Journalist, professor, Rawlings Trustee, and environmentalist Leslie Poole discusses her feature story: To Preserve and Protect — a snapshot of the crossroads Florida’s environment is currently facing. Listen to the podcast episode here.
Check out this travel blog from Fitting in Adventure on the MKR State Park.
Check out the following story on Dessie Smith Prescott by June Perry, The History Geek, in the Clermont News Leader. Click here to read the full story.
Check out the following story on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by June Perry, The History Geek, in the Clermont News Leader. Click here to read the full story.
Congratulations to our own Darien Andreu, former society president and current editor of the MKR Newsletter, on being recognized by St. Augustine’s St. Johns Cultural Council as one of its Recognizing Outstanding Women in the Arts Recipients. Click here to read the full story.
Join Betty Jean Steinshouer at the Mount Dora Public Library for a talk on Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Rachel Carson – Their Books Changed the World.
This presentation will be at 2:00 PM on May 4, 2024. W.T. Bland Public Library, 1995 N. Donnelly St., Mount Dora, FL 32757.
Lunch & Learn on March 1-2: The St. Augustine Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Lunch & Learn on March 1-2 at the Peña-Peck House: The St. Augustine Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
During Women’s History Month, The Woman’s Exchange of St. Augustine will hold a special exhibit, a trolley tour, and two Lunch & Learn events. Events feature Anna Lillios, David Nolan, and Ann McCutchan
Writers’ Talks at the Rawlings Farm in Cross Creek. Saturday, February 24th: Cathy Salustri, Back Roads of Paradise—A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida. Retracing routes followed by Federal Writers’ Project authors during the Great Depression, including Stetson Kennedy and Zora Neale Hurston. Over the course of 5,000 miles Cathy Salustri conjures up the ultimate Florida road trip—often beautiful, sometimes bizarre, almost always exhilarating. Meet and greet the author at 1:30pm; book talk at 2:00pm. Free with regular park admission. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park at Cross Creek, S. County Road 325, Cross Creek, FL. 32640.
The new online exhibit Zora Neale Hurston’s St. Augustine, presented by George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida, explores the impact of the Ancient City on the life, correspondence, and work of Hurston, including letters between Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The online exhibit was curated by Casey Wooster, collections assistant for Governor’s House Library, and made possible by the assistance of Darien Andreu, David Nolan, and Flo Turcotte.
On Saturday, January 13th, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park will host a Writer’s Talk with Marisella Veiga, author of Famous Florida Recipes: Centuries of Good Eating in the Sunshine State. The book is a modern revision of Lowis Carlton’s beloved classic. Marisella Veiga, an award winning journalist and short story writer, is also the author of We Carry our Homes with Us: A Cuban-American Memoir. There will be a book signing and food sampling at 1:30. The presentation with questions and answers will begin at 2:00pm.
On Saturday, November 4th, the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park will host a Writer’s Talk with John Hemingway, author of A Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir. The book is an intimate chronicle of the tumultuous relationship between father Gregory Hemingway and grandfather Ernest. There will be a book signing at 1:30, presentation with question and answers at 2:00pm.
On July 1, 2023, the National Educational Television Association (NETA) will be releasing Society member, Donna Green-Townsend’s 58-minute documentary to more than 350 public television stations across the country. From Novel to Movie: The Yearling in Florida takes an inside look at a classic movie as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which inspired the film. The film will be premiering August 8th on WUFT-TV at 9 PM.
On Saturday, May 13, 2023, Rawlings Society members gathered at the Citra Cemetery to place a literary marker on the grave of J.T. Glisson, who passed away on April 25, 2019, at the age of 92. As a young man, J.T. befriended his Cross Creek neighbor, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who encouraged him to write and draw. He later authored and illustrated The Creek, a memoir of growing up in the flatwoods of north-central Florida, in which he acknowledges that the idea of earning his living as an artist came to him when he saw Rawlings’ books illustrated with the sketches of Edward Shenton and N.C. Wyeth.
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