The simple white building with blue trim overlooks the rise of a hill from its site next to a closed gas station. Cars rush past it constantly on U.S. Highway 441 in Apopka. Across the...

Poor Cyrus P. Condit. He was only 31 when he died in early 1861. The New York Times briefly noted his passing and his funeral in Newark, N.J. He left behind a...

From Annie Russell to Mr. Rogers,

We ate, we danced, we piled on the pickles and pastrami. Last week's tale of Gary's Duck Inn inspired readers' recollections of other restaurants past. Here's a sampling.

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Oh dear. No more lamb and mint jelly? No more mile-high coconut cakes? The Holiday House eateries in Orlando have disappeared in recent years, and now, last week, the original one in DeLand closed its...

If there's a downside for a small museum to be linked to one of the biggest events in American history, Mal and Mary Jo Martin of the Museum of Geneva History have probably experienced it.

A few weeks ago, my chum Mary Anne O'Boyle and I had lunch at Eatonville, right in the middle of the nation's capital.

The recent letter from Paul Barnes of Daytona Beach noting that Florida's oak trees are our original air-conditioners got me thinking about some of the remarkable trees that abide in Central Florida, despite the onslaughts...

W hen Carole Ballard and her husband, Joe, first saw the big Victorian house on Lake Eulalia in Maitland, they felt at home right away: They hailed from New England, and this was "New England...