Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat spends a moment at sunset on the docks of Gay Seafood Company.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

This is Pat as a cadet. His smile masks the misery he often felt at The Citadel.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Just before a Friday afternoon parade, Pat casually chats with students and comes eye to eye with a young cadet braced for inspection.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat's old company, Romeo Company, falls in on the checkerboard courtyard of its barracks.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Sallie Ann Robinson, one of Pat's students when he taught on Daufuskie Island, learned to cook in her grandmother's house.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Sallie Ann Robinson's grandmother's house.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

"Thank you for the river and the stars and every house in Beaufort," he wrote in The Losing Season. The John Mark Verdier House is owned by the Historic Beaufort Foundation.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

"The whole earth smelled as though a fleet of shrimp boats had returned for a day's work on tides of rosewater and eelgrass."
Beach Music

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Bridges connect islands along the coast like a string of pearls.

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Pat Conroy's Lowcountry

Early light catches a couple of beachcombers among the sand dunes at Hunting Island State Park.