The Second Annual Prince Hall Friends & Family Day will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 29 at Goffe Street Park.

PRESS RELEASE/ 2ND ANNUAL PRINCE HALL FRIENDS AND PHAMILY DAY

The Second Annual Prince Hall Friends & Family Day will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 29 at Goffe Street Park. The event, sponsored by Widow’s Son Lodge #1, Oriental Lodge #6, King Solomon Lodge #23, and OES-Eureka Chapter No. 2, will include free food, games, gifts, raffles, and fun for everyone, organizers said. There also will be live entertainment, basketball, a softball tournament, a voter registration drive, drill teams and step competition. Later in the evening there will be a follow up celebration of the Prince Hall PHAmily Masonic accomplishments throughout the year with a party at the Community Outreach Center starting at 9 pm tickets are $15 for this affair. All vendors are welcome.

For more information, call Gerald Patton (203) 927-2326 or Cinque Troutman at (203) 868-2307.
(Prince Hall, one of Boston's most prominent citizens during the revolutionary period, was the founder of the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of Boston, the world's first lodge of black Freemasonry and the first society in American history devoted to social, political, and economic improvement.)