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Corey Alston works every day to keep the Gullah traditions and experience alive. He is a fifth-generation sweetgrass weaver, but he is also a Gullah expert, giving seminars and tours in South ...
Corey Alston, the former South Bay city manager who resigned amid a corruption scandal more than a decade ago, pleaded guilty on Monday to his role in a scheme that defrauded Medicare, in which ...
Yes. “We stretch from Jacksonville, Florida to Jacksonville, North Carolina,” said fifth-generation sweetgrass weaver and Gullah Geechee cultural historian Corey Alston. “We're direct descendants of ...
Corey Alston's message to the millions of visitors who come to Charleston every year is simple. "If you miss the cultures of any travels, you didn't do yourself just due." ...
And the decline is beginning to worry weavers like Corey Alston. “Sweetgrass is very hard to find today, and it’s so hard to find because we don’t have land masses in the tri-county.
Do Gullah people still exist? Yes. “We stretch from Jacksonville, Florida to Jacksonville, North Carolina,” said fifth-generation sweetgrass weaver and Gullah Geechee cultural historian Corey Alston. ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Gullah Geechee community is an integral part of South Carolina. The Gullah are an African American group who live in the Lowcountry part of the Southeast, especially the ...
Yes. “We stretch from Jacksonville, Florida to Jacksonville, North Carolina,” said fifth-generation sweetgrass weaver and Gullah Geechee cultural historian Corey Alston.