Sunday, November 18, 2007

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.

Friday, November 2, 2007

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’.”