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Newtown Quakers to View Film on Quaker Monteverde Settlement in Costa Rica Via Zoom
The adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting will view via Zoom the film Sweet Home Monteverde (www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org) at 9:45 a.m. on First Day (Sunday), March 14, 2021.
The film tells the true story, beginning in 1950 just months after the U.S. entered the Korean War, when four Quaker war-resisters from Fairhope, Alabama led some 40 people to emigrate to Costa Rica, a country that had just abolished its army in 1948.
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Monteverdi is also the site of biennial trips by Newtown Friends School 7th and 8th grade Spanish students from the Quaker Meeting's local pre-K to 8 school. Some of the highlights of the trip include a three-night home-stay with a Costa Rican family, a tour of one of the country's volcanoes and active lava flows, and a service project with Newtown Friends School sister school Bajos de San Luis.