Didn't she write the Alma Mater? :-) Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Bob Parks, LLC 1517 Hunt Club Blvd Gallatin TN 37066 615-972-4239 615-826-4040 Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Arthur Polhill <[email protected]> wrote: > Not the first to notice, huh? > > A. Leon Polhill, Gator > "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. > I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain > > > From: Oliver Barry <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, August 15, 2011 2:58:05 PM > Subject: [gatortalk] Writer's Almanac August 8 > > Almost missed this date! Where Palm and Pine are blowing… > It's the birthday of writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (books by this author), > born in Washington , D.C. (1896). As a girl, she loved to write, and she > published stories and essays in the children's section of newspapers. As a > young wife, she moved to Rochester , New York , where she wrote for a society > magazine. She suggested to the editor of the Rochester Times-Union that she > write a daily column in versecalled "Songs of a Housewife." The editor was > unconvinced, but he finally agreed to let her try. Her column was extremely > popular, syndicated in 50 newspapers. She wrote poems about cooking, being a > mother, gardening, neighbors, housework, and the weather. Her first column > was called "The Smell of Country Sausage," and it began: "I let the spiced > aromas / Call up the kitchen stair / Before I have my table set / The family > all is there." She wrote 495 columns of "Songs of a Housewife." > > Then she and her husband purchased an orange grove in Cross Creek , Florida . > She spent the rest of her life there, even after her marriage ended because > her husband did not like rural life. A few years after her divorce, she > published her best-known book, The Yearling (1938). It's the story of Jody > Baxter, a lonely Florida farm boy, and Flag, his adopted orphaned fawn. Jody > grows up along with Flag, but when Flag eats the family's corn crop, his > parents tell Jody that he has to shoot the deer. Although The Yearling is now > marketed as a children's or young adult novel, at the time of its publication > it appealed to a general audience. It was the best-selling novel of the year > 1938, and Rawlings' editor was Maxwell Perkins, who was most famous as the > editor for Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Yearling won the > Pulitzer Prize, and like several of Rawlings' other novels, it was a > Book-of-the-Month Club selection. > > In her memoir Cross Creek, she wrote: "We at the Creek need and have found > only very simple things. We must need flowering and fruiting trees, for all > of us have citrus groves of one size or another. We must need a certain > blandness of season, with a longer and more beneficent heat than many > require, for there is never too much sun for us, and through the long summers > we do not complain. We need the song of birds, and there is none finer than > the red-bird. We need the sound of rain coming across the hamaca, and the > sound of wind in trees — and there is no more sensitive Aeolian harp than the > palm. The pine is good, for the needles brushing one another have a great > softness, and we have the wind in the pines, too. We need above all, I think, > a certain remoteness from urban confusion, and while this can be found in > other places, Cross Creek offers it with such beauty and grace that once > entangled with it, no other place seems possible to us, just as when truly in > love none other offers the comfort of the beloved. We are not even offended > when others do not share our delight. Tom Glisson and I often laugh together > at the people who consider the Creek dull, or, in the precise sense, > outlandish." > > > > Oliver Barry CRS,GRI > Real Estate Broker > Bob Parks Realty > 1517 Hunt Club Blvd > Gallatin TN 37066 > Phone: 615-826-4040 > Fax: 615-822-2027 > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > > > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.usRochester , New York , > where she wrote for a society magazine. She suggested to the editor of the > Rochester Times-Union that she write a daily column in versecalled "Songs of > a Housewife." The editor was unconvinced, but he finally agreed to let her > try. Her column was extremely popular, syndicated in 50 newspapers. She wrote > poems about cooking, being a mother, gardening, neighbors, housework, and the > weather. Her first column was called "The Smell of Country Sausage," and it > began: "I let the spiced aromas / Call up the kitchen stair / Before I have > my table set / The family all is there." She wrote 495 columns of "Songs of a > Housewife." > Then she and her husband purchased an orange grove in Cross Creek , Florida . > She spent the rest of her life there, even after her marriage ended because > her husband did not like rural life. A few years after her divorce, she > published her best-known book, The Yearling (1938). It's the story of Jody > Baxter, a lonely Florida farm boy, and Flag, his adopted orphaned fawn. Jody > grows up along with Flag, but when Flag eats the family's corn crop, his > parents tell Jody that he has to shoot the deer. Although The Yearling is now > marketed as a children's or young adult novel, at the time of its publication > it appealed to a general audience. It was the best-selling novel of the year > 1938, and Rawlings' editor was Maxwell Perkins, who was most famous as the > editor for Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Yearling won the > Pulitzer Prize, and like several of Rawlings' other novels, it was a > Book-of-the-Month Club selection. > > In her memoir Cross Creek, she wrote: "We at the Creek need and have found > only very simple things. We must need flowering and fruiting trees, for all > of us have citrus groves of one size or another. We must need a certain > blandness of season, with a longer and more beneficent heat than many > require, for there is never too much sun for us, and through the long summers > we do not complain. We need the song of birds, and there is none finer than > the red-bird. We need the sound of rain coming across the hamaca, and the > sound of wind in trees — and there is no more sensitive Aeolian harp than the > palm. The pine is good, for the needles brushing one another have a great > softness, and we have the wind in the pines, too. We need above all, I think, > a certain remoteness from urban confusion, and while this can be found in > other places, Cross Creek offers it with such beauty and grace that once > entangled with it, no other place seems possible to us, just as when truly in > love none other offers the comfort of the beloved. We are not even offended > when others do not share our delight. Tom Glisson and I often laugh together > at the people who consider the Creek dull, or, in the precise sense, > outlandish." > > > > Oliver Barry CRS,GRI > Real Estate Broker > Bob Parks Realty > 1517 Hunt Club Blvd > Gallatin TN 37066 > Phone: 615-826-4040 > Fax: 615-822-2027 > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > > > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
