Daily News | Philly’s ‘Walking Artist’ embarks on another leg of his epic tribute to Harriet Tubman. This time it is a 450-mile trek from NY to Canada.
Ken Johnston, the West Philadelphia man who recently completed a 165-mile-walk through South Jersey to honor Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday anniversary, is on the move again.
If all goes as “unplanned,” as he described his recent decision to travel to Canada by foot, Johnston was to start out Thursday morning, from Harlem, New York to St. Catharines, Ontario.at 122 St. in Harlem, where he completed a walk from Pennsylvania to New York last year.in New Rochelle and follow the Underground Railroad network up the Hudson River Valley to Albany and across central parts of New York before reaching Auburn, NY, where Tubman lived until her death in 1913, and on to Canada.
“Harriet Tubman’s determination is so inspiring to me,” he told the Inquirer. “As I prepare to embark on the next leg of Walk to Freedom journey from New York to Canada, my goal is to reach Harriet Tubman’s final resting place in Auburn, NY, and then continue on to St. Catharines, Ontario where she lived for a number of years away from the grasp of the American justice system.”
This 450-mile walk, is a continuation of earlier walks Johnston made, from Poplar Neck, Maryland, near Tubman’s birthplace in Dorchester County, to Philadelphia, completed in February 2020, and later, to New York, completed in April 2021.which was a “segment walk,” completed mostly on weekends, the walk to Canada will be a continuous more than month-long walk.
After a break for a pre-planned trip on Aug. 15, Johnston said he will return to the trail sometime during the week of Aug. 22, to complete the final miles of the journey to Canada.
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