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.

 

 

Pawley’s Island: a Century of History and Photographs 
Written by Lee G. Brockington
Photos compiled by Linwood Altman
Foreword by Cokie and Steve Roberts
Photography · History · Non-fiction
288 pages · hardcover with jacket
$59.00 · ISBN-13: 9780975349878


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.

From the Foreword

“But the breathing, beating heart of this place has not changed at all. Life is still lived by the rhythms of the day and the season. The sun still rises over the ocean and sets over the creek. The pelicans still fly, the flounder still bite, the sand is still warm and the tea is still cold. A walk on the beach is still one of life’s purest pleasures. As this book shows, that’s been true for well over 100 years. So let’s raise a glass to the next 100 years on Pawleys Island.”

From Steve Roberts

“I particularly love to walk the Pawleys beach in late afternoon, when tiny brown water birds race down to the surf for food, and then scurry away from the next wave. Teenage girls, taller and more colorful than shorebirds, twitter together as they walk, then bend over on their gangly legs, poking the sand for shells. One of our own trophies, a conch, turned out to be still occupied, and crawled halfway across the room in which we had left it. Fishermen, six packs nestling in icy coolers, cast their lines and cares into the surf. A grandmother dips a baby into the waves in a baptismal ritual. A boy grabs a dead crab and shakes it menacingly at a terrified younger sibling.”

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