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Emmet Gowin, Winner of a Guggenheim, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and others
Emmet Gowin, Renowned Photographer, to Speak at Newtown Quaker Meeting
Emmet Gowin, Professor Emeritus of Photography of Princeton University and a member of Newtown Meeting, will speak about his latest works via Zoom to the adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting at 9:45 a.m. on Sunday, May 9 http://www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org). Zoom Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends will follow at 11 a.m.
Gowin will give a quick overview of his past work in order to place in context the book on which he is now working, The One Hundred Circle Farm. Gowin s previous books have received rave reviews, e.g. Mariposas Nocturnas published in 2017 was called stunning, brilliant, spectacular, and an object of beauty and a document of inestimable value.
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Quaker Kids Raise $3,000 at Hybrid Virtual Lasagna Dinner for Charity
The Quaker Kids of Newtown Quaker Meeting have done it again! Hosted an extraordinarily successful fund-raiser during a pandemic and raised over $3,000!
The designated charity for their event this year was the Mercer Street Friends Summer Pre-School Program in Trenton, NJ, a a Quaker-affiliated, nonsectarian organization focused on hunger, poverty and access to educational opportunities.
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Newtown Meeting Quaker Kids have now raised and distributed to charities of their choice more than $34,000 over the past fourteen years by serving simple meals for voluntary donations.
In lieu of prices for servings of lasagna and desserts available for the Virtual Dinner, purchasers were asked to make donations when they picked up their orders.
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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.