Come at 7:00 for Coffee, Cookies & Conversation & 7:30 Meeting.
Our October Speaker is Montgomery Parks Senior Historian Jamie F. Kuhns, author of “Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds:  The Life of Josiah Henson.”
Josiah Henson is known as a preacher, freedom-seeker and Underground Railroad conductor, an author, and abolitionist.  Rev. Henson was enslaved on a plantation just off Old Georgetown Road at what is now the Josiah Henson Park.  He was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”  He was baptized near KenGar.