Trinity Norwood has shared her Lenape culture through storytelling for more than 10 years. She founded a nonprofit to raise money, at first to fund book scholarships for kids in her tribe, and now to support the establishment of a tribal museum in Bridgeton, New Jersey. We talked about her storytelling tradition.

In India, a lot of the stories that are told to little kids are mythological and historical stories. It was always so exciting for me to go to dance class and depict that same story that I might've heard from my grandmother five years ago.

Edwin Kendrick began working at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as an apprentice right after high school, in August of 1939. He finished his apprenticeship in 1942 and worked as a mechanic helping to build ships, before he was eventually drafted into the Army.

“I’m first generation American, and I’m a fisherman. I come from many generations of fishermen …at least 3. Seafaring in one shape, form, or another.”

Drew Hanson is a licensed teacher of the Urasenke Tradition of Japanese Tea. He demonstrates the Japanese Tea Ceremony throughout the Greater Philadelphia area, and teaches students at Boukakuan Japanese Tea House and Garden in Columbus, New Jersey. I sat in on a couple of his lessons at his tea house, and we talked one afternoon about the tradition.