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“This is not the American Downton Abbey,” Michael Twitty, food historian and writer in the bitter southerner​ article today. Click hear to read the story and see my photos with it. 

Also, be sure to know Michael Twitty’s work, it’s some of the most important work being done today about race, food and history. 

An outtake from a shoot I did recently for Moët Hennessy via AP Invision when the Hermione, a replica of the Marquis d’Lafayette landed in Yorktown, Virginia. 

On this Fat Tuesday I look back at the adventure I had this weekend with spectacleandmirth and se-curtis in a small town in West Virginia. 

Helvetia, West Virginia celebrates Fasnacht (roughly translated, "night before the fast") the Saturday before lent starts. The celebrations entail eating rich foods, a masked parade through town, square dancing and burning Old Man Winter in effigy. 

I was there with reporter and folklorist Emily Hilliard to do a food piece for National Public Radio. 

He said it was misspelled on purpose, but he didn't get a chance to explain why his neck tattoo read "One Lyfe One Love." It seems appropriate to post this photo today, on what would have been Bob Marley's birthday, but I'm not really sure what it says about his legacy when some white dude in rural Virginia has a tattoo of a misspelled song lyric on his neck. 

I've narrowed my Kindle skin down to one choice (but I haven't ordered it yet because I'm trying to talk myself out of it), and while I could spend loads of money on RedBubble stickers and always want more, I was able to reign myself in this time. I snagged a sweet hooded falcon sticker from patjarrett and added a neato vintage travel poster sticker to the cart because why the hell not. One of the two will end up on the back of my phone (likely the falcon) and the other is going on my Kindle case. 

Because I'm in middle school and I love decorating my Trapper Keeper #justgrownupthings

Roger May ( walkyourcamera) and founder of lookingatappalachia stopped by my studio this afternoon in Staunton, Virginia. I made this portrait.