Cross Creek

Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Cross Creek is a memoir by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in 1942. It is a story of her life in rural Florida in the 1920s and 1930s. The book begins with Rawlings' arrival in Cross Creek, a small town in the Florida backwoods. She is a city girl from Washington, D.C., and is immediately taken aback by the rural lifestyle. She quickly learns to appreciate the beauty of the area and the people who live there. Rawlings describes her interactions with the locals, including her neighbors, the farmers, and the Seminole Indians. She also writes about her experiences with nature, such as hunting, fishing, and gardening. Throughout the book, Rawlings reflects on her life in Cross Creek and the changes she has gone through since moving there. She also shares her thoughts on the importance of preserving the natural beauty of the area and the need to protect it from development. Cross Creek is a vivid and heartfelt account of Rawlings' life in the Florida backwoods. It is a story of her struggles and triumphs, and of her love for the land and its people.

By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · First published 1928 · Genre: Memoir, Regional Fiction, Historical Fiction · 24 chapters · 125,116 words

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Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water. We are four miles west of the small village of Island Grove, nine miles east of a turpentine still, and on the other sides we do not count distance at all, for the two lakes and the broad marshes create an infinite space between us and the horizon. We are five white families; "Old Boss" Brice, the Glissons, the Mackays and the Bernie Basses; and two colored families, Henry Woodward and the Mickenses. People in Island Grove consider us just a little biggety and more than a little queer. Black Kate and I between us once misplaced some household object, quite unreasonably.

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Florida · nature · rural life · memoir · Southern literature · community · farming · wildlife · personal reflection · regionalism · women writers · cultural heritage

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