Queen Quet, Chiefess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, speaks with a festivalgoer during the annual Lands End Woodland River Festival on St. Helena Island on Saturday, Aug. 31. The two-day festival celebrates the ancestry of the 47 Gullah families who together purchased 328 acres of land at Lands End on St. Helena Island in the 1920s. Asa Aarons/The Island News
Lands End Woodland River Festival
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