They even tried to keep slaves from learning how to tell directions. The song ``Follow the Drinking Gourd'' was a secret code that allowed the slaves in Alabama and Mississippi to find their way ...

The newspaper advertisements flash across the screen, letting you know that the story you are about to see is all too real. At first, they could be mistaken for an ad for a lost dog; using ...

This month, you can learn how slaves used constellations to navigate their way North via the Underground Railroad in “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” a free show at the Virginia Living Museum’s ...

It will start Jan. 25. “Follow the Drinking Gourd: Stars of Freedom,” partly based on a children’s book, tells the tale of how the Big Dipper, also known as the Drinking Gourd, provided a ...

The show is based on Jeanette Winter's children's book of the same name, "Follow the Drinking Gourd." The drinking gourd refers to the Big Dipper, the constellation pointing to the North Star.

“Follow the drinking gourd” was a reference to the Big Dipper, Carol Evans said, explaining that looking up to the heavens was a way for people escaping slavery to make sure they were heading ...

whose swampy environs hide runaway slaves desperate to join the Underground Railroad and “follow the drinking gourd” north to freedom. When Ezekias Drummond, the principal conductor of the ...

Torian took the gallery name from a classic American folk song, “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” and explains the symbolic significance: “The song underscores the quest and thirst for ...