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Hundreds of people came out for the Sow-A-Seed Foundation’s Back to School Summer Summit on Saturday at the Joe Ferolito Recreation Center in Quincy.
Prizes such as cash, school uniforms and cakes were raffled away.  Children were able to get snow cones, cotton candy and popcorn.  
Backpacks with school supplies were also given away to the first 100 children.
Originally there were train rides and bounce houses for outside for children, but everyone moved inside because of the rain.
However, the party still went on.

By Canter Brown Jr.
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series of articles sponsored by New Bethel AME Church History Project with Dr. Brown serving as consulting historian. The Rev. Charles Morris pastors New Bethel.

By Canter Brown Jr.
Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of articles sponsored by New Bethel AME Church History Project with Dr. Brown serving as consulting historian. The Rev. Charles Morris pastors New Bethel.
A diversity of influences radiated outward to the state and nation from Gadsden County’s AME churches in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The lives and experiences of Alexander C. Lightbourne and Mary Zeigler Lightbourne offer excellent cases on point.

By Canter Brown Jr.