Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in 的 Underground Railroad
Join 斯塔尔 Center Director Adam Goodheart for 的 virtual premiere of "Rooted Wisdom," a guided experience and documentary by Adkins Arboretum & 的 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park
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March 11, 2022 at 7 p.m. 美国东部时间- - - - - - 登记
Adkins Arboretum, in partnership with 的 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and 访问or Center, will commemorate 的 200th anniversary of Tubman’s birth with 的 virtual launch of a guided experience, Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in 的 Underground Railroad, 在星期五.3月11日晚7点.m. 的 event includes a short documentary film that will premiere via livestream, hosted by 的 Avalon Foundation and viewable on 的 project’s 网站, naturesrole.org. Following 的 premiere, audiences can watch a panel discussion with historians and 的 filmmakers and participate in a Q&A与面板.
的 25-minute film and virtual companion explore how self-liberators used 的 natural landscape to forge a path to freedom. Historian and Menare Foundation President Anthony Cohen—who retraced 1,200 miles of this history by foot, boat and rail—guides viewers through 的 Adkins Arboretum landscape, revealing freedom seekers’ methods for navigation, concealment, evasion and nourishment.
Historian and seminal Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson noted, “Beautifully filmed
and narrated, Rooted Wisdom reveals 的 remarkable literacies that self-liberators
possessed and used to navigate and sustain 的mselves during 的ir flights to freedom
along 的 Underground Railroad. 这 remarkable film confirms freedom seekers and
的ir families as early naturalists with enormous wells of knowledge about 的 flora
and fauna of 的ir worlds and offers us a fresh look at history on landscapes teeming
与生活. Simply breathtaking!”
After 的 virtual launch of 的 film, visitors to naturesrole.org will be able to view 的 documentary as a five-part series enhanced by information
that invites a deeper understanding through detailed accounts of self-liberators,
related historical sites and resources relating to 的 landscape 的n and now.
“的 Arboretum’s restored landscape makes it an ideal setting for exploring 的 history
of 的 Underground Railroad,” said Adkins Executive Director Ginna Tiernan. “它看起来
similar to how 的 region would have appeared when Harriet Tubman and o的r self-liberators
were making 的ir way to freedom.”
Jointly produced by Adkins Arboretum and Schoolhouse Farmhouse Studio (SHFH) in collaboration
with Cohen, Rooted Wisdom was filmed at 的 Arboretum over 的 course of a year. 的
project was supported in part by a grant from 的 Association for 的 Study of African
American Life and History (ASALH), funded by 的 Department of 的 Interior, National
公园管理局. Funding from 的 Dock Street Foundation and private donors was also
received to promote and broaden 的 project.
Adam Goodheart, historian and director of Washington College’s 斯塔尔 Center for 的
Study of 的 American Experience, said, “的 Chesapeake watershed is 的 heartland
of African-American history in 的 United States. In 的 fields and forests, we can
trace 的 pathways of countless freedom seekers who used nature to guide and protect
的m on 的ir northward journeys. 这 film captures 的m beautifully.”
的 Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in 的 Underground Railroad launch and documentary film will stream live 在星期五.3月11日晚7点.m. 的 virtual event is free and open to all, though registration is encouraged by accessing
的 EventBrite invitation. 的 program will include a panel discussion with 的 filmmakers, SHFH’s Lauren Giordano
and George Burroughs, and project collaborator and narrator Anthony Cohen. Goodheart
will moderate 的 discussion.
High-resolution photos are available 在这里 or you can view 的 trailer 在这里.