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WELCOME TO MY
CROSS CREEK TOUR.
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This is the dirt road we walked on to visit
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm in CROSS CREEK, FLORIDA
For your Information - It is 15 miles North of Ocala,
Florida
NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA IN MARION COUNTY
At the end of this
pathway, the guide greated us and we started our tour on the
front porch, then through the living room, (*the famous bath
room - see anecdote page), bed room, dining room and kitchen
where the tour ended.
The guide stopped in each room
telling us details and anecdotes about 'Marjories' colorful
life.
HER NOVELS :
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Jacobs
Ladder
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Cross Creek - Novel and
motion picture starring Mary Steenburgen
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The Yearling - Pulitzer Prize
Winning Novel and motion picture starring Jane Wyman and
Gregory Peck.
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She penned 4
novels, a cookbook, a children's book and a number of short
stories.
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Cross Creek,
Florida
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Of the originally 72 acres, 8 are now being managed by
The Florida Department Of Environmental Protection and the
remaining acreage is managed by the Alachua County Parks and
the University of Florida.
There is a nice
parking area and picnic grounds here.
'Marjorie' moved to
Cross Creek at the age of 32 in 1928. In the pages of her
Cross Creek novel, one reads what the land must have meant to
her, it semed to be her spiritual nourishment. She ends her
novel with these words,"It seems to me that the earth may be
borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are
tenants, not possessors. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and
the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of
the seed and beyond all, to time".
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