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Join us at Hitchcock Nature Center, Saturday, April 11th, as Barry Jurgensen explores Iowa’s Underground Railroad connections—highlighting conductors, safe houses, and powerful stories of freedom.
Please meet in the Bluestem Room, downstairs at the Loess Hills Lodge.
This event is hosted as part of “Iowa’s America 250 Scenic Byways Road Trip” Series, a partnership between the Iowa Department of Transportation and Iowa's Scenic Byways that celebrates the state’s role in shaping the nation’s history.
Barry Jurgensen is the Midwest Regional Manager and Historian for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, a program of the National Park Service that honors, preserves, and promotes the history of resistance to enslavement through escape and flight. From the regional office in Omaha, Barry coordinates with local, state, and federal agencies to identify and preserve sites associated with the Underground Railroad across the Midwest.
