Good Reads at Goodwood - Palmetto Pioneers

Find a new good read with Goodwood Museum & Gardens!

Join Goodwood and author Cindy Roe Littlejohn for an author meet-and-greet and book signing at the Goodwood Argonaut Cafe on Sunday, October 8, from 1-3 PM.

Littlejohn’s newest book, “Palmetto Pioneers: The Emigrants,” will be available for sale during the book signing and afterward in the Goodwood gift shop.

“America’s attorney general in 1829 said, “No man would immigrate to Florida – no, not from hell itself!”“Palmetto Pioneers” tells the story of Mary Adeline Walker, an ordinary daughter of a cattleman and a South Carolina low-country child. She follows her family and her heart for the adventures of her lifetime into the wilds of territorial Florida, where she survives 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 is a suspenseful, thoroughly resourced biography (that reads like fiction) of Littlejohn’s own ancestor, Mary Walker, that details the stirring story of the birth of a state.

“Good Reads at Goodwood” is a new series, bringing local authors and topics to the Goodwood bookshelf in the gift shop.