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Folk Art/Vernacular Architecture/Cultural Landscapes

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May 27, 2008

The Garden of Earthly Delights in Fresno

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
Baldassare Forestiere's "Underground Gardens," Fresno, 2008.

A Brief Visit to California’s Subterranean Marvel, Baldassare Forestiere’s “Underground Gardens.”

May 2, 2008

Holy Land USA, a Religious Vision in Ruins

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
Holy Land USA, Waterbury, CT, 2005.

During the 1960s and 1970s, 40,000 people visited Waterbury, CT annually to pray at Holy Land USA, a Catholic theme park created by John Greco. Now it lies in ruins.

March 30, 2008

Gino Vitale, Brooklyn developer and shrine builder.

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
Gino Vitale, with one of his Red Hook shrine buildings in the background, March 24, 2008.

Brooklyn developer Gino Vitale adapts the centuries old edicole sacre (devotional shrines) to his newly constructed buildings.

March 19, 2008

St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
Antonietta Vitucci's St. Joseph's altar, March 18, 2008.

Celebrating St. Joseph in Brooklyn and some thoughts on lived religion.

December 25, 2007

Gramsci’s Presepio

Joey Ski
Joseph Sciorra
Underground Nativity, 2007.

The domestic presepio, an example of living folklore.

August 28, 2008

Lace in the Crystal City

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
The exhibition “Lace, the Spaces Between,” Corning, New York.

An exhibition presents women’s domestic needlework in Corning, New York.

December 23, 2008

An Epic of Mediterranean Culture

Joey Skee
Joe Milone and his Exhibited Shoe Shine Stand, 1942.

Sixty-six years ago, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a Sicilian-American bootblack’s decorated shoeshine kit, contributing to the museum director’s eventual dismissal.

September 28, 2008

Backyard Figs from Brooklyn

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
Figs

In which this blogger says nothing more profound than he really, really likes figs.

February 23, 2010

Ricordando Vincenzo Ancona

Joey Skee
Martha Cooper
Vincenzo Ancona, Castel del Golfo Social Club, Brooklyn, 1987.

Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.

March 24, 2010

Visiting 15th Century Italy with my 15-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

Gaming lessons from the Boot.

June 1, 2010

Building Community, the Brooklyn Way

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
KAVES, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, April 14, 2010.

Meet KAVES, band leader, tattoo artist, community activist.

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