Our project is reported in the Sentinel along with a nugget of neighborhood history

The Lake Eola Heights oral-history project gets a mention in the Orlando Sentinel today. Read Florida Flashback here.

The same column also mentions Kena Fries, a resident of Lake Eola Heights who authored a romantic history of Orlando entitled "Orlando in the Long, Long, Ago ... And Now." (You can see the cover -- or even read the whole book -- by clicking on the page listing on the left of the linked page.)

She lived at 1023 E. Livingston St. The house was originally built in 1909 for her father, John Otto Fries, who emigrated to Florida from Sweden in 1871. Fries was Deputy U.S. Surveyor and he served as county surveyor for Orange and Brevard Counties and is credited with making the first copyrighted map of Orange County. In 1900, he took the first census of the Seminole Indians in South Florida.

Read a story about Kena Fries and the Orlando she knew in the Central Florida Episcopalian here. (the article starts on page 8).

Both Kena and John Fries are buried in Greenwood Cemetery.