Lawnside Historical Society Hosts 2 Youth Events
Photo courtesy of Lawnside Historical Society
AC JosepH Media
LAWNSIDE – The Lawnside Historical Society, supporters of the celebrated Underground Railroad stop Peter Mott House, will host two youth events in May and June.
The LHS’s Youth Panel will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, May 8, at 7 p.m., at the Peter Mott House. The meeting will focus on how young people see the country and themselves in it. Local youth will discuss the direction the United States is going in their view and what needs to be done to secure their future.
For more information, email info@petermotthouse.org.
The society will host its fourth annual Underground Railroad Camp for sixth through eighth graders interested in photography at the Grace Temple Baptist Church, 15 East Charleston Avenue, in Lawnside from June 23-27 from 10 a.m-3 p.m.
Camden-based photographer Erik James Montgomery will each the program, which will be run by Jacqueline Miller-Bentley and Muneerah Higgs. Student registration is $25 for the camp, which is being funded by the NJ Council on the Arts through the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission at Camden County College. The National Association of University Women also contributed to the camp.”
“[The camp] will examine the network to freedom through the lens of photography,” the society said in a statement in its newsletter. “Erik James Montgomery, noted Camden-based photographer, will teach campers to make pictures of] Underground Railroad sites in Lawnside and Camden.”
The UGRR Camp will wrap up with an exhibit of the campers’ photographs, essays and poems, the society said.
The historic Peter Mott House was one of the stops on the Underground Railroad in the mid-19th century. Freedom fighter who used his home as respite for the enslaved fleeing North to freedom from the brutal slavery in the southern United States.
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