United States, Georgia, McIntosh County, Sapelo Island, 31.39745, -81.278711945/2017Cornelia Bailey gathers silver grass and life everlasting, an herb used by her grandfather to make medicinal tea, on Sapelo Island. Bailey received a 2004 Governor's Award in the Humanities for her efforts to preserve the island's Geechee culture.Photograph of Cornelia Bailey gathering silver grass and life everlasting, an herb used by her grandfather to make medicinal tea, on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Bailey received a 2004 Governor's Award in the Humanities for her efforts to preserve the island's Geechee culture.As a member of the last generation of African Americans born and educated on Sapelo Island, Cornelia Bailey as become one of Georgia's most vocal defenders of her homeland and its African American heritage.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cornelia-bailey-b-1945Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/cornelia-bailey-b-1945Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaAfrican American authors--Georgia--Sapelo IslandAfrican American women authors--Georgia--Sapelo IslandHerbs--Therapeutic use--Georgia--Sapelo IslandGullah women--Georgia--Sapelo IslandGullahs--Georgia--Sapelo IslandHerbs--Georgia--Sapelo IslandAuthors, American--Georgia--Sapelo IslandWomen authors, American--Georgia--Sapelo IslandBailey, CorneliaCornelia BaileyStillImage