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Sam Doyle was born near Frogmore, South Carolina, on St. Helena
Island, a fairly remote place that for generations was traditionally
a black island. The lore of Doyle's forebearers and the incidents of
his own youth are still vivid in his paintings and drawings, done in
enamel paint of sheet metal. They depict the islanders of Doyle's own
life; Dr. Buzzard, the island's richest black and a voodoo doctor,
who received his inspiration by listening in a conch shell; WeWe,
also known as Le Bit, the smallest woman on the island; Miss Full
Back ("I named her that because of her shape," Doyle explains);
Reverend Catchit ("You catch it from him on Sunday") and Try Me
("That's what she said, 'Try me'").
