[Vision2020] Juneteenth

[keely emerinemix]

Thanks, Tom -- I remember so fondly the Juneteenths that my family and I enjoyed when I was a kid with our friends from the "A" Mountain neighborhood across the way.  The end of slavery, the Northern victory in the Civil War, and the work of godly abolitionists (from whom I'm descended, which explains a lot) deserved to be celebrated then and remembered now.  

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/




> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:14:43 -0700
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Juneteenth
> 
> Juneteenth (celebrated every June 19th) is the oldest nationally
> celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
> 
> Juneteenth 2009 . . .
> 
> In Syracuse, New York
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SdELCA7Kfg
> 
> At Weston Ranch High School (Stockton, California)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MbYHXSCRV4
> 
> At the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9DggStI8BA
> 
> At the Apache Cafe' (Atlanta, Georgia)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9tTh7ZEJTc
> 
> In Beeville, Texas
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycLEWMaxXEs
> 
> In Anniston, Alabama
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H39rF2-iP-I
> 
> At Fort Smith, Arkansas
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9cb1DA6Y-o
> 
> At Washington Park (Roanoke, Virginia)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUOc7XEj9P4
> 
> In Berkeley, California
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTYEYCin4g
> 
> In Williamsport, Pennsylvania
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INW31RjEnRo
> 
> In St. Petersburg, Florida
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNDcdAXdoQ
> 
> 
> 
> Question:  What is Moscow, Idaho doing to celebrate Juneteenth?
> 
> 
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "When freedom came she came without deliberate speed, but she came in the
> bosom of hope.
> 
> Freedom had been conceived, and birthed by the barren by those who had
> labored for another.
> 
> And freedom had been nurtured, and reared, by those childless by those who
> had suckled another's.
> 
> When freedom came . . . She came without deliberate speed.  But she came
> in the courage of survivors.
> 
> Freedom had been sought for, and fought for, by the captive who knew a
> better day would spring forth.
> 
> And freedom had been dreamt of, and planned for, by the patient who now
> rejoice, that her day is here."
> 
> - Author and poet Kenneth H. Burton (2004)
> 
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