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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingsâ tender, beautiful coming-of-age story
The Yearling was brought to gloriously Techicolored life by Clarence Brown in his 1946 MGM feature, as moving and as engrossing a family saga as has ever been committed to film. With Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman scoring career highs as the parents and Claude Jarman, Jr. an unforgettable Jody,
The Yearling is everything one could wish from a screen adaptation of a prize-winning book.
In the hardscrabble marshlands of 1878 Florida, Penny Baxter (Gregory Peck) ekes out a poor living raising corn, beans, and potatoes with his hardened wife Orry (Jane Wyman) and his eleven-year old son Jody (Claude Jarman, Jr.), the only one of their four children to survive the brutal life of the era. The family must contend with natural disasters like hurricanes and wild animals who invade the farm at the worst possible moments, but they manage to make do with help from feisty neighbors the Forresters. Af
Florida stars in new Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings biography
Ann McCutchanâs life of the author of âThe Yearlingâ and âCross Creekâ makes rich use of correspondence to put her works in context.
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At her home in Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and one of her hunting dogs strike a pose. [ Tampa Tribune ]
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings had two long marriages and a number of romances, but her most enduring love affair was with a place, not a person.
That passion became the source for her best-known books,
The Yearling and
Itâs also at the center of
The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of The Yearling, by Ann McCutchan. With access to the vast collection of Rawlingsâ letters, manuscripts and more from her papers held by the University of Florida, McCutchan, who grew up in Florida and is the founding director of the University of Wyomingâs MFA in creative writing program, has
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“My husband told me his grandma bought these three lots,” Pasco recounted of the West King Street property. Robert was about five years old at the time. “He was born and raised here,” she explained.
It’s a little sketchy as to how the property transferred from her husband’s family, but when the Pascos moved to St. Augustine from Miami probably in the late 1980s, her husband found out the property was available and “he went out and got ’em,” said Pasco.
The three-bedroom, 2-story home is about 85 years old, Pasco estimated. Recently, thanks to the St. Johns Housing Partnership, the first floor received a face-lift. But the second story, where Hurston rented a room, is off limits, said Pasco, as it is unsafe.
Earth Day 2021, this year s observance lauding nature conservation and appreciation, is Thursday and there are several ways people can honor it in Alachua County despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual holiday celebrates the start of the modern environmental movement. It began in 1970 with a Wisconsin junior senator and has grown to include over 1 billion participants in more than 190 countries worldwide, according to the organization s website.
The first Earth Day helped create the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and legislation like the Clean Air Act. In 1990, it grew outside of the country. And now, it is the largest non-religious observance in the world, the website states.