St. Simons Island is draped with as much history as it is Spanish Moss. Driving through the live oak lined roads, you are as likely to see a former slave cabin like Hazel's Cafe as you are to see a beautiful white clapboard church like Christ Church. Christ Church is the former parish of Charles Wesley. His brother, John Wesley, also worked to establish a church for the people of St. Simons and Fort Frederica.
The cemetery next to Christ Church is full of stories and is the final resting place of Eugenia Price who used those stories to write novels about St. Simons Island and Georgia.
The tombstones in the cemetery are dark with age, but its obvious by the flags and flower arrangements that someone still cares about the people buried there. I was intrigued by the tombstone with a tiny statue of a puppy and the inscription "As we looked steadfastly on him, we saw his face, as it had been the face of an angel."
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