Betty Berger

Back Roads Betty Berger

Florida has been called ?The State Without A Soul.? The people that moved to Florida left their roots at the place they came from. This history of the long ago features people with their roots who were born here, walked the sands of time and will be buried here at the Cedars of Lebanon Cemetery. Their headstones already mark the spot where their roots will remain for eternity. Dessie Smith Prescott, whose picture is in the ?Women?s Hall of Fame? in Tallahassee said, ?If you find yourself on a back road, get off and walk the main road.? Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is also in the Hall of Fame because Dessie helped her to survive long enough to write ?The Yearling? and many other Florida books. Some of the history tells of the memories and roots that people brought to this area to build ?The State With A Soul.? This book is written so that the old stories don?t get lost. It links the threads together of the Soul or Spirit of Florida.