'Similarities to 'The Other Marjorie'

I never had the pleasure of meeting her in real life, but, in the late 1970's did get to meet her counterpart - Marjory (different spelling) Stoneman Douglas, who, like the Marjorie on the other end of the state, was divorced from a husband who was financially wealthy (and also made his living in the newspaper business), traveled to Florida in it's earliest days of development, and, began a love for the Florida environment that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings described as "a love affair with the Earth", which inspired both to write books on their love for the land that are still sold today.

Both also lived a very similar backwoods home life in a rustic "cracker cottage" (not ironic is the fact that these simple buildings are still standing today, unlike the Florida construction of recent decades), with Marjorie being in Cross Creek, while Marjory was living in the then-rural Coconut Grove area of Miami. I'm not sure if the two met (I think they did, perhaps in the late 1940's), but, their common love for Florida in it's once pristine natural state has become an integral part of Florida's environmental history.

At that time, many rural Floridians, similar to Marsh and his family, had a deep respect for the land and also respected it's natural dangers (the snake scene, for example) and it's limitations (the dangers of a killing freeze).

Watching the film, though always sad at how Marsh's life ended, reminds me of my own early experience with God's creation that became known as Florida - my hope is everyone will one day come to appreciate it in the same way these two fine women did...