“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.”
~ Pat Conroy
~ 1945-2016
Autumn’s
colors dance with Spanish Moss in the Dixieland breeze on a sunlit October day
in the Lowcountry of Beaufort County, South Carolina.
The
Legend of the Spanish Moss
The
story says that Gorez Goz, a bearded Spanish villain, journeyed to our shores
and spied a beautiful Indian maid. He bought her for a yard of braid and a
little bar of soap.
The
Indian maid was so afraid of this bearded beast that she fled cover over the hill
and glade with him in pursuit. Tiring, she climbed to the top of a tree, with
the Spaniard close behind. She dove from the tree to the stream below. The
villian’s beard and whiskers became entangled in the branches holding him back
while she got away.
Gorez
Goz’s life was at a loss, but his beard lives on as dangling Spanish Moss!
