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Camp Gideon, located near Salineville, Ohio; Quaker Ridge Camp and Retreat Center located near Woodland Park, Colorado; Twin Rocks Camp and Retreat Center, located in western Oregon; Camp Quaker Haven located in Arkansas City, Kansas; Quaker Hill Camp located in McCall, Idaho
Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a yearly meeting of Friends (Quaker) churches located in Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Ohio. Central Yearly Meeting of Friends is a part of the Gurneyite wing of the Orthodox branch of Quakerism, and is aligned with the conservative holiness movement. Meeting for worship is programmed and led by ...
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
IYM established Earlham College in 1847 as the Friends Boarding School, a boarding high school for the religious education of Quaker adolescents. [3] It also established White's Institute (first a home for Native Americans , then an orphanage, and later a home for delinquent youths) in 1850, Quaker Haven Camp in 1926, and Friends Fellowship ...
Later additions to the group were Tamarack Farm (a work camp for 15- to 17-year-olds of all genders), Saltash Mountain (co-ed, focused on hiking trips), Flying Cloud (for 11- to 14-year-old boys, originally borrowing the traditions of the Lakota people but later creating their own system of wilderness living in the manner of cultures from ...
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This is a list of Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) posts in Kansas, United States.. The G.A.R., Department of Kansas was established December 7, 1866. It was preceded by an organization known as the Veteran Brotherhood (and Union Brotherhood), State of Kansas organized in December 1865.
The other short stories feature a gender apocalypse, a secret romance between Quaker boarding school roommates and a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip that turns dark. “Sunrise on the Reaping ...