Nestled against the curve of Georgia’s coast lie emerald and golden gems, unique barrier islands, and special treasures to be discovered. Lured to these islands by the beauty of moss-draped oaks, rolling sand dunes, and the pleasures of sun and water, visitors enjoy peaceful respite, fun family vacations, and relaxing romantic getaways.
For centuries the beautiful coast of St. Simons Island has enchanted poets, authors, and musicians alike. The ribbon-smooth beaches, the expansive marshes and bicycle paths that wind their way past enormous live oak trees draped in the gray beard of Spanish moss create a unique slice of heaven that provides a hauntingly stunning and romantic setting.
One of the first things you notice is the vast expanses of marsh land, punctuated by small islands, known as hammocks that define the landscape and create the appearance of continuous land between the mainland and St. Simons Island. The rivers and title creeks that flow through them on the way to the sea abound with all sorts of fish, birds and animals and provide a protected coastal nursery of sorts for many creatures from the ocean.
St. Simons Island is the largest of the Golden Isles stretching for 10 miles along the Atlantic Ocean. The Village offers a charming selection of shops and restaurants that range from fine dining establishments to casual outdoor eateries. All of the locals and visitors enjoy Neptune Park named after a slave, Neptune Small and the fishing pier. The island also offers a number of fascinating historical sites such as the Lighthouse, the Coast Guard Station, Fort Frederica, Christ Church and the Bloody Marsh Monument. Other island activities also include golf, fishing, nature walks, biking, canoeing, kayaking and horseback riding.
St. Simons Island is adjacent to Sea Island, which is the third richest zip code in the United States and home of the Cloister, a world- class resort renowned for its luxury and gracious service and site of the recent G-8 Summit. The Cloister has hosted presidents, royalty and other VIPs.
Walking barefoot in the sand, taking a dip in the ocean, sunning in the tropical breeze, listening to the lull of the waves are just a few of the reasons that people are flocking to this island and even better reasons to stay. Georgias coastal treasure, St. Simons Island is the perfect place to linger long after the summer is gone – in a home of your own. It is an ideal place to raise a family, retire or invest.
For purchasing a second home, the island property is a sound and great investment. Current homes for sale in the island range from $150,000 to $10,000,000. Property values have doubled in the last seven years and have shown consistent appreciation of 10 to 15% per year.
St. Simons Island is still a small southern town where locals are known for their friendliness and hospitality. As the local lore states, once you get St Simons Island sand in your shoes, like the tide you will come back again and again.

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GODS COUNTRY – Part 5 of 9

The story of “The Minnesota Eight”
http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/February-2008/Patriot-Acts/

Patriot Acts
Recalling the countrys most notorious, and least likely, draft raiders
By Tim Gihring
Patriot Acts
Photo by Cheryl Walsh Bellville
The raiders, at the time of their trials in 1970.

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AT THE TIME OF THEIR ARREST in 1970, about the only thing the Minnesota Eight agreed on was the value of raiding draft boards: Breaking into government offices and destroying draft cards so that young men might be spared from fighting in Vietnam. After serving their time, the activists went their separate ways.

Frank Kroncke, for instance, left Minnesota for a life in sales and marketing—for a time he was selling encyclopedias door to door. Bill Tilton became a St. Paul attorney and prominent Democratic supporter. Brad Beneke headed for Los Angeles and a career in rock music, but soon returned and is now in high-tech software sales. Don Olson helped launch the Minneapolis food co-op movement and hosts a weekly talk radio show, on KFAI, about politics.

But lately the Eight—or seven, actually, as the only member to plead guilty got out of jail time and didnt stay in touch—have been reunited, brought together by a play about their draft-raiding days, called Peace Crimes, staged this month by the History Theatre at the University of Minnesota.

Its a snowy evening in November, and five of the Eight have gathered at Tiltons home to swap war stories. Apart from Olson, who sports a bushy gray beard, the men have collectively shed about eight feet of hair since the raid that put them behind bars. Tilton, a garrulous outdoors type who recently spent six weeks kayaking around Greenland, sets out bottles of wine, and soon the group is excitedly discussing President Bush and Iraq as though working themselves up for another raid.

The culture of violence has only gotten stranger, says Pete Simmons, who now works with Peace in the Precincts, a political group advocating national security through nonviolent means. When people believe militarism is the same as patriotism, they give up their liberties in hope that the military will protect them. Everyone guffaws in agreement.

Its essentially American to dissent! cries Kroncke, and his fellow raiders hoist their glasses in solidarity. With a clarity they never had while burglarizing the government resisting illegitimate authority, says Kroncke, thats the American story!

In early 1970, before the Kent State killings, before Watergate, before the release of the Pentagon Papers detailing Americas conduct in Vietnam, it was much less obvious who was in the right.

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Nestled against the curve of Georgia’s coast lie emerald and golden gems, unique barrier islands, and special treasures to be discovered. Lured to these islands by the beauty of moss-draped oaks, rolling sand dunes, and the pleasures of sun and water, visitors enjoy peaceful respite, fun family vacations, and relaxing romantic getaways.
For centuries the beautiful coast of St. Simons Island has enchanted poets, authors, and musicians alike. The ribbon-smooth beaches, the expansive marshes and bicycle paths that wind their way past enormous live oak trees draped in the gray beard of Spanish moss create a unique slice of heaven that provides a hauntingly stunning and romantic setting.
One of the first things you notice is the vast expanses of marsh land, punctuated by small islands, known as hammocks that define the landscape and create the appearance of continuous land between the mainland and St. Simons Island. The rivers and title creeks that flow through them on the way to the sea abound with all sorts of fish, birds and animals and provide a protected coastal nursery of sorts for many creatures from the ocean.
St. Simons Island is the largest of the Golden Isles stretching for 10 miles along the Atlantic Ocean. The Village offers a charming selection of shops and restaurants that range from fine dining establishments to casual outdoor eateries. All of the locals and visitors enjoy Neptune Park named after a slave, Neptune Small and the fishing pier. The island also offers a number of fascinating historical sites such as the Lighthouse, the Coast Guard Station, Fort Frederica, Christ Church and the Bloody Marsh Monument. Other island activities also include golf, fishing, nature walks, biking, canoeing, kayaking and horseback riding.
St. Simons Island is adjacent to Sea Island, which is the third richest zip code in the United States and home of the Cloister, a world- class resort renowned for its luxury and gracious service and site of the recent G-8 Summit. The Cloister has hosted presidents, royalty and other VIPs.
Walking barefoot in the sand, taking a dip in the ocean, sunning in the tropical breeze, listening to the lull of the waves are just a few of the reasons that people are flocking to this island and even better reasons to stay. Georgias coastal treasure, St. Simons Island is the perfect place to linger long after the summer is gone – in a home of your own. It is an ideal place to raise a family, retire or invest.
For purchasing a second home, the island property is a sound and great investment. Current homes for sale in the island range from $150,000 to $10,000,000. Property values have doubled in the last seven years and have shown consistent appreciation of 10 to 15% per year.
St. Simons Island is still a small southern town where locals are known for their friendliness and hospitality. As the local lore states, once you get St Simons Island sand in your shoes, like the tide you will come back again and again.

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Homemade Outdoor Barbecue grill, peanut-butter and jam tortilla sandwiches,
great for backpacking through the woods. Food to pack for the woods. Camping
and Shelter items. Gun Demonstration. Escape and Evade…when it comes to
backpacks, space and weight are your enemy.

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