MILLIONAIRES' PLAYGROUND

We spent Labor Day at Jekyll Island, having fun at the historical Jekyll Island Club Hotel on Jekyll Island, a beautiful coastal barrier island called "Georgia's Jewel." The club was founded in the late 1800s by millionaires J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller, Pulitzer, and Vanderbilt, who built it as a winter playground/hunting club/retreat for themselves, their families, and other invited members.

The grounds are beautiful, and you can rent bicycles and ride through the resort to the various gift shops, restaurants, and the beach. We had lunch at Cafe Solterra then took the tram tour where our guide explained things about the club. Even though the Victorian clubhouse had dozens and dozens of guest rooms, the millionaries built their own "cottages" on the grounds, some as big as 8,000 and 10,000 square feet with Italianate architecture! The "cottage" with the yellow trim was the Rockefellers.

What did this excursion do for me, as a fiction author?

To be continued...