Nick Brandestini says he always wanted to tell the story of a community with a rich history when he met the late Cornelia Walker Bailey.
“I met her, and her and family, and Cornelia and I got along immediately,” said Brandestini.
Bailey, a direct descendant of enslaved West Africans, was a storyteller, writer and historian.
Before her passing in 2017, her life’s work focused on preserving the Gullah-Geechee culture of Sapelo Island.
Sapelo is said to be the last remaining bastion of the Saltwater Geechee people in the state of Georgia.
