Johnny Mercer learned many life lessons during his childhood visits to Pin Point, near his family’s Vernon View home. Pin Point is a little fishing village along an estuary south of Savannah , near the Bethesda orphanage. Freed slaves founded the rural settlement after the American Civil War.
It is one mile wide and a mile and a half long, and has been accessible by paved roads for some years. The small, predominantly African-American community has a well-established community of Gullah speakers, a dialect that draws heavily from West African languages.
The crab pickers in the Pin Point community will treat Savannah schoolchildren to a videotaped storytelling and impromptu a capella folk singing.
All eyes know is dat,`I don't here where us helluns came from,but I doos know we aint leavin here.We iz Ossebaw. And I'm de TallyWacker.
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