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I Heart My City: Barrett’s Charleston

Posted by I Heart My City in Beyond the Guidebook on March 20, 2013
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Along King Street, one of Charleston's main drags. (Photograph by Doug Kerr, Flickr)

As a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, traveling is part of the job for Barrett Caldwell. While he spends half the year criss-crossing the globe and soaking up other cultures, he’ll never outgrow his fondness for his hometown, Charleston, South Carolina. Here are a few of his favorite things about this southern charmer.

The Gullah: A Disappearing Culture

Posted by Aric S. Queen in The Good Traveler on May 17, 2012
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Traditional Gullah basket-weaving, seen mostly on the Sea Islands in South Carolina.

Everyone’s heard of Brer Rabbit. Everyone knows the song “Kumbaya.” And everyone has cooked a “one-pot meal” at some point in their life. So why do so few of us know about the Gullah – the people who gave us things like these? That’s the question many people with Gullah heritage — descendants of slaves brought from West Africa to the “Rice Coast” in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry — are asking. Bill Green, the owner of Gullah Grub in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, is one of them.