Week of Events
Halloween Graveyard Tour
Halloween Graveyard Tour
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
NC Friends Historical Society Annual Meeting & Luncheon
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…