Fox News: Second Occupy Camp evicted from Philly. Sharon G, the second Quaker interviewed, said that after the reporter interviewed her he said “what you do to the least of these…”
Hidden City Philly on early Quaker cave-dwellers.
“While the plutocrats on Wall Street partied, the recession caused the city to cut back on services, increase taxes on local residents and put pressure on our local social services apparatus. In short, the folks in City Hall aren’t among the one percent who are the villains; they are tasked with helping the 99 percent who are victims.” http://dlvr.it/yh5rs
Theo at the Reading Terminal Market’s train exhibit (Taken with picplz at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, PA.)
"Quakers don’t have the only fruitful approach to faith, and young adults can and will find alternatives. Ultimately, the Religious Society of Friends needs young adults just as much, if not more, than young adults need the Religious Society of Friends."
The reclaimed driveway. Mt Airy Philadelpha.
The resurrected window: This window had been covered over by plaster long ago. Liz had a replacement made and installed where the original had been. For Sale listing.
The back garden “oasis”. House for sale as of 6/10.
On Archive.org. Disregard its listing as Orthodox, this is the Hicksite version. The “Book of Discipline” is more commonly known as “Faith and Practice” these days and is the most official document of Friends beliefs for the region & group it serves. I love the handwritten note on the inside back cover, which is a copied passage on Friends from Rufus Jones. Via Chris Pifer on a Facebook thread.
Archive.org has a lot of Quaker material, some originally scanned by Google, so it should be there too.
Late last week I helped soft-launch a “news, analysis and commentary” site from veteran Philadelphia reporter Tom Ferrick called “Metropolis” and located at http://phlmetropolis.com. An alum of The Inquirer, Tom’s spent the last half-dozen years talking to everyone who will listen about the future of print and Philly news. He’s done talking and is showing what can be done with a shoestring budget. From “This is Metropolis,” the lead article:
Local newspapers, TV and radio stations are retreating from in-depth coverage of regional news either due to economic or audience considerations.
The retreat has been gradual, but no one expects it to stop. The company that owns the region’s largest newspapers - the Inquirer and Daily News - is in bankruptcy. The size of the editorial staffs at the papers continues to shrink. The prognosis for metro dailies here and elsewhere is not good. The journalism practiced by these papers is still robust, but the economic model that has sustained it is eroding.
If these traditional sources of news falter or fail what will take their place? Will local TV and radio stations fill the gap by hiring additional reporters to do in-depth stories? Will bloggers, known mostly for commenting off the news, begin to cover it? The odds are against this happening.
A.K.A. the Deshler-Morris House, where George Washington really did sleep! From the National Park Service site:
President George Washington also briefly occupied the Deshler-Morris House, a two and a half story stuccoed stone house at 5442 Germantown Avenue. The National Park Service restored this building to the way it looked when George Washington was the occupant between 1793 and 1794. A group of dedicated volunteers provides tours of the property, while the National Park Service continues to maintain the house and grounds. Here in 1793, the executive branch of the government dealt with the problem of Edward Genet, the former French minister. He had commissioned privateers in American ports to prey on British ships along the American coast and in so doing jeopardized relations and risked war between Great Britain and the new nation. The next summer, Washington rented the house again hoping to protect his family from yellow fever, while he carried out his duties as president. The home became known as “the Summer White House.”
My mother Liz says she was given a lot of reading to prepare herself to give tours. I’m not too worried about qualifications, as we had framed pictures of Germantown on our walls growing up (she carefully cut out her favorite scenes from a neat old book and framed them herself with red felt matting!). I think the “summer White House” was actually one of the pictures on our walls!
Quote: Eleven years ago, six white kids, fresh out of college, took a vow: They would shack up; they would share. They would live either in monogamous married couples or be celibate. They would work only part-time, valuing one another and their community over wealth. They would stand against injustice where they saw it, and bring about justice where they could.Via Jayahome
Reading the Circle of Hope site and browsing through their Flickr photos. Youngish, hip, Christian, involved in their community, they’re the Philadelphia Emerging Church one member described to me as “Primitive Christianity Revived”—William Penn’s line, but one no local Quaker Meeting would affirm these days.
So why am I hitched to this horse?
