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Juneteenth Highlights History of Blackhawk​​​

The Weston Chronicle

Instead of getting Dad a funky t-shirt for Fathers Day a crowd of Bourbon fans got Dad a bottle of 8-Year One-Barrel Bourbon.  The crowd gathered at Holladay Distillery on Saturday June 14 for a 8-Year One-Barrel Bourbon limited release.

Bourbon enthusiasts and families enjoyed great summer weather, barbecue and live music and a chance to purchase a bottle of the limited release Bourbon.  

By the time the doors opened at 10:30 am more than 100 people were lined up in front of the Visitors Center.  The parking lot was full, and cars were parked along the road to JJ Highway.

The limited release is described as “bottled at barrel strength with proofs that range from 117 to 125.”  The barrel release was sold out on Saturday to happy Bourbon enthusiasts. 

Music in the Museum is a free concert at the North Platte Historical Museum on June 21st from 1-3 pm. Partially funded by a grant from Platte County Parks and Recreation, Ain’t Misbehavin will perform songs from the late 1800s through mid-1900s to complement vintage photos displayed of Camden Point, Dearborn, Edgerton, New Market, Ridgely and surrounding areas.
 The photos of area towns highlight our past and will be exhibited from 10-4pm that day. If anyone from these towns and area have vintage photos they would like to share with the museum, we will make copies that day and add the copes to our archive to share at a future display. We do not keep originals.
 
The North Platte Historical Museum and Cultural Center is a 501 non-profit entity located at 210 Main Street, Dearborn MO preserving the history and culture of the towns and surrounding areas of Camden Point, Dearborn, Edgerton, New Market and Ridgely.

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Bourbon and Fathers Day​​​

Bourbon fans, including fans of other distilleries, lined up for their bottle of 8-Year One-Barrel Bourbon  Saturday. 

Members of Weston Rotary and the Weston Park Board gathered May 28 to celebrate the completion of an upgrade to the Holladay Park’s pavilion. Rotary provided a grant and labor to line the underside of the roof, hoping to discourage birds from nesting there.
Attendees included Lynn Johnson, Carl Felling, Louis Smither, William McQueen, Shane Bartee, Courtland Ingram, Susan Finn, Richard Jones, Paige Dryden, Greg Hoffman and Jerry Gross.

Speakers at the 5th Annual Juneteenth Celebration put on by the Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign took their audience on “a journey back in time, to a Post-bellum Block Party.” The location was the 500 and 600 blocks of Blackhawk Street.
After the Civil War, black and white families lived peacefully until Jim Crow washed it away, Gena Bardwell, Angela Hagenbach and Phyllis Becker related in “A Moment in Time” poem about the Neighbors of Blackhawk Street.
Michelle Cook, as Russela Price, said she and her husband, James A. Price, saw the need for housing after emancipation, and had houses built for the formerly enslavede on the Blackhawk side of their property on Spring Street.
“We believed that people had the right to choose their own pathway,” she said. 
“This made a profound change in the foundation of who we are today,” Ms. Hagenbach said.
N.M. Shabazz as Rev. B.J. Guthrie,   gave a sermon about the growth of the 2nd Missionary Baptist Church that was built in 1867 at 609 Blackhawk Street. By 1892, the congregation was too large for the building, and they moved to the old Luthern Church (Now Pirtle Winery) at 502 Spring. 
“For 26 years, we have worked to unify, not divide,” he said. “The people of Blackhawk Street didn’t care if you were black or white, they were there for you.” That ended, he said. When Reconstruction ended. “Black momentum was no more. “Reconstruction didn’t end because the work was done,” he said. “It ended because the leaders no longer thought it was worth doing.”
Other speakers told of neighbors, Joseph B. and Susan Evans at 637 Blackhawk and Mariah Vaughn at 601 Blackhawk. 
In welcome addresses, Pastor Kara Williams said BAAC members are doing brave work, while Mayor Kim Kirby said, “in parts of the country, people are trying to hide this history. Here, they’re discovering history. I can’t wait to see what they find next.”

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Music in the Museum June 21
Walk Down Memory Lane with Vintage Photos and Live Music ​​​

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