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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…
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…
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.
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…
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 Aging, Health, Working Wage vs. Market…
The Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and CRRC is pleased to host a talk on “The Problems Associated with Arbitrary Jurisdiction: The Nagorny Karabakh Case” by Dr. Ali Askerov from 6 to 8 p.m. November 14 at West Gallery, Founders Hall at Guilford College. The event is part of the James Fleming Lecture Series. All are welcome to attend! The event is open to public.
Brotherhood Room / The Social Concerns committee invites you to bring a bag lunch and join us monthly - every 3rd Sunday, thru December 2018, for movie and discussion series on our Quaker Testimony of Equality. Let's meet with our sandwiches right after worship, watch a movie on an aspect of equality (race, sex, gender, religion, class, for example) and finish with a discussion.
Paul Robeson Theater on the campus of A&T University / The Friendship Community Partnership is organizing a group to attend the comedy Dot which is about a family whose mother has Alzheimer’s. The play will be presented at the A&T State University Theater on Saturday, December 1 at 3 p.m. If we get 10 or more folks to go, prices will be under $10. We want to attend the matinee at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Please…