Olean Public Library
Diane J Peterson
On March 20, 2011 local historian Diane J. Peterson from Jamestown, New York presented at the Olean Public Library. She performed a skit entitled "Sissy: A Slave Girl". This skit featured Sissy's life on a Virginia Plantation, how she obtained her Freedom papers, followed the North Star and the Underground Railroad to freedom and settled in Jamestown, New York.
Diane J Peterson
On March 20, 2011 local historian Diane J. Peterson from Jamestown, New York presented at the Olean Public Library. She performed a skit entitled "Sissy: A Slave Girl". This skit featured Sissy's life on a Virginia Plantation, how she obtained her Freedom papers, followed the North Star and the Underground Railroad to freedom and settled in Jamestown, New York.