Cycling the Underground Railroad-Part 2
Mural in New Albany, Indiana. An appropriate theme for this trip! BEGINNING AT THE END Today started with a 6 AM takeoff from Prescott, Arizona to Denver, then onto Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, followed by an Uber ride to New Albany, Indiana--where I finished the Southern section of this Underground Railroad adventure in April. This ride I start out in a " free state" (versus a ,"slave state"), which I have discovered wasn't so free after all. I arrived just in time to catch the outstanding exhibit, "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage" at the New Albany Carnegie Center for the Arts and History. I learned MANY things, and was reminded of others. Here are some of the takeaways. New Albany, now a small town on the Indiana side of the Ohio River across from Louisville, Kentucky, was Indiana's largest city in 1850, and the second largest shipbuilding center on the River, producing three times as many boats as Lo...