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Jack Jouett Middle School "Houses of Wood & Straw" (HOWS) Project

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Thursdays

July 23rd until Labor Day @7pm

in Oak Grove Church

"African Tradition:

A Legacy of

Song, Dance

& Storytelling"

Fridays

July 8th until Labor Day @7pm in New Zion Church

"African Tradition:

A Legacy of

Song, Dance

& Storytelling"

April 12th, 2014

CIVIL WAR & EMANCIPATION DAY -

African-American Storytelling and Music with Sylvia Lee - NPS Theatre

Richmond Times-Dispatch Go! Discover Walking Tour featuring the Liberty Trail. Walkers will travel along the Canal Walk to Lumpkin's and the African Burial Grounds, the State Capitol, and residential neighborhoods of Court End, Jackson Ward, and Monroe Ward.

A walk along Richmond’s Slave Trail will be led by a member of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission, from Ancarrow’s Landing to Lumpkin’s Jail.

"From Slavery to Freedom: The African &

African- American

Diaspora

Per

Tour-groups, museums & schools request

Coming Fall

2017

Live Performances, schools-workshops, readings,

interpretations,

webinars

(aka "Digital Field Trips")

Night Walking Tour in Colonial Williamsburg

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March, 2015

Old Creek & Shrevewood Elementary Schools

Fairfax, VA

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March, 2015

Victory Elementary School

"4th grade presentation"

Portsmouth , VA

Featured in "US Atlas Book"

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July 3rd, 2014

UVA 50th Anniversary of Upward Bound & Brown vs. Board

Black History Commemoration Celebration

"I use this book often , I like how they utilize their visuals..."

~Shannon Reilly

Social Studies & English Teacher

Jack Jouett Middle School

May 2016

The Cascades of Colonial Williamsburg

Introduction Singing "Go Down Moses"

Featured on the Cover of the Book

From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community (Colonial Williamsburg Studies in Chesapeake History and Culture Series)

"Good morning," she began. "Welcome to Carter's Grove and to the Slave Quarter. The sight was chilling. I glanced around at the all-white crowd around me, curious about their perceptions of slavery and the buildings before us. Interpreter Sylvia Tabb-Lee put us at ease.

She said,"... that 2% of the population lived as well as the people in the mansion. "If you happen to be two percent of the population then you can look back and say what a romantic period. But if you happen to be everybody else, welcome home. Because the average person lived in a 15-by-15-foot house with a dirt floor just like these."

When Sylvia finished her 10-minute presentation, I introduced myself to her and the other interpreters and walked along the oyster shell encrusted pathway to look inside the first cabin.

Later we shared our thoughts over a breakfast of hominy, fried potatoes and onions, and scrambled eggs that Emily, Rose, and Sylvia had prepared.

A year following my introduction to the Slave Quarter, I found myself back there dressed in costume in 100-degree weather, crowded around Sylvia and other interpreters.

http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/slave.cfm