Gullah Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gullah Spirit write by Jonathan Green. This book was released on 2021-11-23. Gullah Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A celebration of the life and culture of the Gullah people of the South Carolina Lowcountry in 179 new paintings Jonathan Green is best known for his vibrant depictions of the Gullah life and culture established by descendants of enslaved Africans who settled between northern Florida and North Carolina during the nineteenth century. For decades, Green's vividly colored paintings and prints have captured and preserved the daily rituals and Gullah traditions of his childhood in the Lowcountry marshes of South Carolina. While Green's art continues to express the same energy, color, and deep respect for his ancestors, his techniques have evolved to feature bolder brush strokes and a use of depth and texture, all guided by his maturing artistic vision that is now more often about experiencing freedom and contentment through his art. This vision is reflected in the 179 new paintings featured in Gullah Spirit. His open and inviting images beckon the world to not only see this vanishing culture but also to embrace its truth and enduring spirit. Using both the aesthetics of his heritage and the abstraction of the human figure, Green creates an almost mythological narrative from his everyday observations of rural and urban environments. Expressed through his mastery of color, Green illuminates the challenges and beauty of work, love, belonging, and the richness of community. Angela D. Mack, executive director of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, provides a foreword. The book also includes short essays by historian Walter B. Edgar, educator Kim Cliett Long, and curator Kevin Grogan.
Talking to the Dead
Talking to the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talking to the Dead write by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Talking to the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith—which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions—and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.
Tales from Brookgreen
Tales from Brookgreen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales from Brookgreen write by Lynn Michelsohn. This book was released on 2009. Tales from Brookgreen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History, Mystery, and Romance in the Carolina Lowcountry! A haunted necklace, a trickster rabbit, an ingenious slave, a shrieking droll, and a fianc returned from the dead all come to life in Lynn Michelsohn's new collection of Carolina Lowcountry ghost stories and folklore from the four historic rice plantations making up Brookgreen GardensSouth Carolina's popular tourist attraction near Myrtle Beach. These enchanting folktales, tied to specific plantation locations and historical events, enrich the enjoyment of any visit to the Lowcountry for tourists, armchair travelers, or devotees of ghost stories and folklore. Lynn Michelsohn, a tenth generation Carolinian, is clearly drawn to history, mystery, and romance wherever she finds it, as her previous book, "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!" explores intrigues of a different kind. Now, in "Tales from Brookgreen" her charming retelling of these sometimes-eerie, sometimes-sad, sometimes-humorous tales engages readers in characters and folkways unique to the Carolina Lowcountry.
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? write by Guy Carawan. This book was released on 1994-04-01. Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors.
Honey Bea’S... Gullah Stew Fuh De Spirit
Honey Bea’S... Gullah Stew Fuh De Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honey Bea’S... Gullah Stew Fuh De Spirit write by Lornabelle Gethers. This book was released on 2014-06-16. Honey Bea’S... Gullah Stew Fuh De Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is based on collections passed through generations from my mother, Bea, my grandmother, Honey and my great-great grandmother, Maah. It shares Maahs journey from the Upcountry of Abbeville, South Carolina to the Lowcountry of Charleston and the sayings and food that fed their lives. My family loved to cook and share their meals with others and this book incorporates Honey Beas familys recipes for simple meals from days gone by and their sayings, and stories for wisdom along with the Gullah Geechie heritage. At the end, I want to encourage you to research, preserve, write and publish your own familys story.
