There is a piece of land in Marion County, on the western edge of the Ocala National Forest, that played an important part in American literary history.
It’s the place where the author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings visited and even lived for a time in the early 1930s as she learned all about Florida natives and the land known as the Big Scrub. Her impressions and experiences were the inspiration behind two of her most celebrated novels: “South Moon Under” and “The Yearling,” which won the Pulitzer Prize.
On July 21, a unanimous Marion County Commission denied a request to erect a 195-foot telecommunication tower on land adjacent to where Rawlings stayed…