All in Jacksonville

The Land of Flowers

They were not mythologized like the Western cowboys or the Irish and Italian immigrants of the Northeast. And yet the modern stories of struggle that the 2017 film The Florida Project are based on seem to echo Priscilla, Ida and Louvenia’s story. We all come from somewhere, some from wealth and some from poverty. Some from sickness and some from health. I come from these women and I come from this story.