Quaker History - period ended 11.15.2006

Quaker History / Wing, Abraham /// Tour offers taste of history, with video / Glens Falls Post-Star / Glens Falls / NY / USA /7-Nov-06//...The question, used to begin one of Joy's semi-regular architectural tours of the downtown streetscape, was this: Glens Falls has had five names in its existence -- what are they?

The oldest name, Joy began, was a Native American name: Chepontuc.

"I believe it means 'hard place to get around,' " Joy said. "And I think that's still true today. But what they were referring to was the falls."

For a time, the area was known by English-speaking settlers as The Corners, but the first name representing any sense of permanent identity was Wing's Falls, in honor of the community's founder, Quaker Abraham Wing.. ...

Quaker History/Whaling/Abolition//DAY TRIP; Visitors, at Least, Can Catch Moby Dick/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/10-Nov-06//... of whaling, Quaker and abolitionist history, a ...//….

Quaker History / Werner, Emma Lapsansky // Talk on 'World Black Philadelphia Made' / UDaily / Newark / DE / USA /15-Nov-06//... She has lectured and published on various aspects of Pennsylvania and Quaker history. She recently published Quaker Aesthetics (with ...

Quaker History / War / WWII // Photographs of an Episode That Lives in Infamy / New York Times / New York / NY / USA /8-Nov-06//... detainees. At one point she was almost fired when one of her photographs appeared on a Quaker pamphlet denouncing the internment. ...

Quaker History / War / World War II / Bolich, Celia / Riveter remembers / The Daily Advertiser / Lafayette / LA / USA /10-Nov-06//"There are others who did more than I did," she said. At 18, Bollich was student at a Quaker college in Indiana. "I wanted to help ...

Quaker History / War / Protest / Morrison, Norman / A Desperate Measure / Utne Reader Online / Minneapolis / MN / USA /15-Nov-06//... Two years later, an American Quaker named Norman Morrison lit himself on fire in front of the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War. ...

Quaker History / War / American Civil War / LC professor hopes to identify, memorialize Union soldiers who ... / Lynchburg News and Advance / Lynchburg / VA / USA /2-Nov-06//... “This being a good Quaker town, prisoners received fairly good treatment,” Potter said. “They were certainly not abused.”. ...

Quaker History / War /// Zafar the ditherer / Guardian Unlimited / London / England / UK /10-Nov-06//... a bill for the flaying alive, impalement or burning of the murderers of the [British] women and children of Delhi"; and one of his soldiers (a Quaker, no less ...

Quaker History / Suffrage / Abolition / Mott, Lucretia / Reflections On Two Lives And One Man / Mount Vernon Gazette / Mount Vernon / VA / USA /9-Nov-06//... page description. Pamela was selected in 1987 to portray Quaker abolitionist and women's rights activist Lucretia Mott. That wa

Quaker History / Slavery / Underground Railroad / GHS lecturer to shine light on the Underground Railroad / Savannah Morning News / Savannah / GA / USA /6-Nov-06//... Underground Railroad figures like Isaac T. Hopper, one of the founders of the movement in Philadelphia, and Levi Coffin, a North Carolina Quaker who aided ...

Quaker History / Slavery / Architecture // Warnersville residents fail to block college sports park / Greensboro News Record / Greensboro / NC / USA /14-Nov-06//... Greensboro's first subdivision, Warnersville was built for former slaves in the 1860s by a white Quaker and damaged by urban renewal in the 1960s.

Walter Pritchett , whose home faces the property, hopes the college builds its complex and helps to preserve Price, which closed as a public school in 1971. Pritchett said in an interview that he is fed up with people playing the race card.

"I don't buy that," said Pritchett, who is black. "I haven't bought that since I've been an adult.". ...

Quaker History / Real Estate Development / Hicks, John / Hicks, Isaac / Entwined across a century / Newsday / Long Island / NY / USA /12-Nov-06//... Next weekend, people who love the garden and who loved Peggie will hold a centennial celebration on the land that her father, Jay Phipps, bought at the dawn of the 20th century from a Quaker farmer named John D. Hicks, whose son, Isaac, established a nursery that flourishes today as Long Island's oldest garden center. ...

Quaker History / Quaker Schools / Swarthmore College / Densmore, Christopher / Questioning Old Glory / The Phoenix Online / Swarthmore / PA / USA /15-Nov-06//... Further confusing the investigation is the fact that Quaker institutions rarely display Old Glory. “Flags are not commonly flown ...

Quaker History / Politics and Economics / Women / Whittier, John Greenleaf / The poor student on Election Day / The Brown Daily Herald / Providence / RI / USA /7-Nov-06//... o-day alike are great and small,
The nameless and the known
My palace is the people's hall,
The ballot-box my throne!

These lines are from the first stanza of "The Poor Voter on Election Day," written in 1852 by John Greenleaf Whittier, who served on Brown's Board of Trustees. The Massachusetts native was an active Quaker who served as editor of multiple newspapers in New England. A champion of equality, Whittier advocated for the abolition of slavery and is listed in Encyclopedia Brunoniana as "the champion of admission to women to Brown." Regarding this latter cause, Whittier wrote in a letter to Richard Atwater, another trustee, "The traditions of the noble old institution are all in favor of broad liberality and equality of rights and privileges. ... Brown University cannot afford to hesitate much longer in a matter, like this, of simple justice." ...

Quaker History / Politics and Economics / Nixon, Richard // Bon mots to say what you mean - with class / Capital Press / Salem / OR / USA /3-Nov-06//... the political season, this quote by columnist James Reston about Nixon is one of my favorites: "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but ...

Quaker History / Politics and Economics / Hoover, Herbert / Hoover, Eli / Humble Hoover home stirs nonpartisan respect for greatness / NewsOK.com / Oklahoma City / OK / USA /5-Nov-06//…WEST BRANCH, Iowa — Be it ever so humble, there's no place like President Herbert Hoover's childhood home.

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It's tiny — 14 feet by 20 feet — just two rooms. Hoover's father, Jesse, a blacksmith, and his father, Eli, built it in 1871 at the corner of Downey and Penn streets, in this then-Quaker settlement along the west branch of Wapsinonoc Creek. The future president was born there Aug. 10, 1874, and lived there until 1879. ….

Quaker History / Politics and Economics // It's Congressman Carney / Tunkhannock New Age Examiner / Tunkhannock / PA / USA /15-Nov-06//... The Hon. David Wilmot, of "Wilmot Proviso" fame, lived in Dimock as a youth and was able to use the library at Woodbourne where he was greatly influenced by Quaker literature. He served in Congress in 1845-1851 and was later a U.S. Senator, serving there 1861-1863 ...

Quaker History / James Island /// Dredging up answer to vanishing islands / Baltimore Sun / Baltimore / MD / USA /12-Nov-06//...Like Poplar, James (Island) has a rich history. A Quaker landowner bought it to use as a hog pen in the 1600s, and soon its vast pastures were filled with settlers. Farmers grew tobacco, watermen built skipjacks and children studied in two island schools. Battered by northwest winds that had whittled it down over the centuries, it finally was abandoned in the early 1900s.. ...

Quaker History / Civic Irresponsibility / Philadelphia // Editor's Note / PW-Philadelphia Weekly / Philadelphia / PA / USA /7-Nov-06//... Boston was Hollywood’s idea of a “hip, fabulous place to live,” while Philadelphia seemed a “bleak postindustrial landscape.”

What’s more, Vitullo-Martin has a theory for why we fare so poorly compared to Boston—it’s the Quakers’ fault.

We were doomed to be second rate because of our “inward but judgmental Quaker ways.” Boston, conversely, has thrived because the Brahmins, “with their belief in authority and leadership,” embraced a “sense of responsibility for civic life.” ...

Quaker History / Business / Chads, John // DOWNTIME; A Valley Of History, Nature And Art / New York Times / New York / NY / USA /10-Nov-06//…The last three centuries of life in the Brandywine Valley are encapsulated in a 15-minute video at the Chadds Ford Historical Society (1736 North Creek Road; 610-388-7376; www.chaddsfordhistory.org; free). On the grounds is the John Chads House (circa 1725), once home to the Quaker entrepreneur from whom the town derives its name (if not by the same spelling). A half-dozen Chadds Ford historic homes are open for the Candlelight Christmas Tour ($16 in advance; $20 the day of the tour) on Dec. 2. Also worth exploring here is a 0.3-mile nature trail where a raised boardwalk weaves through wetlands. Tread lightly and you may see turtles, deer, ducks and, if you're lucky, great blue herons with majestic wingspans. ….

Quaker History / Business / Racism / Hopkins, Johns / Hopkins protesters see little improvement / Baltimore Sun / Baltimore / MD / USA /5-Nov-06//... Johns Hopkins, the founder of the university and the hospital also bearing his name, was a wealthy Quaker philanthropist who died in 1873. Hopkins opposed slavery and showed concern for the plight of poor blacks who settled in Baltimore after the Civil War. Hopkins Hospital treated blacks and whites during the days when Baltimore was segregated.

Like many other institutions of higher learning across the country, Hopkins has periodically had to struggle with race relations and its sometimes antagonistic relationship with the city of Baltimore. . ...

Quaker History / Business / Humanitarian Assistance / Priestman, Sydney / Memorial honour for the child refugees of civil war / Yorkshire Post Today / York / England / UK /14-Nov-06//... They reportedly never stopped singing all the way to their new home, a country mansion in Sutton near Hull called Elmtrees.
Some 4,000 children came to Britain fleeing the Spanish Civil War to stay in "colonies" set up by local people and some – like teacher Soledad Orton – never went home.
In Hull, Quaker businessman Sydney Priestman set up the Basque Children's Committee to receive 22 boys and 18 girls. ...

Quaker History/Business/Abolition/Thompson, Jeremiah/EXHIBITION REVIEW 'NEW YORK DIVIDED'; The Complex Legacy of an Enslaved Past/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/17-Nov-06//…To some extent the exhibition goes too far here, seeming to imply that mercantile prosperity was necessarily tainted by slavery, as in the case of Jeremiah Thompson, a Yorkshire-born merchant in woolen goods, whose packet shipping company, the wall text says, helped make New York such a “fulcrum of transatlantic cotton and sugar trading.” But not all commerce of the period should be drawn into the same web, and economic interests do not always determine opinion: Mr. Thompson, for example, was a Quaker and a member of the New York Manumission Society, which worked to emancipate black New Yorkers.

Quaker History / Architechture /// Hamilton tour uncovers some hidden gems / Globe and Mail / Hamilton / Ontario / Canada /3-Nov-06//... Among our last few stops are Mr. Butler's own police headquarters on King William Street and his Quaker meeting house from the early 1970s. ...

Quaker History / American Revolution / Pratt Plantation / Winston, Lindley / A Quaker's dilemma / Wayne Suburban Newspapers / Wayne / PA / USA /2-Nov-06//... seven long years of war. For Quaker families, especially, the struggle often brought about bitter separations. Young men went off ...

Quaker History //// A Front Row Seat to History / Washington Post / Washington / DC / USA /11-Nov-06//... Vernon Ladies' Association. Edward Gibbs Place is named for the Quaker who owned the original farmhouse on the property. Doeg Indian ...