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Chocolate & Beer: A Valentine’s Event at Arch Street Meeting House

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Looking for a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day and Meet Quaker History?

Join Arch Street Meeting House for an extraordinary craft beer and candy tasting on Friday, February 12th at 7pm!

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Designed for two, enjoy a relaxing evening for you and your sweetheart as ASMH staff and volunteers create an amazing, personalized experience by hand-delivering your valentine’s treats the day before the event. Tickets include a variety of craft beer from Conshohocken Brewing Company, Duclaw Brewing Company, and Breckinridge Brewing Company, as well as candies from the delicious and Quaker-founded, Cadbury Chocolates. For an added bonus, VIP ticket holders will also receive additional chocolates from Shane Confectionery, America’s Oldest Continuously Operating Confectionary shop that’s located right here in historic Philadelphia! With this thoughtful gift, you and your loved one will be ready to go for a 30-minute hosted tasting, prior to a 45-minute presentation from Dr. Katherine Turner.

Dr. Katherine Turner teaches US history and American Studies at Rowan University in New Jersey. Her book How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century (University of California Press, 2014) explored how industrialization transformed the job of making dinner, and the options for buying dinner, for America’s immigrants, factory workers, and tenant farmers. She is currently working on a history of food in Pennsylvania. She will lead the audience on a Valentine’s tour of chocolate: how this bitter bean from the New World became a sweet, milky European confection, the surprising role of abstemious Quakers in making it an affordable indulgence, and how we learned to say “I love you” with chocolate!

$50 GENERAL ADMISSION (Priced for two people):

  • 1 x Love letter from Arch Street Meeting House volunteers
  • 1 x 16oz Conshohocken Brewing Company, Oats Magoats Oatmeal Stout ABV. 5.7%
  • 1 x 16oz Conshohocken Brewing Company, Cozy Slippers Winter Warmer ABV. 6.6%
  • 1 x 12oz Duclaw Brewing Co., Sweet Baby Jesus! Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter 6.2%
  • 1 x 12oz Breckenridge Brewing Company’s Vanilla Porter, 5.4%
  • 2 x 26.1g Cadbury Crunchie Bar
  • 2 X 20g Cadbury Flake Bar
  • 2 x 21.2g Cadbury Wispa Bar

$60 VIP ADMISSION (Priced for two people):

  • Includes everything from the General Admission ticket with an additional two pieces of chocolate from Shane Confectionery

 

Please Note: This product contains alcohol and must be of the age of 21 or older to purchase a ticket. This product cannot be sold to anyone under the age of 21.

*Prior to purchasing a ticket please be aware that we are only able to deliver within the Philadelphia Metro area, including Philadelphia County, Lower Bucks, Montco, and Upper Delaware County. If you are outside of this delivery radius and interested in this event, you may arrange a pickup from Arch Street Meeting House.

*To ensure everyone’s health and safety, all Arch Street Meeting House staff and volunteers will be following strict health guidelines by wearing masks, gloves, and maintaining a social distance of at least six feet.

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Quakers in Education: Elise M. Boulding, Ezra Cornell, and Johns Hopkins

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Quaker education has always been grounded in basic principles of the Religious Society of Friends. Each child has that of God within, and Friends’ education is centered in truth, practical learning, scientific inquiry, simplicity, and concern for civic society.

Quakers have a long history of questioning power and engaging in social action for human rights and peace. Today, many Quaker schools or Quaker affiliated institutions of higher education frame their learning environments with social or civic responsibilities and define community expectations through the lens of Friends’ values while still honoring the individual.

As the United States grew from colony to nation, the Quakers advocated for and delivered universal pubic education in Pennsylvania, built colleges, and created private Quaker secondary and elementary schools. The motto of the William Penn Charter School; “Good Instruction is Better than Riches” dates back to its founding in 1689 and still serves to describe Friends’ fundamental belief that knowledge outperforms wealth over time.

In the United States, Quakers were key to the founding of Haverford College (Pennsylvania), Guilford College (North Carolina,) Earlham College (Indiana), Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania), Johns Hopkins University (Maryland), Cornell University (New York), and the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania). All that does not mean that Quakers were perfect. As we see in the stories below, the were human and also strongly influenced by their own time and place.

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