ST. HELENA ISLAND – When Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling learned that a group of soccer players maimed in Sierra Leone’s recent civil war was planning to visit here,

Instead, Keyserling helped organize an event Thursday at Penn Center that reinforced the cultural ties between the West African nation and the Gullah community of South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

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