What is it like to be a life long Quaker? Most of us come to Quakerism later in life. Carolyn was born into it. Carolyn’s mother came from many generations of Friends; Carolyn’s father was a convinced Friend. Romance at CPS Camp Carolyn’s parents met at CPS camp – Civilian Public Service. (These camps operated […]
Chris at the Fort Myers Quaker Meeting
Chris R is a New Yorker, although he has shed his Long Island accent. He was born in 1956 and grew up on the south shore of Long Island surrounded by boats and water sports. He had a motor boat by the time he was 12. “The 60’s were a wonderful time to grow up […]
Marianne at the Fort Myers Quaker Meeting
Marianne’s son calls her the “mystic momma”. One of her most distinctive qualities is the ability to create the lyrics and a song while sitting in silence during a Quaker meeting for worship. “I never had the experience of having a song come to me before”, she says. “I did not know what to do […]
Wekiwa Springs State Park and Half Yearly Meeting November 2017
The annual South Eastern Yearly Meeting gathering, held over Thanksgiving weekend (November 23 -26), again was celebrated at the Youth Camp in Wekiwa Springs State Park. Chris Ruhnke, Vicki Scott and Pat Iyer traveled together to the event on Friday morning and left after meeting for worship on Sunday. We stayed in the youth camp […]
Helen
Helen embraced Quaker values long before she became one. She spent her childhood in Hyde Park, a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago that thought of itself as a liberal, integrated community but in reality, was quite segregated. She went to Hyde Park High School, which, by the time she graduated, was about 80% […]