A Noah’s Ark for Turtles
May 18, 2020
3 minutes
By Justin Heckert
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
NICKIE STONE
It’s impossible not to wonder what’s going on at the compound in Cross, South Carolina, an hour north of Charleston. The one off of a gravel road in the thick of loblolly pines, with the razor-wire fence and the CAUTION and BEWARE OF DOG signs, the big guard dogs glaring through the posts. Locals speculate about its mysteries, but behind the spiked gates lies not a drug den, or a secret government experiment, but an ark: a crucial
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