Earlier pieces

Mitchelville

The town they built

This is not a replica village. The frames are ghosted on purpose.

Chart

The name on the chart

Hilton is a caption. The human story is Indigenous, then Gullah, then a 20th-century resort.

Legend

The lighthouse in the fairway

The candy-stripe tower is the photograph. The haunted story belongs to Leamington.

Water

The 11-mile lagoon

Not Broad Creek — Palmetto Dunes’ saltwater lagoon, and how to fish it.

Golf week

How the Heritage took the island

Palmer in 1969, plaid in April, and the 2027 week at Harbour Town.

Sand

The mountains under your feet

Siesta Beach’s powder began as Appalachian rock. That geology — not the trophy case — is why the sand stays cool, why it squeaks, and why the rankings keep coming back.

Pōhaku

The stones Waikīkī walked on

Four pōhaku at Kūhiō Beach hold a healer story the English signs flattened — until the City finally said māhū.

Tybee Island

The Tybee Bomb

On Tybee the object in Wassaw Sound is theirs. A Mark 15 went into the water in 1958 and never came back up.