Be inspired by history. Participants will embark on a walking tour focusing on Buffalo’s Underground Railroad stories, listening to dramatic accounts based on history as inspiration to write their own personal & family stories.

Annette Daniels Taylor is an award-winning playwright, poet, and artist filmmaker. Her debut YA novel, Dreams on Fire, a Junior Library Guild selection (October 2018, West 44 Books) is an east Buffalo story, about a teenage journey written in verse. The author of two poetry chapbooks, Street Pharmacist; and Hush now, her cinematic poems have screened at the Rochester Contemporary; Barnard College, MovingBody-MovingImage FilmFestival; University at Buffalo PLASMA series; Humanities Institute’s Reclaiming Our Ancestors Conference; Newark International Film Festival; Buffalo International Film Festival; Women Over Fifty Film Festival, East Sussex,UK.

A 2016-18 Arthur A. Schomburg fellow with UB’s Department of Media Study and a Pink Door Poetry alum, Daniels Taylor currently is a 2018-19 Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellow with UB’s Humanities Institute.