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Lunch & Learn Session
Brotherhood Room / Families and all are invited to bring your lunch to Brotherhood room to watch four short animated movies – stories from African American history, for ages 5-10 (educational for adults, too). All four movies last just over one hour, which leaves time for discussion. - March On: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World - Martin’s Big Words - ROSA (Nikki Giovanni’s telling of Rosa Parks’ story) - Henry’s Freedom Box:…
Six-Week Course on Quaker Classics
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North CarolinaThere is no "Quaker canon" (It would be tough for a pacifist group to have one!), but there are cherished texts that have inspired, informed, and guided Friends through the centuries and help define the core of Quaker belief, practice, and spirituality. Margaret Webb and Max Carter will lead this discussion-oriented course, encouraging participants to explore the literature that has not only stood the test of time among Friends but in many instances has been…
Meeting for Worship / Un-Programmed
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North Carolina
Six-Week Course on Quaker Classics
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North CarolinaThere is no "Quaker canon" (It would be tough for a pacifist group to have one!), but there are cherished texts that have inspired, informed, and guided Friends through the centuries and help define the core of Quaker belief, practice, and spirituality. Margaret Webb and Max Carter will lead this discussion-oriented course, encouraging participants to explore the literature that has not only stood the test of time among Friends but in many instances has been…
Memorial Service Honoring Ed Roach
Shady Hill Baptist Church 1500 Old Durham Road, Roxboro, NC, United StatesShady Hill Baptist Church, 1500 Old Durham Road, Roxboro. There will be a memorial service honoring the only documented victim of lynching in Roxboro. The service is expected to last about one hour. Ed Roach from Reidsville, NC, was employed at the construction company of Nello Teer, a prominent Durham businessman, who wrote a letter stating that Mr. Roach was working on his construction site near Roxboro at the time of the alleged assault on a…
Meeting for Worship / Un-Programmed
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North Carolina
Six-Week Course on Quaker Classics
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North CarolinaThere is no "Quaker canon" (It would be tough for a pacifist group to have one!), but there are cherished texts that have inspired, informed, and guided Friends through the centuries and help define the core of Quaker belief, practice, and spirituality. Margaret Webb and Max Carter will lead this discussion-oriented course, encouraging participants to explore the literature that has not only stood the test of time among Friends but in many instances has been…
“Alternatives to Violence” Workshop
Guilford College 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, North CarolinaGuilford College - King Hall, 026 (ground floor). Participants should be sure they can commit to both days. The facilitators are Deborah Bromiley and John Shuford. Contact: Zulfiya Tursunova, PhD. Peace and Conflict Studies, or call 336 316 2416 for more information.
Underground Railroad Lecture
New Garden Friends Meeting 801 New Garden Road, Greensboro, North CarolinaNew 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…