Comment of the Week

I love Jekyll and DO NOT want it to change.  I love the naturalness of it and the historical aspects, the beauty and serenity.  I love to come there to relax.  I feel safe by myself (a single woman).  I can ride my bike for miles, walk on the beach, enjoying all the beautiful scenery, and feel almost like I am at my own private island.  The beach is natural, with no hotels lined up, no wall to wall people, noise and all that ugliness. I need a place like Jekyll, I crave the visit to Jekyll!  I feel a special love for it. Please, please don't let greedy, self serving, callous and clueless humans(?) destroy my paradise.

I am far from a rich person but I can manage to get to Jekyll every so often to soothe my soul.  It's perfect, a short journey from my home, and a stay there is within my means.  And not a "motel" room, I can stay in an apt. or home and feel (imagine) that I live there!  And for those couple of days, I do.  With my dog and my bike, I cook in my little kitchen and forget work and stress and am in heaven. I was there on 9/11, in a little apt., I watched the horror on tv and my daughter came and stayed a couple of days with me and we went to the beautiful little chapel to pray.  I have many memories of times at Jekyll.  We camped there every year at spring break when my children were little.  Oh, well, I will include the sparing of Jekyll in my prayers, as I guess that's all or maybe the best that I can do.  I can't afford to go there, so far, this year, unfortunately, and I hope that when I do go again it will still be the same as always and I'll feel that "oh, boy, I'm here!" relief. 

Thanks for providing me with the space to express myself.

Cathy Phillips, Athens, GA