It was a shock to me to learn today in GRAY'S SPORTING JOURNAL that the South Carolina writer Roger Pinckney died more than a month ago. To my way of thinking Roger was a man of many seasons and writing was his God given talent; I think this comment from the Charleston Mercury about him is appropriate: "....... Indeed, he was a double-barreled Southern persona and writer, gripped by the land. Roger lived out the traditions that few understand; however, important literary critics like James Kibler, who in his Faulkner the Southerner, would no doubt see him as he does the Mississippi bard when he writes: “Southern ways have to do with pressing terra ferma.”
Roger was born into one of those South Carolina families that have been here for 300 years; families such as Seabrook, Middleton, Rutledge, Hampton, Lucas, Horry and so forth; and I suspect that in his lineage he was related to most of them.
Below are several memorial writings about Roger and his love of the South Carolina low country and Daufauskie Island.
https://www.charlestonmercury.com/single-post/having-a-round-with-roger-pinckney-xihttps://www.postandcourier.com/beau...d6242cc-f287-11ee-8b51-d795f7e339c3.htmlhttps://yourislandnews.com/roger-pinckney-xi/As you read these memorials above some of you will think that he and Michael MacIntosh must have been made of similar molds. You owe it to yourself to read Roger's last writing in the current issue of GRAY'S.
Kind Regards;
Stephen Howell ------Cedar Creek, South Carolina
