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From: Christopher Densmore <>
Subject: [UNDERGROUND-RR] On My Way to Canada play at Plattsburg, NY, March 3-9, 2002; URR Tour at Swarthmore College, Feb. 23, 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:31:57 -0500

ON MY WAY TO CANADA (PLATTSBURG, NY), MARCH 3-9, 2002



>
>From:
>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 03:24:14 EST
>In March The Red Hummingbird Foundation will produce a one act abolition
>play, On My Way to Canada. The play was inspired by the recollections of the
>Quaker bolitionist, Stephen Keese Smith of Peru, New York. We are producing
>the play with the help of Plattsburgh State's Theatre Department and the
>Council on the Arts for Clinton County. There will be four public
>performances.
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>Preview Performance: Sunday, March 3, 10 AM at the Unitarian Universalist
>Fellowship, 9 Palmer Street, Plattsburgh
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>Premier Performance: Wednesday, March 6, 7 PM, SUNY campus, Hawkins Recital
>Hall. This performance will begin with a slide presentation of local
>abolition sites by folksinger Lita Kelly.
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>Friday evening, March 8, Clinton Community College, Stafford Building
>auditorium, 7 PM
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>Saturday evening, March 9, Lake Forest Retirement Community, 6:30 PM. Lake
>Forest is located behind the military cemetery on the Old Base.
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>We are booking performances of our historical reading ($300) and
>presentations of our one act in public schools ($150). If you or someone you
>know would be interested, please email us or give me at 518-293-7119.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Don Papson

Don Papson can be reached at:


>SWARTHMORE COLLEGE'S ABOLITIONIST AND UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HERITAGE
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>A TOUR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2002
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>Meet at Friends Historical Library in McCabe Library, at 1:30 PM.
>The tour will conclude at Swarthmore Friends Meeting by 3:30 PM.
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>Meet, and learn of the Swarthmore Colleges associations of:
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>A founder of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and the
>"Guiding Spirit" of the First Woman's Rights Convention. Her legacy
>lives on the East Campus.
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>The Swarthmore History Professor who served as Lieutenant Colonel of
>the 54th Massachusetts (Colored).
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>The Swarthmore College President who assisted "self-emancipated
>slaves" along the Underground Railroad in Bucks County,
>Pennsylvania.
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>The man Frederick Douglass described as "the first white man I ever
>saw when escaping from slavery, who led me to doubt, the till then
>well established conviction that no white man could possibly possess
>a disinterested regard for the despised black man."
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>The first biographer of "Afric-American astronomer" Benjamin Banneker.
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>For information, contact Christopher Densmore, Friends Historical
>Library, 610-328-8497;
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