Preserving the Stories of America

Using only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum, César Newashish, a 67 year old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve demonstrates how to build a canoe the "old" way.

In Search of Finah Misa Kule chronicles the quest of poet Kewulay Kamara to reconstitute an ancient epic handed down in his family.

Carolina Hash starts with establishing as fact the myth that hash-popularity ends at the South Carolina borders. We learn that right across the state line in North Carolina, barbecue customers and...

John Forshee was born about 1883 and died in 1974 at Cincinnatus, NY. He was a third generation tinsmith and he was filmed in 1973, using his grandfather's patented tinsmithing tools.

Handmade examines the white oak basketry tradition in Cannon County, Tennessee, and the evolution of baskets from utilitarian gathering vessels to intricate, prized, works of folk art.