Arabia Alliance Reads: Walk and Talk with Bennett Parten

Arabia Alliance Reads: Walk and Talk with Bennett Parten

Parten will read from his book, Somewhere Toward Freedom and also lead a one-hour Walk & Talk around historic Lithonia.

By Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance

Date and time

Wednesday, June 18 · 1 - 3pm EDT

Location

Black Dot Cultural Center

6984 Main Street Lithonia, GA 30058

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Arabia Reads is thrilled to bring historian Bennet Parten to Black Dot Cultural Center in Lithonia to sign and read from his new book Somewhere Toward Freedom. As part of our Juneteenth week of programming, Parten will read from the book and also lead a one-hour Walk & Talk around Lithonia. Together, we’ll relive Sherman’s March to the Sea as it passed through the historic downtown and how this became a Juneteenth-like emancipation for many Black Georgians.

Copies of Somewhere Toward Freedom will be available for purchase at the event.

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