Village Harmony World Music Ensemble Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at 7 PM Vermont-based Village Harmony, the remarkable teen world music ensemble, presents its concert program of the summer. The Teen...
Celebrate the 242nd Anniversary of Massachusetts Emancipation Day, aka Quock Walker Day
Quock Walker was enslaved in Barre, MA. His 1781 civil lawsuit for battery led to the 1783 criminal case that ended slavery in Massachusetts. Venus Roe was enslaved by Jonas Roe in Lexington. At about three years old, she was gifted to Smitheren Reed of Woburn District. Venus Roe was emancipated in the wake of the third Quock Walker case, Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Nathaniel Jennison.
