title: Writes Of Passage: Poetry and Prose by
author: Sandy Cosgrave
description: ABOUT SANDY COSGRAVE Born in Australia during the bombing of Sydney by the Japanese, Sandy Cosgrave had a childhood filled with learning, family strife, and adventure. In fact, adventure has been her middle name, as she reports traveling around the world nine times on a motorcycle, riverboat, elephant and a variety of other watercraft. She stayed outside in the natural world as much as possible. Before finding sobriety she specialized in party with finesse. I was very good at it because I had lots of practice. After years of living on the edge, she committed herself to sobriety while living in Montana for over seven years and became a leader within AA. She recently celebrated over 31 years sober. Of course travel and being in nature remained central to her life. She became a teacher, a lifestyle that allows for summer-long adventures every year. She often ended up teaching the most difficult kids, the unruly troublemakers, whose respect she commanded, regaling them with her own adventures. Until she was diagnosed with cancer in 2013, she taught critical thinking at Santa Fe College in Gainesville. When the doctors said it was terminal, she quit chemo and radiation, living out her life quietly drug free, and without the debilitating effects of cancer therapy. She settled in North Central Florida in 1968, canoeing, kayaking, camping, and learning the names and voices of all the birds, and all the plants growing here, especially in and around springs, rivers, swamps and forests. A strong supporter of Crones Cradle Conserve, she appreciated the community, organic gardening, and conservation they practice. She became a minister and psychic with the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, where her deep reverence for life guided her. Her spirituality was grounded in Native American and Native Australian practices, as well as late 20th century female-centered theology. She led and participated in Sweat Lodges, Cronings, and numerous other circles of women. She was a great cook, specializing in lamb, prepared of course, with Australian flare.
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  # Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### La Salle Corbell Pickett
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  FOREWORD.
  
  
  “THE POET OF THE NIGHT”
  
  
  “THE SUNRISE POET”
  
  
  “THE POET OF THE PINES”
  
  
  “THE FLAME-BORN POET”
  
  
  “FATHER ABBOT”
  
  
  “UNCLE REMUS”
  
  
  “THE POET OF THE FLAG”
  
  
  “THE POET-PRIEST”
  
  
  “BACON AND GREENS”
  
  
  “WOMAN AND POET”
  
  
  “THE 'MOTHER' OF 'ST. ELMO'“
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Illustration: THE HOME OF AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON, ASHLAND PLACE Now
  
  
  owned by Mrs. George Fearn, Jr.]
  
  
  
  
  
  LITERARY HEARTHSTONES OF DIXIE
  
  
  
  
  
  _By_
  
  
  LA SALLE CORBELL PICKETT
  
  
  AUTHOR OF “PICKETT AND HIS MEN,” “JINNY,” ETC.
  
  
  
  
  
  _With Portraits and Illustrations_
  
  
  
  
  
  PHILADELPHIA &LONDON
  
  
  J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
  
  
  1912
  
  
  COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY J.B.
  
  
  LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
  
  
  PUBLISHED SEPTEM