Smith: Traveling to Georgia’s Golden Isles

This town, Darien, is a focal point of the Georgia Coast, where tradition and history are as entrenched as marsh hen, moss-draped oaks, and shrimp boats. Shrimp boats, which, unfortunately, are dwindling in number, are tied up at the docks on the Darien River, a 10-mile-long tributary – something of a centerpiece of the complex of salt marshes linked to the mouth of the Altamaha Riv...

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