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Follow the drinking gourd
- Title
- Follow the drinking gourd [videorecording] / Macmillan/McGraw Hill School Publishing Company ; a Miller-Brody video dramatization.
- Publication
- New York : American School Publishers, 1990.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | J VTH 2295 F | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (12 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- This iconographic adaptation meshes Jeanette Winter's colorful primitive paintings with renditions of an American folksong to relate a story of the Underground Railroad, the secret network which aided escaping slaves find their way north to freedom. Long before the Civil War, an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe sought employment as a handyman on southern plantations so that he could help slaves escape their bondage. He taught them the words to the song, "Follow the drinking gourd," which contained directions for the route of the Underground Railroad. Joe drew pictures in mud or charcoal on dead trees to serve as markers. The "drinking gourd" of the song was another name for the Big Dipper, the constellation that always points to the North Star. To keep from being separated, one family, headed by Molly and James, followed the "drinking gourd" to freedom. Fleeing through the woods by night and hiding in the trees by day, the family finally arived at the Ohio River. There, Peg Leg Joe guided them across and told them how to identify the safe houses of the Underground Railroad. In the end, Molly, James and their loved ones reached Lake Erie and the steamship that would take them to a new life in Canada.
- Series Statement
- (The Children's literature series)
- Subjects
- Note
- Based on the book by Jeanette Winter.
- Credits (note)
- Director, Rosemary Killen; music, Arthur Custer.
- Title
- Follow the drinking gourd [videorecording] / Macmillan/McGraw Hill School Publishing Company ; a Miller-Brody video dramatization.
- Imprint
- New York : American School Publishers, 1990.
- Series
- (The Children's literature series)
- Credits
- Director, Rosemary Killen; music, Arthur Custer.
- Performer
- Narrator/singer: Ron Richardson.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Winter, Jeanette. Follow the drinking gourd.Killen, Rosemary.
- Branch Call Number
- J VTH 2295 F