2020 is just around the corner
I have always loved poetry by Langston Hughes. Soon I was reading everything I could by him or about him. When I read “ A Pictorial History of African Americans” I read a quote he had used in reference to Harriet Tubman. I can’t seem to find the quote, but it had to do with planting apple trees. As a child slave she was not allowed to eat apples off the trees. She said she had wanted to grow several apple trees so that she would have enough to share. After having escaped and helping several others to escape she settled up north. She had planted and grew apple trees on her estate in Auburn, New York. I was fascinated by Harriet Tubman and read all I could about her. Several years later, I remember Kayla coming home from Snow College for a visit. She mentioned that she’d been given an assignment to do a report on a historical figure....