Presented by the Ormond Beach Historical Society. This two-hour tour includes the Ormond Scenic Loop, Fairchild Oak, Three Chimneys Sugar Mill Ruins, Ormond Indian Burial Mound and historic homes along the way. Route includes 30 sites. Departs from the Casements, 25 Riverside Dr. Tickets are $20 for adults, $7 for ages 7 - 12, and […]
Women of the American Revolution: Lost Voices of America’s First Generation – Dr. Roger Smith helps us discover some of the most amazing, yet little-known, participants in the American Revolution, women from all colonies and races who dared to resist the “norms” of 18th-century western culture in order to stand for their beliefs and their […]
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, […]
Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American mystery war-drama film directed by William Friedkin, written by Jim Webb and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill a large number of civilians outside the U.S. embassy in […]
Citizen-advocate George Swimmer spent twenty years investigating the causes behind railroad collisions. What he discovered is a tangled mess of both inadvertent and intentional mismanagement. Doing for railway transportation what Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed did for the automobile industry, Railroad Collisions is a sobering look at how mismanagement and misinformation endangers lives throughout […]
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida (CLSMF) has partnered with the City of Ormond Beach to offer free quarterly workshops to interested individuals. The next quarterly workshop topic is Elder Smart. The purpose is to educate elders about common types of financial scams they may run into, and how to protect themselves from them. The workshop […]
The Ormond Beach Historical Society and the Angels of Hillside Cemetery, a non-profit formed to preserve it, will present the first-ever tour of the Historic Hillside Cemetery on March 4. This little gem was created in 1896 on land donated by John Andrew Bostrom, the first settler in Ormond Beach (1868). The cemetery entrance is […]
ORCHIDS AND THEIR CARE David Shipman of ButterfliesByDesign.com will be today's presenter. Location: Ormond Beach Regional Library Auditorium
Interested in genealogy? Librarians Richard Burrow and Kim Dolce will present an overview of Volusia County Public Library's FOUR GENEALOGY DATABASES: Ancestry Library Edition..... HeritageQuest Online..... Fold3..... and America's Historical Newspapers. For more information, call 257-6036 ext 16315, or email kdolce@volusia.org.
“Cassadaga: Speaking of the Dead” - Gary Monroe Presented by the Ormond Beach Historical Society at the Historic Anderson-Price Memorial Building, 42 North Beach Street in Ormond Beach. Refreshments at 9:30 am, program begins at 10:00 am. Admission is free. For more information call 386-677-7005.