Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. “She had this beautiful quilt draped on her couch that ... See more
Lancelot Gumbs sits beside a large wooden frame drum. Animal hide is stretched over the rim. Gumbs reflects on the drum’s importance in his life.
He’s played since he was about nine years old. Its rhythms, he says, are “almost otherworldly.”
When drumming... See more
It’s a chilly morning in New Hampshire as several hundred people gather at the edge of the Connecticut River. A fog hovers over the water. Slowly, out of the mist, shapes emerge – canoes gliding toward shore, rocking gently as singing begins. The canoe do... See more
It’s a chilly morning in New Hampshire as several hundred people gather at the edge of the Connecticut River.
A fog hovers over the water. Slowly, out of the mist, shapes emerge – canoes gliding toward shore, rocking gently as singing begins.
The canoe do... See more
Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend.
And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery.
“She had this beautiful quilt draped on her couch that ... See more
