Apopka came alive on Monday, as the community gathered for the 16th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, a vibrant celebration of unity, culture, and the enduring legacy of the civil rights leader.
The Apopka Historical Society was honored to participate in the 200th year of the Orange County Celebration and Two Centuries of Progress alongside Mayor of Orange County Jerry L. Demings and his administration.
1875-1923 demonstrated the early pioneer’s determination to organize town governments. Orlando was incorporated in 1875, Apopka in 1882, Windermere and Maitland in 1885, Oakland in 1891, Winter Garden in 1908, and Ocoee in 1923.
Berlin’s inspiration for the song came in 1937 when he spent Christmas in Beverly Hills. He was near the film studios where he worked but far from his wife, Ellin, and the New York City home in Manhattan, where they had always celebrated the holiday with their three daughters.
In 1843, 31-year-old English author and journalist Charles Dickens, a prodigy who had already gained fame and acclaim with “The Pickwick Papers,” and “Oliver Twist,” would write his holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” in just six weeks.
It might feel like he has been around as long as the North Pole, but the Santa Claus name so frequently mentioned by Americans to refer to old Saint Nicholas come, Christmas Eve, is a surprisingly recent moniker.
Annual sales and circulation of Christmas cards have declined since the 1990s, and laments over the potential “death” of the Christmas card have been vocal.
The VFW Post 10147 Apopka/Altamonte Springs/VFW Post 10147 Auxiliary assisted the Edgewood/Greenwood Cemetery and Bay Ridge Cemetery to remember and honor the veterans by laying remembrance wreaths on the graves of our country’s fallen heroes.
In what became known as the largest incident of Election Day violence in U.S. history, the tragedy in Ocoee stands as a stark reminder of the racist barriers Black voters faced as they attempted to exercise their basic right to vote.
