A step back in time.......

Yesterday we drove up to Cross Creek to see Marjorie Kinnan Rawlins home, a Florida State Park. She is the author of The Yearling, Cross Creek, and other books about living in the Florida Outback.

She was born in Maryland, and had always wanted to own a farm. The fact that she knew practically nothing about farming didn't daunt her. When she and her new husband were visiting friends in Florida, she used a small inheritance to buy an 80 acre orange grove, along with a run down house and barn. Her husband didn't take to farming, and split, not much later, leaving her with the problem of trying to grow oranges in a non-suitable climate.

In order to make ends meet, she turned to writing, and had her first successful book in 1939 with The Yearling.

We couldn't take a tour of the house since we were there on an off day, but we spent a lot of time wandering around the grounds. While wandering, we met a couple of people who were doing a photo essay of the home, and it's connection to the famous author. The fellow's name is Robert Fulton Jr., an outdoor writer and author/editor. The spent quite a bit of time showing us around the property, answering questions.

Today we are heading up I-95 to Santee S.C., and will spend a night (or more) at the Big Water Lake Resort RV Park, a new CG right on the lake. Then we will watch the weather in the North closely to see if we can catch enough warm days in order to get home. Right now in North Carolina and Virginia there is freezing, and we don't want to have to deal with the pipes freezing if we can avoid it.