UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS NOW ONLINE ONLY. The pre-recorded program will be available online at 7:00pm Thursday January 20 via the group's YouTube channel HERE and on Facebook Live via the Ossabaw […]
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Editor’s Note: Celebrate the environmental history of the Georgia coast
That history will be celebrated this Thursday in a remarkable event which launches a wonderful new anthology, Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast; and celebrates the 106th birthday of Sandy West, the matriarch responsible for ensuring Ossabaw’s conservation.
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Women who save the land
Sandy West turned 105 last week, and though she is no longer able to live on the island, her legacy remains intact. The Ossabaw Island Foundation (TOIF) manages educational programs and scientific research on the island as part of the Executive Order that preserves its use as an example of land conservation.
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Lost and found on Ossabaw Island
I WAS definitely lost by the time I saw the little brown pig. The laminated map had shown a single loop trail, so simple that I’d left it on the […]
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Talking with… David Bayne
Master furniture conservator says ‘treat every piece the same way.’
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Talking about… Sandy West
I CAN ONLY HOPE Savannah writer Jane Fishman is right about how Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West has lived so long. West, the matriarch of Ossabaw Island, is a few days shy […]
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History cut short
He had the uncanny talent of stitching together disparate disciplines to distill the bigger picture, an uncommon trait for a lifelong academic.
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Ossabaw optics
A mere fifteen-minute boat ride from Savannah, Ossabaw Island is one of the most magical places on earth. Once the stomping ground of plantation owners — the island features the […]