Quakers

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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