While it was not an ordinary railroad, one with tracks and moving trains, it had an end destination: freedom. A destination embarked upon by hundreds of escaping slaves. Quilt Codes of the Underground ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - If you're going to to take a road trip, you just pull up a map on your phone. Ten years ago, you used a map and road signs. But how did escaped slaves find their way to freedom ...

Feb. 22—It's amazing the things that can be said with a piece of fabric — a lesson that was taken to heart by members of the Madison County Historical Society after a presentation from Colonel Judy ...

The quilts that hung from the porch railings or over the bushes in front of the slave quarters didn't mean much to their owners. But to their slaves, the images and patterns held messages to help them ...

As a hobby, quilting is often about remembering loved ones. Today almost a million Americans make some kind of quilt, including replica Revolutionary War quilts, and, increasingly Underground Railroad ...

WILKES-BARRE — In 1999, a book by art historian Raymond Dobard Jr. and college instructor Jacqueline Tobin was published called “Hidden In Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground ...