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World of The Yearling: Florida in the 1870s Symposium
February 7, 2014 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Check out this upcoming symposium, co-sponsored by the George A. Smathers Libraries, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, Inc., and Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm, Inc. as part of the 75th anniversary celebration of The Year of The Yearling.
World of The Yearling: Florida in the 1870s Symposium
Friday, February 7, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Smathers Library Grand Reading Room, 2nd floor
10:00-10:05 a.m.
Florence Turcotte, Literary Manuscripts Archivist, University of Florida
Welcome and Opening remarks
10:05-10:15 a.m.
Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida
Welcome from the Libraries
10:15- 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Ben Brotemarkle, Ph.D., Executive Director, Florida Historical Society
Introductory Remarks
Presenters:
10:30-11 a.m.
Anne Pierce, Ph.D., Trustee, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society:
“Foundations of The Yearling: The Reuben Long Family in the Big Scrub”
11:00-11:30 a.m.Ben DiBiase, Educational Resources Coordinator, Florida Historical Society:
“Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Historical Society: Correspondence and the Williamson Farm Workbook”
11:30a.m.-12:00p.m.
Connie L. Lester, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of Central Florida, Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly and the Director of the Regional Initiative for Collecting the History, Experiences and Stories (RICHES) of Central Florida:
“Farming in the Florida Scrub: Subsistence Agriculture in The Yearling”
12:00-1:00p.m. Lunch break
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Steven G. Noll, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer of History, University of Florida:
“Steamboats & Subsistence: The Ever-changing, ever-static world of the St. Johns-Ocklawaha Basin”
1:30-2:00p.m.
Paul Ortiz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida:
“Florida in Reconstruction and Shortly Thereafter: Forgotten Paths of White and Black Solidarity (And Why We Forgot Them)”
2:00-2:30p.m.
James G. Cusick, Ph.D, Curator, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida:
“Eyewitness Accounts of the 1870s: The World of The Yearling as Seen by Visitors to Florida”
2:30-3:00p.m.
Questions and comments from the audience
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Program co-sponsored by the George A. Smathers Libraries, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, Inc., and Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm, Inc., and is part of the 75th anniversary celebration of The Year of The Yearling.