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Audio and text excerpt from an interview with Vermont farmer Jonathan Corcoran of Middlebury, VT where he discusses the relationship between agriculture, food and place. Recording duration 4:13.

"New York, New York. Chinese-American girl playing hopscotch with American friends outside her home in Flatbush." August 1942.

Black and white drawing by American political cartoonist George Yost Coffin (1850-1896). Image features a woman wearing stars and stripes holding a candle to a mirror on Halloween night to learn the identity of her future spouse; the face revealed in…

Interview with Clarita Filgueiras, a performer and choreographer who has spent a lifetime mastering the art of flamenco dance. Her passion for this Spanish tradition originates with her father and grandmother (both flamenco singers) and her mother,…

Carlos Gonzalez talks about Garifuna history and identity while mapping his own lineage. He describes his drum, its importance in Garifuna ceremonies, and how he fixed the instrument with the help of his great-grandfather who came to him in a dream.

Rachelson talks about when he feels “like a Miamian” which is especially when dancing salsa, at the ventanita, and every time he hears Spanish.  

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 from recorded testimony from Joe Burns as a part of the Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission survivor inquiry. Burns was a child in 1921, but shares his memories of what he heard from adults around him and what he saw from his…

Two images of a seal figurine purchsed by John Budke made out of the ash from the Mt St Helens 1980 eruption.

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…