The second part of our interview with Mr. Griffin Lotson brings us to our final episode of season two. Mr. Lotson continues his story about Kumbaya. Discussed in this episode, Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes and its connection to Mr. Lotson's story about Kumbaya as well as the infamous Old Man Thorpe father to my third great grandmother Ethel "Effie" Proctor. He also shares how he became the manager of the nationally acclaimed Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters.
Image: Du Bois, W. E. B. The Georgia Negro Darien, McIntosh Co., Ga. Distribution of Negro inhabitants. Georgia Paris Darien France, ca. 1900. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013650364/.
