July 14, 2025

Turn Park Hosted “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

Turn Park is a sculpture park based in West Stockbridge, MA. On July 4th they held a community reading of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” a well known speech by Frederick Douglass, a speech he gave on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. Sina Basila Hickey was there and asked Jared Gelormino about the event and about Turn Park. TurnPark.com

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