By the end of that week, Blanche had generated some 60
pages of handwritten memories. Her enthusiasm, on every
page, is palpable. Blanche Brumley has been kind enough
to lend her diary to The Kiawah Conservancy, and the
Conservancy, in turn, has been allowed to reproduce it.
Blanche and Frank visited us recently. “We’ve always
loved it here,” Blanche enthused. “When they invented the
expression, ‘Natural Wo nder,’ Kiawah
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