Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad

Registration is required. This program is limited to 40 PTPLD participants. Patrons may register two (2) guests. Please note that this program will be meeting in person. Join Connie Martin, MA, for an evening of presentation, storytelling, and display of over a dozen beautifully hand-crafted quilt replicas, representing patterns and special stitching used over 300 years ago by abolitionists and fugitive slaves to signify escape routes to the North. It is shown how quilts were used to signal plans, warn of dangers, indicate how transport might occur, or who might help as “Friends” on the Underground Railroad.