Shoshi Parks

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

Anthropologist, freelance writer, environmental steward, wannabe farmer, world observer, history buff, obsessive traveler.

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Articles by Shoshi Parks

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At this Gullah Geechee home on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, painted doors and shutters keep out evil spirits called "haints."

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What the Color 'Haint Blue' Means to the Descendants of Enslaved Africans

In the Lowcountry, the unique shade is both protective talisman and source of unspeakable suffering.

Golden Gate Park is a leading candidate.

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S.F. Marks the Spot for Buried Treasure

A fantasy author's 37-year-old cache may soon be unearthed in one of the city's 220 parks. But which one?

A pretzel detail from the Bakers' Window in Freiburg Minster, Germany.

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The 1970s Movement to Reclaim Pretzels for God

"Pretzels for God" even took as its patron the first Native American saint.

A deaf girl using Nicaraguan Sign Language at the Esquelitas de Bluefields, Managua, Nicaragua, 1999.

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How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language

It happened on the playground.