(Part 1 of 6) Intro - Georgia's Rich Maritime History
[1:14] Immerse yourself in breathtaking photography and the intricacies of nature! This is a six (6) part film that airs at the Coastal Georgia Historical Society's Maritime Museum in St. Simon's Island, Georgia. The film is introduced and emceed by Ollie and The Professor, two fictional, animated characters who share this beautiful and fascinating study of all the natural wonders of Georgia's barrier islands. The film highlights both the Natural History and the US Coast Guard History along Georgia's Golden Isles. Sit back and enjoy!
(Part 4 of 6) Coast Guard History - Georgia's Rich Maritime History
[6:18] Immerse yourself in breathtaking photography and the intricacies of nature! This is a six (6) part film that airs at the Coastal Georgia Historical Society's Maritime Museum in St. Simon's Island, Georgia. The film is introduced and emceed by Ollie and The Professor, two fictional, animated characters who share this beautiful and fascinating study of all the natural wonders of Georgia's barrier islands. The film highlights both the Natural History and the US Coast Guard History along Georgia's Golden Isles. Sit back and enjoy!
Georgia Coast FlyOut
Flight from north of Atlanta down to St Simon's and Jekyll Islands along the Georgia coast in October of 2010. Both islands have neat little airports, one catering more or less to the jetset and the other being a simple little airstrip.
City of Brunswick IN DEPTH - Historic Oak Grove
Join City Manager Jim Drumm as he talks with members of the Historic Oak Grove Cemetery Society. Join us as we discover the history of Oak Grove Cemetery and the people who made such a difference in our community years ago. uWatch this informative show here online, or on TV during the month of June, on Comcast Channel 98, Golden Isles TV.
Cumberland Sound Florida and Georgia-First Coast Boating Destination
Jacksonville Marine Association Video Gallery boatjax.com presents boating destination of Cumberland Sound. This boating area is described in detail with aerial views and narration. Various activities, anchorages, places to go are given for the south beach area and west coast of Cumberland Island as well as beach access to north Amelia Island and Fort Clinch State Park. Additional information and aerial views are provided about boating to the historic town of St Marys by way of Cumberland Sound and St Marys River.
St. Marys | Hometown Georgia
Life in St. Marys as told through the people who call this town home.
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Jekyll Island Georgia 2016
Featuring the serenity and history of Jekyll Island and The Westin and The Club Hotel in association with The Georgia Golf Trail.
Sea Island, Georgia
Sea Island is an unincorporated area of Glynn County, Georgia, and is part of the Golden Isles of Georgia, including Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island, and Little St. Simons Island. The seaside island is located along the Atlantic Coast near Historic Brunswick, and is a well-visited resort island. Sea Island Acquisitions, LLC owns the island, operating two resorts, limiting most public access. The island sits about 60 miles north of Jacksonville, FL and about 60 miles south of Savannah, GA. The surrounding marshland, through which visitors are able to drive, was immortalized in 'The Marshes of Glynn' by Sidney Lanier in 1878.
Sea Island houses three well-visited resorts, the Sea Island Beach Club, The Cloister, and The Lodge each operated by Sea Island Acquisitions. The Beach Club and the Cloister are located across the street from one another, connected by a roundabout in the middle of Sea Island Dr., Sea Island's main connecting road. The Beach Club lies by the ocean-side, providing visitors who sit on the beach with accommodations and access to pool areas. The resort contains restaurants, a game room, an ice cream shop, a bar, and two pools. The Cloister sits south-west on the island along the Black Banks River and functions as the main hotel of the resort island, containing restaurants, several hotel rooms, a spa, tennis and squash courts, an exercise facility, and is home to the only Forbes Five Star restaurant in the state of Georgia, The Georgian Room. Sea Island Acquisitions also owns property on St. Simon's Island, including a shooting school, and three other golf courses.The Lodge, commonly referred to as The Golfer's Paradise is located on St. Simons Island and is the home of two of three golf courses the company owns, Plantation and Seaside. The third golf course is located at the residential community Sea Island owns known as Retreat. The Lodge has been host to the newly formed golf tournament The McGladery Classic, for the past five years.
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CoastFest
Georgia's largest celebration of our state's coastal natural resources is ready to take center stage! CoastFest takes place at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources/Coastal Regional headquarters annually the first Saturday in October from 10 am ‘til 4pm. Over 70 interactive environmental, educational and resource organizations from around the southeast will offer visitors a chance to learn about Georgia's coastal resources and have some fun at the same time.
At CoastFest you can put your hands into the touch tanks ..learn boating safety ...learn to kayak ...take part in living history demonstrations ...watch cannon firings ... see the CoastFest student art contest entries ...hold live snakes or an alligator ...learn about oyster habitat restoration ...try your hand at archery ...tour the US Coast Guard boats ...walk up to a bull moose, a bear, an elk, a wolf….and much, much more!!!
Coastfest is located at the Department of Natural Resources/Coastal Regional Headquarters in Brunswick at One Conservation Way on Highway 17 South (just north of the Sidney Lanier Bridge) and is made possible by the Georgia Coastal Management Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
For more CoastFest information call DNR/CRD at (912) 264-7218
Georgia enters the Union 1788
Georgia votes to ratify the U.S. Constitution, becoming the fourth state in the modern United States.
Named after King George II, Georgia was first settled by Europeans in 1733, when a group of British
debtors led by English philanthropist James E. Oglethorpe traveled up the Savannah River and established
Georgia’s first permanent settlement–the town of Savannah. In 1742, as part of a larger conflict between
Spain and Great Britain, Oglethorpe defeated the Spanish on St. Simons Island in Georgia, effectively
ending Spanish claims to the territory of Georgia.
St. Catherines | Georgia Outdoors
On this episode of Georgia Outdoors; explore a Madagascan lemur colony, the oldest known church in Georgia, and discover a looming threat that could put all their research at risk on St. Catherines Island.
For more episodes and specials, visit our website at gpb.org/television/shows/georgia-outdoors
St Catherine's Island
Royce Hayes, head of the St. Catherine's Island Foundation gives an enlightened talk about the history and current state of this beautiful Georgia barrier island (about the size of Manhattan). Among other things, it is being used for the preservation of many endangered species. It is a private island continually being eroded away as the seas rise.
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Dorian moves dangerously closer to Georgia coast
Georgia's Governor Brian P. Kemp and Acting FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor hold a news conference in Atlanta Wednesday, in preparation of approaching Hurricane Dorian to the state and warn of high tides and flooding. (Sept. 4)
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Reynolds Mansion Sapelo Island Georgia
Reynolds Mansion Sapelo Island Georgia decorated for Christmas
Civil War Re-enactment - Charleston's 32nd Christmas Parade
Susie King Taylor (August 6, 1848 - October 6, 1912) was an African American army nurse; she worked with black Union troops during the Civil War. As the author of Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers, she was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences. She was also the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia.
Susie King Taylor was born enslaved on a plantation in Liberty County, Georgia on August 6, 1848, as Susan Ann Baker. When she was about seven years old, her owner allowed her to go to Savannah to live with her grandmother. Despite Georgia's harsh laws against the formal education of African Americans, she attended two secret schools taught by black women. From them she gained the rudiments of literacy, then extended her education with the help of two white youths, both of whom knowingly violated law and custom.
In April 1862, Susie Baker and many other African Americans fled to St. Simons Island, occupied at the time by Union forces. Within days her educational advantages came to the attention of army officers, who offered to obtain books for her if she would organize a school. She thereby became the first black teacher for freed African American students to work in a freely operating freedmen's school in Georgia. She taught forty children in day school and a number of adults who came to me nights, all of them so eager to learn to read, to read above anything else. She taught there until October 1862, when the island was evacuated.
While at the school on St. Simons Island, Baker married Edward King, a black noncommissioned officer in the 33rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment. For three years she moved with her husband's and brothers' regiment, serving as nurse and laundress, and teaching many of the black soldiers to read and write during their off-duty hours. In 1866 she and Edward returned to Savannah, where she established a school for the freed children. Edward King died in September 1866, a few months before the birth of their first child. In 1867 she returned to her native Liberty County to establish another school. In 1868 she again relocated to Savannah, where she continued teaching freedmen for another year and supported herself through small tuition charges, never receiving aid from the northern freedmen's aid organizations.
In the 1870s King traveled to Boston as a domestic servant of a wealthy white family. While there she met Russell L. Taylor, also a native of Georgia. She returned home to Liberty County to marry Taylor on April 20, 1879. She remained in Boston for the rest of her life, returning to the South only occasionally. After a trip to Louisiana in the 1890s to care for a dying son, she wrote her Reminiscences, which were privately published in 1902. She died ten years later. She is buried next to her second husband at Mount Hope Cemetery in Roslindale, Massachusetts.
Suggested reading
Robert C. Morris, Reading, 'Riting, and Reconstruction: The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
Slaves of the Creature From Jekyll Island
Peeling back part of the onion with G. Edward Griffin. There is only one real freedom to be found in this life.
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation Candlelight Tour
Spiritlight toured this beautiful Plantation in Brunswick, Ga during a Civil War reenactment,by candlelight,with historic tales and Christmas cookies. Go back in time with us~to the 1800's, and feel the history.
4 missing on capsized cargo ship
Four crew members remain unaccounted for after a cargo ship began listing heavily off the coast of Georgia Sunday morning, according to a news release from the US Coast Guard.
The vessel -- the 656-foot Golden Ray -- was reported to be leaning on its left side, or port side, around 2 a.m. in St. Simons Sound, Capt. John Reed, commander of the Coast Guard Sector Charleston, said at a news conference.
Crews from the Coast Guard and other agencies responded and rescued 20 of the 24 crew members before a fire on board forced them to stop, he said. The Coast Guard said the ship is carrying vehicles.
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Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
This spiritual sea shanty comes from the Georgia Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands stretching from South Carolina to northeastern Florida. More than two hundred years ago, slaves brought from Africa worked on the island's plantations. Their bone-wearying, forced labor was vital to the production of indigo, rice and cotton. Each plantation had its own boats and a crew of slaves. The only connection to the mainland was across the water. The black crews of the small boats which went back and forth were proud of the songs they made up while rowing.
Like many spirituals, Michael, Row the Boat Ashore is a song of freedom with layers of meaning. Some meanings were easily understood by the white masters. Others were known only to the slaves. Michael may have been a boat's lead oarsman, or perhaps the archangel Michael. The Jordan River was a symbol whose crossing promised milk and honey or freedom on the other side.
History of the Georgia Sea Islands
The Georgia Sea Islands are a chain of more than one hundred low, sandy, sometimes marshy islands off the coast of the southern United States. American Indians were the first inhabitants. Beginning in 1526, Spanish, French and English colonists tried to settle them but were often held off by pirates and American Indians defending their territory. By the middle 1700's the English had established a plantation agriculture dependent upon slave labor. By the early 1800's the islands had become the first important North American cotton-growing region. Its slaves were cut off for many years from regular communication with the mainland. In this isolation Gullah, the language rooted in their African pasts, survived the passage of time. Today, many Africanisms still exist in the island's music and language. Ossabaw, Sapelo, Cumberland, Jekyll and Saint Simons are Georgia's more dominant Sea Islands. Still mainland buffers, rich in plant and animal life, they offer wildlife sanctuary and support the fishing, agriculture and tourism industries. Ruins of historic forts and plantations can still be seen.
The work song Michael, Row the Boat Ashore was originally sung by slaves and was collected in 1867, shortly after the Civil War. Work songs and field hollers helped make their hard labor go a little easier and faster. The song's rhythm usually fit the type of task the slaves had to do. The musical characteristics of the slaves' work songs and spirituals later led to the development of blues and jazz in America.
Folksingers have re-discovered Michael, Row the Boat Ashore in more recent years, making it a popular song. This song and other spirituals are based on stories from the Bible, especially those about the Jewish people who were slaves of Egypt. The Biblical references in several spirituals had special meanings that helped slaves find escape routes to freedom. Moses referred to a conductor of the Underground Railroad. Egypt meant the South and the white master was referred to as Pharoah. What do you think the Promised Land meant? Yes, it was freedom.
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