My son Jeffery and I were recently interviewed by Preservation Maryland President Nicholas Redding on PreserveCast. We discuss our latest collaboration KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE, an illustrated verse novel chronicling our genealogical quest to conjure our ancestors’ voices and visages. The book is set in Talbot County, Maryland, at Wye House, once the state’s largest enslavement plantation, and in the Black, Reconstruction-era villages of Unionville and Copperville, which our ancestors cofounded. KIN releases September 19, 2023. Pre-order here.