"You done heard it the way we know it, sitting on our porches and shelling June peas, quieting the midnight cough of a baby, taking apart the engine of a car--you done heard it without a single living soul really saying a word" (Naylor 10).

Hilton Head Island is more that just another town growing by the sea. It is an island that has a past similar to a place Gloria Naylor writes about in her book Mama Day; this place I'm talking about is called Willow Springs. Hilton Head is a modern evolution, an island that is ever concerned with preserving the fertile land and the beauty, which was fought for long ago. The island that Gloria Naylor writes about, Willow Springs is neither a part of Georgia or South Carolina. It was an island that was uniformly inhabited by descendents of slaves and is uniquely set apart...