Hilton Head’s Locals Celebrated in New Book

Author honors the island’s legendary residents using collection of vintage images
 
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - Oct. 15, 2013 - PRLog -- The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Legendary Locals series is Legendary Locals of Hilton Head from local author Barbara Muller for the Heritage Library Foundation. The book boasts more than 200 vintage images of the people that make Hilton Head legendary.

Before the Europeans came, Amerindians celebrated on Hilton Head Island with seasonal oyster feasts. Later, planters made fortunes here with Sea Island cotton. But the island came alive to the guns of the Union in 1861 and, for seven years, was host to the troops who helped former slaves even before the Emancipation Proclamation made freedom official. The forces left and the island slept.

In the pages of this book are some of the people who kept the Gullah sea island culture alive, a self-sustaining culture of mutual help and integrity, living off the sea and the land. This volume also includes some of the people who set a standard for development and made the island what it is today, unique visionaries who had a fierce devotion to preservation of the island’s natural beauty, its flora and its fauna.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

When: Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.

Where: Heritage Library

852 William Hilton Pkwy, Suite 2A

Hilton Head Island, SC 29928

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com/
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