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Open House Day:
2nd Annual Open House Day
The Ancient Burying Ground Association held its Annual Meeting in conjunction with the 2nd Annual Open House June 9. The Open House included early American traditional entertainment, ceremonies, tours and stone cutting demonstrations. The Sweetheart Mountain band played American fiddle and guitar music and Sheldon's 2nd Regiment Dragoons, a re-activated unit originally formed during the American Revolution, conducted a libation ceremony, and salutes to fallen American Revolutionary War Veterans. AJALI and the Mama Jamma Drummers, a professional folk group from Trinidad, performed a drum-circle with local drummers, and played traditional Afro-Caribbean and West African folk rhythms. Ruthie Shapleigh-Brown demonstrated the delicate art of cleaning Hartford's oldest gravestones dating back to the mid 1600s.
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