...than 5,000. In more ways than one, the gradual restoration of disturbed industrial land is like money in the bank. "Thousands of years ago, this place was a forested river scar left by the Savannah River," said Gene Eidson, the president...

Born in 1901, he was never able to perform before thousands of adoring fans or bank thousands of dollars from record sales and concert dates. Like many blues musicians of his generation, Mr. McTell lived and died, in...