Blue Moon Cowgirls Will Johanna and Bob Derose Take You There

Diversity of race, religion, economics, gender and Blue most of all, thought. Moon Cowgirls

A concert of foot-tapping fun to benefit the community outreach and “Peaceful Communities” initiatives of Get a feel for Friends School life. Observe classes and talk with Stony Run Friends (Quaker) Meeting students, teachers and current parents. Then enjoy a light bite while hearing from Friends’ Head of School Matt Micciche. Sat., Nov. 8 ADMISSION LATTE AND LEARN ADMISSION LUNCH AND LEARN Thurs., November 20 Wed., January 21 9 to 11 a.m. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Mon., April 6 Mon., February 9 9 to 11 a.m. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Stony Run Friends Meetinghouse 5116 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21210 410.649.3211 friendsbalt.org/admission

28 1 Supporters of Stony Run Friends Meeting’s About the Performers Peaceful Community Initiatives lue Moon Cowgirls , four Washington-area musicians, offer a refreshing approach to country music. They blend front- Michael and Amy Aquilino Bporch directness with neon-lit sophistication as they sing Deborah Bedwell about home and highways, heaven and honkytonks, heartbreak Adrian Bishop and Rosalie Dance and hope. Their repertoire stretches from the 1920s in Appalachia Arthur Meyer Boyd and Meg Boyd Meyer to the 1990s in California, with stops along the way at several Frank and Barbara Brocato decades' worth of prairie roadhouses and bayou dance halls. The Sue and John Carnell sound of country music has always been on the move, but its heart Suzy and Bill Filbert has remained in the same place, and the Blue Moon Cowgirls will Johanna and Bob deRose take you there. Norm, Kathy and Ned Forbush Ann Porcella , a teacher at Friends School, learned gospel music at home Lillian Freudenberger from her preacher father and very large musical family. Her deep, power - house voice adapts well to harmony singing in many traditional styles. She Tim and Joyce Hearn has performed at folk venues around the country, including the Augusta Fred Hinze and Georgia Coleman concerts and Folk on Broadway. Jen Hobbins Karen Collins , a coal miner's daughter from Southwest Virginia, grew up Lynn and Terral Jordan listening to country music. She is a fiddler and vocalist with the Washington David Macfarlane area's popular Cajun band Squeeze Bayou and plays with Ira in the honky tonk country group, the Backroads Band. Barbara and Chuck Mallonee Lynn Healey grew up singing with her father and two sisters. She favors Bruce and Suzie Manger harmony singing, bluegrass and playing rhythm guitar. She currently performs Sujata and Anthony Massey with the Rockledge bluegrass band. Fred and Diana Motz Ira Gitlin 's sophisticated rhythms and harmonies on the guitar derive from Lynn Patton his long involvement in bluegrass, western swing and jazz. A WAMMIE award- Myles Perkins and Christina Lindgren winning multi-instrumentalist and former National Bluegrass Banjo Champion, Ira is in demand as a sideman and music instructor. He can also David Pruitt and Laurel Kiser be heard locally with the Backroads Band, the The Oklahoma Twisters, Lulu's Deepti Scharf Fate, and the Hard Travelers. Marjorie and Roberta Scott Marylu Silbergeld Harrison and Ruthanne Smith Janet Vermehren-Shepler and Michael Vermehren Pam and Eric Young

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Maryland Ecumenical Council Right Sharing of World Resources This Evening’s Program GEDCO • CARES Food Bank National Religious Campaign Against Torture 7:30 - 8:15 McKim Center Clay Pots Ministry Music Amazing Grace Ministries 8:15 - 8:30 Stony Run Supports these Brief Intermission Quaker Affiliates that Support Peaceful Communities 8:30 - 9:15 Music American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Baltimore Yearly Meeting/BYM Camping Program 9:15 - 10:00 Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) Reception with Chocolate Treats Friends General Conference (FGC) MEETINGHOUSE DINING ROOM—LOWER LEVEL Friends World Committee on Consultation (FWCC) Friends Council on Education (FCE) Quaker United Nations Program (QUNO) Friends Journal This concert was organized by the Event Planning Committee Friends Center in Ramallah of Stony Run Friends Meeting: Margaret Allen, Deborah Bedwell, Adrian Friends Peace Teams Bishop, Marcie Jones Brennan, Alice Cherbonnier, Betsy Forbush, Quaker Earthcare Witness Lillian Freudenberger, Lynn Jordan, Melissa Kitner-Triolo, John Merrill, Sandra Morton, Phil Perkins, Rebecca Snyder. The committee thanks everyone who supported this effort. PLEASE NOTE: We urge our audience to join us in supporting the organizations listed above and the charities featured in this program. Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run If you would like to act now, during the intermission and the Chocolate 5116 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210•(443) 703-2590 Reception this evening, donations to these entitities will be Email: [email protected] • www.StonyRunFriends.org gratefully accepted in the dining room.

26 3 ĘåIåýåųŸŅĹÏĘŅŅĬØ{±ųƋŅüƋĘåĘåŞŞ±ųÚ{ų±ƋƋBå±ĬƋĘƼŸƋåĵ Catoctin • Shiloh • Opequon • Teen Adventure Sheppard Pratt Health System www.BYMcamps.org is pleased to support Sponsored by Bruce & Becky Copeland Stony Run Friends Meeting and Blue Moon Cowgirls

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4 25 hen the McKim Free School opened at 1120 E. Baltimore Street MW inc 1833K, it was thei firsm t such school in Baltimore City and one of the first in the U.S. It occupies a classic int Doric building designed by William Howard and William Small. The I Pa . es Co idea for the school originated with a Quaker Garag merchant, John McKim, who wanted to help Baltimore's poor youths. His sons, Isaac and 1 5-758 d 410-78 Insure William D. McKim, carried out their father's Cell: 48 #1061 plans after his death. Children of Jewish, MHIC: Italian, and Polish immigrants studied at the school, which continued until the 1890’s, when public education took over its functions. McKim then established a free kindergarten.

Today, with support from such sources as the Abell, Annie E. Casey and Weinberg Foundations, United Way, Presbyterian Churches of Baltimore, and Stony Run Friends Meeting, McKim offers educational and constructive activities for young people who live in the area. 40 Ye Volunteers and interns assist with the after-school program and ars o Orga f Exp summer camp, lead enrichment workshops and help with sports nizat erien Inte ional ce practices and competitions. McKim is also a site for the Senior Citizen rior P Solu Cr ainti tions Eating Together Program and a chapter of Narcotics Anonymous. edit C ng o ards f Gar Na Acc ages ncy B epte The McKim School is near the Old Town Friends Meeting House, at w erge d ww.ip r • Hu 1201 East Fayette St., Baltimore's oldest religious building. Its members aintg nt Va arage lley included such influential Quakers as Philip E. Thomas, first President of s.com the B&O Railroad, and Johns Hopkins. This building and the McKim School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Please support the MCKIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 1120 E Baltimore Street • Baltimore, MD 21202 (410)276-5519 • http://www.mckimcenter.org A Quaker-owned business that gladly supports Stony Run Sponsored by Alice Cherbonnier, John Merrill and Julia Barker, Friends Meeting’s Peaceful Communities Initiatives Don and Gail Gann and Bill and Sandi Morton

24 5 Amy Rakusin Phil Fratesi presenting Compassionate Listening workshops for individuals, groups and organizations

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IAHR is a mid-Atlantic interfaith human rights organization serving Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia. The local focus is on ending human rights abuses in Maryland prisons, especially prolonged/indefinite soli - tary confinement. On the national Planting trees and front, releasing information about US advocating for treatment of detainees and closing streams and rivers. G ua nta namo a re prim ary ar eas of Find out how you conce rn. Members fro m S tony Run , can get involved in W as hington Friends and A nna polis F riends M eeti ngs serve on the le ad - your community. ership team of IAHR.

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10 19 In this time of unrest and war John and Peggy Steele proudly support Stony Run and its work for peaceful communities

18 11 Thanks! Please join Stony Run Friends Meeting in thanking these two companies for their wonderful in-kind support of this concert: RUTLAND BEARD FLORIST 7627 Bellona Avenue Ruxton, Maryland 21204 800-410-6330• 410-321-1737

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12 17 Join Us! FCNL Annual Meeting Nov. 20-23, 2014 Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) Washington Plaza Hotel • Washington, DC. Rhode Island Row At FCNL’s Annual Meeting, participants will decide on our community's lobbying priorities for the next two years. The meeting is also a time to share our expanding work with young adults and our new efforts to support advocacy around the country. FCNL's Annual Meeting begins with policy briefings, lobby trainings and advocacy to support diplomatic negotiations with Iran—at the very moment when that advocacy can make a big difference with Congress. Please join us in this important effort. Visit fcnl.org/events/annual_meeting/am14/ Questions? Call the registrar at 1-800-630-1330

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16 13 About the Society of Friends and the Role of Friends in Baltimore Tribes in securing 52,000 acres in New York State in 1839. Quakers likewise sought to ameliorate injustices done to Africans brought to America as slaves. Elisha Tyson was tireless in his work to free and assist he Religious Society of Friends was founded by George Fox in Blacks. (At his death in 1824, it was reported that 10,000 Blacks walked England in 1652. Early Friends, also called Quakers, were behind the hearse as his body was taken to Friends Burial Ground on persecuted as nonconformists by the Church of England. Many of T Aisquith Street.) Today’s Quakers continue to work for the civil rights and them sailed to America in quest of religious freedom, with some landing human rights of all people. in Maryland in 1656. By 1700, there were 3,000 Friends in Maryland. Meetinghouses, as we Quakers call our places of worship, sprang up first In response to a concern that there should be a means to vouchsafe a on the waterways of the Eastern and Western shores of Chesapeake Bay. “guarded education” of all children, male and female, Friends School of Baltimore was established in 1784. McKim's School, the first free school Though early Quakers worshipped in silence, they did not withdraw from in Baltimore to educate indigent youth, was opened in 1821. Martha the world; instead, they made their livelihood in the hustle and bustle of Ellicott Tyson was a founder of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa. a booming port city. Early Quaker names in this region include Ellicott M. Carey Thomas founded The Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and (flour mills in what would become Ellicott City), McKim (cotton mill), became the first female president of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Tyson (grist mills), Hopkins (university and hospital founder) and Pa. Because women were refused degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Sheppard (hospital founder). Philip E. Thomas and his brother Evan were she and four other Baltimore women pledged to raise $500,000 for among the founders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Other Quakers, Hopkins if the medical school would agree to admit women on an equal such as the Fell brothers, Randolph Winslow, M.D., and Benjamin Lundy, basis to men. They raised the money, and the women were admitted. established shipping and importing companies, counting houses, These institutions survive today, and we Quakers continue to be active in medical practices, printing houses, banks, and insurance companies. their operations. There were manufacturers and craftsmen too: the potter Maulden Perine, the cabinetmakers John Needles and Gerrard Hopkins, and the We have also long been active in opposing war and striving to eliminate silversmith Samuel Kirk. the causes of war. We urged conscientious objection and alternative service in both World Wars and during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, Early Quakers were guided by a set of religious principles and practices and also organized relief services. Through the work of Friends that included strictures against activities such as betting and gambling, Committee on National Legislation and the American Friends Service capital punishment, slavery, and all forms of war. They stood for integrity Committee, we seek to influence the political process toward peace and in business, penal reform, plainness of dress and language, relief of social justice. We also bear witness on behalf of these goals by suffering, social order, and temperance. In their earliest business participating in vigils and peaceful demonstrations, meeting with meetings (and through their wills), Friends expressed a concern for political leaders, and speaking out publicly. education, the orphaned, the ill, the elderly, and the poor. Forty Quaker women founded the Baltimore branch of the Y.W.C.A. In 1840, Quaker We Quakers believe that we can experience God directly in our lives women started the Association of Female Friends for the Relief of the without relying on paid clergy. We seek to adhere to the authority of Sick and Helpless Poor. From the estates of Jonathan K. Taylor and conscience over creed or law. We worship together in silence, seeking Joseph C. Town send came money to establish homes for the elderly that divine guidance; when we are moved to do so, we stand to break the preceded Broadmead, a flourishing retirement community established by silence and speak. Stony Run Friends Meeting in Cockeysville, Maryland, in 1979. We welcome visitors to Meeting for Worship at Stony Run Friends Meeting, As early as 1795, Baltimore Quakers were working to secure full rights for 5116 North Charles Street, on First Days (Sundays) at 9:30 a.m. or 11:00 Native Americans. Philip E. Thomas assisted the Iroquois and Six Nations a.m. Please visit www.stonyrunfriends.org for more information .

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