Proud Floridian Cindy Roe Littlejohn, a married mother of three and a grandmother of seven, is an author and writer, blogger, a tree farmer, and a retired agricultural and environmental lobbyist.
She loves to travel (especially old trails), garden, do genealogy, and spend time with her family in the outdoors. Her latest book is “Palmetto Pioneers: The Emigrants.” This compelling story narrates Mary Walker’s self-discovery and Florida’s struggle to become a state, where people like the Walkers faced its challenges and used their tenacity to change their own lives and their state’s future.
Palmetto Pioneers: The Emigrants
Mary Adeline Walker, a South Carolinian low-country cattleman’s daughter, follows her family and heart into the wilds of territorial Florida, where she faces an Indian war and Florida’s brutal environs. In frontier Florida, the enemy is nature and man, and the ordinary must become extraordinary—or perish.
This compelling story narrates her self-discovery and Florida’s struggle to become a state, where people like the Walkers faced its challenges and used their tenacity to change their own lives and their state’s future.
The thoroughly researched, narrative non-fiction book describes the birth of a state—how both Mary and Florida found their way.
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Yankees in the Courthouse
Union soldiers march into a quiet Florida courthouse—and nothing is the same again. Set in 1862, Yankees in the Courthouse reveals the fear, faith, and fierce resolve of civilians caught between the war, occupation, and survival, offering a vivid portrait of the Civil War as lived by those left behind.
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