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Freedom Quest Ohio
PBS distance learning
event originates from Mills Lawn
April 2005
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 Mills
Lawn hosted
Freedom
Quest Ohio, a PBS video distance
learning program about the Underground Railroad in Ohio. The program,
a project of
WVIZ/PBS
(Cleveland), featured
Terry Peterson
(above left) and
Joan Southgate
(above center), who at the age of 73 retraced the 400-mile route of slaves
along the Underground Railroad in 2002 and paid a visit to Mills Lawn.
Technical difficulties prevented the crew from originating the videocast
from the
National Afro-American
History Museum in Wilberforce.
Mills
Lawn was happy to offer its facility to originate the distance learning
event, which was sent out to schools around the state. We even loaned
Yellow Springs Schools IT specialist, Jacob Steberl (right), to run the
camera. Dionne Barclay, Mills Lawn's Technology Coordinator, welcomed
students from around Ohio. |
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During April and May (2005),
Joan Southgate, a noted author and African American woman in her seventies
and-Terry Peterson, award winning producer in his 40's, will make their way
across Ohio. Using the "Underground Railroad" as a very visible and viable
illustration of freedom, the series of six interactive video distance learning
sessions will transport students to historic places along the original path of
the Underground Railroad where interviews will be gathered and incorporated into
a powerful exploration of freedom.
-Text courtesy of
Freedom Quest
Ohio
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