An Evening of Music by
Americana Classics
With Special Guest Appearances
July 17, 2021
6:30 pm
Oxford Friends Meeting
260 S. Third St.,
Oxford, PA
Religious Society of Friends
An Evening of Music by
Americana Classics
With Special Guest Appearances
July 17, 2021
6:30 pm
Oxford Friends Meeting
260 S. Third St.,
Oxford, PA
Our last QuakerSpeak discussion of the spring will be Wednesday, May 12 at 7:30pm
I’ve chosen this older video offering perspectives on clearness committees — https://quakerspeak.com/video/quaker-clearness-committee/
A reminder will be emailed to Friends on the 12th.
For more about the QuakerSpeak project of Friends Publishing Company, see https://quakerspeak.com/about/
Yard Sale! Saturday, September 19th, from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm.
$10 for a space.
We will begin to setup on Thursday, September 17, beginning around 1 pm for the indoor spaces. We can arrange a later or earlier time if needed. You can also wait until Saturday morning to setup.
There are 5 indoor spots available, 4 on the porch and of course the yard. Let us know if you would like to reserve a space.
Hope you can join us!!
Friends may be interested in some of these upcoming concerts of the Lincoln University Concert Choir.
Director, David McConnell
The Vox Philia Chamber Choir and Berks Sinfonietta
International Cultural Center, Lincoln University
Tuesday, February 19, 11:30 a.m., Exelon Generation Co. LLC Black History Month Celebration, 300 Exelon Way, Kennett Square, PA 19348
Thursday, February 21, 6:30 – 7:15 p.m., “Celebrate African American History Month with traditional musical selections performed by members of the Lincoln University Concert Choir”, Cecil County Public Library – Rising Sun Branch Library, 100 Colonial Way, Rising Sun, MD 21911.
Saturday, February 23, 6 p.m., 2nd Annual Benefit Alumni Awards Celebration, Joseph P. Kennedy Center – 34th W 134th St., New York, NY. Dr. Brenda A. Allen is the keynote speaker.
Sunday, February 24, 4:30 p.m., HBCU Choral Festival at Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA. Public may attend – $10.00 per person.
Sunday, March 10, 3 p.m., Singing City, Lincoln University Concert Choir & Opera Philadelphia’s T-Voce Present “Children’s March” Andrew Bleckner , International Cultural Center, 1570 Baltimore Pike, Lincoln University, PA 19352.
Opera Workshop: “A Chorus Line” by Hamlisch & Kleben
Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7:00pm
Friday, April 5, 2019 at 7:00pm
Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 7:00pm
Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 3:00pm
International Cultural Center, 1570 Baltimore Pike, Lincoln University, PA
19352.
Tuesday, April 16, 7 p.m., Spring Combined Vocal & Instrumental Concert, International Cultural Center, 1570 Baltimore Pike, Lincoln University, PA 19352.
Friday, April 26, 7 p.m., Holiness U. S. A. Youth Conference, Crown Plaza Hotel, 630 Naamans Rd, Claymont, DE 19703
Saturday, April 27, 2 p.m., Memorial Service for the Runaway Slaves protected by the Providence Quaker Meeting – 105 N Providence Rd, Media, PA 19063.
Kennett Underground Railroad Center (KURC) and Hadley announce a joint effort to bring eminent scholars and authors from New England, Pennsylvania, and Delaware to the Kennett area for a series of eight lectures. All lectures are free. They will occur once each month from November 2018 through June 2019. Seating is limited and reservations are requested.
Kennett Friends Meeting
125 West Sickle Street, Kennett Square, PA
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow enslaved people to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Tubman suffered horrific abuse and endured painful separations from her family. While still a young woman she embarked on a perilous journey of self-liberation—and then she returned to liberate family and friends, tapping into the Underground Railroad. After the Civil War, Tubman worked for civil rights and women’s suffrage, in spite of racist politicians and suffragists who marginalized her contributions. Harriet Tubman, her life and her work, remains an inspiration to all who value freedom. Larson reveals the truth behind the myth and shares some of her remarkable research that unearthed Tubman’s real life story.
London Grove Friends Meeting
500 W. Street Road, Kennett Square, PA
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, was born to free abolitionist parents in northern Delaware. Educated among Quakers in Pennsylvania’s Chester County, she moved with her family to southern Canada after the Compromise of 1850 ramped up the Underground Railroad resistance movement. From that vantage point, “on the other side” from slave culture, she spent more than a decade teaching, publishing, and serving as a hub of information exchange with other abolitionists and feminists—Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Benjamin Coates, Martin Delany, and a host of others who dreamed of a better world. Then she went to law school. This talk will explore how some nineteenth-century thinkers envisioned not just the “ending of slavery” but also a paradigm for after slavery’s end.
New Garden UAME Church
309 East Linden Street, Kennett Square, PA
Though popularly embraced as a secular humanist, Frederick Douglass thought, wrote, and lived as a committed Christian. Moreover, his only fictional work, The Heroic Slave, should be considered a prototypical Black Liberation Theology text. Through a careful foregrounding of Douglass’s religious life, an analysis of the form, functions, and narrative conventions of Evangelical conversion narratives in antebellum America, and a grounding in Douglass’s use of the same along with a close reading of Heroic Slave, I will demonstrate the ways that Douglass, writing as a committed Christian, embraced and transcended the white Evangelical conversion narrative form, used aspects of spiritual biographies and sentiment, and wrote a Black Abolitionist conversion narrative. Indeed, understanding how a serious consideration of Douglass’s Christian faith has a marked impact on and in his work allows for a richer, more nuanced, radically religious and political reading of his text Heroic Slave.
For the full series and for more information, please visit our website at kennettundergroundrr.org