History, Mystery, and Romance in the Carolina Lowcountry A haunted necklace, a trickster rabbit, an ingenious slave, a shrieking droll, and a fiance returned from the dead all come to life in Lynn Michelsohn's new collection of Carolina Lowcountry ghost stories and folklore from the four historic rice plantations making up Brookgreen Gardens South Carolina's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach. These enchanting folktales, tied to specific plantation locations and historical events, enrich the enjoyment of any visit to the Lowcountry for tourists, armchair travelers, or devotees of...

Tour Roswell like a Native--or maybe like an Alien! Find the detailed information you need to enjoy attractions and activities in this unique travel destination: locations and events associated with the 1947 Roswell UFO Crash, a world-class art scene, the Wild West of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Robert Goddard's early rocket experiments, green enchiladas and Alien jerky, and enough rattlesnakes, roadrunners, prairie dogs, pronghorn antelope, and sandhill cranes to start your own Wildlife Channel. Can't make the trip this year? Enjoy Roswell from your armchair--or your beach chair--as...

Sail to the exotic Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick." Let History and Legend, Fiction and Fact, Myth and Mystery swirl around you as you enter "The Encantadas," a unique island world stretching along our planet's Equator. Discover teeming seabird rookeries, stark volcanic landscapes, and world famous giant tortoises . . . Meet buccaneers and explorers, colonists and castaways, whalers and naturalists . . . Explore these Enchanted Isles with one of America's greatest writers . . . Enrich your once-in-a-lifetime visit to . . . The Galapagos Islands. Travelers have...

Beware the Shrieking Droll-the wandering ghost of a child lost forever to a fierce marsh creature Then enjoy the antics of friendlier Lowcountry spirits from nearby Waccamaw Swamp as Brother Frog, Brother Rabbit, and Brother Gator each try to outwit the others. These four charming Gullah folktales come from the African American Gullah culture once so alive on the historic rice plantations making up Brookgreen Gardens, a popular Murrells Inlet tourist attraction in the Lowcountry near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Bonus Feature: A brief excerpt from Lynn Michelsohn's Lowcountry Ghosts,...

Did Billy the Kid ice skate? play baseball? tell ghost stories? Legend says this notorious outlaw gunned down twenty-one men-one for each year of his short life-before Sheriff Pat Garrett ended that life in a darkened New Mexico bedroom on July 14, 1881. But what was he like as a youngster in Santa Fe? - How did he spend his days, and his nights? - Did he encounter other residents who would figure significantly in later chapters of his brief life? - And what was New Mexico's territorial capital like in Billy's day? - How did Santa Fe's frontier character and its Hispanic culture shape the...

Rebels, Yankees, and Historic Rice Plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry . . . The Stories: A Torpedo, an Admiral, and the USS Harvest Moon The rice mill engineer of Brookgreen Garden's Laurel Hill Plantation strikes one last blow for the Confederacy in "Thomas Daggett." A Sad Tale from a Tragic War Memories of a special Lowcountry rice plantation feast sustain ragged Confederate soldiers through cold, heat, dust, mud, and despair in "The Legendary Feast." The Series: Brookgreen Gardens storytellers share more history and folklore from Murrell Inlet's popular tourist attraction in near...