Senior Outdoor Adventures in Recreation BACKROADS TO FREEDOM EASTERN SHORE UNDERGROUND RR & HARRIET TUBMAN RIDING TOUR Our Eastern Shore guide Sherri, will relate stories of early to mid-nineteenth century farm life where Harriet Tubman was born and worked as a young slave girl. We will hear stories of free black communities. Sites include Bucktown, Brodess, Plantation, Church Creek, and Madison. We will follow their flight to freedom via the underground RR. Our guide will relate stories of the fleeing slaves and the assistance by courageous abolitionists. We will see the Historic Courthouse where slave traders bought slaves. We will see where runaway slaves hid while waiting for transportation north. We will travel north along the Underground RR route through Secretary, East New Market and Preston. You will hear stories of the escapes and the bounty hunters who chased the fugitives. You will see sites made famous by Harriet Tubman in her 13 attempts to rescue friends and family. Lunch, included, at a local restaurant. Fee: $74 Trip number: 370942 Trip number: 370943
Leave 7:30 am, Return 6:30 pm Wednesday, April 30 Thursday, May 1
TOUR VALLEY FORGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK WITH ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN ED BEARSS Of all places associated with America’s War of Independence, none conveys the suffering, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph of our nation more than Valley Forge. Trace the path of Washington’s winter encampment march-in. Explore the rows of cannons, the soldiers log huts, the earthenwork fortifications, Washington’s headquarters, and the majestic Memorial Arch. Hear the stories, legends, and struggle to survive of the Continental Army, as only Ed Bearss, retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service, can tell it. Lunch, included, at Old Country Buffet. Fee: $75 Trip number: 370944 Trip number: 370945
Leave 7:00 am, Return 7:00 pm Tuesday, May 6 Wednesday, May 7 Image via Wikimedia Commons, Hal Jespersen
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