About the Authors

 

Lee Gordon Brockington is a researcher and writer, and a senior interpreter for the Belle W. Baruch Foundation at Hobcaw Barony in Georgetown County. She is a graduate of Columbia College and a participant in the Seminar for Historical Administration at Colonial Williamsburg. She is also a former curator of education for the Historic Columbia Foundation and an instructor of history at Coastal Carolina University. Her research appears regularly in newspapers and magazines and on educational television.

A former member of the Pawleys Island Planning and Zoning Commission, Lee was elected to the Pawleys Island Town Council and served before and after Hurricane Hugo. She is editor of Pawleys Island, Stories from the Porch, a collection of oral-history interviews published in 2003, and author of Plantation Between the Waters, a Brief History of Hobcaw Barony, published in 2006. She also wrote the Pawleys Island entry for Walter Edgar’s The South Carolina Encyclopedia.

 

 

 

R. Linwood Altman is president of the Pawleys Island Civic Assoc., a Georgetown County native, a U.S. Navy veteran, and a University of South Carolina graduate. He was a member of the Georgetown City School Board of Trustees, Georgetown County School Board of Education and the Georgetown County Planning Commission. He was elected to the S.C. State House of Representatives and served for 14 years. He was a member of the S.C. Highway Commission, the S.C. Wildlife and Marine Resources Commission and served for many years on the S.C. Coastal Council.

Linwood received the state’s highest civilian honor, the Order of the Palmetto, from Governor Carroll Campbell in 1992. Founder and co-owner of Pawleys Island Realty Company and The Georgetown Agency, Altman has also been chairman of the board of trustees of the Pawleys Island Chapel since 1970. He is the president of the Pawleys Island Civic Association and past president of the Waccamaw Neck Council of Property Owners Association. He is married to the former Nancy Stacey, and they have three children and seven grandchildren.

 

 

All home
A Look Inside

Friday
Jun112010

Pawleys Island

AuthorEvening Post Books

Pawleys Island: A Century of History and Photographs features more than 800 black-and-white pictures of life on Pawleys Island for the past 100 years. Organized by decade, the book captures the spirit of a very special place, with a foreword by long-time Pawleys devotees Cokie and Steve Roberts.

 

 

 

Text by Lee G. Brockington
Photos compiled by Linwood Altman
Foreward by Cokie and Steve Roberts

Non-Fiction
288 page Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN:978-0-97-534987-8

$59.00 (plus $5.00 shipping)



Comment3 Comments |