LoiS brings Liberetta Lerich Green to the 21st century in words from Liberetta's
oral history, newspaper accounts, letters, and other research tied together with the abolition song sung at the
planting of the "Beacon Tree" that marked the Lerich family Underground Railroad station in Shelby Township, Michigan.
Her brothers, Will and Isaac, served in the Civil War. Letters by and about them are interwoven with that same
song now transformed to "Lincoln and Liberty." Liberetta
is moved exactly 100 years into the
present which is why she is currently
in deep mourning over the loss of her
husband, Addison Green, a Macomb county
farmer and her father, Peter Daniels
Lerich, who operated Springhill Farm
and the Beacon Tree Underground
Railroad station.