Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) (What Would Harriet say on this Memorial Day)

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)



One of my favorite subjects in school was history.

History/Herstory remains a pre occupuation, current occupation and future occupation for me. It sometimes consumes my thoughts in thinking about how we remember , construct and communicate recorded experiences and shared experiences.



On this memorial day, I wonder what Harriett Tubman would say.



 She did not invest her time in passing a bill, enforcing a tariff, writing a policy paper , establishing a think tank or starting a can we all get along retreat center.



The American Experience is so vast in it's connotation and so inventive in it's possibility.

A Pequot today and an Irish American today might view America the same and yet on this Memorial Day what are we remembering? Does it matter?



The phrase is so commonplace- Freedom is not free and yet who pays , paid and continues to pay the cost? Who reaped and continues to reap the fruits of the investment of blood, sweat and tears?



Historical questions continue to fascinate me but today I am going to proactively imagine marching , thinking and sharing along the underground and overground railroad.