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Hilton Head Island
resort town in South Carolina, USA
cornbread
Cornbread is a quick bread made with cornmeal, popular in the cuisine of the Southern United States, with origins in Native American cuisine. It is an example of batter bread. Dumplings and pancakes made with finely ground cornmeal are staple foods of the Hopi people in Arizona. The Hidatsa people of the Upper Midwest call baked cornbread naktsi, while the Choctaw people of the Southeast call it bvnaha. The Cherokee and Seneca tribes enrich the basic batter, adding chestnuts, sunflower seeds, apples, or berries, and sometimes combine it with beans or potatoes. Modern versions of cornbread are
Gullah
creole language spoken by the Gullah people in US
Afro-Seminole Creole
English-based creole
Kumbaya
"Kum ba yah" ("Come by here") is an African-American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans. Originally an appeal to God to come to the aid of those in need, the song is thought to have spread from the islands to other Southern states and the North, as well as to other places outside the United States.
okra soup
soup made from the green seed pods of the okra plant
Eulonia
unincorporated community in McIntosh County, Georgia, United States
Saint Helena Island
island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
folk song
South Carolina Lowcountry
geographic and cultural region located along South Carolina's coast
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
film
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
national park in South Carolina