WINDHAM Car show to benefit Make-A-Wish chapter The Seacoast Adventure “Make-A-Wish” Benefit Car Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the
Thanks to the partnership of Khmer families in Kennebunk, the Brick Store Museum welcomes Cambodian ceramic artist Yary Livan, with an exhibition of his traditional ceramics. Livan is one of only three known Master Ceramists to have survived the 1975 Khmer Rouge genocide, and the only one known to be living in the United States. […]
Like many who survived the nightmare years living under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime, Yary Livan emerged from the experience secretly carrying with him some portion of the Khmer culture’s traditional knowledge and skills that Cambodia’s new leaders were trying to violently erase in order to reset society so they could implement their version of totalitarian communism.
Like many who survived the nightmare years living under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime, Yary Livan emerged from the experience secretly carrying with him some portion of the Khmer culture’s traditional knowledge and skills that Cambodia’s new leaders were trying to violently erase in order to reset society