An upcoming concert of Civil War music at Cincinnati’s National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will benefit new educational programming at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House.
 
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War. The Ohio Historical Society and the Friends of Harriet Beecher [...]

[ October 1, 2011; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]   To recognize the 200th anniversary of Stowe’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, a benefit concert of Civil War music will be performed by the Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band, Jacqueline Schwab, and the Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers. Ungar, Mason and Schwab are famous for their musical accompaniment on The Civil [...]

[ June 14, 2011; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Join the Stowe house for a   slice of History and delicious cake at the  celebration of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 200th birthday.

Location: Harriet Beecher Stowe House,  2950 Gilbert Ave.,  Cincinnati, OH 45206

Sponsor: Harriet Beecher Stowe House

For more information, please call 513-751-0651  or visit  http://harrietbeecherstowehouse.org/

[ January 17, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Open House Event honoring volunteer work at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The House was also the home of General James Beecher, a Civil War general who commanded the first African-American troops from the South.

Harriet Beecher Stowe House
2950 Gilbert Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45206
513-751-0651

http://www.harrietbeecherstowehouse.org

Though much of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written in Brunswick, Maine, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s inspiration came from listening to stories told by fugitve slaves escaping via the Underground Railroad while living in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1850 her husband, Calvin Stowe, accepted a position at Bowdoin College and relocated to Maine. It would be the passage [...]