Sights & SoundsGrayson Chesser and Robie Marsh, Jr.
The Eastern Shore of Virginia, a narrow peninsula stretching roughly seventy-five miles between the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay, has long been a veritable hotbed of decoy-carving masters. The …
Sights & SoundsAudrey Hash Ham and Carl Powers
There is perhaps no sound more associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains than that of a bow gliding across the strings of a fiddle. While much attention has been focused …
Sights & SoundsFlory Jagoda and Susan Gaeta
When the Sephardic Jews were forced into exile from Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth century, many settled in other Mediterranean countries but preserved their native language, called Ladino. Flory …
Sights & SoundsC. Marshall Cofer and Rebecca Austin
C. Marshall Cofer and Rebecca Austin work with draft horses. Photo by Morgan Miller/Virginia Folklife Program. Long before the majority of agricultural life became mechanized, farmers relied on draft horses …
Sights & SoundsThe Paschall Brothers
Hampton Roads, the growing metropolitan area at the convergence of the James River, Atlantic Ocean, and the Chesapeake Bay, produced more than two hundred a cappella gospel quartets in the …
Sights & SoundsJohn Rinehart and Don Fitzgerald
Ever since the automobile has been mass produced by the assembly lines of Detroit, it has been revised, altered, elaborated, and reconstructed in small garages and car shops throughout America. …
Sights & SoundsKinney Rorrer and Jeremy Stephens
Kinney Rorrer is considered the premiere scholar and performer of the three-finger banjo style first popularized by the great “North Carolina Rambler,” Charlie Poole. “Three-finger” banjo playing consists of deftly …
Sights & SoundsWilliam Rogers and Amin Ghaderi
William Rogers uses a coal-fired forge, an anvil, and some time-tested hand tools to perpetuate the centuries-old skill of blacksmithing. Exposed to the craft at an early age, William recalls …
