Crystal Springs writer pushed conservation

Crystal Springs writer pushed conservation

Special to Wesson News The Mother of Mississippi’s conservation tradition, writer Francis (Fannye) Adine Cook, acquired her lifelong passion as a farmer’s daughter who collected wild plants, birds, mammals and amphibians as a child growing up in a Crystal Springs Victorian home on Georgetown Street in the early 1900s.Born July 19, 1889, she was the seventh child of Gilbert and Martha Ellen Cook and would follow a career as a teacher, auditor, re…