 Author Zora Neale Hurston moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family as a young girl in the 1890s, and later set several of her stories there. Their eyes were watching God begins and ends on Janie Crawford's porch in Eatonville. At her grandma's urging, young Janie marries the much older Logan, but after she finds no love there, she leaves him for Joe Starks, who becomes the mayor of Eatonville.