Prelude In the 1850s, Maysville was a river town in slaveowning Kentucky, on the watery border with free state Ohio, just across the busy Ohio river. This border was hotly contested in those years: numerous abolitionists had settled nearby around Aberdeen and Ripley on the Ohio side. Many enslaved people made for the town, to … Continue reading 3-D Quakerism, Lucretia Mott— Stirring Up Trouble?
Dear No Kings Friends, I was beginning to think the No Kings movement was done. Since March, things have been pretty quiet. With all that was going on, that was a bummer. The three big No Kings rally days were some of the best public protests I’d seen in over sixty years of watching, reporting, … Continue reading After The Midterms: An Idea, A Precedent & A Tagline
Target: Mustangs — Two Memories and a Nightmare Chuck Fager One It was like walking into a frontier Disney movie. “Stallions,” said cowboy Fred. “Stallions are tough. Tough to catch, tough to hold, and tough to place.” I glanced up at him from the fading campfire, then down at my reporter’s notebook. I could almost … Continue reading A Holiday Weekend Read: Target — Mustangs — Two Memories and a Nightmare
This post is adapted from Tell It Slant, by Emma Lapsansky Werner. Having a stroke in October 2019 slowed — but didn’t stop — Chuck Fager’s completion of another new book: Passing The Torch. It’s Chuck’s valedictory collection of autobiographical essays by eleven Quakers of this generation, invited not for worldly renown, but because he … Continue reading Dog Days Ruminations: Vegas, Elvis, the Fab Four & The End (Or Not) of An Era
Under different circumstances, I’d maybe feel a bit sympathetic about Ashley Wilcox’s account of having “stopped doing ministry among Friends for more than three years” because of an April 2019 blog post of mine. My post was in response to a lecture she delivered at Guilford College in April 2019 [Full lecture text here. ] … Continue reading To “Uproot & Destroy” Redux