Creek

I had met only two or three of the neighboring Crackers when I realized that isolation had done something to these people. . . .They have a primal quality against their background of jungle hammock, moss-hung against the tremendous silence of the scrub country. The only ingredients of their lives are the elemental things.Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, March 1930, in a letter to Alfred S. Dashiell of Sc...