Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky, by Faith Ringgold (Sat, Feb 28)
by Real Worcester - February 28, 2009 6:02am
Danforth Museum of Art, 123 Union Avenue, Framingham, MA
About the Exhibit
In 1991, eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot soared above the rooftops of New York City in Tar Beach …one of the most acclaimed children’s book debut of recent years. In Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky, Cassie returns to the skies. Flying way up, so far up that the mountains look like rock candy and the oceans like tiny cups of tea, Cassie and her brother, Be Be, encounter a fantastic train–the Underground Railroad train–and a tiny woman in a conductor’s uniform. The woman is Harriet Tubman, who transports Cassie and Be Be back to the terrifying world of a slave plantation and on a desperate–but ultimately triumphant–journey of escape.
Drawing on historical accounts of the Underground Railroad and the facts of Harriet Tubman’s life, and on the rich resources of her own imagination, Faith Ringgold has created a book that both recounts the chilling realities of slavery and joyfully celebrates freedom.
Cost: $10 adult $8 senior and students; Free for members and children 17 and under. Free for all first Sunday of the Month
Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, through Mar 1.