Ashley Alston, left, of Designs by Sandra Heyward of Mount Pleasant, gets ready to work on a sweetgrass basket during the fourth annual Gullah/Geechee Seafood Festival held Oct. 22 in the Martin Luther King Park on St. Helena Island. Photo by Bob Sofaly.
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