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View showing the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings home at the State Park: Cross Creek, Florida

from Florida Memory

• Pixel Wrangler said:

  "Cross Creek: This site was the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, (1896–1953), the author of many major literary works, including The Yearling, which received the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the novels South Moon Under, and Golden Apples, and her memoir, Cross Creek. She was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Letters."[1]
  
  "In 1928, the Rawlingses purchased a 72 acre orange grove near Hawthorne, Florida, in a hamlet named Cross Creek for its location between Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake. She brought the place to international fame through her writing. She was fascinated with the remote wilderness and the lives of Cross Creek residents, her Cracker neighbors (descendants of pioneer settlers), and felt a profound and transforming connection to the region and the land. Wary at first, the local residents soon warmed to her and opened up their lives and experiences to her. Marjorie filled several notebooks with descriptions of the animals, plants, Southern dialect, and recipes and used these descriptions in her writings."—Wikipedia
   
  In 2008, the US Postal Service unveiled a
  stamp bearing Rawlings' image, in her honor,
  at her Cross Creek home. (Scott 4223)
  
   
  Rear of Main House – Then and Now (25 years later)
  
  This photograph depicts the Rear of the Main House - showing a kitchen wing. A wash stand has been set up outside the rear kitchen wing.
  
  "Rear of Main House - showing kitchen wing (2008)" by Baesel
  
  
   
  "View showing the rear home (c.1985)" by Randall Prophet
  
  
   
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