Jonas Gadson Recalls his St Helena Childhood and his Marvelous Mother.mp3
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.
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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.