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Article: Brunswick and the Golden Isles of Georgia: soak up sun and history on these sand-fringed coastal retreats.(Tour Of The Month)
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- Travel America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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This is the way Georgia-born poet Sidney Lanier word-pictured his home state's coastline and beckoning barrier islands in the 1870s, and probably no one since has said it better. Well over a century later, travelers who set out on a driving tour of this sunstruck territory are discovering the same indigenous treasures--as awesome and spirit-lifting as ever--that inspired the poet to pick up his pen.
Rolling into town? Stop for a copy of a mapped driving tour brochure at the Visitors Center--it's handily set smack at the St. Simons Island Causeway--that will lead you straight to the venerable Lanier Oak. You can check out the historical marker, relax in the shade ...
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