Mockingbird Song
ville, back toward the end of . A chance viewing of the movie version of Rawlings’sThe Yearlingand a rereading of the novel ...
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Subregions of the South (courtesy Edward Ayers) ...
How happily situated is this retired spot of earth! What an Elysium it is! Where the wandering Siminole, the naked red warrior, ...
lished orchards. Rawlings, smitten, used a small inheritance to buy her own grove, which came with a primitive cottage and run-d ...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her first husband in Florida, . Courtesy Florida State Archives. ...
most impenetrable jungles swarming with snakes, including three species of vipers (rattlers, moccasins, and coral snakes), bears ...
mitted extraction of surpluses of many commodities for trade for others’ surpluses. Humans also have always used the best weapon ...
labor force beyond himself and the small contributions of his growing son. In addition to the kitchen garden, worked mostly by M ...
suring hurricane forces. Any notion that humans might know a storm was approaching, be able to prepare for it, and expect aid in ...
turned down (in ) a serious offer from certain citizens in Lee County, Florida, to drop an atomic bomb on the next hurricane ...
sions and depredations. He is known to raid settlements not only to eat but to commit mayhem. Slewfoot is not quite the metaphor ...
Inevitably, tragically, Flag grows, becoming (like Jodie) a yearling on the brink of adulthood. Now Penny is abed again, unable ...
then narrowing and winding to the river’s still-mysterious origins among swampy springs in the neighborhood of Melbourne—more th ...
and amusement. This was an agreeable profession for William. It would be conducted alone, without supervision, and it permitted ...
fell from the trees upon the water, while those unscathed flew screaming through the air in terror and dismay.’’ Still this was ...
their age was so abundant that the taking of one or two or half a dozen for study would matter not to anyone, save perhaps God. ...
with the world. They were instead common folk subsisting, mostly, and de- pendent first on their cattle and hogs to feed themsel ...
landform features of considerable interest to both Bartrams, to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and to tourists even now, although man ...
pairs, wolves in packs, and panthers in numbers prowled everywhere. So the range for cattle and swine was really not yet open he ...
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