Underground Railroad News

That Civil-War-period fact is not lost to cyclists who are retracing the route, which courses northward from Alabama to Ontario, Canada.

Bella Voce Women's Chorus and Artistic Director Dawn Willis will salute the concepts of hope and freedom in an entertaining and informative program centered around Robert De Cormier's powerful choral masterpiece They Called Her Moses .

Superstar soprano Kathleen Battle brings her "Underground Railroad" program back to the Music Center at Strathmore .

Harriet Tubman was injured as a child by a slave owner at the Bucktown Village Store on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

"Come back again, you hear!" This was said to me, after I had spent the afternoon at one of the stops of the Underground Railroad , the EMMARTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH , R olling and D ogwood R oads.

Jane Williamson used to watch wistfully as tour buses tooled past the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, where she has worked as director for the past 18 years.

The Ross County Historical Society's Spring Speakers Series continues with "THE PROMISED LAND: JOHN PARKER AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD" Wednesday evening.

You don't have to go far from home to enjoy some of the best food from around the world.

The Wayne County Retired Teacher's Association met April 23 at the Wayne County Career Center Restaurant where a business meeting was held before lunch.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said he is allocating $1.5 million for the first phase of a makeover at the popular lower West Side park, with the funds being used for the construction of new shelters and grilling stations, a revamped south parking area, small performance amphitheater, new entrance, Black Rock Canal-side railings, utilities and lighting.

Thorns pierced my slacks as I traipsed through the swamp, dodging deep, inky pools and thanking my lucky stars that it wasn't mosquito season.

Susan Meredith is co-owner of the Bucktown Village Store on Maryland's Eastern Shore, which has been preserved as a museum to honor Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad that led slaves to freedom.

Bill Streater and Greg Carter, members of the Mt. Zion AME Church in Woolwich Township, peer down a trap door in the floor May 7, 2013 where runaway slaves would hide on their way North on the Underground Railroad.

WOOLWICH TWP. - Worshipers at the Zion Methodist A.M.E. Church - a former stop on the Underground Railroad - arrived to find a disturbing piece of graffiti on the bulletin board in front of their building Sunday morning.

Former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter attended the Newtown, PA premiere of "The North Star" on Saturday, May 4. Trotter is cast as lead character, Big Ben Jones, in this slave narrative that depicts the true story of Jones, who escapes with fellow slave Moses Hopkins and finds refuge along the Underground Railroad to Pennsylvania.

Maury Elementary School fifth-graders painted more than 50 panels now on display along Russell Road and W. Masonic View Avenue inspired by the quilts of the Underground Railroad.

CARE TO WEAR THIS? -- Gail Vincent, who gave a talk about the undergarments of bygone days, displays the infrastructure of a bustle.

Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Md., around 1820, Araminta Ross experienced beatings and whippings as a child.

Kim and Reggie Harris will bring their music and stories of the Underground Railroad and the modern civil rights movement to Saranac Lake next Monday and Tuesday.

The Ross County Historical Society will commemorate the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation during its 2013 Spring Speakers Series.