Mother in Mannville:
One of my favorites so far!  Reader is left to imagine the 'rest of the story'.
Of the two storytellers, who is better?

Alligators

Did anyone flash back to Captain Ahab and the Great White Whale in Rawlings' tales of alligator rolling and riding?  I did!

Interesting account of the relationship between Rawlings and her second husband.

Rawlings marriage

Tuba players calling alligators in B Flat

Gator calling

Link to another interesting Rawlings blog

Hi All
Here is a URL for a blog with some super pictures of Cross Creek in todays (State Park) form

Apparently the furniture, or most of it is original, having been donated by Marjories second husband

http://sherryhartzler.blogspot.com/2014/02/cross-creek-trip-back-in-time.html

If you are on a PC, you can highlight the URL and  copy and paste it into a browser, or even easier, after highlighting, just right click and select "open link in new tab"

Tony

Here's one version of the song in Jacob's ladder:

Since I lay my burden down

Bigelow guesses that Mart and Florry travel down the Withlacoochee River which flows into the Suwanee then to the gulf. Here's a link about a modern couple who traveled on the river:

Withlacoochee