Walking and Talking with Harriet Tubman Features Three Fabulous Events!
First UP! – Walking and Talking with Harriet Tubman will feature a hip hop-style book reading and book-sigining for Caroline Brewer’s new book, Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature. It will take place at 11 a.m. at the HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD VISITORS CENTER INC, 4068 Golden Hill Road Church Creek, MD 21622. Phone: 410-221-2290.
Light refreshments will be provided.
NEXT! In the spirit of Harriet’s many walks for freedom, the book signing will be followed by a walk through Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, led by the amazing Linda Harris and David Cole, who will provide musical storytelling, 12 noon-1 p.m. Harris is Director of Events and Programming at The Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge, MD.
Pick up lunch on your own at restaurants in and around U.S. 50 Ocean Gateway Highway.
FINAL! Plant your feet on sacred ground. We’ll close the day with a reception, from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m., at Mount Pleasant Acres Farms, hosted by The Aunties, located at 22239 Marsh Creek Road, Preston, MD 21655. The Aunties will provide a tour of organic farms`on the land Harriet’s parents last resided on and where freedom-seekers met with Harriet to plot their moves on the Underground Railroad. The Aunties provide a brief lecture, along with planting and harvesting opportunities. Because of their remarkable and creative stewardship of the land, The Aunties were recently featured on Good Morning America.
All activities are family-friendly and we require an RSVP for the day at the Eventbrite link below.
About what the Anacostia High School students saw
with their own eyes,
and filtered through their lived experiences.
This book is about voice.
About what came from the students’ mouths
–rhythmically, poetically, chronologically, with vulnerability —
about what they observed, reflected on,
and processed alone and in community with one another.
And in the seeing and speaking,
they have given us a book to cherish
— a book of poems, essays, reports, and images
that reveals what they felt, emotionally,
what they touched physically,
what they tasted, and what they heard.
And we owe them our deepest appreciation,
because what they have given us is profound!
The book is about journeys,
each of us separately, and all of us together
liberating ourselves, flying, like the birds, free,
dismantling the shackles of fear,
overcoming our insecurities,
touching truth and becoming one with it.
This book is about partnerships.
Many thanks to Conservation Nation
for sponsoring my Nature-Wise program with
the students, to Xavier Brown for
inviting me in to host the literacy
and the environment training,
to Patrick Gusman, UDC, the
Department of the Interior and
NPS for leading the establishment
of this summer internship program
and enthusiastically supporting our efforts
to engage the students as thinkers, readers, writers,
and critical observers of their relationship to nature
and in how to become even better advocates
for sustainability.