CLOSING EVENT Sunday 9/29 | 2:30 PM
Ticketed Closing Event with Tiya Miles, author of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Penguin Press, 2024). She is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University; author of the National Book Award-winning All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake; a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient; and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Miles will be in conversation with Linda D. Harris, who leads programming for the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge, MD. Harris will open the event with a presentation of Underground Railroad “code songs,” accompanied by her husband, David B. Cole.

A reservation is required to attend this event. Each reservation includes one general admission seat and a signed, hardback copy of Night Flyer. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the History Book Festival, helping to provide free literary programming for people of all ages. Please note that reservations are limited.

The Closing Event is funded through the generous support of Griswold Home Care for Sussex & Kent Counties and presented in partnership with the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center, and the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ).

For ticket info, visit bit.ly/HBF-Miles.