Cole and Charisma’s guide to all this is Kitty Green, founder of St. Helena-based Gullah-N-Geechie Mahn Tours. Kitty is a vision, her fabulous floral jumpsuit fluttering in tandem with the Spanish moss overhead as, one after the other, she takes Cole and Charisma into her warm embrace. (“I don’t mind hugging a handsome man,” Kitty flirts as she circles her arms around Cole, setting the tone for the next few hours: equal parts spirited and serious.)
Over the course of decades, Kitty has traveled throughout the African diaspora, collecting oral histories before they were lost, including those of St. Helena’s Gullah elders. Though Kitty grew up in Ohio, she married a man from St. Helena, igniting her passion for the island and, eventually, leading her to discover her own Gullah roots.
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