Storytelling and exhibits at this weekend’s Willow Hill Festival and Commemoration of 400
Years of African American History are planned to tread respectfully on sensitive ground, acknowledging the ugly reality of slavery but also the central role enslaved people played in building America.
Willow Hill’s exhibits, stories face truth of slavery head-on
Weekend festival part of ‘400 years’ commemoration
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