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Rebels, Yankees, and Historic Rice Plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry . . .

The Stories:

A Torpedo, an Admiral, and the USS Harvest Moon
The rice mill engineer of Brookgreen Gardens Laurel Hill Plantation strikes a blow for the Confederacy in Thomas Daggett, a tale of one final Confederate naval operation

A Sad Tale from a Tragic War
Memories of a special Lowcountry rice plantation feast sustain ragged Confederate soldiers through cold, heat, dust, mud, and despair in The Legendary Feast.

The Series:
Brookgreen Gardens storytellers share more history and folklore from Murrell Inlets popular tourist attraction in near Myrtle Beach in this short collection (10,000 words, 6 illustrations, 82 pages in paperback) from Lynn Michelsohns second series, More Tales from Brookgreen: Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

The Storytellers:
Two sixty-ish Southern ladies serving as Hostesses at Brookgreen Gardens told these stories of the South Carolina Lowcountry to visitors during the middle of the Twentieth Century. Now, Lynn Michelsohn recounts them to a wider audience.

The Setting:
Brookgreen Gardens, a sculpture garden and wildlife preserve created in the 1930s from four historic Lowcountry rice plantations rich with folklore, displays American sculpture along its pathways winding through ancient live oaks draped with Spanish moss.

Also available . . .

Books from Lynn Michelsohns first series, Tales from Brookgreen:

Lowcountry Ghostshistory, mystery, and romance from the South Carolina coast.

Gullah Ghoststales from African-American Gullah culture in the Carolina Lowcountry.

Crab Boys Ghostone Gullah ghost story and several animal folktales.

Tales from Brookgreen (The Complete Serieshistory, folklore, and ghost stories from Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Other books from Lynn Michelsohns second series, More Tales from Brookgreen:

Lowcounry Hurricanesstories of joy, tragedy, and survival.

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