![]() Rocking Jerusalem and Let Us Break Bread Together, from Walking Together Children, Black American Spirtiuals, Volume One, currently available from Alazar Press, pub. Working tirelessly with his editor at Atheneum, Jean Karl, Ashley published ten books with Atheneum during this period, and he illustrated another eight books with other publishers. Ashley crafted more and more fantastic hand-held puppets from bones, shells, drift wood, fishing net, sea glass–held together with papier maché.Īshley holding a puppet he made from bones and fishing net he found on the beaches of the Cranberry Isles, around 2012ĭuring these years, Ashley dedicated himself to publishing numerous illustrated books in which he attempted to bring to life African tales, proverbs and especially spirituals-the songs of the African-American slaves whose only form of free expression was through these enduring popular songs that are rarely given appropriate attribution. In his infinite quest to create art from “things cast off,” he recovered “treasures washed up by the sea,” on his daily walks. He winterized his house on Islesford and became a year-round resident of the Cranberry Isles. ![]() ![]() The Cranberry Isles Years Living and Creating on an IslandĪshley retired from Dartmouth in 1988. ![]()
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