“I grew up slowly beside the tides and marshes of
Colleton; my arms were tawny and strong from working long days on the shrimp
boat in the blazing South Carolina heat…I was born and raised on a Carolina sea
island and I carried the sunshine of the low country, inked in dark gold, on my
back and shoulders. As a boy I was happy above the channels, navigating a small
boat between the sandbars with their quiet nation of oysters exposed on the
brown flats at the low watermark. I knew every shrimper by name, and they knew
me and sounded their horns when they passed me fishing in the river.”—Pat
Conroy, The Prince of Tides (1986)Saturday, September 7, 2013
Quote of the Day (Pat Conroy, on the ‘Sunshine of the Low Country’)
“I grew up slowly beside the tides and marshes of
Colleton; my arms were tawny and strong from working long days on the shrimp
boat in the blazing South Carolina heat…I was born and raised on a Carolina sea
island and I carried the sunshine of the low country, inked in dark gold, on my
back and shoulders. As a boy I was happy above the channels, navigating a small
boat between the sandbars with their quiet nation of oysters exposed on the
brown flats at the low watermark. I knew every shrimper by name, and they knew
me and sounded their horns when they passed me fishing in the river.”—Pat
Conroy, The Prince of Tides (1986)
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