The SFA oral history program documents life stories from the American South. Collecting these stories, we honor the people whose labor defines the region.
Tidewater Virginians have long relied on the water for sustenance. Narrators recount how their cooking has roots in Native settlements along marshes and rivers, seventeenth-century English occupation at Jamestown, lively nineteenth-century trade up the bay to Baltimore, and twentieth-century beach and yacht club tourism.
At the 2018 Fall Symposium SFA partnered with 21c Museum Hotels to welcome artist collective Ghost of a Dream, Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was, and their stunning installation, “Traveling Through the Dawn of Day.”
