Palmetto Straw

I’m between the Carolinas, the Chesapeake and Liberia; Documenting regional culture and Blogging about my roots

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Free Africans on Virginia’s Eastern Shore

NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography

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Fun fact about my blog name : Palmetto leaves is one of the materials used in making Sweetgeass baskets and used in making hats in the Southeast/ Lowcountry. Palmetto trees are my favorite tree 💚.

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Grebo "War dancer". Half Graway, Maryland County, Liberia. 1978

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Grebo “War Dances”. Half Graway, Maryland County, Liberia. 1978.

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Campbell's Pond park for African Americans.

Cheraw State Park, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States

Cheraw is one of the small towns in South Carolina my family is from. It sits near the border of South Carolina and North Carolina. I had a friend who called people from the area part of my family is from "border hoppers" and when doing my own genealogical research it’s very true. Many people in the area including some of my family were back and forth between Anson County, NC and Chesterfield and Marlboro Counties in SC .