<< Back to News Listings MOVIE NIGHT ON THE GREEN – Thursday, October 29th Brought to you by the Baldwin Park Merchant Association and sponsored by Equinox Documentaries.  In Marjorie’s Wake: Come out and enjoy an evening that focuses on the the exciting history and culture of Florida! Free popcorn, supplied by the Merchant Association, is served, however, if you want to make it “dinner & a movie,” check out Movie Night drink specials at Jack’s Steakhouse or order your dinner to go! Wait staff from Village Center eateries are scheduled to be on-site to take your orders. Brought to you by the Baldwin Park Merchants Association and sponsored by Equinox Documentaries. In Marjorie's Wake examines the many ways in which the St. Johns River of Florida has shaped culture — literature, art and music — over time. It does so by re-creating a historic trip that Pulitzer-prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings once made on the river in 1933. Rawlings, encouraged and joined by her Cracker neighbor Dessie Smith, launched a small boat just south of the aptly-named "Puzzle Lake" southeast of Orlando. The pair spent the next ten days navigating downstream on the river, camping on the shores or on mud flats, and catching fish or shooting game for food. Rawlings trip was re-created in this documentary by 2 Florida residents. One is Winter Park resident Leslie Kemp Poole, a writer, a teacher in the Environmental Studies Program at Rollins College and a Ph.D. candidate in environmental history at the University of Florida. The other is Jennifer Chase, a musician, song writer, playwright and educator who teaches at Florida Community College in Jacksonville. The documentary shadows the route taken by Rawlings and Smith, from south of Puzzle Lake north on the St. Johns to the Ocklawaha River, and finally back to the original Rawlings home, now preserved as a State Historic Park at Cross Creek. Along the way, the women camped in the wilderness of conservation land in the watershed, and stayed at overnight riverfront lodging at fish camps and marinas. Both not only explored the river, but more closely examined their own connections to it through their respective art and craft.     << Back to News Listings     Back to Top