JAN. 26 ISSUE ANSWERS (photo to right): This photo is shown in the above display in the Wright African American Museum in Detroit. The mannequin is holding a carte de visite photo of Sojourner Truth, abolitionist from Battle Creek, Michigan. Sojourner was a very active worker for woman’s rights and an abolitionist of slavery. According to her museum in Battle Creek she did not travel to the south escorting slaves northward as did Harriet Tubman. She lectured in the north for woman’s rights and against slavery. Her speech, “Aint I a Woman,” is very famous. The carte de visite photo in the display was used by Sojourner to raise funds for her work. One of the very few authenticated local stations on the Underground Railroad was in Shelby Township called the Beacon Tree. Peter and Sarah Lerrich ran a station at the Beacon Tree farm. Their daughter, Liberta Lerrich Green, wrote a short diary about the hiding of slaves in a spring house. In the diary Liberta writes, “and a jolly old lady that we called ‘Aunty.’ Pa and Ma called her Sojourner and the neighbors called her Mrs. Truth.” Apparently Sojourner traveled in the Shelby area. Anyone interested in the local Underground Railroad history can visit the Romeo Historical Society Archives on a Tuesday evening and read from the six notebooks containing evidence and revealing a lack of evidence for various alleged local stations on the Underground Railroad. Some stories just didn’t or couldn’t have happened. Richard Beringer, Romeo Historical Society staff