![]() Henderson will discuss a new digital collection at the Cherokee Garden Library: Gardens and Cultural Landscapes of Black America visual arts materials. This performance will be followed by a brief talk-back discussion about Juneteenth with one of our facilitators.Ĭherokee Garden Library of Kenan Research Center presents Gardens and Cultural Landscapes of Black America: A Tea & Talk with Dr. We will explore the connections between the Reconstruction period and today, through the lens of a single family’s experience. Join us for a 20-minute museum theater performance written by Aaron R. Museum Theater Piece: Free in the Name Only We will also discuss West African influences on gardening, cultural exchanges between enslaved and Native people, & the medicinal use of plants. The Goizueta Gardens team will explore how enslaved people gardened in the antebellum South. Handouts with condensed information on how to care for different material types will be available to pick up before and after the presentation. A short presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Join our archives and museum collections staff as they share tips and tricks to preserve and store your photos and heirloom textiles and furniture. Preservation Tips & Tricks: Photos, Textiles, & Furniture ![]() This birding trip is recommended for beginner birders and families with children over 10. Our outdoor spaces contain an exciting mix of natural and curated landscapes. It’s a little-known fact that Goizueta Gardens is a birding hotspot over a hundred species of birds have been sighted on campus. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Today, Juneteenth serves as a holiday to reflect on our nation’s history, commemorate emancipation, and look towards the future impact of Black culture and community. That momentous date in 1865 has been proclaimed Juneteenth and has been celebrated annually since then. A full two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after Richmond fell, the last enslaved African Americans in Texas were declared free people. Though Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, many slaveholders still refused to comply. On June 19, 1865, a group of Union troops stopped in On June 19, 1865, a group of Union troops stopped in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved people that the Civil War was over, the Confederacy was defeated, and enslaved people in Texas were free. Juneteenth is a celebration marking the end of enslavement in the United States.
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