Sonya Browne, past Hope Station board president, speaks to the crowd during the organization’s annual Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Carlisle. Juneteenth memorializes the date — June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the end of the Civil War and of slavery, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
