- September 25, 2025: Descendants Will Walk the Abolition Trail of Ancestor - James M. Jackson of Amasa, Michigan, and descendant of James Caleb Jackson, will walk—with his wife, sister, and children—in the footsteps of his ancestor on Saturday, October 11, 2025, along the Abolition Road from Canastota to Peterboro, New York.
- September 21, 2025: Freedom's Path: Inside the North Star Underground Railroad Museum (podcast) - Step inside the North Star Underground Railroad Museum with President Jacqueline "Jackie" Madison of the North Country Underground Historical Association.
- Sun Community News, June 24, 2025: Vivian and Don Papson honored at North Country Juneteenth event
- North Country Public Radio, June 18, 2025: Celebrating the North Country's role in the Underground Railroad on Juneteenth
- Press-Republican, August 23, 2024: Remembering Alice Green, civil rights champion, Adirondacks lover
- YouTube, June 28, 2024: Juneteenth Celebration 2024 videos
- Strictly Business, November 22, 2023: Follow the North Star
- Adirondack Explorer, September 18, 2023: John Thomas Brook name change made official
- Sun Community News, August 29, 2022: Women's Equality Day commemorated with history, discussion
- Mountain Lake Journal, September 17, 2021: Video: Suffrage Centennial Celebration | Jack LaDuke's Adirondack Journal
- Atlas Obscura, May 26, 2020: Meet the New York State Parks Interpreter Who Cooks to Uncover the Past
- Audubon Magazine, February 25, 2020: Harriet Tubman, an Unsung Naturalist, Used Owl Calls as a Signal on the Underground Railroad
- Press-Republican, August 6, 2019: UGRR group gets deed
- Ottawa Citizen, July 30, 2019: Built by a former slave, Winchester church now draws American tourists
- History News Network, June 24, 2019: How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans
- Press-Republican, May 25, 2019: Smarter than a sixth-grader?: Keeseville Elem. students used life of escaped slave to create computer games
- New York Almanack, September 24, 2018: Escape from Slavery: The Life of William Grimes by Alan J. Singer
- NCPR, May 8, 2017: Activists still move in the spirit of John Brown
- November 5, 2016: 11th Annual Meeting for the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association (NCUGRHA), November 12, 2016
- Press-Republican, July 24, 2016: Traveling exhibit, artifacts, bell ring in new season: North Star Underground Railroad Museum features three new exhibits this summer
- Press-Republican, July 21, 2016: Stories of slavery, freedom passed on
- June 29, 2016: Solomon Northup Celebrated in Three Adirondack Locales
- Sun Community News, April 26, 2016: North Star Underground Railroad Museum thrilled about Tubman
- February 19, 2016: Death of Charles Crowningshield, former NCUGRHA chief docent and visitor liaison
- February 8, 2016: Press Release: "The Color of Money": Confederate Currency Bills Celebrated Slavery
- July 15, 2015: Press Release: Annual Freedom Festival of Music
- NCPR, May 5, 2015: Leg iron: underground railroad artifact in the Adirondack Attic
- April 28, 2015: Press Release: New French Translations Highlight Underground Railroad Museum's 5th Year
- Lighting The Way, February 15, 2015: Book Review: Opening a Treasure Trove
- Lake Champlain Region Blog, February 13, 2015: Waterway Of Freedom
- Lake Champlain Weekly, February 11, 2015 (p. 10): "Railroad to Freedom": a new book by Don Papson and Tom Calarco brings the Underground Railroad into the light
- August 1, 2014: Uncovering the facts about a secret effort to help thousands of people escape the terror of slavery was no easy task. Tom Calarco explains how he unlocked the secrets of the North Country, on Sunday, August 10, at the Peru Free Library, 5 p.m. (Related: Photo of Tom Calarco's Book)
- Post-Star, July 19, 2014: New headstone unveiled to help tell story of Solomon Northup
- Lake Champlain Weekly, July 16, 2014 (p. 16): "Rich in History": The North Star Underground Railroad Museum
- January 20, 2014: Press Release: "Created Equal" Film Series
- October 21, 2013: Advance screening of 12 Years A Slave at the Spectrum Theatre, Albany, NY
- May 12, 2013: Dick Gregory—comedian, author, social activist—visits the North Star Museum
- New York Almanack, January 7, 2013: Emancipation Anniversary: A Grassroots Victory by Peter Slocum
- October 28, 2012: Celebration at North Star Museum
- July 20, 2012: Freedom Festival of Music kicks off August 2
- Web Talk Radio: From Slavery to Freedom, June 25, 2012: Audio: Interview with Don Papson, president and founder of NCUGRHA
- Mountain Lake Journal EXTRA, June 14, 2012: Video: Hidden History with Derek Muirden
- Explore Adirondack Coast, February 28, 2012: A visit to the North Star Underground Railroad Museum
- January 2012: New Underground Railroad Museum Draws Thousands by Peter Slocum (article on page 1)
- November 6, 2011: President Don Papson awarded Kaplan Grant
- November 6, 2011: North Star Underground Railroad Museum to hold benefit dinner
- Peru, NY, October 16, 2011: Harriet Tubman talk draws overflow crowd
- September 30, 2011: The North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association and the Town of Chesterfield won a special partnership award from the Lakes to Locks Passage regional tourism organization. The award was presented Sept. 30, 2011 at the organization's annual meeting in Glens Falls, with U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko.
The award recognizes the joint effort by the Town and the Association to develop the new North Star Underground Railroad Museum at Ausable Chasm. The museum opened in May and has already drawn more than 3,000 visitors this year. - Peru Gazette, May 14, 2011: "This is a noble work"—Words describing our region's newest museum
- The Saratogian, February 20, 2011: History Lesson: Northup trial outcome fails to yield justice
- The Saratogian, February 13, 2011: History Lesson: Kidnapping trial drew a nation's attention to Ballston Spa
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