On Sat 21 Jun 2008 08:30:29a, blake murphy told us...

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:53:24 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>On Fri 20 Jun 2008 09:45:07p, modom (palindrome guy) told us...
>>
>>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:01:32 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>> As a fellow southerner, I'm surprised to hear this news. I became
>>>>> aware of Juneteenth when I was a kid and the Beatles were not famous
>>>>> and GM still made Corvairs. Perhaps because it arrives a day after
my
>>>>> birthday, I'm more attuned to the observance?
>>>>
>>>>Michael, I didn't grow up in the South, my parents did. I was there
>>>>often enough, but I really don't recall anyone ever mentioning it. How
>>>>long has it been celebrated as "Juneteenth"?
>>>
>>> Sorry Wayne, I thought your Mississippi roots were more direct. How
>>> long has it been observed as Juneteenth? I don't know. It started in
>>> 1865 when Gen. Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that slavery
>>> had been abolished in the United States. The celebration named
>>> Juneteenth appears to be almost that old. There's a Wikipedia entry
>>> on the topic if you are at all interested:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
>>
>>That's quite a long history. I am surprised that I never heard of it
>>during the many times I spent in Mississippi, and certainly some of those
>>times were in June.
>
> in mississippi, they didn't want word of the emancipation to get
> around.
>
> your pal,
> blake
>

Shhh... Don't tell. I remember all too well.

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Wayne Boatwright
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