Quaker History - period ended 5.15.2006

Quaker History/War/American Revolution/Disownment/Nathanael Greene could be subject of novelist's new book/Coventry Courier/Coventry/RI/USA/13-May-06//...Greene, second only to George Washington among military leaders in the Revolutionary War, is noted for his victories against the British in North and South Carolina during 1780 and 1782. Greene was born in Potowomut, Rhode Island, on Aug. 7, 1742 to a prosperous Quaker farmer. In 1770, he moved to Coventry to work in the family foundries. Because of his interest in many military affairs, the Quaker church expelled him due to their opposition to war.. ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Llewelling Quaker Museum/Walking the past/Burlington Hawk Eye/Burlington/VT/USA/8-May-06//... The pair said they like history, though they don't dig for it, and they were looking forward to visiting the Lewelling Quaker Museum in Salem. The museum has ties with the Underground Railroad, the route slaves used to get to freedom.. ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Business/Brown, Moses/'Sons of Providence' author to give reading this evening/SouthCoastToday.com/New Bedford/MA/USA/10-May-06//.. robber baron running slave galleys from his wharf on the Providence waterfront; his younger brother Moses was an idealist, a conscientious Quaker hungry for ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Slavery//NOT ALL RELIGIOUS ACTIVISTS ARE SCARY/Cleveland Free Times/Cleveland/OH/USA/10-May-06//It might be instructive to note that Quaker and Methodist clergymen attempted to impose their anti-slavery religious values during the mid-nineteenth century. ...

Quaker History/Raised-a-Quaker/Women/Moses, Phoebe Anne/Take A Shot On Annie Oakley Special; Jack Bauer Could Use Her Aim/Hartford Courant/Hartford/CT/USA/8-May-06//Compared to, say, Calamity Jane (especially as depicted on "Deadwood"), Annie Oakley was a prim woman of Quaker upbringing who survived a hellish childhood to emerge as one of the best shots in Ohio. ...

Quaker History/Raised-a-Quaker/Women/Moses, Phoebe Anne/This week's shows: murder mystery, Annie Oakley/Pioneer Press/St. Paul/MN/USA/8-May-06//... • Anything a man could do, she could do better. Or so the song from "Annie Get Your Gun," the musical tribute to Annie Oakley, claimed. Now, a documentary portrays the real rootin'-tootin' Wild West sharpshooter, who, despite her legendary stardom in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and her "adoption" by Indian chief Sitting Bull, lived her entire life east of the Mississippi. With the end of the 19th century, she had become a living symbol of the Wild West — a place that was fast disappearing. She changed people's ideas about the abilities of women yet opposed female suffrage. Her fame and fortune came from her skill with guns, yet she was a Quaker. Born Phoebe Anne Moses, she was the little lady from Ohio who never missed a shot. Annie Oakley is the subject of this week's "American Experience," airing at 8 p.m. today on TPT, Channel 2.. ...

Quaker History/Raised-a-Quaker/Women/Moses, Phoebe Anne/McCollum: Passing of WB's `7th Heaven' will leave void on network .../San Jose Mercury News/San Jose/CA/USA/8-May-06//... Mississippi. For another, she opposed suffrage. Not to mention that while she earned her fame with a gun, she was a Quaker. Even ...

Quaker History/Raised-a-Quaker/Women/Moses, Phoebe Anne/Anything a man could do, she could do better./Henderson Gleaner/Henderson/KY/USA/7-May-06//... She changed people's ideas about the abilities of women, yet opposed female suffrage. Her fame and fortune came from her skill with guns, yet she was a Quaker. ...

Quaker History/Quaker Research Center/West Milton Friends Meeting/Saunders to speak about fire safety/Times Community Newspapers of Greater Dayton/Dayton/OH/USA/12-May-06//…The historical museum and Quaker Research Center is located in the educational and social wing of the West Milton Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. ...

Quaker History/Meetinghouse/Real Estate Development/Membership Decline/Meetinghouse is link to past/Indianapolis Star/Indianapolis/IN/USA/13-May-06//... and oak pews. Day said the building is used occasionally for Quaker weddings and other special celebrations. Currently owned by ...

Quaker History/Intentional Community/Paganism/Maryhill/America unhenged: 7 great Stonehenge replicas/MSNBC/New York/NY/USA/11-May-06/MSNBC/... Sam Hill’s Stonehenge: Maryhill, Wash.
The first American replica Stonehenge, and still one of the most dramatic, was actually erected in error. Sam Hill, a wealthy railroad executive, known to history principally as an "advocate of good roads," built his Stonehenge in Maryhill, Wash., on a lonely bluff overlooking the Columbia River south of Goldendale. A pacifist, Hill mistakenly believed that Stonehenge had been a site of human sacrifice. By building a replica, he intended to memorialize the soldiers of Klickitat County who had lost their lives in World War I, a reminder that "humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war."

Sam Hill's Stonehenge, built to scale out of reinforced concrete, was dedicated in 1918 -- the first World War I monument in America -- but it wasn't finished until twelve years later. By then, Maryhill, an experimental Quaker community, had been abandoned, and Sam Hill, who was known for his erratic bursts of manic energy, was in a deep depression. He died in 1931, living just long enough to see his Stonehenge completed, and is buried in a lone grave at the base of the bluff. ...

Quaker History/Fox, George///Big names at Quaker Burial Ground/Annapolis Capital/Annapolis/MD/USA/5-May-06//... Family members and friends of the cemetery will meet on Saturday to give the one ... go back to the 1660s when members of the Religious Society of Friends met in ...

Quaker History/Business/Palmer, Potter/He Put The Luxury In Retail/Investor's Business Daily /New York/NY/USA/9-May-06//... Palmer. As a child in the Quaker village of Potter's Hollow, NY, Palmer worked in his father's dry goods store and loved to sell. ...