To commemorate the escape that Harriet Tubman led on Christmas Eve 1854 to free her brothers from slavery, join in for a lecture, walk, and more of the grounds of the Mt. Pleasant Acres Farms – formerly the Thompson Farm. The event includes a lecture about the 1854 escape, followed by a tour of the farm and the Witness Tree, a three-mile walk along the Choptank River, and a lantern launch commemorating the ancestors. The event begins Christmas Eve, Dec. 24 at 3pm at 22239 Marsh Creek Road in Preston, Maryland.
Requested donations is $25 per person (kids free with parents). Refreshments will be served at the end of the walk. The event benefits the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center in Cambridge, MD (Stop #4 on the road trip known as the Harriet Tubman Byway).
The walk commemorates what’s known as the Christmas Escape. On Dec. 24, 1854, Harriet Tubman returned from freedom in the North to Maryland, where her brothers Ben, Robert, and Henry were enslaved at the Thompson Farm in Poplar Neck in Caroline County.
To take part in the walk, or if you have questions, email Linda Harris at campharriet1913@gmailcom or Ken Johnston at kjohnston16@yahoo.com.
The walk will be filmed by an international film crew from GetSetUp.
Find out more at harriettubmanmuseumandeducationalcenter.com