From 2000 to 2023, Joy Wallace Dickinson hundreds of “Florida Flashback” features for the Orlando Sentinel about aspects of Central Florida’s past. She’s also the author of three nonfiction books and one historical mystery and has received honors from the Florida Historical Society, the Historical Society of Central Florida, and AIA Orlando, for work that promotes an appreciation of historic architecture. In a past life, she worked at Stanford University Press and as a book and publication designer in San Francisco, where she helped complete graphic-standards projects for both Hewlett-Packard and Apple Inc.