When Carroll and Mark Uithoven began traveling from Columbus to Dauphin Island, Alabama, for the occasional getaway years ago, Carroll could not have foreseen that the small, picturesque barrier island in Mobile Bay would become her home one day, or that she would pen a book about it.
"Dauphin Island, Alabama" (WDG Publishing, May 2014) is a pictorial of the island retreat that is home to about 1,200 to 1,300 permanent residents -- and a part-time paradise to a host of others who keep vacation
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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