Lowcountry Ghosts Author:Lynn Michelsohn Lowcountry Ghosts haunt the maze of marshes and ancient rice fields along South Carolina's Coast . . . — ~ Does lovely Alice Flagg still live in The Hermitage at Murrells Inlet more than 100 years after her death? — ~ Do ghost ships out in the marsh represent lost fishermen? pirates? Confederate blockade runners? — ~ Are threatening spirits haunti... more »ng Miss Genevieve's beads taken from a long-forgotten grave?
Find history, mystery, and romance in these three gentle ghost stories (10,000 words, nine illustrations, plus a selection from the author's other works)
Please Note: This book is a part of the Tales from Brookgreen Series. Its three charming folktales also appear in Lynn Michelsohn's longer collection, Tales from Brookgreen: Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
The Series:
Brookgreen Gardens storytellers share history and folklore from Murrells Inlet's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach in Lynn Michelsohn's series, Tales from Brookgreen--Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales of 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 by Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington from four historic Lowcountry rice plantations rich with folklore, displays American sculpture along shaded pathways winding through ancient live oaks draped with trailing Spanish moss.
Find more Lowcountry tales in . . .
~ Additional books from Lynn Michelsohn's first series, Tales from Brookgreen:
Gullah Ghosts--tales from African-American Gullah culture in the Carolina Lowcountry.
Crab Boy's Ghost--one Gullah ghost story and several animal folktales.
Tales from Brookgreen (The Complete Series)--history, ghost stories, and folklore, from Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
~ Short collections from Lynn Michelsohn's second series, More Tales from Brookgreen:
Lowcounry Hurricanes--tales of joy, tragedy, and survival.
Lowcountry Confederates--Rebels, Yankees, and historic South Carolina rice plantations