Top photo - Burlap GGG Tote Bag, Charleston Farmers Market, April 7, 2012.
Left photo-Ron Daise, Elected Chair, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
Right photo-Thomasena Stokes-Marshall, Sherry A. Suttles, Wiliam Dudley Gregorie: Tourism Conf
GGN-Gullah Geechee News Apr.-June 2012
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Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Gullah Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who reside primarily in a four-state coastal corridor of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. In 2006, SC Congressman James Clyburn, led the Congress into enacting legislation to create a National Heritage Area (NHA) called
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
This new "NewsSource" is about the history, culture, art, land, food, music, religion, and current affairs of these millions of people still living along the Atlantic Ocean coast and the busy north-south Interstate Hwy 95.
CONTACT:
Michael Allen, Education Specialist
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
1214 Middle Street
Sullivans Island, SC 29482
843-881-5516 x-12
Michael_allen@nps.gov
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CRAIG WASHINGTON MEMORIAL
http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/05/02/2056888/beaufort-native-musician-who-helped.html
Craig Washington performed spontaneously My Girl with Jazz Vocalist Big George at GGG Linkin Up Seminar
Memorial Day Weekend in Beaufort, SC. It was magical and Craig made a lasting impression.
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IN MEMORY OF TRAYVON MARTIN
"This undated file family photo shows Trayvon Martin. Martin was slain in the town of Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26 in a shooting that has set off a nationwide furor over race and justice. Neighborhood crime-watch captain George Zimmerman claimed self-defense and has not been arrested, though state and federal authorities are still investigating. Since the slaying, a portrait has emerged of Martin as a laid-back young man who loved sports, was extremely close to his father, liked to crack jokes with friends and, according to a lawyer for his family, had never been in trouble with the law. (AP Photo/Martin Family file)"
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GGG SANKOFA PRESERVATION SOCIETY 
Sankofa Bird
Sankofa: "Go back to your past, to go to your future" Ghana W. Africa
OUTREACH -21 PUBLIC HEARINGS – COMMENTS RE JOBS, BUSINESSES, hISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND TOURISM; -UNEMPLOYED Gullah/Geechee MEN/WOMEN AGES 16-40; prospective BUSINESS OWNERS; ENTREPRENEURS; CAREER SEEKERS;
- GULLAH GEECHEE PRESERVATION (Sankofa) SOCIETY; worldwide, beyond Corridor 4 states
JOB CREATION INITIATIVE
job creation
the process of making more paid jobs available
(Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
U.S. Department of Labor TO CREATE- Good Jobs, Safe Jobs, Green Jobs
“…NHAs are working successfully to build coalitions, provide education and training on best practices and to ultimately create jobs”. Alliance of National Heritage Areas, 2010 Annual Report. www.gullahgeecheenews.com
GGG’s JOB CREATION initiative uniquely involves Outreach, Match; Job, career, business owner and entrepreneur link ups; a focus on tradition and creative innovation; historic preservation and tourism.
Welcome to the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
“Designated by Congress in 2006, the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor extends from Wilmington, N.C. in the north to Jacksonville, Fl. in the south. It is home to one of America's most unique cultures, a tradition first shaped by captive Africans brought to the southern United States from West Africa and continued in later generations by their descendants. www.nps.gov/guge.
Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission Holds 21 Public Meetings in 2009
In February 2009, a newsletter was sent out to individuals and organizations in all four states within the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida). Newsletters or comment forms were also distributed at public meetings and other events within the corridor throughout the spring and summer of 2009. Additionally, 21 public meetings were held in 19 communities in the four states within the cultural heritage corridor from February-August, 2009. These meetings provided the public an opportunity to express their thoughts and opinions about the future of the corridor. During the official comment period 125 individual correspondences were received via letter, e-mail, electronic entries into PEPC, or hardcopy comment forms. Additionally, there were many people that spoke at each of the 21 public meetings. .. the public input yielded 1,553 total comments.”
OUTREACH -21 PUBLIC HEARINGS – COMMENTS RE JOBS, BUSINESSES, hISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND TOURISM; ON Street CORNERS
-UNEMPLOYED Gullah/Geechee MEN/WOMEN AGES 16-40; prospective BUSINESS OWNERS; ENTREPRENEURS; CAREER
SEEKERS;
MATCH - Link UP outreach parties with jobs, businesses. G/G projects to be developed into jobs and businesses
JOBS, CAREERS, BUSINESS OWNERS, Entrepreneurs—Current positions advertised; new positions created from G/G Corridor; Interns, lawyers, researchers, publicists, builders, planners, videographers
TRADITIONAL-quilting, basket making, boat making, fishing nets, crabbing, fishing, preserving food (canning), sugar cane into syrup, hammocks, doll making.
INNOVATION – computers, music, fashion, inventions (patents), hist. pres. Developers, more….
HISTORIC PRESERVATION- oral history, schools, cemeteries, houses, artifacts in houses (Smithsonian); Land, tabbies, history of houses/bldgs., maps of old communities, lakes, rivers and marsh between islands and also into the Atlantic Ocean, Gullah language, churches, praise houses.
TOURISM- sites, communities, houses, cemeteries, living descendants of enslaved ancestors, Africa ties
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Historical Note:The Seashore Farmers Lodge sits on what was once the Solomon Legare plantation and marks the site of the Civil War Battle of Sol-Legare Island, where the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts entered combat for the first time. After the Civil War, the 850-acre tract of land was divided and sold to "freedmen.” The resilient African American farming community of Sol Legare made this small sea island their home. Farmers purchased land for and constructed a 2-story community center in 1915. They established the Lodge in the fraternal order of the Seashore Farmers of the Lowcountry and instilled a sense of shared responsibility in the community of Sol Legare. Everyone was a member. And a communal cup waited by the door to collect extra change for those that fell in need. Everyone contributed donations and everyone had access, and this modest 5-bay frame building became the heart of the community, serving as a school, church and meeting place.(C Preservn Society)
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Table of Contents
NEW ITEMS IN BURGUNDY
Welcome//About Us/Contact Us
job creation
Sankofa Preservation Society
Craig Washington Memorial
Calendar
Events
Underground Railroad Conference
Grant Professionals
SC African American Heritage Commission
Hilton Head 2012
"Red Tails" Movie Jan. 20
Charleston Black Tourism
ASALH papers deadline
Black History Month
Magnolia Gardens
Republic of New Afrika
Sankofa Preservation Society
54th Mass. Recruitment
North Charleston 2012 Arts Festival
School Equalization Display & Public Input
Book Signings: Freewoods Farm -O'Neal Smalls & Herb Frazier
The GGCH Corridor Commission
2/24/12 Jacksonville, Fl. Meeting
Partnership Application
2011 Mtg. at Dorchester Academy, GA.
Sherry Ann Suttles
Spotlight on Griffin Lotson
Education & Religion
2012 Scholarships for Black Students
Lorenzo Dow Turner-Avery
Sy Murray, Savannah State Univ.
J. Herman Blake, Ph.D.
Guestbook
Gullah Flags - Penn Center
Health, Lifestyle, & Youth
Linkin UP: Pawleys Island, Beaufort, Mt. Pleasant
Water Tours
Medical U. of S. Carolina MUSC
Butcher & Bee Restaurant
History
Slave Dwelling Joe McGill
Assn. African American Museums
Watchnight service
School District Equalization Histories
African Peoples
Bro. Dudley Thompson In Memoriam
April 22, 2012 Miami Gardens, FL
North America Africa Diaspora Unity Council (NAADUC)
Remembering Haiti
Erzili Danto on Haiti 2012 update
The Land, The People, The Art
HHS Secretary Sebelius on African American History Month
The Georgian Geechee Gullah Shouters
Three by Katie B. Catalon
Atlantic Beach by Sherry A. Suttles
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African articles will be featured when material is available. Multicultural coverage within the Corridor will include Native Americans, Hispanics, Scots-Irish, Germans, Asians, and other diverse groups that influence and have been influenced by Gullah/Geechee people.
Gullah/Geechee Group, Inc. nonprofit is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, education, and/or religious purposes. The purpose is 1) to support the four coastal states of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor –South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida—through education about the Gullah/Geechee people and their designation as a National Heritage Area; 2) to communicate through a digital “newsSource”- Gullah/Geechee News--and other means like studies, seminars (webinars) publications--about history, culture, arts, land, food, music, religion, current affairs, etc.
MEMBERSHIP consists of the board of directors. There shall be an advisory body as the board deems appropriate. Board members are Sherry A. Suttles, President; Griffin Lotson, Vice President and Treasurer; Four new
board members assumed seats April 1, 2011: Katrina L. Brown, NC
Correspondent, Consultant; Johanna Martin-Carrington, SC
Correspondent, Jenkins Orphanage; Griffin
Lotson, GA Correspondent, Georgia Shouters Manager; Marsha Dean
Phelts, FL Correspondent, American Beach historian/author Barbara Ford Collier, SC Correspondent; and Herb Frazier, Journalist Member. Elders include Vermelle "Bunny" and Andrew Rodrigues (SC); Academic Advisors include Veronica Davis Gerald, Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach (SC), and Sy Murray (GA), Savannah State University. The late Kwame Afoh Pan-African Columnist; will remain honorary. Muima Maat, Alada Shinault-Small, VP Emeritus.
CONTACT US
Sherry A. Suttles 843-277-2664
Barbara Fordham Collier 843-884-9011
Herb Frazier 843-577-4372
Katrina L. Brown 704-560-2149
Johanna Martin-Carrington 843-745-0592
Griffin Lotson 912-571-9014
Marsha Dean Phelts 904-261-0175
DISCLAIMER: The Gullalh/Geechee Group is not responsible for any information or images mis used from this site. All credits and source information is captured to the best of our ability. Positions expressed by guest writers, not GGN writers, are not necessarily those of GGG.
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Gullah Geechee Tote Bag
GGG Tote Bags "tote" is a Gullah Geechee word from the 17th century (Merriam-Webster). Our bags are made in the USA, by the hands of descendants of enslaved Africans from the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (NC, SC, GA, FL).
These bags, sometimes called "hobo", gunny or croaker sack, were the mainstay for sharecroppers, and before then, for runaway slaves heading south, then north, as depicted by the Underground Railroad Conference in St. Augustine, Florida where the GGG Tote Bag will make its official debut in June 2012, thanks to the National Park Service, "National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program". Vermelle "Bunny" Rodrigues, Gullah O'oman Museum & Shop, Pawleys Island, South Carolina was the pattern designer.
The bags will be available at various GGG functions: Linkin Up seminars with Gullah Geechee Festivals, job creation, Sankofa Preservation Society Authentication Process; Charleston's Farmer Market, Spoleto, MOJA
educational/vendor booths.
www.gullahgeecheenews.com, www.blogtalkradio.com .
Disclaimer: the GGG Tote Bag is authentic"jute" burlap, so TAKE PRECAUTION with shedding.
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______(# bags) x $24.99 = _________Total original model, conference bag style
______(# bags) x $24.99 = _________Total long cross shoulder "Hobo" look strap
______(# bags) x $24.99 = _________Total GGG logo screen print (one full side)
I THINK OF MYSELF AS GULLAH GEECHEE:
_______born_____raised _____family roots___returned______ speech______crafts_____Lived______
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Phone Number___________________E-mail Address__________________________________________.
Use PAY PAL or send above form, checks/m.o. paid to GGG to 4747 Lambs Rd #16E N. Charleston, SC 29418.
Haint Blue Jewelry
"Alphonso Brown, a guide with Gullah
Tours in Charleston, S.C., explains that a haint is a spirit or a ghost, and in
Charleston, many people also paint the trim on their houses blue to ward off
evil spirits."
Michelle Norris, "Why so blue? Color Graces a Many Porch Ceiling", npr. Aug. 5, 2011 ( 8/14/2006)
Konstant Elevation Entertainment "Haint Blue"
Links coming to: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
Yaa Asantewa. mother of King Akhenaton whose wife was Nefertiti.
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ADDO DANKWA
III
Oni of Ife
King of Akropong-Akuapem
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