Robin Hill, 65, a Germantown resident, said Juneteenth celebrations are an important way of teaching vital history to younger generations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad to see a lot of young people out here, because we were kind of taught our history by our parents and grandparents, even though we didn\u2019t really learn it in school, but these children really aren\u2019t learning anything about their culture,\u201d Hill said. \u201cAnd now with the current administration, a lot of things are being stripped away from our culture, so things like this are extremely important.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Larry Harris, a Mt. Airy resident in his 70s, has been a Civil War re-enactor for 35 years. He represented the Third Regiment Infantry, United States Colored Troops, Civil War Reenactors, at Germantown\u2019s 20th annual Juneteenth Festival on June 20, 2026. (Emily Neil\/WHYY)<\/p>\n
Jacqueline Wimbush, 68, a resident of West Oak Lane who grew up down the street from Hill, agreed. She said Trump\u2019s effort to remove the exhibit at the President\u2019s House is a \u201chateful act.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen those things happen, we have to make sure that our children know from the community, from their support groups, their churches, their community centers, their parents, what the history is and why it\u2019s so important,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Wimbush expressed hope that whoever is president after Trump will reverse that decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf not, we\u2019ll celebrate our own history and continue passing our history on to our children and whoever else is interested,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robin Hill, 65, a Germantown resident, said Juneteenth celebrations are an important way of teaching vital history to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":881387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,28196,37211,6607,1448,2830,1311,71827,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-881386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-black-history","tag-germantown","tag-juneteenth","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-slavery","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116784732803478236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}