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Ann Timberlake introduces Conservation Voters of South Carolina (CVSC)
to GreenDrinks Beaufort program for May 2016.

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Natalie Daise reads “Israel’s Pig” by Guy Tirondola at Short Story America Sept. 22, 2012 

CityTrex.com is producing a series of podcasts and virtual tours - MP3 audio walking tours for onsite interpretation, and GPS apps for driving tours for a day trip into the undeveloped barrier islands of the Sea Island Lowcountry. 

Penn Center shows much of the core of this exploration. Agrarian life of people in rural Southern USA, not just country living but island life with an added obstacle of slavery, post-slavery, and circumstances of limited exposure to any opportunity. 

So… life was still made good by living right, being clever, and keeping on. 

Thanks to the Friends of Hunting Island for their vision to capture these real stories of the Sea Island Lowcountry in local voices. 

Jonas Gadson Recalls his St Helena Childhood and his Marvelous Mother. 

“Everything I am today I owe it to God and I owe it to my marvelous Mother,” Doctor Jonas Gadson. 

Brought to you by Friends of Hunting Island

A special treat for Mothers Day 2014. 

In this episode 

CityTrex is taking us to meet a gentleman, 

an accomplished man recalls his island childhood, a world that barely exists anymore. 

As he says, 

“”Many today consider a garden as a luxury - we grew up with fields full of food”, 

“They call it garden now, we planted to eat.”

Everything he and his family really needed was right there on the island

they grew it or caught it or hunted it. The original green, self-sustaining practices. 

The land is the Sea Island Lowcountry, and the island is St. Helena Island (the home of the Gullah culture), a barrier Island off the coast of South Carolina, 

Meet Doctor Jonas Gadson, currently a Minister with the Beaufort Church of Christ, 

A local who went to the mainland to have a career with Xerox and with Eastman Kodak, then returned home to found a church and serve his native community. 

Doctor Gadson is a gentleman that has lived the advice of his marvelous Mother, who told him  that “Manners will take you where money won’t”. 

Hear Doctor Jonas Gadson. 

He’s telling about 

- children doing farm work picking tomatoes or cucumbers because that means new shoes and school clothes.  

“Everyone wanted me to work, they knew I was a hard worker.” 

Hear him tell about one day when he got onto a good row of cucumbers and how he displayed his family love. 

He lived the African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” 

Another original voices telling authentic stories brought to you by CityTrex.com. 

Hunting Island State Park has an energetic group called FOHI 

One of their top projects is the 

Sea Turtle Conservation Project Volunteers 

the program was established in 1981 

it ranks globally among the ranks of elite sea turtle conservation 

Loggerhead Turtles are our 21st century connection to ancient reptiles

Sea turtles have been in our oceans for 145 million years, but nowadays their numbers are declining.   

Sea Turtle Conservation Project Volunteers with the Friends of Hunting Island 

stop this decline 

In 2013, volunteers located and protected 125 loggerhead nests in the six zones of the Hunting Island State Park Beach.  

about 7700 young turtles successfully hatched, assisted by our efforts. 

and that is something to be proud of!

 turtle season runs from May 

We re with two turtle talking about turtle season 

not hunting season! 

turtle nesting, turtle hatchlings, turtle eggs, walking turtle watch at sunrise on a pristine beach

CAPA proof 

Kim Poovey Fun Haunted House Downtown Bft 2 .m4a

Proof for CAPA ghost stories 

Why Blackbeard the Pirate Walks Fripp Island each Night. 

Harry tells on the Beaufort Teachers

Sally Germer, Death in a Port Royal Summer Kitchen