Underground Railroad Presentation at WVU Parkersburg

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Authors Henry Burke and Dick Croy will discuss their book “The River Jordan,” a story of the Underground Railroad, in a free presentation at West Virginia University at Parkersburg on Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the campus library.

A question and answer period will follow their 7 p.m. presentation and autographed copies of their book will be available. The program is free and open to the public.

The book blends fiction and fact in a daring tale of an enslaved family’s Underground Railroad-assisted escape from western Virginia.   It is a fictionalized account of an actual escape in August, 1843, of a slave and her seven children from a western Virginia tobacco plantation on land once owned by George Washington.  All the major characters and events are real, portrayed as reported in newspapers and historical documents of the time.  A vivid, inspiring chronicle of a family’s harrowing ordeal, it is also a story of heroism and compassion on the Underground Railroad.

Contact  Robert Cordell, associate professor of social sciences, 424-8270,  for additional information.

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For additional information, contact:
Connie Dziagwa
Director, Communications and Public Relations
WVU Parkersburg
(304-424-8203)