A Georgia Tidewater Companion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Georgia Tidewater Companion write by Buddy Sullivan. This book was released on 2015-01-17. A Georgia Tidewater Companion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buddy Sullivan, author of the popular "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater", "From Beautiful Zion to Red Bird Creek", "Georgia: A State History" and 13 other books on coastal Georgia history, provides in a single collection an assortment of essays, papers and short studies on various aspects of his research over the last quarter century. These documented studies have appeared in print in other places, whether issued as single publications, or as the introductions to some of the author's other books on coastal history. An introductory essay relates Sullivan's coastal roots, his path to becoming a coastal historian, his research methodology and how some of his books evolved from idea to publication. The following papers are primarily associated with maritime, agricultural and economic history, and how the people of coastal Georgia have used, and adapted to, the local ecosystem and the environmental factors associated therewith, in the pursuit of their lives and livelihoods.
Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater
Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater write by Buddy Sullivan. This book was released on 2016. Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author Buddy Sullivan's "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: A New Revised Edition" represents a complete recasting of a book issued under the same title in 1990, and reprinted five times. Sullivan is a prominent coastal Georgia historian and lecturer with nineteen titles to his credit. This new edition of "Early Days" incorporates all the material in the original version, in addition to considerable new information based on the author’s recent research. Additionally, the new "Early Days" has been reformatted to reflect improved chapter sequence and content to provide a smoother, more continuous narrative flow than that of the original edition. In essence, the revised edition is a completely new book that will be of improved utility to researchers, students, and the general reader. "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater" is a comprehensive history of Sapelo Island, Darien and McIntosh County, Georgia, as well as a general overview of the history of coastal Georgia, focusing on Glynn, Liberty and Bryan counties, Savannah, and St. Simons and St. Catherines islands. It covers the full scope of coastal history: Guale Indians, Spanish missionaries, and early settlement by English colonists; the rice and cotton economy during the plantation era built upon the labors of enslaved peop≤ Civil War events, including the controversial burning of Darien; the timber industry, and the associated shipping activity that made Darien a leading center for the export of pine lumber for forty years; the emerging commercial oyster and shrimping fisheries; and the impact of millionaires, scientists and resident African Americans on the 20th century history of the region, especially Sapelo Island. Significantly, the new edition of "Early Days" relates the story of the area’s African American communities, particularly the developing Geechee settlements at Sapelo, Harris Neck and Darien in the years from the end of the Civil War through the 20th century. The author’s thematic approach is that of establishing the important connection between the ecology of the area with its history. This recurring theme will be apparent throughout the book in an analysis of just how people utilized the environmental circumstances unique to their region and adapted them to virtually every aspect of their lives and livelihood for 300 years. "Early Days" is thus essentially a story of land use and landscape: soils, tides, salt marshes, river hydrology, weather, and how these conditions impacted the agricultural, commercial and social development of the region. Of equal significance is the use people have made of the tidal waterways and fresh-water river systems, giving the new edition a distinctly maritime flavor. "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater" is documented through source notes and an expanded index, and includes photographs of places and people, and localized maps that provide the geographical context necessary for an understanding of the economic, maritime and cultural dynamics of the coast.
Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater
Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater write by Buddy Sullivan. This book was released on 2017-04-18. Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author Buddy Sullivan's "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: A New Revised Edition" represents a complete recasting of a book issued under the same title in 1990, and reprinted five times. Sullivan is a prominent coastal Georgia historian and lecturer with nineteen titles to his credit. This new edition of "Early Days" incorporates all the material in the original version, in addition to considerable new information based on the author’s recent research. Additionally, the new "Early Days" has been reformatted to reflect improved chapter sequence and content to provide a smoother, more continuous narrative flow than that of the original edition. In essence, the revised edition is a completely new book that will be of improved utility to researchers, students, and the general reader. "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater" is a comprehensive history of Sapelo Island, Darien and McIntosh County, Georgia, as well as a general overview of the history of coastal Georgia, focusing on Glynn, Liberty and Bryan counties, Savannah, and St. Simons and St. Catherines islands. It covers the full scope of coastal history: Guale Indians, Spanish missionaries, and early settlement by English colonists; the rice and cotton economy during the plantation era built upon the labors of enslaved peop≤ Civil War events, including the controversial burning of Darien; the timber industry, and the associated shipping activity that made Darien a leading center for the export of pine lumber for forty years; the emerging commercial oyster and shrimping fisheries; and the impact of millionaires, scientists and resident African Americans on the 20th century history of the region, especially Sapelo Island. Significantly, the new edition of "Early Days" relates the story of the area’s African American communities, particularly the developing Geechee settlements at Sapelo, Harris Neck and Darien in the years from the end of the Civil War through the 20th century. The author’s thematic approach is that of establishing the important connection between the ecology of the area with its history. This recurring theme will be apparent throughout the book in an analysis of just how people utilized the environmental circumstances unique to their region and adapted them to virtually every aspect of their lives and livelihood for 300 years. "Early Days" is thus essentially a story of land use and landscape: soils, tides, salt marshes, river hydrology, weather, and how these conditions impacted the agricultural, commercial and social development of the region. Of equal significance is the use people have made of the tidal waterways and fresh-water river systems, giving the new edition a distinctly maritime flavor. "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater" is documented through source notes and an expanded index, and includes photographs of places and people, and localized maps that provide the geographical context necessary for an understanding of the economic, maritime and cultural dynamics of the coast.
Child-Life on the Tidewater
Child-Life on the Tidewater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child-Life on the Tidewater write by Buddy Sullivan. This book was released on 2024-02-03. Child-Life on the Tidewater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a book about growing up in a small low country fishing community, McIntosh County, Georgia, in the 1950s and 1960s, when the pace of life was far slower and less eventful than it would become in later times. The memories associated with shrimp boats, crabbing in the tidal waters, and "messing about" in small boats on the waterways as an adolescent are the central theme of this book. Blended with these experiences is the author's strong sense of "place," thus an accompanying theme of the book is that of the memoirist's lifelong appreciation and understanding of his coastal ecosystem-- salt marshes, maritime forests, barrier islands and the myriad tidal rivers and creeks that are home to an abundance of wildlife and water life. These sentiments are akin to those of the author's contemporary, the late novelist Pat Conroy, whom he greatly admires and who also grew up and matured in the low country. Buddy Sullivan includes in his narrative an account of the several generations of his family that have had a connection to this unique locale, as well as his path from childhood to a professional career as a sports writer, historian, and author of books about the culture, ecology and history of McIntosh County and the Georgia coast.
Sapelo
Sapelo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sapelo write by Buddy Sullivan. This book was released on 2017-03-01. Sapelo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state’s greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature characteristics that have made it a locus for scientific research and ecological conservation. Beginning in 1949, when then Sapelo owner R. J. Reynolds Jr. founded the Sapelo Island Research Foundation and funded the research of biologist Eugene Odum, UGA’s study of the island’s fragile wetlands helped foster the modern ecology movement. With this book, Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of the island’s history, including Native American inhabitants; Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of the innovative Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island after the Civil War; Sapelo’s two twentieth-century millionaire owners, Howard E. Coffin and R. J. Reynolds Jr., and the development of the University of Georgia Marine Institute; the state of Georgia acquisition; and the transition of Sapelo’s multiple African American communities into one. Sapelo Island’s history also offers insights into the unique cultural circumstances of the residents of the community of Hog Hammock. Sullivan provides in-depth examination of the important correlation between Sapelo’s culturally significant Geechee communities and the succession of private and state owners of the island. The book’s thematic approach is one of “people and place”: how prevailing environmental conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color photographs of the island as well as a selection of archival images and maps, Sapelo documents a unique island history.
