Books by Buddy Sullivan

Sapelo, a barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state's greatest treasures. Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of the island's history, including Native American inhabitants; Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island after the Civil War; and the transition of Sapelo's multiple African American communities into one.

In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina, arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at Champneys. His journal contains many observations on contemporary national events. Buddy Sullivan has placed the Journal in context with an introduction and comprehensive endnotes identifying people and events.

Almost to the day of his death in 1932, Legare kept a journal of his observations on the development of Darien as a center for timber exports and the gradual decline of the rice industry. His detailed accounts of planting and management provide an outstanding contemporary source for a vanishing way of life in tidewater Georgia.