
Through glimpses at yesteryear, author Patricia Barefoot perpetuates a "southern sense of place'? as it shines forth in Brunswick: The City by the Sea.
Located on the coast of southeast Georgia and the sinuous sweep of poet Sidney Lanier's famed ""Marshes of Glynn,"" Brunswick, Georgia boasts a history rich beyond measure. Dating from its layout in 1771 on the ""Oglethorpe Plan"" by surveyor George McIntosh, the new town emphasized an Anglo-Germanic heritage, and featured a grid repeat pattern of regularly spaced squares and town lots. In the 1830s, a flurry of entrepreneur... Read More
Through glimpses at yesteryear, author Patricia Barefoot perpetuates a "southern sense of place'? as it shines forth in Brunswick: The City by the Sea.
Located on the coast of southeast Georgia and the sinuous sweep of poet Sidney Lanier's famed ""Marshes of Glynn,"" Brunswick, Georgia boasts a history rich beyond measure. Dating from its layout in 1771 on the ""Oglethorpe Plan"" by surveyor George McIntosh, the new town emphasized an Anglo-Germanic heritage, and featured a grid repeat pattern of regularly spaced squares and town lots. In the 1830s, a flurry of entrepreneur... Read More