeler Benjamin Frank Wheeler Benny Ward Betty Aulin Betty Malcolm Betty Malcolm Jackson Betty Palmer Betty Reagan Bill Clinton Bill Martin Bill Nelson Bill Ward Billie Chance Black Hammock Fish Camp Black Tuesday Bob Butterworth Bobby Malcolm Boston Hill Boston Park Boy Scouts of American Broadway Lily's Louis Edward Jordan, Sr. Broadway Street Brownie Buddy Tyson C. L. Clonts C. R. Clonts and Associated Growers C. S. Lee cattle Cattlewomen Cay Westerfield celery centennial Central Avenue Century 21 Real Estate Chance Chapman Road Charles Aulin Charles Evans Charles Lee, Jr. Charles Simeon Lee Charlie Beasley Charlie Malcolm Charlie McCully Chase and Company Chicago boys Chiropractic Healthcare Center Christmas Chuluota churches Ci Gi's Pizza and Subs Citizens Bank of Oviedo city clerk city council city government Clare Wheeler Clare Wheeler Evans Clarence William Nelson II Clark Clark Street Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. Claudia Mitchem Cleo Malcolm Cleo Malcolm Gore Cleo Malcolm Leinhart Clonts Farms, Inc. Clyde Holder Clyde Reese Moon coach Colonial Drive Cooper county commissioner county government Cow Bells Crooms High School Cross Seminole Trail Crutchfield D. D. Daniel D. D. Daniel Store David Evans Dawson Daytona De Leon Street Delco Democrat Democratic parks desegregation Dick Addicks Dick Clark Doc Malcolm Don Ulery Donna Neely Donnie Malcolm Dorothy Malcolm Dorsey Brothers Double R Private School Doug Allen Doug Allen Debris Cleaning Douglas Allen Downtown Oviedo Duda Dwardy E. H. Kilbee Econ Eating Club Econ River Econlockhatchee River Ed Duda Ed Yarborough Edgar Marvin Edith Mead education educator Edward Duda Edward Stoner Elida Margaret McCulley Elm Street Elnoa Allen Elsie Beasley Emma Catherine Wahgren Enoch Partin Equestrian Green Evelyn Cheek Evelyn Cheek Lundy Faircloth's Grocery farmer farming Fernell's Grocery FFA FFWC First Baptist Church of Oviedo First United Methodist Church of Oviedo Flagler's Hotel Florida Avenue Florida Federation of Woman's Clubs Florida High School Athletic Association Florida Power and Light Company Florida State Road 426 Florida State Road 434 Florida State Road 50 Florida Tech Florida Technological University football Forrest Harrill Burgess Foster Chapel Fountainhead Baptist churches Fourth of July Frank Wheeler Freeze of 1894 Freeze of 1917-1918 Freeze of 1989 freezes Fritz Mondale fruit flies fruit fly FTU Future Farmers of America Gardenia Gebhardy Geneva Geneva Drive Geneva Historical and Genealogical Society Geneva Methodist churches George Aire George Kelsey George Lee George Lee Wheeler George Means Georgetown Georgia Lee Georgia Lee Wheeler Gertrude Lucas Gladys Malcolm Glenridge Middle School government Grace Olliff Graham Street Great Crash, Stock Market Crash of 1929 Great Day in the Country Great Depression Greater Oviedo Chamber of Commerce groves Guy Lombardo Gwynn's Cafe Halloween Harold Henn Harold Jordan Hazel Malcolm Henry Foster Henry Wolcott high schools Hillcrest Drive Hollie Ruscher Horse Pond Howell Branch Road Hubert Max Lanier Hurley Ann Wainright Hurley Mae Moon Hurricane Donna Hyland Ida Boston Ima Jean Bostick Ocala Ima Jean Bostick Yarborough immigrants Independence Day infestation integration Irving Malcolm Jack Malcolm Jackie Kasell Jackson Heights Jakubcin James Earl Carter, Jr. James Gilbery James Lambert Malcolm Jane Cochran Jane Gaydick Jane Moran Jane Moran Wheeler Jean Jordan Jean Wheeler Jim Lee Jim Partin Jim Pearson Jim Wilson Jimmy Carter Jimmy Lee Jimmy Malcolm Joe Leinhart Joe Malcolm Joe Rutland John Currier John Evans John Ganaway Malcolm John Irving Malcolm John Lundy John Ridenour Johnny Smith Johnson Hill Joseph Leinhart Joseph Watts July 4th July Fourth Junie Duda Justice of the Peace Karate Academy Karen Jansen Karen Jansen Jacobs Katherine Lawton Katherine Mikler Katherine Mikler Duda Katheryn Lawton Katie Lawton Kay Dodd Kay Estes Keith Malcolm Kenneth Malcolm King King Street Kingsbridge Kit Lawton Kitty Young L. J. Gore Lacy Aire Lacy Aire Lingo Lake Barton Lake Charm Lake Charm Park Lake George Lake Harney Lake Jessup Settlement Lake Jesup Lake Mary Lake Pickett Lake Rosa Lakemont Elementary School Larry Neely Larry Olliff law Lawton Elementary School Lawton House Lawton's Grocery Lawtonville Lee and Todd Real Estate Company Lee Wheeler Leinhart Leon Olliff Leonard Jansen Letty Leinhart Linda Olliff Cliburn Linda Sheppard little league local government Lockwood Boulevard Lois Ridell Louise Gore Louise Wheeler Louise Wheeler Martin Lucy Fore Lucy Fore Bostick Magnolia Street Malcolm Mammy Jones Marguerite Partin Marilyn Partin Mark Bellhorn Marlow Link Martha Ann Bruce Martha Ann Moon Martha Ann Moon Lee Martin Anderson Martin Gore Mary Velora Moon Matheson Max Lanier May Day mayor Mayor of Oviedo McDonald's McKinnon Meat Market Mead Manor Mediterranean fruit fly Memorial Building Memorial Building Committee Merritt Staley Methodist Youth Fellowship Methodists Michael Bruce Mike Tsinsky Mikler Road Mimi Wheeler Mimi Wheeler Bruce Mims Minnie Means Miriam Wheeler Miriam Wheeler Bruce Mitchell Hammock Mitchell Hammock Road Model T Ford Mule trains Museum of Seminole County History MYF Myrtle Avenue natural disasters Navy Nelson Nelson and Company Niblack Building Nin a Ralston North Lake Jessup Novella Aulin Novella Aulin Ragsdale Ocala OHS Ol' Swimming Hole Old Downtown Development Group Old Mims Road Old Time History of By-Gone Days of Lake Jessup Settlement Orange Avenue oranges orlando Oviedo Oviedo Athletic Association Oviedo Child Care Center Oviedo City Cleaners, Inc. Oviedo City Clerk Oviedo City Council Oviedo City Hall Oviedo Garden Club Oviedo High School Oviedo Historical Society Oviedo Inn Oviedo Lights Oviedo Magazine Club Oviedo Marketplace Oviedo Post Office Oviedo Shopping Center Oviedo Town Council Oviedo Woman's Club OWC Palatka River Park Avenue Elementary School Partin Patrick Westerfield Paul Arie Paul Mikler Penny Mitchem Penny Mitchem Olliff Phil Goree picnic Pine Street pioneers post offices postmaster poultry R. W. Estes race relations Railroad Street railroads Rainbow Bowl rations Ray Alford Ray Clonts Reconstruction Red Barn Red Bug Lake Road religion Rex Clonts Rick Burns Riverside Park Robert A. Butterworth Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Roley Carter Ropers Rosa Gray Roy Clonts Roz Nogel Russell Boston Sanford Sanford Airport Sanford City League Sanford Road Sanlando Springs sawmill Sayde Fleming Sayde Fleming Duda Schmidt school superintendent schools Scott Perry SCPS Sears and Roebuck segregation Seminole County Public Schools Seminole County School Board Seminole County Sports Hall of Fame Seminole High School settlers Shedd Street Shirley Malcolm Sheppard Shirley Partin Signworks Graphik and Design, Inc. Silver Glen Springs Silver Star Simmons Singletary skiing Slavia Smoky Burgess Snow Hill snow Hill Road Solary's wharf Sparks Lingo Sparks Lingo Clonts Sparks Lingo Ridenour Spencer's Grocery and Drygoods Spencer's Store sports SR 426 SR 434 SR 50 St. Johns River St. Luke's Lutheran Cathedral State Democratic Committee statute Steak'n'Shake Steen Nelson Stevens Street Stommy Staley Stone Sugarby's Sunday schools Suzanne Partin Swedes Swedish Sweetwater Park Swift and Company swimming pool T. L. Lingo, Jr. T. L. Mead T. W. Lawton T. W. Lawton Elementary School Teacher's House teachers Ted Estes Thad Lee Lingo III Thad Lee Lingo, Jr. The Gap The Oviedo Outlook The Scrubs The Sign Man The Square Thee Lee Thelma Lee Thelma Lee Clonts Theodore Luqueer Mead Thomas Moon Thomas Willington Lawton Thompson Tom Estes Tom Moon Tom Morgan Tommy Estes town government Town House Restaurant Troy Jones turkey Tuscawilla Twin Rivers U.S. Army UCF University of Central Florida Vera Malcolm veteran Vietnam War Vine Street Viola Smith Virginia Balkcom Virginia Balkcom Mikler Virginia Staley W. G. Kilbee W. J. Lawton, Sr. Wagner Wall Street Crash of 1929 Wallace Allen Walter Frederick Mondale Walter Mondale Walter Teague water skiing Watermaster Plumbing Wayne Jacobs Wes Evans Wheeler Fertilizer Plant White's Wharf William Jefferson Blythe III William Jefferson Clinton Winborn Joseph Lawton, Sr. Winchester Insurance, Inc. Winter Park Winter Park Telephone Company Woman's Club World War II WWII Zellwood https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/14b93c17287a076148840608e8dc9534.pdf 9a986791d7846893de4742a36fcb83af 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 Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection Subject Museums--Florida Schools Elementary schools Grammar schools Sanford (Fla.) Description The Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection encompasses a broad range of materials and items ranging from the late 19th Century into the present. The collection includes artifacts, photographs, documents, videocassettes, and other historical records pertaining to the history of the Sanford Grammar School, the Sanford community through the years, and the history of teaching and learning within the United States from the 19th century to the 2010s. 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 Student Museum UCF Public History Center Language eng Type Collection Coverage Sanford High School, Sanford, Florida Westside Grammar Elementary School, Sanford, Florida Sanford Grammar School, Sanford, Florida Student Museum, Sanford, Florida UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida Contributing Project Student Museum UCF Public History Center Curator Marra, Katie Cepero, Laura Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> Source Repository Public History Center/Student Museum External Reference "Public History Center." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. "Student Museum." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx. Alternative Title Student Museum and PHC Collection Is Part Of <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/44" target="_blank">Seminole County Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida. Has Part <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/32" target="_blank">General Photographic Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central 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, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer Reisz, Autumn Interviewee Grace, David C. Location UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida Original Format 1 audio/video recording Duration 34 minutes and 56 seconds Bit Rate/Frequency 194kbps 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 Oral History of David C. Grace Alternative Title Oral History, Grace Subject Oral history--United States Fort Myers (Fla.) Museums--Florida Gardens--Florida Army Veterans--Florida Okahumpka (Fla.) Native Americans--Florida Description Oral history of David C. Grace, the Master Gardener and docent at the Student Museum and Center for Social Studies, located at 301 West Seventh Street in Sanford, Florida. Grace was born in Wichita, Kansas, on December 2, 1942. He attended Wichita State University and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1965. He performed missile maintenance at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, until he retired after three years. He accepted a job with United Telephone and moved to Fort Myers around 1970. When United Telephone purchased the Winter Park Telephone, Grave migrated to Central Florida. After being laid off, he decided to become a Master Gardener for the Student Museum, while also working as a Chief Financial Officer for the Florida Safety County. This interview was conducted by Autumn Reisz in Sanford on October 30, 2012. Table Of Contents 0:00:00 Introduction 0:03:42 Student Museum 0:10:20 Garden maintenance 0:16:32 Being a docent 0:28:01 Favorite stories 0:29:50 RECORDING CUTS OFF 0:29:50 Favorite stories 0:33:30 Closing remarks Abstract Oral history interview of David C. Grace. Interview conducted by Autumn Reisz in Sanford, Florida. Type Moving Image Source Grace, David C.. Interviewed by Autumn Reisz. UCF Public History Center. October 30, 2012. Audio/video record available. UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida. Requires <a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" target="_blank">Adobe Flash Player</a>. <a href="http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp" target="_blank">Java</a>. <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a> Is Part Of UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida. <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/31" target="_blank">Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida. Has Format Digital transcript of original 34-minute and 56-second oral history: Grace, David C.. Interviewed by Autumn Reisz. UCF Public History Center. October 30, 2012. Audio/video record available. UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida. Coverage Fort Myers, Florida Ocala, Florida Winter Park, Florida Student Museum and Center for Social Studies, Sanford, Florida Creator Reisz, Autumn Grace, David C. Date Created 2012-10-30 Date Modified 2012-10-30 Format video/mp4 application/pdf Extent 248 MB 183 KB Medium 34-minute and 56-second audio/video recording 13-page typed transcript Language eng Mediator History Teacher Geography Teacher Provenance Originally created by Autumn Reisz and David C. Grace. Rights Holder Copyright to this resource is held by the UCF Public History Center and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a> for educational purposes only. Accrual Method Donation Contributing Project UCF Public History Center Curator Cepero, Laura Digital Collection <a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a> Source Repository UCF Public History Center/Student Museum External Reference "Public History Center." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. "Exhibits." Public History Center, University of Central Florida. "Student Museum." Seminole County Public Schools. http://www.scps.k12.fl.us/studentmuseum/Home.aspx. Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank">Sanford</a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003. Click to View (Movie, Podcast, or Website) <a href="http://youtu.be/Rq-r1Elhi_s" target="_blank">Oral History of David C. Grace</a> Transcript Reisz Okay, alright. Here we go. So I’m going to do a little intro, uh, that—I am Autumn Reisz and I am interviewing David [C.] Grace this morning, and we’re gonna talk about, um, his experiences and work at the Student Museum in Sanford, um, as a Master Gardener and also a docent, and then—so if you want to start with telling us where you grew up, and went to school, and—and how you ended up here in Florida. Grace Okay, uh, how I wound up in Florida goes back in history. I am from Wichita, Kansas, where I was born in 1942. Went to, uh, high school there at Wichita [High School] East. One of my close buddies was [Robert] “Bob” [Michael] Gates… Reisz Nice. Grace Uh, the Secretary of the Defense, formerly. Went to Wichita State University, graduated, unfortunately, four years later. Uh, I didn’t think I was going to make it. I say “unfortunately,” because I graduated with a business emphasis in accounting, and I was also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant United States Army in 1965. So I tried to work on a Master’s Degree, and that didn’t work too well. So I found myself going on active duty and Redstone Arsenal in [Huntsville,] Alabama—missile command. So I was a missile maintenance officer for three years. Then I, uh, then I decided to retire early, after three years. I interviewed with a number of companies, and, uh—Firestone [Tire and Rubber Company], um, uh—some other companies in the Midwest, but then somebody offered me a job in Fort Myers, Florida. Now my connection to Florida goes back to 1914. My dad was born here in Okahumpka in Lake County. Uh, my grandparents—my grandmother grew up in a little town called Bloomfield, Florida, which no longer exists. It’s on the south side of, uh, Lake Harris—close to Yalaha. My dad was named after, uh, the kaolin pit. Kaolin is a white chalk used as a filler in paper, china, that sort of thing. So, uh, things did not work out, eh, the price of kaolin went south, so the family had to move to Central Georgia, where the Kaolin was better quality. Dad decided in, uh, about 1937, he didn’t want to be a pig farmer, or be in Central Georgia, where it was just a mining town. He went to aviation school and was later hired by Walter Beech—Beech Aircraft<a title="">[1]</a> in Wichita. So, uh, that is where my mom comes in and, uh—so my, uh—so, uh, that’s where my life started in 1942. Now, you know, we’d always go to Grandma’s house in Central Georgia every year, until I was 17 years old, and from there, we’d always venture down to Florida. So I knew something about Florida and I guess that one of my decisions about going to work for United Telephone [Company of Florida] in Fort Myers. I’ve been here in Florida basically since 1970. I followed the purchases of, uh, Florida Telephone Corporation in Ocala. So I was there in Ocala for a few years, came here in 1978, with the purchase of Winter Park Telephone [Company], and, uh, now we know United Telephone has the, uh, the company that is Sprint [Corporation], and the other company is right now called CenturyTel. So that’s how I got here. Reisz Nice. That is quite the journey [laughs]. So how did you become involved with the Sanford museum?<a title="">[2]</a> Grace Uh, when I retired, and I was at the regulatory with the phone company, the regulation went away. The telephone company was deregulated. Uh, so in 1997, at the age of 55, they said, “The regulation has gone away and so are you.” So I retired and, uh, [clears throat] one of the things that I wanted to do was be a—a gardener. Moving to Florida and being a gardener—you have to understand that things don’t grow like they do in Kansas. So, um, I guess I wanted to be a Master Gardener. So I took the 14-week course, which is one day a week—essentially from 9 to 3. After that time—time you become a Master Gardener. So the day that I graduated from being a Master Gardener, I also went back to work with a, uh—as a CFO [Chief Financial Officer] for the Florida Safety Council. So I gave that up after three years. Now, what was beautiful about, um—about workin’ at the Central Florida Safety Council, being a Master Gardener—which requires 35 hours a year of volunteer service—every last Saturday of the month, here at the Student Museum was an opportunity to volunteer in the gardens. The gardens started here in about 1997-98 time frame. So over a period of three years, I was up here once a month to get my 35 hours a year, and after that, I just kinda hung around. Reisz Um, can you tell us a little bit about the teaching gardens? Um, and how they are used to teach the students? Grace [clears throat] Okay, well, when I retired the second time, I was asked to come in and be a docent, and, uh, I used to teach the majority of all the rooms here, but I did fall in love with Native American history [clears throat]. The individual that started the gardens was, uh, Walter Padgent, who, at that time, owned Higgins House [Bed and Breakfast], just up the street here, and he was also in the same class as I was for the Master Gardener organization. So, uh, being here, at the—at the Student Museum, I kind of fell in love with [clears throat] Native American history, and, uh—and Walt Padgent—that’s how the gardens started—was he had this vision of—and he used to be, I believe, a pioneer docent. So he wanted something out here—immediately right outside the windows here—uh, where the first grounds of a vegetable garden, or pioneer garden, which allowed the fourth grade students to come here, dig a trench, plant their beans, cover it up, water it, and end the exhibit part outside. Couple of years ago, I challenged a lady—and I didn’t actually challenge her. I just said to her one day, “Wouldn’t it be nice to have a three sisters garden out here?” The three sisters—corn, uh—three sisters garden are corn, beans, and squash, and it, uh—it’s part of the—we gave up painting faces, which was about a 10-minute mission there, in the Native American [Exhibit: Life in an Ancient Timucuan Village] room, and what else are you going to do with the 10 minutes? I said, “Well, let’s take them out to the gardens.” ‘Cause out here, in the teaching gardens, we did have the three sisters garden. We showed the kids. It’d be surprising that maybe some kids don’t what corn looks like, other than what’s on the breakfast cereal box, and of course, the three sisters are complimentary to each other. They give a balanced diet to the Native Americans. You—you get your carbs from corn, you get your protein from the beans, and you get a well-balanced, nourished diet from squash. So, uh, we also have, out here, the coontie plant, which became a major industry here in Florida, because it was a source of, um, uh, starch. Everybody needs a li’l starch. The coontie plant would provide that starch, and it became an industry, uh—it was an industry up until 1909. Up here in DeLand, Florida, a company manufactured coontie starch. So I show the kids that, because the Native Americans used that. Uh, it is a poisonous plant, uh—with the red berries. It is kinda common. Nowadays, it’s become more popular in the local landscape. Then we move on over to a beautyberry—the American beautyberry bush—which at this time of year, has some really beautiful purple berries on the stems, and we tell ‘em that grandma used to make jelly from those. Uh, Native Americans can use that as, uh, some—sometimes they say there’s a little color in there. It could get used for body paint, or ‘bout the best use I know of is it’s a good insect repellent. Uh, we also stop at the herb garden, and, uh, most kids don’t—they understand what an herb might be, um, but they probably have never seen one, like rosemary. Uh, I try to show ‘em like four different kinds of herbs: rosemary—aloe that we use for sunburns—thyme—you could use for casseroles and soups—and there’s another—there’s another one out there I throw in there if it is out there in the herb garden. We go around and talk about the sassafras tree, and then lastly I take them to yaupon holly. We have a weeping yaupon holly here in our gardens, and, uh, the botanical name for that is ilex vomitia, and it doesn’t take too long for the kids to understand there’s something about the word vomitia. Uh, the yaupon holly was used as a ceremonial tea—a drink. Every morning, the chief and the elders of the tribe or branch would partake of yaupon holly tea—or we know it today—they called it “black drink.” It’d make you—it’d make you sweat profusely. Uh, I’ve told it has six or seven times more caffeine than a cup of coffee. It’ll keep you awake for 48 hours. So the hunters of the tribe would drink this. Uh, drink all they could get, throw up which was good luck. Uh, and they’d go out to the hunt and they would—would, uh, be in the stand—the steer dan—deer stand for 48 hours, and, uh, that was the hunt. Reisz Wow. How so—do you do plantings that are seasonal here? Do you change as the cycle goes around? Or do you try and continue to keep the same basic things around to teach the students? Grace Um, we replenish, like the herbs, and we plant, of course, the three sisters garden. We didn’t have irrigation here, until about 2003, which meant before that, uh—that in the summertime, we just covered up the gardens with plastic, go home, and don’t come back until September. Reisz Oh. Grace Now we have irrigation year-round. Um, so it’s all up to the climate and, uh, we’ve been a mode for the last several years, probably since about—since 2005, and that mode is—is what you’d basically call “maintenance.” Maintaining what we have because of the, uh, things that we heard about the school’s gonna close up. It’s gonna be sold, and some Master Gardeners even thought about coming here and digging up the plants, and moving back to the extension, which to me is called trespassing. So what’s good about the gardens right now, we’ve maintained them. Haven’t done a lot of planting, other than what we do here for the students: the vegetable garden, the herb garden, uh, butterfly garden. We kinda keep up on that, but the other plants and the other gardens, like our shade garden, subtropical garden, our wildlife habitat, is going wild and is flourishing, and we can stand back and trim and prune, as necessary. Reisz Yeah, do you have to do any extra maintenance with the roses or anything like that, other than regular pruning, or do you just let them be? Grace You’d be surprised that the roses we have here, which are maintained by the Orlando Area Historical Rose Society. Uh, they’re the ones that set it up back in 1997. They are what we call “antique roses.” They have very little response to, uh—in other words, they don’t get black spot. They don’t get diseases. Um, you can get an antique rose of any size, any color. We have one rose out there, which is probably about 15 feet in diameter—about 8 feet tall. Beautiful rose—pink rose. Ah, we have the other roses that crawl on the ground, like a ground cover. Uh, the rosarium that takes care of that rose garden right now is the president of that society. So he’s an expert on roses, and, uh, while a homeowner might not think that, uh, they need a lot of care. I don’t really care. I have some in my own yard. They don’t get a lot of care. So they’re by themselves. They’re happy, but, uh, as an exhibit here, he comes out maybe two or three times a year. Gives ‘em—gives ‘em a good heavy feeding of fertilizer, uh, in the fall, we try to round up at least 20 bags. I mean big bags of leaves—oak leaves—and spread them in the rose garden, as well. So is there a lot of maintenance? Not really. Reisz Yeah. Grace We just make ‘em happy. Reisz Yeah, make them happy. Um, I saw online—I looked up, um, the Master Gardeners, and it—there’s a newsletter called The Seminole County, uh, Green Thumb. Grace Yup. Reisz It mentions that people can stop in and ask questions of the Master Gardeners.<a title="">[3]</a> Do you get a lot of, like, adults coming in to ask you questions about planting—Florida planting—anything like that? Or they just come in and see the gardens? Grace Especially they just come in on special occasions, and, uh, hoping that UCF [University of Central Florida] here—that we get people to—when they come in the front door, you want to get them to go out the back door, ‘cause that’s where the gardens are, and, historically, uh, people that have come and visited the gardens do ask questions, but, uh, sometimes getting traffic back here to the garden has been difficult. Reisz Yeah. Possibly that will change, since they changed the parking situation as well, since people have to see the garden… Grace Right, right. Reisz Before they go in. Um, how much time do you devote to the gardens now? I know you had said that you were doing, like, one Saturday a month to get your yearly. Is that the same? Are you doin’ more time? Are you doin’ little less time? Grace Historically, we found out, over the years, that people get more active on the weekends. Reisz Yeah. Grace Especially at this time of year when there are a lot of festivals going on, and this is the best time to come out to the gardens and work. So, uh—and it’s difficult to get volunteers to come here. The Master Gardeners—the main membership is probably about 40—maybe 50—members, and a lot of times they take the classes for one or two purposes. The guys come out—maybe they run a landscaping business—they want to become a Master Gardener and have that in their portfolio, so they can sell their services. We have a lot of ladies that come out. The last class of 24, uh, attendees—23 of them were women, and so the odds are in my favor, because, uh, today, if maybe it was a little warmer, I’d have at least three ladies here on Tuesdays. So, uh, we quit having the Saturday end of month work day. It just was not working out. People were not coming out. They’re more active with families. So, uh, I try to designate, as each graduating class comes along. I tell ‘em come on out, get interested in a project, uh, tell me when you can come out, and, uh, Tuesdays have become a favorite day. Uh, trying to get Thursday and maybe another day. Some people come out here on a—on a monthly basis. The ones I associate with on Tuesdays, come out on a weekly basis. We spend anywhere from—uh, right now, a day like today, we could work out here for six hours and think nothing of it. When the church bells ring across the street at noon, I call it quits. Reisz Okay, so we talked a little bit earlier, um, about you being a docent with the museum. Um, when did you become a docent? Grace I was asked to come inside, uh, to be a docent in the year 2001, after I had retired the second time. Reisz And then you said—you had mentioned you, um, you had taught the Native American room. Did you teach any of the other rooms? Grace I’ve taught—one of my favorite ones—which I can get emotional about sometimes when I taught it—is Grandma’s Attic. Reisz Yeah. Grace Because I’m old enough to realize that, when I went as a young man—to grandma’s house or to a great aunt’s house that lived down in Florida or Kansas, uh—you still had to go to the well to get your water. The outhouse was out in the back. Uh, we tried not to take a bath, because basically a bathtub did not exist. So you get all those, uh, things lined up and you try to tell these kids, uh, how life was. In fact, the—teaching Native American history and pioneer history and Grandma’s Attic—which is about a 100 years ago—wasn’t that much different, and I taught the other rooms, as well. Reisz Yeah? Grace Geography [Lab: Where in the World Are We?]. Um, it was kind of interesting. When I came here, uh, my life as a young man, uh—going into adult—it kind of fits. I was in accounting for 30 years. I did so, because that’s how you make money. Dad says, if you want to make a decent salary, uh, be an accountant—be in business. That didn’t really fit like a glove. Uh, my dad and I used to look for Indian artifacts in—in Central Kansas, ever since I was five years old. Uh, we were members of the rock society, Wichita Gem and Mineral Society for, uh—I quit paying dues about five years ago. Uh, so I’ve been involved in archeology, paleontology, minerals—you name it. Uh, I fit here. Reisz Yeah. Grace And, uh, I love Native American history, ‘cause I’ve been involved in that. We may have talked on the phone about—I was a member of Indian Guides. For Indian Guides, you’re a Cub Scout in Wichita, Kansas. It’s about Native American history. For Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow. So all my life, in the summertime, we used to go out to the camp—Boy Scout[s of America] camp, every week, ‘cause we were a special troop. We had, uh, costumes, you might say, and we danced for the audience. So, uh, Native American history been a part of my life, even though I am 50 percent German and 50 percent English and Scottish. Reisz Um, was the Native American room your favorite room to teach? Or was Grandma’s Attic your favorite room to teach? Grace Native American is probably one of the favorite rooms to teach. Grandma’s Attic coming in second. Ah, [Turn of the Century] Classroom[: Lessons from 1902] coming is third. Pioneer [Pioneer Exhibit: Before the Settlement of Sanford] room is fourth, I would say. Geography, uh—it comes in fifth, and, uh, when I started here the coordinator—the program coordinator—she was the one that taught geography. So the other three rooms I—I used to teach the classroom. It was okay. It takes a special person. We had a special person, by the name of Florence. Uh, she is a little older than I am, but she knew how teachers were in 1902, and she demanded that same, uh, discipline. So that’s kinda cool. Pioneer, uh—since I’m not a native Floridian, I don’t really understand that, until I read that book Remembered Land or [A] Land Remembered. I could really find out something about the pioneers of Florida. So, uh, being a collector of artifacts, uh, since I was a kid—we’re talking about 60 years plus. I’ve donated artifacts, fossils to the museum, so that’s where I fit. Reisz Mmhmm. Do you have a particular, like, favorite teaching tool with the kids in any of the rooms? I know, that, um, for a lot of the docents—like especially with Grandma’s Attic or the Native American room—they’d have one particular artifact that they really used—liked to use to teach the children. Did you have anything particular like that? Grace Well, one of the things that kids would always come and ask, the number one question: “Is this real?” So it kinda irritated me for some time, so I said, “Don’t ask me that question. I’m going to tell you it’s real, even though it’s not.” A lot of the materials we’ve had here—they’re not exactly real, of course. You don’t expect things to be real that go back to about 1500, but in my collection, we used to collect a lot of artifacts out of Central Georgia, which are approximately three to four to five thousand years old, and I bring those with me. Sometimes, I’d wear pants that have the mini pockets and I’ll fill the pockets up with anything from shark teeth, Uh—I’ve brought in a couple of meteorites that I found in Texas in a parking lot that was a gravel parking lot. Just so happens to be something I picked up, and it was determined by the University of Kansas to be a meteorite. I bring that in and I pass it around. Uh, sometimes I, uh, go out bounds. Sometimes, the, uh, program director sometimes gets a little—little irritated with me. Sometimes I go out of bounds, and—and teach some things and touch on some things that, uh, they don’t want me to teach, but I—I bring artifacts. Uh, that’s one thing I liked about Grandma’s Attic. Before UCF came, it was all cluttered. It looked like an antique store. So just about everything I looked at or touched is a memory. So it’s kinda like the same thing with Native Americans, even though I didn’t go back to 1513. It’s about artifacts, pottery, uh—I’ve brought in pottery shards of different designs, and asked the kids, “Well, how did this pattern get on this piece of pottery?” It was done with a paddle. It was done with pine needles. So I’ve tried to bring in the real stuff, and I use the artifacts—the things in the room—uh, to get their attention. I like the “wow” factor. I like to challenge the kids, that when they leave they might go to the library, and grab a bunch of Native American books, and go home and read ‘em, ‘cause I think it is the most fascinating history about how that—how it’s all about survival. The hunters, the male [inaudible], the female [inaudible], okay? That was survival. The lady had to fix the guys buttons. The guy had to fix his meals. I ask the kids, “When you go home, who do ask—who do you ask in your family what’s for supper? Do you ask your dad?” Probably not, ‘cause he’s in the living room. He’s being a warrior. His face is painted orange on one side, blue on the other side, and he’s got a big bowl of popcorn. Mom, she’s slaving in the kitchen fixing your dinner for you. That’s the person you go and ask. So nothing’s changed over—since 1500. The men are still hunters—still warriors. Mom does everything else. Reisz So what is it like teaching fourth graders? How do you keep the children focused and—and engaged in what you’re telling them? Grace Well, sometimes that’s interesting. It depends upon, the, uh, school that comes, unfortunately. I used to have a list of—Okay, this, uh—this school’s coming this week. Okay, I’ll bring some of my artifacts.‘Cause I—‘cause I know, in the past they—I can get their attention real quick. Some of the other schools—little bit differently. So I just go down the middle of the road, and stick with the subject matter, ‘cause some of the kids that come here, I—I extend myself. Um, some of the other students, I can almost figure it out, based on which elementary school comes. They’re about the same as last year. So sometimes the days are difficult. Um, you know, chaperones—I don’t know if I can say this on tape—but we have chaperones that like to chit chat, when I am trying to present my presentation. Sometimes, the teachers are down here looking at stuff we’re trying to sell in a rummage sale. So it’s kind interesting just to see as each group comes through. They’re all unique. They’re all different, and as a volunteer, uh, sometimes you have a problem with discipline. Can’t figure out how to do that. Sometimes, being an old codger like I am, uh, I’ve got in trouble a couple of times. In Grandma’s Attic, I point to the back and say there’s a blue outfit. Give some clues. I might say, you know, it was a Victoria’s Secret original. I’d say, Oops. I just stepped in it. ‘Cause it is a swim suit that goes back to 1907. Uh, okay. So I’ve been called down for that, but what the heck? I’m a volunteer. Reisz Yeah, is it hard to stay on, um—with the kids that you’re really engaged in, Um, I know you said you do go off script. Is hard to make sure you cover everything that is set out in the curriculum, while still covering the things you think are important? Grace I’ve been kind of a rebel the last few years. Um, I guess it is because when I first came on board, who taught me how to do this was the program director or the secretary. The secretary was very knowledgeable, because she was called upon numerous of times to do teaching. Secretary—yeah. Well, I gotta go teach that, close the door and, uh, ‘cause I’ve gotta go teach Grandma’s Attic or be a school teacher today. They’re the ones that taught me what to say, uh, and it continues today. I’ve gone through, I think, three program directors, and the same wording I heard—what I learned—specifically is still used today. I mean, we go outside and we meet the school bus, and talk about Romanesque revival architecture, and I’ve learned this since day one. You ask a student—you ask a class, “I wonder where Roman architecture comes from?” If a kid says, “Rome[, Italy],” okay. He gets a pat on the head. After 14 years, they still get a pat on the head. I mean, it’s just like going around telling a story from number one to number 20. I seem to stick with the idea that ,when a student gives a correct answer, give ‘em a pat on the shoulder—or, “You’re a straight A student today.” Reisz Do you have a favorite story about, um, either the gardens or, you know, being a docent at the Student Museum? Is there a favorite moment with a child or story with a child? Or even just, you know… Grace One… Reisz Working in an exhibit? Grace One of my favorite stories—again, this is something I don’t know if it’s unique to our education system. We used to have animals in, uh, the Native American room. We used to have a bobcat, and, uh, I’d tell the story when things were getting kind of slow. Or, you know, this is—again, being kinda like a rebel—I’d tell the legend of how the bobcat got its, uh, spots on its fur. Well, he was chasing a rabbit one day, and, uh, the rabbit went into a tree trunk—a hollow tree trunk. Well, the rabbit knew he was gonna get caught, ‘cause here comes the bobcat. The bobcat knows he’s in there, and the rabbit tries negotiating. What am I going to do now? So he says, “I know you’ve got me now. So why don’t you just set this tree trunk on fire?” Sometimes, the kids ask, “Well, how does the bobcat set the tree on fire?” I just say, “Well, that’s for another time and I’ve got to keep this story kind of short.” So when he set the tree trunk on fire, smoke and sparks were billowing out of the top of the tree trunk, and, uh, all of the sudden the bobcat realizes that these sparks are landing on his fur. Well, he’s got to pay more attention to these little fires that are now appearing on his fur, and he loses attention of, well, you know, what happened to the rabbit. Now that the bobcat has all these spots on his fur, the rabbit is now gone. He’s on up the trail. He has escaped. “That his spots come from this story about 5,000 years ago.” So I think it is a kind of a cool story. Reisz Yeah, I think so. Grace It is legend. It’s[sic] stories. It’s, in some cases, superstition, and I’ve been—I’ve been careful to be—not to say a whole lot about superstition. It’s like our three sister garden is—is grown in a circle, and that circle is because they believed that there were higher frequencies or things out there in the universe that were focused down on a—on a circular garden. Same thing with a dunce cap. Sometimes—sometimes, I tell the kids that you won’t learn this when you go to the classroom, but the dunce class—the dunce cap that you will see in there was invented by Mr. [John] Duns [Scotus] in England in the 1700s. It was for a therapy of—of slow learners. Again, the dunce cap is in what form? A cone. So that cone focused down all this knowledge for you to absorb between your ears. Like, in the 1800s, of course, the dunce cap became a disciplinary method, but again, that’s going back to superstition. Reisz Mmhmm. Grace It’s common. You find it all over the place today. Go down to the local café, and underneath the counter you’ve got these little books that all about fortunetelling, uh, things you can do with your dog and get his emotions straightened out. Kinda cool. Reisz Very cool. Any other stories you’d like to share? About the museum? Your experiences here? Grace Well, you know, it’s—it’s, uh, somebody mentioned today that, since they did the tenting of the termites, that the place smells better. I said, “You know, I kind of miss that—what it really used to smell like,” ‘cause you can imagine, when you walk around here [clears throat] a lot of times, you’d say, If only the walls could talk. This building goes back to 1902. Sometimes, we—we don’t really tell the whole story. [coughs] Like, uh, what happened during the [Great] Depression years? What did the kids wear to school? I know most of the kids—or a lot of the kids—came to school barefooted. A lot of the girls wore the same—uh, their dresses looked the same. Why is that? That’s because their dresses were made by feed bags. Their mom sewed the—the feed bags. The lady down the street did the same thing. The girls came to school wearing basically the same thing, and you wonder, Well, you know, it must’a been cooler around here in Florida. Which to me, I’ve thought about, Why didn’t I move to Florida? If it wasn’t for air-conditioning, I know I wouldn’t be here. So it’s—it’s kinda cool. We’ve had visitors drop by that came here to school in the [19]50s, they relate to, uh—there was no air-conditioning. Uh, the railroad yard was just down the street belching out—the steam locomotives in the morning belching out smoke and soot and whatever comes out of locomotive stacks, and settled all over the city here. Imagine what, kind of—when—when you’re walking to school as a kid, you hear the school bell ring, I mean, it’s so cool. Those are the kinda things—I like—this public history, because I forgot to ask my grandmother what life was back when she was a kid. So that’s what I like about public history. Reminds us to, uh, start asking questions about how life really was—not about dates, people, things. I don’t care about what— [Thomas Alva] Edison invented the light bulb. We have light bulbs, but it would’ve been nice to ask him, “What was life like in Fort Myers in 1900 or—er, 1900?” I don’t care about your light bulb. I want to know about your life. “How’d your friend [Harvey] Firestone get down here to Florida?” I mean, I’m still trying to find out—my relatives came from Bearaboo, Wisconsin, and settled in Lake County, which was—at that time, was Sumter County, in about 1870. How’d they get here? I have no idea. From Bearaboo, Wisconsin. They came here. Why? ‘Cause somebody said, “You’ve got a child with asthma?” “Yeah.” I had a great-uncle that had asthma. That’s why they moved to Florida. I still don’t know how they got here. Reisz Wow. Thank you very much. Um, we’ve covered everything that I wanted to ask about the gardens, and then your work as a—as a docent. Um, if there’s anything else feel free. If not, I think we’re all set. Grace I think that’s about it. Reisz Okay. Grace I really don’t talk about—or I generally don’t talk much at all [laughs]. Reisz Well, I’m glad you talked to me. Thank you very much. Grace That’s why I am out in the garden, ya know? Reisz Yeah. Grace Dig a hole, fertilize[?] it, fill it in. 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