{"id":2628,"date":"2026-06-04T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2026-06-04T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:30:28","slug":"oral-history-of-christine-kinlaw-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Oral History of Christine Kinlaw-Best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oral History of Christine Kinlaw-Best\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WnTFTaBP28M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oral history of Christine Kinlaw-Best, interviewed by Mark Miller on March 2, 2013 for the UCF Public History Center&#8217;s History Harvest. In the oral history, Kinlaw-Best discusses how she found information about the History Harvest, her family&#8217;s attendance at the school building at 301 West Seventh Avenue since it opened in 1902 as Sanford High School, her family&#8217;s report cards from the various schools that were housed in the building, what changes have been made to the building, how students were transported to the school when her grandmother attended, how children helped their parents farm when the school year ended, and the different schools in Sanford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanford High School was established at 301 West Seventh Street in 1902. The building was designed by W.G. Talley in the Romanesque revival style. Due to an increasing student population, a new school building was constructed on Sanford Avenue in 1911. The original building on Seventh Street served as Westside Grammar Elementary School, which was later renamed Sanford Grammar School. In 1984, the building was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places and converted into the Student Museum. The building reopened as the University of Central Florida&#8217;s Public History Center in 2012. Kinlaw-Best has co-authored several books on the history of Seminole County and serves as a director at the Sanford Historical Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oral history of Christine Kinlaw-Best, interviewed by Mark Miller on March 2, 2013 for the UCF Public History Center&#8217;s History Harvest. In the oral history, Kinlaw-Best discusses how she found information about the History Harvest, her family&#8217;s attendance at the school building at 301 West Seventh Avenue since it opened in 1902 as Sanford High&hellip;","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riches.cah.ucf.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}