Author Archives: Mary Edna

Mary Edna’s words in the Secret Garden Journal

By Mary Edna | Published: December 6, 2009
Up in the Air Editors’ Note:  Mary Edna Fraser transforms her aerial photographs into batiks featured in spaces from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to NASA and Duke University’s Art Museum.  Inspired by environmental concerns, she uses her art for equilibrium.  Her forthcoming book will be published by Duke University’s press.  Visit her exhibit […]
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Kiawah Development Partners adamant about plan that would destroy valuable wildlife and recreation area on Kiawah Spit

By Mary Edna | Published: November 23, 2009
When it appeared to Kiawah Development Partners that their efforts to put a concrete bulkhead on top of almost of 3 acres of public trust tidelands on the back side of Captain Sams Spit would fail, they applied for another bulkhead permit. The second “delayed bulkhead permit” would allow a 340-ft long steel sheet pile […]
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Coastal Conservation League’s efforts to keep Kiawah Spit pristine are heard in appeals court

By Mary Edna | Published: October 22, 2009
Kiawah Island TALK reported on the latest efforts of the Kiawah Development Partners (KDP) to get a revetment/bulkhead built to stabilize Kiawah Spit and their plan for a subsequent housing development: Kiawah Island TALK – October 2009 (download full pdf). In summary: After hundreds of taxpayers made their voices heard in protest to Congressman Henry […]
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