New Garden Cemetery Tour with Max Carter

Halloween Graveyard Tour / October 31

Community, Families, News, Volunteer, Youth

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;…

Actors needed for October 31 / Opportunities to serve!

Community, Families, Fellowship, News, Volunteer, Youth

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…

Quaker Lake Family Camp / October 5 – 7

Community, Families, Fellowship, First Day, News, Worship, Youth

Family Camp is this weekend! We are scheduled to arrive at 5 p.m. on Friday and enjoy a “pitch-in” meal together. The rest of the weekend will be full of delicious food, fall crafts, baking, a pie-eating contest, bonfire and s’mores, and plenty of free time for walks, puzzles, and board games. Meeting for Worship is at the lake Sunday at 10 a.m. If you are interested in joining us Sunday morning, but are unable…

“Safer Schools: Realities, Strategies, Tips” / September 23

Community, Families, First Day

9:30-10:45 a.m. in Friendship Hall / Presenters: BJ Barnes: Guilford County Sheriff, 24 years; Mike Richey: Deputy Chief over Greensboro City School Resource Officers; Barbara Leland: Career Educator, taught 4000+ students. Ages 6th grade to grandparents are invited to participate in a discussion of the realities of what is going on in our schools, strategies and tips for all involved. Please email questions to be addressed at the forum by Monday, September 10, to Barbara…

Now Accepting Flea Market Donations

Community, Families, News, Volunteer

The Flea Market needs your help! It’s time to clean out your closets & attics and bring clean, gently used items to Norvell Hall. Volunteers will be sorting donations Sunday afternoons from 3 – 5 p.m. This is a great way to serve the community and get to know other New Gardeners. We also need volunteers during the Flea Market on September 22 and 29. Contact: Erin Allred ([email protected]).

What Puts the “E” in “SPICES?” / August 19

Community, Families, First Day, News

Brotherhood Room / 12:15 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch & Learn will feature ‘Santuario’, a documentary film telling the story of Juana Tobar Ortega, an asylum seeker from Guatemala now living at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church. The director of the film, Pilar Timpane, has offered us an opportunity to screen the 45-minute director’s cut of her film. With Juana living in sanctuary, ICE cannot come in, but Juana cannot leave to work or be at home…