Daily Archives: June 15, 2021

MHQ Honors Juneteenth

Juneteenth (a hybrid of June and nineteenth) – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day – celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States and marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival…

MHQ Gets Back to Nature

According to the National Park Service, the United States Senate designated June as National Outdoor Month or Great Outdoors Month in June 2019. This celebration of our national habitat began as a week under the Clinton administration and has grown under every administration since then. In celebration of the Land of 10,000 Lakes (another name…