Justin travels to listen. In Mediterranean villages or D.C. bike trails, he learns by stepping into others’ rhythms—whether sharing a meal in Ikaria or recording oral histories. His belief: The smallest customs hold the grandest truths about who we are.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal runs 184.5 miles from Washington D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland — a nineteenth-century engineering project that became one of the most historically layered trails in the country. For Lawrence Justin Mills, a filmmaker and cyclist based in Silver Spring, Maryland, the C&O Canal is both a local landmark and a way […]
Justin Mills, a filmmaker based in Silver Spring, Maryland, has long been drawn to places where daily life carries the weight of something larger. Ikaria — a small Greek island in the Aegean — is one of those places. Ikaria is known internationally as one of the world’s Blue Zones, where people routinely live past
In March 2009, the FMLN won the Salvadoran presidential election for the first time in the party’s history. Mauricio Funes became El Salvador’s first left-wing president after nearly two decades of ARENA government following the end of the civil war. For the Salvadoran diaspora community in Maryland — one of the largest Salvadoran communities in
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