This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BBk.2ACIB/2419 Message Board Post: On Tuesday 30 August 2005, at 7:30 p.m. the Jekyll Island Museum will be hosting a book launch for June McCash's new book "JEKYLL ISLAND'S EARLY YEARS: From Prehistory through Reconstruction" The book is priced at $39.95 a lecture and reception is scheduled at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. Those of you who have Jekyll Island in their family histories with families such as the Hortons, DuBignons, etc., will want to attend! June McCash will also be appearing at: E. Shave Books in Savannah on 2 September from 4-6 p.m. Jekyll Books at the Old Infirmary on 3 September from 1-4 p.m. G.J. Ford Bookshop on St. Simons Island on 4 September from 3-5 p.m. Hope to see you on the 30th! Amy Hedrick ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Cover of Jekyll Island's Early Years http://press.ugapress.uga.edu/~arb/JekyllIslandEarly_C.jpg Photo of June Hall McCash (Credit: Middle Tennessee State University Photographic Services) http://press.ugapress.uga.edu/~arb/McCash_June_C.jpg ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "Once again, June Hall McCash exceeds all expectations with her remarkable sense and feel for the history of Jekyll Island. Her impeccable research, combined with a clear and perceptive understanding of her topic, has resulted in an unusually fine study of Jekyll's early history. This book will appeal both to serious students of the colonial and antebellum history of tidewater Georgia and to the general reader, and has been needed for a long, long time . . . well done in every respect!" --Buddy Sullivan, author of Georgia: A State History "From Jekyll Island's beginnings as an Edenic wilderness through exploration, settlement, revolution, and Civil War, June Hall McCash provides a fascinating foundation for understanding the historical origins of this coastal paradise." --James C. Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Professor, University of Georgia "June McCash's panorama of Jekyll Island sweeps from prehistory through the nineteenth century, but with a clear focus on the individuals who forged its rich heritage. Each wave of people to come to the island--Native American villagers, planters and slaves, Civil War soldiers in gray and blue--left its mark on Jekyll. These many threads come together seamlessly in a fresh and insightful narrative. By deftly blending people and place, McCash captures the breadth and complexity of Jekyll's past." --Martha Keber, author of Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton From the foremost authority on the famed Georgia barrier island, here is the first in-depth look at Jekyll Island's early history. Much of what defines our view of the place dates from the Jekyll Island Club era. Founded in 1886, the Club was the private resort of America's moneyed elite, including the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and Pulitzers. In her new book that ranges from pre-Columbian times through the Civil War and its aftermath, June Hall McCash shows how the environment, human conflict, and a desire for refuge shaped the island long before the Club's founding. Jekyll's earliest identifiable inhabitants were the Timucua, a flourishing group of Native Americans who became extinct within a hundred years after their first contact with Europeans. Caught up in the New World contests among France, Spain, and England, the island eventually became part of a thriving English colony. In subsequent stories of Jekyll and its residents, the drama of our nation plays out in microcosm. The American Revolution, the War of 1812, the slavery era, and the Civil War brought change to the island, as did hurricanes and cotton farming. Personality conflicts and unsanctioned love affairs also had an impact, and McCash's narrative is filled with the names of Jekyll's powerful and often colorful families, including Horton, Martin, Leake, and du Bignon. Bringing insight and detail to a largely untold chapter of Jekyll's past, June Hall McCash breathes life into a small part of Georgia that looms large in the state's history. JUNE HALL MCCASH teaches at Middle Tennessee State University. She is author of The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony and coauthor of The Jekyll Island Club. -- John McLeod, Publicity and Rights Manager University of Georgia Press, 330 Research Drive, Athens, GA 30602 P (706) 369-6160 | F (706) 369-6162 | jmcleod@ugapress.uga.edu Please visit us at http://www.ugapress.org.