Perry White

When I grew up, the whites didn’t have any private schools. The public schools were theirs. For us in the higher grades, we were all at private schools.

At a certain time of the year, you would just scoop up the turkeys, and crate them off to Savannah, and you could sell there at the market. The fishermen sold a lot of fish at the market in Savannah.

The residents of the Black community were former slaves, who literally survived here from the time they were brought into slavery, to freedom, up till today. The ancestors are still here from those slaves.

Many of the residents here were sailors, who actually use sailboats not for pleasure, but working boats. They transported produce to the market in Savannah from this island by sailboats.

We had men here who they referred to pretty much as herb doctors. Those people would go out into the woods, they would extract certain roots, they would boil them, and they would come up with some interesting medicines.

Our role models were well-behaved, generally hard-working, achieving people. That’s the thought that I’m having about all of this foolishness, and people not caring, and not trying, and not wanting to do things, just being lazy.