Discover the lives of people of Grand Strand. Learn about a Nazi pilot who became an American citizen (Walter Luff), or an author in charge of the WPA Writers Project (Mabel Montgomery). Charles Joyner is a Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. He is the author of Down by the Riverside: A South Caroline Slave Community (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984) and Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999).