HLCT’s special 2019 Fall Walk, “Back to Tranquility Grove” was a collaborative event, accented by a beautiful fall day.

Please enjoy the slideshow below and:

All joined in singing
Unicorn Singers and Friends lead us in song
Enjoying the event on a beautiful Fall day
Listening to Joe reading words of Frederick Douglass
Harbor Media's Joe Collymore enjoying the scene
Enthusiastic group of all ages participated
Another reproduction of an 1844 banner--and symbolic oak branch bouquets
Martha Bewick described the Great Abolitionist Picnic of 175 years ago
Martha welcomed us back to Tranquility Grove
We walked easily on the newly blazed and cleared trails
Trail leads to grove
8 Entering via new steps to Burns Memorial Park
More than 50 walkers from New North to the grove
Unicorn Singers and friends sing Abolitionist hymn
Words of 19th c Abolitionist Rev Oliver Stearns
Event ended with reusable goodie bags and cider at Hingham Community Center
The words of John Q. Adams in 1844
Martha Bewick sets the stage
Reproduction of 1844 Banner
Welcome at New North
An-original-banner-used-at-Tranquility-Grove-in-1844.-Courtesy-Hingham-Historical-Society.