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Associated Press - June 5, 2009 4:15 AM ET
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) - The Gullah culture of slave descendants is being celebrated at the annual Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival.
The festival, which opens Friday at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, continues through Saturday featuring gospel groups, skits, folklore, music, drumming and, of course sweetgrass baskets.
During the festival the Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission is seeking comment on a management plan to interpret and help protect the culture threatened by rapid coastal development.
The corridor, reaching from southeastern North Carolina to northern Florida, was created by Congress three years ago.
The school where the festival is being held is on a stretch of U.S. 17 honoring the sweetgrass weavers.
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