Low Country Historian

BUDDY SULLIVAN is the author of numerous publications about the history, culture and ecology of coastal Georgia. Among other awards he is a recipient of the Governor's Medal in the Humanities from the Georgia Humanities Council in recognition of his literary contributions to the state. Sullivan is a fourth generation native of McIntosh County, Georgia, a small low country community which has long been the focus of his research. He was a sports writer for newspapers in Georgia and Florida from 1971 to 1985 before serving as editor of the Darien (Ga.) News from 1985 to 1993. He was supervisor of the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve from 1993 to 2013, and is now an independent writer and consultant, residing on ancestral property at Cedar Point in McIntosh County.