sentences:  A scholar and advocate of the Florida Cracker, Burt was a longtime trustee of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society—an organization that celebrated the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who gave the Crackers dignity in American literature.He lived for many years in the picturesque historic town of Melrose, Florida, until declining health dictated a move to the larger city of Jacksonville not long before his death.Burt graduated from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in 1949.