May 29—LUMBERTON — Two back-to-back events in honor of Juneteenth have been scheduled by Seed Harvest and Development Enterprise, and the Lumberton Juneteenth Committee. Juneteenth combines the words June and nineteenth for it was on this date, June 19, 1865, that federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and declared that all enslaved persons in the state be freed. This came two years after ...