2006
SUMMER CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
From June 12th through Labor Day, ranger guided tours are offered daily at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
2006SUMMER CALENDAR
From June 12th through Labor Day, ranger guided tours are offered daily at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. |
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The park is open seven days a week, year round, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily, except for extended summer hours which are in effect from June 17th through August 19th. Between these dates, the visitor center will be open from 9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m and the grounds will be open from 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. The park is closed only on Thanksgiving Day, December 25th, and January 1st. Contact us at (540) 721-2094. |
| JUNE | |
| 17 | Juneteenth Gospel Music Celebration. 11:00 a.m. On June 19th, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Texas to issue General Order 3. This order did what the Emancipation Proclamation intended to do in January 1863. All enslaved people were freed. Celebrations erupted in Texas. These celebrations became the holiday known as Juneteenth. Come to the park and join us as we celebrate our freedom with music, food and fellowship. |
| 24 | "To Be a Slave" Junior Ranger Program. Children´s Program, ages 6-12. 10:00 a.m. Compare your life to the life of a child living in the mid-1850s. |
| JULY | |
| 1 | Booker T. Washington and the First Days of Tuskegee Institute. Ranger Talk, 2:00 p.m. Celebrate the 125th anniversary of the establishment of Tuskegee Institute with a lecture on its enduring legacy. |
| 8 | Beyond the Slave Cabin. Walking Tour, 11:00 a.m. Join a park ranger to discuss how the lives of slaves differed from one plantation to another. Learn how slaves resisted slave owners both passively and aggressively. Find out about the "grapevine telegraph". |
| 15 | "To Be a Ranger" Junior Ranger Program. Children's Program, ages 6-12. 10:00 a.m. Take a behind the scenes tour of the duties of a park ranger at Booker T. Washington National Monument. |
| AUGUST | |
| 5 | "To Be an Historian" Junior Ranger Program. Children´s Program, ages 6-12. 10:00 a.m. Learn what skills are necessary to become an historian researching archives and artifacts. |
| 19 | "To Be a Naturalist" Junior Ranger Program Children´s Program, ages 6-12. 10:00 a.m. In celebration of National Park Service Founder´s Day, hike the Jack-O-Lantern Branch Trail and study plants and animals like a naturalist. |
| 27 | Food, Fiber and Flowers. Garden Tour, 2:00 p.m. Here´s an exciting program for history buffs, gardening enthusiasts, or anyone who likes to be outside and learn about historical gardens. Join a park ranger on an afternoon tour of the park´s gardens and grounds to learn more about the nature of subsistence farming, gardening, and medicinal uses in the 1850s through the food, fiber, and flowers that Booker T. Washington experienced during his childhood in slavery on the Burroughs Plantation. |
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Booker T. Washington National Monument 12130 Booker T. Washington Highway Hardy, Virginia 24101 |