Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park - Cross Creek

It's early Saturday morning and I decided to jump into my old Ford Explorer and take a little road trip back in time. I went to the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park and Historical Site.

Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. Her cracker style home and farm, where she wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling and other wonderful works of fiction, has been restored and is preserved as it was when she lived here.

The park is open every day and visitors may tour the house with a ranger in period costume from October through July on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10 and 11 am and at 1, 2, 3, and 4 pm.

Picnic facilities, a boat ramp to Orange Lake and a playground are located in the adjacent county park."

(From the Florida State Parks, Marjorie Kinnan-Rawlings website)

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After visiting the historical site, I ventured over to "The Yearling Restaurant".

"The Yearling" was established in 1952

and has become a Florida Landmark.

Specializing in authentic "Florida Cracker" Cuisine.

While enjoying my afternoon meal,

I listened to a Blues Man that was

on stage singing the old Blues from back in the day.

It made for a nice, not far from home, get away.