A Low Country Miscellany

This book is the latest in a series of histories of the Georgia coastal low country by author Buddy Sullivan. A Low Country Miscellany is intended to be a companion volume to the author's recently published, and much lengthier, Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater: A New History of McIntosh County and Sapelo Island, issued simultaneously with the present book. In this respect the Miscellany may be seen as a synthesis of the material in the larger Early Days. The scope of the Miscellany covers a wide range of topics, from coastal antebellum plantation economies, the post-Civil War timber and lumber markets, the commercial fishery, and recent archaeological investigations of the region of the Native American and Spanish occupation of the coast. An introductory essay reviews the important way of how coastal people adapted to their local ecosystem, and their geographical circumstances, in the pursuit of their livelihoods. A second essay is a historical assessment of the conservation movement toward the preservation of Georgia's barrier islands from the post-Civil War era to the present day.