Submitted by Mary Crum Scholtens, South Carolina

Idea posted October 28, 2003

Mary Crum Scholtens wrote this musical play about the Underground Railroad with the support of an Education Improvement Act grant from the State of South Carolina. Several downloads relating to the musical are available in the Downloads section.

An abbreviated version of the script appeared in Music K-8, Vol. 14, No. 3

Photos from the original production of If You Followed The Drinking Gourd... at Whitesides Elementary, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, are included here.