Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin, Hardcover

This is an enchanting mix of gossip and history from the era when parts of the Old South met its new owners. In the early 1930s Chlotilde R. Martin of Beaufort, South Carolina, wrote a series of articles for the Charleston News and Courier documenting the social and economic transformation of the lowcountry coast as an influx of wealthy Northerners began buying scores of old plantations. Her articles combined the name-dropping chatter of the lowcountry social register with reflections on the conflict between past and present in the old rice and cotton kingdoms of South Carolina.