Despair and frailty are connecting themes in stories from the Big Scrub in Marion County, both from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ “The Yearling” and a real-life descendant of the region.
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The River of Grass Has a New Sentinel
Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, has carried the inspiration and legacy of the organization’s founder, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, into the battle to shut down a massive immigration detention center in the heart of the glades.
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A Grounded Voice for Wild Florida
Sarah Gledhill, the first woman to lead the Florida Wildlife Federation, is known for her pragmatism and persistence.
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What Would Marjory Stoneman Douglas Do?
Watching and reading news accounts about the South Florida Detention Facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” contributor Leslie Kemp Poole wonders: WWMSDD?
