let's just say we will call this -- sir arthur conan doyle called it a speckled band. it is a symbol of the other dangers, the bounty hunters, the spies and informers that sought to make money off of the desire of black people to live in freedom entity -- and dignity. this snake represents some of the other things. north toainting, freedom, we have a sense of the fact that you are never too old or too young to feel the urge to do better. to move from oppression to liberty. perhaps i can explain it better. come with me to a hillside at night on the eighth of august, 1850. you are in a carriage, it's a hired rig pulled by two horses. there is only one lamp swinging off the carriage just to light the way. you started in the center of the city. you are heading north. you are going to come to what we avenuell, today, eastern , just as you come into georgia and eastern avenue, silver spring. what's going to happen here will be a singular incident in the history of the underground railroad in the district of fact, willd in involved this man, william chaplin. he is the man who