You & Your Family & Friends are invited to

GPWA’s Underground Railroad Living Museum Flight to Freedom Tour

When: Saturday, May 9, 2026

10:30 am to 2:00 pm

Where:

Underground Railroad Living Museum

Historic First Congregational Church of Detroit

33 East Forest Avenue

Detroit, Michigan 48201

(Free Secure Parking in back of the Church,

Use the 4th Street Entrance to the Building)

Cost: $30 per person

includes Tour and Lunch

(Grannie’s Hot Soul Food Lunch includes fried or baked chicken, spaghetti – marinara and meat sauce, coleslaw, salad, collard greens, cornbread, cookie, lemonade or iced tea.)

Please indicate any food allergies or preferences and we will take every effort to accommodate.

Please RSVP via email at:

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RSVP by April 28th at the latest.

The Underground Railroad Living Museum Flight to Freedom Tour is a “storytelling” re-enactment of the Underground Railroad passage that operated between 1840 and 1863.

Visitors will be shackled with wrist bands at the entrance of the tour and begin their journey by entering through the “Door of No Return” on Goree Island in Africa.

As this journey begins, visitors transform into passengers on the Underground Railroad and are led to Freedom by a conductor. Passengers hide from bounty hunters, cross the Ohio “Deep” River and take retreat in a safe house owned by Abolitionist Levi Coffin in Indiana.

Finally, passengers move to “Midnight” the code name for Detroit and take safe haven at the First Congregational Church of Detroit before moving on to Canada and “Freedom.”