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River Tides and the Creative Life

River tides are famous for their effect on human life. I have included here some of the information in my recent book, Lowcountry Tides, Selected Poems of Florence Rubert Graves, where I commented on the impact of those tides. My book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Florence Rubert Graves, greatest of mothers, loving wife, best of daughters, and a loyal friend to many. She guided, mentored and encouraged all who had the good fortune to know and love her. She wrote many poems over a long lifetime. However, I selected the poems for this collection from those she either wrote during the years she spent in the tidal river lowcountry of Bluffton, South Carolina, or later poems written while remembering those times. Living near those tides has a daily impact on creativity. A tidal river can be seen and experienced as a metaphor for the ebb and flow of daily life; the highs and lows of human emotion—and everything in between. Click here for those thoughts, River tides and Creativity

Tales of Old Town Bluffton

My new book, Tales of Old Town Bluffton, The Complete Writings of Andrew Peeples, is now available in paperback from Amazon Books. Andrew Peeples’ stories are full of early twentieth century small town local color.  He was born in 1905 in Bluffton, SC, and raised on Calhoun Street (the main street) in the house shown below. He was the seventh son in a family of fourteen children. He graduated from Bluffton High School and later from the University of South Carolina. For many years he worked as the Health Education Director for the South Carolina State Board of Health.