Faces of the Lowcountry
Glennie Tarbox
"The folks that head shrimp for us, they’re mostly Gullah culture and if you didn’t know what they were talking about, you couldn’t understand them. But I think they’re losing...I think the Gullah culture and the Geechee culture is all being lost because of television."
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No trip to the South Carolina Tidelands would be complete without trying the seafood, a staple of the Georgetown diet. Glennie Tarbox has owned and operated Independence Seafood market since taking over the business from his father. After almost 50 shrimping seasons, and surviving multiple hurricanes, Tarbox knows a thing or two about the sea...And offers plenty of insights on the changes Georgetown has undergone during the years he's lived here.