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KENNETT SQUARE, PENNSYLVANIA, SUMMER UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TOURS,
JUNE SEPTEMBER, 2004
[From Mary Dugan, Kennett Underground Railroad Committee]
KURC's popular
guided tours are starting up again. This is an educational family activity
and lots of fun. Our first 2004 tours will be on Sunday, June 20, at 1, 2,
and 3 p.m. Our air-conditioned minibus will leave from the History Station,
passing by a number of sites in East Marlborough, Pocopson, and Kennett
Townships and visiting the old Longwood Progressive Meeting, now the
Visitors' Center. Again this year, the knowledgeable, friendly Sarah Wesley
will be our guide. Tours cost $8 for adults, $5 for kids. Reservations are
necessary; call 610-347-2237 to reserve or for information. Be sure to
allow time to visit our museum at the History Station. It'll be open from
1-4 p.m., admission free. If you can't make the tour in June, mark your
calendar for July 18 or August 15, or join the tour at the Mushroom
Festival in September.
Check out KURC's website: undergroundrr.kennett.net
CALL FOR PAPERS: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TRAVELERS CONFERENCE, 2005
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale are
sponsoring a symposium in 2005 on "Finding People" which will focus on the
Underground Railroad. The symposium is intended for both scholars and for
genealogical researchers and family historians. They are inviting paper
proposals on the "people side" of the Underground Railroad, including the
use of census records, use of archives and special collections, the role of
Black churches and communities, Canada's role in the Underground Railroad,
creating a research network and other topics related to the theme. For
information, contact Michael L. Radice, Director of Education and Visitor
Center, 77 Forest St., Hartford, Connecticut 06105, or by e-mail to
[email protected] with "URR" in the subject line. Deadline for
proposals is October 4, 2004.
The Stowe Center, in Hartford, Connecticut, currently has an exhibit on the
impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Gilder Lehrman Center has a very
interesting web site with information and links to information on slavery
and abolition:
www.yale/edu/glc/
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD RESEARCH FORUM ON-LINE
AfriGeneas, a web site for African-American genealogy has an on-line
Underground Railroad Research Forum, moderated by Bennie J. McRae Jr.
According to the site, "This is a message board for anyone interested in
the history of the Underground Railroad, the vast pre-Civil War network of
trails and safe houses used by enslaved people in their journey to freedom.
Discussions will focus on the history, abolitionists, conductors as well as
present day preservation and education efforts. This forum is strictly
limited to serious discussion of the Underground Railroad. All other posts
will be removed." To see the forum, go the AfriGeneas web site
www.afrigeneas.com/
The link for the forums in on the top of the page. The
AfriGeneas site includes useful information, and links to information, on
African-American history.
HARRIET TUBMAN ON-LINE
[From Kate Clifford Larson]
Jim McGowan, author of "Station Master on the
Underground Railroad, the Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett" (revised
edition due out soon from McFarland Publishers) has just developed a new
website called the "Harriet Tubman Journal" at
www.harriettubmanjournal.com/. Jim edited and published the Harriet Tubman
Journal during the early 1990s, and after a long hiatus, has now expanded
it to the web. The Journal is dedicated to disseminating new information
and research about Harriet Tubman.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: TUBMAN/QUAKERS
The July 2004 issue of American Heritage includes an article, "On the Road
to Harriet Tubman," by Catherine Clinton describing some of her research
for her recent biography of Tubman.
The March 2004 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History contains a very
interesting article "A Great and Good People: Midwestern Quakers and the
Struggle Against Slavery," by Thomas D. Hamm, April Beckman, Marissa
Florio, Kirsti Giles and Marie Hopper.
Christopher Densmore, June 14, 2004
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