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Eatonville Branch offers an array of programs in celebration of the life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston. Programs span throughout January and culminate with the annual Meet the Author event in the ZORA! Festival's Education Day, part of the ZORA! Outdoor Festival of the Arts. All are welcome to attend free events, peruse the library’s special collections, and learn about Zora’s impact on the historic Town of Eatonville.
Zora Zines
Event Categories: Arts & Crafting; Authors, Books, Writing; Education & Learning
Learning comes alive! Explore the world through themed lessons and activities. Recommended for ages 6-12. Registration required.
Learn more>Through the Eyes of Zora: Stories, Research, and Reflections
Orlando Public Library (Albertson Room - Third Floor)
Event Categories: General Events; History, Culture, Genealogy
Celebrate the extraordinary life and legacy of Zora Neale Hurston. Registration required. Recommended 14 and up.
Learn more>Zora Neale Hurston Crafts
Eatonville Branch (Eatonville - Meeting Room)
Event Categories: Arts & Crafting; Education & Learning
Discover the world of art! Together, we'll learn the history, get inspired, and create a masterpiece! Recommended for ages 6-12. Registration required.
Learn more>Zora's Butterfly Garden
South Trail Branch (South Trail - Ask at Desk)
Event Categories: Education & Learning; Storytime
Preschoolers will delight in interactive stories, songs, and rhymes that inspire a love of reading and build early literacy skills. Recommended for ages 3–5.
Learn more>Eatonville Branch (Eatonville - Meeting Room)
Event Categories: Community & Citizenship; History, Culture, Genealogy
Join the voices behind the Eatonville History Preservation Project as they share insights on the creative process, the importance of preserving local history, and the enduring legacy of Eatonville.
Learn more>
Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat.
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Their eyes were watching god [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cover-9780060842765.jpg)
Their eyes were watching god [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Seraph on the Suwanee / by Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Jonah’s gourd vine. With a new introd. by Larry Neal.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Moses : man of the mountain / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston with a forward by Maya Angelou.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Spunk : the selected stories / of Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
![Cover art for Folklore, memoirs, and other writings / Zora Neale Hurston [edited by Cheryl A. Wall]](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780940450844.jpg)
Novels and stories / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston with a foreword by Maya Angelou.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
![Cover art for Their eyes were watching God [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780060739829.jpg)
![Cover art for Their eyes were watching God [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9781411471917.jpg)
Their eyes were watching God [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
![Cover art for Mules and men [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780060886707.jpg)
Mules and men [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
![Cover art for Dust tracks on a road [electronic resource] : an autobiography / Zora Neale Hurston.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062010438.jpg)
Dust tracks on a road [electronic resource] : an autobiography / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Dust tracks on a road : an autobiography [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062643445.jpg)
Dust tracks on a road : an autobiography [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Moses, Man of the Mountain [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062010568.jpg)
Moses, Man of the Mountain [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Barracoon [electronic resource] : The Story of the Last Black Cargo / Zora Neale Hurston](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062748225.jpg)
Barracoon [electronic resource] : The Story of the Last Black Cargo / Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Barracoon [electronic resource] : The Story of the Last Black Cargo / Zora Neale Hurston](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062748232.jpg)
Barracoon [electronic resource] : The Story of the Last Black Cargo / Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Barracoon : the story of the last black cargo [electronic resource].](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062748232-1.jpg)
Barracoon : the story of the last black cargo [electronic resource].
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick [electronic resource] : Stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062915818.jpg)
![Cover art for Barracoon : The Story of the Last Black Cargo [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062748225-1.jpg)
Barracoon : The Story of the Last Black Cargo [electronic resource] / Zora Neale Hurston.
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories / Zora Neale Hurston foreword by Tayari Jones edited with an introduction by Genevieve West [electronic resource].](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062915832.jpg)
![Cover art for Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance [electronic resource].](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062915818-1.jpg)
Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance [electronic resource].
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
![Cover art for Barracoon : the story of the last black cargo [electronic resource].](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062748225-2.jpg)
Barracoon : the story of the last black cargo [electronic resource].
Hurston, Zora Neale, author.
Fire!! : the Zora Neale Hurston story / Peter Bagge.
Bagge, Peter, author, illustrator.
Zora Neale Hurston : a literary biography / Robert E. Hemenway with a foreword by Alice Walker.
Hemenway, Robert E., 1941- .
The character of the word : the texts of Zora Neale Hurston / Karla F.C. Holloway.
Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-
Zora Neale Hurston / Paul Witcover.
Witcover, Paul.
All about Zora : views and reviews by colleagues and scholars at the Academic Conference of the First Annual Zora Neal Hurston Festival of the Arts, January 26-27, 1990, Eatonville, Florida / edited
Academic Conference of the Zora Neal Hurston Festival of the Arts (1st : 1990 : Eatonville, Fla.)
Zora Neale Hurston : Southern storyteller / Della A. Yannuzzi.
Yannuzzi, Della A.
Social rituals and the verbal art of Zora Neale / Lynda Marion Hill.
Hill, Lynda Marion, 1951-
Zora Neale Hurston : an annotated bibliography and reference guide / compiled by Rose Parkman Davis.
Davis, Rose Parkman, 1947-
Women of the Harlem renaissance / Cheryl A. Wall.
Wall, Cheryl A.
![Cover art for Zora Neale Hurston : a life in letters / [compiled by] Carla Kaplan.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780385490351.jpg)
Zora Neale Hurston : a life in letters / [compiled by] Carla Kaplan.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal / Yuval Taylor.
Taylor, Yuval, author.
Student companion to Zora Neale Hurston / Josie P. Campbell.
Campbell, Josie P.
Zora Neale Hurston and a history of southern life / Tiffany Ruby Patterson.
Patterson, Tiffany Ruby, 1946-
The nation’s region : southern modernism, segregation, and U.S. nationalism / Leigh Anne Duck.
Duck, Leigh Anne, 1967-
Zora Neale Hurston : a biography of the spirit / Deborah G. Plant.
Plant, Deborah G., 1956-
Zora Neale Hurston : I’ve been in sorrow’s kitchen / by Laura Baskes Litwin.
Litwin, Laura Baskes.
A song for Harlem / by Patricia C. McKissack illustrations by Gordon C. James.
McKissack, Pat, 1944-
Rhythm and folklore : the story of Zora Neale Hurston / Kerrily Sapet.
Sapet, Kerrily, 1972-
Zora Neale Hurston : Harlem renaissance writer / by Katie Marsico.
Marsico, Katie, 1980-
Critical companion to Zora Neale Hurston : a literary reference to her life and work / Sharon L. Jones.
Jones, Sharon L. (Sharon Lynette)
Zora and me : the song of Ivory / by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon.
Bond, Victoria, 1979-
Zora Neale Hurston’s final decade / Virginia Lynn Moylan.
Moylan, Virginia Lynn.
![Cover art for Zora and me [electronic resource] / Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780763652135.jpg)
Zora and me [electronic resource] / Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon.
Bond, Victoria, 1979-
Zora! : the life of Zora Neal Hurston / Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin.
Fradin, Judith Bloom.
Zora Neale Hurston on Florida food : recipes, remedies and simple pleasures / Fred Opie.
Opie, Frederick Douglass.
Sharp : the women who made an art of having an opinion / Michelle Dean.
Dean, Michelle, 1979- author.
Zora and me : the cursed ground / T. R. Simon.
Simon, T. R. (Tanya R.), author.
![Cover art for Zora and Langston [electronic resource] : a story of friendship and betrayal / Yuval Taylor.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780393243925.jpg)
Zora and Langston [electronic resource] : a story of friendship and betrayal / Yuval Taylor.
Taylor, Yuval, author.
Zora & me : The summoner / Victoria Bond.
Bond, Victoria, 1979- author.
Award-winning social expert and author Rae Chesny will be joining us at Eatonville Branch to host a three-day event series called Zora Neale Hurston: The Storyteller and Her Town. Library staff have also partnered with Eatonville Chamber of Commerce and ZORA! Festival as part of the project. This program has been funded by the Community Project Grant from Florida Humanities. […]
![Cover art for Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick [electronic resource] : Stories from the Harlem Renaissance / Zora Neale Hurston foreword by Tayari Jones introduction by Genevieve West.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9780062915818-2.jpg)
![Cover art for ZORA NEALE HURSTON [DVD videorecording] : A HEART WITH ROOM FOR EVERY JOY / written and produced by Paul Iacono.](https://ocls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cover-9781421324296.jpg)
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