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The series includes Hometown Picnics, Hometown Explorers and Hometown Chats. It will begin as a virtual event until it is safe to have in-person gatherings, the county said.
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Residents can join the Waterford Heritage and Agricultural Museum on July 10 for the first Hometown Picnic, which is a collaboration with local restaurants and coupled with local entertainment. The picnics will be presented virtually as museums and archives aren’t able to open until Step 3 of the province’s reopening plan.
Hometown Series highlights Norfolk
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Publishing date: Mar 01, 2021 • March 1, 2021 • 2 minute read • Theodore Brown (left) was the son of freed slave Charles Brown and his wife Annie, of Port Ryerse. Theodore Brown and wife Theodora (right) had nine children. Their son Albert went on to become a prominent businessman in Simcoe. Handout SunMedia
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Norfolk County marked Black History Month in February with a re-telling of the remarkable history of the Brown family of Port Ryerse.
By a fluke, family patriarch Charles Brown wound up in old Norfolk County in the 1840s after his American slave owner brought him to Niagara-on-the-Lake as a prize fighter. Brown was put in the ring against various challengers while members of the crowd gambled on the outcome.
Freed slave found refuge in Port Ryerse
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