Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society

Resources

Additional resources

If you like the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, you may interested in these additional organizations and websites:

  • Florida Back Roads Travel, created by Mike Miller, offers travel tips for those interested in Old Florida.
  • Friends of Carr Cabin are a widely eclectic group of conservation-minded citizens, scientists, educators, historians, preservation specialists and others who have joined in partnership with the US Forest Service to revitalize and interpret a Cracker-style cabin retreat used by the family of the renown Florida naturalist Archie Carr for three generations.
  • Marge and Julia: The Correspondence Between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bingham, edited by Rodger Tarr, Brent Kinser, and Florence Turcotte, is now available from UP of Florida.
  • Kevin McCarthy’s book on the niece of Norton Baskin, a frequent companion to Rawlings and Baskin, is now available online. Sally Baskin Hooker tells the story of how Baskin Hooker, a proud Trustee of the MKR Society, grew up at Marineland alongside Baskin and Rawlings and became a lifetime proponent of Rawlings’s life and works. The book is available through Amazon.
  • Dr. Edna L. Saffy was an early and lifetime member of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, as well as a politically active advocate of equal rights and founder or co-founder of organizations at the local, state, and national levels. The University of North Florida Saffy Collection contains not only her Ph.D. Dissertation on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, but also photos, documents, and ephemera related to her life and activities.
  • Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm — The Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm, Inc., is a Citizen Support Organization (CSO) authorized through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, whose mission is to support the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.
  • Florida Bibliophile Society — A Congenial Organization of Book Lovers, Collectors, Readers, Buyers, Sellers, and Assorted Eccentrics.
  • The Marjorie — The Marjorie is Florida’s first and only reporting outlet dedicated to the critical intersection of social justice and the environment.
  • Ann McCutchan — Author of The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Finalist, Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing. Available in paperback June 7, 2022.