Rooted Wisdom Podcast Launch
Thursday, September 26, 7 p.m.
Avalon Theatre, Easton
Free
In partnership with Beech Works, Adkins Arboretum will launch the Rooted Wisdom podcast with a listening party on Thursday, September 26, at 7 p.m. at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD. The program will include excerpts from the series' first three episodes, a panel discussion, and a Q&A with the series host, historian Anthony Cohen, and episode guests Mecca Lewis and David Greaves. Project collaborator George Burroughs of Beech Works will moderate the discussion.
Please note that this page is for in-person registration. The event will also be live-streamed on rootedwisdom.org. Registration for the virtual event is encouraged and can be found here.
In this new podcast series, Anthony Cohen, historian and explorer of the American past, sets out to find the stories of the Underground Railroad. Visiting well-known and overlooked sites, Rooted Wisdom reveals the people and places that shaped our history and considers how their stories continue to shape our lives today. Building off the 2022 Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad Guided Experience, which explores how freedom seekers used their knowledge of and connection to nature to aid in escaping enslavement, the Rooted Wisdom podcast will extend to investigate the larger history of the Underground Railroad.
Rooted Wisdom will be available on rootedwisdom.org/podcast and available for download on all major podcast directories, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.
The Rooted Wisdom podcast is a production of Beech Works in collaboration with Cohen’s Menare Foundation. The first three episodes of the series were produced in partnership with Adkins Arboretum and explore how the history of the Underground Railroad and our experiences today converge in nature. The project was supported in part by a grant from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), funded by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, as well as by Eastern Shore Heritage, Inc. with State funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland.
