"It belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seeds, and beyond all, to time." So wrote beloved Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who made her home ...

In the late 1920s, columnist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) moves to Cross Creek, Fla., to dedicate herself to writing a serious novel. Despite her husband's eventual departure, the ...

In 1983, the film Cross Creek, based on Rawlings' memoirs, spurred a wave of interest. In 1988, a squabble among residents over development led to a plan designed to protect the pristine area. Now ...