Rockford legend Dorothy Paige-Turner will present an evening honoring Juneteenth at Inscape Collective on Saturday, June 17, 2023. Through music, stories and poetry, Paige-Turner will explore how secret and coded messages are embedded within spirituals and folk songs, created to communicate various means of escape to the enslaved via the Underground Railroad before, during and after the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation is celebrated on Juneteenth, June 19, which became a federal holiday in 2021.