Quaker Men and Women
Historic Scattergood Quaker Interviews
I don’t know the dates when this project occurred. Evidently, some Scattergood Friends School students went to Quaker meeting communities to collect stories.
Two Meetings, Two Families
As I sat in the Central City Meeting House in May, I became aware that our two meetings had a strong connection coming out of a shared history. Although the two meetings are affiliated with different branches of Friends, over the years we have gotten together as there were few other Friends in Nebraska. Both…
Ashley Shanahan Family Remembers Don Laughlin
The Ashley Shanahan family is very sad that we could not be at Don Laughlin’s memorial. Each and every one of us hold special images and memories of our time with Don. As 6 year olds, twins Kieran and Callum declared Don was “their new best Friend” after he introduced them to his spectacular house…
Memories of Don Laughlin
I imagine Don and Lois were familiar to me as I grew up in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), but my first memories of them were from my days as a student at Scattergood Friends School (1966-70), when Lois was the librarian, and Don was the farm manager. I spent the summer of 1969 in Iowa City with…
Don Laughlin, Draft Resister
I spent two years–May 1944 to August 1946–in California Quaker CPS camps under the Forest Service. During that time I made two trips to Europe, under the United Nations Relief Administration. One trip took cattle to Danzig and the other horses to Trieste. During this time I accepted a CO classification under the draft. I…
Pass It On
by Alberta Kisling Several in our creative writing group are writing life histories for their families. A number of people here at the Village have already written books. Have you considered how you will pass on your family history? There are many ways to do this and you don’t have to be a gifted writer…
Blogging
by Jeff Kisling A little over a year ago I began writing on a blog https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/ That was mainly in response to complaints that I was sending too much email, and I was. Around this same time I was introduced (via email) to Derek Glass, whose business is Glass Web Projects. At that time he was…
Some Remarkable Quaker Women
by Alberta Kisling Deborah Standing While I didn’t know my Great Grandmother, many stories have been passed along. To leave her home in civilized England and travel with her husband and five sons to a strange, new pioneer land surely took enormous courage! There was no electricity, no running water, mud roads—a very primitive life. …
Global Warming
by Wanda Knight Life is Good — What does Global Warming have to do with me. Scientists say things will be really bad in 80 years — at age 84, I doubt that I’ll be around then. But then there are my grandchildren and Great grandchildren — that is another issue — I do want…
Eva D Stanley
2/17/1944 I think everywhere there are those factions to contend with. Some want to be at the head of everything and often those are the least desirable, and the ones that might do better are shy, afraid to say what they think, so are just still and let the others ride over them and carry…
Diary of a Jailbird
by Sherry Hutchison Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home The weekend of Nov. 15-16, 2002 started with a conference on Saturday at the Drake Olmsted Center, hosted by the Drake chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. Those who planned to do civil disobedience the next day at the army National Guard headquarters in…
Exchange Visit to Russia
by Beth Wilson As I stepped into the booth to have my passport checked in the Moscow airport, I was struck by the rather cold, no-nonsense stare of the young Russian guard. It was October of 1987 and newly appointed Soviet President Gorbachov was just beginning his new policy of “glasnost”, easing some of the…
Howard Hampton
by Ron and Trudy Ellyson Howard was the third of three children born to Dilwin and Edith Hampton northwest of Whittier, on Nov. 30, 1907. In Howard’s early years Whittier was becoming a farming community in its own right, and families of the Whittier Friends Meeting were a significant influence in the surrounding community. His…
Ellen Kathlyn Day
Ellen Kathlyn Day, 87, of Johnston, Iowa, died Feb. 4, 2016, of congestive heart failure at Mercy Hospice, Johnston. She had a malfunctioning tricuspid heart valve and an antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Whether we called her “Ellen” or “Kathy,” we know her a spiritual adventurer, artist, peace activist, farm wife, independent living advocate and nature lover. Flag…
Celia Ann Smith on dying
by Alberta (Birdie) Kisling We are in an age group where many friends and relatives are sick or have died. When Celia Ann Smith found she was dying she wrote: Have you come to the Red Sea place in your lifeWhere in spite of all you can doThere is no way out, no way backThere…
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