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    Lowcountry Hurricanes: South Carolina History and Folklore of the Sea from Murrells Inlet and Myrtle Beach
    Lowcountry Hurricanes: South Carolina History and Folklore of the Sea from Murrells Inlet and Myrtle Beach
    Lowcountry Hurricanes: South Carolina History and Folklore of the Sea from Murrells Inlet and Myrtle Beach
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    Lowcountry Hurricanes: South Carolina History and Folklore of the Sea from Murrells Inlet and Myrtle Beach

    By Lynn Michelsohn

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    NEW SERIES ! More Tales from Brookgreen!

    Battling Hurricanes along the South Carolina coast near Myrtle Beach
    . . . two tales of joy, tragedy, and survival.

    The Stories:
    ~ Three generations of Flagg family members struggle desperately against a historic hurricane's fury at Huntington Beach in the suspenseful tale, "The Flagg Flood."
    ~ A family faces two major Murrells Inlet storms with strength and courage in the charming reminiscence, "Every Sixty Years."

    This brief collection of stories (11,000 words, 6 illustrations, 82 pages in paperback) comes from Lynn Michelsohn's second series of Lowcountry stories, More Tales from Brookgreen.

    The Series:
    Brookgreen Gardens storytellers share more history and folklore from Murrell Inlet's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach in the series, More 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 its shaded pathways winding through ancient live oaks draped with Spanish moss.

    Find more Lowcountry tales in . . .

    ~ Additional books from Lynn Michelsohn's first series, Tales from Brookgreen:

    Lowcountry Ghosts--history, mystery, and romance from the South Carolina coast.

    Crab Boy's Ghost--one Gullah ghost story and several animal folktales.

    Gullah Ghosts--tales from African-American Gullah culture in the Carolina Lowcountry.

    Tales from Brookgreen (The Complete Series)--history, ghost stories, and folklore, from Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry.

    ~ Another short collection from Lynn Michelsohn's second series, More Tales from Brookgreen:
    Lowcountry Confederates--Rebels, Yankees, and historic South Carolina rice plantations

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLynn Michelsohn
    Release dateFeb 10, 2015
    ISBN9781310271779
    Lowcountry Hurricanes: South Carolina History and Folklore of the Sea from Murrells Inlet and Myrtle Beach
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    Lynn Michelsohn

    Travel, history, and folklore often come together in Lynn Michelsohn's books. Ghost stories associated with particular historical locations especially interest her, as do fascinating characters and quirky facts about places she loves--the South Carolina Lowcountry, the American Southwest, and the Galapagos Islands. A Message from the Author: I write for three reasons. First of all, it's fun. Secondly, it keeps my brain alive and functioning as I learn new things. Finally, and probably most importantly, it keeps me out of my sons' hair (I just know I could run their lives, if only they would let me!). Several years ago, I closed my long-time New Mexico practice in clinical and forensic psychology to devote more time to writing--and beachcombing. My husband, a former attorney, and I now divide our time between Santa Fe and Hutchinson Island, Florida, where our two adult sons visit us regularly (but not often enough). Wow! This writing (and beachcombing) is really great! I recommend it to all of you who have ever thought about starting that memoir or article or novel. Kindle makes publishing incredibly easy, and who knows, you might even sell a few hundred thousand copies (I haven't yet)! After years of living in Roswell with its sometimes offbeat attractions and history--the Roswell Incident, for example--writing "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!" gave me the chance to share these interests with visitors to the Land of Enchantment. Next I wrote a book about a distinctly different region, one I have loved since my childhood spent knee-deep in the marshes and saltwater creeks of the South Carolina coast. "Tales from Brookgreen: Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales in the South Carolina Lowcountry" recounts stories from Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach. I am happy to see that the three shorter collections of tales from this longer work are quite popular on Kindle: "Lowcountry Ghosts," "Gullah Ghosts," and "Crab Boy's Ghost." Recently I released two new short collections, "Lowcountry Hurricanes" and "Lowcountry Confederates" in a new series called "More Tales from Brookgreen." I hope to add more lowcountry ghost stories and folktales to the series soon. Did you know that Herman Melville, of "Moby-Dick" fame, wrote a series of articles describing the Galapagos Islands? Neither did I until recently. I've had fun putting Melville's articles together with wonderful photographs taken by my son Moses in the Galapagos Islands, and writing introductory material to create a book for the modern visitor to the place Melville referred to as "The Encantadas." We call the book "In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville" and hope this glimpse into the "Enchanted Isles," written over 150 years ago, will enrich the visits of today's travelers. I've also put two shorter ebooks from it on Kindle that feature even more of Moses' great photos: "Galapagos Islands Birds" and "Galapagos Islands Landscapes." Recently I've gotten interested in researching the famous New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid, especially the time he spent in Santa Fe. Did you know that more movies have been made about him over the years than about ANY OTHER individual? I have already completed one short book, "Billy the Kid's Jail," and one longer book, "Billy the Kid in Santa Fe, Book One: Young Billy." It is the first in a non-fiction trilogy exploring Santa Fe of the 1870s and 1880s and the time Billy spent there. I'm currently working on "Book Two: Outlaw Billy," describing his stay in the Santa Fe jail during the winter of 1880-1881. It's hard to avoid detouring into writing more about Santa Fe itself as I often get lost in reading local newspapers from that era. So many fascinating details!

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      Lowcountry Hurricanes - Lynn Michelsohn

      Lowcountry Hurricanes

      South Carolina History and

      Folklore of the Sea from

      Murrells Inlet and Myrtle Beach

      (More Tales from Brookgreen Series)

      by

      Lynn Michelsohn

      Cleanan Press, Inc.

      Roswell, New Mexico USA

      Copyright 2004 Lynn Michelsohn

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      The Flagg Flood: The Flagg family battles the hurricane of 1893

      Every Sixty Years: Cousin Corrie’s hurricanes

      About the Storytellers: The Hostesses of Brookgreen Gardens

      About the Author

      A Selection from Gullah Ghosts

      Other Books by Lynn Michelsohn

      Preface

      During the middle of the Twentieth Century, two charming sixty-ish Hostesses at Brookgreen Gardens—the lovely sculpture park created from four historic rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry near Myrtle Beach—told these stories. I hope you enjoy these tales from Cousin Corrie Dusenbury and Miss Genevieve Chandler as much as I did.

      Lynn Michelsohn

      ~

      The Flagg Flood

      The long glass display case in the Museum at Brookgreen Gardens held more than just postcards for sale. There, the Hostesses, Miss Genevieve and Cousin Corrie, also displayed mementoes and artifacts related to the history of Brookgreen and the Lowcountry.

      One photograph of an old man with long white hair and a bushy white beard drew frequent attention from visitors. They regularly identified him as Walt Whitman and inquired about his connection to Brookgreen Gardens. Miss Genevieve patiently explained that this was not the famous poet, but Brookgreen’s long time resident and much beloved physician, Joshua John Ward Flagg, usually called Dr. Wardie.

      When visitors showed interest, Miss Genevieve encouraged Cousin Corrie to talk about his sad history and the story of what local people called The Flagg Flood. Miss Genevieve usually finished the story herself, recounting Dr. Wardie’s life after that tragic hurricane.

      Cousin Corrie began her story . . .

      Alice Flagg awoke uneasily to the stormy gray morning of Friday, October 13th, 1893. Now approaching spinsterhood, she kept house for her widowed father in their Wachesaw Plantation home called the Hermitage. The sturdy, two-story structure stood by the seashore marshes at Murrells Inlet on the Waccamaw Neck. (In case you don’t know, the Waccamaw Neck is the twenty-mile-long strip of mainland between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean along South Carolina’s coast near Myrtle Beach.) This Alice had been named for her long-deceased aunt who once lived in that same house—and perhaps still does.

      Looking out her bedroom window at the wildly unsettled weather, Miss Alice’s uneasiness increased. Lashing rain could herald a dangerous storm! The seacoast was no place to stay during a cyclone, which is what they called hurricanes back then. But what to do? Even suggesting a move to a safer location would raise her father’s ire. And Dr. Allard Belin Flagg’s ire frightened Miss Alice almost as much as the prospect of a deadly tempest.

      Dr. Allard, of the Hermitage, and his daughter Alice, belonged to an old, proud Lowcountry family. Most Flagg men reveled in their aristocratic tradition, but Dr. Allard’s autocratic ways were legendary, even within the family. Fifty years earlier, his pride had led him to suppress what he considered a highly undesirable romance between his young sister, the first Miss Alice, and a socially inferior Horry County turpentine operator. Some claimed his ruthless actions led to Alice’s tragic death, but that’s another story.

      The doctor had always dealt as sternly with his children as he had with his sister. Once, as he sat conversing with a neighbor, his young son, Allard III, ran into the parlor calling excitedly, Father! Father! Dr. Allard silenced the boy with one intimidating look. When Dr. Allard at last concluded his conversation, he turned to his increasingly agitated child. Finally given permission to speak, the boy burst forth. Father, the house is on fire!

      Over the years, Miss Alice had learned to approach her father cautiously with suggestions or requests. He looked upon any challenge to his authority with special disfavor, even a challenge from Mother Nature. Alice knew she would have to express herself carefully that stormy morning.

      Most days,

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