Dr. Thomas Hamm of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana shares with us his insights into the life of Hicksite Quaker Minister Priscilla Coffin Hunt Cadwallader.  Dr. Hamm will be speaking in detail about Priscilla Cadwallader at the upcoming Quaker Genealogy & History Conference: A Woman's Place . . . on Saturday morning, April 26th, 2008. See http://campbeka.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=297041 for more information about the conference. 

Also go to our library webpage to find the full conference schedule & registration information: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Pages/history_conference.html.

Dr. Hamm is a professor of history and the archivist of the The Arthur and Kathleen Postle Archives and Friends Collection at Earlham College.  See, website: http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/index.html.

Books by Dr. Hamm:

The Quakers in American (Columbia University Press, 2003)

The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 (Indiana University Press, 1988)

God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842-1846 (Indiana University Press, 1995)

Coed., Abstracts of the REcords of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Rev. ed. (Indiana Historical Society, 1996-)

Earlham College: A History, 1847-1997 (Indiana University Press, 1997)

 
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On the right is a photograph of Orthodox Friend Elizabeth Harvey

The Fourth Annual Quaker Genealogy & History Conference:
"A Woman's Place . . . Southwest Ohio Quaker Women and Reform Movements, 1800-1860"

Thursday through Sunday, April 24th through 27th, 2008

For full schedule & registration materials & information go to our library webpage: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Pages/history_conference.html

The speakers and topics during the conference include:

"How to Do Quaker Genealogy Research" ~ Karen Campbell

"The Life and Work of Lucretia Coffin Mott" ~ Beverly Wilson Palmer (listen to her interview at http://campbeka.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=295099)

"Radical Quaker Women and the Early Women's Rights Movement" ~ Christopher Densmore

"Quaker Women in the Ministry" ~ Mary Garman

"Who was Priscilla Cadwallader?" ~ Thomas Hamm (listen to his interview at http://campbeka.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=298846)

"African American Women Abolitionists & Quakers" ~ Shirley Yee

"A Brief History of the Growth and Development of African American Communities in Ohio" ~ Stephen Vincent

Also see announcement on "Eventful" website:
http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-008559358-8

 Each year the conference publishes a report of the Research Committee.  This year's report will be available for purchase during the conference, "A Woman's Place . . .Committee Report" as well as a CD-Rom presentation given during the conference.  The report will be $15.00.  The CD-Rom presentation of the report, $5.00.

Past Publications of the Conference:

Friendly Research:  An Introduction to Quaker Genealogical Research with Bibliographies of Primary, Secondary & Internet Resources by Karen Campbell   $15.00, CD-Rom, $5.00.

Quaker Ministry in the Wilderness:  Commitment to Faith, Courage to Educate, Daring to Care ~ The Harvey Family of Harveysburg, Ohio & Clinton County, Ohio by Karen Campbell  $15.00, CD-Rom $5.00.

Anti-Slavery & the Underground Railroad ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom: Report of the Research Committee by Karen Campbell  $15.00, CD-Rom, $5.00.

For more information about "No Strangers Here Today" go to:
http://strangers.scatter.com/index.html. 

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php. 

 
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"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here." 

With these words, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., issued a challenge to those who opposed his involvement in the efforts to gain civil rights for African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, and across the nation.  Explore the activities of Friends (Quakers ~ The Society of Friends) in this pivotal moment in our nation's history, including the American Friends Service Committee's publication and distribution of King's inspiring "Letter From Birmingham Jail."

A special exhibit opening will be held January 21st, 2008 at 7 P.M. followed by Wilmington College's annual Celebration of the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at 7:30 PM.

The exhibit is on display from
January 22nd through March 20th, 2008. 

The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM, or by appointment.  Group and school tours available.

For more information contact Ruth Dobyns, Curator
at (937) 382-6661 ext. 719, or
ruth_dobyns@wilmington.edu

Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center
Wilmington College
1870 Quaker Way
Wilmington, Ohio 45177
http://www.wilmington.edu

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Everyone is invited to see at The Mary L. Cook Public Library:

A Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Exhibit

Free at Last:
A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America

"Free at Last: A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America" traces the history of the movement to abolish slavery from the framing of the Constitution to its abolition during the Civil War. It illuminates shades of opinion within the ranks of the famous and ordinary, free and slave, men and women to come to see slavery as incompatible with the ideals upon which the nation was founded.

Opening Reception
Sunday, February 3^rd, 2008 at the Mary L. Cook Public Library
1 to 4 PM
Everyone is welcome.

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 Educational materials for “Free at Lastâ€? are available for teachers. 
If interested, contact Karen Campbell at
The Mary L. Cook Public Library,
campbeka@oplin.org  or 1-513-897-4826

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 Movie presentation: “Gloryâ€?

staring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes,
Morgan Freeman & Andre Braugher,

with follow up discussion

 Saturday, February 16^th, 2008
11:00 AM ~ 2:00 PM

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I have no idea, because I am a non-resistant, of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. Quakerism, as I understand it, does not mean quietism. The early Friends were agitators; disturbers of the peace; and were more obnoxious in their day to charges, which are now so freely made, than we are.

~~Lucretia Mott

(Remarks delivered at the 24th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, October 25-26, 1860)

Lucretia Mott (January 3rd, 1793 ~ November 11th, 1880)) is  one of the greatest if not the greatest Quaker woman minister of the 19th century.  She was dedicated to almost every form of social reform in the 19th century but especially to the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Beverly Wilson Palmer, the editor of the Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott shares her insights into the life and legacy of Lucretia Mott.  Beverly will also be one of our major speakers at the upcoming 4th Annual Quaker Genealogy & History Conference entitled "A Woman's Place . . . Southwest Ohio Quaker Women & Reform Movements, 1800-1860," Thursday through Sunday, April 24th-27th, 2008.

For the full schedule & registration materials & information go to our library webpage: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Pages/history_conference.html.

PLEASE NOTE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY:  Increase volume when interviewer asks questions.  Thank you.

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Today Rosalie Yoakam comes for another visit and tells the remarkable story of Quaker Jane Finley Wales Nicholson (b. February 1st, 1806 in Iredale Co., North Carolina - d. September 9th, 1906 in Indiana), an early pioneer of the Waynesville-Harveysburg area.  Jane and her husband, Valentine, were conductors on the Underground Railroad and were involved in other liberal reform movements of the time. Both Jane  and Valentine Nicholson left memoirs of their lives.

For more information see:

Valentine and Jane F. Wales Nicholson  

There is a twelve page article about Valentine and Jane F. Wales Nicholson in the 2007 Report of the Research Committee for the Third Annual Quaker Genealogy & History Conference: Anti-Slavery & the Underground Railroad ~ Taking a Risk for Freedom.  The report is available for $15.00 + 2.00 postage.  The money goes into the Ohioana Room Fund which supports the conference and other Ohioana Room activities. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the "Report", contact Karen at campbeka@oplin.org.

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Today local historian Denny Dalton comes for a visit and tells the unusual story of St. Marys  Episcopal Church in Waynesville, Ohio.  He also invites everyone to come and celebrate St. Mary's 140th Anniversary. 

The celebrationwill be held at the church on Sunday, September 30th, 2007
TOURS AT:  3:00 PM and 5:30 PM
1869 CHURCH SERVICE AT: 4:00 PM
Refreshments will be available.

Denny is a native of Waynesville and is the official Town Crier of Warren County, Ohio.  Denny is a local historican and researcher.  He is also famous for his interest in the ghosts of Waynesville.

To contact Denny:  1-513-228-0186

Related Links:
Israel Hopkins Harris ~ Waynesville Banker, Businessman and Scholar

J. Drew Sweet (1839-1893) ~ Publisher of the Miami-Gazette

Achilles Henry Pugh (1805-1876) ~ Orthodox Quaker, Publisher, Anti-Slavery Leader, Ecumenist, and Resident of Waynesville & Cincinnati

Achilles Henry Pugh ~ Publishing Against Slavery (Podcast)

A. E. Merritt ~ Contractor and Builder  

Another Murder in Waynesville? ~ Captain William Rion Hoel

The Brown Family ~ Publishers of the Miami~Gazette

Enoch Jacobs ~ Business Man, Civil War Hero, Public Servant, and United States Consul to Montevideo, in the Republic of Uruguay, South America

St. Mary's Episcopal Church 

Today, Ruth Dobyns, the curator of the Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College, tells us of a new Quaker Tour with stops in Waynesville, Harveysburg, and Wilmington, Ohio.

Right: The White Brick Meetinghouse in Waynesville, Ohio.

For more information about the sites see:

Miami Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends in Waynesville, Ohio

THE 1905 FRIENDS BOARDING HOME TIMELINE & FURTHER INFORMATION

THE BLACK SCHOOL IN HARVEYSBURG, OHIO

THE HARVEYSBURG ACADEMIES

Quaker Heritage Center

For further information contact:

The Friends Home Museum:  http://www.friendshomemuseum.org/

The Quaker Heritage Center: http://www2.wilmington.edu/qhc/faculty.cfm 

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COURAGE
COOPERATION
PERSERVERANCE
FREEDOM

Today we go on a field trip to Cincinnati, Ohio to visit the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.  We will be speaking with Dr. Spencer R. Crew who was named the executive director of the Freedom Center in 2004. 

The web address of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is www.freedomcenter.org.  The site is quite large and extremely informative. 

Please note that we have changed our title from "Waynesville Wanderings" to "Waynesville Voices".  Thank you.

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Today on "Waynesville Voices" our guest is Rosalie Yoakam, a free lance reporter, writer and columnist.  She contributes two columns to the "Dayton Daily News".  One is a personal column; the other is a local history column.    She is also an active member of the Springboro Historical Society. 

Rosalie will be telling us about the Bedford family of Springboro and their involvement in the abolition and Underground Railroad movements. She will also tell the story of the Great Springboro Rescue which included many of our local anti-slavery people and UGRR conductors. 

See Rosalie's written column about William S. Bedford on The Mary L. Cook Public Library ~ Ohioana Room site: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20William%20S.%20Bedford.pdf.

Please note that we have changed our title from "Waynesville Wanderings" to "Waynesville Voices".  Thank you.

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