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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

Student Politics in Communist Poland tackles the topic of student political activity under a communist regime during the Cold War. It discusses both the communist student organizations as well as oppositional, independent, and apolitical student activism during the forty-five-year period of Poland's existence as a Soviet satellite state. The book focuses on consecutive generations of students who felt compelled to act on behalf of their milieu or for what they saw as the greater national g...

Five years in the Polish wilderness.Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly bizarre soup – this is Poland in the mid-1990s, where Tom Galvin innocently went as a trainee teacher.Without a word of Polish, he is plunged into a strange and rapidly changing culture, as the country shakes off its troubled and complex past and faces the challenges of being a part of modern Europe.Tom spent five years dealing with long and freez...

Tom Firth was born in Japan where his English father and Polish mother were living. He begins by describing his unusual childhood and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in Warsaw, Poland. However they became split up when Poland became overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older brother were in England, Tom found himself trapped in the Russian-occupied part of the country and, after several agonizing months, eventually mad...