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Watch Night

Emancipation Watch Night in Peterboro New Year’s Eve

December 26, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

corpin-bowenIn honor of President Lincoln’s January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, and Gerrit Smith’s connection to the copy of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the New York State Library, Retired Navy Commander Owen Corpin will provide a program and prepare the watch fire for the Watch Night commemoration at 4 pm Sunday, December 31, 2016.

The program will begin at the Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro, and will move to the watch fire site on the Peterboro Green. Owen Corpin, a descendant of 19th Century freedom seekers who came to Peterboro, will describe the long wait through the night of December 31, 1862. Corpin organized the first Peterboro Watch Night for the Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. [Read more…] about Emancipation Watch Night in Peterboro New Year’s Eve

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Abolition, Peterboro, Slavery, Watch Night

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