"There's No Hiding Place Down There" at the Portsmouth Maritime Music Festival September 2022\. Headliner with the most fabulous David Coffin.

The thing I especially love about sea music festivals is everybody singing along.

Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival

Performance at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Feb 24, 2023

  
Did you know that Central Park is also an African Burial Ground?

  
Seneca Village was a Black town in NYC created in 1825, from 82nd to 89th St and between 7th and 8th Ave. The African Methodist Episcopalian Zion Church, which was downtown in what is now Tribeca, purchased some of the first lots there for burying purposes. Seneca Village grew into a thriving community of 255 residents, 3 churches, 2 schools and three cemeteries before it was destroyed in 1857 to build Central Park.

  
So when you go there, 'You Better Mind' to remember the ancestors.

  
For more info about Seneca Village, there’s “Before Central Park” by Sara Cedar Miller and many other in print and online sources. And don’t forget to go see the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s wondrous Seneca Village Afro-Futuristic Period Room!

You Better Mind - Intro to Seneca Village

What a fabulous experience we had at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Feb 24 & 25 celebrating the free Black community of Seneca Village (1825-1857). It boasted 250 residents, 3 churches, 55 homes, a school, gardens and cemeteries before it was destroyed to make space for NYC's Central Park via eminent domain. 

If you have not visited the Met’s Seneca Village Afro-Futuristic Period Room yet, in person or digitally, you’re in for a treat! 

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/afrofuturist-period-room
  
  
Jane Feldman - photos

Keith Johnston - photos

Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Live at The Met Edition

An extraordinary true story about Joseph Keene, his heavily pregnant wife Nelly and their 7 children ages 3-15, who traveled 150 miles in a canoe to escape slavery. Good Friday 1831.

  
We Freed Ourselves From Slavery.

  
Read more maritime freedom stories in: 'Sailing To Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad' Timothy D Walker ed. Univ of Mass Press, 2021

  
Music: Vienna Carroll and the Folk "I Know I Been Changed" Stay tuned for February Release!

  
Art: AVeach

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