Research Catalog

Title

Tales of Edisto / by Nell S. Graydon ; photograph by Carl Julien.

Author

Graydon, Nell S.

Publication

Columbia, S.C. : R.L. Bryan Company, 1955.

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Details

Additional Authors

Julien, Carl, 1897-

Description

xii, 166 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

A classic! Includes an epilogue describing Edisto Island and the fables and lore of bygone days. Retells the tales, handed down from generation to generation, of that fabulous, romantic era: of the "First Mistress of Bleak Hall," and how she was brought as a baby to Edisto in a rowboat paddled through stormy seas by two faithful slaves: of the "Galloping Horseman of Pine Baron," who returned a hundred years after his death to reassure a worried guest at one of the Island's homes: of a plantation mistress who, with the aid of a palmleaf cross, cast off a conjure spell which had one of her slaves at death's door. The book accounts Island customs and activities, past and present. Mrs. Graydon tells of the social life of the old days, Christmas festivities, summer days on the beach at Edingsville', the fighting of duels on "the Sands." She takes the reader on a bird-watching tour of the Island and on a night hunt for sea turtle eggs. She tells of the development of modern Edisto and its growth as a favorite vacation spot--a development in which "Edisto changes, but somehow remains the same."

Subject

• Edisto Island (S.C.)
• South Carolina > Edisto Island

Contents

THE PLANTERS. The first mistress of Bleak Hall -- The Townsends -- The Whaleys -- The Seabrooks -- The Mikells -- The Jenkinses -- Other families and their homes -- THE NEGROES. Children of the king -- "Honey in duh rock" -- "The sanctify" -- "Revival pon top Edisto" -- "Jist a 'ittle" -- Maum Rachel -- Sara -- "Sparits" -- The ebb and the flow -- ISLAND WAYS. Christmas on Edisto -- "The planters occasionally relax" -- Edingsville -- The churches -- Yankee interlude -- Fishing and hunting -- Wildlife of the marsh and shore -- New days and ways.

LCCN

55002838

OCLC

• ocm01221736
• 1221736
• SCSB-202625

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library