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Lives of Italian American master stone carvers who have spent decades embellishing the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. Film by Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner.

Photo: Vincent Palumbo and Roger Morigi tell the tale about the gargoyle fashioned after Roger. Photo by L. Albee in The Stone Carvers by Marjorie Hunt (Smithsonian Institution Press).

Photo: The ofrenda in La Central Dulceria of Puebla, Mexico (by Margaret Yocom, 1992).

Master storyteller Ray Hicks of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, talks about his life on the mountain and how he grew up with stories. He also tells "Whickity-Whack, Into My Sack" (also called "Soldier Jack").

Appalshop, 1974

Documents the history of the AIDS epidemic from the beginning until 1989 by telling the stories of Dr. Tom Waddell, Rob Perryman, Jeff Sevcik, David C. Campbell, and David Mandell, Jr. Discusses the creation of the AIDS Quilt.

Photo: "Third World Medicine," a panel from the AIDS quilt, as displayed in Washington DC (by Margaret Yocom).

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