Three days before Tuesday’s miraculous Rising of the Chamber , remembrance of another rising took place in Lompoc.
Juneteenth recalls the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, received word of their emancipation, word that had been delayed by the Civil War.
Juneteenth arrived in Lompoc five years ago sponsored by Santa Maria-Lompoc NAACP and Lompoc’s C4 Collective after several years in more informal settings.