The Sunday drive. Mom, dad and the kids would head out to see the countryside. An ice cream treat usually waited at day's end. Back in the Burma-Shave days, mom-and-pop drive-ins and gas station biscuits fed folks. Cheap gas filled cars, and people made Sunday drives through a land where See Rock City barns, sawdust piles and trains and junkyards gave them plenty to see. Men in seersucker suits ran old stores with oscillating fans, and if the kids ate too much penny candy, grandma had a ho...

Writer Slater Watts accepts a mission to go to lawless, wild Forbidden Island off the Georgia-South Carolina coast to profile a voodoo priest who rules the island like a god. A haunted man, Watts sees the assignment as the last chance to break his dying daughter's five-year coma. On his way to the island Watts meets Tyler Hill, a woman who believes her runaway daughter lives on Forbidden Island. Hill convinces Watts to take her to the island, and her mission supplants his, threatening his ...

Columbia, South Carolina, sits in a perfect position--each of the numerous treasures of the Palmetto State is less than a day's drive from the capital. Near Charleston, 137 miles from Columbia, you can enjoy more than seventeen thousand square feet of shade from the iconic Angel Oak. In Blackville, 49 miles from Columbia, you can visit a natural spring that has been deeded to God since 1944. A 53-mile trip to Edgefield will put you in the heart of Peach Country, where you can see many of t...

Leadsology®: Marketing The Invisible is written for independent professionals for want to enjoy a predictable weekly flow of high quality new client inquiries.Here's what you'll discover in Leadsology®: Marketing The Invisible.*** Why Marketing The Invisible is more like proposing marriage than it is selling a car.*** Ten commonly taught marketing methods that you should avoid.*** The Titanium Triangle: How to stimulate a weekly flow of high-quality, inbound...

Tom Poland is a multiple best-selling author and has spoken on stages around the world. He has clients in 35 cities and 19 time zones and has personally started and sold multiple businesses including having led teams of over 100 people and revenue in excess of 20 million.Tom has a passion for personal development, describes himself as voluntarily married and lives on the white sand of beautiful Castaways Beach in Queensland, Australia.

A nostalgic look at Georgia and South Carolina before development, outsiders, and modern conveniences brought wholesale changeVeteran journalist and southern storyteller Tom Poland has been writing about the disappearing rural South for nearly four decades. With a companionable appreciation for nostalgia, preservation, humor, and wonder, Georgialina: A Southland as We Knew It brings to life once more the fading and often-forgotten unfiltered character of t...

Venture off the beaten path down forgotten roads and discover where a hidden South Carolina exists.Time-travel and dead-end at a ferry that leads to wild islands. Cross a rusting steel truss bridge into a scene from the 1930s. Behold an old gristmill and imagine its creaking, clashing gears grinding corn. See an old gas pump wreathed in honeysuckle. Drive through a ghost town and wonder why it died. When's the last time you saw a country store's cured hams hanging ...

Tom Poland's latest book, Inbound Marketing Book, is written for independent professionals who want to enjoy a predictable weekly flow of high quality new client inquiries.Poland is a multiple best-selling author who has been published physically in 27 countries. Over the past 41 years he has started and sold five businesses, taking three of them international and has led teams of over 100 people with annual revenue of more than twenty million dollars.Today, Tom teaches his u...

There is a strange beauty at the heart of every mystery, and the mystery of the Carolina Bays is an enigma that is lushly, uniquely beautiful.How did these odd geomorphological features come to be formed in the landscape in the first place, with their uniform shapes and matching elliptical orientations scattered across the Carolinas? There are many hypotheses but no definitive answers. Why are these inland phenomena even called "bays?" There is no clear answer to that either.

The world of Harmony has its own special glow, thanks to the aliens who left behind powerful amber and twisting underground catacombs. Sparks fly, senses are rezzed, and passion can take you by surprise...Three months ago, Amber Tuner and independent prospector Lyra Dore made the find of the decade in an underground rain forest: amethyst ruins. But the very man she was dating stole her claim--and her heart. At least she has her artistically talented dust bunny, Vin...

Every American, at some point in their life, will want to visit the nation's capital, and it is most important that parents take their children there. For adults of all ages, for young people, and for families, this Easy Guide states preferences in activities and in the choice of lodgings and meals; our author isn't shy about revealing what she likes most (and what she dislikes). She is Elise Hartman Ford, a long-experienced journalist and Washington, D.C. resident, who--in addition to wri...

AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JUSTIN THEROUX, SEASON 2 STREAMING NOW“An Impressive and disturbing vision of the American psyche.”—Washington Post Book WorldFrom legendary writer Paul Theroux, an international bestseller that is a spellbinding adventure story of an American family that rejects its homeland and tries to find a happier life in the jungles of Central America.The paranoid and ...