Marsh Deane has long held a fascination with the night, growing to love the trepidation and rewards of exploring the wilderness after dark. This presentation will focus on the time of day when most are safely in bed, the deep dark Carolina Nights.
Often the landscapes truly come to life after the sun has set, both predators and prey becoming active in the moon and starlight. Marsh will take audience members on a nighttime journey into South Carolina’s deepest swamps, and remote barrier islands, to hear the music and witness the glory of the Carolina Nights.
Join us to glimpse stars like our ancestors experienced and focus upon the synchronizing Fireflies of Congaree that are fading away from the landscape.
These nights can help to teach us of a great interconnection and intelligence found in the natural world, a celebration of life and balance that we are becoming more and more removed from in our modern lives.
About the Speaker:
Marsh Deane is an Adventurer and Photographer from Georgetown, SC.
While growing up in historical properties along the rivers and coastline of Georgetown County, Marsh developed a passion for history and the outdoors at an early age. He played along plantation waterways, old graveyards, cypress swamps, and ancient shell middens - growing familiar with the alligators, snakes, and other wildlife along the way.
Studying Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, and Kinesiology gave Marsh a scientific outlook that he began to apply to his Adventures. Through this lens, he could share the great wonders of heritage and nature.
Marsh’s media company, MLNL MEDIA, led him to a path of documentation and creation with a camera. He quickly began to apply photography to his passion of exploring the outdoors. His first feature length documentary film, Rescue Rantowles Creek, was sponsored by the Sierra Club, and nominated for the Ansel Adams Conservation Award in 2020. Since then, Marsh has become known for his “Adventures with Marsh” series, in which he takes viewers through inhospitable terrain to witness the hidden lessons of heritage in our wild places.