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Author and reverend Owen B. Lovejoy visits Princeton for Homestead Festival · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Author and Reverend Owen B. Lovejoy visits Princeton for Homestead Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Shaw Local News Network, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Owen B. Lovejoy, a retired pastor and author, will
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  Speaker 1: be in Princeton during the Homestead Festival September tenth thirteen
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  Speaker 1: for a series of appearances centered on his recently published
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  Speaker 1: book about his great great grandfather. Lovejoy will present at
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  Speaker 1: the Homestead Festival Lawn Event on Thursday at six thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: He will sign copies of his book A Cause Sprinkled
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  Speaker 1: in Blood, The Life of Owen Lovejoy, Abolitionist, pastor and
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  Speaker 1: Congressman at Truleive's Bookshop on Friday from two three thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: The book will also be available for purchase Thursday at
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  Speaker 1: the lawn event. On Saturday, Lovejoy will ride in the
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  Speaker 1: Homestead Festival Parade on Main Street, which begins at one
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm. On Sunday, he will deliver a sermon at
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty am at Hampshire Colony Congregational Church, six zero
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  Speaker 1: four South Church Street and his book Lovejoy Paints a
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  Speaker 1: portrait of his great great grandfather, The Honorable Owen Lovejoy,
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  Speaker 1: an abolitionist, pastor and congressman. Lovejoy said he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: honor his namesake and provide an honest and accurate account
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  Speaker 1: of who his ancestor was, what he stood for, and
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  Speaker 1: what he believed. Lovejoy was born in Illinois, but spent
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  Speaker 1: most of his childhood and youth in Indiana. After attending
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  Speaker 1: Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and Erskine Theological Seminary
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  Speaker 1: in due West, South Carolina, he pastored churches in Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: and North Carolina. He and his wife, Anita, have been
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  Speaker 1: married for fifty years and live in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Lovejoy recently retired from mission work in Honduras. Anita retired
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  Speaker 1: from teaching English as a second language in public elementary schools.
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  Speaker 1: They have thirteen grandchildren. Homestead festival details. Free tour of
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  Speaker 1: the Lovejoy Homestead will be available during the festival Friday
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  Speaker 1: one four pm, Saturday ten am noon and three five pm,
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  Speaker 1: and Sunday one four pm. Trueleiaves Bookshop is located at
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  Speaker 1: fifteen Park Avenue West