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URR NEWS: EVENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA, MARYLAND, AND
WASHINGTON, DC, APRIL MAY 2006
[Note: This is an informal e-mail newsletter of events of interest concerning the Underground Railroad. The information below has been summarized from various sources. Those interested in attending events may want to reconfirm with the hosting organizations times and locations.]
KENNETT [PENNSYLVANIA] UNDERGROUND RAILROAD CENTER MOVE
Kennett Underground Railroad Center has a new (temporary) home!
Beginning in mid-March, we'll be at the Chadds Ford Historical Society, on Creek
Rd. (formerly Route 100), 1/4 mile north of Route 1. After we lost our lease at
the History Station in Kennett, CFHS kindly invited us to set up our URR
pictures, Hayes bed, "slave" dress, and the rest of our artifacts and
information in their display room, until December 2006. We look forward to
having many visitors in this beautiful spot. Please call 610-347-2237 to set up
a visit Monday through Friday this spring. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, we'll
be open Saturdays and Sundays 1-5 p.m. and other times by appointment. Admission
is free; donations appreciated. Our Heritage Tours will begin Sunday, May 21 and
continue the last Sunday of June, July, and August. Guided tours on a minibus
last about an hour and cost $8 for adults, $5 for children. They'll leave from
the CHESTER COUNTY VISITORS CENTER at the Longwood Gardens entrance. Reservations
are necessary; call 610-347-2237. Check out our website,
http://undergroundrr.kennett.net/, and come visit us to learn about a fascinating period in Kennett's history.
[From Mary Dugan]
UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS INSTITUTE, CARLISLE, PA, APRIL 6-8,
2006
Lest We Forget the USCT from Pennsylvania: The 6th United States
Colored Troops Institute Symposium, Thursday, April 6 to Saturday, April 8,
2006, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Includes workshops on research, lectures on African-Americans in the Civil War
including a history of Camp William Penn, African American history in Carlisle
and Shippensburg, the Gettysburg campaign, Bishop Daniel Payne, African-American
cemeteries, living history with re-enactors and other events and commemorations.
Fee, with deadline for registration of March 23.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 30, 2006
On Thursday, March 30, 2006, at 4 PM in Weigley Lounge,
Gladfelter 914, Temple University, Philadelphia, Melvin Patrick Ely will
speak about his book, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment
in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through The Civil War. The title of
his presentation is "What the Reviewers Should Have Criticized About
Israel on the Appomattox but Didn't"
Sponsored by the Civil War and Emancipation Studies Forum of the Center
for the Humanities at Temple, and the History Department
SANDY SPRING, MARYLAND, PROGRAM, APRIL 8, 2006
On Saturday, April 8, 2006, at 2 p.m., the Sandy Spring Museum
and the Sandy Spring Friends Meeting present Christopher Densmore, Swarthmore
College, on "Quakers, African Americans, Antislavery and the Underground Railroad
in the Mid-Atlantic Region." The lecture will be held at the Meetinghouse, 17715
Meetinghouse Road in Sandy Spring Maryland.
http://www.sandyspring.org/
PROGRAM IN WASHINGTON, DC, APRIL 19, 2006
On April 19, between 7-9 pm, the National Park Service is
piggybacking on the occasion of the conference of the Organization of American
Historians (OAH) to hold a free public seminar on the Underground Railroad. On
the panel are a variety of experts -- Karen James (PA), Stan Harrold (DC), Carol
Faulkner (Civil War), Charlie Bolton (AR), and Kristin Zapalac (MO).
The intention is to get a good broad-based discussion
going, with comments and questions from the audience, both
out-of-towners and local people.
Sumner School is at 17th and M Sts., NW, about 7 or 8
blocks from the conference hotel, and near the Farragut West and North
Metro stops . We would love to have you join us. Please RSVP to me by
phone (202-619-7136) or e-mail
[email protected].
CONFERENCE ON BLACK HISTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA, HARRISBURG, MAY 4-6,
2006
The program for the Annual Conference on Black History
in Pennsylvania is now available on line at:
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/DOH/BHC%20Full%20Schedule%20Reg/BHC%20fullschedulereg.htm
The program includes panels on African-American historic house museums,
local research on Berks County, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, the African
Methodist Episcopal Church and more. Registration fee, registration due
by April 27th.
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
March 14, 2006
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