No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part...
...Anyone interested in reading or discovering more about Florida history will appreciate a day out at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, located between Ocala and Gainesville. This attraction is centered on the simple homestead and 72-acre...
...t say "damn" all the time, he could be a Y.A. novelist. He didn't try, but Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , author of The Yearling , got the same advice, and heeded it. How has the popularity of Y.A. changed readers, making them less concerned with...
...said she is thrilled to know she can find authentic material for her senior thesis on Floridian author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at the sale."I have developed an attachment to Florida history and culture since moving to Gainesville from South Florida,"...
...and personal. Keep going north on Route 301 for 35 minutes until you reach Cross Creek, home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park. This is where the writer penned the Pulitzer-winning The Yearling and the lesser-known Cross Creek Cookery, with...
...today by harpist Paola Devoti. Rawlings in the house Karen DeVos, who performs a one-woman show as author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, will perform at 2 p.m. today at the Main Library, 303 N. Laura St. Rawlings, who lived much of her adult life in Cross...
...Zora Neale Hurston. And if you’ve lived in GreaterJax™ for any length of time you know who Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is. Trust Your Examiner – you had no idea about the rest of this. It’s not all� cheesecake and mermaids� at Weeki Wachee. Some...
...DeLand. The St. Johns offers plentiful wildlife and nature in a setting that could have been lifted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Cross Creek writings. Pine flatwoods yield to oak hammocks and cypress swamps; moss-draped live oaks provide a Southern...
...Public Library, 5939 Main St, New Port Richey, FL | Get Directions » FREE Karen De Vos portrays Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Yearling.” De Vos’ research took her to the author’s home in Cross Creek several...
...When Alfre Woodard was nominated for her Oscar back in 1984 for her supporting role in the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings biopic "Cross Creek," she had no idea who voted for her or what the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences was all about. She only...
...artists). This year’s Fiction winner hails from Belgium with Mentions going to France and the United States (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ The Secret River, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon). The Nonfiction winner includes stunning graphic art from...
...are you shooting at, you fool? I want him alive!” “The Yearling” Year: 1946 In brief: Based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ heart-wrenching story of pioneer Florida childhood, it was not shot in this region, but did have one very strong tie to it:...
...of a leaky water pipe on a 16th century volume or crunching mandibles on the shelf that contains Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' priceless manuscripts. He was probably the only person in the library recently to welcome the disturbing sight of a leggy and...
...at the Museum: Haunted History Comes Alive! Last year’s haunting drew 530 visitors in one night when Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Dessie Smith Prescott, Elvis Presley, Nancy Yulee, the Grim Reaper and many other historical figures made a ghostly visit in...