![]() ![]() His memoir records the story of his devotion and determination to connect and teach students whose previous educational experience was uninspired, authoritarian and ineffective. Conroy was hired to teach middle school children in a ragged, understaffed, segregated school and was shocked by the 19th century conditions he encountered. Site of brutal Indian massacres and equally brutal African enslavement, teeming with animal life, and sparsely populated by black families who had lived on the island for generations, Yamacraw had intermittent electricity and was accessible only by water. Pat Conroy’s memoir, The Water is Wide, takes readers to isolated Yamacraw (Daufuskie) Island in 1969. ![]()
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