Newtown Meeting Friend Barbara Simmons recently visited Ruth Peterson at her home at Pennswood Village to talk with Ruth about her life and her upcoming 100th birthday on July 13, 2024.

Yardley Friend Dr. Christopher Anthony Lucca, age 63, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 28, 2024, at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA.

On World Quaker Day Newtown Friends First Day School children learn about and place Peace Flags honoring conscientious objectors interred in their burial ground.

Once again, Bucks Quarter had representation from all of their fourteen monthly meetings at their May Quarterly Meeting, which was hosted by Southampton Friends.

Southampton Friends help preserve the stream on their property by holding a “live staking” event in April.

In trying to keep up with the latest technology, I used ChatGPT to generate some ideas about how to improve Quaker outreach. The results were amazing!

Newtown Friends Meeting engaged drone pilot and Bristol Friend Paul Shaffer to fly over their burial grounds to take pictures for a new, comprehensive map.

Makefield Friends Meeting held its first Spring Celebration Concert on an early April Saturday afternoon featuring the music of Paige Melton . 

Friends at Buckingham have working together to freshen up the inside of our house of worship by painting the ceilings and walls.

As you drive by Bristol Meeting on Market Street in historic Bristol Borough, you can’t help but notice the huge sycamore tree adjacent to the meetinghouse. Fondly known as the Penn sycamore, the tree has been there almost as long as the meetinghouse, and on April 6th, Bristol Friends decided it was time to give it a birthday party!

As Bucks Quarter Coordinator, I am charged with visiting each of the fourteen meetings in the Quarter on a regular basis. At my most recent visit to Lehigh Valley Monthly Meeting – the northernmost meeting in the Quarter – I heard and experienced why Friends there have cause celebrate.

Recently, Friends at Fallsington Meeting were approached by someone who wanted to sweep their historic property with a metal detector, to see if he could unearth any interesting artifacts.

Young Adult Newtown Meeting member Andrew Fellows sends greetings and pictures from his Peace Corps posting in Kosovo.

On April 13th, 2024 Friends Village will host an “Afternoon in the Garden”. The event will feature Dr. Doug Tallamy, distinguished professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, bestselling author, and co-founder of Homegrown National Park.

Beloved Newtown Friend, Nancy Strong, passed away on January 10, 2024 at her home at Pennswood Village. Her memorial service, which was held on March 16, was filled with loving remembrances from all of those she touched throughout her wonderful life.

At the February Bucks Quarter Meeting of Friends, held under the care of Solebury Friends, we had representation from all of our fourteen meetings.

Newtown Meeting burial ground liaisons Wendy Kane and Sharon Hulihan presented a program at Adult First Day School entitled Digging Into the Graveyard, giving the history and stories of some of the Friends buried in their graveyard.

Plumstead Friends Meeting recently received a generous donation from the Hilltown Historical Society. It is a book of letters, published in 1844, written by a Plumstead minister, Martha Brown Smith

Yardley Friends Meeting member Linda Jacobs Snyder has self-published a book called She Chef, a memoir about her forty years as a female chef in a male-dominated food industry.

When Newtown Meeting decided to partner with Right Sharing of World Resources on the Ramanathpuram Project in India’s state of Tamil Nadu, members Jennifer and Tony Wolf were thrilled because they had already planned a three-week trip to India in January 2024.