[caption id="attachment_27738" align="aligncenter" width="689"]<img class="wp-image-27738 " src="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PAT-CONROY-1024x768.jpg" alt="From left: Kim Newton, Pat Conroy, and Terry Sweeney." width="689" height="517" /> From left: Kim Newton, Pat Conroy, and Terry Sweeney.[/caption]
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em>"To describe our growing up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'"</em></h2>