Quaker History - period ended 5.15.2007

Quaker History/Plain Speech/Arts/Film/Authors used thou and thee appropriately/Belleville News-Democrat/Belleville/IL/USA/7-May-07/It's also why you'll find the same in "Friendly Persuasion," a 1956 classic film about an Indiana Quaker family during the Civil War. ...

Quaker History/Paine, Ruth///A Single Bullet/Atlantic Online/New York/NY/USA/1-May-07/... a singular account of the event, centering on Ruth Paine, the virtuous Quaker woman who became, quite innocently, enmeshed in the assassination. ...

Quaker History/Humanitarian Assistance//The 'rare and wonderful' love of a mother/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal/Jackson/MS/USA/13-May-07/My sister, Inge, and I were born in Linz, Austria. Our family came to America looking for a better life. We were sponsored by a Quaker family and arrived in Pennsylvania in 1952 with a trunk and $10. My sister and I never realized we were poor. We were loved and doted upon. We felt so secure we never knew how terribly homesick our parents were.. ...

Quaker History/Genealogy///Brown is featured speaker at Wrightsboro homecoming/McDuffie Mirror/McDuffle/GA/USA/5-May-07/Some of the graves in the historic Quaker cemetery are more than 200 years old, and their descendants may have left the area. But many return, year after ...

Quaker History/Cannibalism///DON NOBLE: 'Mayflower’ tells story of the Pilgrims/Tuscaloosa News/Tuscaloosa/AL/USA/12-May-07/….Also, the men in the lifeboats of the Essex, starving to death, turned to cannibalism for survival. Apparently it was not all that rare. In fact, the Quaker leaders on Nantucket quietly acknowledged that in survival circumstances, cannibalism was permissible. It remains, however, as Philbrick quotes one scholar on the subject, “a cultural embarrassment."

Cannibalism among Nantucketers, interrelated families on a small island, offered special problems. Capt. Pollard’s first cousin Owen Coffin was one of those consumed in the whaleboat, making Pollard guilty of something we might call “culinary incest." ...

Quaker History///Friends Church plans 125th anniversary/Muncie Star Press/Muncie/IN/USA/15-May-07/PORTLAND -- The Portland Friends Church will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the church this Sunday. ...

Quaker History/Women/Hoover, Huldah/Nixon, Hannah/Powerful Mothers Shaped US History/NewsMax.com/Miami/FL/USA/13-May-07/...... Herbert Hoover's mother, Huldah, a devout Quaker, was a tower of strength after the death of her husband. She raised her family with stern values, refused charity, sewed for food and became a popular minister in the Quaker church. Huldah refused to spend a single penny of her husband's life insurance, saving it instead for her children's education. One night, exhausted after preaching a sermon, she walked twenty miles home in a cold rain, caught pneumonia and died. Herbert Hoover was suddenly an orphan at the age of nine, but he was empowered with a remarkable heritage......Hannah Nixon was a calm, understated woman who, as in the case of so many other presidents' mothers, was deeply religious. Unpretentious and nonjudgmental, she was a stark contrast to her choleric, loud husband. When Richard Nixon was in political trouble he would call her and she would say, "I will be thinking of you." It was her signal that she would be praying, for as a humble Quaker she took literally the admonition not to pray publicly or make a pretense of one's prayers. In 1974, when Richard M. Nixon gave his tearful farewell to the nation he declared, "My mother was a saint."