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Get ready to celebrate Juneteenth in New Paltz, NY! It's almost time for the 5th Annual MWLC Juneteenth Jubilee! A celebration of triumph and history and learning about Juneteenth with the New Paltz community. This is the 5th year in a row we will host an all-day extravaganza to help honor and remember the formerly […]

The Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center and Historic Huguenot Street will honor and remember the lives of Anthony and Susanna, enslaved in Ulster County during the seventeenth century. Anthony and Susanna were purchased by Louis DuBois, a French Protestant founder of New Paltz, in 1673. Their purchase is the earliest record of enslavement associated with a […]