Kissimmee, Florida traces its name to the Jororo tribe, among the first to settle along the river valley. Riverboat captains, entrepreneurs, and speculators found Kissimmee and nearby Lake Tohopekalig
In 1879, the new post office south of the steamboat wharfs on Lake Jesup was named Oviedo for a city in northern Spain to blend with the old La Florida. Oviedo has grown from a farm town to become the
Meandering through Orange, Lake, and Seminole Counties, this "purest form of Central Florida nature," as described by one of its champions, is also bordered by some of the region's most densely popula
In the heart of Central Florida lies St. Cloud, an amiable city with a bright future and a colorful past. Located in Osceola County, only a short distance from the Sunshine State's most-visited touris
"Robison uses a minimalist discipline and barely ruffled surfaces, but her hidden pictures of childhood and other states of vulnerability are boundless in their emotion." —The Los Angeles Times Book R
Robison (Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University) and Ritchie (international relations, Michigan State University) use the Social Capital Paradigm to explain why social re
"Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." —The New York Times Book ReviewConti
In this funny, grouchy, wryly tender novel—first published in 1991—Mary Robison gives us a portrait of a marriage in very rough shape careening toward the breaking point, and of two magnetic and carel
"Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America." —The New York Times Book ReviewTell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's
