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Weeksville Heritage Center Honors

Founding Father Jim Hurley, Others

Jim Hurley of East Springfield, center, poses with other honorees at the 2015 Weeksville Social in Brooklyn, where he was honored as a founder of the Weeksville Heritage Center, built around a largely forgotten 19th century community of free blacks that he helped recognize in the 1960s. For details of Hurley's story, see this week's AllOTSEGO.senior section of The Freemans' Journal and Hometown Oneonta, on newsstands this afternoon.
Jim Hurley of East Springfield, center, poses with other honorees at the 2015 Weeksville Socia June 10l in Brooklyn, where he was honored as a founder of the Weeksville Heritage Center, built around a largely forgotten 19th century community of free blacks that he helped recognize in the 1960s. For details of Hurley’s story, see this week’s AllOTSEGO.seniority section of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, on newsstands this afternoon.   He is flanked by Sharlene Dunnavant, daughter of honoree Dolores McCullough, and Robert Thompson, honoree and son of honoree Pat Johnson.  (Photo courtesy Weeksville Heritage Center)

 

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