Reposted by Peter Steward Scholtes
I have fond memories of this community. I did my stateside Peace Corps training at Penn Center on the island, long before it was declared a national monument. I did a homestay with a nearby family. It's a very special place.
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‘The way we love them in life is the way we love them in death’: a Gullah Geechee community fights for their cemetery
In a win for the Gullah Geechee people on St Helena Island in South Carolina, access to a long-used cemetery has been restored