During Women’s History Month , The Woman’s Exchange of St. Augustine will hold a special exhibit, a trolley tour, and two Lunch & Learn events.  The Lunch & Learn Events are about the St. Augustine friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Zora Neale Hurston, “the daughter of a slave”, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, “an upper-middle-class Yankee”, first met at Florida Normal in St. Augustine. Hurston was there teaching creative writing. Both women were at the height of their literary creativity. Rawlings had achieved wild success with her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Yearling, and Hurston had published Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Friday, March 1, 2024
Ticketed Tour, Buffet Lunch, and Learn – starting at 11:30am
Author Anna Lillios be the featured speaker for the afternoon. Crossing the Creek is the first book to examine the productive and complex relationship between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings & Zora Neale Hurston.
Cost: $35.00

Saturday, March 2, 2024
Trolley Tour – Journey Back to 1942 St. Augustine – 10:00am-11:30am — Currently Sold Out. Narrated by David Nolan, Historian.

Ticketed Tour, Buffet Lunch, and Learn – Starting at 11:30am
Author Anne McCutchan will be the featured speaker for the afternoon. McCutchan’s sixth book, The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, was released on May 11, 2021. Books will be available for signing and purchase.
Cost: $35.00

Click the event website link for additional information and to purchase your tickets for each event.