Barn
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Please be aware of any caution and danger signs.
The area is under video surveillance.
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July 9, 2009 Monthly Meeting
Allison-Antrim Museum, Greencastle, Pennsylvania will hold a mid-summer meeting
on Thursday, July 9, 2009 in the downstairs social room of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church, 130 North Washington St, Greencastle, Pennsylvania beginning at
7 pm. The facility is wheelchair accessible.
Bonnie Shockey, AAMI board president, will be the evening's speaker. Her presentation “Runaway Slave – His Name was Ben” will tell the story of a young African American during the early 1800s in Pennsylvania. Ben was owned by Andrew Kauffman who moved from Adams County to Franklin County in 1816. The ratio of slaves to free African Americans in Pennsylvania during the early 1800s was one out of 10.
In March of 2008, Ben's iron slave collar was given to Allison-Antrim Museum by Courtland C. Kauffman of Florida, who is the third great-grandson of Andrew. It was used to bring Ben into submission and prevent him from running away. The collar had been passed from generation to generation in the Kauffman family for over 175 years until it was gifted to Allison-Antrim Museum.
Ben's story is very poignant and is legionary for the thousands of slaves whose names have been forgotten or were never known. What were the politics of Pennsylvania in the early 1800s relative to slavery? What was the Gradual Abolition Act of 1780? What was Ben's fate? The answers will be revealed at the mid-summer meeting.
The program is open to the public. There is no fee to attend, but donations will be accepted toward Allison-Antrim Museum's annual speaker series.
August 6, 9, 11, 2009
September 13, 15, 17
John Cook
Coming this summer, a traveling exhibit about John Edwin Cook, which is on loan from the National Park Service, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Cook was one of John Brown's first recruits in 1857 for Brown's master plan to raid the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Seven of Brown's men escaped the night of the raid. Only five made it safely to the north. Cook and Albert Hazlett were captured. Hazlett was captured near Newville, PA. Cook was captured in the Mont Alto-Quincy, PA area by the infamous Daniel Logan, who along with his brother, was a bounty hunter.
Please visit AAMI's Web site again for more
specific information of dates and times.
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