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Join Camp Xtreme on a Harlem History Tour in NYC

Montgomery County OIC's Camp Xtreme will be taking a bus trip to Harlem Friday, and you're invited.

Montgomery County Opportunities-Industrialization Center's (OIC) Camp Xtreme is planning a bus trip Friday, July 29, to New York City for a "Historic Harlem and Hip Hop Tour," and you're invited to join them.

The group will spend the day in Harlem with the locals and explore the contributions 1960s Harlem made to the Civil Rights Movement. They'll also be traveling with MC Greg Nice on a trip back in time to explore neighborhoods in the Bronx and Harlem where hip-hop was born.

If that isn't enough, everyone on the tour will get a home-cooked meal at the famous United House of Prayer for All People.

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The bus leaves the OIC office at 1101 Arch St. at 8 a.m. and will return at 7 p.m. The cost is $80 a person, but children travelling with a parent only pay $50. You'll have to register by Wednesday afternoon to make the cut, so call OIC at 610-279-9700 for more details and tickets.

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