Recommended Books


Down by the Riverside. Noted historian in folklore and folklife, author By Charles W. Joyner, has published and lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad on many aspects of southern culture. In Down by the Riverside, Dr. Joyner reconstructs life on the ante-bellum plantations of the South Carolina Low Country. 345 pages. Softback. $15.95

South Carolina Low Country: A Past Preserved. Features pictures and histories of over forty churches and plantations from Georgetown, Charleston and Beaufort Counties. Text by Catherine Compani Messmer, Photography by C. Andrew Halcomb. 143 pages. Black and White and color pictures. Hardcover. $19.95

Pawleys Island As it was by Celina McGregor Vaughn. The history of one of America's first resorts is explored in a memoir by one of the island's innkeepers. 74 pages. $14.95

Georgetown County, South Carolina Tombstone Inscriptions. The Georgetown Historical Society has catalogued tombstone inscriptions from all of the county's graveyard. A valuable tool for all local genealogists. By the Georgetown Historical Society. 272 pages. Softcover. $20.00

Georgetown Rice Plantations. The Georgetown County Historical Society has reprinted Alberta Morel Lachicotte's classic work on the county's rice plantations. Over three dozen plantations are profiled in this 222 page hardcover book. Includes addenda and fifty illustrations. $35.00

A view of our past: Georgetown, South Carolina c. 1890-1915. A collection of rare photos and scholarly articles by one of Georgetown's most knowledgeable citizens and historian. By Patricia D. Doyle. Black and White pictures.144 pages. Hardcover. $30.00

No heir to take its place. Written by The Rice Museum's first director, this pamphlet is a must for all Low Country historians. Lawson explores a wide range of information pertaining to the rice culture from planting and harvesting the crop to the social lifestyle of the planter class. By Dennis Lawson. 32 pages. Softcover. $3.00

Plantations of the Carolina Low Country. A study of some plantations of Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort and Colleton Counties. By Samuel Gaillard Stoney. 247 pages. Softcover. Black and White pictures. $15.95.

Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the slave trade in Colonial South Carolina. Daniel C. Littlefield explores the slave trade through shipping records and other sources to explain why certain African tribes were more valuable to the American Colonists than other tribes. A very important work. 199 pages. Softcover. $12.95

Back of the Big House: The architecture of plantation slavery. A study of the structures on the plantations that are often overlooked. The work includes both blueprints and pictures of mills, icehouses, dairies, kitchens, slave cabins and much more. By John Michael Vlack. 290 pages. Softcover. $19.95

The History of Georgetown County, South Carolina. Dr. George C. Rogers, jr., noted historian and lecturer, has written the definitive history of Georgetown County. 565 pages. Hardcover. $37.50

A Woman Rice Planter. A true Low Country classic: written like a diary. Elizabeth Allston Pringle (Patience Pennington) describes life on a rice plantation during the era of the demise of the great South Carolina rice culture. Pringle was the last member of the Allston/ Alston family to plant rice in Georgetown County, a tradition which lasted for over 175 years. Introduction by Charles W. Joyner. 446 pages. Softcover. $16.95

Song books available

Ballads and Songs of the Civil War. Chord charts and vocal arrangements to all your favorite Civil War songs. A Mel Bay songbook, by Jerry Silverman. 272 pages. Softcover. $19.95

Ain't we got a right to the tree of life. Songs of African-Americans of the Georgia Sea- Islands. By Guy and Candie Carawan. 240 pages. Softcover. $19.95

Books on Ghosts

Ghosts of Georgetown. A Georgetonian shares twenty-one of the scariest stories pertaining to Georgetown. Includes stories of haunted homes, plantations and other tales. By Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger. 144 pages. Softcover. $8.95

More Ghost of Georgetown. Volume II by Elizabeth Huntsinger with more haunting tales. 167 pages. $9.95

Tales of the South Carolina Low Country. Fourteen tales from throughout the South Carolina Low Country from Georgetown to Colleton, including Beaufort and Charleston Counties. By John Blair. 112 pages. Softcover. $5.95

More Tales of the South Carolina Low Country. Fifteen more tales from a man who can tell a good ghost story. By John Blair. 121 pages. Softcover. $5.95

Ghosts and Spectors of the Old South. Fifteen stories from one of the Low Country's foremost authorities on the supernatural. By Nancy Roberts. 96 pages. Softcover. $8.95

Ghosts of the Carolinas. Ghost stories from the most haunted region in the United States. By Nancy Roberts. 116 pages. Softcover. $9.95

Civil War Ghosts. Eight ghost stories about the war which shifted the course of American history. Edited by Martin Harry Greenberg, Frank Mcsherry, jr. & Charles G. Waugh. Softcover. $12.95

Ghost Stories from the American South. From humorous stories to haunted houses and places, traveling ghosts to headless ghosts, the author represents the South as a land of the supernatural. By W.K. McNeil. 170 pages. Softcover. $10.95

Literature and the arts

Lifes extras. Poetry and short stories about the simple pleasures in life. By Archibald Rutledge. 45 pages. Hardcover. $8.95

Home by the River. The first truly celebrated Southern writer after the Civil War explains life on his family's rice plantation during the 1930s, as well as the Rutledge family history. By Archibald Rutledge. 196 pages. Hardcover. $16.95

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith: An artist, a place and a time. The life of the Low Country's most famous twentieth Century water colorist and pictures of many of her prints. By Martha Severens.162 pages. Hardcover. $45.00

African-American Studies

Black Slave Owners. Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina by Harry Koger. Explores little known history of black slave holding. 286 pages. $15.95

Slave narratives from Georgetown County, South Carolina. Ten interviews with ex- slaves from the rice planting section of Georgetown. By Christopher C. Boyle, edited by James A. Fitch. $6.95

When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands. The author explores the changing lifestyle of African Americans on the Sea Island of South Carolina and Georgia. By Patricia Jones-Jackson, forwarded by Charles W. Joyner. 189 pages. Softcover. $12.95

The water brought us: The story of the Gullah speaking people. By Muriel Miller branch. 106 pages. Hardcover. $16.99

My folks don't want me to talk about slavery. Narratives by former North Carolina slaves. Edited from remarkable interviews sponsored by the Federal Writer's Project during the 1930s. By Belinda Hurmence. 103 pages. Softcover. $5.95

Before freedom. Narratives by former South Carolina slaves. Edited by Belinda Hurmence. Softcover. $8.95

We lived in a cabin in the yard. Narratives by Virginia slaves. Edited by Belinda Hurmence. 103 pages. Softcover. $7.95

Recipe books

Rice recipes. Over 100 recipes on cooking and preparing rice dishes. Edited by James A. Fitch. 68 pages. Softcover. $4.95

Carolina Cooking. Mouth watering Carolina recipes. 64 pages. $5.95

The McClellanville Coast cookbook. 100s of recipes from the coastal town of McClellanville, with an emphasis on sea food dishes. Edited by Susan Williams. 254 pages. Softcover. $14.95

The McClellanville Seafood Cookbook. 100's of seafood recipes from the famous seafood capital of South Carolina. 250 pages. $14.95

Guide books

A field guide to Southern speech. A dictionary formatted, joke book for those that don't understand the southern dialect. By Charles Nicholson. 86 pages. Softcover. $7.95

George Washington's guide to the Waccamaw Neck: Rice told tales. By Sharon Carlisle. 131 pages. Softcover. $9.95

Guide to City of Georgetown Historic District. A listing of, pictures and histories of all sixty-three homes and structures in Georgetown on the national historic register. By Dennis Lawson, edited by James A. Fitch & Patricia D. Doyle. 72 pages. Softcover. $7.95.

To order, contact:

The Rice Museum
P.O. Box 902
Georgetown, SC 29442
843-546-7423


See Also:

Grand Strand Guide ~ Georgetown Guide ~ Rice Museum





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