Paul Pressly, PhD | 9:00 am – 4 :30 pm (check in by 8:40 am) Monday, September 29

This program is open to members only and is limited to 30 participants.

Georgia’s third largest barrier island, Ossabaw evokes eons of natural and human history. This narrated tour features Dr. Paul Pressly, founding director of the Ossabaw Education Alliance, and researcher and writer about Ossabaw, coastal Georgia, and the Atlantic world.

Program Highlights

• Ecological and historical narration during boat passage from Butter Bean Beach to Ossabaw Island
• Eighteenth-century stories of John Morel, and of Titus and other enslaved workers who sought freedom
• Guided walking tour Ossabaw’s important nineteenth-century sites, including rare tabby cabins for enslaved people
• Understanding of Ossabaw’s agricultural history in indigo and cotton
• Group lunch on Ossabaw

Paul Pressly is a historian and author of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World (2013) and A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country (2024). He is the founding director of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance.