“Those are the same stars, and that is the same Moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”

– Sojourner Truth



Sojourner Truth: For years, I have seen this famous Ulster County native’s name on historic signs and plaques dotting the landscape in Ulster County. I have spent countless hours in the library named for her at SUNY-New Paltz. But it was the Sojourner Truth Freedom Trail that drew me in and made her feel real to me. This 11-mile network of local roads is considered to be the route of Truth’s walk from slavery to freedom. These roads on which my family and I drive all the time suddenly feel like a time-traveling web of history.