Besides Shingle Creek Regional Park, another "urban wilderness" area that I love is Twin Oaks Conservation Area. Located on an eastern arm of Lake Tohopekaliga in Kissimmee, it offers a number of recreation opportunities for simple folks like me. First, I enjoy fishing there. To be honest, I've never actually caught a fish, or even [...]
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Osceola County (FL) Wilderness Areas – Shingle Creek Regional Park
Part of my job with the Osceola County Historical Society (Osceola History) is to educate the public about some of the natural, wilderness areas in our County. We have quite a few! Here's a map I put together of the specially preserved areas throughout the county. By the way, where I work and live is [...]
St. Augustine Trip (Part 1)
Hi everyone. I've recently fallen behind on my Life of Paul series and my Universe Just for Us series. Both of those require extra research and thought and I just have had other things going on lately. This past weekend, though, Darlene and I were able to get away for a few days and make [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 