Thu 6/19-Fri 6/20 @ 10AM-4PM
Juneteenth celebrates have overflowed the Black community in a big way in the last several years, with all sorts of organizations now recognizing this day (celebrated in the Black community since 1866!) recognizing the day in 1865 when the union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to tell the last enslaved people they were legally free.
Hale Farm & Village in Bath will be celebrating for two days with a series of programs, including immersive storytelling, demonstrations and live interpretation. The village recreates a typical settlement in Ohio in the late1800s, and the programming will take visitors back to the Reconstruction era of 1870. At 1pm on Thursday, at Hale’s Meetinghouse, a reenactor will deliver Sojourner Truth’s famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, originally delivered in Akron in 1851. At 11am on Friday, there’s a screening of Camp Delaware, the 2024 film version on the live stage production about the Civil War training camp in Delaware, Ohio, where Black soldiers trained before going to fight for the Union.
Get tickets here.
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