About Anne Hull: Anne Hull is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at the Washington Post.
Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bull...
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.