Lowcountry Confederates
by Lynn Michelsohn
The Stories:~ A Torpedo, an Admiral, and the USS Harvest Moon ~The rice mill engineer of Brookgreen Garden's Laurel Hill Plantation strikes a blow for the Confederacy in "Thomas Daggett," a tale of the USS Harvest Moon and one last 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 Inlet's popular tourist attraction in near Myrtle Beach in this short collection (10,000 words, 6 illustrations) from Lynn Michelsohn's 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...