The South Atlantic Coast and Piedmont

A Literary Field Guide

The latest in the Stories from Where We Live series of literary field guides for kids and families who love both literature and the outdoors.

The South has always celebrated its heritage. This book for kids and families focuses on the region’s natural heritage, from Maryland to Florida, and from the coast to the foothills of the Appalachians. The book’s stories, poems, essays, and historical accounts were specifically chosen because they feature the region’s habitats (from hilly farms to bottomland forests, from churning rivers to marshes to barrier islands), plants, animals, and weather.

A young girl grows up in Virginia's tidewater and learns to fish in the Chesapeake Bay. A boy watches great horned owls outside his aunt’s Atlanta home. A girl escapes the crowds of Ocean City and sees the brilliant orange beak of an American oystercatcher. Two brothers in Florida catch an enormous bass. A family canoes through the Okefenokee Swamp, the night alive with frogs and gators. The book captures the balmy, beautiful nights of a southern summer and the joy of kids on rubber rafts riding the ocean’s waves. It tells of kite flying in a South Carolina spring, of autumn along the C&O Canal, of fossil hunting along Virginia's rivers, oyster roasts on Maryland’s eastern shore, and berry picking in North Carolina.

Contributors: Katherine S. Balch, Fanwood, NJ Gretchen Fletcher, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (active w/ Fla Center for the Book; teaches 5th grade)
Gary Henderson, Spartanburg, SC (co founder of Hub City Writers Project, writes for Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Susan Gray Gose lived in Washington, DC, for several years and now lives in Lander, WY
Charles Rossiter, Oak Park, IL
C. W. Dingman, Adamstown, MD
Kimberly Greene Angle, Columbia, SC
April Pulley Sayre grew up in Greenville, SC, and now lives in South Bend, IN
Susan Schmidt, an avid sailor, teaches at Carteret Community College in Morehead City, NC
McCabe Coolidge, Beaufort, NC
Joe Shepherd, lived in Washington DC for ten years and now lives in St. Louis, MO
Lynn Schuessler, York, PA
P. G. Brake grew up in Hampton, VA
Martin Galvin, Chevy Chase, MD
Melina Mangal, a librarian, lives in St. Paul, MN
Janisse Ray grew up in Baxley, GA, and now lives in Burlington, VT
Marianne Poloskey, Englewood, NJ
Archie Carr (deceased) was born in Mobile, AL and taught biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL
Larry Rubin, Atlanta, GA
Mary Ann Coleman, Athens, GA
Felicia Mitchell teaches at Emory and Henry College and lives in Meadowview, VA
Michael W. Raymond teaches English at Stetson University and lives in DeLand, FL
Amelia Sides is a native of Augusta, GA, and wrote the poem in this book while a student at A. R. Johnson High School
Paul Jahnige, Williamsburg, MA
Lenard D. Moore teaches world literature at Shaw University and lives in Raleigh, NC
Katherine Paterson is the author of "Jacob I Have Loved" and "Bridge to Terabithia"
Nancy Priff, Ambler, PA
June Owens, Zephyr Hills, FL (central part of state)
Anina Robb, Winchester, VA
Mary E. Mebane (deceased) taught at University of South Carolina and University of Wisconsin
Sy Montgomery, Hancock, NH
Catherine Crawford Robey, Atlanta, GA
Jeffrey Harrison, Massachusetts
William Bartram explored the Southeast in the late 1700s
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (deceased) is the author of The Yearling and Cross Creek
Ann Morrow, Tallahassee, FL
Day Alexander (deceased) was a school librarian with DC Public Schools
Ann E. Michael, Emmaus, PA
Jake Page lives in New Mexico
Jan Godown, Tallahassee, FL
Susan Cerulean, Tallahassee, FL
Robert Murphy (deceased) grew up in Virginia
Rina Ferrarelli, Pittsburgh, PA
Betsy Hilbert was a professor of English at Miami Dade Community College

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