Juneteenth (which, locally, will be held on August 13).
To be fair, this new Augustteenth event was supposed to have been yesterday, but the weather did not cooperate. And at one point, Mary J Blige was supposed to come to town to help commemorate the two and half year delay it took for word of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach the slaves of Texas ... but her name doesn't seem to be in the promotional materials any longer, so I'm guessing she didn't want any more drama in her life. (See what I did there?)
A Pip-less Gladys Knight is the other name that was bandied about ... and it remains to be seen whether she'll come back in two months.
In the meantime ... though, Happy Juneteenth to anyone who is celebrating!
NOTE: If you are a reader in Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota or South Dakota, as per the all-knowing wiki, you may have no idea about that which I reference, since those five states haven't yet recognized this as a holiday.
IN CASE YOU WEREN'T UP TO SPEED:
http://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm
IN CASE YOU WEREN'T UP TO SPEED (CONTINUED):
http://www.juneteenth.us/
HERE'S ALL ABOUT THE PARTY IN THE FTL:
http://www.floridafestivals.org/
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