South Carolina is a state of inspiration as well as recreation.
Through its natural beauty, storied heritage, and curious
character, the Palmetto State finds its way into the hearts and
imaginations of every native, resident, and guest to set foot on
its 32,000 square miles of soil. Continuing the format of the
popular original, this second volume of State of the Heart: South
Carolina Writers on the Places They Love celebrates and
commemorates the connections that the accomplished contributors
have found in the well-known and far-flung locations most dear to
them. With companionable charm and storytellers' spirits, editor
Rogers, Aida and the thirty-eight contributors invite you to amble
across South Carolina with them for a chance to see the state as
they have come to know it. For writers beloved places can
captivate, teach, comfort, and occasionally haunt. In this
collection contributors reflect on their hometowns, the rivers and
roads that marked their lives' journeys, and the maligned
neighbourhoods they transformed just by living and working in them.
Family beach vacations, churches and churchyards, athletic arenas
modest and grand, a mountain vista, a quiet pond, a city park, an
old-time produce market, Lake Murray, Brookgreen Gardens these are
just a sampling of the nearly three dozen private and public places
favoured by this diverse group of writers of fiction, memoir,
poetry, history, journalism, and more. Photographs, artwork, verse,
and even a few recipes accompany the essays, bringing readers
further into sharing the writers' experiences. While State of the
Heart is rooted in the landscape of South Carolina, readers from
anywhere will relate to its universal themes of growing up and
growing old, recognition of past mistakes, returned-to faith, the
closeness of family and friends, honouring those who came before,
and setting our collective sights on the promise of the future for
cherished people and places. Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina's
poet laureate, provides the foreword to this collection, which
includes her poem ""One River, One Boat.
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