Happy Birthday to the handsome man profiling in the dark shirt—that’s our father Andrew J. Rodrigues, J.D., co-founder of the Gullah Museum. He would have been 90 years old today. He was a brilliant speaker, researcher, amateur historian, and Gullah Geechee culture warrior. This is one of my favorite photos of him sitting with my mother and their friends on Cape Cod in the early 1960s. Daddy was a Roxbury boy from Boston—if you know you know—but he came down to South Carolina on a track scholarship in the 1950s, fell in love with Vermelle “Bunny” Smith, and the rest is history. They moved to Boston after graduation, and had the first of four girls. Bunny was a high school home economics teacher, while he worked as a chemist for the FDA, but that wasn’t where his heart was. He went to night school at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. This photo is a moment in time in a life well lived—we miss him, his dry New England wit, and the way he looked over his glasses at us when he was about to use it.