The Athenaeum Press, in collaboration with Eric Crawford, began collecting oral histories of Sandy Island residents in 2017. This initiative is still ongoing, and dovetails with the rehabilitation of the 1932 Sandy Island School. Themes of the oral histories involve living in one of the last communities not connected by boat, and the relationship that individual islanders have with their history. The work involved in producing At Low Tide: Voices of Sandy Island (2015) turns our attention to such stories of self-determinacy culture and the materialization of plantation labor. Such collections provide context to Gullah Geechee history.