Benezet set up a school for free Black children in his home on Chestnut Street between 3rd and 4th Streets Dear Friends, Happy August! Are you already thinking about back-to-school? I am––when I walk through a pile of dried brown leaves, and their smell brings me back to college orientation (when it was still summer,ContinueContinue reading “Anthony Benezet’s Revolutionary Academy for Children”
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A Quaker “Happening” in Darby, PA May 1!
Live in the Philadelphia area? Interested in Quaker, Philadelphia, or library history? I’ll be at Darby Friends Meeting House at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 1, with others celebrating a new federal grant made to the Darby Free Library. Darby Free Library is the oldest library in continuous use in the U.S., founded by DarbyContinueContinue reading “A Quaker “Happening” in Darby, PA May 1!”