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<P><FONT color=black size=2>Dear Friends,<BR><BR>Walking Tour was rained out on July 28 so we've rescheduled. Might you forward this to a few of your friends? There will be yet another tour on August 25 same time and place.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=2>Steve<BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><STRONG>Walking Tour of Abolition Era Florence with Steve Strimer</STRONG></FONT><BR></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><EM>Saturday, August 11, 9:00 am leaving from the Sojourner Truth Statue, corner of Park and Pine Streets</EM></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sites visited on the tour include</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></P>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the Pine Grove where Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and others spoke during and after the days of the Northampton Association of Education and Industry; </FONT><br></LI>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the Nonotuck Silk Dam where Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child processed sugar beets as an alternative to slave grown sugar cane; near </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the house of David Ruggles, New York City’s most daring Underground Railroad hero who aided over 600 fugitives to freedom including Frederick Douglass; </FONT><br></LI>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the Ross Homestead, agricultural center of the NAEI soon to be on the National Register with UGRR context</FONT><br></LI>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the home of fugitive slaves Basil Dorsey and Thomas H. Jones now on the National Register of Historic Places; </FONT><br></LI>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>the homes of Sojourner Truth, Samuel L. Hill, Frances and Hall Judd, Hiram Wells, James Dunn Atkins and Elisha Hammond all built within the five years following the end of the Northampton Association in 1846.</FONT><br></LI></UL>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The tour is approximately 1.5 miles and takes about an hour-and-a-half and is moderately hilly. A donation of any size to the Sojourner Truth Memorial Scholarship will be appreciated.</FONT></P>
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