Owen Muelder: Historian and storyteller

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

3 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

09/23/2009

Category :

Arts & media

Sub category :

Journalism

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Summary :

Introduction
Muelder's speeches about antislavery movement
1. Lincoln-Douglas debates
2. Knox history buff
3. Knox luminaries
Seibert's role
The sense in publicizing
Conclusion

Abstract

owen muelder's office, in Knox's Old Jail, is something of a museum. A side table is spread with construction paper thank you cards from ROWVA East's 5th grade, offering crayon drawings of black stick figures darting behind trees, and lamps lit in certain houses, but not others. Four trowels, spotless but for autographs in permanent markers, are displayed nearby: they dug up soil from the yard in front of the house where Susan Neal van Allen Richardson lived in Galesburg after her escape and emancipation. Two maps of different legs of the Underground Railroad hang both in his office and at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati: he made them himself.

In 2006, the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program designated Knox as an Underground Railroad Freedom Station, one of more than sixty sites across the country with Underground Railroad heritage. As the director of the Galesburg colony, it makes sense that muelder should spend most of his time in a room full of the past.