Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515276159
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (761 download)
Book Synopsis Juneteenth 2015 Souvenir Book - First Edition by : Yolanda Bozant
Download or read book Juneteenth 2015 Souvenir Book - First Edition written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to "our" First Annual Juneteenth Celebration! The events you witness this weekend are the manifestation of a dream from years ago. It was the strangest of dreams. I don't remember when the dream occurred but I clearly recall that I was in Geneva, Texas with scores of family members. As I looked around the crowd at all the faces, very few were familiar - but they were all my relatives. The strangest part about the dream was that my Grandma Lula's house was gone! I don't know how long her house had been in The Quarters but she gave birth to my grandmother (Mattie Canton) in that home in 1902. There was another oddity. All the guests joined hands around a swimming pool and had prayer. A swimming pool? In Geneva? Yeah, right.This weekend we are in Geneva, Texas. My Grandma Lula's house is gone. (In the summer of 2013 it exploded in the middle of the night.) Cousins Jordan "Peanut' and Reena Jones Washington returned to their roots and built a home on the original land purchased by their ancestors' ... and recently added a swimming pool! Here we stand with our feet touching the very soil on which our ancestors stood, celebrating their emancipation. Our promise to them is that we will continue to pass Our Legacy and Our History to Our Children and Our Grandchildren - just as Our Parents and Our Grandparents passed it to us. Continue to tell the story, leave a written record, let the world know.Enjoy the festivities this weekend. And one more thing - save the date for our 2016 Juneteenth Celebration ... same time, same place! Thank "YOU" for making it happen!