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• Festival's Academic Conference: An Intellectual Tour de Force
• Official Opening Day, Thursday, January 25, 1990
• The Foundation of Success -- Relationships/Partners/Volunteers
• Decisions
• Outlier
• Dorothy Turner Johnson & Cynthia Ann Scales -- Establishers of Organizational Excellence for the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.)
• Covering Expenses
• George C. & Alice M. Grant: P.E.C.'s Power Pair
• Things Coming Together
• The Whole IS Greater than the Sum of Its Parts/BUT the Parts STILL Need to be Superb!
• Excelsior! Mid-1988 - December 31, 1989 - The Universal Appeal of Great Writing
• Please meet Zora Neale Hurston: The Woman and Her Work.
• Time Waits for No One
• Racing Against Time
• A LOT of "Moving Parts"/All Moving AT ONCE/Challenges Abound!!!
• Different Dynamics
• At Bay
• While Washing Up the Dinner Dishes
• On Balance
• Planning for Our 1st Anniversary
• The Strength of an Alliance/aka Another Salute to "Girl Power"
• Just a "Little" Pressure/aka Orange County's Next Move
• At L O N G Last! Orange County Grants Eatonville a 2nd Hearing
• Other Fish to Fry/aka, How to Pleasantly Engage the Public
• Hoping for the Best, Yet Preparing for the Worst
• Developing Relationships with Natural Allies
• Walter Kulash -- On behalf of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.)
• Perspective: What Eatonville Was ACTUALLY Facing
• The Rocky Road Ahead
• "Girl Power"-- In the Forefront: The Women of Eatonville, Maitland, and Orlando
• Securing Counsel/ AKA "A Tricky Proposition" in Orange County, FL
• Formalizing the Passion: The Incorporation of the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community
• The People's Response
• Mr. Dorman Comes to Eatonville
• The Compromise Candidate
• Getting Organized: Monday, December 7, 1987, 7:00 PM
• Maitland City Hall
• Centers of Energy: Eatonville & Maitland
• "Fait accompli"/AKA "The Accomplished Act"/AKA "What Was the REAL Deal"
• "Back in the Day" -- Orange County, Florida during the last 25 years of the 20th Century
• Perfect Timing?
• Long & Strong: The Tradition of Civic Pride in the Town of Eatonville
• A Symbiotic Relationship: The Town of Eatonville & The Hungerford School
• The Establishment of the Hungerford School
• The Rise of Eatonville
• What It Is, More about the The Race Colony
• Way, Way Back in the Day: "The Race Colony"
• Orange County Crosses the Line
• Storm Clouds on the Horizon