The governor and the state legislature identified Florida State University as one of two "preeminent" state universities.
Emmeline is an opera in two acts composed by American Tobias Picker with a libretto by JD McClatchy .. Tobias Picker. Tobias Picker. JD McClatchy. JD McClatchy. Picker 's first opera , it was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera company and premiered in 1996 .. Santa Fe Opera. Santa Fe Opera. Based on the book of the same name by Judith Rossner , it is the story of a mid-19th-century Maine woman who has an illegitimate son whom she gives up for adoption .. book of the same name. Emmeline ( Rossner novel ). Judith Rossner. Judith Rossner. Maine. Maine. He is raised by others .. Twenty years later the two meet and unknowingly marry ; when they discover the secret , Emmeline is abandoned by her son and ostracized in her town .