Brookgreen Gardens, 1931 Brookgreen Drive, Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, has been on our “to visit” list for years. We landed there on a lovely, blue sky Saturday in late October. We used our senior citizen and AAA discounts and paid $22 at the gate. Our ticket is good for seven days and truth be told, if we were staying nearby, we would have come back several times. With our time constraints (wanted to set up camp near Savanah by sunset) we focused on the sculpture. We met our very pleasant and well-informed docent by one of the many statues of the goddess, Diana, for a one hour tour that exceeded expectations. Brookgreen was founded in 1931 by the Huntington family. She, a sculptor; he, a poet, philanthropist, scholar of all things Hispanic, and heir
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