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“Time and place snaps together”

May 12, 2025 Ken Johnston

As a walking artist I am always trying to understand the connection my feet make with the ground. I love…

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Posted in: Quote

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway

Ken Johnston

For the past year I have been on an advisory committee for the proposed New York Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad…

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Posted in: Harriet Tubman Byway, Harriet Tubman UGRR Byway, Underground Railroad

Angie Rocha, Community Activist

April 18, 2025 Ken Johnston

On my recent walk in Southwest Texas following the #Southern Road to Freedom, I met Angie Rocha, a recent college…

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Posted in: Call of Ancestors, Freedom, Hidalgo County, Southern Road to Freedom, Underground Railroad

The Spirit World: “I Hear You”

April 12, 2025 Ken Johnston

“I hear you,” I said to myself one recent evening after returning home from walking the dog. I was speaking…

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Posted in: African Ancestors, Canada, Emancipation Day, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Owen Sound, Underground Railroad, Walking

From the archive: The Story of Abraham Rutledge – A Freedom Seeker

April 11, 2025 Ken Johnston

Listen in as Francisco Guajardo, of the Museum of South Texas History, discusses how historians “triangulate” research found in the…

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Posted in: Freedom, Hidalgo County, Texas, Underground Railroad

Article: The Johnston brothers have a story to tell: in art, history, and connecting food to the city

Ken Johnston

Working in different avenues of art, history, and food my brothers and I work to have a social impact on…

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Posted in: Hidalgo County, Interview, Murals, Philadelphia, Southern Road to Freedom, Texas, Underground Railroad, Walking

Dr. Francisco Guajardo discusses his family’s connection to the Rio Grande Valley

Ken Johnston

On the next to the last day of the Walking Southern Roads to Freedom journey I recently completed in McAllen,…

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Posted in: Hidalgo County, Texas, Underground Railroad, Walking

A Johnston Roundup – The Backstory

April 10, 2025 Ken Johnston

Brotherhood on the streets of Brotherly love. Last week my brother Keir arranged for a photographer to take a couple…

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Posted in: Family photograph, Photographs

“I’m A Great-Grandson of A Slave”

Ken Johnston

Dr. Ramero Ramirez and family greet Southern Roads to Freedom walkers to the Jackson Church Ranch, in Hidalgo County, Texas,…

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Article: Juneteenth: How one Black Texas family’s fight for freedom on Juneteenth offers lessons for today’s lawmakers erasing history

August 29, 2024 Ken Johnston

This story on the afterlife of Juneteenth was recently shared with me by Frank Thompson, a native Texan, who completed…

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Posted in: Chronicling Resistance, Emancipation Day, Houston

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