Family and Consumer Science
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Community Development
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The Underground Railroad in Ohio
Program offered by Susan Holladay and Rosemary Ehlerding Presenters offer a compelling program on the importance of Ohio in the story of the Underground Railroad and the ingenuity of those who crated, maintained and traveled its all too often treacherous road to freedom. Rosemary Ehlerding will serve as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She will explain how ordinary quilts and household items may have been the means for relaying life-saving messages to escaping slaves along their way to freedom.
Susan Holladay is an Extension Educator for Family and Consumer Science/Community Development in Clinton County with Ohio State University Extension. Rosemary Ehlerding has been recognized as the 2001 Ohio Homemaker of the Year and is a member of the Clinton County Quilters Guild and co founder of the highly acclaimed Corn Festival in Wilmington.
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Ohio Underground Railroad Resources National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
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If you would like to schedule a program for your group or organization, contact us at 937-382-0901 or email the Family Science/Community Development Extension Agent |
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All educational programs conducted by Ohio State University Extension are available to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability or Vietnam-era veteran status. Issued in furtherance of
Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation
with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Keith L. Smith, Director, Ohio
State University Extension.
Updated: December 2004
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