According to archivists at the Library of Congress, South Carolina is richer in folklore than any other state. After traveling almost every back road in several South Carolina counties, Nancy Rhyne wh
A fictionalized account of the life of Alice Flagg, a fifteen-year-old planter's daughter who fell in love with a common lumberman, was sent away to boarding school to end the unacceptable affair, and
In the late 1930s the Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) began an undertaking to document the history and folklore of South Carolina as told by surviving slaves and their desc
Benjamin Bodicott is a gentleman. A man with brilliant blue eyes, flowing hair and a manner of speaking far superior to his peers, Benjamin is "as near a Rhett Butler" as Edisto Isla
Far from the sweltering heat of South Carolina's storied Lowcountry--setting of author Nancy Rhyne's best-selling 2006 novel Edisto Island--lies the rugged Upstate region. It is a classic setting, rep