Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

of the Religious Society of Friends

Witness

Saving our Stories – Training in Oral History

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This online training will focus on the basics of doing oral history interviews including planning, releases, concerns, Zoom and other audio-visual tips, and publication/posting.  This program is offered free, as a service from SouthJerseyQuakers.  We welcome multiple participants from Friends’ meetings and other groups.

We encourage Friends to focus on how a Meeting or individual Friends made South Jersey (and other communities) a better place to live.  Additional topics, such as how our faith and practices have guided – and enhanced – Friends’ lives are important to record as well.

Our resource person for this training is Melissa Ziobro, Specialist Professor of Public History, Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University, and President of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, will lead this training.  She is also the editor for New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a joint venture of the NJ Historical Commission, Rutgers University Libraries, and Monmouth University.

Please pre-register.  Zoom details will be emailed on the day prior to the program.

 

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Book club! Moorestown Meeting attender Elizabeth will facilitate discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s award-winning short novel Ellen Foster. This story of a strong, smart girl and her challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 815 8781 6369 to join the conversation with our Anti-Racism Committee.

Let’s Talk About the Baldwin-Buckley Debate

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Ben will facilitate a discussion of Fringe Art’s production of ‘Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge’, a recreation of a famed 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr., on the question, “Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” If you have a chance, see the performance Sept 9, 10 or 11 at the FringeArts Theater on the Philadelphia waterfront. You can also watch the original debate online, and find many related commentaries and analyses. Click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 to join the conversation.

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Join Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee as our attender Elizabeth facilitates a discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s beautifully human, short novel Ellen Foster. The award-winning book about a strong, smart girl navigating an unusually challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Enjoy a book club and help support the important work Friends are doing in witness to our testament of equality; click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 873 3565 8140.

Quakers & the 09/2019 Global Climate Strike

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Today I was on campus at the Quaker Senior Community called the Hickman (West Chester, PA). This note is to share how uplifting & motivating it was to see the children from W.C. Friends School (our neighbor), leading our staff and residents into intergenerational Witness for Climate on the street today. I’d love to see photos of other Friends participating in this Global Movement today and in the coming week!