‘I ain’t goin nowhere’: Gullah Geechee people fight off developers with a historic referendum

A citizen referendum, only the second of its kind in Georgia history, seeks to block a zoning amendmentIre Gene Grovner stood behind his house on a recent morning, between chicken pens on one side and rows of winter collard greens on the other, holding a knife and skinning a raccoon splayed across a wood post.“The meat is good roasted,” Grovner said. He pointed to the collards, a burst of green in the winter cold, a…