Aylette Jenness

Aylette Jenness has been coming to Wellfleet since childhood. The house she now lives in full-time was bought by her parents in the 1920s. Her mother was the artist Shelby Shackleford; her father was a physicist. Jenness grew up surrounded by figures like Edwin Dickinson (whom she remembers carrying a comb in his back pocket to tend his beard).

In the late-1960s, the Kainji Dam on the powerful Niger River was completed in northwest Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. As a result of the dam, Lake Kainji was formed, and many people had to be resettled beyond its expanding waters.