It has been one year since hundreds of people gathered in Sapelo Island in Georgia for a cultural celebration of the Gullah Geechee community. That’s when tragedy struck at the visitors center dock.
Without warning, a gangway collapsed, and about 20 people waiting for a ferry to the island, about 70 miles south of Savannah, plunged into the water at the west end of Doboy Sound.
Four of the seven who died Oct. 19 were from Jacksonville: Jacqueline Crews Carter, 75; Cynthia Gibbs, 74; Carlotta McIntosh, 93; and Isaiah Thomas, 79. Also killed were Charles Houston, 77, of Darien, Georgia; Queen Welch, 76, of Atlanta; and William Johnson Jr., 73, also of Atlanta…