“We are one, bound by the spirit of an island and Bilali the slave. Bound by high tide, fields, gossip, smoke mullet and our faith.”
Cornelia Bailey (kor-nee-lee-yah bay-lee)
story-keeper, historian
IMAGE SOURCE: Photo by Ben Gray in Sheila M. Poole,“Sapelo Island historian, community leader Cornelia Walker Bailey dies.” Atlanta Journal Constitution. 18. Oct 2017. | TEXT SOURCE: Mary Hussmann. “Life-everlasting: Nature and Culture on Sapelo Island.” Southern Cultures. Spring 2006.
QUOTE CONTEXT: “When Cornelia Bailey was a child, people grew, caught, or hunted most of their food. We had alligator dishes along with pork greens. We had game birds and shore birds . . . fish of all kinds, turtles of all kinds. We had deer, squirrel, rabbit, raccoon and possum.”
QUOTE QUESTION: What binds you to your People?
IMAGE CONTEXT: “Ms. Bailey sits on a bateau on the edge of a Sapelo Island salt marsh. This bateau is one of the two traditional hand-made Geechee boats that still survives on the island.“
IMAGE QUESTION: Where do you sit as the sun goes down and as the sun rises?
MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote and photo are from online periodicals.
MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: What are the online media sources that you trust to represent the passing of a beloved elder?
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