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‘Long look’ 1st VI Emancipated Community to Pay Homage to Fore-Parents

Starting Friday afternoon July 25, 2015 the scores are expected to participate in an activity titled “Festival of Culture and praise” will blanket the Long Look community. Image: VI Festivals & Fairs Committee
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Virgin Island’s culture and history, one which saw our fore-parents breaking free from physical slavery beginning in the community of Long Look will be celebrated in a big way.

Deputy Premier, Minister for Natural Resources and Labour and Representative for the Seventh District Dr. the Hon. Kedrick D. Pickering along with several others who holds the rich history of Long Look dear to their hearts, have always called for a special event to be held at the Stick - It to keep that history alive.

The Stick – It is a place where people of the days of old, converge in one open place to socialize without fear of the slave masters which once owned and ruled over them.

For the 60th Emancipation they will be having much more than they had envisioned as the East End/Long Look festival committee has designed a programme that will see the involvement of all the people of the Virgin Islands including visitors.

Starting Friday afternoon July 25, 2015 the scores are expected to participate in an activity titled “Festival of Culture and praise” will blanket the Long Look community.

“Come celebrate our culture and history through praise, parade procession, historical talks, manumission reading, cultural skit and several other cultural demonstrations,” notes the committee.

At 5:30PM a walk of remembrance procession will move off from Long Swap en-route to the Stick - It where a remembrance programme will begin. There will be a full program of songs of praise, poetry, dances, a skit, and presentations on the freed Nottingham slaves, reading of the letter which freed all the slaves, and gifted them with the Nottingham Plantation, and a lot more.

“Now is the ideal time for children and adults who are not aware of the rich cultural heritage and history surrounding Long Look, to come out and learn all they can, so that when they claim to be celebrating freedom from slavery, they will know exactly what that celebration entail,” said the committee Chairperson Ms Sandra Potter-Warrican.

Dr. Quincy Lettsome will do the message about the Nottingham Free People while Mrs. Jennie Wheatley will do the Letter of manumission.

Students of the Frances Lettsome and Willard Wheatley Primary Schools are all well rehearsed as they will be the ones doing the cultural skit.

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