Envisioning Paul Cuffe

Can you imagine the life of Paul Cuffe?

Ray Shaw, a Westport resident and graphic artist, uses watercolor sketches to help visualize the past. His graphite and loose watercolor ‘storybook’ style challenges the viewer to use their imagination to interpret a given subject.

Paul Cuffe married a Wampanoag woman named Alice Abel Pequit. They first lived in a wetu like this near Russells Mills

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