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William Beckett Project: Conversation and Reception
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Free.Location:
Picnic Grove #1 is near the intersection of Tilden Street NW and Beach Drive. There are parking lots and street parking nearby.Dates & Times
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Join Rock Creek Park and the Friends of Peirce Mill to learn about the remarkable life of William Beckett, who was once the enslaved manager of Joshua Peirce’s nursery business on Linnaean Hill, now Rock Creek Park headquarters.
On April 20, we’ll share what the Friends of Peirce Mill and Rock Creek Park have learned during the William Beckett Project.
The event will begin at 1:00pm with a conversation at Picnic Grove #1 in Rock Creek Park featuring Brian Joyner, Acting Superintendent of Rock Creek Park; Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Professor of History at Howard University and the Director of its Public History Program; and Antonio Austin, Project Historian for the William Beckett Project and PhD candidate at Howard University.
Then we’ll head up to Linnaean Hill, now known as Klingle Mansion. Visitors will have the option to walk up the hill, or to take a free shuttle bus.
A new, temporary interpretive exhibit telling Beckett’s life story will be installed near the mansion. We’ll end the afternoon with a reception and light refreshments on the lawn of Linnaean Hill, where William Beckett was born in 1833.
Schedule
1:00 to 2:30pm: Conversation at Picnic Grove #1, Rock Creek Park
2:30 to 4:00pm: Exhibit and Reception at Klingle Mansion
Directions, Parking, and Public Transportation
Picnic Grove #1: Picnic Grove #1 is near the intersection of Tilden Street NW and Beach Drive. There are parking lots and street parking nearby.
Klingle Mansion: There is limited parking at Klingle Mansion, 3545 Williamsburg Ln NW, Washington, DC. Please note that the building is not open to the public.
Accessibility: There is accessible parking at Picnic Grove #1 and at Klingle Mansion. Sign language interpretation will be provided.
Public Transportation: Picnic Grove #1 is a 20-30 minute walk from the Cleveland Park or Van Ness-UDC exits on the Red Line. Klingle Mansion is closer to the Cleveland Park exit.
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Colored American Magazine, July 1902