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Halloween Graveyard Tour

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

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; battles for desegregation; and even famous athletes. The…

NC Friends Historical Society Annual Meeting & Luncheon

Friends Home West 6100 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC, United States

Friends Homes West Living Room, 6100 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro. The buffet luncheon is $17.00 per person. The talk, to follow the luncheon, by Max L. Carter is free. Max Carter, retired professor of Quaker Studies at Guilford College, will share stories from the forthcoming book "Reflections on a Quaker Graveyard" that he and Gertrude Beal have compiled and edited. The stories feature some of the remarkable people interred in New Garden Friends cemetery. Carter…

North Carolina Fellowship of Friends Meeting

Springfield Friends Meeting 555 East Springfield Road, High Point, NC

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.

Annual Community Partnership Harvest Festival

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

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 – a sweet potato dish to…