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Spotlight on
Famous Orlando
Residents
Orlando has been home base for many famous artists, musicians
and literary geniuses through the years. Read on to find out whom.
Category: Books
For a brief time, College Park was home to Jack
Kerouac, an American journalist, author and poet best
known for his classic novel titled On the Road.apartment in the home, a 1920s-era cottage at 1418½ Clouser Avenue, was occupied by and his mother between 1957 and 1958, the of his novel’s acclaim. It was at this home, now listed on the National Register of Historic that Kerouac typed the original manuscript for sequel
to that novel, titled Dharma Bums. Each year,Kerouac Project hosts four writers for residencies per season) at the home, and the only requirement that they work on their writing and participate events during their stay.
Category: Art
The final resting place for Bob Ross, who is best
known as the host of The Joy of Painting on PBS,Woodlawn Cemetery in Gotha. The “happy little 28 Central Florida Lifestyle | September 2019
painter was born in Daytona Beach and raised in Orlando,
so it’s no surprise that his gravesite can be found
in a small Florida cemetery that is blanketed with trees.
On any given day, the gravesite for Ross can be found
memorialized with flowers, paintings and paint supplies
from fans paying respects to a favored artist.
Category: Music
Fans of pop music know that one of Orlando’s claims
to fame is being the stomping grounds for many pop
stars of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. Lou Pearlman helped
form several famous boy bands, including NSYNC and
the Backstreet Boys, right here in Central Florida. Shadow
Bay Park and former XL 106.7 host Hill D were even
featured in one of the Backstreet Boys’ very first music
videos. Filming for the third edition of The Mickey Mouse
Club, which featured Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera,
Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, happened at Disney’s
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