Beaufort, SC & Pat Conroy

This area brings back many memories for Sherry & I.  Beaufort is just down the road, and just past that is the ‘End of the World’, many a young man and woman have thought.  ‘PARRIS ISLAND’, or as it is affectionately referred to by Marines after they realize that it really isn’t the end of the world, Pleasure Island.

Anyway since I started reading in my late 50’s, I learned to know the name Pat Conroy. He wrote some great books:

The Water Is Wide
The Great Santini
The Lords of Discipline….. About the Citidel
The Prince of Tides & Beach Music

(an interesting Bio, if you are interested.)

http://www.patconroy.com/about.php 

These are not all but the ones I met him by reading. He grew up as the son of a Marine Officer, who called himself ‘The great Santini’. Pat wrote a book by that name, based on his childhood.

He became a teacher and took a job teaching out on a SC Island. He was fired because of a few things, one was he refused to administer or allow corporal punishment of his students. The then wrote a book called ‘The Water is Wide’, exposing the conditions in the school on the island.  It was a success and he received some awards for his truth of the system.

His life is one of ups and downs, his books are spell binding and have produced several movies.  So while we are here I think of Pat Conroy. If you haven’t read any of his books, you owe it to yourself to do so.

I am sure the rest of his books are good, those 5 I have read.

Thanks for coming by the log, as we sit in the South Carolina Low country.

Nite Shipslog

PS:

_ BRITISH HUMOUR

These are classified ads, which were actually placed in U.K. Newspapers:

FOR SALE BY OWNER. Complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 45 volumes.

Excellent condition, £200 or best offer.

No longer needed, got married, wife knows everything.

(The British humour compliments of Shirl)

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1954 Firebird (Prototype)

We got to see one of these at the ‘Henry Ford’.