Today… is DC Emancipation Day, marking the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia in 1862. And just now realizing there’ll be no outside event this year. Long story, but it was discovered – quite unpleasantly – not very long ago that our neighborhood park had been the site of a Black cemetery. So every year on Emancipation Day the neighborhood has a service, with readings, music and 8,000+ luminaries set up across the park. It’s a powerful visual. Assuming we’re in town, we go over to pay our respects and I help light the candles. But. You know. Not this year.
Emancipation Day
Emancipation Day
Emancipation Day
Today… is DC Emancipation Day, marking the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia in 1862. And just now realizing there’ll be no outside event this year. Long story, but it was discovered – quite unpleasantly – not very long ago that our neighborhood park had been the site of a Black cemetery. So every year on Emancipation Day the neighborhood has a service, with readings, music and 8,000+ luminaries set up across the park. It’s a powerful visual. Assuming we’re in town, we go over to pay our respects and I help light the candles. But. You know. Not this year.