Pioneer Village at Shingle Creek (2491 Babb Rd. in Kissimmee, FL) does not represent an actual village but rather is intended to illustrate life in central Florida around 1900. That being said, though, many of the buildings (both original and reconstructed) are buildings which served their time in the pioneer community of Narcoossee, which is [...]
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Life of Paul 10
Time is moving on in the life of the apostle Paul. In my last post we saw him returning to his hometown of Tarsus in the region of Cilicia. He remained there for some time and we were only able to conjecture a little about what he did while there. Luke picks up his story, [...]
Pioneer Village – Part 1
In addition to the Welcome Center & History Museum, the Osceola County Historical Society also operates an outdoor museum called Pioneer Village. Over the next few blog posts that are not part of the Life of Paul series I will be introducing you to some of the people who's lives are honored and referenced in [...]
Life of Paul 9
For this week's review of the events in Paul's life, I want to first step back a little in Luke's account of the early church in Acts 4:32-37. Here we read about the church in Jerusalem before Stephen's martyr and before Paul had begun his persecution of the church. The church was growing and caring [...]
History Museum
The Osceola County Welcome Center and History Museum (where I work) tells the story of the cultural and natural history of the county. A few weeks ago I posted some information about the natural history story that we tell. Today, I'm going to share a little about the local human history as portrayed in the [...]