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Orlando, reviewed like a local — reviews, news, tips and guides from the neighborhoods up.
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Vol. 1 · No. 1 — This Week's Edition · November 14, 2026
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Eighteen months after opening, Universal’s third gate heads into its first full holiday season. What is at stake, and the three signals that will tell the story by January.
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Built about 1888 at 11 Taylor Avenue, the Moseley House was home to Matilda Clark Moseley — town founder’s niece, ‘walking historian,’ and Zora Neale Hurston’s closest Eatonville friend. Now it holds the town’s memory.
Neighborhoods
A rejected rezoning, a dismissed lawsuit, a $14 million sale to Dr. Phillips Charities that split the town’s own government, and three competing bids for tourist-tax millions: where the 117-acre Hungerford fight stands, and what is planned now.
Events & The Season
The 38th ZORA! Festival season opens January 7, 2027 and peaks with the Outdoor Festival of the Arts on Kennedy Boulevard, January 29–31. How the season is shaped, and how to work the weekend.
Eighteen months after opening, Universal’s third gate heads into its first full holiday season. What is at stake, and the three signals that will tell the story by January.
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Eatonville’s story continues past its borders: the Maitland Art Center and Audubon raptor hospital in neighboring Maitland, and Hannibal Square’s Heritage Center in Winter Park — a labeled, half-day loop that completes the picture.
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Built about 1888 at 11 Taylor Avenue, the Moseley House was home to Matilda Clark Moseley — town founder’s niece, ‘walking historian,’ and Zora Neale Hurston’s closest Eatonville friend. Now it holds the town’s memory.
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No rankings, no scene — just a handful of Black-owned kitchens: Kook’n with Kim’s Netflix-famous soul food, Island Kitchen & Grill’s jerk chicken, and Miracle’s Kitchen’s smoke and swai, all on one historic street.
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St. Lawrence A.M.E. (1881) and Macedonia Missionary Baptist (1882) predate Eatonville’s charter — the first ten acres of the town went to a congregation, and the mayor’s daughter grew up in Macedonia’s pews. The story of the town’s two founding churches.
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A rejected rezoning, a dismissed lawsuit, a $14 million sale to Dr. Phillips Charities that split the town’s own government, and three competing bids for tourist-tax millions: where the 117-acre Hungerford fight stands, and what is planned now.
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Founded by Tuskegee graduates Russell and Mary Calhoun and modeled on Tuskegee Institute, the Robert Hungerford Normal and Industrial School educated Black students for generations. Its campus is gone; its land is Eatonville’s biggest argument.
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The 38th ZORA! Festival season opens January 7, 2027 and peaks with the Outdoor Festival of the Arts on Kennedy Boulevard, January 29–31. How the season is shaped, and how to work the weekend.
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Opened in 1990 on East Kennedy Boulevard, the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts shows artists of African descent from the U.S. and the diaspora — in the heart of the community that raised its namesake.
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Joe Clark’s store corner, her father’s pulpit at Macedonia, the Moseley House, the museum: Eatonville’s self-guided heritage trail walks the town Zora Neale Hurston carried into American literature, in about a mile.
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Incorporated by twenty-seven Black voters on August 15, 1887, Eatonville is one of America’s first self-governing Black municipalities — and still runs itself from a town hall on Kennedy Boulevard. A guide to the town, its founding, and how to visit it well.
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