Hahn Mason will be closed on Friday, June 18, 2021 in observance of Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day – the oldest national celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19th, 1865, Union Soldiers landed in Galveston, TX with the news that the enslaved were now free – two and a half years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation as there were few Union Soldiers in TX to enforce the Executive Order. Let us celebrate all that Juneteenth teaches us about our country’s greatness in the use of the heart to hear and to learn and to work together for all that is good and just.
