Decoration Day Celebration

Morning Glory Homestead Farm invites you to attend our Gullah Campfire Supper with Stories and Songs for May as we host our annual Decoration Day Event.  The theme is “Decoration Day: A Community Celebration”.   This special event will recount circumstances that support “the case for Charleston, South Carolina, as Memorial Day’s birthplace, as that city was the site of an obscure (possibly suppressed) May 1865 event held at a racetrack turned war prison, during which freedmen properly reburied hundreds of Union dead found there and then held a ceremony to dedicate the cemetery: African Americans founded Decoration Day at the graveyard of 257 Union soldiers labeled ‘Martyrs of the Race Course,’ May 1, 1865, Charleston, South Carolina”.  In addition, guest speaker, Major General and Airline Captain (Retired), and Beaufort City councilman Harold L. “Mitch” Mitchel, a proud graduate of Robert Smalls High School, and a Beaufort City Councilman since November…