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[The following is copied from a posting on H-Net. Researchers interested in
the Underground Railroad in Maryland and the surrounding areas or in a
model for presenting research data on the web.]
The Maryland State Archives seeks undergraduate or graduate-level college
students attending Maryland institutions or Maryland residents attending
out-of-state colleges and universities for paid internships. It is not
necessary to be a U.S. history major to participate in the program, and
students of American Studies, African American Studies, or
related-disciplines will also be considered.
During the ten-week paid summer program, interns will join the on-going
project, "Beneath the Underground: the Flight to Freedom and Antebellum
Communities in Maryland." This project examines Maryland's African American communities of
the 18th and 19th centuries. Interns will extract and compile biographic
and geographic information from period newspapers and primary source
documents for inclusion in electronic databases and for online presentation
on http://www.mdslavery.net . Attention to detail and basic computer skills
are required. Interns will receive a wage of up to $9.25 per hour
(depending on level of education completed) paid bi-weekly and will be
scheduled up to forty hours per week.
For more details on both paid and unpaid opportunities, please see:
http://mdsa.net/msa/educ/interns/html/internugrr04.html
Contact information:
The Maryland State Archives
Hall of Records Building
350 Rowe Blvd.
Annapolis, MD 21401
Attention: Internship Coordinator
phone: 410-260-6443
fax: 410-974-3895
email: [email protected]
JOHN G. WHITTIER AND THE COX FAMILY OF KENNETT SQUARE, PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia author and local historian Mark E. Dixon has written an
interesting article on abolitionist poet John G. Whittier's tribute to the
John and Hannah Cox. The Coxes were abolitionists and Underground Railroad
agents of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The Cox home is on Route 1, east of
Kennett Square, close to the Progressive Friends Meeting House (now the
Chester County Visitors Center) and the entrance to Longwood Gardens. The
area abounds in Underground Railroad sites. For more information about
local sites, check the website of the Kennett Underground Railroad Center at:
http://undergroundrr.kennett.net/
[From Mark Dixon, [email protected] ]
How does one come up with an appropriate anniversary message for a pair of
old abolitionists? In the pre-Hallmark 1870s, it helped to have a friend
named Whittier.
Check out: Lives of Poetry. If the link doesn't work, just paste this URL -
www.markedixon.com/retrospect.htm
- in your browser, then scroll down to
the first story.
"Lives of Poetry" is the latest edition of Retrospect, my monthly column on
local history in Main Line Today, a monthly magazine serving Philadelphia's
western suburbs.
Mark E. Dixon
Christopher Densmore, January 24, 2004
Friends Historical Library
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