Tabby Times – Fall 2024
This issue featured an article about the Yamasee tribe. Like many of Dataw’s current residents, the Yamasee Indians were migrants to Beaufort, South Carolina. download
Tabby Times – Spring 2024
This issue featured an article about the legacy of the bateau. Dataw is an island surrounded by other sea islands. In the early days of colonial settlement, the only way to travel from one island to the next island was by boat. download
History 3-2-1 (2025-02-18)
3 Images, 2 Moments, 1 Memory Three Images of History The CSS Virginia and USS Monitor were not the first ironclad warships but the first ironclads to battle against one…
History 3-2-1 (2025-01-03)
3 Images, 2 Moments, 1 Memory Three Images of History Two Moments in History Moment 1—Joel Roberts Poinsett: The Man Behind the Christmas Poinsettia and His South Carolina Connections The…
History 3-2-1 (2024-12-16)
3 Images, 2 Moments, 1 Memory Three Images of History Two Moments in History Moment 1—December 16, 1773 In Boston Harbor, Patriot leader Samuel Adams, along with about 60 members…
History 3-2-1 (2024-11-19)
3 Images, 2 Moments, 1 Memory Three Images of History Two Moments in History Moment 1—November 7, 1860 Word of Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency reached South Carolina. You…
History 3-2-1 (2024-11-08)
3 Images, 2 Moments, 1 Memory Three Images of History Two Moments in History Moment 1—1939 Puerto Rico In 1939, 500 rhesus monkeys from India were shipped to an island…
Songs from a Sea Island Plantation
The music of the Antebellum Era expressed the feelings of the two classes of people on Sea Island Plantations: the white plantation owners and the enslaved people. Listen to their…
Oyster Roast
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TIDES OF TIME: NAVIGATING 40 YEARS ON DATAW ISLAND
Part of Dataw’s 40th Anniversary celebration events. PANEL DISCUSSIONS COVERING OUR FOUR DECADES (1980s to 2010s.)