- Good night, only rained for a little while but really warm and humid,
able to put the air on with only a few sprinkles thru out the night,
lots of rocking and rolling, wasn't sure if my head would let me walk in
the morning. Guess I'm still not completely over it. Took the
courtesy car this morning went driving thru downtown historical
Beaufort, South Carolina, beautiful antebellum homes along the water. We
also thru a Beaufort National Cemetery which was huge, very
impressive with all white marble head stones of soldiers who had served
in
multiple wars. Next to it was a local cemetery that was in very much
disrepair. Went to St. Helena Island to see the Penn Center, place
where they had first started a school for the slave children. Laura
Towne from Mass. came here with another gal just for a few years as a
Missionary with the Unitarian church, ending up staying here for 20 plus
years, dying here. It is one of the cultural centers sharing their
Gulla/Geechee African heritage. This is a place where Martin Luther
King frequented to study and relax, it was also one of the few places in
the 60's where whites and blacks could meet for conferences peacefully
together. Other places called them communists for meeting. It was also
said this is the place where Martin Luther King started writing his
speech "I have a dream". At the Penn Center they taught typical
classroom lessons for 4 hours but in the afternoon they taught
vocational skills, men were taught blacksmithing and
carpenters,mechanical repairs. Women were taught, canning, gardening,
making quilts and basket making with sweet grass. When the slaves were
freed, they were given land to the family, not just to one person, so
they had someone come in and teach them how to keep their land or sell
it. Basic education was started here for the slaves. Harriet Tubman
came here also. She had been a spy, nurse and guerrila fighter. Must
have been quite a lady. The Penn Center was put on the National
Registry of Historic Landmarks for what they did instead of for the
buildings which is very very unusually. We then had lunch at a Gulla
Resturant, really good BBQ chicken leg and thigh along with potato
salad, different flavors but good, Curt had fresh caught Breaded Shark
Strips with potato salad and the best corn bread I've ever tasted. For
desert we had to try the Sweet Potato by with the Sweet tea and Swamp
tea. We told the waitress to tell Mr. Bill, it was the best cornbread
and meal we've had in a long time. She said the Low Country food is
always good, we agreed. We went on down the road to Hunting Island Park
to see the Lighthouse and walk the marsh boardwalk but decided we didn't
have enough time, hopefully tomorrow. Currently sitting out on the
covered patio at the marina with the rain and lightening around us.
Bugs started to bite.
Historic Beaufort, driveways were very scenic
Lots of houses for sale, but looking down the street was beautiful
The ceilings of all the porch ceilings were painted baby blue, rest was white
Can you find the Red Cardinal, second one we saw, love the tree trunk, above and below
Love the wreath on the door
A marsh and back water
Just kept taking pictures of all the grave stones, unbelievable, so amazing this many have served in the military to give us freedom and this is only one cemetary in the U.S.
The headstones kept on going, lots of shorter unmarked stones
It was very beautiful to look across the evenly spaced headstones.
Front entrance
Gulla Restaurant
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