Event Dime
Juneteenth Celebration: Calling Their Names
African & Diaspora Culture
- When:
- June 19, 2026 · 1:00 PM
- Where:
- Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, 80 N Ferry Road, Shelter Island, NY, 11964, United States
- Source:
- Things to do on Long Island
Sylvester Manor will celebrate the 2026 Juneteenth Holiday with our annual commemoration at the Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground with a Calling of The Names. We invite you to participate in the ceremony as we honor the Indigenous, Enslaved, and Free men, women and children of color who lived, worked, and were buried on this site. Archaeologists from the University of Massachusetts/Boston utilized ground-penetrating radar technology to confirm that nearly 100 individuals are interred at the site. Th
African & Diaspora Culture