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A lifelong resident of the Carolina Lowcountry, William P. Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, biographer and historian. He graduated from Clemson with a BA in History and an MA in English.  He ran a shrimp boat for nine years then built houses, but the principle occupation of his life has been writing.

his works include Plantations of the Low Country; Low Country Plantations Today (both with architectural photographer N. Jane Iseley); and the oral histories Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden and Heaven is a Beautiful Place. The screen play for the latter earned him a Silver Remy at this year’s Houston Film Festival.

For its depiction of Southern race relations, his novel The Hard to Catch Mercy won the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. Most recently he collaborated with photographer V. Elizabeth Turk on Mantelpieces of the Old South and supplied the text for chef Charlotte Jenkin’s Gullah Cuisine: By Land and by Sea. 

Selden B. Hill is a photographer, pen and ink artist, historian, and the founding director of The Village Museum at McClellanville, S.C. In earlier years, he worked as a type setter and layout artist, played a lot of pool, and sold a lot of furniture, and in the opinion of his friends each occupation, in its own way, has helped to make him a better photographer. As museum director, he’s offered encouragement and employment to both photographers and writers and curated many photography shows. Along with Susan Hoffer McMillan he is the author of the photography collection McClellanville and the St. James Santee Parish published in 2006. He still spends his free time exploring the less traveled paths of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Nothing gives him greater pleasure than stumbling upon the perfect photographic subject: a derelict tobacco barn framed by live oaks, with white puffy clouds overhead, and dark streaming shadows in the foreground. 

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