Part 1 Part 2 The legal-sized pages of Oliver Gilbert’s autobiography were enumerated, and the bottom corner of each page revealed an encircled set of numbers – a word count. These pages were meant for publication. We know that Oliver had been encouraged to write his...
Month: July 2023
Part 1 – How I Came to Possess the Autobiography and Other Assorted Miracles
I awakened today, Saturday, with the intent of submitting a few simple paragraphs to Wikipedia such that Oliver would have his own page. He should, right? I read Wikipedia's Terms of Use and got started. That was 8am. Here, it is 3:40pm and I've been writing non-stop,...
A Silver Jubilee Celebration Fit for a Queen! Queen Tubman, That Is….
(Video above - speaking is Dr Cheryl LaRoche associate research professor in Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture, Planning and...
FORMER SLAVE DEAD — We Remember July 11, 1912
Oliver Gilbert's Baltimore Sun death notice was published July 14, 1912 "Former Slave Dead" This week, we remember the death of Oliver Cromwell Kelly, who became Oliver Gilbert on when the quaker abolitionists in lower Lancaster County asked him to change his name to...
Prayer Books, Photographs and Plantations
Spent this rainy Philadelphia weekend sorting through three of the seven boxes of Richland Farm books and ephemera acquired at Caplan's auction house in Savage, MD. We'd already, in March, participated in the online auction for the furnishings and collectibles from...