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September, 2009 Urrfreepress.Com Volume 4, Issue 20 ® Underground Railroad Free Press Independent reporting on today’s Underground Railroad September, 2009 urrfreepress.com Volume 4, Issue 20 Luskin, Finch, Frost, SmithfieldurrFreePress.com Are 2009 Free Press Prize Winners The Prizes The Free Press Prize Panel of Judges The Underground Railroad Free Press Prizes are awarded each September by Under- Authors Karolyn Smardz Frost and Fergus ground Railroad Free Press in the fields of leadership, preservation and advancement Bordewich, journalists Lawrence Hall and of knowledge in the contemporary international Underground Railroad community. Wayne Young, and Professors Hortense Judging is conducted by an expertly qualified international panel of impartial judges Simmons and Judith Wellman comprise the from various disciplines. To submit a 2010 nomination, download a nomination form Panel of Judges. Canadians Frost and Hall from the Free Press web site, complete it and email it to [email protected]. make the panel international. The 2009 Free Press Prize for The 2009 Free Press Prize for The 2009 Free Press Prize for Leadership Underground Railroad Preservation the Advancement of Knowledge in the Underground Railroad Community Smithfield Community Association For the example it has set over many Julie Finch, Fern Luskin and Karolyn Smardz Frost years in entrepreneurship, organizing, Hopper-Gibbons House (left) For her award-winning book, I’ve Got a managing and promoting the significant For their unflagging work heading the ef- Home In Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad and abolitionist fort to save Hopper-Gibbons House, a na- Underground Railroad, her archaeologi- sites and history around Peterboro, New tionally important Underground Railroad cal work on Canadian Underground Rail- York, the Smithfield Community Associa- safe-house and center of abolitionism in road sites over the last 25 years, and her tion has been named the 2009 Free Press New York City, Fern Luskin and Julie public lecturing, the Free Press Panel of Prize for Leadership laureate. Finch have been awarded the 2009 Free Judges has named Karolyn Smardz Frost The Association’s achievements since its Press Prize for Preservation. as winner of the 2009 Free Press Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge. founding 17 years ago include launching In 2008 when Luskin and Finch, neighbors the National Abolition Hall of Fame, and active in the preservation of midtown I’ve Got a Home In Glory Land was preservation of historic properties in Pe- Manhattan’s historic Chelsea neighbor- awarded the 2007 Governor General's terboro, most notably the Gerrit Smith hood, began questioning the addition of Literary Award for Nonfiction, Canada’s Estate National Historic Landmark and another story to the nineteenth century highest book award and the equivalent the Smithfield Community Center. The home at 339 West 29th Street in Manhat- of a Pulitzer Prize in the United States. saved buildings are direct links to the tan, they learned that the new story was time when Peterboro played a major role Of her book the 2007 awarding jury said, going up in violation of building codes in the Underground Railroad and in the “I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land is a tri- and that the home had belonged to social and political changes that shaped umphant blend of archaeological and his- prominent Underground Railroad figures. the nation in the mid- and late 1800s. torical research with literary story- During the mid-nineteenth century, the telling. Karolyn Smardz Frost uses the This small upstate New York community 1847 home was owned by Isaac Hopper, flight of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn was at the forefront in fights for aboli- a Quaker from Philadelphia who had from slavery in Kentucky to freedom in tion of slavery, the equality of all people been an Underground Railroad organizer Toronto to bring the Underground Rail- regardless of race, and the equality of there earlier in the century. road and its passengers to life in re- women including the right to vote. markably rich detail. Moving and infor- Peterboro was a busy Underground Rail- Hopper's daughter, Abigail Gibbons, and mative in the best sense, the book will road destination for freedom seekers and her family engaged deeply in abolition- become an instant classic.” ism and other reform movements before the 1820 church in which the Association and after the Civil War. Hopper-Gibbons The book also won the Heritage Toronto is headquartered was the site of the first House became an intellectual center of Award of Merit, and honorable mention meeting of the New York State Anti- abolitionism as prominent abolitionists for the 2008 Albert Corey Prize awarded Slavery Society in 1835. Please see safe-house, page 3, column 1 Please see Frost on page 3, column 2 Please see Smithfield, page 3, column 3 UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREE PRESS Page 2 And the Winners Are . Freedom Center Leads In Underground Railroad Education In our last issue, we held a contest to Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad is making the programs’ three nationwide name a creek which runs beside a Freedom Center has launched a dozen far- markets — students, teachers and the general subscriber’s Underground Railroad reaching educational initiatives at the rate of public — more aware of the Center’s educa- safe-house. The safe-house owners about one per quarter and is now pushing to tional resources. thank the many Free Press readers promote their availability. who submitted entries. Organized into educator resources, youth de- The winning entry, North Star Creek, States Freedom Center CEO Donald Murphy, velopment and public programs, offerings in- was separately submitted by sub- “We are now in hundreds of school districts clude video lessons at Apple’s online iTunes scribers Beverly Buckman and Alex- and thousands of schools with our e-learning University, several other online e-learning re- andra Stone. How fitting as the creek material. We conduct literally hundreds of sources, detailed downloadable lesson plans, flows into Freedom Creek, so again teacher workshops during the year. We now summer camps, an in-house lecture series, the North Star leads to Freedom. have a college-level course in conjunction the Teacher Resource Center and more. Honorable mention goes to Ron Ellis with the University of Cincinnati.” The Freedom Center has not only sprung into of Sacramento, California, for his six entries. Ernest Perry, Freedom Center Chief Innova- a lengthy lead as the Underground Railroad tion Officer, says that the current challenge Please see Freedom Center, page 3, column 3 How to Subscribe Ontario Inaugurates Emancipation Day Free Press subscriptions are free. To The Canadian province of Ontario has passed ery which became law July 9, 1793. Simcoe subscribe, send email addresses of those you would like to receive Free Press to legislation setting each August 1 as Emanci- was not able to get the outright abolition he [email protected]. pation Day. Passed December 4, 2008, the sought but the 1793 act did set the wheels in motion for abolition in Canada. Free Press Prize Nominations Emancipation Day official observance came after ten years of petitioning and advocacy, Visit urrfreepress.com to learn more In her prize-winning I’ve Got a Home In Glory about these top honors in the interna- and 175 years to the day after Great Britain’s Land, 2009 Free Press Prize laureate Karolyn tional Underground Railroad community Slavery Abolition Act of August 1, 1834, which and to download a nomination form. Frost points out that, even before outright abolished slavery in nearly all parts of the abolition, Canada was refusing to extradite Link Your Web Site or View Lynx British Commonwealth. Visit urrFreePress.com to view Lynx, freedom seekers to the United States. the central registry of Underground Canada began opposing slavery forty years For many years, August 1 has been an Eman- Railroad organizations. To add your earlier when Canadian Lieutenant Governor link, email its web address to cipation Day holiday in several Caribbean na- John Simcoe sponsored the Act Against Slav- [email protected]. tions and Guyana, former British colonies. View or Add to Datebook Underground Railroad Pioneer Gara Honored Email us your upcoming events and we will add them to Datebook. Click on At its May 10 commencement, Ohio’s Wil- Much of the work before Gara’s portrayed Datebook at urrFreePress.com to view mington College honored Professor of History the Underground Railroad through the eyes of a comprehensive calendar of events. Emeritus and acclaimed Underground Rail- safe-house operators and conductors. Gara’s Send News, Letters, Articles or Ads road author Larry Gara with an honorary doc- book was a major influence in the rekindling News, letters or articles: torate of humane letters. of the nation’s memory of the Underground [email protected] Railroad beginning in Advertising: [email protected] In honoring Gara, now 86, college president the 1960s. See our web site notice for rates, Daniel A. DiBiasio cited Gara’s lifelong work specifications and restrictions. in race relations, peace activism and social The Friends of the justice causes. Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Free Press® Association will also Independent Reporting On Gara’s landmark 1961 book The Liberty Line: Today’s Underground Railroad honor Gara at its an- The Legend of the Underground Railroad re- nual conference Sep- Peter H. Michael, Publisher cast the Underground Railroad story into the [email protected] tember 16 through 19 301.874.0235 perspective of the freedom seeker and did when he participates in much to promote use of documentation to Underground Railroad Free Press is a free news- a panel discussion. letter published by Underground Railroad Free authenticate Underground Railroad history. Press Publications. Back issues are available free at our web site. Underground Railroad Free Press is distributed by email.
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