It feels like a sign of good things to come when, after 40 minutes of gray, overcast skies, the sun bursts through the clouds as our ferry reaches the Greyfield Inn dock on Cumberland Island in south ...

When Whitney Otawka walked into a restaurant in Berkeley to apply for a job waiting tables, she couldn’t imagine that in a few years she would be a contestant on “Top Chef” and running the culinary ...

Framed by moss-draped ancient live oaks, the Greyfield Inn looks much the same as it did when the first Carnegie family called it home. In 1890, steel baron Thomas Carnegie, brother of Andrew, and his ...

WHEN I first visited Cumberland Island, things didn’t go exactly to plan. My wife, Clare, and I had been exploring different islands along the Georgia coast and were ready to find some lunch. Cursory ...

Recently—having found myself accidentally but inextricably embattled in Twitter wars and other dark nights of the cyber soul spent debating myself about blocking vs. muting vs. taking a social media ...

There is no place quite like Cumberland Island. Its wildness is poetic; its waves echo against the shoreline with the hushed rhythm of a seagull's wings; its palmettos sway and sing in cadence with ...

The armadillos started arriving around dinnertime, stumbling on our camp- site seemingly by accident. Hairy, nearsighted, football-shaped, they were completely oblivious to our existence for a full ...

And the list went on and on, as the four kids recounted their adventures animal spotting, biking, swimming and hiking all over the island during their six-day camping trip with their parents. The ...