Please join us Sunday, September 29, at 2:30 PM at the Cape Henlopen High School Theatre for the 2024 History Book Festival 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.
Our Closing Event is presented by Griswold Home Care for Sussex & Kent Counties.
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.
With the help of our presenting funding partners—Delaware Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices I PenFed Realty—as well as our program and community partners, volunteers, and donors, the 2024 History Book Festival will be full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. Special thanks to our Founding Program Partners for their support: the Lewes Public Library, for event promotion and production, and Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller for the History Book Festival.
About the History Book Festival
An independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the History Book Festival produces an annual festival of new works about history, both historical fiction and narrative nonfiction. The festival also takes HBF authors into Delaware schools and other nonprofit community organizations and produces single author events throughout the year. We look forward to seeing you at this year's festival — September 27, 28, and 29, 2024. Learn more at HistoryBookFestival.org.
