tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61658885285854011962024-03-05T03:45:00.419-08:00More than a GeecheeKitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10266936323096080508noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-52946183611231691512013-07-17T16:42:00.000-07:002013-07-17T16:58:33.945-07:00Stand Your Ground in mi birthplace <br />
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In the wake of the God awful verdict of Trayvon Martin's 2nd degree trial, there's a few things we (South Carolinians) must know. All too often we are unaware of our rights, state laws and more importantly...how these laws work for us or against us. Many times it's not that the privileged or empowered is cheating us but more so they know how the laws work and the loop holes. We have to learn to play chess instead of checkers. Get off the freakin sidelines! No doubt race, money, privilege and connections play a BIG part in the "have/have nots" but, we can definitely be smarter, read more, second guess authority, vote (and not just big elections), research, ask questions, get involved, run for office, google, document....You get my drift. I bun too sad but not surprised when I saw SC on the list of 24 states that has the SYG law. So my beloved geechee fam I'm posting some info to at least get the wheels turning. </div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Gun laws in South Carolina</b> regulate the sale, possession, and use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Firearm">firearms</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammunition" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Ammunition">ammunition</a> in the state of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> in the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NRA_1-0" style="unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_South_Carolina#cite_note-NRA-1" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LCPGV_2-0" style="unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_South_Carolina#cite_note-LCPGV-2" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[2]</a></sup></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Permit to purchase required?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Firearm registration?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Owner license required?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carry permits issued?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">South Carolina is a "shall issue" state for concealed carry.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Open carry permitted?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">State preemption of local restrictions?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Assault weapon" law?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Magazine Capacity Restriction?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NFA weapons restricted?</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Possession of automatic firearms (made before May of 1986), short-barreled shotguns, or short-barreled rifles, like Silencers/suppressors, DD's, AOW's are allowed if registered properly with the ATF.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">South Carolina is a "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_issue#Shall-Issue" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Shall issue">shall issue</a>" concealed carry permit state. No permit is required to purchase rifles, shotguns, or handguns. South Carolina also has "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Doctrine" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Castle Doctrine">Castle Doctrine</a>" legal protection of the use of deadly force against intruders into one's home, business, or car.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_South_Carolina#cite_note-3" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></sup> It is unlawful to carry a firearm onto private or public school property or into any publicly owned building except interstate rest areas without express permission. Open carry is not allowed, but no permit is required to carry a loaded handgun in the console or glove compartment of a car. As of September 12, 2008, states with which South Carolina has reciprocity are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_South_Carolina#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_South_Carolina#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">South Carolina law also now supports a "stand your ground" philosophy under the "Protection of Persons and Property Act" <a class="external text" href="http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t16c011.php" rel="nofollow">SECTION 16-11-440(C)</a> with the following language. The act was apparently ruled non-retroactive in State v. Dickey.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_South_Carolina#cite_note-6" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></sup></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in another place where he has a right to be, including, but not limited to, his place of business, has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to himself or another person or to prevent the commission of a violent crime as defined in Section 16–1–60.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">South Carolina also has the “alter-ego” clause with respect to the defense of others, under which a person who uses deadly force to defend a friend, relative or bystander will be allowed the benefit of the plea of self-defense if that plea would have been available to the person requiring assistance if they had been the one who used deadly force. In other words, the person intervening is deemed to “stand in the shoes” of the person on whose behalf he is intervening. If that individual “had the right to defend himself, then the intervening party is also protected by that right. To claim self defense, a person has to be in a place they have a legal right to be, not be involved in any illegal activity, must not have started the confrontation, and must be in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm.</span></div>
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<span class="st"><br /></span>Shalawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05177737527683165888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-14212230013119854112013-04-05T10:16:00.002-07:002013-04-05T10:16:50.237-07:00Growing up Gullah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I miss my home its in my heart. I came across this video the other day and wanted to give my own version of how I grew up. Let's start with the cooking<br />
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<b>We cook differently than other people</b>. I remember the first time my mother cooked potato salad for people here in GA they kept asking how did you cook this. My mom (may she RIP) never gave me her recipe but I know she used many different flavors including 2 kinds of milk and 2 kinds of eggs. We ate sardines.....let that marinate for a second. I am talking about the ones in the can where you peel the top back. The staple for breakfast in our house was grits and sardine for breakfast. Y'all remember the bones in them I hated that part but omg the sardines and grits yes. We are known for shrimp and grits but so many people have taken that and ran with it so I am not going to touch it. Something else we eat with our grits is liver. It gotta be calf liver though not that tough beef liver my mom did tell me that. What foods did you have that were staples in your gullah home?<br />
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<b>We help each other</b>. Where I am from if we like you we help you if we don't well you will know. Everything I have is from my people geechee people. I seem to can only connect to them for some reason. I guess growing up I know my people so we have a lot in common. I can relate to what we saying, I can relate to what we eating, I can relate to our heritage. Where I am from it's not what you know its who you know. I can go down to Charleston right now and get a job within a week whereas here in GA I have been looking for a job for 3 years and have found none yet. If you have met a geechee person that has not helped you that means they don't like you.<br />
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<b>Tough Parenting.</b> Our parents are tough. My hubs always say I don't mess with y'all geechee parents you all don't play. I admit my mom didn't I am not as strict as she was on me but I am strict. She was a tough cookie I remember having to go get switches off the tree, that leather brown belt....was readily available for me. My mom was tough but it taught me lessons that life is tougher than she will ever be. She prepared me for life I think that's one of the reasons life doesn't get to me as much.<br />
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What do you remember about growing up Gullah? If you didn't grow up Gullah tell us how you grew up in your neck of the woods? <br />
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<br />Kitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10266936323096080508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-44536745106450063342013-03-13T07:02:00.001-07:002013-03-13T07:02:14.915-07:00Give she a red wun<br />
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O'please Geechee family don't leave me hanging on disya wun! Who remember chilly bears? Bae bae lookya I bun the chilly bear queen of 'merica street heah! I loved the red (cherry) wun and the yella (lemonade) wun. My chilly bear lady stayed in Reed st housing (I may not have the name exactly right), God bless ee heart I can't call her name and I'm shame because many a day she put her futs under our dinner table and broke bread with us. Anyhow, she would bring a whole carton of 'em soon as she knew I bun home. That bun the best treat ever! I stayed in the freeza. Who knew little Dixie cups filled with kool aid would bring a child so much joy. My cousins and I would destroy a carton full in a day or two. I'm sure other places in the sowt have something similar but just call them by a different name, but if ya Geechee and from chasstun then you ONLY knoh 'em by chilly bears. What I would give now to hear Miss Ma'am yell shru mi screen door "chillee beah" and we come a flyin down the stairs. Then when I/we got old enough we would walk our lil boonkys right on up the street and get our chillee beahs ourselves. Just another fond memory growing up geechee.</div>
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<br />A ring shout is a </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">religious ritual, used by African slaves, to</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">declare a oneness to God, call out to the ancestors, and to speak to each other</span>. It's a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;">counterclockwise
dance-like movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion
consisting of hand claps, and a stick beating the rhythm on</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> the ground or</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;">the</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> floor. </span><br style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;" />
<br style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ring shout was often performed after the slave owner's Christian service. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;">I</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t is said that the Gullah/Geechee,</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> of Georgia and South Carolina, ring shouters made a circle around th</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> church building</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Often times, the slaves went into the woods at night to perform shouts, for hours,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> until they were exhausted. </span></span><br style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;" />
<br style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A ring shout is performed when a songster begins or sets a song starting off slow, then speeds up the tempo. The singers, or basers answers the songster in a call-and response. There is a stick-man, who sits next to the songster, will beat a simple rhythm with a wood stick, sometimes a broom, the basers will use hand clapping and foot patting to add rhythm. </span></span><br style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;" />
<br style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;">The earliest known records of the ring shout are </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;">circa 1840. Today, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;">the shouting that i</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s done in some churches come from the ring shout. </span></span><br style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 13px;" />
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<br />Shalawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05177737527683165888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-81626489455726735922013-02-23T09:54:00.001-08:002013-02-23T10:12:30.041-08:00Njoy sum Geechee Black Histree Munt you tubes<br />
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QUEEN QUET/GULLAH NAYSHUN is such a great solid resource for geechee culture old and new! There's is so much of mi own culture and histree I still don't know (sighs) but I gwan ta lurn. Hunna gwan knoh the ins & outs of mi culture wun dey. Gud ting bun I'm intertwined simplee cus I bun born an dud alodda raysun, with boat sides of mi famalee bein frum chasstun...I literally have NO immediate famalee (like most charlestonians) from another part of da sowt so mi geechee ties, despite me living in Cali for years are strong up heah! I'm so proud to be a geechee gal but I'm seeing dares alot I must lurn...I godda go deepa!!!<br />
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If on twitter follow @moregeechee and @geechie101 (she tweets in authentic geechee language). Alot of fun!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01265639666709976736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-68632407622893181932013-02-04T12:10:00.000-08:002013-05-21T09:54:49.410-07:00Every Geechee should be aware...<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0607_wiregullah.html">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0607_wiregullah.html</a><br />
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Please read the above link. It's a devastating truth. How blessed we are that with the World Wide Web and other technology we have been able to keep our heritage/culture alive, but I feel like the Gullah nation is on life support. Thank God for soldiers like Queen Quet and a few others that has put in their all to preserve our history. Young Gullah Nation STAND UP!!!!!<br />
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Credit goes to National Geographic News<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01265639666709976736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-78814873030434220072013-02-03T11:30:00.000-08:002013-02-03T11:30:00.901-08:00Help a Geechee OutHey Geechee Fam!<br />
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A member of our Geechee Family is collecting hygiene products, healthy snacks, and puzzle books for Luvkits! The Luvkits will be handed out on Valentine's Day to Charleston, SC area hospitals, to bring a little comfort to those who are visiting love ones in the hospital. </div>
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Please have contributions to the above address by February 7, 2013. If you aren't able to collect, and send items you can donate to <b>service@geechiegurl.org</b>.</div>
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Shalawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05177737527683165888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-22451532993781690972013-01-23T18:39:00.002-08:002013-01-23T18:39:47.684-08:00King Street Being from Charleston, SC their are a lot of places to see and a lot of places to visit. Most cities have that one street that everyone knows about well in Charleston we have that kind of street. The name of the street is called King Street. It's a long street with a lot of stores before I get to some of the stores let me give you a break down of what I remember about King Street<br />
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I grew up in the 80's going into Charleston was always beautiful. My mom would go downtown often. I would always notice that their was a white side of King Street and then their was a black side. On the black side you would see stores like (forgive my spelling it's been a long time since I have been down there) leon's variety store where I got my first ears pierced and my mom bought endless stockings from there with the designs. Bluestiens where every man from Charleston has shopped for that colorful Easter suit. On the white side you had the Talbot Company where a lot of rich white people would go in and buy fancy digs for work. You also had brooks brother where they sold nice clothes that my mom use to make because she worked in a factory that made the pants. I had heard talk about how black people don't cross the white side and vice versa but my mom being the dare devil that she was took me into talbot company for the first time when I was around 8 or 9. I remember it clearly the white people seemed like they stopped what they were doing and just stared at us. My mom went right in and browsed some sweaters and asked a sale lady if they had a certain size. The lady helped us and my mom ended up buying the sweater. Some years later my mom was able to obtain a Talbot card and that became her favorite store she even sent all of her friends in there to shop. Now I don't know if black people ever went in the store before but this was the experience I had when we first went in. <br />
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Through the years King street has grown when I got to high school their was a pizza joint downtown that we would <strike>skip school</strike> to visit and to this day they are the best pizza I have had. I don't know if any of the stores are still there but I sure do miss that King Street. Last time I was home their were many new stores even my favorite firehouse subs. What do you remember about King street?<br />
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Simmons was born June 9, 1912 on Daniel's Island, South Carolina. Mr. Simmons lived
on the island with his grandparents until he was 8 years old. He
was then sent to live with his mother in the city of Charleston. At the age of
13, Mr. Simmons began to apprentice under a blacksmith by the name of Peter
Simmons (no relation), a former slave. After a 5 year apprenticeship, at
the age of 18 Mr. Simmons became a full blacksmith. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"></span></span></div>
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Mr. Simmons began his 77 year career</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> making simple things such as horseshoes. His first
commissioned work was for Jack Krawcheck, during WWII, where he had to use
scrap iron to make a gate because wartime materials requirements made it impossible
to get iron. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr. Simmons created all types of ironwork including fences, gates,
balconies, fireplace pokers, and various<span style="font-size: small;"> tools. </span>Much of his work can be seen in
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Philip Simmons has been awarded the National Heritage Fellowship from
the National Endowment of the Arts, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the
South Carolina General Assembly, the Order of the Palmetto, and the Elizabeth
O'Neill Verner Governor's Award. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Mr. Simmons has been in</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">ducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Mr. Simmons’ work has
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Mr. Simmons, </span><span style="color: black;">after retiring</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>from blacksmithing, continued to teach his craft</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">until he was no longer able. Philip Simmons died June 22,
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">To learn more about<span style="font-size: small;"> Mr. Simmons visit: <a href="http://www.philipsimmons.us/index.html" target="_blank">Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Biography: <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charleston Blacksmith, The Work of Philips Simmons by John Michael Vlach</span></span></div>
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<li>The gazebo at the Charleston International Airport</li>
<li>Gates outside the Charleston Vistors Center</li>
<li>The egret gates at Waterfront Park</li>
<li>The Gadsden house gate at 329 East Bay St.</li>
<li>The gate at 2 st. Michael’s Alley</li>
<li>The railings and window grilles at 45 Meeting St.</li>
<li>The heart gates at St. John’s Reformed Episcopal Church at 91 Anson St.</li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">One of the evil spirits that the <a href="http://moregeechee.blogspot.com/2012/12/blue-bottle-tree.html" target="_blank">blue bottle tree<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">is</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> believed to trap is the Plat<span style="font-size: small;"><b>-</b></span>eye. The </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span 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style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span 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style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: 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style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">ye has been described a</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span 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black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">s the <span style="font-size: small;">unsettled spirit of a person wronged while alive, or who wasn't bur<span style="font-size: small;">ied properly, or with<span style="font-size: small;">out any care. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span><b><span 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The Plat-eye can take the form of animals, or the spirit form of the recently deceased. There are times that the plat-eye has no shape, it's just mist, which is said to be freezing and suffocating. The plat<span style="font-size: small;">-</span>eye can also be invisible except for glowing, fiery eyes. If you are haunted by a Plat<span style="font-size: small;">-</span>eye that is in human, or animal form, it is said to have front teeth, but no back teeth. If the plat-eye isn't in the form of an animal, or human </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">it has one large eye</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> that is the size of a plate, hence the name. This is said to be the plat-eye truest form. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The unsettled haint, mostly hunt the people who have done them wrong while they were alive, or the people who buried them incorrectly. The plat-eye is so vengeful that it's said that it torments a person until they go insane, or until they die. Some are even said to be able to suck the souls out of their hunted.T<span style="font-size: small;">o get rid of a plat-eye you have to either bury a person correctly, or right the w<span style="font-size: small;">rong t<span style="font-size: small;">hat you have done to the offen<span style="font-size: small;">ded, somehow. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">T<span style="font-size: small;">hough you should treat people with care, and respect, not to worry <b>SOME</b> say that the plat-eye only lurk<span style="font-size: small;">s</span> around swamps, and old rice fields. </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
Shalawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05177737527683165888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-19221244106284911312012-12-30T10:26:00.001-08:002012-12-30T10:28:18.975-08:00What's that you say about the 'Old Slave Mart'<br />
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<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">When I was a kid I always tripped out when granny and I would ride by the old slave mart. She would always get a little more silent when riding by. She would always patiently answer my many questions. "Granny did they slaves live there?, Where are the slaves now, Did you know the slaves, Why didn't they just run, Why were white people so mean, Did the mommies find their babies?" And the questions continued until life, ancestor recants and education collided (not public education either). </span><br />
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As a child I just couldn't grasp that ACTUALLY happened and my great greats and my great Grandma Alice who was still living at that time experienced such devastation. My Grandma Alice would suck ee teet and say "all dishea uz a slave mart! Disya jus wun mr. Charlie dun forgot baby" Too much for a free brown child to truly grasp. Even more deep that there was/is a tangible substance right there. It was almost like the "mommy where is God" question and next thing you know mommy is saying "just know God is here and real" i.e. please be quiet baby and stop all the questions. Ha!<br />
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Charleston has many remnants of slavery and the horror of the old south. I honestly believe what we call hauntings are really our ancestors' spirits whispering to us so that we live in forward motion, but never sever our roots. As each generation is born and raised, whether you are in Charleston, SC, Georgia, Virginia or any parts of the south and/or USA, whether you are geechee/Gullah and/or just salt of the earth people we have to teach the younger ones how real that era was and why some of the discussions and fights continue with black folks today. </div>
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Anyhoo, I challenge you in 2013, to do something to get closer to your history/roots. Many of you have raw history just a phone call away. All these holidays, family dinners and reunions can be the juice you need. I guarantee you once you start asking questions, the next thing you know you are knee deep in history and on the phone or Internet with <a href="http://www.ancenstry.com/" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">www.ancenstry.com</a>. Go for it my people and share your findings with people of all races! Django shouldn't be the rut (root) of 20th & 21st century learnings for non African Americans. It may be a great talking point but not the RUT.</div>
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My people, let's get these janky #%*#?! politicians out of office. Trust when I say, they will listen and change their views once you tell them "I am not voting for you sir/ma'am because you do not have my community's best interest in mind buh bye!" Go to city council meetings and donate to renovations of our historical buildings, libraries etc. We need our grand and great grand babies to have resources and not pictures in a book to know the who, what, where and whys. Especially my beloved Gullah people.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01265639666709976736noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-39053392908089560472012-12-12T06:55:00.000-08:002012-12-17T06:45:46.191-08:00Tracing our orgins <br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I use to hear stories about the Bermuda triangle growing up and wondered why my grandmother would always talk about Bermuda. As I got older I discovered that some of our ancestors may have come from there. Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean located off the East Coast of the United States. It is said that our ancestors were taken from Bermuda and brought the United States as slaves and that's where part of our accent comes from. In the seventy-five years from the beginning of the 18th century to the
declaration of independence, more than forty percent of the Africans
arriving in the British North Americans Colonies were quarantined and
processed in coastal islands off Georgia and South Carolina.We were brought here with our ancestry in tack with our traditions and story telling ways. Researching our history starts with us tracing our history and knowing who our ancestors were and how did we end up on the coast lines of South Carolina. A great place to start our research would be <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/" target="_blank">Ancestry.com </a>and to talk to some of the older people in your family. Knowing where we come from is important so that we can answer questions like where did we develop our accent, why do we love rice so much, why are we so strong and different than regular African Americans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I started researching my history a couple of years ago but I got stuck in the early 1900's. I guess with no records being kept it was hard to trace where we come from. For my family I know that my great great grandmother was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania she never came down south nor was she born a slave now her mother was but escaped north before she was born. When I did my research it seems that my great great great grandmother was a slave and she originally came from the Bermudas. Now was she originally brought here on the slave ships I have no idea but I do know that she was of Bermuda origins. I know her first name but don't know her last and can't find any records beyond what I know. Most of my info came from my grandmother before she passed. As a young girl she would tell me stories but when she got older she got Alzheimer's so the stories and history stopped. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Now my grandfather I was able to trace him a few years back pretty good and discovered his father was an Indian. Now I know most of us have family that say they are part Indian and I do give the side eye but my great grandfather was a true indian and married a black women and they had my grandfather. I thought that was interesting considering my grandfather did have that good hair lol. </span><br />
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Kitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10266936323096080508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-82758685710739914062012-12-09T10:39:00.000-08:002012-12-09T10:39:12.594-08:00 Blue Bottle Tree<div style="text-align: center;">
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It is so true that if that's all you know it seems normal. Chile I eat rice with most things southern. Let's see we have red rice, okra & rice, greens & rice...RICE RICE RICE. So of course here in California when I would eat at other folks home I always asked "where's the rice" a brief silence would fall then they would say "o' we don't eat rice with this or that". Ha! And Hunna look at them just as fool as they would look at me. Check this out, once I became a fixture in my husband's family, mind you a traditional Alabama southern family it would kill them how I made a small pot of white rice for our southern feast...funny thing though, everyone I've introduced to the idea has lalalalaluved it! Now listen...I get it. In a society where we clearly understand white bread, white rice, white sugar WHITE WHITE WHITE is a big no no.... I guess thats payback because black cat, black magic...you get it? Usually anything black is associated with negativity so now its the color white turn (teehee). Anyhoo, I blv all things in moderation is fine and this is why, brown rice is uuuuggghhhhhh! Baaaaaby nature can keep she brown rice!!!! I've tried it every whicha way and I'm sorry it taste like bark and tree leaves with a dash of dirt (yep I said it)! Don't you dare ruin my fine southern Gullah cuisines with y'all's brown rice...</div>
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Now just to give you a lil background on how tightly bound we (geechee people) are to rice, in the 1700s white plantation owners promptly paid more for Afrikaans from west Africa in the rice growing regions like Sierra Leone. In fact west Afrikaans were the largest group imported into South Carolina and Georgia coastlines. Also Gullah people are direct descendants of true Afrikkan rice laborers. Truly RICE intertwines Gullah people and the people of Sierra Leone together just like white on rice (pun intended). American colonists (da white people) figured out quickly that rice grew well in moist areas and the southern coastlines, specifically South Carolina was perfect rice land due to its semi tropical earth. Dem boy bun smart. I guess when you have to eat you rather know how to plant food rather than wait on someone to feed ya! </div>
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Anyway I love seeing portraits with women carrying woven baskets on their heads, baby on their back and a Gullah song on ee lip thinking about how good their rice wus gonna go with the scraps given to them, which is now considered a southern cuisine (side eye) and/or the fruits of their own labor (what little they had). Our sea islands are truly the 'salt of the earth'. I couldn't be apart if a better culture/people. The more I learn the more in love I become. We deep init? </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01265639666709976736noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-58643332290664832182012-11-27T20:26:00.000-08:002012-11-27T20:26:11.429-08:00SeafoodCharleston, SC is where some of the Geechee people live. We love rice but something else that we love just as much as we love rice is our seafood. Growing up I was surrounded by water so it was natural that we caught our own seafood or bought them from docks instead of the grocery store. I remember Friday's being flounder and red rice day. Flounder came fresh from the docks right from the waters we live around. There is nothing like fresh seafood and the taste is very different. Crab boils were a staple with corn and sausage mixed in and don't let me speak about the shrimp we use to eat like they were candy.<br />
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It's so hard to find good seafood if you live inland. I am now living right outside of Atlanta,GA and I can ever find that fresh seafood. Sure the stores have them but they just don't taste the same. I am so use to my seafood being fresh and from the coast that I just am not satisfied. The best place to find seafood when you live inland is the farmers market. They have the best blue crabs and they are the only place I can find flounder not the filet kind but the one with the skin on it.<br />
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Flounder and red rice<br />
Seafood lasagna<br />
Po Boys<br />
Lowcountry Gumbo<br />
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<br />Kitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10266936323096080508noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-67419440548832455172012-11-18T09:04:00.000-08:002012-11-18T09:04:58.420-08:00Georgetown GhostsGeorgetown is recognized as the third oldest city in South Carolina,
though this is argued as the Spanish settled the area in the early 16<sup>th</sup> century, thus making it one of the oldest cities in the New World. If you are from Charleston, SC you have know we refer to Georgetown as the Ghost town because there are many stories of Ghosts that still linger. I will tell you one of my favorites the rest you can find at <a href="http://southernspiritguide.blogspot.com/2011/08/ghosts-of-georgetown-south-carolina.html">http://southernspiritguide.blogspot.com/2011/08/ghosts-of-georgetown-south-carolina.html</a><br />
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the oldest homes in Georgetown, the Cleland House was built in 1737 and
has seen a whole panoply of American history, some of it even passing
over its thresholds. Among the notable visitors to this house are German
Generals von Steuben and de Kalb; French General Gilbert de Motier,
Marquis de Lafayette, who all aided the Continental Army during the
American Revolution, and American Vice President Aaron Burr. The home
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story. Anne Withers, possibly related to John Withers who is listed on
the historical marker in front of the house as one of the owners, had
fallen in love with a dashing sea captain. After one of his voyages he
returned to Georgetown and presented his fiancée, Anne, with a rare
gift, an ancient Egyptian bracelet. The bracelet featured a series of
scarabs, stylistic representations of dung beetles which symbolize the
heavenly cycle of life. The blushing bride saved the bracelet to wear
with her wedding dress. On her wedding day, she placed the bracelet on
her wrist and carried on with her other preparations. Just as she was
about to descend the staircase, the bride let out a scream and
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her family rushed to her side, blood was dripping from underneath the
bracelet. When it was removed, the scarabs were found to have tiny legs
that had dug into the bride’s pale flesh. The heartbroken sea captain
left Georgetown soon after and in London had the bracelet examined by a
chemist. The chemist discovered that the legs on the scarabs had been
rigged to open by the warmth from human skin and each leg contained
poison that would be injected into the hapless victim. He surmised the
bracelet had been made to afflict the person who stole the artifact from
a tomb. Ever since Anne Withers’ wedding day death, her form, still
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Kitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10266936323096080508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-23418222106757684792012-11-14T16:40:00.000-08:002012-11-14T16:40:33.157-08:00Gullah/Geechee Folklore: Boo Hag<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Geechee Folklore: Boo Hag<br />
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The Geechee/Gullah people are full of beliefs and traditions. One of those beliefs is of the legend of the Boo Hag. The Boo Hag is an evil spirit that uses someone's skin to move among people unnoticed. Without the stolen skin, The Boo Hag is red,and is very warm to the touch. Once night falls, they shed, and hide the skin. Boo Hags are said to hide their skin under porch steps, and under beds.</span></span> Boo Hags can enter a person's house through the smallest of openings. Once the Boo Hag is inside they sit on the victim's chest and steals their breath. This is known as "ridin'". Boo Hag doesn't kill the person that they ride, because it can come back over, and over again to steal the person's breath, which is how it sustains itself. The Boo Hag rides it's victim all night, and before the sun comes up the Boo Hag has to return to it's skin because it can't survive without skin in the daytime. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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(Side note) please see the importance of education. Now ABSOLUTELY NO DISRESPECT to the wonderful Ms. Jenkins she grew up in a much different time and her circumstances were on a level that the vast majority of us would not ever be able to understand. However, a family member made it very clear that the lack of a basic education was a key component to her not EVER voting until now. So def know how a lack of a basic education can hold you back from your privileges and/or rights!</div>
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Ok back to the good stuff...What a treat to be able to live your last days seeing the 1st AA president get voted in and contributing to his re-election!!!!! That's what I'm talking about Ms. Jenkins I want to ride it out with a bang bang bang bang! God has spared her a long life to vote, still has a smile on her face, and all her faculties at least as much as you are going to have at 108 years old. My grandpa is 94years old and I love and handle him with so much TLC because of his journey and how it beat him up but never broke him. That's something we will probably never see again in our people. They just don't make them like that no more! So kudos, prayer & blessings, horn blowers, hugs and kisses to all our elderly who have participated in our election process whether it's your 1st time or 80th you are the reason OBAMA is POTUS... </div>
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Ahhhh let's see...Charleston, SC, beautiful cobblestone streets, historical, stature, strong southern ties and of course the original home of the Gullah people in the unites states. AND HOME TO ONE OF THE UGLIEST, BORING, UNEVENTFUL, SMALL AIRPORTS (sigh) LOL!</div>
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I have been through CHS airport enough to have a room there, but considering Charleston is one of the top tourist vacation spots and not too shabby on the ideal place to retire for some, also Charleston and most surrounding cities and counties have loot...you knoh moolah, slave money, that green, old money, chedda shall keep going or you got it?. Our airport should be state of the art! So needless to say I bun too happy when jet blue started flying there because they are truly a really nice airline and CHS deserves some upgrades and jet blue was a nice touch. </div>
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Moving on, so how excited I bun when I read about the 150,000,000 well deserved airport renovations!!!!! Whoohooooo!!!! They even had a groundbreaking ceremony and everyTing. The State representative Chip Limehouse stated, and I quote "it's a final piece of the puzzle missing from a world class city" . I mean come on...this long overdue. This is not old sowt tis uz definitely NEW sowt. And as air travel increases people are spending way more time and money in the sky, and Americans are spoiled, cheap and bourgeois (even tho' bourgeois just means middle class) we want champagne travel on a beer budget lol! I go into some airports and dang near don't want to leave. I should've just bun an air waitress aka flight attendant because I love everyting bowt traveling especially flying. I truly get a high soon as mi foots enter any airport. And I'm not the only wun that shares that high, on any given day at any given airport it will reflect my belief. </div>
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Now to bring luxury, beauty, amenities, organization to a well deserved city/county deserves an applause (and the crowd roarrrrrrrs). ok, I'm not crazy enough to think that I will not be paying the cost somewhere in all of this but if I'm going to pay make it well worth it. And my experience has always bun the bigger the airport like a LAX actually comes with lower fees. I tend to believe it is a fact because it's no wonder big airports stay busier and my ticket is always 50-100$ cheaper so driving an extra 20-30 min to LAX rather than paying for the convenience of going to the 2 smaller/private airports closer to me is worth it for me and mines. Mr. Limehouse went on to say "the goal is to be a #1 airport". WOW so befitting for CHS. </div>
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Now most my people are still down south, majority still in West Ashley, Mt. Pleasant and Charleston so they very well drive whenever they're going to GA, NC, NY etc. but the few of us that are spread out take enjoyment in flying coast to coast. To be able to shop (and not just for a rusty coffee mug, overpriced t-shirt or an outdated dusty book) and to be able to dine from a sports bar to fine dining is so great, because let's face it layovers and delayed flights are apart of flying just like wudda and eh it will be so nice to make it an experience in mi own hometown. So I vote yes! I believe money well spent. </div>
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of the many things that the Gullah/Geechee brought over with them from Africa was
the benne seed, more commonly know as the sesame seed. Using this seed,
slaves would often make a thin cookie called the benne wafer. The Gullah/Geechee
people believe eating benne wafers bring good luck.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3/4 cup butter </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 1/2 cups brown sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 eggs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1/2 cup sesame seeds</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> RED RICE in ee pot!</b></span><br />
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Who knew adding tomato paste to white rice a lil
bacon and link sausage oh and occasionally shrump (you fancy huh?) would
turn into such a delicious meal? I'll tell you who knew...geechee
people knew!!! Stand up (in my Ludacris voice). It's funny when I
explain it here in Cali they sum it up to Spanish rice. Well no
disrespect to my Spanish brothers and sisters but uhhhhhh I ain neva
tasted Spanish rice like disya. Oh and did I mention the steamer we
have been known to swear by from the ace hardware sto'. Don't worry
we'll pick that back up later. <br />
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Anyhoo, I can remember my granny
Florence closing the kitchen door (yessss the original chasstun homes
had doors to their kitchens) I would peek in and see that steamer going
and that cast iron frying up that fush and she would shro in some string
beans. Boi ya tawkin bout gud? Dasum gud eatin richea. All the
seasonings blend together sooooo gud. Fortunately I come from a family
where dey wus all great cooks! I guess you had to be because eat out
food was not lunch or dinner it was a treat. Something you got every
now & again. Like getting out of Ebenezer AME mid week church
service late (because I stayed up in church) so you got church's
chicken to go with ya leftovers. Oh shux where was I...that's right red
rice! Anyway chile, that's still a staple in my household. Even tho' I
never think it taste as gud as my elders and mi fush never fry up right
but it mainly comes from mi heart...yassssssum the heart of a geechee
gal<br />
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*there is a slight difference between me & mi elders. I
exercise 30min a day as often as possible, no less than 3-4 days a week.
Famous words of Trina Braxton "Keep it cute or put it on mute"<br />
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<pre><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Gullah/Geechee tradition the color blue is used to keep evil
spirits away. The Gullah/Geechee call those evil spirits, Haints. The
practice was brought over from Africa during the slavery. The legend
of the Haint is they can't cross water, so because slaves couldn't
build motes around their houses, they would use a watery mixture of
blue around the openings of their homes. They hoped that the blue
mixture would confuse the Haints into thinking the paint was water.
During slavery, Haint Blue was made in pits, dug in the yard, using
limes, buttermilk, and indigo. The practice of using blue paint on houses still
goes on today, especially in the <span style="font-size: small;">South. </span>If you've traveled to places such as Charleston, SC or
Savannah, Ga you may have noticed that porch ceilings, shutters, and
the trim on houses are often blue. </span></span></pre>
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Shalawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05177737527683165888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165888528585401196.post-65548953452986791572012-10-17T12:42:00.000-07:002012-10-17T12:47:45.566-07:00Did Ya Know<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Did <span style="font-size: large;">Ya</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Knoh</span> </b></span><br />
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Charleston's churches (specifically AME) has it's
own clap? Yaaaaaas Lawd! Some of my fondest memories as a lil kid
runnin' round Ebenezer AME was seeing the elders mach round da church
with this rhythmic tribal clap. They also changed every gospel song
into a soul capturing, emotional, spirit filled, rhythmic journey of a
true African worship ceremony. Now as I got older and began listening
to other styles of gospel music (especially in Cali. They don't know
nothing bout what I'm talking about right now) I realized that the
rhythm is very much connected to slavery, pain, tradition and ancestors that has
transitioned on in victory and triumph. Yes. true worshup. However,
rejoice because it keeps you connected to ya ruts heah! And lookya,
the way the barritones, altos, dem 1st, 2nd and 3rd sopranos blend all
together was a sound to be heard! See it came from somewhere only the
soul could Feel. Now, if you don't have an eah for it then it sounds
like an ol' chitlin circuit group (no disrespect). Liken it to the
chain gangs. If you listen long enough you feel some kind of way
hearing those men repetitive chants inbetween that hammer come smashing down.
Sometimes here in SoCal I will begin a worship within a worship and do
the 'Charleston clap' I was raised on--teeheehee. It keeps me close to
home...</div>
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I want the younger generations and those who are
non-geechee to grasp and understand the POWER in the clap. The elders
held on to it because it spoke loudly about the way 'Africans now
Americans' chose to worshup the God they were introduced to as JESUS!
Like with food, language and movement the geechee people held on tight
with their spiritual hands and created the closet thread to African
culture here in the Carolinas. And I'm thankful for it! I know it's
probably yet another dying tradition, but I lalalalaluv it! We have to
start preserving our history geechee family. <a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:moregeechee@blogspot.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">moregeechee@blogspot</span>.com</a> is adding to that. Another resource for ya. Lookya as our elders are
transitioning we have to be able to hold on to God's unchanging clap! </div>
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Read more about it at</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: blue;"> </span></u><span style="color: blue;">reuters.com</span>>go to news>charleston clap (by Harriet Mcleod)</b></span></div>
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