"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

 - Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

The Piper of Mount Vernon

The Piper of Mount Vernon

Ford Descendants, Joy Allen Stone, Angela Allen Henry, Linda Allen Hollis, and Ron Chase of the Gum Springs Museum on the grounds of Mount Vernon, posing with flutist. (Photo credit Mark Hollis for WFL).