Cumberland Island Offers Isolation That’s Both Scenic and Elegant

Cumberland Island Offers Isolation That’s Both Scenic and Elegant
Cumberland Island’s 18 miles of Atlantic beach are so vast that the view disappears over the curvature of the earth. It’s not unusual to see feral horses grazing among its white sand dunes. Ralph Daniel/Explore Georgia/TNS
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By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service

If there’s one thing that Southerners do well, it’s keeping a secret. So well, in fact, that in September 1996 when John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in stunning secrecy at Cumberland Island’s First African Church, only a very few, including residents of nearby St. Mary’s, the gateway to Cumberland, knew about it until days later. The wedding was fairy tale-perfect, elegant, simple and, most of all, utterly romantic under its cloak of anonymity.