Pawleys Island, South Carolina Essays

  • Elegantly Shabby: Pawley's Island

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    top a skyscraper in your favorite concrete jungle? Without a second thought, my mind rushes to Pawley’s Island, South Carolina. As locals describe it best, the “elegantly shabby” beachside town 40 minutes from Charleston has been my chosen vacation spot since childhood. Between the hammock shops, crabbing in the creeks and ghost stories, there is always something to entertain you on the island. With only the best memories there, never did I think that there would be something to hold me back from

  • A Bridge Between Two Worlds

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    Hilton Head Island is more that just another town growing by the sea. It is an island that has a past similar to a place Gloria Naylor writes about in her book Mama Day; this place I'm talking about is called Willow Springs. Hilton Head is a modern evolution, an island that is ever concerned with preserving the fertile land and the beauty, which was fought for long ago. The island that Gloria Naylor writes about, Willow Springs is neither a part of Georgia or South Carolina. It was an island that was

  • Mysteries

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    throat three times. Later, however this story was proved to be false and just another attention-getting scheme by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.(Guiley 274) Another mind-boggling series of apparitions was the Legend of the Faceless Gray Man of Pawley's Island. The story has it that this faceless man appears just before ... ... middle of paper ... ...nges, nightly parades by spirit marching bands, levitations, green slime spilling down the stairs, putrid smells, sicknesses, strange scratches on Mrs