Renita Sollie wandered into the ground-floor gallery of the Philadelphia Art Alliance with two of her kids, ages 6 and 4. She occasionally knits things for them by hand. “My girls like the socks that ...

It was a quiet Tuesday morning a few months back when 88-­year­-old Lil Don, a longtime Oakland resident, walked into Piedmont Yarn & Apparel, sat down and started knitting. She wasn’t joining a ...