Come and celebrate Juneteenth in a community-wide, weekend-long celebration!
Saturday, June 18, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 PM Commemoration Ceremony at New Paltz Rural Cemetery
2:00 – 6:00 PM Speakers, Tours*, Exhibits**, Live Music & Buffet-Style Picnic Lunch (by donation while supplies last), and Children's Crafts, at Historic Huguenot Street
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Featured Speakers: Anthony Winn (Organizer), Esi Lewis (Founder & ED of the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Black History Research & Cultural Center and New Paltz Town Board member), Dr. Weldon McWilliams IV (Chair, Dept. of Black Studies, SUNY NP), Rev. Dr. Mark Mast, (Congregational Church of New Paltz) and Jessieca McNabb (Host, Radio Kingston, Event Narrator).
Featured Performers; Wanda Sabir, Franklin Gillis, Emily Beck Band
7he 7eam, Michael Bisio, and Amadou Diallo and Company
What to a Slave is Your Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass, Read by Oliver King.
7:30 – 9:00 PM Juneteenth Movie Screening (movie TBD), at Elting Memorial Library
Sunday, June 19th AT UNISON ARTS
4:00 PM Concert performance by Hubby Jenkins (formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops!) Unison Arts Center
* Historic Huguenot Street will be offering three opportunities to take a walking tour of the Broadhead-Church-Mulberry Street neighborhood where Black carpenter and Civil War veteran, Jacob Wynkoop, constructed a number of homes for the free Black community of New Paltz in the 19th-century. In addition to telling the story of Jacob and his family, the tour will reveal stories of other African-American families who made the neighborhood their home in the late 19th and first decades of the 20th century, including Margaret Hasbrouck Clow, daughter of John Hasbrouck, one of the first African Americans eligible to vote in New Paltz. The tour also introduces members of the Oliver, Freer, Rose, Banks, and LeFevre families, as well as former slave Judy Jackson.
Tours will begin at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center at 2:30 PM, 4:00 PM, and 5:30 PM. Tours last approximately one hour and span a distance of approximately one mile. Please note that this tour will require participants to be on their feet for the entirety of the program. This program is not recommended for individuals with mobility restrictions.
$10 General Admission
$8 Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, and children under 13
Free for veterans, active military members and their families, and children under the age of 6
Pre-registration is highly encouraged.
** The exhibit “Never Was a Slave” Jacob Wynkoop, Free and Black in 19th-Century New Paltz will be on display at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center. Jacob Wynkoop and his family’s story are illuminated by historical documents and photographic materials from the HHS Archives, the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at the Elting Memorial Library, Town of New Paltz Records, and the Records of the Reformed Church of New Paltz.
Thank you to this year’s co-hosts: The Elting Memorial Library, Unison Arts, the Department of Black Studies at SUNY New Paltz, the Reformed Church of New Paltz, and the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Black History Research and Cultural Center.
This event is made possible in part with funding from Arts Mid-Hudson. These awards are made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.