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Timbuctoo for Kids!Saturday, February 18th, 1.00 - 2.30pm
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Image courtesy of the Adirondacks Museum www.adkmuseum.org
Dreaming of Timbuctoo is a unique traveling exhibition that will only be at The History Center for the month of February. It depicts the community of Timbuctoo, an African American farming community of the 1860’s south of Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Gerrit Smith, a social reformer and abolitionist , made land grants to free African American families so that the men would be able to vote; the ownership of land was a factor at the time. This class for children will briefly tour the exhibition and accompanying artifacts. Then we will compare and contrast the fictional life of American Girl Addy Walker, who, along with her mother, escaped to freedom from the South to settle in Philadelphia in 1864, with Maritcha, a free African American girl who was born and raised in New York City with her family in the 1860’s, and wrote a memoir about her life. The class will conclude with the making of a spatterwork picture, a common activity for children in the 1860’s. Join us for this one-of-a-kind experience! $10/child, includes all supplies and the book Maritcha. Please register & pre-pay on 607 273 8284x0 or welcome@thehistorycenter.net.
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