The Three Marjorie(y)s and How They Changed Florida presented by Dr. Leslie Poole
Florida’s women have been important activists in protecting and preserving its unique natural features. Three women in particular have had an enormous impact: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who taught the world about the beauty of the state’s rural areas, environmental activist Marjorie Harris Carr who led the grassroots effort to stop the Cross Florida Barge Canal in the 1960s, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, an accomplished author who took up the protecting the Everglades in the last decades of her life. These three “Marjorie(y)s” remain models of activism and will be the focus of Dr. Leslie Kemp Poole’s talk. Dr. Leslie Kemp Poole is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Rollins College and an award-winning writer and historian.