A fully costumed reenactment of the Emancipation Proclamation will take place this Friday, Juneteenth, in Old Salem.
On May 21, 1865, at St. Philips Moravian Church in Salem, Chaplain Seth Clark of the Ohio 10th Cavalry declared all enslaved people within rebellious states shall be free.
On Friday, Salem Congregation Board of Trustees President Barry Self will reenact that reading. He’ll be accompanied by costumed actors singing hymns from the original program. Self says, there were more than 200 people in church on that fateful day and roughly 600 on the front lawn…