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All things round – anniversary drum circle, make-your-own pizza

Sunday, January 13 from 6-9 p.m. Celebrating a whole year! Join us for a evening of make-your-own pizzas ($5) in the hall at 6 p.m. followed by a drum circle ($5) in the 1783 Meetingroom from 7-9 p.m. PLEASE RSVP here so we know how much food to buy: https://burlmhcc.org/contact-us/ We’ll supply the pizza rounds… Continue reading All things round – anniversary drum circle, make-your-own pizza

Discuss Friends in Flanders – on a Wednesday!

Wednesday, January 2, 2018 from 7 – 8:30 p.m. — Due to New Year’s Eve, January Book Club will meet on Wednesday rather than Tuesday! The Friends’ Ambulance Unit (FAU) was created shortly after the outbreak of war. The idea of the unit’s founder, Philip J. Baker, was that it would provide young Friends (Quakers)… Continue reading Discuss Friends in Flanders – on a Wednesday!

Holiday House Tour stop

Sunday, December 2, 2018 from 3 to 7 p.m. we’re a stop on the Holiday House Tour — a walking tour of private and public buildings — presented by Main Street Burlington. We’ll be selling our new, signature Burlington Quaker Cookie, giving tours of the 1783 Meetingroom and keeping the flame lit in the fire… Continue reading Holiday House Tour stop

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Discuss “The Barn at the End of The World: The apprenticeship of a Quaker Buddhist Shepherd”

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 from 7-8:30 p.m. Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O’Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O’Reilley describes her time in the barn as well as an extended visit to a Buddhist monastery… Continue reading Discuss “The Barn at the End of The World: The apprenticeship of a Quaker Buddhist Shepherd”

A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 from 7 – 8:30 pm. By Dawn G. Marsh On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency—a claim that paved the way for… Continue reading A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018 from 7-8:30 pm. Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster—a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes—that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods,… Continue reading The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster