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12:47 am on Tuesday October 16, 2012
Penn Center Heritage Days Celebration
An annual festival that recognizes the Gullah heritage and its ties to West and Central Africa as well as the Lowcountry, the the Penn Center Heritage Days Celebration occurs this year from November 8 to 10 on St. Helena Island.
The three-day event...
11:38 am on Friday March 30, 2012
Penn Center crossing the 150 year mark
Flickr user Tim Brown Architecture
Originally opened in 1862 as a school for freed slaves to learn work and trade skills, Penn Center continues on St. Helena Island as a marker and preserver of Sea Island history and tradition.
This year the school...
8:36 am on Wednesday March 28, 2012
Vandals strike Penn Center
Flickr User deltaMike
The Penn Center was the victim of over $100,000 in damage.
The Penn Center, a historical site and one of the oldest schools created for freed slaves, discovered the damage on Monday morning. The damage was caused to air...
7:26 am on Saturday July 23, 2011
Sweetgrass basket exhibition held this afternoon at Penn Center (update: A bit more on the exhibit)
Flickr user calliope
Updated July 23: Lowcountry Weekly has a much fuller profile of this exhibit, which runs through Aug. 26.
You can check it out here.
Reported July 16: The York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center will hold the debut exhibition of "...
8:00 am on Tuesday April 19, 2011
AC thieves don't stop Lowcountry Habitat from dedicating three homes
Flickr user sandialabs
Not only were a couple of air conditioner thieves not able to stop LowCountry Habitat for Humanity from dedicatiing new homes, but Habitat was able to do something it had never done before: dedicate three new homes on the same...
5:40 am on Friday April 15, 2011
Bestselling authors to be honored at gullah event
Flickr user Urban Gazelle
Pat Conroy, Roland Gardnerm and Sankofa Circle Inc. wiil be inducted into The Penn Center at 7 p.m. on May 7 at the Holiday Inn in Beaufort.
The awards are so presented to honor thier protection of the Gullah-Gechee culture...
5:19 am on Thursday April 7, 2011
County preserves 1,000 acres, including 92 acres at Penn Center
The following is a press release from Beaufort County:
Beaufort County Council saved three valuable parcels of agricultural land on St. Helena Island from future development through the County’s Rural and Critical Land Preservation Program at prices...
6:54 am on Sunday January 2, 2011
Large sweetgrass basket found on eBay stars in local museum exhibit
Flickr user Muffet
Staring in the Coastal Discovery Museum's "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art" is an 18-inch by 24-inch basket made in the early 20th century at Penn School on St. Helena Island — one that was recently purchased on...
11:17 am on Wednesday November 10, 2010
Heritage Days to return to Penn Center this week
Flickr user denseatoms
Heritage Days, a celebration of the Gullah culture, returns to St. Helena Island's Penn Center beginning Thursday.
This is the 28th installment of the annual event that brings thousands of people to the Sea Islands.
A...
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