In the act of Congress that established Cumberland Island as a national seashore in 1972, the federal government was clear: The island and wildlife refuge off Georgia’s coast would be managed ...

CUMBERLAND ISLAND, Ga. (WSAV ... which is the first sign of malnourishment. If there were a patch of land connecting the island to somewhere else, they’d leave to find food and grass.

Far from the sounds and demands of the modern world, Cumberland Island is a retreat to a slower pace of life. Today, Cumberland Island is mostly protected land under the classification of National ...

It is a genuine robber-baron mansion, after all, built in 1901 by the Carnegie family on Georgia’s Cumberland Island. Still in family hands, it has been a celebrated luxury hotel since the 1960s ...

I can almost taste it: that thick, salty, marshy air that embraces me whenever I’m aboard the Cumberland Queen II on my way from the quaint village of St. Mary’s to the island that holds a ...