Wendy Paulson has been drawn to the sea islands of Georgia since her seventh-grade English teacher introduced her to “The Marshes of Glynn,” the Sidney Lanier poem depicting the open saltwater marshes and braided live oak trees of the state’s coastal Glynn County. Today, she and her husband, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, own a large swath of that land. In 2015, they paid almost $33 million to buy Little St. Simons Island, a roughly 11,000-acre barrier island that’s accessible only by boat. The island remains...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 23, 2018 15:42 UTC