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JDeal Pump Organ – Returns in Top Shape!
The pump organ repairman angel arrived this summer!! Mr. Robert Senseman visited the Bidwell-Wood House in June when his mother Lois Ann Senseman arrived to film her Ordinary Historian video. Her grandfather, his great grandfather, was the yacht captain for John and Mabel Ringling. While touring the house we mentioned that the JDeal pump organ… Read more
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JoRita Stevens – Congratulations to our Recording Secretary!
Congratulations to our recording secretary, JoRita Stevens, for being selected as a “Goodwill Ambassador” of the year. There’s truth in Read more
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Voting, Then & Now
You didn’t have to register to vote. You did have to be a member of the militia. And there was no such thing as Sarasota County… heck, there wasn’t even a Manatee County. Here’s what political districting looked like in 1843 when Florida voted to become a State in the United States of America. (Click… Read more
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