Fort Pierce, Florida
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Fort Pierce is a city in and the county seat of St. Lucie County, Florida, United States. An hour north of West Palm Beach, the city is part of the Treasure Coast region of Florida’s Atlantic Coast. I
Fort Pierce Inlet State Park
Beach in Fort Pierce
Fort Pierce Marina
Fort Pierce Farmers Market
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hood
Fort Pierce, Florida
…when it was surpassed by Melbourne. The neighborhood of Lincoln Park, the area north of Moore's Creek, originated as Edgartown. The renowned writer, Zora Neale Hurston lived in the neighborhood. In its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, a thriving African-American community, centered along Avenue D. It was the county's…
Hurston sometime between 1935 and 1943
Hurston playing a hountar, or mama drum, 1937
Neale Hurston in 1938, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
Hurston in Florida on an anthropological research trip, 1935