"I was determined not to lose my Gullah accent." When told she talked too fast and needed to slow down, Anita Singleton-Prather responded, "No, you need to speed up; you listen too slow."
During a recent visit to Beaufort, South Carolina, The Tourism Academy's Stephen Ekstrom got to talk with Anita from the Gullah Kinfolk Traveling Theater about her Gullah roots, finding pride in her community, and what it's like to carry on a cultural legacy.
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