Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman starred in The Yearling in 1946.The Orange Shop in Citra on US Highway 301 has been selling citrus, honey and candies since 1936.The Yearling restaurant has celebrated the heritage of Marjorie Rawlings in Cross Creek since 1952.Willie Green plays the blues during lunch at the Yearling Restaurant.Old Nehi soda ad at the Yearling restaurant.Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house and farm yard was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2007.Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman starred in The Yearling in 1946.“Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.”Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is closed for restoration between August 1 and September 30, but visitors can still peak through the screens.Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is closed for restoration between August 1 and September 30.An aging Buick at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.Aging Buick at Rawlings Home.The barn and cracker home at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park was where the author lived for 25 years.The barn and cracker home at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park was where the author lived for 25 years.“It is necessary to leave the impersonal highway, to step inside the rusty gate and close it behind. One is now inside the orange grove out of one world and in the mysterious heart of another. And after long years of spiritual homelessness, of nostalgia, here is that mystic loveliness of childhood again. Here is home.”
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