Theme 5: Well-being & Community: The Good Life at Pennswood (concluding with Shadowlands, a short play written about our founders) Theme 4: Community – A Splendid Patchwork Quilt Theme 3: Environmental Stewardship, Community Spaces, and the Wider World Beyond Theme 2: Early Marketing & Intergenerational Community Theme 1: Celebrating our Heritage Topics: not assigned community | Environmental […]
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The April 2025 Issue of Village Voices is the first to print in full color and so, appropriately, begins with Mea Kaemmerlen’s illustrated exploration of the hallway art at Pennswood. Read the whole (searchable) newsletter. Navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools in the margins of the document reader window. Topics: not assigned
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Pennswood Village’s building names honor certain prominent Quakers who manifested important values by letting their lives speak. The PDF below tells their stories. They inspire now as they did in their own times. Topics: not assigned Alice Paul | Audland | Barclay | Benson | Caton | Daisy Newman | Dyer | Ellwood | Fell | Gervase Benson | Gurney | Holme | Ingram | J. Harold Passmore | John Audland | John Kinsey | John Woolman | Jordan | Joseph John Gurney | Kinsey | Loe | Lucretia Mott | Margaret Fell | Mary Dyer | Mildred Scott Olmsted | Mott | Newman | Olmsted | Paul | Penn | Pennswood | Pennswood Village | Quaker | Quakers | Richard Jordan | Robert Barclay | stories | Thomas
Lived Values – The Names of Pennswood’s Buildings Read More »
LOOK FOR THE RED BINDER A bright, red 3-ring binder is now available in the Pennswood library to orient you to the 173 books written by resident authors. Thanks to our “readers” (Sally Burkman, Pat Cautilli, Louise Dunham, Gaby Kopelman, Judy Toohey, Karolyn Tucker) and our editor (Kathy Hoff), you can now quickly peruse a
Telling Our Stories of Pennswood’s Caring Community a resident project under the auspices of Pennswood’s Quakerism Committee. An overview of the project including examples of the stories and research that is being planned. The core group of the project includes the following Pennswood residents: Participate Join the fun. Tell your story, interview others, sleuth for
