Description: Bringing together more than 240 fascinating photographs, Barton and June McCash trace the sixty-two-year history of this exclusive retreat whose members at one time were reputed to represent one-seventh of the nation's wealth.
Brief description: JUNE HALL McCASH is the author, coauthor, or editor of fourteen books (five historical novels, eight nonfiction works, and one book of poetry) as well as numerous articles and is the recipient of an outstanding alumna award for distinguished career from Agnes Scott College. A fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Education, she recently completed a nine-year term as a trustee of the Jekyll Island Foundation and currently serves on the Foundation's advisory board. She is the author of The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony and coauthor of The Jekyll Island Club (both Georgia) and was named a Georgia Author of the Year in 2011 and 2013.
Review Quotes:
A fascinating book . . . An in-depth study into an institution that has come down through social history more in myth than in fact.
--Baltimore Sun