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These photos are from the Musa Isle Indian Village which existed up until 1964 on the Miami River in South Florida where Thea spent the first 8 years of her life. They are from family archive photos and exist in the private collection of Cynthia L. Stacey. Musa Isle means Island of Bananas.

One of the most visceral memories I have of the village where I lived as a child is the cooking fires. To this day whenever I am around an outdoor cooking fire or barbecue I feel that wonderful sense of the familiar. The Seminoles that I remember very quiet and shy. You would rarely find them looking into the lens of a camera let alone into your eyes. They surrounded themselves with beautifully dyed cotton fabrics from which their piece work was made and lived in palm thatched chickees. My life has been incredibly enriched by knowing Native peoples. Many of my songs are inspired by Native America and I hope you will check them out on my various CD releases available from StarPony Productions. You may also listen to my poem "Winter Blood" on my blog which speaks of the mixing of European and Native American blood. INjoy! -- Thea

Musa Isle Entrance photo by Ray Fisher

Cooking Fire

Sewing Seminole piece work

Teaching her daughter to sew

George Bernard Shaw 1937
Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honour but refused the money. His most recently written work at the time of this photo would have been "William Morris as I Knew Him," 1936 and "The Millionairess," 1936.

Four Generations of Women
Great Grandma Culver who came west in a covered wagon and settled in Cheyenne; her daughter, Grandma Campbell; her daughter, my mother, Alice Stacey, and her daughter; my sister, Dorothy Lee. Late 1940's

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