2014 Conference Workshops and Presentations:
“Maryland Eastern Shore U.S. Colored Troops Who Were Prisoners of War during the Civil War” Bob O’Connor, independent researcher and author
“A Glimpse at the Movement of Freedom Seekers to, across, and from Cecil County” Milt Diggins, independent scholar and writer
“The Water Moves Us – Past and Present” Keasha Haythe, Dorchester County economic development director.
“Speaking History through Poems and Plays” Nancy Clarke Otter, Kate Rushin, Melanie Greenhouse, and Camilla Ross, A Teacher, two poets, and a theater person
“Racing for Freedom: Documenting the Underground Railroad on the Eastern Shore of Mary
“Harriet
Tubman’s Home Girl: Frances Ellen
Watkins Harper” Lavonda Kay Broadnax,
Library of Congress
“Paul Cuffe’s Atlantic World, 1759-1817” Dr. Jeffrey Fortin, Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College
“’Finding My Eagle’: The UGRR through the Eyes of my Ancestors: Navigating Freedom’s Quandaries while Building Pathways, Bridges and Mediums to Americas’ Written Premise” Bruce Purnell, Higher Hopes, Inc., Washington, D.C.
“Unsung Heroes, Waterways, and the Underground Railroad” Jenny Masur and Sheri Jackson, National Park Service
"Finding the ‘Only True Home’: The Voyage of Thomas Fuller, Jr. & Benjamin Jenifer from Cambridge to Liberia” Dr. Phillip Hesser, researcher, writer, interpreter, and lecturer
“Paul Cuffe’s Atlantic World, 1759-1817” Dr. Jeffrey Fortin, Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College
“’Finding My Eagle’: The UGRR through the Eyes of my Ancestors: Navigating Freedom’s Quandaries while Building Pathways, Bridges and Mediums to Americas’ Written Premise” Bruce Purnell, Higher Hopes, Inc., Washington, D.C.
“Unsung Heroes, Waterways, and the Underground Railroad” Jenny Masur and Sheri Jackson, National Park Service
"Finding the ‘Only True Home’: The Voyage of Thomas Fuller, Jr. & Benjamin Jenifer from Cambridge to Liberia” Dr. Phillip Hesser, researcher, writer, interpreter, and lecturer
“Re-visioning: Harriet Tubman in the Post-Black Art Era” Kimerly
S. Cornish, Art Curator and Tubman descendant
“Flight and Freedom in Miles River Neck, Talbot County, Maryland” Emily Huebner and Tanner Sparks, Maryland State Archives
“Methods of Teaching History Workshop – It’s FUNdamental!!” Melissa Waddy-Thibodeau, History re-enactor and playwright
“Paul Cuffe: The Black Mariner” Michael Sampson, Kent County Librarian and Royce Sampson, Researcher and tour director
“Chesapeake Underground: Charting a Course toward Freedom” Vincent O. Leggett, Founder, Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation
“A Comparative Analysis of the Lives of Free Black Women in Antebellum Dorchester, Talbot, and Caroline Counties” Laura Weldon, graduate student in history
“National Civil War Graves Registration Project” Daniel R. Pyle, Historical researcher
“From Slavery to Freedom” Bill Jarmon, Herschel Johnson, Mary Dennard Turner, Dorchester area history researchers
“Flight and Freedom in Miles River Neck, Talbot County, Maryland” Emily Huebner and Tanner Sparks, Maryland State Archives
“Methods of Teaching History Workshop – It’s FUNdamental!!” Melissa Waddy-Thibodeau, History re-enactor and playwright
“Paul Cuffe: The Black Mariner” Michael Sampson, Kent County Librarian and Royce Sampson, Researcher and tour director
“Chesapeake Underground: Charting a Course toward Freedom” Vincent O. Leggett, Founder, Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation
“A Comparative Analysis of the Lives of Free Black Women in Antebellum Dorchester, Talbot, and Caroline Counties” Laura Weldon, graduate student in history
“National Civil War Graves Registration Project” Daniel R. Pyle, Historical researcher
“From Slavery to Freedom” Bill Jarmon, Herschel Johnson, Mary Dennard Turner, Dorchester area history researchers
Presentation/Exhibit: "The One Hundred-Year Journey to a National Museum
of African American History and Culture" William Pretzer, Senior Curator of History, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
of African American History and Culture" William Pretzer, Senior Curator of History, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Segments from the talk during our 2012 Conference by Keynote Speaker Dr. Judith Wellman who has extensively researched Underground Railroad sites of New York.
The following video is a slide show presentation of photos from past conferences:
Other Past Conference Workshops
“Exploring Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad:
Presentation of Self-Guided Audio Tour for Adkins Arboretum” (2013) Presenters: Ginna Tiernan, Adkins Arboretum, and Anthony
Cohen, The Menare Foundation, Inc.
“From Slavery to Freedom” (2013) Presenters: Bill Jarmon, Herschel Johnson, and Mary
Turner
“Civil Disobedience:
Unrest in Dorchester County, Maryland, 1800’s–1960’s” (2013) Presenters: Bill Jarmon, Cambridge, Maryland, and Earthel LaGreen
“Conserving the Harriet Tubman Landscape” (2013) Presenters: Joanna Ogburn, Program Director,
Chesapeake Conservancy, and Bill Crouch, Maryland Director, The
Conservation Fund
“From the Eastern Shore to Southern New Jersey: The
Escapes of the Ward, Trustee and Garnet Families” (2013) Presenter: Christopher Densmore, Friends Historical
Library of Swarthmore College
“Using Quaker Records on Manumissions and the Unerground
Railroad in Genealogy” (2013) Presenter: Margo Lee Williams, Silver Spring, MD, a
former editor of the Journal of
the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, and lecturer for the Family History
Centers of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints in the
Washington, D.C. area.
“The Poplar Grove Project: Salvaging Collections and Interpreting the
History of Slavery in Maryland” (2013) Presenters: Allison Seyler and Ryan Cox,
Maryland State Archives
“Thomas McCreary:
Stealing Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line” (2013) Presenter: Milt Diggins
“Sebastian ‘Boss’ Hammond: 19th Century
African American Stone Carver” (2013) Presenter: Mary Ann Ashcraft, Carroll County
Genealogical Society
“Teaching History Through Poetry” (2013) Presenter: Nancy Clarke Otter, graduate student,
Goddard College,Vermont, Hartford and Connecticut Public Schools
“Conjuring Freedom:
Harriet Tubman and the Lore of Witchcraft in Dorchester County” (2013) Presenter: Phillip Hesser, Ph.D., Crocheron, MD
“Remembering The Journey: The Importance of Preserving and Telling Our
Stories” (2013) Presenter: Roberta Wongus, Founder/Curator, Charles
W. Wongus, Sr., Museum of Negro African American Agricultural and Eastern Shore
Maryland Small Community History
“Caroline County Unchained” (workshop with
two presentations: “Sassafras,
Winter Crease and the Help” and “The
Art of Farming and Rixom Webb” (2013) Presenters: Robin M. Caudell and Rebecca
Johns-Hackett, respectively
“Under Construction:
Archeology and History at Wildcat Manor” (2013) Presenters: Robin Krawitz, Delaware State University
and the Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware, and Craig Lukezic,
Delaware State University and the Archeological Society of Delaware
“Samuel D. Burris, Delaware Hero: Revisiting the
History of Delaware's Famous Conductor” (2013) Presenters: Bev
Laing, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, and board
member, Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware; Robin Krawitz,
Delaware State University and the Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware;
and Nena Todd, Site Supervisor, Delaware State House Museum, and
Secretary of the Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware
“The 7th Perjury:The Truth about Nat
Turner’s Trial” (2013) Presenter: Sharon Ewell Foster, Durham, N.C, recipient of the Civil War Institute’s
2012 Michael Shaara Prize for excellence in Civil War fiction
for her novel, The Resurrection of Nat Turner.
“The Eastern Shore Connections of Anthony
Johnson” (2013) Presenter : Walter W. Black, Jr., Talbot County,
Maryland
“Using Nontraditional
Sources in African American Historical and Genealogical Research” (2013) Presenters: Laura Weldon and Terry Nield,
researchers, Dorchester County Historical Society
“Free Black Women on
the Antebellum Eastern Shore: Three Women,
Three Stories” (2013) Presenter: Laura Weldon, researcher, Dorchester
County Historical Society
“Presenting Harriet Tubman–A Freedom Trailblazer” (2013) Presenter: June Ware LaGreen, speaker, author, stage performer and preservationist, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee
“The Harriet Tubman Centennial Journey–WhereWe Are. Where
We’re Going…” (2013) Presenters: Glenn Carowan, Maryland Department of
Natural Resources; Cherie Butler,
National Park Service; Camila Clark, Maryland Office of Tourism; Anne
Kyle, Maryland Office of Tourism; Sally Kenyon Grant, Maryland
Department of Business and Economic Development
“Slavery in Frederick
County, Maryland” (2013) Presenter: Jerry
Hynson, Vice President, Maryland Genealogical Society
“Exploring New Interpretations and Recent Historical
Finds about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” (2013) Presenter: Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D., Simmons
College,author, Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an
American Hero
“Captive Audience: A Sensory Workshop in the Tastes, Touch, Smell,
Sights and Sounds of Slavery” (two-part workshop) (2013) Presenter: Anthony Cohen,
The Menare Foundation, Inc.
“Underground Railroad Genealogy” (2013) Presenter: Tony Burroughs
“Livelihood and Landscape in the Early Life of Harriet Tubman – Toward Communities and Connections on the Underground Railroad” (2012) Presenter: Phillip Hesser, Ph.D., Chesapeake College and Salisbury University
“The Landscape’s Influence on the Life of Harriet Tubman” (2012) Presenters: Joanna Ogburn, Joel Dunn, The Chesapeake Conservancy
Presenter: Rev.
Roberta J. Wongus, pastor, historian and founder/curator of the Charles W.
Wongus, Sr. Museum of Negro African American Agricultural and Eastern Shore
Maryland Small Community History
“A Superhero Walked Among Them: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” (2012)
Presenter: Nicholas
Maurice Young, Ph.D., sociologist and independent researcher, Cleveland,
Ohio
Presenter: Rev.
Joseph DiPaolo, historian and pastor, Wayne, Pennsylvania
United Methodist
Church
“Using Internet Resources for Ancestral Research” (2012) Presenters: Terry Neild and Laura Weldon, Dorchester County Historical Society
“So You’re in Charge of the Reunion? How to Plan, Organize, and Make Yours Better Than Ever” (2012) Presenter: Pamela (P.J.) Thomas, editor and co-publisher of Pathfinders Travel Magazine
“Thomas McCreary: Stealing Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line” (2012)
Presenter: Milt
Diggins, historian and educator, Cecil County, Maryland
“The Free Blue Mountain Air: The Struggle Against Slavery in Indiana County, Pennsylvania” (2012) Presenters: Catherine C. “Chris” Catalfamo, Ph.D. and Denise Jennings-Doyle, M.A., Indiana County, Pennsylvania
“Unshackling History: Reliving
Experiences from American Slavery” (2012) Presenter: Anthony
Cohen, President, The Menare Foundation, Inc., Olney,
Maryland
“Harriet Tubman and the Legacy of Freedom” (2012) Presenter: Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Ph.D., Professor of History, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
“Rhode Island and the Underground Railroad: The Rice, Johns & VanHorne Families” (2012) Presenter: Kimberly Conway Dumpson, Esq., University of Maryland Eastern Shore
“Shaping the Visitor Experience in the Poplar Neck Region of Preston in Caroline County, Maryland” (2012) Panelists: Dale Green, Mary Anne Akers, Ph.D., Professor Paul Voos, Marvin Perry, all affiliated with Morgan State, and Anthony Cohen, president, The Menare Foundation, Inc., Olney, Maryland
“The Underground Railroad Works
Wonderfully: Three New York Families Work for Freedom” (2011) Presenter Jennifer Haines, Education Director, Seward
House
Museum,
Auburn,
NY
“William
Still: Father of the Underground
Railroad, Commissioner and Financier of Harriet Tubman’s Missions” (2011) Presenter Lesley Gist-Etheridge, Ringwood,
NJ
“Discovering the Stories of Ordinary
People Doing Extraordinary Things alont the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
Byway and All
American Road” (2011) Dr. Kate Clifford Larson, author and historian
“The Logistics of Researching a Small
Town of the Eastern
Shore” (2011) Frank Collins, author and creator of website about
East New Market, MD
“Sharing Stories in Harriet Tubman’s Homeland” (2011) Amanda Fenstermaker, Dorchester Co. Tourism; Kathy
Mackel, Caroline Co. Tourism; Matt Ritter; Marci
Ross, MD
Tourism
“Freedom Seeking During the Rebellion in Frederick County, Maryland” (2011) Waneta Gagne, Archivist, Frederick Co., MD Public
Library
“History of Storer College, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia” (2011) L. Tilden Moore, Frederick, MD
“’Anxious Solicitude’: The
Life of Cassandra Kennard, A Free Black Woman in Antebellum Dorchester
County, Maryland” (2011) Presenter Laura J. Weldon, graduate student, Salisbury University
“Delmarva Resources for Researching
African American History” (2011) Presenters Linda Duyer,
Choptank Region History Network, and Damika Baker, Edward
H. Nabb Research
Center for Delmarva History &
Culture
“Let My People Go”: Remembering the Life and Legacy of Harriet
Tubman (2011)
Matthew Ritter, Maryland National Park Service, and
Barbara Taggar, Interim Project Manager, Harriet Tubman UGRR Initiative,
Maryland Park Service/National Park Service
“Tour Training for the Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad Scenic Byway” (2011)
Ernest P. Boger, Chair, Dept. of Hotel &
Restaurant Management, UMES
“Weaving Together the History of
Families and Communities of Color on the Eastern Shore
Part 1 – Finding Your Family
History” (2011 & 2010) Presenter Kimberly Conway Dumpson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
“A Retrospective Look at the Legality of
the 1857 Conviction of Rev. Samuel Green” (2011) Presenter Sharon Davies, Ohio
State
University,
Moritz
College
of Law
“Weaving Together the History of
Families and Communities of Color on the Eastern Shore
Part 2 – How Family Stories Can
be Woven Together” (2011 & 2010) Presenter Kimberly Conway Dumpson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
“The Stanley Institute School in Dorchester County, Maryland” (2011) Presenter Hershel Johnson, President, The Friends of Stanley
Institute, Inc.
“Slavery, Abolitionism and the
Underground Railroad” (2011) Presenter Dr.Clara Small, Salisbury
University
“Our Stories:
The Importance of Preserving History Using Oral Techniques” (2011) Presenter Rev. Roberta J. Wongus, Pastor and historian
“Sharing Stories in Harriet Tubman’s Homeland” (2010) Presenters Amanda
Fenstermaker, Dorchester County , Md. Caroline County Md.
“Three
Links in Harriet Tubman’s Known Trust Network Between the Choptank and
Nanticoke Rivers” (2010) Presenters John Creighton and Pat Lewis, Choptank
Region History Network and Many Rivers Community History Project
“The
Importance of Maryland Presenter Waneta Gagne , Maryland
“Sing Low,
Sweet Harriet: The Musical Life &
Legacy of a Woman Named Moses” (2010) Presenter Anthony Cohen, President, The Menare
Foundation, Inc., Olney , Md.
“Sarah
Young and the Difference She Made in the History
of East New Market” (2010)
Hershel Johnson,
Christ Rock, Md.
“The Eastern Shore : A Treasure Trove of Hidden
History” (2010) Presenter Dr. Clara Small, Salisbury University Salisbury , MD
“Harriet Tubman &
Friends of the Underground Railroad: Finding Freedom through
Faith” (2010) Presenter Louis Fields, President, African-American Tourism
Council of Maryland
“’Lord,
the Oppressed Shall Go Free’: Methodism,
Slavery, and the Eastern Shore ” (2010) Presenter Rev. Joseph F. DiPaolo, historian
and pastor, Wayne, PA United Methodist Church
“Changing
Lives with Local History” (2010)Presenter Dr. Kay McElvey, historian and educator, Hurlock , Md.
“Backtracking
From New York Plattsburgh , New York
“Commemorating
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” (2010) Presenter Sheri Jackson, Barbara Tagger, Diane Miller, National
Park Service
“Dorchester County Liberia
“(Re)Defining
‘Family’ within the ‘Peculiar Institution’ of Slavery in Talbot
and Dorchester Counties Presenter Linda Fretterd Earls, associate
professor of English, Chesapeake College Md.
“Remembering
the Ross’s: The
African-American Ross Family of the Madison-Woolford Area in the 19th
Century” (2010) Presenter Christi Camper-Dorsey,
genealogist, Cambridge , Md.
“Chesapeake Presenter Vincent
Leggett, founder of the
Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation, Annapolis , Md.
