Quaker History - period ended 10.15.2006

Quaker History / World Pacifist Congress / Chetsingh, Ranjit / Gandhigiri minus Gandhi / Daily Pioneer / New Delhi / India / Asia /12-Oct-06//... I can think of many significant Gandhian themes. There is his 1909 message that "the railways, telegraphs, hospitals, lawyers, doctors and such like all have to go and the so-called upper classes have to live consciously the simple life of a peasant." There was his rebuke to socialites who rose from "overloaded breakfast tables" in "spacious bungalows" and drove to the poor in "posh cars" dangling "stylish vanity bags". There was the anguished refusal of Ranjit Chetsingh, an Indian Quaker, to participate in the World Pacifist Congress "when that great pacifist Gandhi is exhorting the Indian troops in Kashmir to be prepared to die for their country." Such complexities cannot even be mentioned in the context of a frothy film. ...

Quaker History / War / Nixon, Richard / No faith can claim peaceful history / Charleston Gazette / Charleston / WVA / USA /8-Oct-06// ... In that sad, mad war, America’s Christian Quaker president Nixon ordered the bombing and invasion of Cambodia and Laos, killing thousands of Buddhists. ...

Quaker History / Underground Railroad / Robinson, Rowland / Ferrisburgh museum gets grant / BurlingtonFreePress.com / Burlington / VT / USA /10-Oct-06//... The exhibit will follow the journey of Simon as he fled Maryland, struggled through Pennsylvania in the dead of winter and eventually found his way to the Robinsons' farm. The building also will house a Vermont-style meeting hall that will tell the personal stories of the Underground Railroad on a national scale.

A highlight of the exhibit will be a short drama presented via artifacts, special lighting and a recording based on letters exchanged between Rowland Robinson and Jesse's owner discussing Jesse's attempts to buy his own freedom. Robinson, a Quaker, felt it would be a violation of his principles to pay for the freedom of someone enslaved in a system Robinson found inherently evil. He aided Jesse in his effort to buy his freedom papers.

"It obviously had great meaning to Jesse," according to Williamson, who said Jesse's owner wanted him to pay $300. "Jesse wanted this. He wanted the security." . ...

Quaker History / Underground Railroad / Howland, Slocum / Town getting grave advice / Auburn Citizen / Auburn / NY / USA /3-Oct-06//...Patricia White, secretary of the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood, said the cemetery has always been regarded as historically significant, largely because it contains the gravestones for Seth Sherwood and much of the Phillips family. Phillips was a slave who escaped from Maryland and befriended Slocum Howland, a prominent Quaker abolitionist who lived in Sherwood.. ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Hicks, Elias//Channel 21 Program Links Past to Present/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/14-Oct-06//.. Hicks, a Quaker who freed 154 slaves, ... looking at the Quaker connection to the Underground Railroad ...

Quaker History / Slavery /// History of life in Loudoun / Washington Times / Washington / DC / USA /8-Oct-06// ... the part of the exhibit devoted to slavery in the county, materials tell how the western part of the county -- with a large German and Quaker population -- was ...

Quaker History / Schism /// A very grave situation in Lynn / The Daily Item of Lynn / Lynn / MA / USA /10-Oct-06//... She also knows that the Quaker cemetery, as the graveyard off Silsbee Street is called, stands near what was once the site of the Quaker meeting house where members fought and swore at each other in 1822 over religious differences.
The disagreement split the congregation and the narrow line of trees separating the old Quaker cemetery and the "new" one founded by church splinter group leader Mary Newhall and her supporters is a living reminder of that rift. ...

Quaker History / Religious Freedom / Penn, William // Theodore Beza, the diplomat of the Reformation, died / Searcy Daily Citizen / Searcy / AR / USA /14-Oct-06//... Oct. 14, 1644: William Penn, the Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, was born into an Anglican family in London. Ironically, on the same date in 1656, a law prohibiting the practices of the Quakers went into effect in Massachusetts. By the way, though it is commonly thought so, the face on the Quaker Oats logo is not that of William Penn. ...

Quaker History / Religious Freedom / Penn, William // Tragedia en la escuela: cómo es el mundo de los amish / Clarín.com / Barcelona / Spain / E.U. /4-Oct-06//…El surgimiento de los amish es una historia con muchos cismas. Su religión emparentada, la menonita (o anabaptismo), nació de un cisma, en realidad, en Suiza, en 1525, cuando los menonitas se separaron de la Iglesia reformista protestante. Tiempo después, en 1693, en Suiza también, los amish se separaron de la comunidad menonita. Emigraron entonces a Pensilvania, hacia 1730, beneficiándose con la oferta de protección a las religiones perseguidas que ofreció el cuáquero Guillermo Penn. ..The sprouting of amish is a history with many schisms. Its become related religion, the Mennonites (or anabaptists), were born of a schism, in fact, in Switzerland, in 1525, when the menonitas separated of the protestant reformist Church. Later, in 1693, in Switzerland also, amish separated of the menonita community. They emigrated then to Pensilvania, towards 1730, benefitting with the supply from protection to the persecuted religions that Guillermo Penn the cuáquero offered them. ....….

Quaker History / Real Estate Development / Underground Railroad / Politics and Economics / A city's resolve / Indianapolis Star / Indianapolis / IN / USA /15-Oct-06// ... Today, this city of 40,000 settled by Quaker pioneers in the 1820s opposed to Southern slavery, has bounced back and is giving Indiana a lesson in modern ...

Quaker History / Real Estate Development / Architecture / Price, Joseph / Conservancy withdraws application in 1791 House / Ft. Washington Montgomery Newspapers / Lower Merion / PA / USA /12-Oct-06// ... Morris had plans to demolish the house, built by Quaker master carpenter and architect Joseph Price, and build two new houses on the lot. ...

Quaker History / Real Estate Development / Architecture / Price, Joseph / Request to change status of Lewis house withdrawn / Ardmore Main Line Times / Ardmore / PA / USA /12-Oct-06// ... Morris had plans to demolish the house, built by Quaker master carpenter and architect Joseph Price, and build two new houses on the lot. ...

Quaker History / Quaker-Shaker / Lee, Ann // Hands to work, hearts to God / Toronto Star / Toronto / Ontario / Canada /6-Oct-06// ... There's little agreement concerning what, if any, formative influence the Society of Friends, known as Quakers, had on the Shakers. ...

Quaker History / Politics and Economics / Humanitarian Assistance / Roberts had early dreams for office / Durango Herald / Durango / CO / USA /15-Oct-06//…… mother's pacifist Quaker religion and would not go to war.

"My brother was not going to Vietnam, no matter how much my father wanted him to," Roberts, 47, remembers.Later her brother would persuade her to help him go door-to-door for Barry Commoner, presidential candidate for a Green Party predecessor.…. By the time she left for college, she was leaning to the right, and knew "my brother and I were not exactly on the same page." She had been influenced not only by her father, but by the persecution of her mother's Quaker ancestors.

"One of the basic reasons I'm a Republican is I don't think government belongs in people's private lives," she says.Her burning interests in college were agricultural and energy issues, which she tended to think of from the perspective of government policy.." She had been influenced not only by her father, but by the persecution of her mother's Quaker ancestors. ...

Quaker History / Penn, William /// The Almanac / United Press International / New York / NY / USA /14-Oct-06//….Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Today is Saturday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2006 with 78 to follow.

The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mars and Pluto.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include William Penn, the English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania, in 1644; Irish political leader Eamon de Valera in 1882; Dwight D. Eisenhower, World War II military leader and 34th president of the United States, in 1890; poet e.e. cummings in 1894; actress Lillian Gish in 1893; singer Allan Jones in 1907; former basketball Coach John Wooden in 1910 (age 96); former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop in 1916 (age 90); actor Roger Moore in 1927 (age 79); Watergate figure John Dean in 1938 (age 68); designer Ralph Lauren in 1939 (age 67); British pop singer Cliff Richard in 1940 (age 66); and actors Harry Anderson in 1952 (age 54) and Greg Evigan in 1953 (age 53). ….

Quaker History / Natural Science / Bakewell, Lucy / John James Audubon at The Amon Carter Museum / Art Daily / New York / NY / USA /6-Oct-06//... John James Audobon was raised in Nantes, France, by his stepmother. In 1803, his father obtained a false passport for him to travel to the United States to avoid the Napoleonic Wars.

He caught yellow fever and the sea captain placed him in a boarding house run by Quaker women who nursed him to recovery and taught him the unique Quaker form of English. In that year he met and became engaged to his neighbor Lucy Bakewell, whom he married in 1808.

He oversaw a family farm near Philadelphia and began the study of natural history by conducting the first bird-banding on the continent; he tied yarn to the legs of Eastern Phoebes and determined that they returned to the same nesting spots year after year. He also began drawing and painting birds. ...

Quaker History / Fox, George /// Quakers trace their heritage to George Fox, who sought a closer ... / Indianapolis Star / Indianapolis / IN / USA /7-Oct-06// ... the Middle East. Q: We know you by two names, Quakers and Society of Friends. What is the history behind those names? A: In the ...

Quaker History / Conscience / Paine, Thomas / THE SHARPENED QUILL / New Yorker / New York / NY / USA /9-Oct-06// ... Thomas Pain was born in Thetford, England, in 1737 (he added the “e” later, and was called “Tom” only by his enemies), the son of a Quaker artisan who ...

Quaker History / Business / Dickinson, Jonathan / State museum to show off historic restoration / The News Journal / Newark / DE / USA /5-Oct-06// ... Samuel Dickinson, a wealthy Quaker tobacco planter from Talbot County, Md., built the home around 1740. John Dickinson rebuilt it after a major fire in 1804. ...

Quaker History / Business /// World's first printed atlas may go under hammer for over €2m / Unison.ie / Dublin / Ireland / E.U. /6-Oct-06// ... Wardington. The Eton-educated peer and scion of a Quaker banking family built on a collection inherited from his father over 50 years.

Quaker History / Business /// Atlas favoured by Columbus goes on sale for £1 million / Independent / London / England / UK /6-Oct-06// ... of Lord Wardington. The peer and scion of a Quaker banking family built on a collection inherited from his father. His library of ...

Quaker History / Architecture / Smiley, Sarah // Spotlight on buildings in need of work / Albany Times Union / Albany / NY / USA /14-Oct-06// ... The cottage takes it name from two former residents: Sarah Smiley, a Quaker minister and author, and Charles Brackett, an Oscar-winning screenwriter.

Quaker History /// A Weekend in Waterford / Washington Post / Washington / DC / USA /6-Oct-06// ... and dance at the 63rd annual Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit Friday through Sunday at indoor and outdoor sites throughout the 1733 Quaker village of ...

Quaker History /// Civil War on Hunter Mill / Vienna/Oakton Connection / Vienna / VA / USA /5-Oct-06// ... out, was that sentiments of the local citizenry were sharply divided, between Union supporters and secessionists, as well as a notable, anti-war Quaker presence ...