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"Home in Glory Land"
Place:
Royal Ontario Museum, Level 1B, Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre
Date:
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time:
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Cost:
Included with Museum Admission.
More Info:
Presented by the Friends of the Canadian Collections (FCC).
From Issue No. 156 | February 17, 2010
Karolyn Smardz Frost, author of I've Got a Home In Glory Land, and winner of the Governor General's 2007 Literary Award for non-fiction, will give an account of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, former slaves who escaped to Toronto from Kentucky via the Underground Railroad. The Royal Ontario Museum's Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canadian Culture has on display John Gillespie's painting View of King Street, Toronto, which includes the only known image of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn's 1837 yellow and red one-horse cab, which was Toronto's first taxicab.
