Kay Sconyers Moore first came over to Hilton Head Island with her family, by barge, in 1951. As a teenager she watched with wonder and awe the growth of the islands very early years. Her parents built the first house on the island on North Forest Beach called “Pioneer”. She and her dear friend, Verna Graves Crosby, were honored to cut the ribbon to the first two-lane drawbridge, named for South Carolina’s famous son, James F. Byrnes, in 1956. In 1982 the ladies also cut the ribbons to the four-lane fixed-span, J. Wilton Graves Bridge, named for Verna’s father, a veteran state legislator and highway official. Having lived here, with all its early history, Kay can truly call Hilton Head Island home.
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From the farms and pastures of the north Georgia mountains, where pine trees grow in the brick red clay, the tradition of storytelling is alive and well. As rustic as a barbed wire fence, as homey as a light in the window, In the Pines is a collection of stories and poems told in the voice of a vanishing people. Funny, poignant, and reminiscent of events and personalities familiar to us all, you will come away feeling that someone in the book reminds you of a person you know. This is not a book about the magnolia and cotillion south, but about the lives of Appalachian people who lived a hardscrabble life at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. So, take a journey into the lives of the Appalachian people and listen to the characters tell their stories of joys and struggles, and everyday life in the mountains, in the pines.
When Alex's father takes her to their favorite beach she brings a dandelion with her to make a special wish, but upon arrival she sees another little girl who might need the wish much more than she does..