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GULLAH HISTORY IN YOUR BACKYARD

SEMINAR TOUR

Featuring Anita Singleton-Prather as Aunt Pearlie Sue

DAY #1 - WEDNESDAY Morning ( 9 am Daily Departure - Boundary Street Piggly Wiggly)

Northern Beaufort County (9:30 am – 1:30 pm)

Harriet Tubman Bridge

( Harriet an American Hero...site of the famous Combahee River Raid she led in June of 1863 freeing 800+ enslaved Africans on

June 2 from Colleton County plantations)

Nemours Plantation

Yemassee Train Station

James Denmark Studio

(World renowned Gullah artist with works on exhibit nationally including the New York Metropolitan Museum)

Old Sheldon Church

Frampton Plantation

Diane Britton Dunham -Griffin Studio

Lunch & Da' Blues 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm

(Enjoy beautiful vibrant paintings, lunch and blues singing at the home gallery of a Lowcountry renowned Gullah artist)

WEDNESDAY Afternoon

Beaufort City Tour 2:30 pm – 5 pm

Beaufort National Cemetery

(Established by President Abe Lincoln as the final resting place for those who fought to preserve the Union)

Grand Army Hall

(Grand Army of the Republic Hall established after the Civil War for the United States Colored Troops, a veteran's lodge... the only

one still in use in the United States)

Secession House

(House where the Articles of Secession was first drafted)

First African Baptist Church

(Established and built in 1863 by freemen; original structure had no nails)

Gen. Robert Smalls House

(First Black hero of the Civil War)

Tabernacle Baptist Church

(Sold to newly freedmen by former masters...site of Gen. Robert Smalls' bust and gravesite)

Gen. Robert Smalls Room at Lybenson Gallery

Green Herring Gallery (Found object Gullah artist & master wood craftsman Hank D. Herring)

Farmers Market

(Fresh locally grown produce, seafood and baked goods)

Dinner on your own

Day #2 THURSDAY

Island Tour 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Chapel of Ease

Historic Penn Center York W. Bailey Museum

(Founded in 1862 in the middle of the Civil War to educate the newly freedmen of the Sea Islands of Beaufort County, SC)

Coffin Point Praise House

(One of only a few praise houses still in use from the pre-Civil War era)

Meet Charlotte Forten, re-enactment of first African American teacher at Penn School

Red Piano Too Gallery

(Just as much a museum as a folk art gallery...beautiful one-of-a-kind works of art)

Fort Fremont (Lands End)

Picnic Lunch at Woodlands Lands End Beach 12 Noon – 1 pm

(328 acres of unspoiled...100 of it pristine beachfront purchased in 1920 for $3200 by 42 African Americans for hunting,

swimming, fishing and burial grounds...still privately owned by the descendants)

Gullah Crafts Demonstrations / Make & Take at Penn Center: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Sweetgrass basket weaver and net maker - Demonstrations & Fishin' Stories

Hotel Break

Gullah Caribbean Celebration Feast at Historic Penn Center Frissell Hall 6 pm – 9 pm

(Wear your island attire and bring your dancin' shoes...Live entertainment by Gullah Kinfolk...Singing, Storytelling, Dancing

and Gullalicious Caribbean Buffet Feast)

FRIDAY DAY #3

Port Royal Tour 9:30 am – 12 Noon

Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot Museum & Tour

Emancipation Proclamation Tree / Naval Hospital site

(Smith Joyner Cotton Plantation was the location of the first public reading of Pres. Abe Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

on January 1, 1863..." freeing all those held in bondage in the rebellious states.")

Mather School / Technical College of the Lowcountry

(School for newly freed African American women to prepare them to become teachers)

Pick up cars at Piggly Wiggly 12:30 pm

Lunch & Laughs with A Movie at A & J Cafe, Seabrook, SC 1 pm – 2 pm

(Enjoy a Gullah soul food buffet in a little country cafe...and for your viewing pleasure a private screening of the Telly award-

winning movie, "My Man Done Wrong"...Funny, funny, funny! All true stories shot entirely on location in historic Beaufort, South

Carolina. Starring, Anita Singleton-Prather, a.k.a. Aunt Pearlie Sue, and her friends. Featured in film festivals from Kingston,

Jamaica to Hollywood, California.

Departure 2:30 pm

This is a Gullah interactive seminar tour. This three-day seminar tour will give the participant a comprehensive understanding

of the rich Gullah history in our backyard...the history that so many tourists venture from all over the world to see...but you

will not see it, you will experience it. Participants will step back in time and get a glimpse of the unique culture of the Sea

Islands of Beaufort County, South Carolina, also known as the "Queen of the Sea Islands."

Objectives:

o To be introduced to the Gullah culture

o To connect history to places

o To explore creative Gullah artistic forms

o To know the relationship of the Gullah Culture with tourism and its economic impact

o To foster pride in the Gullah Culture

o To encourage a sense of responsibility for preserving our environment and the Gullah Culture for present and future

generations

Tour package includes:

o 2 box lunches, 1 lunch buffet and 1 Gullah Caribbean dinner buffet

o Tour guide

o Lectures

o Artist demonstrations

o Storytelling

o Other live entertainment

o All admissions paid

o Motorcoach transportation for 3 days

o Water & snacks

Anita Singleton-Prather, your hostess

More details or contact to schedule: info@SpeakersInternational.com