Concord Quarterly Nov 2015 Calendar
Concord Quarterly Meeting’s Announcements and Calendar of Events
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New Meeting Time |
Goshen Meeting will begin its meeting for worship at 10:00 a.m. each Sunday. |
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PYM Religious Education Sprint |
John Hayden of Caln Quarterly Meeting is looking for people to join him in establishing a “Sprint” that would collect religious education curricula from PYM’s constituent meetings. If you are interested in joining that Sprint, contact John at jbhayden@gmail.com. |
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Quakers Books Available |
Kendal is making available for free, first to local Quaker libraries, then to Quakers schools and then to members of Concord and Western Quarterly Meetings (without regard to which Quarterly Meeting they belong) on a first-come-first served basis the books that are listed below. If you would like to obtain one of them, please contact Leslie Leonard at 610-388-0340. |
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Each Thursday |
The Hickman holds mid-week meeting for worship from 6:30-7:15 p.m. in The Hickman Living Room. All are cordially invited to attend. |
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Oct. 25, 2015 |
Concord Quarterly Meeting (Sunday) 8:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Westtown MM. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s General Secretary Christie Duncan-Tessmer will speak about the implementation of PYM’s long range plan, including PYM’s restructuring. |
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Oct. 25, 2015 |
Vespers at Whitehorse Village (Sunday) 7:00 p.m., Whitehorse Village, 535 Gradyville Rd., Newtown Square, PA 19073. A meeting for worship will be held in Whitehorse Village’s auditorium as part of Whitehorse Village’s ecumenical Vesper services. Fourteen Quakers live at Whitehorse Village. You are welcome to become part of their Quaker community that evening. |
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Nov. 1, 2015 |
Concord Quarterly Meeting-Sponsored Open House for Parents of Children Attending Quaker Schools (Sunday) 10:00 a.m. Wilmington MM. |
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Nov. 1, 2015 |
Concord Quarterly Meeting’s Planning Committee meets Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in The Hickman, West Chester, PA. |
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Nov. 4, 2015 |
Book Discussion of Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson, led by Centre Meeting member Linda Pastor (Wednesday) 3:20 p.m. @ Arsht Hall, Room 215, Osher Adult Education, University of Delaware, Route 52, Wilmington (across from Tower Hill School). Linda can invite up to 5 guests. If you are interested, contact her directly at LPastor47@yahoo.com. |
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Nov. 7, 2015 |
The Hickman’s Fall Cleanup (Saturday) The Hickman, 8:00 to 12:00 noon. Please RSVP to Jen Harris (jharris@thehickman.org or 484-760-6306) by November 5, 2015. |
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Nov. 7, 2015 |
PYM’s Continuing Sessions (Saturday) Westtown School, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The query is “What is God calling PYM Quakers to do next to end racism and white supremacy in the Religious Society of Friends and Beyond? There will be a small fee for lunch. For more information and to register, go to http://www.pym.org/calendar/events/2015-fall-continuing-sessions/ |
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Dec. 12, 2015 |
Children Drop-Off (Saturday) The Cabin @ Westtown School, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Members and attenders of meetings that are part of Concord or Western Quarter are welcome to drop off their children (ages 3 to 12) for a 4-hour period so that they (the parents) can rest, relax, shop or do anything else they want to do knowing that their children will be engaged in Quaker-related activities under the care of Western Quarter’s two coordinators and Concord Quarter’s coordinator. Registration is required. Further information and the procedure for registering will be posted on Concord Quarter’s website (www.concordquarter.org) in the near future. If you have any questions about the program, please call Charles Spadoni, Concord Quarter’s Coordinator, at 610-256- 3572 or concordquarter@pym.org). |
Quaker books being deaccessioned from Kendal at Longwood library
- Vernon Noble, The Man in Leather Breeches: The life and Times of George Fox (London: Elek, 1953).
- Frances Anne Budge, Annals of the Early Friends (Philadelphia: Longstreeth, 1896).
- Friends Intelligencer, Vol. XIX (Philadelphia: Davis, 1863) (bound)
- The Book of Discipline of the Religious Society of Friends (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting held at 15th and Race Streets 1927) (1943).
- Rufus Jones’ Selected Stories of Native Maine Humor, ed. By Nixon Orwin Rush (Worchester, Mass.: Clark University Press, 1945).
- Rufus Jones, The Trail of Life in College (New York: Macmillan, 1929).
- Rufus Jones, A Small Town Boy (new York: Macmillan, 1941).
- Rufus Jones, A Boy’s Religion: From Memory (Phila.: Ferris & Leach, 1902) autographed by Anna Harvey 1905
- Rufus Jones, Finding the Trail of Life (New York: Macmillan, 1926).
- Rufus Jones, The Trail of Life in the Middle Years (New York: Macmillan, 1934).
- Rufus Jones, The Story of George Fox (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1966) autographed by Eleanor S. Clarke.
- Rufus Jones, The Faith and Practice of the Quakers, Fourth Edition, (London: Methuen, 1930) autographed by Edith Lewis White, 1936.
- Rufus Jones, The Inner Life (New York: Macmillan, 1919).
- Rufus Jones, Practical Christianity: Essays on the Practice of Religion New and Enlarged Edition (Phila.: John Winston, 1903) autographed by Mary B. Jones, 1913. From the library of Wilmot Rufus Jones
- Rufus M. Jones: January 23, 1863 – June 16, 1948: In Memoriam (Haverford: Haverford College, 1950). Presentation copy signed by Hugh Borton in 1963.
- Guide to the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Compiled by Jack Eckert (1989). Hiram Hilty, Friends in Cuba (Richmond: Friends United Press, n.d.)
- Howard Brinton, Friends for 300 Years (new York: Harper, 1952).
- Isabel Grubb, Quakers in Ireland: 1654 – 1900 (London: Swarthmore Press, 1927). Sidney Lucas, The Quaker Story (New York: Harper, 1949).
- J. William Frost, The Quaker Family in Colonial America (New York: St. Martins, 1973).
- Arthur J. Mekeel, The Relation of the Quakers to the American Revolution (Washington, D.C.: University
- Press of America, 1979).
- William Penn Tercentenary Committee, Remember William Penn: 1644-1944 (Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1944).
- Percy Lovell, Quaker Inheritance: 1871-1961: A Portrait of Roger Clark of Street (London: Bannisdale, 1970).
- Harold Loukes, Friends and their Children: A Study in Quaker Education (London: Harrap, 1958).
- Gerald Jonas, On Doing Good (New York: Scribner, 1971). autographed by the author
- Horace M. Lippincott, ed., Through a Quaker Archway (Hew York: Yoseloff, 1959).
- Quaker Torch Bearers (Phila.: Friends General Conference, 1943) autographed by Emma Hecht 1944. From the library of Paul Hecht.
- Helen G. Hole, John Darlington Carter: 1874-1947: Quaker Scientist and Bird Lover (Westtown, Pa.: Westtown Alumni Assoc. 1952).
- Helen Thomas Flexner, A Quaker Childhood (New Haven: Yale, 1940). autographed by the author and by Rufus Jones.
- Ethel White, Bear His Mild Yoke: The Story of Mary Dwer, a Quaker Martyr in Early New England (Nashville: Abington, 1966).