The Sleeping Giant

“I have to work on hopes,” Wallace said of his carving. Although there are not always orders for his work, Wallace still carves daily.

The Sleeping Giant

Omelia Marshall, 89, is the mother of basket weaving on the island. Despite her age, she still manages to weave and entertain visitors.

The Sleeping Giant

Old Red Bays, once a settlement of Seminole Indians, was wiped out by a hurricane in the 1920s and is now overgrown with scrub brush and pines. Wilton Russell said that very few venture out there anymore. “’Dem bones white,” Russell said about the settlement’s founders, “but I still livin’.”