It’s not every month that our magazine cover serves double duty.
For June, our cover image is a photo that we took last year during the annual Juneteenth celebration, showing several performers from the Legacy Drip Dance Team.
We love the composition, the movement, the sheer joy evident in this photograph by John Bivins.
We saved this fantastic image for an entire year because we wanted its publication to coincide with the next Juneteenth. And here we are!
Once again, Young Professionals of Color will hold Juneteenth HBG, a massive celebration this month featuring music, art, vendors, education, etc, etc. There are too many events and activities to list here, in this word-limited introduction, so please visit www.ypoc.org for all the details.
But, like I mentioned above, our cover actually serves two purposes.
We also selected this photo to coincide with a new section that we call “Family Time.”
Over the years, we often have been asked to include more content for families and children in TheBurg. We developed Family Time to meet that need, as we always try to be responsive to our readers and our community.
Each month, Family Time will include one or more feature stories, puzzles and games and a new activities/events column by our very own Natalie diSanto. If you have any suggestions for stories or future events, please contact Natalie or our newly promoted assistant editor, Maddie Gittens, who is overseeing the section. You’ll find their emails in the masthead to the right.
Otherwise, the June issue is chock full of summertime features and events here in the Harrisburg area. There’s a lot going on, so please take our content as just a jumping-off point for things to do in our rapidly growing region.
In my opinion, June is when our area truly shines. Baseball is in full swing on City Island, the Pride of the Susquehanna plies the river, al fresco dining spills out onto downtown sidewalks, music rings throughout Riverfront Park.
Welcome to the warm outdoors, Harrisburg. Your summertime awaits!
Lawrance Binda
Publisher/Editor
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