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Restoring Lost Plantation Hunting Lore | Charleston News
Discover the wild, duck-filled hunting exploits of South Carolina’s Maybank family—where hunters bagged alligators eight feet long and fired off just one shotgun barrel before ducks flew in too fast to reload. These century-old plantation records, alongside vintage photos of Black guides and luxury cars, reveal a bygone era of elite hunting grounds. But the documents were in shambles—torn pages, crumbling spines. Enter Charleston Library Society conservators James Davis and Maddox Allen, who spent 18 months painstakingly restoring the book with custom leather and gold lettering. Their lab…
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