Artist Deborah Macy enjoys a good laugh at something David says as he works on his painting. David Danis, who has Down syndrome, attends his weekly art class with local artist Deborah Macy at her studio in New Bedford, MA.
Michael Dyer, co-curator of the Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad, walks past a backlit daguerreotype showing two teenage sisters, Mary, and Emily Edmonson, who were two of the seventy-seven people captured while seeking freedom aboard the schooner Pearl in 1848 bound for the Delaware Canal. After traumatic moves between the slave markets of Maryland and New Orleans, the sisters were emancipated through the efforts of Northern abolitionists. The show will open on Thursday at the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, MA. PHOTO PETER PEREIRA
Michael Dyer, co-curator of the Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad, walks past a backlit daguerreotype showing two teenage sisters, Mary, and Emily Edmonson, who were two of the seventy-seven people captured while seeking freedom aboard the schooner Pearl in 1848 bound for the Delaware Canal. After traumatic moves between the slave markets of Maryland and New Orleans, the sisters were emancipated through the efforts of Northern abolitionists. The show will open on Thursday at the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, MA. PHOTO PETER PEREIRA