On 2018-03-10 1:26 PM, cshenk wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:

>> Sure it is. We're not cut off from the rest of the world. LOL My
>> point is, the culture on Tybee isn't Creole... it's Gullah. That's
>> all I meant. Sure, it's available. It's too bad he didn't stock up.
>> He and his wife drove down from Canada. One of the things they could
>> have done was buy some stuff. He asked me about grits. I suggested
>> he buy some and take them back. Don't know if he did.
>>
>> Jill
>
> I'm with ya. Tybee was that island with mostly west african extraction
> and pretty isolated right?

It may possibly have been at some time in the past. I saw few black
people there.

It was interesting to go to Wormsloe and see the remains of the
original settlement and to learn some of the history of Georgia. It was
founded by James Oglethorpe and was planned as an agrarian society with
family farms and no slavery. A shortage of labour caused the colony to
fail, so they lifted the ban on slavery.

Tybee would have been a difficult place to thrive. It is one of a number
of barrier islands surrounded by a huge salt marsh. Travel to the
mainland would have been tediously slow.