Georgetown Mysteries and Legends by Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf

Author:Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Folklore/Ghosts
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
Published: 2007-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

Fiddler’s Green

The Georgetown County coast abounds with seafaring tales and mysteries, from colonial pirate stories right up to present-day adventures. Among the latter is the saga of the ill-fated schooner Fiddler’s Green.

The twin Crayton brothers were born in 1915. Christened Richard and Samuel, Dickie and Sammy grew up loving boats and the sea. Georgetown County, with its busy international seaport, wind-swept barrier islands, and five winding rivers, was the base for their countless maritime adventures.

When the hurricane of 1916 approached Georgetown County, the young brothers and their mother were on Pawleys Island at the seaside boardinghouse she ran there. A man driving a horse-drawn buckboard stopped at the boardinghouse and told Mrs. Crayton that, but for him, she and her baby boys were the last people on the narrow barrier island. Due to all the last-minute work of preparing the boardinghouse for the storm, Mrs. Crayton had not realized that everyone else was gone. Since no other transportation was available, she loaded her twin sons on the man’s buckboard and left Pawleys Island for the mainland. They crossed the narrow bridge linking the sections of earthen causeway just in time. Shortly after their passage, the causeway was washed away as the hurricane ravaged the island.

This early incident set the tone for Dickie and Sammy’s adventures, including that of the Fiddler’s Green.

The legend of Fiddler’s Green is an ancient one. It tells how an old sailor ready to leave the sea can find utopia on land. He should begin walking inland carrying an oar on his shoulder, finally traveling far enough that the locals have never seen boats, oars, or the ocean. When he comes upon a lovely township in the heart of a beautiful countryside and someone looks curiously at his oar and asks what he is carrying, he will know he has arrived in Fiddler’s Green. There, he will be given his own seat beside the village inn. His pipe will always be filled with fragrant tobacco, and his glass of ale will magically fill up anytime he drinks the last drop. He will savor his ale and pipe while watching village maidens dance to fiddle music on the village green before the inn.

Fiddler’s Green, the sailors’ legendary destination after leaving the sea, was the perfect name for a vessel that came out of the sea to rest high and dry on the south end of Pawleys Island.

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