BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:DorCo X-WR-CALNAME:Celebrate Juneteenth at the Harriet Tubman Visitor Center BEGIN:VEVENT UID:356282026-06-19 DTSTART:20260619T150000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20260619T190000Z LOCATION:4068 Golden Hill Road\nChurch Creek Maryland 21622 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=4068 Golden Hill Road\nChur ch Creek Maryland 21622;X-APPLE-RADIUS=49;X-TITLE=4068 Golden Hill Road:ge o:38.450099,-76.137581 GEO:38.450099;-76.137581 SUMMARY:Celebrate Juneteenth at the Harriet Tubman Visitor Center CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Juneteenth at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroa d State\nPark & Visitor Center in Church Creek\, Maryland with special\npr ogramming Friday through Sunday:\n\nFRIDAY\, JUNE 19:\n\n“THENCEFORWARD AND FOREVER FREE!”: COLLECTIVE REFLECTIONS ON\nAMERICAN FREEDOM\n\nA day of special programming presented by Wild Seed Productions LLC\ncalled “ Thenceforward and forever free!”: Collective Reflections\non American Fr eedom. From 11am-3pm\, there will be a creative arts and\nhistory workshop . The public is invited to drop in and partake in a\nvisual design activit y\, paper crafts\, collage\, group dialogue\, and\ncreative writing. At 1p m\, local theater artist and Founder of Soul\nShine Theater Garden\, Sisi Reid\, will perform excerpts from her new\none-woman show \"Ya Dig.\" The performance will be followed by a poetry\nshare\, communal storytelling\, and the reveal of a “North Star\nSculpture” in honor of Juneteenth and our North Star\, Harriet\nTubman. Activities will run all afternoon and f olks are welcome to\ndrop in and come and go as you please. All ages and s kill levels are\nwelcome! Call 410-221-2290 with any questions.\n\n \n\nS ATURDAY\, JUNE 20:\n\n10am-2pm: Traditional Children's Games - Enjoy Tradi tional\nChildren’s Games including marbles\, mancala\, jacks\, and more in the\nLegacy Garden.\n\n1pm:  Beyond Spirituals: Black Folk Music Befor e the Civil War - Join\nRanger Robin to explore the unseen African origins of the banjo and\nthe festival music enslaved people made for it before t he Civil War.\n\n \n\nSUNDAY\, JUNE 21\, 1-4PM: \n\nAUTHOR TALK AND BOOK SIGNING WITH ROBIN MICHEL CAUDELL\n\nVisit the Tubman Visitor Center for an author talk and book signing\nwith Robin Michel Caudell\, author of \"B lack Heel Strings: A Choptank\nMemoir.\"\n\nIn this lyrical memoir\, Robin Michel Caudell meditates on memory and\nidentity as she traces her childh ood in a Black family navigating\npoverty and racism on the Delmarva Penin sula. Many know Frederick\nDouglass and Harriet Tubman’s exodus stories out of bondage in rural\nMaryland\, but what about the people who stayed? It is from this place\nand history that Caudell’s story begins. Growing up in the\nsegregated 1960s\, Caudell is the living legacy of the ones who did not\nrun away and of the Free People of Color/Christianized Indians w ho\npartnered with their enslaved brethren in a precarious dance of love\n in Chesapeake Country. \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Celebrate Juneteenth at the \;Harriet T ubman Underground Railroad State Park &\; Visitor Center in Church Cree k\, Maryland with special programming Friday through Sunday:

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FRIDAY\, JUNE 19:

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&ldquo\;Thenceforward an d Forever Free!&rdquo\;: Collective Reflections on American Freedom

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A day of special programming presented by Wild Seed Productio ns LLC called &ldquo\;Thenceforward and forever free!&rdquo\;: Collective Reflections on American Freedom. From 11am-3pm\, there will be a creative arts and history workshop. The public is invited to drop in and partake in a visual design activity\, paper crafts\, collage\, group dialogue\, and creative writing. At 1pm\, local theater artist and Founder of Soul Shine Theater Garden\, Sisi Reid\, will perform excerpts from her new one-woman show "\;Ya Dig."\; The performance will be followed by a poetry sh are\, communal storytelling\, and the reveal of a &ldquo\;North Star Sculp ture&rdquo\; in honor of Juneteenth and our North Star\, Harriet Tubman. A ctivities will run all afternoon and folks are welcome to drop in and come and go as you please. All ages and skill levels are welcome! Call 410-221 -2290 with any questions.

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SATURDAY\, J UNE 20:

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10am-2pm: Traditional Children'\;s Games - E njoy Traditional Children&rsquo\;s Games including marbles\, mancala\, jac ks\, and more in the Legacy Garden.

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1pm:  \;Beyond Spiritual s: Black Folk Music Before the Civil War - Join Ranger Robin to explore th e unseen African origins of the banjo and the festival music enslaved peop le made for it before the Civil War.

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S UNDAY\, JUNE 21\, 1-4pm: \;

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Author Talk and Book Signing with Robin Michel Caudell

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Visit the Tubma n Visitor Center for an author talk and book signing with Robin Michel Cau dell\, author of "\;Black Heel Strings: A Choptank Memoir."\;

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In this lyrical memoir\, Robin Michel Caudell meditates on memory an d identity as she traces her childhood in a Black family navigating povert y and racism on the Delmarva Peninsula. Many know Frederick Douglass and H arriet Tubman&rsquo\;s exodus stories out of bondage in rural Maryland\, b ut what about the people who stayed? It is from this place and history tha t Caudell&rsquo\;s story begins. Growing up in the segregated 1960s\, Caud ell is the living legacy of the ones who did not run away and of the Free People of Color/Christianized Indians who partnered with their enslaved br ethren in a precarious dance of love in Chesapeake Country. \;

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