Lydia Parrish News Today

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors

CORNISH — In 1922, one in every four households had a print of NH artist Maxfield Parrish’s most celebrated work, ‘Daybreak.’ Parrish himself called the piece the epitome of his

I was startled to discover that “Sweet Little Jesus Boy,” the spiritual I’d loved as a child was not written by an African American during slavery as I’d assumed, but by a white man.