Did anyone around here celebrate Juneteenth (June 19th)??
 

If you don't know what it is, you probably didn't celebrate it!

well tell us what it is so if we want we can catch it next year!!!!

it was the anniversary of one of my marriages . . . so no, I did not celebrate it

Nope, but I went to a wedding and it sucked :( I should have.

Yes I did. I lit the candles on my TDF shrine.

huh? Where's the Big Fella at?

his computer crapped out on him.

WHAT IS JUNETEENTH? Juneteenth or June 19, 1865, is considered the date when the last slaves in America were freed. Although the rumors of freedom were widespread prior to this, actual emancipation did not come until General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas and issued General Order No. 3, on June 19, almost two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

More people should know that. Sounds like should have a little bookmark in history