Pathway to Pride dedication ceremony and Juneteenth Celebration

Old City Cemetery will dedicate its Pathway to Pride honoring local African American history in an afternoon of events on Sunday, June 19 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.  The program will start with an outdoor dedication event at the Pathway, a brick walkway located on the old Third Street roadbed in the heart of a section of African American graves culminating at the Pride family grave plot.

The free dedication event at the Cemetery will start at 3 p.m. and will be followed by an outdoor ticketed event ($5/person) which includes a 4 p.m. barbecue supper (served by Bistro Brothers BBQ) and a 5 p.m. jazz concert by Lynchburg native Isaac Williams and his IJW Trio under a tent in the Cemetery’s Earley Memorial Shrub Garden, across from the Cemetery Chapel.  Several anonymous sponsors are underwriting a portion of the concert and barbecue.