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Norman Amos & John Buck: Folklife Apprentice Program participants, Norman Amos (Master Snake Cane Carver) and his apprentice John Buck. Photo by Tom Cogill.

2006 Virginia Festival of the Book Storyfest attendees. Photo by Rui (Steve) Gong.

Ofosuwa Abiola-Tamba: Folklife Apprentice Program, African Dance master. Photo by Karen Thompson.

Cephas & Wiggins: Eminent Piedmont Blues guitar and harmonica players Cephas and Wiggins. John Cephas participated in the Folklife Apprentice Program as a master of Piedmont Blues Guitar.

Buckingham Lining-Bar Gang: First organized for a project begun by the Piedmont Humanities Council, in consultation with the VFH Folklife Program, the Buckingham Lining-Bar Gang re-enacts the worksongs and skills the members used when they worked in railroad track-lining crews years ago. Photo by Sequoia Design.

Wayne Adkins: 2nd Assistant Chief of the Chickahominy Tribe. VFH is actively involved in the Virginia Indian community. Photo by Deanna Beacham.

Hannah Danielle Pierce: Selected as one of six national winners in the Letters About Literature writing competition. Photo by Tom Cogill.

Farzaneh Milani: U.Va. Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages discussed Women in Islam on With Good Reason. Photo by Andrew Wyndham.

Mike Cranford: Of the Monacan Indian Nation at a the Monocan Tribe's 2005 Fall Festival. VFH is actively involved in the Virginia Indian community. Photo by William Johns.

 

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