I'm looking forward to speaking to Savannah Rotary Club East in February, explaining life on Skidaway Island 100 years ago.
Thank you to all who have bought, borrowed, or read Burnt Pot Island.
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I enjoyed presenting the book at the Villa Rica Lit Fest this month. Boy, Atlanta is something else. The talented authors there taught me a lot.
I'm busy writing a prequel to Burnt Pot Island. Did you know Skidaway Island was a major player in the 40 acre and a mule experiment?
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My character, Dicie in Burnt Pot Island would have lived through all the changes.
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Catherine earns a meager living shucking oysters in a filthy, mosquito-infested shed. Prohibition becomes law and the mayor and sheriff of nearby Savannah lure her son and daughter into rum-running on the deserted Georgia sea islands. Will voodoo and prayer be enough to protect her children when federal agents close in for a raid?
Wild Times on Skidaway Island examines choices residents make when stared down by a bald eagle, when a red-tailed hawk mistakes a golf ball for bird food, and when awakened by the clatter of hooves hitting wooden deck as a deer make a midnight snack out of newly potted flowers.
"It's never too late to discover the champion hidden within." Karen Dove Barr was a 50 year old working mother when the last of her children grew up and abandoned her. All that was left were 3 bedrooms full of furniture rejected by the Salvation Army. When she tried running a few steps her husband told her to "just walk, you are too old to run." A long distance runner was born.
