Virginia s Tangier Island is seeing its land disappear in the face of climate change -and its fate could suggest how other threatened U.S. coastal islands may fare
TANGIER ISLAND, Virginia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - James "Ooker" Eskridge's family - like those of many of his neighbors - has lived on this isolated
Virginia s Tangier Island is seeing its land disappear in the face of climate change -and its fate could suggest how other threatened U.S. coastal islands may fare
Virginia s Tangier Island is seeing its land disappear in the face of climate change -and its fate could suggest how other threatened U.S. coastal islands may fare
Grant will allow Lexington author to share the extraordinary stories of ordinary people in Davidson County
Everyone has a story worth telling and preserving, according to local author Tonya Lanier.
And thanks to a $1,194 grant from ArtsGreensboro and The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Lanier will be able to tell the stories of 20 more African-American residents age 70 or older in a new book, Lost in the Shuffle .Too: More Stories That Need to be Told.
Sitting in the living rooms and around the kitchen table of Davidson County residents, Lanier does a simple task so many people in our busy world don t have time to do anymore she listens. In those visits, she learns about people like Inez Pruitt, a Lexington woman who with no formal education who raised three of her own children and approximately 90 foster children.