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www.spartina449.com About Us Spartina 449 is a handbag and accessories company inspired by island living on the picturesque Daufuskie Island, South Carolina nestled between Savannah, Georgia and Hilton Head Island. A sea island accessible only by boat, Daufuskie is considered one of the last unspoiled American treasures. Daufuskie, pronounced (Duh-fus-kee) was given its name by Native Americans many years ago, and means "land with a point". The photography shown in our catalogs and website are all taken in our favorite scenic locations on Daufuskie Island.Please feel free to contact us at 843.681.8860 if you have any questions or comments. Our fax number is 843.681.8830.

Ok that title had nothing at all to do with my blog, I was invited by some good friends who own a house on Daufuskie Island down for the weekend. They all graduated from Auburn and we really wish the bartender at Marshside Mama's (and yes you know who you are) would stop placing that damn UGA Go Dawgs sticker on our door. Enough said about sports I picked up another Roger Pinckney book from the store at the public boat dock. "Seventh Son On Sacred Ground" I am sure it is a great book but I will start reading this week and report back to you soon. Friday the 13 th (scary) was actually fairly warm on the beach in DI. We walked picked up starfish, sand dollars , cool shells until the afternoon rain came in. Then we went to the Daufuskie Island Resort for some Spicy Bloody Mary's and as a break from the afternoon rainstorm. I am really sad and confused and upset about the bankruptcy of the resort. I am sure my DI property value just got cut in half in Januar

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"I will tell you as much as I can in the time that I have . How I was born to this river, this moon, this porpoise and this lonesome bird, this sucking ebbtide beneath me, this evening like the ones that come to you in dreams. I can tell you about growing up here in glory of sand and wind and rolling surf. And about running away after I knew pulling up survey stakes would not stop what was going to happen. But that hurts too much, so I will not tell you about that, nor of the women I loved but cut loose, nor of the the thirty years that it took me to get back to where I started." Roger Pinckney Roger is an incredible writer. You can tell he has a great love and passion for Daufuskie Island. The language creates imagery in your mind that takes you to a far away land. He speaks of Voodoo, the Gullah people that inhabited the island, wild animals and of beautiful marsh and sea. Roger currently lives on Daufuskie Island where he writes and works diligently to preserve the

My dear husband Greg bought me my first Roger Pinckney book and I am excited to read the native Daufuskie Islander author over the Christmas Holiday while we are up north burried in the snow. I somehow believe that Roger and I are probably related because my 102 year old granny Suber was a Pinckney.....I know about 1/2 of the state of South Carolina is full of the Pinckney's I will report back in January on Roger's book. I am sure that I am going to enjoy it.

If you take your morning walk from the Daufuskie Island Inn at Melrose and walk toward Bloody Point along the beach you will encounter the Daufuskie Island Sand Dollar. To me these are more precious and more valuable than all the diamonds in South Africa. I refer to them as my "sea booty" and I collect them as I go filling my pockets to the brim. My husband felt bad because as he was trying to hold one for me and it shattered into a thousand pieces to return back to the sand forever. They are very frail, some are stained black covered by oil that comes from the tankers coming into the Savannah Port, but many times you will find that perfectly symmetrical round specimen and your heart will be overjoyed. Once I get them back to Atlanta where my primary home is I lay them out carefully on my driveway and spray paint them with white paint. It gets rid of the frail delicate texture, keeps them perfectly white and I can keep my treasures forever without breaking them. The