Nick Brandestini says he always wanted to tell the story of a community with a rich history when he met the late Cornelia Walker Bailey.
“I met her, and her and family, and Cornelia and I got along immediately,” said Brandestini.
Bailey, a direct descendant of enslaved West Africans, was a storyteller, writer and historian.
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