A few years back, my sister and I decided to take a back-road tour of the state. We had a week. And one stop was to return to the home-site of the author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in Cross Creek, Florida.
With the original 74 acre citrus farm, originally purchased by the Rawling's family in 1928, Ms. Rawlings, over the next 14 years, added bits and pieces to the original 'cracker' homestead. Marjorie widened porches, added a few bathrooms here and there, and eventually replaced the old tin roof with locally sourced roof shingles of cypress wood. Still today, a very fine example. And today, still missing my sister.
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