Category: Quaker Book Club

Tuesday, February 5, 2019 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. By Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene. Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul’s contribution to the women’s suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul’s nonviolent and visual… Continue reading Discuss Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Movement

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!

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”

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

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

Tuesday, September 4, 2018 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Peace Pilgrim (July 18, 1908 – July 7, 1981), born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American non-denominational spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist, vegetarian activist[4] and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season.… Continue reading Peace Pilgrim

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 from 7-8:30 pm Discussion: The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal to more than 2 billion… Continue reading The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 from 6:30-9 pm Come to Burlington Bring snacks to share. BYO Beverage. Parking for 230 across the street. See website for parking info. Center entrance is half-way down the driveway. -or- Participate Online Join the Facebook Group. Comment during the meeting. Comment anytime! The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published… Continue reading The Friendly Persuasion – Vignettes 8-14 and Watch the Movie

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 7-8:30 pm Come to Burlington Bring snacks to share. BYO Beverage. Parking for 230 across the street. See website for parking info. Center entrance is half-way down the driveway. -or- Participate Online Join the Facebook Group. Comment during the meeting. Comment anytime! The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in… Continue reading The Friendly Persuasion – Vignettes 1-7

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7-8:30 pm Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville — sailor Ishmael’s account of the obsessive quest for vengeance of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, on the white whale Moby Dick that on the ship’s previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab’s leg at the knee. The basis for the work is Melville’s 1841… Continue reading Moby Dick Pt. 1 – The Discussion