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my name is Dana Crosby Collier resident
of Seminole County work in Orange County

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I have been here since 2006 in 2006 I
moved to Orange County when I took a job

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with Orange County government and I
immediately became aware of the history

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center and became a member of the
History Center I had a daughter who at

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the time was about four years old and
she began camps at the History Center

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when she was about five years old and
she has been with the History Center

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ever since she has participated as a
camper a volunteer and also often helps

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on different events that the History
Center holds a few years ago we attended

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the John Young banquet on behalf of the
History Center and she spoke at that

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time about her experience with the
History Center and the joy she's had in

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the camps and being involved with the
programs we love it here we my little

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one is now 12 she also is a regular
camper and will be they'll both be here

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this summer a few years ago we were
attending a lot of events and coming to

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the exhibits and the History Center
magazine did an article on our family we

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have a little girl that we adopted from
China nine years ago this week and we

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all traveled to China and when we came
back she was welcomed as part of the

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family and a story was run on the the
whole family and our involvement with

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the History Center and especially the
kids over the years that we've been

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involved we've really noticed the
increase in the community outreach the

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camps are welcoming to kids from the
surrounding community when we

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participated at the John Young banquet a
few years back another person who spoke

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at that banquet was a teacher from a
local school in the community and she

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was speaking to the impacts of the
History Center on her students and how

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the kids can come downtown it's not far
away they can get here easily they can

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come they can participate in the
exhibits they get to really have a

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hands-on learning experience and it was
just clear that the outreach to the

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community at large was far greater than
we had imagined in our world in the

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education wing and it was and it's just
been continuing to grow since that time

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and the opportunities are endless for
members to assist in providing extra fun

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at certain time for campers to come in
in the summer and again the schools the

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local schools can come into the facility
and enjoy the exhibits and participate

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and a lot of the exhibits are hands-on
and they're becoming more and more

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hands-on it each year giving the kids
more opportunity to live and learn in

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the in the moment of history and learn
more about it as though they were in

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that moment my family loves history we
love coming here we love the girls to

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learn about it appreciate it and
understand how different times were than

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they are now