FORWARDED MESSAGE - Received from

Barbara Tagger
Southeast Region Coordinator
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program
National Park Service
Atlanta Federal Center, 1924 Bldg.
100 Alabama Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 562-3108 x 518
(404) 562-3200 (fax)

URR NEWS: REGIONAL GATHERING, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, APRIL 22, 2O04;
NETWORK TO FREEDOM NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE ON-LINE; REPUBLICATION OF WILLIAM STILL'S HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN DIGITAL AND PRINT FORMATS.

URR REGIONAL GATHERING, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, APRIL 22, 2004.

Underground Railroad Regional Gathering-Building a Broader Network

Please join us on April 22, 2004 from 8:30-3:30 at the Old Town Hall,
Wilmington Delaware.

Underground Railroad historians, educators, tour operators, activists and others will come together to learn, share and continue to build a network for the preservation, education and commemoration of the Underground Railroad. Learn about the maritime connections to the Underground Railroad, current projects in the Mid-Atlantic region and coalition building.

Confirmed speakers include Kate Larson, author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero and Vincent Leggett, Blacks of the Chesapeake.

The event will be followed by a visit to the Freedom Schooner Amistad at the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard. There is a $7.00 charge to tour the Amistad.

The Gathering is cosponsored by the Underground Railroad Coalition of
Delaware and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.

The Old Town Hall is located on the Market Street Mall between 5 and 6 Streets in Wilmington, DE.

Please RSVP by April, 20, 2004 by contacting Pat Lewis (302)778-0155 or Robin Bodo, robin.bodo@state.de.us.

[Thanks to Tara Morrison, National Park Service, for forwarding the above to this list.]
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NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE
ONLINE.

[From Diane Miller, National Park Service]

Spring is here, and the 7th edition of the Network to Freedom newsletter is now available. In order to cut costs for re-producing and mailing the newsletter, we are making it available electronically for those who have internet access. The electronic version will also have the advantage of showing the photographs in color.

You may access the newsletter on the Network to Freedom website at

http://209.10.16.21/TEMPLATE/FrontEnd/newsletter0403.pdf.

We are always interested in material to include in the newsletter. Please contact me if you would like to contribute an article. Deadlines for newsletter submissions are the same as for Network applications: January 15 and July 15 of each year.

Sincerely, Diane Miller
National Coordinator, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom,
National Park Service
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WILLIAM STILL, HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut has added the full text of the first edition of William Still's History of the Underground Railroad to its website. Go to:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x6810.xml

and follow the links to the text. When I tried the site, it took some time for the full text to load.

The William Still Society, Inc., is planning to publish a hard copy edition of William Still's book, with additional material by Charles Blockson of Temple University, Dr. Barbara Wheeler of Kean University and Dr. John Hope Franklin of Duke University. They anticipate that the book will be available in 2005.

Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
April 6, 2004.

Christopher Densmore, Curator
Friends Historical Library
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399

610-328-8499 (phone)
610-690-5728 (fax)
cdensmo1@swarthmore.edu

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends