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Bunny Rodrigues’ Quilts Preserving Georgetown’s Gullah Heritage
Vermelle “Bunny” Rodrigues grew up when Gullah Geechee kids were shamed for their language. Yet she turned that pain into art.
Born in Georgetown in 1938, Bunny later made her first story quilt while living in Pennsylvania. After coming home in the mid-1990s, she opened a shop that grew into the Gullah Museum of Georgetown by 2014.
Her quilts told how enslaved West Africans, brought for their rice-growing skills, built South Carolina’s wealth by creating 236,000 acres of rice fields…