Florida Outdoor Getaways 2008 - (Page 11) outdoor getaways Paging Through Florida’s Outdoors Other Florida places to visit in the wake of famous female writers: Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville (north of Orlando). The museum celebrates this anthropologist and Harlem Renaissance author in her hometown, which was America’s first incorporated black municipality. 407-647-3307 or www.zoranealehurstonfestival.com Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail, Fort Pierce. Follow the author’s life in Fort Pierce, where she lived and wrote as an adult. 772-4621618 or www.st-lucie.lib.fl.us/zora Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Cross Creek. The homestead of The Yearling’s author is preserved near Gainesville, and state park rangers dress the part to demonstrate her life in rural Florida. 352-466-3672 or www.floridastateparks.org Cabbage Key Inn (accessible by boat from Captiva Island). The home that novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart built as a wedding gift for her son today serves as a quiet and isolated island inn. 239-283-2278, www.cabbagekey.com Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was one of the earliest writers who popularized Florida, even before the advent of the railroads. There is a marker in Mandarin, a suburb of Jacksonville, on the St. Johns River. Edna St. Vincent Millay wintered south of Palm Beach in Delray Beach. Today, a Brazilian restaurant occupies the old Arcade & Tap Room where she and her cronies gathered. The poet, who often wrote about nature and life, also visited Sanibel Island, where the first manuscript of her Conversation at Midnight burned in a hotel fire. Westville (Northwest Florida). This rural town north of Panama City served as a respite for Laura Ingalls Wilder for two years while the author of The Long Winter recovered from illness. A Natural Escape xplore over 7,000 acres of nature preserves, peaceful waterways, 21 miles of shoreline and superb dive sites. Learn more on how you impact your environment at the Oxbow Eco-Center, Manatee Observation & Education Center, and St. Lucie Marine Center, featuring the Smithsonian Marine Ecosystem Exhibit. Receive Your Free Visitor’s Guide. 800.344.TGIF • StLucieTGIF.com 6 Reader Response Reader Response 8 Outdoor Getaways 11 http://StLucieTGIF.com http://www.zoranealehurstonfestival.com http://www.st-lucie.lib.fl.us/zora http://StLucieTGIF.com http://www.floridastateparks.org http://www.cabbagekey.com http://www.diveinpensacola.com http://www.diveinpensacola.com
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