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Sandy Island Cultural Initiative Holds Public Meetings

4 October 2019
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As part of the Sandy Island Cultural Initiative (started with At Low Tide: Voices of Sandy Island), the Press team helped facilitate public meetings discussing the renovation of the Sandy Island school house.

Carlie Todd, our summer intern from USC’s PhD in History program (and press alumn from Brick by Brick!), and Hattie Jordan, MALS summer intern, were a part of this process. Carlie helped us complete a review draft of a nomination for the Sandy Island school house to be listed National Historic Registry of Historic Properties, and Hattie Jordan completed some amazing narratives on Sandy Island.

Our team presented a status update for this three-year-long project, and talked about next steps and priorities for the Sandy Island school. We held two meetings and attended the Sandy Island Family Reunion. We’re so excited to continue this project and see the renovated Sandy Island School!

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Athenaeum Press Team at #ACH2019

5 August 2019
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The Athenaeum Press team presented on two of its projects: Trans/South: Ten Voices of Identity and Virtual Hampton at the Association for Computers and Humanities in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in July 2019.

Shonte Clement (DCD major, ’19) and Joshua Parsons (English major, ’20) represented the Trans/South project alongside Tripthi Pillai, faculty lead, and Alli Crandell, press director. These students were some of the only undergraduates who attended the conference, and showcased the student work well.

Sue Bergeron and Alli Crandell presented on the progress students had made for Virtual Hampton. We are excited to continue exploring the affective dimensions of recreating plantation and Reconstruction landscapes with our future work on the Gullah Geechee Digital Project, Bergeron’s Virtual Shikoku and the Sandy Island project.

Many thanks to the conference organizers who created the perfect environment to present our projects amongst some amazing initiatives.

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Sandy Island Cultural Initiative

19 June 2019
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MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – The Sandy Island Cultural Initiative (SICI) met with the public Wednesday to discuss the preservation of the Sandy Island School.

A collaboration among the Sandy Island community, Coastal Carolina University and Brookgreen Gardens, SICI was awarded a National Park Service Civil Rights Grant of $104,000 to document and begin preservation on the Sandy Island School.

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Gullah Voices Soloists Win Folk Heritage Award

3 April 2019
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Minnie Gracie Gadson, Rosa Mae Chisolm Murray and Deacon Joseph Murray have been awarded the Jean Laney Folk Heritage Award from the SC Arts Commission for 2019. They join fellow soloist Deacon James Garfield Smalls, who won the award in 2018.

From the press release on the SC Arts Hub:

Each singer has a long and distinguished performing career, with deep roots in the praise house tradition. As a trio over the past 5 years, Voices of Gullah have performed at many events including Penn Center’s annual Heritage Days, The Original Gullah Festival, and local praise house services. Recently, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina presented the trio to seven schools in Beaufort and Jasper counties as part of their program, Reach: A Gullah Musical Journey. The singers truly enjoy singing for students and teaching the next generation their rich legacy of Gullah-Geechee spirituals. The Voices of Gullah Singers are based in St. Helena Island, S.C.

The three soloists, alongside Deacon Smalls, were featured in the Athenaeum Press CD project, Gullah: The Voice of an Island (2014). Dr. Eric Crawford spurred the nomination to garner recognition of the important work this group is doing in keeping the “old songs” alive.

See a clip of their performance below from the CD launch in 2014:

Athenaeum Press Partner in Awarded Archives Grant

15 December 2018
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Coastal Carolina University’s Athenaeum Press and Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies have been awarded an Access to Historic Records Major Initiatives grant from the National Archives and Records Administration ($270,327). This grant will assist in developing a centralized resources for digitized Gullah Geechee-related records and ephemera. The grant will run until Spring 2021.

We are working on a new website for the Gullah Geechee Digital Project. Until then, please read about the project in the following articles: