History, Mystery, and Romance in the South Carolina Lowcountry!~ A haunted necklace . . .~ A trickster rabbit . . .~ An ingenious slave . . .~ A shrieking droll . . .~ A fiancé returned from the dead . . .. . . all come to life in Lynn Michelsohn's charming collection of gentle ghost stories and colorful folklore from the South Carolina coast.Enjoy these sometimes-eerie, sometimes-sad, sometimes-humorous folktales. Each relates to specific locations and events from the four historic rice plantations that make up Brookgreen Gardens—South Carolina's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach. Many of these tales come out of the rich Gullah culture that once flourished along this coast.Enrich your visit to the Carolina Lowcountry, whether you are a tourist, an armchair traveler, or a devotee of ghost stories and folklore.Encounter the Lowcountry's unique characters and folkways while you savor Tales from Brookgreen, as retold by...

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...

The Stories:~ A Torpedo, an Admiral, and the USS Harvest Moon ~The rice mill engineer of Brookgreen Garden's Laurel Hill Plantation strikes a blow for the Confederacy in "Thomas Daggett," a tale of the USS Harvest Moon and one last Confederate naval operation.~ A Sad Tale from a Tragic War ~Memories of a special Lowcountry rice plantation feast sustain ragged Confederate soldiers through cold, heat, dust, mud, and despair in "The Legendary Feast."The Series:Brookgreen Gardens storytellers share more history and folklore from Murrell Inlet's popular tourist attraction in near Myrtle Beach in this short collection (10,000 words, 6 illustrations) from Lynn Michelsohn's second series, More Tales from Brookgreen: Folklore, Ghost Stories, and Gullah Folktales in 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...