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Beauty, her basket

While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.
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A net to catch time

1997
Depicts a day in the life of a boy on one of Georgia's barrier islands as sequenced by the Gullah terms for time.

Isaac and Snow

1973
A boy forms a friendship with an albino porpoise, and must eventually decide if entrusting her to the Seaquarium is the best thing for her.

The terrible, wonderful tellin' at Hog Hammock

1996
Jonas wants to keep the memory of his beloved Gullah grandfather alive by representing his family at the traditional storytelling contest, even though he feels like a nervous child trying to do a man's job.

Circle unbroken

the story of a basket and its people
2008
A grandmother tells the tale of Gullahs and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets that keep their African heritage alive.

The secret of Eyesocket Island

2007
After getting lost in the barrier islands off the coast of Georgia, a boy and girl discover that the only way they can get home is by finding Eyesocket Island, a piece of land only visible by air.

Beauty, her basket

2004
While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.

Circle unbroken

the story of a basket and its people
2004
A grandmother tells the tale of Gullahs and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets that keep their African heritage alive.
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