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U.S. Presidents have played a major role in shaping Florida, whether waging wars, protecting the environment, seeking votes, or just drawing media…
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The Orange County Regional History Center has a new event called the Brechner Speaker Series, which honors the late Joseph L. Brechner, a longtime…
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Printmaking activities for all ages, live performances, a makers market, pop up exhibition, and the unveiling of the new telephone museum can all be found…
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In the last two years there’s been an outpouring of grief and support for the victims, families and survivors of the Pulse shooting. And with that comes thousands of memorial items. So just how do you preserve and display those items?
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49 artists across the country created portraits of each of the Pulse victims for an Orlando art show currently on view at Orlando City Hall’s Terrace…
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An art gallery you’ve never heard of because you’re old… is closing up for good. Their studios will remain open for artists for now but the owners, Time…
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The fence around the Pulse nightclub will be replaced.The new fence will feature a screen commemorating the 49 killed and more than 50 injured at the club during the worst mass shooting in modern American history.
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Pam Schwartz kneels and pulls from a bush a weathered piece of red construction paper decorated with hand-made hearts. "Sending love and support during this difficult time," the paper reads. "New Jersey loves Orlando.""This kind of piece we'll kind of try to clear as much of the sand and dirt and dried leaves and things off of it, and then we'll go over and put it in our press to try to flatten it out, and if there is any moisture, to start to pull that out," Schwartz says.
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Orange County Regional History Center staff is collecting the last items from the makeshift Pulse memorial in downtown Orlando Monday. The more than 2,000 items that had been placed on the lawn of the Doctor Phillips Center for Performing the Arts will now become part of a permanent museum exhibit.
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Thousands of items in makeshift memorials in downtown Orlando for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting will find a permanent home in a museum. Orange County Regional History Center staff have begun collecting items for a future memorial exhibit.