Event Details
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Emancipation Day Celebration Event
Time: 2:00 pm til 5:00 pm
Location: Historic Charlotte Co. Courthouse, Punta Gorda
Description: Emancipation Day has historically been a day of great celebration for many Floridians. Join Charlotte County Community Services and the Blanchard House Museum of African American History at the historic Charlotte County Courthouse Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 2pm for the Emancipation Day Celebration Event.
Located at 226 Taylor Street in Punta Gorda, this event is FREE and open to the public. Come listen to guest speaker Adam Wasserman, a Sarasota-born local historian and author of "A People's History of Florida: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State."
For more information about this wonderful event, contact the Blanchard House Museum of African-American History: 406 MLK Blvd., Punta Gorda, FL 33950, 941-575-7581, or visit http://blanchardhousemuseum.blogspot.com.
FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
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Emancipation Day
Time: 2:00 pm til 5:00 pm
Location: Charlotte County Courthouse
Description: In the historic Charlotte County Courthouse
located at 350 East Marion Avenue in beautiful downtown Punta Gorda
Admission is free and open to the public
Featuring guest speaker
Adam Wasserman
Sarasota-born local historian and author of
A People’s History of Florida: How Africans, Seminoles, Women and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State
For more information contact:
Blanchard House Museum of African American History
406 Martin Luther King Boulevard
Punta Gorda, Florida 33950
941.575.7581
or visit on the web at:
http://blanchardhousemuseum.blogspot.com
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FPAN is hosting this event.
