Juneteenth Celebration

Cherry Hill Juneteenth Parade and Festival at Borton's Mill from 10:00 a.m. to 3:oo p.m. Check the internet for more details.

For those who don't know what Jeneteenth celebrates, it is a celebration of the day that the last enslaved people in Texas finally recieving the word along with the Federal army of their freedom.

There are so many ways to celebrate via pbs on tv, or by reading and familiarizing yourself with the heroes of the Emancipation movement as well as attending any of the many celebrations being held around South Jersey.

Another event coming up is Family Archaeology Day at Red Bank Battlefield, please check with google for more information. And for added Black history, many of the troops who defended Fort Mercer 1777, were from the Black RhoDE ISLAND REGIMENT. Inreasingly over the years both volunteers like Harry Schaeffer and workers at Bank have been doing research on these soldiers. There is a book on the Rhode Island Regiment of African American Soldiers that the volunteers at the time (I was one) read in their monthly book club some years back. We also read "Never Caught" about Ony Judd, One of Washington's escaped enslaved people who got away and was never captured, same as with his prized chef Hercules.

Happy Juneteenth!

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