2024

November 2024 Books

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By Tiya Miles. Penguin Press, 2024. 336 pages. $30/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. There are already quite a few exceptional biographies of Harriet…

Reviewed by Mike Fallahay

November 2024 Books

The Woolman Way: A History of John Woolman School

By Lisa Frankel and Catherine Lenox. Self-published, 2023. 402 pages. $24.95/paperback. As a longtime teacher and administrator at a Friends…

Reviewed by Brad Gibson

November 2024 Books

The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century

By Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson. Rutgers University Press, 2023. 172 pages. $150/hardcover; $27.95/paperback or eBook. The Farm…

Reviewed by Casey Hobbs

November 2024 Books

Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

By Yahia Lababidi. Fomite, 2023. 168 pages. $12/paperback; $4.99/eBook. Yahia Lababidi’s Quarantine Notes is a book of 520 aphorisms. According…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

David T. Bates

Bates—David T. Bates, 82, on March 11, 2024, peacefully in his sleep, at West Chester Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in…

Suzanne Rie Day

Day—Suzanne Rie Day, 86, on January 16, 2024, following a brief battle with cancer, peacefully at home, surrounded by her…

Foster Quarll Doan

Doan—Foster Quarll Doan, 93, suddenly, on May 11, 2024, in Drums, Pa. Foster was born on June 23, 1930, to…

James Edgar Syphers

Syphers—James Edgar Syphers, 90, on January 8, 2024, at WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital in Uniontown, Pa. James was born on…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, November 2024

The transformative practice of being. Staff

Beacon Hill Friends House

Beacon Hill Friends House (BHFH) is a Quaker center and residential community in downtown Boston, Mass., that provides opportunities for…

Friends Fiduciary Corporation

In April, Ethan Birchard began as Friends Fiduciary’s new executive director, succeeding Jeffery Perkins, who served in the role for…

Quaker Earthcare Witness

Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) works to nurture a spiritual transformation in people’s relationship with the living world. In responding to…
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