Memories of the Quaker Past: Stories of Thirty-seven Senior Quakers

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Edited by Christine Ayoub. Xlibris, 2014. 361 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook.

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This volume of excerpted and transcribed interviews is another rich resource as well as a treasure of memories. As the author explains, the interviews were conducted by the Oral History Project of State College (Pa.) Meeting; all the subjects were meeting members, although they came from various places. The 37 senior Quakers in the book all reached adulthood in the mid-twentieth-century, when the Great Depression, World War II and its aftermath, and the Vietnam War made deep impressions on them, resulting in a great deal of personal dedication to resisting combat service, helping others, and working to take away the causes of war in the future. The text is 341 pages (and generous with photos), followed by a bibliography and an 18-page index.

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