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40 Acres and a Lie Part 2

Skidaway Island, Georgia, is home today to a luxurious community that the mostly white residents consider paradise: waterfront views, live oaks, and marsh grass alongside golf courses, swimming pools…

  • Skidaway Island, Georgia, now affluent community for white residents.
  • Formerly thriving Black community established under 40 acres program in 1865.
  • Land seized from freedmen and returned to former enslavers within two years.

Letters, Aug. 15

Oh God, do we have to have that Bipole III debate all over again? Letter writers Marion and Tishinski illustrate perfectly why I have a love/hate relationship with engineers.

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