Tag: Dessie Smith Prescott

• DESSIE SMITH PRESCOTT – A WOMAN FOR THE AGES

  

  By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social As a freelance writer, I’ve been fortunate enough to write about some interesting events and people. In a few instances, I’ve even had the privilege of interviewing a handful of famous or infamous folks. Dessie Smith Prescott could be categorized as both famous and infamous, and the interview with her…

  P. C. Zick

  June 24, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, interview, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, travel, wildlife

  Cross Creek, Dessie Smith Prescott, Florida fiction, Florida nonfiction, Florida Women’s Hall of Fame, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, north Florida, rural Florida, St. Johns River, women pioneers

• Cross Creek Sojourn

  By P.C. Zick – @PCZick Cross Creek was immortalized in the movie of the same name  in 1983. The small village exists on the banks of Orange Lake in North Florida amid the hanging Spanish moss and spirits of those who once called the Creek their home. Two women whose photographs grace a hallway in…

  P. C. Zick

  April 24, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace

  Cross Creek, Dessie Smith Prescott, environment, Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize, writers