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Sea Island Yankee

Sea Island Yankee

Bresee, Clyde

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ISBN10: 1570030952
ISBN13: 9781570030956
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Sep 1 1995
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.51
Language: English

An adventurous boyhood, a remarkable Southern community, and one jewel of a memoir

Clyde Bresee was just five years old in 1921 when his family moved from a tiny Pennsylvania farm to the Lawton Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. While his father labored for the next decade to revitalize the sprawling sea island plantation's dairy operation, Clyde reveled in a world utterly foreign to the community of his birth. On James Island he encountered a society of mannered gentility, a climate where winter passed in the twinkling of an eye, a place of wandering tidal streams and vast expanses of salt marshes, and a people--African-American people--whom he had never met. In Sea Island Yankee, Bresee revisits the time and place that endowed his childhood with great happiness and that have held a powerful grip on his musings throughout adulthood.

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