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 ...

Based on Jeanette Winters’ book by the same title, this show describes the astronomy behind the slave song “Follow the Drinking Gourd.”(ages 6-12) ...

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 ...

But escaping slaves understood then that, like the folk song quoted above, the jockey statue would guide them to the Underground Railroad and to freedom. (In “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” the ...

Treasure Hunters is picking up speed as the dead weight continues to be cut. Last episode, the usually funny, but suddenly un-funny Wild Hanlons came in dead last and were eliminated. The Browns ...

“Follow the drinking gourd” was a reference to the Big Dipper ... were heading in the right direction — North. “Another song, ‘Wade in the Water,’ meant they were supposed to walk ...

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 ...

Some believe the fugitives also used encoded directions in the lyrics of the song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” to keep them from getting lost as they traveled. Both the abolitionists and the ...