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Nora Ruth Roberts

Roberts—Nora Ruth Roberts, 76, on December 26, 2018, in New York, N.Y. Nora was born on April 19, 1942, in…

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Robert Lawrence Smith

Smith—Robert Lawrence Smith, 96, on May 24, 2021, peacefully, at home in Bethesda, Md. Born in 1924, Bob was a…

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Robert Dolphin Jr.

Dolphin—Robert Dolphin Jr., 84, on October 19, 2019, at Friendship Village Tempe’s Health Care Center in Tempe, Ariz. Bob was…

Tiger Heron

By Robin Becker. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. 65 pages. $15.95/paperback; $10.99/eBook. Like the elegant Costa Rican wading bird of…

Reviewed by Catherine Wald

The Quaker Scout: Testimony of a Civil War Non-Combatant of the Woodlawn Antislavery Colony

By Jonathan Roberts, presented by Martha Claire Catlin. Quaker Heron Press, 2022. 320 pages. $19.99/paperback. First published in 1891 in…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

Milestones October 2015

Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends.

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Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment

By Robert K. Musil. Rutgers University Press, 2014. 328 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $23.95/paperback; $15.98/eBook. Silent Spring author Rachel Carson is credited…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

Managing Conflict and Natural Resources through Good Clerking: The Legacy of Gilbert F. White

Gilbert Fowler White, one of the world’s foremost geographers and a member of the Religious Society of Friends, died in…

Robert E. Hinshaw

Books June/July 2014

Book reviews.

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Where and How Are Friends Made?

The keys to a strong First-day school program.

Sharon Stout and Robert Duncan