Painting by Nikki Butcher
Click on song title to hear music please, this is a wonderful song about the Florida Everglades.
Seminole
Wind... By John Anderson
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born in Minneapolis April 17,1890 this wonderful
woman passed away in her home in Coconut Grove,
Florida on May 14,1998 in her sleep at the age of
108.
Daughter of Miami Hearalds Founding editor, Frank
Stoneman, she moved to Florida in 1915
and here she spent her life fighting to save the
everglades.
In 1947 she
published her book, The Everglades--River of
Grass.
and in her 70's formed
Friends Of The
Everglades
Even in her 80's this fiesty little woman was the
editor of the University of Miami Press.
As blindness came upon her in her 90's she dictated
her biography, Voice Of A River
Ms. Douglas received many honors in her life, among
them
1988- Ms Magazine named her Woman of the Year
1990-The Florida Senate honered her 100th
birthday.
1993-President Clinton awarded her with the
Presidential Medal Of Honer
On October 7, 2000, in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of
women's rights, where the first Women's Rights Convention was held
in 1848, our founder, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, was inducted into the
National Women's Hall of Fame.
If it had not been for this lady, what is now the
Florida Everglades might possibly be nothing but
houses and condos.
To learn more about Marjory's life and her work
please visit the website above and read her books.
She was truly a very remarkable woman and will be
greatly missed.
