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Corey Alston

HISTORY LOVES COMPANY CHARLESTON, SC

Among the stalls at Charleston, South Carolina’s City Market, fifth-generation artisan Corey Alston continues his family’s time-honored trade, sweetgrass-basket weaving, at his Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets stand. From traditional S-handled and fanning baskets

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