I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World. Anne Hull Read Quote
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. Anne Hull Read Quote
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. Anne Hull Read Quote
