Description: McCash focuses on the social club's members and the "cottages" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. Illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published photographs from private family collections, this book tells the stories of each home, the owners' connections with the island, and their interactions with one another.
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:
An exceptionally perceptive look at how the rich really lived, back when they had genuinely private lives. Best of all, it is a first-rate guidebook.
--Islands Magazine