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A place from which few ever return

The Fabled Earth Jewish Literature & Fiction pioneering whitewater explorer Wick WalkerSometimes the truth is found in a folktale. 1932. Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia is a strange place to encounter the opulence of the Gilded Age, but the last vestiges of the famed philanthropic Carnegie family still take up brief seasonal residence in their grand mansions there. This years party at Plum Orchard is a lively group: young men from some of Americas finest families who come to experience the areas hunting beside a