The Greyfield Inn dock of a foggy morning. - ggreider's Photos

Quite simply the most beautiful and serene place I have ever been

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Bobby Rischarde grew up in Brunswick up the Georgia coast; raised by a grandmother who was allegedly supported by one of her daughters who ran brothel for Brunswick's white gentry. There was in any case enough money to send Bobby to Atlanta Baptist College (now Morehouse College) where one of his teachers was W E B Du Bois. After World War I in which he served, he moved to New York and got a job as a porter with Air France.

He married an exceptional woman named Adele whom he met in his apartment block in Harlem. She had a master's in speech therapy, worked with developmentally disable children at Bellevue, played the harp and inherited a "goodly sum" from a Gimbels' executive with whose son she had worked.

Bobby and Della retired to this house in The Settlement which the park service to whom they sold it is allowing to decay naturally.

Here they entertained fabulously with seven-course dinners Bobby would prepared; Camembert and black caviar, Cutty Sark in frosted glasses. Bobby and Della fed the highborn and the lowly with equal grace and quality. Jimmy Carter was a frequent visitor and Bobby and Della were invited his inauguration and spent the night in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Just incredible: this camellia was one of scores growing as big as my spread fingers on a house-high plant at the NPS building in The Settlement.

Carol Ruckdeschel is the only person now living in The Settlement. Although I saw her, she was with others and has a serious -- emphasis serious -- reputation as someone not to annoy, having killed at least one man who bothered her. Several fence posts along her property had these large pine cone finials.

You can read more about her and her exceptional if idiosyncratic work at: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/interest_feb01.html

This is where we would get our mail if we lived at Plum Orchard, back porch at Greyfield Inn, second row of boxes third from right.

One of the seven ecological niches on Cumberland Island, tidal mudflats

The Greyfield Inn dock of a foggy morning.

The Greyfield Inn dock of a foggy morning.

The Greyfield Inn dock of a foggy morning.

The Greyfield Inn dock of a foggy morning.

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