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Lived Values – The Names of Pennswood’s Buildings

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 […]

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Audland Building

AUDLAND  – A Light Within Every Person Pennswood’s “A” Building Quakers believe there is “that of Light/God/Love/Truth within each person. John Audland (d. _____) was a farmer, a textile merchant, and a preacher.  He became a “seeker” after “spiritual truth” during the time of the Protestant Reformation that was happening throughout Europe. Audland heard George

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Pennswood – A Family Affair

by Leslie Wendel DO YOU KNOW OF SPECIAL OR LONG-TIME RELATIONSHIPS HERE AT PENNSWOOD? Help us update the list of “family connections” as well as longtime friends who followed each other here or friends who reconnected here. (reply here) Pennswood is not just a welcoming, friendly community. There is almost a family feeling, not too

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Community

Community A values-based, caring, intentional community. Topics: not assigned community | community | Customs & Culture | Customs & Culture | Demographics | Demographics | Environmental Stewardship | Environmental Stewardship | Events | family | Intergenerational Activities | Intergenerational Activities | peace | peace | Pennswood | PV Services | PV Services | Quaker | Residents Past and Present | Residents Past and Present | unity

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Resident Books

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

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About

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

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