Penn Center finally got to host the Road To Redempion play Sunday afternoon at Frissell Hall. The historic play dealing with the early days of Penn Center and its culture was postponed earlier in the year due of COVID-19 concerns. But the show must go on, and school children from St. Helena Island schools took on the parts of leading community leaders throughout the years since the original Penn School was opened in 1862. Antoine Patrick, center, portrays Hastings Gantt. Gantt sold to Penn Center, in 1862, the original 50 acres of land on which Penn School was built to help educate recently freed enslaved people. Bob Sofaly/The Island News
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