Sapelo Island Cultural Day

Linked to Geechee and Gullah Culture

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Singers perform during the Sapelo Island Cultural Day, held each October on the island. The festival celebrates the songs, stories, dances, and food of the Geechee and Gullah culture, which developed on the Sea Islands among enslaved West Africans between 1750 and 1865.

Photograph by Jennifer Cruse Sanders

Sapelo Island Cultural Day

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