Aug 14, 2016 1 min read

The Charleroi Area Historical Society will hold a program about “Quilts and the Underground Railroad” at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at Riverside Place, 301 SPHS Center/Chamber Plaza, Charleroi.

Guest speaker Tom Mainwaring, chairman and professor of history at Washington & Jefferson College, who is working on a book about the local Underground Railroad, will examine the possiblity that quilts were used as secret codes for slaves who were making preparations for or actually escaped from slavery. He will analyze the myths and realties of the role quilts played in the Underground Mainwaring received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and doctorate in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and light refreshments will be served. Admission is free.

For more information, call the Goaziou Print Shop, home of CAHS Inc., at 724-483-4961, or Ken Thompson, program coordinator, at 724-925-1742.