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The newest book by Roger Pinkney of Daufuskie Island is being sold and optioned as a movie. This is exciting news for our local southern writer. Roger Pinckney and His Reefer Moon Author: Courtney Hampson Naughton He lives his life by the tide, the sunrise, and the sunset. His way of life is the Daufuskie Island way. Laid back. Sand and sea soaked. Preservation focused. With a gruff exterior and a questioning eye, Roger Pinckney may not endear you at the outset. However, I warmed to him almost immediately the first time I met him three years ago. When he calls you “dear” in his sweet Southern twang it’s hard not to. But, I think it’s fair to say that some folks may be put off by his pointed commentary regarding those who have invaded his beloved Lowcountry, where he was born and raised. “My people have been here for seven generations,” he said. “I am the voice of the dispossessed, white and black. Between the developer and the tax man, the things I love are vanishing… Eve

Just call Patrick Ford at the Pro Shop for a Tee Time. Bloody Point is in disarray and may not be able to be played by April. I will post the pro shop phone numbers as well as the store for food and some other helpful names and number for everyone as soon as I compile a list. Have a wonderful vacation on Daufuskie Island.

Darrell King if D.C is a fiction writer who uses the names of real places to create a work of soap opera style "Ghetto" fiction. He as a writer is the equivalent of Tupac Shakur as a rapper. I am rather iritated that Darrell writes about Fripp Island being Georgia (we all know that's not true) and Daufuskie Island being the hide out for druglords and seedy types. The people that live on Daufuskie Island are some of the nicest most genuine people that I have ever met. You're car dies they stop to help, your cart dies they stop to help, everyone is very neighborly. Darrell should do more research on his next novel and maybe actually visit to get inspiration some of the real places that he mentions. Or he could be like the talented southern writer Pat Conroy who makes up the name "Yamacraw" Island in his famous book the "The Water is Wide", but maybe that is just too creative for Mr. King. I have copied tha actual pages of his book available on

It's 28 degrees and the temp is dropping on Daufuskie Island. I have never been here when it is this cold.....Our truck broke down and all five of us pile in the open air golf cart burrrrrr.....Saturday morning the sun is out and we walk the beach at Sandy Lane towards Bloody Point and collect sand dollars, lots and lots of sanddollars. We are determined to have fun regardless of the weather. One of our friends wants to bring his helicopter down to the island from Atlanta but we realize there is no helipad. Perhaps Montauk will install one for all the impatient crazies who don't like the five hour drive down to the beach from Atlanta. We had a fantastic dinner at Marshside Mama's thanks to owner Beth who cooked it herself. I want to make sure that I tell her she is a fantastic chef. The food is always consistently good and I highly recommend a visit to Mama's.

Bankruptcy judge approves sale of Daufuskie Island resort By JOSH McCANN jmccann@islandpacket.com A bankruptcy court judge approved the sale of substantially all assets of the bankrupt Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa to a North Carolina company for $49.5 million at a hearing Wednesday in Beaufort. Montauk Resorts' offer was the highest to emerge after a trustee in charge of the estate marketed the property for months. Judge John E. Waites said he feared that if he did not approve Montauk's offer, the resort might be broken up and sold piecemeal, resulting in little benefit to creditors or the community of the sparsely developed, 5,000-acre island that is accessible only by boat. "Frankly, this is what the case is about: Finding some value," Waites said. "This sale had to be seriously considered and will be approved today." The resort includes an inn, two golf courses, tennis courts, several restaurants, an equestrian center and entitlemen

Excitement is in the air for the purchase of the Daufuskie Island Resort and Inn to close to a new group of investors. The closeing date is somewhere around Thanksgiving so hopefully we can all be thankful to have a nice cozy inn, great restaurants, clean beaches, nice golf courses and places to have fun with our friends and family.