On St. Helena Island, a few miles from Beaufort, South Carolina, a quiet tidal creek flows past a charming and beautiful place called Yard Farm - formerly the Fuller Plantation. Using factual history, personal stories, and original photographs, Sonny Bishop and his daughter, Elizabeth Bishop Later weave a narrative that is rich in perspective about what that small piece of land has meant to the people who have called it home. Sometimes poignant, frequently humorous, and always engaging, this book is a testament to the importance of home as an anchor during life’s trying times.

Sonny Bishop’s reminiscences of Dataw Island before it was developed, firsthand accounts of one of the worst hurricanes to impact the Sea Islands, and his boyhood recollections of Beaufort and St. Helena Island create an intriguing portrait of a quieter, more peaceful time in the history of what has become one of the southeast coast’s most popular destinations.

There are enduring ideals in these stories that never change - families working together, the resilience of the human spirit, the appreciation of land, the importance of understanding where and who we came from and how that understanding shapes who we are.

These are the stories of a place called home.