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Gainesville s 10-day entertainment forecast for July 9-18, 2021
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Celebrating Juneteenth
Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, will be celebrated locally in various ways through this weekend.
The city of Gainesville has sponsored what it billed as Journey to Juneteenth with programs all month long and special events leading up to the holiday on June 19. Event organizers say Journey to Juneteenth aims to honor the past and celebrate the present through community and connection.
Juneteenth, which is observed on June 19 each year, is the oldest known celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger reached Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free. Emancipation Day commemorates the end of slavery in Florida when on May 20, 1865, 11 days after the Civil War ended, Union General Edward M. McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee. Emancipation Day and Juneteenth took place two and a half years
Gainesville Wins National Award for Art Mural Project
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When COVID came to town and the lockdown began in earnest, Seck37 picked up his paints and went to work on a blank wall . perhaps for the last time.
“The wall was donated, and I wanted to paint something bright and beautiful for Gainesville,” he recalled. “It was a complete ghost town and the streets were empty. Cops were asking me what I was doing.
“I said I was painting a mural as a gift to the city just to keep everybody’s spirits up.”
That “gift” was “One Love Gainesville,” a bold yellow and green composition of hearts and palm fronds that is still on display at the corner of Main Street and Northeast 10th Avenue.