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Date: May 8, 2009RE: OPENING OF MELROSE GOLF COURSEIt is with considerable pleasure that I am able to announcethat Melrose golf course operations will resume effective May 11, 2009. Plans call for a "soft opening" that includes homeowners, spa members, Melrose Club members, guests, Haig Point members, and other Daufuskie Island residents, although every effort will be made to bring public play onto the course as soon as possible.Clearing the way for this action was an authorization I received this past Wednesday, May 6, from the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of South Carolina, to borrow up to $1 million from Beach First National Bank of Myrtle Beach, SC which may be supplemented by an additional loan of up to $500,000 from a second source as necessary. In addition to the opening of the golf course the funding will be used to pay a variety of aging debts and current bills as well as the operation of resort assets involved in the bankruptcy until a sale of assets can

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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.