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Community - Kent Island
Published
12/05/09
GRASONVILLE - From building boats and making sails to owning seafood restaurants and processing plants, black watermen have, for more than a century, made contributions to the culture of the Chesapeake Bay. 
Catherine Krikstan — Capital News Service
Waterman Warren Butler, left, works on the Black Watermen of the Chesapeake documentary quilt with Vince Leggett, who directs the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and who collaborated with Joan Gaither in creating the quilt. The quilting session was held last month at Meredith's Seafood and Carryout in Grasonville.Find Us On Facebook
But their narrative remains largely unwritten, alive above all in oral histories, old photographs and now, a quilt.
Joan Gaither, a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, creates quilts that document stories, and was inspired to create one that shares the unrecorded tales of the region's black watermen. "I think (it) is absolutely criminal that all of these voices have not been heard,"...
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