Georgia's Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites by Kevin M Mccarthy

Georgia's Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites by Kevin M Mccarthy

Though the Georgia coast is a mere 110 miles long, a wealth of historic beauty--natural and manmade--lies between the Savannah and St. Mary's Rivers. The last-settled and poorest of the original thirteen colonies of the United States, Georgia is a unique combination of war-torn history and genteel character. Here you'll find stories of Civil War soldiers, pioneers and settlers, Native Americans, seafarers and pirates (including Blackbeard), and even a ghost or two.

Some of the places you'll visit:

• First Presbyterian Church, where smugglers hoisted a horse into the belfry to divert the townspeople's attention from their nefarious activities.
• St. Simons Lighthouse, one of America's oldest continuously working lighthouses and home to the ghost of keeper Frederick Osborne, whose footsteps can be heard in the tower at night.
• Jekyll Island Club, an elegant, posh retreat established in 1886 by some of the wealthiest families in America, including the Astors, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts.

These and other lighthouses, plantations, churches, forts, and summer cottages of wealthy Northerners and Southerners alike stand as testaments to the rich and provocative history of this, the most Southern of Southern states. Each site is illustrated with a full color painting.

McCarthy, Kevin: - Originally from the USA, Kevin McCarthy is the author of the highly acclaimed historical crime novel, Peeler (Mercier Press, 2010). Called a '...dark, brooding, morally complex masterpiece...' by The Belfast Telegraph, Peeler was selected by The Irish Times as one of its Top Ten Thrillers of 2010 and as a Read of the Year 2010 by the Philadelphia Inquirer. His short story Twenty-five and Out appears in Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century. Irregulars, which features the Sean O'Keefe character, was published in June 2013 and shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book of the Year 2013. He blogs at www.kevinmccarthyauthor.blogspot.ie. He lives in Dublin with his family.

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ISBN 13	9781561641437
ISBN 10	156164143X
Title	Georgia's Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites
Author	Kevin Mccarthy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield
Year published	1998-04-01
Number of pages	144
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