HADLEY—The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, with Ancestral Bridges, presents Stories of Slavery and Independence, a remembrance of six enslaved African Americans, Zebulon Prutt, Caesar Phelps and Margaret (Peg) Bowen, and her daughters and granddaughters Roasanna, Phillis, and Phillis. The event is stewarded by Onawumi Jean Moss and Anika Lopes, and features freedom songs with Orice Jenkins, dramatic readings by Frank Roberts College and Olivia Hayes, and a communal reading of Frederick Douglass’s influential address "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?". This commemorative storytelling event and concert is a Reading Frederick Douglass Together Mass Humanities program, and offered on Wednesday, July 30 at 6:00 pm in the Sunken Garden at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, 130 River Drive, Route 47, Hadley MA 01035. Admission for this event is free. Picnickers are welcome on the museum’s grounds starting at 5:00 pm. The museum and its grounds are a smoke-free site. For further information please call (413) 584-4699 or view www.pphmuseum.org.