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201 E Spring St, New Albany, IN
201 E Spring St, New Albany, IN

Remembered: the Life of Lucy Higgs Nichols

Cultural Arts Center 201 East Spring Street, New Albany, IN, United States

This exhibit guides visitors through Lucy Higgs Nichols' life, from 1838 — 1915. Period documents and letters detail her life as a slave in Tennessee, a nurse during the Civil War, and her post-war life in freedom.

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad

Cultural Arts Center 201 East Spring Street, New Albany, IN, United States

This moving exhibition draws the national phenomenon of the Underground Railroad into sharp focus by revealing the contributions of ordinary people, both free and enslaved, whose courageous acts on both sides of the Ohio River helped overthrow the institution of slavery.