Pat Conroy's Beaufort

28/10/2021

Southern Living! https://www.southernliving.com/travel/south-carolina/rhett-house-inn-pat-conroy-tours-beaufort-sc. Thanks to the Rhett House Inn!

The "Prince of Scribes" package will give bookworms an inside look at Conroy's life and work.

26/03/2021

Thanks to the Charleston Post and Courier for highlighting our Pat Conroy's Beaufort Tour! Here's a link to the full article: https://www.postandcourier.com/101-things/26-things-to-do-in-the-lowcountry/article_4beec144-85bb-11eb-a307-5b0347d7e29c.html

25/01/2021

As we were giving a tour of Beaufort and passing by 403 Hancock Street (home of Pat Conroy where he wrote "The Water is Wide"), the current owner of the house gave my granddaughter a grapefruit from the beautiful grapefruit tree in the front yard. So I took this photo of the Pat Conroy's grapefruit in front of a box signed by Pat in 1995 when "Beach Music" was launched. My father-in-law had Pat sign the box that copies of the book were shipped in.

24/11/2020

We have resumed our "Pat Conroy's Beaufort" tours using our new Yamaha Concierge 8-passenger golf cart. If you are a Pat fan, you will love hearing lots of stories about Pat and his love of Beaufort. Plus we can pick up and/or drop off at the Pat Conroy Literary Center, which is open Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 4.

24/11/2020

Pat's very first book was "The Boo," about Lt. Col. Thomas Nugent Courvoisie, who was in charge of discipline at The Citadel when Pat was a student there. Pat and "The Boo" both received honorary degrees from The Citadel in 2000, bringing Pat back into the good graces of The Citadel. Giving the "Pat Conroy's Beaufort" tour has been a continual scavenger hunt of "Pat" stories and places, so when I located this headstone earlier this week at the Beaufort National Cemetery it was one more piece of Pat's life story! And amazingly this headstone is literally only a few steps from the headstones of Pat's father, The Great Santini, and Pat's mother Peg.

08/11/2020

We have resumed our Pat Conroy's Beaufort tour using our new Yamaha Concierge golf cart! Come on down and learn more about Pat, plus see movie locations from The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides!

12/08/2020

Pat Conroy fans, you will want to take Sallie Ann's Authentic Gullah Tour of Daufuskie Island, where Pat taught for one year. He chronicled his year on Daufuskie in his first major novel "The Water is Wide." And Sallie Ann was one of his students in the two room schoolhouse (which is on her tour) during that year. Pat's story was made into the 1974 movie "Conrack," with Jon Voight playing Pat, as well as a later Hallmark movie called "The Water is Wide." Book her tour at https://daufuskieislandgullahheritagesociety.org/ Here is Sallie Ann's story:

Sallie Ann Robinson has been fighting to preserve and share the history of Daufuskie Island for years. Her efforts caught the attention of Oprah Winfrey, or “Miss O” as Robinson calls h…

06/06/2020

If you're a Pat Conroy fan, you will LOVE Sallie Ann Robinson's tour of Daufuskie Island! We just took her tour this week and it gives you a real appreciation of Daufuskie Island life! No bridge to the mainland, it's a step back in time. Check out
https://daufuskieislandgullahheritagesociety.org/ to book your tour. Or call Sallie Ann at 912-604-8210. The ferry leaves from the Bluffton side of the bridge to Hilton Head now.