Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...

Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen - he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...

Explains what some blocks meant in quilts that might have been on fences showing runaway slaves where they needed to go, etc. on the Underground Railroad. There are also patterns for these blocks.

Denver requested assistance from the Colorado Cooperative Program for Environmental Health Assessments (CCPEHA) to evaluate the potential health hazards with respect to current and future air quality at Fire Station 28. The purpose of this document is to identify any present or future potential health implications to firefighters resulting from inhalation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as a result of vapor intrusion inside Fire Station 28 and...

In the forest, a group of animals help a runaway slave escape his pursuers.