A coded letter, secret maritime messages, and the cover of darkness will be explored on a 3.5 mile walk tracing the footsteps of famed Underground Railroad Conductor Harriet Tubman’s 1854 Christmas Rescue.
Beginning near the actual site of the rescue 169 years ago, Ken Johnston, Linda Harris & David Cole will guide you on a journey of resistance, history, code songs, and storytelling from the banks of the historic Choptank River in Preston, Maryland.
slare
To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.
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