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Audio and text excerpt from an interview with Carolyn Driedger where she discusses souvenir tee shirts sold at the time of the eruption and her difficulty in wearing one in light of the resulting loss of life and scale of the destruction. Duration…

Audio and text excerpt from an interview with Vermont farmers Bruce Hennessy and Beth Whiting of Huntington, VT where they discuss the cost of land and the need to expand their operation. Recording duration: 2:47.

Audio and text excerpt of an interview with John Budke and Alysa Hall where Alysa Hall describes learning about the eruption while her family lived in Germany, seeing the dramatic changes to Mount St. Helens when they returned to Washington, and…

Video and text from interview with Kenny Booker and John Alexander for the National Visionary Leadership Project discussing the rumor surrounding the events leading up to the destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921 Tulsa Race…

Video and text from interview with Joe Burns, O.G. Clark, Mrs. G.E. Jackson for the National Visionary Leadership Project discussing the events leading up to and early communication during the destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921…

Video and text of Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier.

Seminole artist Pedro Zepeda uses a curved tool called an adze to carve the inside of a canoe.

Cory Osceola and a white woman examine Seminole patchwork at Musa Isle, 1927.

Nancy Billings embroidered the names of each bride and groom married under this chuppah on leaves made from fabric.

This chuppah made by Nancy Billings hangs from the ceiling of HistoryMiami Museum's Folklife Gallery as it would over a bride and groom on their wedding day. The chuppah was displayed as part of a temporary exhibit featuring Nancy's pieces.