Carol Fiddia Laxton Tours home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pt. 1

On March 3, 2018 Carol Fiddia Laxton toured the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Home in Cross Creek, FL. She had last visited the home when she was 18 years old many decades before. Her father wanted her to talk to Marjorie about what she was going to do after high school. Marjorie encouraged Carol to go to college for at least two years.
Carol's father and grandmother were close friends of the late Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Before writing "The Yearling" which won the Pulitzer Prize, Rawlings wrote "South Moon Under." The inspiration for the characters and setting for both books came from living with Carol's family back in the scrub of Marion County. There Marjorie learned the ins and outs of making moonshine, hunting, fishing and the "cracker ways" of early Florida.
You can hear Carol's talk about Rawlings in Part 2 of her visit to the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.
Carol's visit was sponsored by the Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm and the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.