Stephanie to experience Dionne 'Dee' Patterson's UGRR storytelling as a cultural interpreter on a trip back in time to explore the lives and world-changing efforts of historic figures local to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area. The exhibit and lecture aboard a privately chartered 1911 luxury salon rail car to travel across the majestic Lancaster-area countryside whilst […]
Stephanie presenting on March 13, 2024 to Descendants (African American - enslaved) of the Montpelier Mansion in PG County Maryland. Montpelier House Museum - Park and Recreation - Prince Georges County MD (pgparks.com)
Theme for 2024 RootsTech: 'Your Story is Worth Remembering'
Stephanie to keynote the Howard County Maryland Historical Society's annual meeting on February 11, 2024. Presentation will include relevant segments of the Sojourns in Truth lecture series.
On January 30, 2024 Stephanie Gilbert testified before the Maryland State Senate at the invite of Senator Arthur Ellis in support of his proposed bill (Senate Bill 105 - Emancipation of the Remains of the Enslaved) which was inspired by her story which ran in the Washington Post on August 5, 2023. Senator Ellis' proposal […]
Stephanie Gilbert is speaking to members of Jack and Jill of America's Delaware Valley Cluster on their Founder's Day. Topics include the legacy of African American women in Philadelphia; most notably the women who founded Jack and Jill of America.
Stephanie Gilbert facilitates a workshop for teens of Jack and Jill of America on January 7, 2024 in support of their 2024 legacy project to research and document their own family histories. Discussion topics include getting started, research tools, family interviews, using DNA (genetic genealogy), and putting it all together.
Stephanie will present two 'live' sessions in Houston: Saturday, November 4, 9am - 10am: 'Sojourns in Truth' Sunday, November 5, 10am -11am: 'Finding Suzanne'
Stephanie will be on location at the site of the Christiana Resistance to commemorate the anniversary of the event and will film a Legacy of the Underground Railroad Interview with US National Park Service Interview found here: An Oral History With Ms. Stephanie Gilbert descendant of Oliver Cromwell Kelly Gilbert. 9-8-2023. (youtube.com)
Planned tracing of the footsteps of Oliver C. Gilbert and his 'dash for liberty' using the locations described in his autobiography.
Since its birth by Congressional mandate on July 21, 1998, the National Underground Network to Freedom has grown from a scattershot smattering of recognized sites of UGRR activity into a truly international network of 744 sites, programs, and research facilities. Collectively, this vast network and the researchers behind it have profoundly expanded and transformed our […]
