The Way It Was: Gullahs of Hilton Head Island Try to Hold on to Their Culture
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By Janice Gaston, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--HILTON HEAD, S.C.   Late on a misty day, when the wind sighs through trees lining a deserted road and sets their beards of Spanish moss to fluttering, nature takes center stage here.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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By Kelly, Lisa  ABSTRACT  Huggins Island, a Significant Natural Heritage Area in Onslow County, North Carolina, was incorporated into Hammocks Beach State Park in 1999.
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Time never stands still, but there are some places that seem to withstand its effects better than others.
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Despite the hardships after this fall's hurricanes, the human spirit is shining through.
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Some linguists say yes, as more Northerners move south, but others see stiff resistance to 'y'all.'
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Gulf Coast natives 3 Doors Down have been trying to give Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi a "better life" for the past two years.
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By Vicki L. Friedman, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 12--SUFFOLK -- Andrew Cospelich packed a few bags a year ago for a trip to Alabama, never dreaming it would be the last time he would set foot in his house.   But home was Gulfport, Miss., devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 21--It's easy to sympathize with fishermen on Hatteras Island and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast who lament a pending rule that would limit catches of snowy grouper, a lucrative fish, and a few other species.
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By Deborah S. Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 8--In the end, the community came together to preserve its past with an eye toward the future.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Naomi Ewowo had just lost her parents when her family branded her a witch. She was 5.
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PORT BLAIR, India -- Two days after a tsunami thrashed the island where his ancestors have lived for tens of thousands of years, a lone tribesman stood naked on the beach and looked up at a hovering coast guard helicopter.
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One small town provides a snapshot of an electorate riven by tribal infighting
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Where Calusa Indians once fought off early Spanish attempts to colonize, retirees and families seeking a slower pace and a sunny, affordable climate had turned Punta Gorda, or "Broad Point," into a comfortable community along the Gulf of Mexico.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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A hip-hop style helps bring a generation gap into full view.
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By Howard W. French  Where as many 10,000 fishing boats once docked, today only a few bob in a long, serpentine harbor here still flecked with wrecks. All along the shoreline, families that only recently made a rich living from the sea stare glumly at reminders of their loss.