Remember Jekyll Island by Babs McDonald, PhD., passionately details the recent history of Jekyll Island State Park, in Georgia. In 2006, the Jekyll Island Authority entered into a contract with Linger Longer Communities, a development company. The commercial and private-sector development of Jekyll Island had begun. Almost immediately, citizens, especially Babs McDonald, were in an uproar. The Georgia state government and Linger Longer Communities negotiated with each other while Georgians all around the Island organized into a grassroots movement. The battle for Jekyll Island was underway. However, it soon became apparent that the growing grassroots movement held little sway over the actions of the government and corporate entities. Jekyll Island State Park belonged to the citizens of Georgia, but they realized that they had no say in its development... and the inevitable destruction of the Island's environment. A bitter fight to the end, with a compromise that left no party truly happy and no long-term resolutions, Remember Jekyll Island is a shocking examination of the highly political negotiations for public land that happen all over the United States. Babs McDonald lets us know how much we must fight for public land that is legally ours, as citizens of the United States.

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