The 36th Original Gullah Festival — a celebration of Gullah Geechee culture and history — returns this weekend, when it’s expected to attract as many as 20,000 people over three days to Beaufort’s ...
I started 2023 off with a trip exploring the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. Excitement was an understatement when I first learned about the trip. I’d known of the Gullah people from ...
The history of the Low Country has worked its charm into my heart as well, from Pat Conroy’s adventures on Daufuskie Island, to the Civil and Revolutionary War history, to the tales of the Gullah ...
Who remembers the 1990s PBS children’s show Gullah Gullah Island? For many of us, watching or hearing about the show was our first exposure to Gullah, the culture native to the Georgia and Carolina ...
In 30 years, the Gullah-Geechee population on Hilton Head was nearly cut in half — from 14.5 percent in 1980 to 7.5 percent in 2010. The way to stop that number from creeping lower is to make land ...
The Gullah Geechee community is made up of over 1 million people along the coast. The Gullah Geechee community, which is spread between Jacksonville, North Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida, is at ...
Environmental activists are working with government agencies to help combat the negative impact of climate change on the coastal land. The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of enslaved people ...
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced to work ...
The art of making sweetgrass baskets is not seen as much in Horry County, but many culture traditions of the Gullah Geechee community are still prevalent. Jason Lee [email protected] You don’t have ...
The New Testament has recently been translated into Gullah, a language of slaves and their descendants that's still spoken by a few people along the southeast coast of the United States. Steve Inskeep ...
Vacation season is here and many Americans will begin searching for scenic locales for their annual escape. Travelers seeking a southern sojourn who stumble on Conde Nast’s 2016 readers’ ranking of ...