A Witness to Juneteenth, Performance Art by Doreen Stratton
Sunday, June 14, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Pearl S. Buck Room
Come meet Arugbo (a-RU-G-bo), an enslaved young woman who witnesses Juneteenth when it arrives in Galveston, Texas, in June 1865 (two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation). She is a character imagined by Ms. Doreen Stratton after DNA ancestry on her mother’s side discovered her Great Grandmother was born enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia. While half her DNA traces to European nations, Benin accounts as the highest percentage from four different West African countries. Doreen is a published writer whose subjects included veterans, the environment, and social issues. Since retiring from the County of Bucks in 2007, she has been active in her community with the annual Doylestown Memorial Day Parade, as a member of the Doylestown Human Relations Commission, the League of Women Voters of Bucks County, the Central Bucks/Central Bucks West High School Athletic Hall of Fame, Maasai Cultural Exchange Project of Pt. Pleasant PA and Bucks County Writers Group.
Please register at Friendsofdoylestownlibrary@gmail.com for this free event.
