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Many people have supported and encouraged my work on this project. I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to librarians, students, friends, fellow scholars, and family for their generosity through the years I was writing this book.
First and foremost, I want to thank my family. My husband, George Everett, has been with me every step of the way, always providing optimism, good cheer, and all sorts of tangible and intangible support. My sons, Christopher and Andrew, are the lights of my life. Their love of nature has opened up facets of Florida hidden from my view. Together we have boated through the Everglades, collected sand dollars in Naples, hunted horseshoe crabs on Pine Island, swum at New Smyrna Beach, gone hawking in central Florida, and watched shuttle launches at Cape Kennedy. I never would have understood Hurston's and Rawlings's settings without these experiences.
I was first introduced to the work of Zora Neale Hurston by my friend Steve Glassman, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, who invited me to present a paper at his “Zora” conference in 1989. I had never heard of Hurston and did not have time to read all of her works, but I came up with an idea that opened up Hurston's world in ways I never could have imagined. I interviewed most of the people in Eatonville who had known her. I will always be grateful to Mrs. Mattie Jones, Mrs. Annie Davis, Mrs. Hoyt Davis, Mrs. Jimmie Lee Harrell, Mrs. Harriet Moseley, and Mrs. Clara Williams for inviting me into their homes and shining the inside light on their remarkable community. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know these women and am grateful for the ways in which they made Hurston come alive for me.
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