Since it began, Shell to Shore has partnered with Save Our Legacy Ourself helping to think about ongoing flooding issues on Sapelo Island and […]
12.11.2023
America’s Test Kitchen Podcast: The Lost Crops of Sapelo
“The Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is in a battle against time. Every year, storms, salt water, and construction threaten the land. But […]
08.26.2023
Cross-Institutional Students Support a Coastal Georgia Legacy
There was a wonderful blend of partnerships during the latest service-learning trip to Sapelo Island. The trip was the culmination of a semester of work […]
07.21.2022
How to hold back the ocean
Making Contact’s reporter Claire Reynolds interviews coastal residents, activists, and scientists about responding to sea level rise on Sapelo Island and beyond. As climate change […]
12.08.2020
New York Times Article about Sapelo Sugarcane Project
Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk On the Georgia coast, Maurice Bailey is making sugar cane syrup as a way to […]
11.24.2020
Story in The Bitter Southerner that covers Sapelo Island Sugarcane Project
Story by SHANE MITCHELL | Photographs by RINNE ALLEN (excerpt from bottom of story) The next morning, before leaving on the ferry, Maurice Bailey handed […]
10.21.2020
Article in Georgia Farmers and Consumer Market Bulletin about Sapelo Sugarcane Project
Sugarcane is the foundation of efforts to preserve, revitalize Geechee culture on Sapelo Island By Amy Carter amy.carter@agr.georgia.gov Sapelo Island was the epicenter of early […]
10.02.2019
Whitney Barr, First Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Honor Scholarship Recipient
The boat over to Sapelo Island one morning this past summer was a living cross-section of people who live, work, or visit this unique barrier […]
09.05.2018
The sinking islands of the Southern US
The rich traditions of the Gullah Geechee are at risk of being lost, threatened by what is arguably one of the most harrowing issues the […]
11.09.2017
Commentary: The legacy of Cornelia Walker Bailey, the griot of Sapelo Island
“Like most folks, I met Cornelia Walker Bailey—a dark sturdy trunk of a woman, handsome and regal—when I first set foot on the exquisite spit […]