Seasonal & Holidays
First Lower Bucks Juneteenth Celebration Held In Bristol Borough
The First Annual Lower Bucks County Juneteenth Celebration took place on Saturday along the Bristol waterfront.
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Vendors lined the Bristol Waterfront on Saturday for the county’s first annual Juneteenth celebration, hosted by the Lower Bucks County Juneteenth Committee. The event featured music, dance, non-profits, food, guest speakers, and residents from all around celebrating the historic day.
“We’re doing this to bring people together. We want to educate everyone about it,” Morris Derry, founder of No More Pain Inc., told Levittown Now.
Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last large group of enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. A federal holiday as of June 16 this year, it's been celebrated in communities around the country since 1866.
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The First Annual Lower Bucks County Juneteenth Celebration ran from 12 p.m.-5p.m. on Saturday.
For pictures of the festival, check out this photo essay in the Bucks County Courier Times. To read more about the planning of Saturday’s event, head to this article in Levittown Now.
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