BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20170617T140000Z DTEND:20170617T210000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Juneteenth Festival DESCRIPTION:Juneteenth is a nationally recognized day that commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States and celebrates African American history and culture.\n\n\n\nAs part of its 150th anniversary\, Hosanna School Museum will hold a Juneteenth celebration festival on Saturday\, June 17\, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the museum\, 2424 Castleton Road in Darlington.\n\n\n\nThe festival is open to the public and free of charge. \n\n\n\nHosanna's Juneteenth celebration will feature re-enactors\, living history presentations\, lectures\, craft vendors\, special activities for children\, food trucks\, a gift shop and more. \n\n\n\nHosanna is partnering on the celebration with the Iota Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity\, Inc.\, which has hosted Juneteenth celebrations for several years in Harford County. \n\n\n\nAt the Juneteenth celebration\, living history re-enactor Brittany Martin will portray Edmonia Highgate\, the first teacher at Darlington School\, later called Hosanna School. Highgate is a historical figure who worked alongside nationally recognized abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass\, Jermain Loguen and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. While preparing for this living history presentation\, historians and volunteers at Hosanna have discovered new information about Highgate and her role at Hosanna. \n\n\n\nSponsors of Juneteenth include Harford County Office of Economic Development X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Juneteenth is a nationally recognized day that commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States and celebrates African American history and culture.
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\nAs part of its 150th anniversary\, Hosanna School Museum will hold a Juneteenth celebration festival on Saturday\, June 17\, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the museum\, 2424 Castleton Road in Darlington.
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\nThe festival is open to the public and free of charge. \;
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\nHosanna'\;s Juneteenth celebration will feature re-enactors\, living history presentations\, lectures\, craft vendors\, special activities for children\, food trucks\, a gift shop and more. \;
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\nHosanna is partnering on the celebration with the Iota Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity\, Inc.\, which has hosted Juneteenth celebrations for several years in Harford County. \;
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\nAt the Juneteenth celebration\, living history re-enactor Brittany Martin will portray Edmonia Highgate\, the first teacher at Darlington School\, later called Hosanna School. Highgate is a historical figure who worked alongside nationally recognized abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass\, Jermain Loguen and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. While preparing for this living history presentation\, historians and volunteers at Hosanna have discovered new information about Highgate and her role at Hosanna. \;
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\nSponsors of Juneteenth include \;Harford County Office of Economic Development LOCATION:Hosanna School Museum 2424 Castleton Road Darlington\, MD 21034 UID:e.2776.1922 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260428T003537Z URL:https://business.harfordchamber.org/events/details/juneteenth-festival-1922 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR