A Family Revealed: From Slavery to Hope at the Discovery Museum

A Family Revealed: From Slavery to Hope at the Discovery Museum

Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 7pm to 8:30pm

Speaker: Wallis Wickham Raemer, educator, and Reggie Harris, folk singer and social activist

Location: This event will be live and in-person at Nashoba Brooks School

200 Strawberry Hill Road, Concord, MA

Cost: Free with pre-registration; $5 suggested donation appreciated

In an evening of engaging music and conversation with the audience, two descendants of a Confederate enslaver, one Black and one white, share their story and discuss what it was like to discover each other’s deeply held feelings, pain, and hope. Presenting are folk singer and social activist Reggie Harris and longtime educator Wallis Wickham Raemer. To underscore their messages and experience, Harris, a prominent interpreter of the use of music in historical movements for social change, sings his stirring, original songs accompanied by guitar. The event will include ASL interpretation.

Please note this event is live and in-person, there will be no virtual component. The event will include ASL interpretation.

https://www.discoveryacton.org/events-programs/family-revealed-slavery-hope-person-event