21 Facts About Marjory Stoneman

1. Marjory Stoneman's would give these wonderful, curmudgeonly speeches to which there was no response.

2. Marjory Stoneman's told a friend she would have rather seen the Everglades restored than her name on a building.

3. Marjory Stoneman's enjoyed drinking Scotch and sherry; as friend and neighbor Helen Muir remembered her, "Marjory Stoneman's would come up and have a sherry, and then I would walk her home, and then she'd walk me back, and we would have another sherry.

4. Marjory Stoneman's wrote that his wife was a friend of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and had provided Stowe with the story of Eliza in Uncle Tom's Cabin fleeing slavery because Douglas' great-great-aunt took care of Eliza and her infant after their escape.

5. Marjory Stoneman's wrote to Governor Bob Graham in 1985 to encourage him to assess the conditions the migrant workers endured.

6. Marjory Stoneman's opposed the drainage of a suburb in Dade County named East Everglades.

7. Marjory Stoneman's reminded us all of our responsibility to nature and I don't remember what else.

8. Marjory Stoneman's toured the state giving "hundreds of ringing denunciations" of the airport project, and increased membership of Friends of the Everglades to 3,000 within three years.

9. Marjory Stoneman's justified her involvement saying, "It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment.

10. Marjory Stoneman's spent five years researching what little was known about the ecology and history of the Everglades and South Florida.

11. Marjory Stoneman's wrote four novels, and several nonfiction books on regional topics including Florida birdwatching and David Fairchild, a biologist who imagined a botanical park in Miami.

12. Marjory Stoneman's released her first novel, Road to the Sun, in 1952.

13. Marjory Stoneman's called the garden "one of the greatest achievements for the entire area".

14. Marjory Stoneman's wrote supporting women's suffrage, civil rights, and better sanitation while opposing Prohibition and foreign trade tariffs.

15. Marjory Stoneman's amassed a devoted readership and attempted to begin each column with a poem.

16. Marjory Stoneman's gained some renown for her daily column, "The Galley", becoming something of a local celebrity.

17. Marjory Stoneman's developed a rivalry with an editor at The Miami Metropolis whose greater familiarity with Miami history gave her cause to make fun of Douglas in writing.

18. Marjory Stoneman passionately opposed the governor of Florida, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, and his attempts to drain the Everglades.

19. Marjory Stoneman's was elected Class Orator, but was unable to fulfill the office since she was already involved in other activities.

20. Marjory Stoneman's was a straight-A student at Wellesley College, graduating with a BA in English in 1912.

21. Marjory Stoneman left for college in 1908, despite grave misgivings about her mother's mental state.