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The resorts and golf courses and budget luxury—a hotel style first innovated on Tybee Island, Georgia—have creeped up on Sea Island after Sea Island. This was where the forty acres and a mule were promised. And where, after emancipation, the formerly enslaved tried out a collective model of ownership, something that we clunkily call “socialism,” be
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Visions of a fully loaded passenger train toppling into the sea preoccupied Krome and Coe, who went back to work resetting the pier, trying to reassure themselves that the event had been an anomaly. Still, such uncertainties would linger on, leading to the development of regulations that might seem extreme today. Wind gauges were mounted at the app
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Lori Berenberg
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The response to the Ponce de Leon was so enthusiastic, however, that Flagler was soon at work on a companion hotel nearby, the Alcazar, where he intended that guests of more modest means could experience something of the sybarite’s lifestyle. Flagler and his new wife took a suite at the Ponce de Leon, meanwhile, and announced that Florida was now t
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New York City
Emily Van Tassel • 4 cards
IAA would show up wearing suits and riding in limos. I showed up wearing cowboy boots and driving a rental car. Some owners were wooed by the flash of IAA. Some were put off by it. For other owners, it came down to the bottom line—who would pay more? I had the advantage there. IAA bought companies the Wall Street way—based on pretax or after-tax ea
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Carnegie
carlton smith • 9 cards
Irreverent and, to some, irrelevant, the oddball city at the end of the line is still the “Last Resort.” The sun still shines, the Gulf Stream still flows, and palms still wave in the island’s balmy breezes. Tourists and sports fishermen still descend, the colonies of writers and artists endure, and Hemingway’s house on Whitehead has become a museu
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