Trident Technical College

Rapid regional environmental and demographic changes threaten the cultural traditions and memory of the Lowcountry area between Wilmington, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida. Trident Technical College Library and the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will respond to these threats by establishing a Lowcountry Foodways Project to document the African, Caribbean, English, French, and Native American roots of the region’s food-related traditions. This one-year planning project will include recruiting additional partners, conducting oral history interviews, identifying and assessing relevant archival collections of primary sources, and building a database of materials suitable for digitization in an anticipated future project.