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Penny For Your Thoughts: History Exists Outside Textbooks
(featured image via Town of Carrboro)
The state of North Carolina recognizes Juneteenth, but not as a paid holiday. In 2007, however, a bill was passed to make Juneteenth a paid holiday once it is federally recognized. 47 states and the District of Columbia recognize Juneteenth as a ceremonial holiday. Texas led the way to make it an official paid holiday for state employees in 1980 and recently New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia followed suit.
But let’s back up! I never learned about June 19, 1865 in school. Sure we were taught about the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate states in 1863 but nothing about Galveston, Texas-1865. I thought about this and tried to understand why. Was it being raised in the North? How could the history books omit this important part of American history?
New-yorkUnited-statesArkansasLouisianaChapel-hillTexasDistrict-of-columbiaNorth-carolinaHillsboroughVirginiaTown-of-chapel-hillCarrboroIn the pre-dawn hours of a Saturday morning in 1937, 24-year-old Victor Weaver and his wife, Edith, loaded 17 dressed chickens into the trunk of their 1936 Hudson Terraplane. They had prepared the chickens the prior afternoon in their small farmhouse kitchen in Blue Ball, Pennsylvania.
They took their cargo to the Sharon Hill Farmers Market, near Philadelphia. They returned to Blue Ball with an empty trunk, a little bit of cash and plans for weekly runs to Sharon Hill.
In the short space of a few months, the husband-and-wife team was processing 200 chickens a week for their blossoming business. They had outgrown the farmhouse, so they moved to nearby New Holland and hired an employee, Ben Burkholder, to help dress the birds and tend the market stand.
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