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Underground Railroad Lecture

New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North Carolina

New Garden Friends Meeting / 2019 is the 200th anniversary of the first known activity in North Carolina on what came to be known as the Underground Railroad. Two Guilford College historians, Adrienne Israel and James Shields, will share about that history. Following their presentation on the significance of the UGRR for both the African-American and Quaker communities, there will be guided tours of the UGRR woods on the Guilford College campus and the Friends…

Triad Regional Circle of the Poor People’s Campaign

Unitarian Universalist Church of Greensboro 5603 Hilltop Road, Jamestown, NC, United States

The newly-formed Triad Regional Circle of the Poor People's Campaign will meet at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greensboro for its first assembly. Please come and invite friends from other faith traditions and no faith tradition from Forsyth, Guilford, Alamance, and surrounding counties for singing, networking, planning, and snacks. Forward Together!

Wildllife Ecology Lecture at Hege Library

Guilford College 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, North Carolina

J. Drew Lanham, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Clemson University, will give a talk in the Carnegie Room of Hege Library on the Guilford College campus. Drew's talk is entitled “Loving the Land -- The Heart's Way Forward to Nurturing Nature in the Anthropocene." An avid birder, Drew teaches wildlife biology and ecology at Clemson, but he's also a fabulous creative nonfiction writer, most recently of a great article in Orion about the…

Financial Condition Discussion

New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North Carolina

How is it that we are wealthy, but struggle to meet our budget, much less to fund new initiatives? Perhaps it is just a matter of how you look at it. Please join John Farmer for a discussion of our financial condition at the rise of worship. Bring your own lunch/snack.

Adult Forum with George Lakey

"How we can use the Quaker legacy of direct action campaigning to meet today's turbulent America." George Lakey will share good news from Quaker history and his own experience with nonviolence. Recently retired from teaching at Swarthmore College, George was first arrested in the civil rights movement and most recently in 2018 in the Power Local Green Jobs campaign.  His new book, the tenth, is "How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning." …

New Ideas Working Group

The first ideas gathering meeting of the New Ideas Working Group is set for Rise of Meeting. For more information, contact Charles Cameron, Clerk, New Ideas Working Group