Eugenia Price’s
LONG-LASTING LEGACY
A soap opera writer. A radio host. A Christian inspirational author. Eugenia Price was a woman with many talents, but it was a chance sidetrip to St. Simons Island in 1961 that not only changed the trajectory of her writing career but helped put Coastal Georgia’s rich history on the literary world’s map.
WORDS BY CYNTHIA ROBINSON96
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 97
Eugenia Price is pictured with local resident James Gould III at the Lighthouse Keeper’s Dwelling for a book signing. Gould’s ancestor was the builder and first keeper of the first St. Simons Lighthouse and the main character in Price’s book “Lighthouse.” The Gould lighthouse was destroyed during the Civil War and replaced in 1872 by the present day lighthouse. (Photo courtesy of Coastal Georgia Historical Society.)
GOLDEN ISLES