This series is now on its final approach.
We are about to put the landing gear down (week 50), land (week 51), and taxi to the terminal (week 52). These last three posts have a lot of variety.
- Week 50 – Listen to History. Today you’ll hear a story of recent history.
- Week 51 – An Antebellum Christmas. On December 22nd, I’ll tell you what we know about Christmas on Datha in the mid 1800s and about antebellum Christmases in general.
- Week 52 – Reflections and Resolutions. On December 29th, I’ll reflect on 2020 and talk about what comes next in 2021.
Listen to History
The recording below is of a Dataw Island resident that spent two years building the Sams Plantation House model, prominently displayed in your History & Learning Center.
This recording is a five-minute discussion between myself, Joe Roney, and Dataw resident Jerry Hubbard from 2018. We stood in the History & Learning Center and walked around the model of the Dr. Berners Barnwell Sams Plantation house as he described what it was like to spend two years (600 hours!) researching and building it. He donated it to the DHF in the Spring of 2003 and has been on display ever since.
I apologize for the audio quality. Our H&LC is a pretty live room with lots of echoing that muddies the dialogue a bit. But I assure you it is worth it to hear Jerry’s stories first-hand.
You might also be interested in this article about the model from 2003, written right after it was donated to DHF. See pages 3 and 5 in the Spring 2003 Tabby Tattler.
