Question: Which Central Florida town did author Zora Neale Hurston grow up in and write about?
Answer: Eatonville. The town sits in Orange County, about six miles north of Orlando, and on Aug. 15, 1887, 27 black voters gathered to charter it as one of the first self-governing all-black towns in the United States. She set Their Eyes Were Watching God in and around it, and the town still throws the Zora! Festival every January.
