![]() The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten. But they needed someone to teach them, and their rundown schoolhouse had no teacher. Already poor, they knew they would have to face an uncertain future unless, somehow, they learned a new life. For years these families lived proudly from the sea until waste from industry destroyed the oyster beds essential to their very existence. But for the handful of families that lived on Yamacraw, America was a world away. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river, it was accessible only by boat. Yamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. ![]() You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail.”- Charleston News and Courier ![]()
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