PAUL M. PRESSLY was the director of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance from 2005–2017; he now serves as director emeritus. He also provides leadership on special projects related to the future u...view morePAUL M. PRESSLY was the director of the Ossabaw Island Education Alliance from 2005–2017; he now serves as director emeritus. He also provides leadership on special projects related to the future use of Ossabaw Island and on collaboration with K-12 and university institutions to provide educational programming. Pressly is coeditor of Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast and African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee. He is the author of On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World (all Georgia).view less