Source: Crystal Baity, ROCKY MOUNT TELEGRAM, 7/11/22

A Juneteenth celebration at the Eastern Carolina Village and Farm Museum helped lay the foundation for an oral history project at East Carolina University. In commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States, the museum on June 19 hosted Willie Hawkins Day honoring the legacy of a successful Black farming family that operated Avon Farm near Grimesland in Pitt County. Willie Hawkins, who died in 1993, donated two circa-1890 tobacco barns to the museum...

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