BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.26.0//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.permanent.org/ X-WR-CALNAME:Permanent.org X-WR-CALDESC:Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=03;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:MEC-680390c55bbd9ce416d1d69a9ab4760d@permanent.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240207T200000 DTSTAMP:20240123T115848Z CREATED:20240123 LAST-MODIFIED:20240123 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:24 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad, with Connie Martin DESCRIPTION:Join Connie Martin to learn about Pre-Civil War Quilts, and the secrets they held.\nJoin Connie Martin as she tells the stories passed down to her great-grandmother Lizzie of how her family survived the antebellum period through trials and tribulations, and how they used quilts that contained hidden codes and secret messages to assist abolitionists–white and black–to guide enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad to Canada.\nDuring this presentation, Connie shares eighteen different quilt patterns in replica quilts and refers to a book her mother, Dr. Clarice Boswell, wrote about their family called Lizzie’s Story: A Slave Family’s Journey to Freedom.\nRegister in advance.\nFor details see urbanafreelibrary.libnet.info/event/9513068\n URL:https://www.permanent.org/events/quilts-secret-codes-to-freedom-on-the-underground-railroad/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR