May Vinzant Perkins - Lake City, FL
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N 30° 11.308 W 082° 38.173
17R E 342479 N 3340800
A blue plaque recognizing May Vinzant Perkins is located at the Columbia County Historical Museum, which is housed in the former Vinzant House, in Lake City, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WMB06G
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/18/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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The following is a biography of May Vinzant Perkins that was formerly posted on The Great Floridians 2000 Program website: "May Vinzant Perkins was born in 1879 and lived her adult life in Lake City. She was a member of the Lake City Garden Club and the Lake City Woman’s Club, and was society editor of the Lake City Reporter. She wrote an account of Aunt Aggie’s Bone Yard, a historic Lake City garden. Her verse was frequently published in the Florida Times Union. One of her works, The Immutable Bond, won the 1943 award as the best Florida Women’s Club Poem of the Year. Another poem, Renaissance, was published in The Raven, a quarterly publication of the Avalon National Poetry Shrine. May Vinzant Perkins died in 1981. Her Great Floridian plaque is located at the Columbia County Historical Museum, 105 South Hernando Street, Lake City."
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