Rising sea levels endangered historic sites on the Eastern Shore
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Show Notes
As the climate warms, will the places where Harriet Tubman and her family lived and worshiped survive rising sea levels?
A report by the nonprofit Climate Central maps the risk of flooding along the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway in Dorchester County.
We speak with one of the report’s authors, Kelly Van Baalen, and local guide Alex Green.
Then, Julie Schablitsky, chief archaeologist at the state Department of Transportation, describes discovering the site where Tubman’s father lived. The location is under siege, "If we step away overnight and come back the next morning, we have an inundated hole. That level of water is rising up into excavation units, stopping us from being able to recover scientifically this information."
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