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Underground Railroad Regional Gathering--Building a Broader Network
Please join us on April 22, 2004 from 8:30-3:30 at the Old Town Hall,
Wilmington Delaware.
Underground Railroad historians, educators, tour operators, activists and
others will come together to learn, share and continue to build a network
for the preservation, education and commemoration of the Underground
Railroad. Learn about the maritime connections to the Underground Railroad,
current projects in the Mid-Atlantic region and coalition building.
Confirmed speakers include Kate Larson, author of Bound for the Promised
Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero and Vincent Leggett,
Blacks of the Chesapeake.
The event will be followed by a visit to the Freedom Schooner Amistad at
the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard. There is a $7.00 charge to tour the Amistad.
The Gathering is cosponsored by the Underground Railroad Coalition of
Delaware and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.
The Old Town Hall is located on the Market Street Mall between 5 and 6
Streets in Wilmington, DE.
Please RSVP by April, 20, 2004 by contacting Pat Lewis (302)778-0155
or
Robin Bodo, [email protected].
[Thanks to Tara Morrison, National Park Service, for forwarding the above
to this list.]
[From Diane Miller, National Park Service]
Spring is here, and the 7th edition of the Network to Freedom newsletter is
now available. In order to cut costs for re-producing and mailing the
newsletter, we are making it available electronically for those who have
internet access. The electronic version will also have the advantage of
showing the photographs in color.
You may access the newsletter on the Network to Freedom website at
http://209.10.16.21/TEMPLATE/FrontEnd/newsletter0403.pdf.
We are always interested in material to include in the newsletter. Please
contact me if you would like to contribute an article. Deadlines for
newsletter submissions are the same as for Network applications: January 15
and July 15 of each year.
Sincerely, Diane Miller
National Coordinator, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom,
National Park Service
WILLIAM STILL, HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut has added the full text of the first
edition of William Still's History of the Underground Railroad to its
website. Go to:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x6810.xml (editor's note: this link is
no longer active)
and follow the links to the text. When I tried the site, it took some time
for the full text to load.
The William Still Society, Inc., is planning to publish a hard copy edition
of William Still's book, with additional material by Charles Blockson of
Temple University, Dr. Barbara Wheeler of Kean University and Dr. John
Hope Franklin of Duke University. They anticipate that the book will be
available in 2005.
Christopher Densmore, April 6, 2004
Friends Historical Library
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