I just finished another busy week and haven't had time to research and write any of my usual blog posts, so I thought I'd write another one about stuff I'm currently doing. A large part of my job is running field trips at Pioneer Village for Osceola History. Here's a taste of what that involves. [...]
Category: On the road
Lake Kissimmee State Park
For this week's blog - my "in-between the Life of Paul" week - I'd like to tell you a little about Lake Kissimmee State Park. Lake Kissimmee is the third largest lake in Florida. The lake itself lies in Osceola County, but the state park that bears its name is in adjacent Polk County. The [...]
Osceola History Mobile App
One of the things I really enjoyed doing for the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, NV was developing a mobile app for them. No, I'm not a programmer. I used an online product from STQRY.com that allows me to create the content and they take care of the back-end stuff. I recently did something [...]
Pioneer Village – Part 3
A few weeks ago I wrote the second part of a description of Pioneer Village at Shingle Creek. I talked about how the village is in some ways a representation of the pioneer community of Narcoossee. In this final installment, I'll discuss the rest of the buildings in the Village that are from other parts [...]
Pioneer Village – Part 2
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 [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 