Daily News | Philly ‘walking artist’ arrives in St. Catharines, Ontario, where Harriet Tubman once lived
Ken Johnston, the Philadelphia “walking artist” who set out from Harlem, N.Y., in July, walked across the Rainbow Bridge into Niagara Falls, Ontario, shortly after sunrise Saturday.
“The last three miles today, it got very, very warm. It was hot. .… But I was pretty exhausted when I got here.” Johnston said he found it important to connect the stories of Pierpoint and Tubman, who led several groups of enslaved people to Canada on the Underground Railroad.of people who use walking as an art practice in a variety of disciplines.
In 1859, Tubman moved her parents and a brother to Auburn, N.Y. According to Natasha Henry, writing for theHowever, for a while, she continued to work from Canada, planning rescues and establishing a Fugitive Aid Society to support Black refugees from the States.Salem Chapel ties to Richard Allen and Philadelphia
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