The March 2025 Issue of Village Voices newsletter is here, filled with late-winter musings and reminiscences. The newsletter is searchable; and navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools in the margins of the document reader window. Topics: not assigned musings | Project | reminiscences | stories
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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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February is the month with Valentine’s Day at its center. So, for the February 2025 Issue of Village Voices, we asked you to celebrate the love and write from the heart about someone or something you loved. Here is the whole newsletter and it is searchable. Navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools
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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
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The January 2025 Issue of Village Voices has, as its theme, stories of the context in which the Telling our Stories project was born. Here is the whole newsletter and it is searchable. Navigation, downloads, and more are possible using the tools in the margins of the document reader window. Topics: not assigned Project | stories
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Multi-talented Kurt Martin has supported the Pennswood Singers, memorial meetings for residents, Pennswood’s Got Talent and more. In this interview, Kurt shares his Pennswood journey.
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This website is built with pages of stories–narratives, videos, photographs describing the Pennswood Community. The home page gives a sample and an index of terms linked to the stories. On this page, you can browse through summaries of all of those stories, and select anything that interests you to read and see more. Topics: not
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
Our Pennswood Library has many treasures. Among them is this delightful book by Edgar Stromberg, who came to Pennswood in 1984. In his nineties, he compiled this collection of stories. Enjoy! (This layout is for reading online, the booklet layout is below it in a separate link.) For those who prefer to read a paper
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Topics: not assigned Beautiful Meadow | community | Environmental Stewardship | Ken Burton | Land | Pennswood | Pennswood community | Pennswood meadow | Pennswood Village | stories | storm | unity
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