Du Bose Heyward wrote in the New York Herald Tribune in 1926: Langston Hughes, although only twenty-four years old, is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life. . . .
Smudge stick. A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, usually bound with string into a small bundle. The herbs are later burned as part of a ritual or ceremony. Plants that are often used include sage and cedar.
To make smudge sticks 1  :: Cut the branches of the plant material you are using into 7-10 inch lengths. 2  Measure a piece of thin cord (I like to use this hemp cord, but cotton is just as good.) 4 times the length of the cut branches. 3  Bundle the branches together (to your desired thickness).