Sallie Ann Robinson defies the old saw that “you can’t go home again.” In fact, Daufuskie Island, S.C., where Robinson was born in 1958 with the help of a midwife in the house that her great-grandmother, Sallie Bentley, passed on to her grandmother, Lavinia Robinson, has recovered a peace and a piece of herself she felt was missing after she moved to the “big city” of Savannah and worked as a private nurse for more than 30 years.
She left Savannah 10 years ago at the urgings of the ancestors, who, she said, called upon her. “They kept nipping at my ear and saying things like, ‘You need to go home.’”
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