Author Buddy Sullivan is a native of McIntosh County and has researched and written about the history of coastal Georgia for the last 15 years. Among his published works are two comprehensive studies of Darien and McIntosh County, Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater and The Darien Journal of John Girardeau Legare, Ricegrower. He has also recently released an extensive history of Bryan County, Georgia.
Sullivan is the director of the National Estuarine Research