Karolyn Smardz Frost is a Toronto-born archaeologist and historian whose 1985 excavation of the Thornton and Lucie Blackburn site made history. I’ve Got a Home in Gloryland is the fruit of more than twenty years of historical detective work into this fugitive slave couple’s dramatic escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Smardz Frost divides her time between her Collingwood, Ontario, home and an oceanfront cottage on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.