Yonkers Insider: City of Yonkers: CITY OF YONKERS TO UNVEIL THE ENSLAVED AFRICANS’ RAIN GARDEN, AN URBAN-HERITAGE SCULPTURE GARDEN, ALONG HUDSON RIVER @ Friday, June 17 at 11:30 A.M.

 

CITY OF YONKERS TO UNVEIL

THE ENSLAVED AFRICANS’ RAIN GARDEN,

AN URBAN-HERITAGE SCULPTURE GARDEN, ALONG HUDSON RIVER.

 

Kicking off the City’s Juneteenth celebration weekend, Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano along with sculptor Vinnie Bagwell, local artists and community leaders will officially unveil The Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden (EARG), along the Yonkers waterfront at 20 Water Grant Street, on Friday, June 17 at 11:30AM.

The urban-heritage sculpture garden honors the legacy of enslaved Africans who resided and worked at Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers. The garden’s opening will feature the presentation of five life-size bronze sculptures of the enslaved Africans who were freed decades before the Emancipation Proclamation.