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The film also received mild criticism for certain inaccurate portrayals of Quaker views, such as a misunderstanding that although Quakers disliked programmed music they did value individual original expressions of it; and in meetings, Bible passages are not read verbatim but speakers recite scripture from memory and express its meaning in their ...
Pages in category "Films about Quakers" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Angel and the ...
In 1884, after freeing a convict from a prison work detail, a family of outlaws take refuge with a Quaker family consisting of two parents, an eleven year old son, Joel, and a slightly older daughter. After the killing of the parents and daughter, Joel sets out on his own to seek revenge against the outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.
In 1901, the Quaker Oats Company was founded in New Jersey with headquarters in Chicago, by the merger of four oat mills: the Quaker Mill Company in Ravenna, Ohio, which held the trademark on the Quaker name; the cereal mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, owned by John Stuart, his son Robert Stuart, and their partner George Douglas; the German Mills American Oatmeal Company in Akron, Ohio, owned by ...
Angel and the Badman is a 1947 American Western film written and directed by James Edward Grant and starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey and Bruce Cabot. [2] The film is about an injured gunfighter who is nursed back to health by a young Quaker woman and her family whose way of life influences him and his violent ways.
A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the Oscar-nominated motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."
In England, Quaker schools sprang up soon after the movement emerged, with Friends School Saffron Walden being the most prominent. [90] Quaker schools in the UK and Ireland are supported by The Friends' Schools' Council. [91] In Australia, Friends' School, Hobart, founded in 1887, has grown into the largest Quaker school in the world.