Two modern women retrace the travels and exploration of Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings as she and her neighbor Dessie Smith traveled the St. Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers more than 75 years ago. As they do, they help modern Floridians more fully understand the inextricable connection between people and place. Witnessing how others have been shaped by geography can help us appreciate the vital energies still available to us in our environment. These energies can inform our sensibilities and, in the best of worlds, may even lead us to some wisdom about the sustainability of land and water, of people and culture.