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   Finding Our Roots museum celebrating second anniversary   
      
   By Scott Yoshonis Staff Writer   
   Posted Feb 2, 2019 at 9:03 AM   
      
   The Finding Our Roots African American Museum will celebrate its   
   second anniversary on Feb. 9, and you're invited.   
      
   Some of the highlights of the celebration will be unveiling of the   
   museum's Historical Landmark designation, the introduction of the   
   Memorial Bricks project and the Georgetown Memorial Slave exhibition.   
      
   The celebration will be an all-day affair, with actors portraying   
   historical figures and teaching attendees about their stories.   
      
   Museum President Margie Scoby said the response to the museum's first   
   two years in operation has been "awesome."   
      
   "People are coming from all over the country and our local people have   
   embraced the idea," Scoby said. "We have people constantly coming in   
   with stories and memorabilia, artifacts, data. We had a group come   
   through from Wisconsin, and some of the things we went through, they   
   said they had no idea."   
      
   From 10:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., actors portraying such historical   
   figures as Frank Campbell, will inform and entertain. Campbell is one   
   of the 272 slaves sold en masse by Georgetown College (later   
   Georgetown University) in Washington, D.C., in 1838 to pay off debts   
   by the college and help keep it afloat.   
      
   There is a local connection to that particular event. Many of the   
   descendants of those Georgetown slaves, sometimes referred to as the   
   GU272, live in Terrebonne Parish.   
      
   Other actor-portrayed historical figures scheduled to "appear" are   
   Abdul Rahman, an African prince who was enslaved for over 40 years,   
   Jack Conrad and Mahaila Washington, victims of the Thibidaux Massacre,   
   several mulatto women of New Orleans and Clementine Hunter, a   
   self-taught black artist.   
      
   There will also be musical artists, visual artists and featured   
   speakers at the event.   
      
   "The mere fact that we are here for our story, and those people who do   
   don't know about who we are and what we have contributed to the   
   country, it's awesome," Scoby said.   
      
   Finding Our Roots African American Museum is at 918 Roussel St. in   
   Houma.   
      
   Staff Writer Scott Yoshonis can be reached at 850-1148 or   
   syoshonis@houmatoday.com. Follow him on Twitter @Foster_Cajun.   
      
      
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