![]() ![]() ![]() "I remember my mom turning little or nothing into a wonderful meal, with everybody licking their fingers." And we didn't miss what we didn't have," she said. They lived without television, in a place where a trip to the grocery store meant hitching a ride on a neighbor's boat. "People shared what we had," she said, "whether it was fish, or a sweet potato, everyone could have some." Robinson, who visited The Water is Wide set to watch a young actress play her as a girl, has written a cookbook about the foods of her childhood in Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way. The book later became the 1974 movie Conrack starring Jon Voight, and another rendition, filmed in and around Wilmington, is on its way to the small screen. ![]() Conroy introduced thousands of readers to the culture with The Water is Wide, a novel about his experiences teaching at the school that year. Robinson said the few hundred residents "were connected in a way, we were a community like I haven't been a part of since." One of the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, Daufuskie is one of a handful of islands that is home to the Gullah culture, where you can hear a unique language blending African dialects and Old English. ![]() In 1969, Sallie Ann Robinson was one of 18 students whom novelist-to-be Pat Conroy taught in a two-room schoolhouse on Daufuskie Island. ![]()
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