Brotherhood Room / 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. The topic for the third First Day Lunch and Learn November 18 is built around the peace testimony. We will watch two QuakerSpeak videos, “Why are Quakers Pacifists?” and “Why I’m not a Pacifist?” They offer great food for thought and should stimulate some meaningful discussion. Please bring your lunch and join us after the rise of Meeting for Worship. For more information, contact Sara White at 336-253-1319.
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. / Join members of five churches in the Friendship Community Partnership at New Garden for a great time! We’ll have lunch, participate in table games, including a sweet potato “beauty” contest, and enjoy a talent/variety show. We’ll also have sweet potato dishes for sale – cakes, pies, breads, salads – anything as long as it contains sweet potatoes! All ages welcome. What to bring: – a lunch dish to share –…
9:30 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. / Embassy Suites, 460N. Cherry Street, Winston-Salem, NC / Explore the effects of gentrification across the Triad through a fair housing lens. “The Many Faces of Gentrification” is an event sponsored by Winston-Salem Human Relations Commission/New Horizons Fair Housing Committee. Experts from Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem’s housing, municipal, non-profit, banking, and educational communities are collaborating to represent a few perspectives for the day’s discussions. Breakout sessions will include Seniors and…
The next North Carolina Fellowship of Friends meeting will be held at Springfield Friends Meeting, 555 East Springfield Road, High Point, NC 27263. Schedule:10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Committees and Working Groups / 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business. All New Gardeners are invited to attend. Contact Kate Hood Seel, New Garden’s representative with questions.
8:00 p.m. / New Garden Friends Meeting Graveyard. New Garden Friends Meeting’s annual Hallowe’en lantern tour of its historic graveyard is led by retired professor of Quaker Studies, Max L. Carter, and will include occasional “interpreters” of some of the people whose graves will be visited. Included on the tour will be stories of early settlement in the 1700s; the Revolutionary War skirmishes fought around the graveyard; the Underground Railroad; famous industrialists, reformers, and educators;…
A good amount of firewood will soon be available from trees that have fallen or are being taken down on the Meeting property. Contact: Linda Maynard ([email protected])
The NC A&T State Theatre Arts Program 2018-2019 Season begins with “Ruined” October 18-21 and 25-28, 2018 Thursday – Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. / Sundays at 3:00 p.m. at Paul Robeson Theatre on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University. From Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of such plays as “Fabulation” and “Intimate Apparel,” comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a…
If Starbucks is offering pumpkin spice flavorings, it’s time to start thinking about the (day called) Hallowe’en graveyard tour! Last year more than a dozen New Gardeners dressed up and represented some of the fascinating people interred in our cemetery, and I almost remembered to stop at each of their graves (Sorry, “Mary Nicholson”!). One hundred people from around the community enjoyed the lantern-lit tour. Let me know if you’d like to reprise a role…
Parlor / 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. The League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad will give a presentation outlining our current state of healthcare, followed by discussion of the facts and different ways that we as a country might proceed.
Years ago, a bridge was installed across the drainage ditch that cuts across the yard between the Meeting House and the intersection of College Road and Friendly Avenue. The ditch, deep in places and lined with riprap, carries runoff from College Road into the city’s storm drain system. Now the city is about to make improvements to the waterway, and the bridge needs to go. If you or someone you know has a use for…