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Adams Mark Hotel The Enlightened Escape Few places in the world can boast the natural, historical and cultural wonder of the area surrounding the Falls at Niagara. The Barton Hill Hotel and Spa has partnered up with Motherland Connextions to offer the premier way to experience it all. The "Enlightened Escape" Package includes your nights at the Inn and a custom 4-hour Motherland Connextion Tour. Designed for the inquisitive traveler, the Underground Railroad tour was developed by educators and historians and is an in-depth glimpse into the history of the region. These living history adventures are led by "conductors" dressed in period clothing and immerse the participants in the experience that was the Underground Railroad. The history of the Railroad is so closely tied to the geography and folklore of the area, that the range of topics covered is too broad the list.
For Booking Information Call 1.866.726.0864
Motherland Connextions has been featured on both the Travel Channel and the Discovery Channel and is truly the only way for the discerning traveler to experience the area.
The Barton Hill Hotel and Spa, the historically hip inn allows you to feel as if you were living in one of the grand mansions of the era that was the final stop for slaves on their way to Canada. Starting from $262 per couple, try the "Enlightened Escape" today and experience the best of the region, past and present!
Travel the towns and sites in Western New York that played host to the thousands of runaways who passed through. Visit a known Underground Railroad site, the oldest property continuously owned, and occupied by African-Americans in Buffalo, New York – The Michigan Street Baptist Church. See the world’s first tourist attraction – Niagara Falls and it’s relationship to the slave trade. See where Mother Moses (Harriet Tubman) herself crossed in Canaan (Canada) en-route to her first home after her escape via the Underground Railroad.
Here the stories, and see the sites that made up the African Canadian experience. Uncover what was the second leg of the Underground Railroad. Visit the first home and worshipping site for Harriet Tubman, the British Methodist Episcopal Church (BME) "Salem Chapel" in St. Catharines, Ontario - her first home. Also visit a former slave cemetery, hold libation, and hear what Canaanland was all about and what it meant to fugitive slaves.
Explore with us the unique relationships between Western New York and Southern Ontario. Feel the merging of African American and African Canadian history evolve into one - "North American History". Cross the Upper and/or Lower Niagara Rivers to one of the many boarder towns to understand the draw these communities had on the Freedom seekers.
A tour you will never forget! A tour guaranteed to make you a "New World Abolitionist" This tour brings the history alive. You actually become one of the Freedom Seekers escaping through the woods on your way to freedom. This tour begins at dusk led by a guide using candle lanterns. As you make your trek on the trail, "bounty hunters" and their dogs will be in pursuit. Think of this tour as a living play you act out a part in.
Learn about the famous Niagara Movement pre-cursor to the NAACP from the historic figures that founded it in the city of Buffalo in 1905. Tour includes living history with W.E.B. Dubois and Mary B. Talbert at the historic Michigan Street Baptist Church; a one-hour docu-musical on the life and influence of DuBois, the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard; live music and lunch; a cultural marketplace, and a trip across the Canadian border to the site of the Niagara Convention. (Please note: all group members must have appropriate documentation in order to cross the Canadian border: passports and birth certificates are best.)
This one is big fun! Join gracious hostess Mary B. Talbert and the ladies of the prestigious Phyllis Wheatley Club for their annual High Tea social. Package includes a mini-play (excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston's "Polk County), classical violin concert and special guest presentation from Niagara Movement founder W.E.B. Dubois himself. Shopping in the cultural marketplace follows tea social. Then back to the hotel for an afternoon of free time a chance to visit the famous Niagara Falls -- before the Evening Speakeasy at Buffalo's historic Colored Musicians Club. Get ready to jam with the coolest jazz cats in the Queen City. Refreshments and drinks will be on sale.
Note: In Development
GIRL SCOUT UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MERIT BADGE
NOT FOR PROFIT SPECIAL:American Pathways Nationally Designated Underground Railroad Itinerary Forty Two Passenger School Bus Guide in Period Costume 4 Hour Underground Railroad Tour Student Activity (Teachers) Packet
Pre-formed groups may select any date from list of available trips. Have another destination in mind
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Introduction  Click Here |
The Escape Click Here |
The Pursuit Click Here |
Lead Us To Freedom Click Here |
The Experience Click Here |
Interview With Kevin Cottrell Click Here |
If you have difficulty viewing these video clips, please download a new QuickTime Video Player at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download. To request a FREE copy (not including postage) of the Re-Enactment Video, while supplies last, please call (716) 282-1028.
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NOTES Regarding CUSTOMIZED GROUP TOURS:
We also conduct lectures and slide presentations about the Underground Railroad!
For information on Motherland Connextions' Tours, please contact:
Motherland Connextions Inc.
P.O. Box 176 Bridge St. Station
Niagara Falls, NY
14305
Toll Free: (866) 726-0864
Phone: (716) 282-1028
Fax: (716) 304-6813
Cell: (716) 867-1028
Email: tours@motherlandconnextions.com
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