HOUSE OF TRAGEDY
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Amazon’s # 1 New Release for S.C. Travel Books
The Mysterious Death of John McConkey and a History of Edisto’s “Haunted” Seaside Plantation.
Could an entire family for generations have been cursed?
Can a house really be haunted?
HOUSE OF TRAGEDY tackles those questions and attempts to separate fact from fiction in this engaging and well-researched book about the historic, deadly, and maybe even haunted plantation where John McConkey was brutally murdered in 1915.
As many as five generations of the wealthy and aristocratic Edings family lived and died at Seaside Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina, before McConkey ever stepped foot on the land of slow-moving creeks and salty brown-and-green sea marshes. For centuries, Seaside’s owners cultivated Sea Island cotton and grew fabulously wealthy on the backs of slave labor.
HOUSE OF TRAGEDY uncovers lost history and tells the story of those who worked, died and were murdered or committed suicide at Seaside, the scene of countless heartbreaks, told and untold.
These are the told stories; only the HOUSE OF TRAGEDY knows the untold.!
About The Author
Ken H. Fortenberry
Ken has earned hundreds of state, regional and national awards for journalism excellence including the National Sigma Delta Chi Bronze Medallion in Public Service and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. Both the Georgia and the South Carolina Press Associations have awarded him their prestigious Freedom of Information awards for his courageous investigative reporting.
He gained international national recognition in 1987 when his house was rocked by two explosions because of stories he published in the McCormick (S.C.) Messenger.His coverage of corruption in local law enforcement led to a federal prison term for the sheriff and changes in state law enforcement certification. He was featured on 60 Minutes, the Today show, and his story was reported in dozens of publications including Newsweek and The New York Times.
Ken has edited, published or owned daily and weekly newspapers in both Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
Ken and Anna live in Macon, Georgia, and have five children, eleven grandchildren and one great-grand child.
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