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Updated July 21: We first reported on this Gullah exhibit up in D.C. about a year ago, and now a year later the display is about to end. 

If you're in the D.C. area you have until Sunday to check out  "Word, Shout and Song" displays the work of "linguist and scholar Lorenzo Dow Turner, who discovered that the people of the Gullah/Geechee communities in South Carolina and Georgia spoke a distinctive language."

WSAV has a brief review of the show's coming and going.

Reported August 2010: Last week's Washington Post detailed a new Gullah exhibit going up at the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C.

The exhibit, called "Word, Shout and Song" displays the work of "linguist and scholar Lorenzo Dow Turner, who discovered that the people of the Gullah/Geechee communities in South Carolina and Georgia spoke a distinctive language."

Turner is considered the father of Gullah research.

Check out the full writeup at the Washington Post.

You also can find a pretty good photo gallery on their site.

Thank you to the Beaufort County Arts Association for passing this story along on Facebook.