Most of Sapelo Island is a wildlife preserve owned by the state: bright white beaches, wide-open salt marsh and giant live oak trees with Spanish moss hanging down.
The ferry to the island mostly carries visitors on day trips with cameras and binoculars and backpacks.
But a few dozen people live here in one of the largest remaining Gullah-Geechee communities in the country. Joseph Hall was raised on Sapelo and lives in the community of Hog Hammock. Like many people, he left the island for school, then work. He moved back about ten years ago.
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