Shellman was where I would put in when I was fishing saltwater, or 2 Way.
Mrs. Speeds Kitchen put the funk in funky, for the uninitiated, it was two mobilehomes in a "T". I was there once and had to wait for them to unload the boat for my baked flounder - about as fresh as you can get. God, it was good.
100% truth. Even in the 70's, if you didn't live on one of the islands, you didn't count.
The leases on Jekyll Island are the biggest boondoggle in the whole State of Georgia. Jekyll Island will sell off the common man's access to the beaches to the highest bidder, but mention "fair market value" about the residential leases, and you probably end up in jail.
One of my biggest life regrets is not buying a place in St. Marys before the sub base was built. Downtown looked like most rural S. Ga. town, dilapidated, abandoned buildings. stinky mill town controlled by one family, no future in modernization - I could have picked up a waterfront or river lot for under $10K, river probably in the neighborhood of $3-4K.
Even today, if I had the choice, I would take a place up the river.
Yeah, it took two tries for the owners to burn it down. Sometimes you just can't get good help. If I remember, someone died in one of the "accidental" fires.
Them's my friends you're talking about.
They were mostly from Nrw York City, and to say that they experienced culture shock would be a gross understatement. They were "hippie activists" granted, but they were willing to take on a political structure and judicial system that was straight from the early 19th century.
BUT what is underplayed in the book (I think) considering a person in the legal profession wrote it, is the support the hippies received from the local bar and the judiciary. District Court Judge Alaimo, a great man and judge, ran interference for them.
