Federation Bulletin
DNCR NEWS
JUNE 2023
PAGE 9
Nordi Historic
Gambia SITES
Selected summer
events. For more, check
the events webpage.
June 10, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Somerset Place, Days
Gone By Festival. Aids & crafts, guided tours, and
the Possum Hollar Old Time String Band.
June 10, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Museum, Black Heritage Day. To honor Dr.
Brown’s birthday, enjoy music by the Greensboro
Opera, with a very special performance by Chrystal
E. Williams and Felipe Hostins, food from local Black-
owned food trucks, and a Black-owned vendor market.
Forth of July Celebrations
• 10-11:30 a.m., Historic Stagville, Frederick
Douglass Community Reading. Commemorate
Independence Day with a reading of Frederick
Douglass' Fourth of July address, "What to the
Slave is the Fourth of July." This is a participa¬
tory community reading!
• July 4, 1-4 p.m.. Historic Halifax. Independ¬
ence Da}' afternoon program and fireworks on the
courthouse lawnat dark.
July 29, 10 a.m. -4 p.m., House in the Horseshoe,
242nd Anniversary Battle Reenactment
August 14, 10 a.m. -4 p.m., Bentonville Battlefield,
Heavy Thunder: Bentonville Summer Artillery and
Infantry Program
August 26, 10 a.m. -4 p.m., Historic Halifax, Labors
of Halifax
NORTH CAROLINA
CELEBRATE FREEDOM
June 14, 7-8 p.m., N.C. Museum of History, What
Is Juneteenth and Why Is It Important. Dr.
Spencer R. Crew, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of
History at George Mason University and emeritus
director of the National Museum of African Ameri¬
can History and the National Museum of American
History will present.
June 16, 12-4 p.m., N.C. Museum of History, Bat¬
tery
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Second Regiment, United States Colored
Troops (USCT) Light Artillery Reenactors on hand to
explain the role of N.C. soldiers in the events of June
19, 1865.
June 17, 10 a.m.-l p.m.. Historic Stagville, 18th
annual Juneteenth program. Stories of love, loss,
freedom, family, and resistance will illuminate the
complex history of the transition to freedom in 1865.
June 17, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Vance Birthplace. Leah
& The Rabbit: a Juneteenth Play
June 17, 2-9 p.m., SECCA, Juneteenth Jubilee
Ticketed afternoon and evening performances, $10
each. Free artist panel discussion at 4:45.
June 18, Jones Lake State Park, 2 p.m. -8 p.m.
Family fun event in honor of Dewitt Powell, the first
Black superintendent at the park.
