 MARCH/APRIL 2003 (XXXXI 2) |
Friends Historical Association (FHA) is sponsoring a trip May 3 and 4 to visit a number of historic Quaker Meetinghouses in Long Island, New York. The tour group, comprised of FHA members and others with an interest in Quaker history, will visit Jericho and Matinecock meetinghouses on Saturday afternoon, then proceed to Westbury Meeting for dinner and a lecture. They will visit Manhasset Meetinghouse on Sunday morning, then join Flushing Meeting for Worship. After lunch the group will return to Philadelphia.
"The Early Quaker Movement on Long Island, 1657-1700" is the title of the Saturday evening address being given by Mildred Murphy DeRiggi. Mildred is an Historian with the Nassau County Museum Division and is in charge of the Nassau County research office at Long Island Studies Institute, Hofstra University. She is a frequent lecturer on Long Island history topics, including Quakers.
The two-day chartered bus excursion will leave the Philadelphia area early Saturday, May 3, with pick-ups at Kendal at Longwood retirement community in Kennett Square and Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia. For more information, or to make a reservation, contact the FHA office at fha@haverford.edu or 610-896-1161, or visit the web site at http://www.haverford.edu/library/fha/fha.html.
Deadline for reservations is April 1.
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