Palmetto Friends Gathering

03/16/2026

Email from Quaker House of Fayetteville Reconnaissance 03/15/2026 Reconnaissance Reports on the US Military Illegal War, Illegal Assassination, Illegal Orders by Wayne Finegar This is being written

12/04/2025

Oh, this is a lovely query for families this December!

~Betsy

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A flowery wreath over a white and green background surrounds the words:

"December Query for Families

"How does your family make space for both joy and rest in this season?"

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12/02/2025

This looks fantastic! Sign up for the info session at the link if this opportunity resonates with you 💜

~Betsy

Are you in transition? Recently retired or graduated and discerning next steps? Are you at a crossroads in your life and seeking a space to center yourself? There's still time to register for the 2026 Spring Term Resident Student program. Learn all about this life-changing offering at the free info session on December 5. Spring Term leader, Valerie Brown, will share insights into the program offerings, including her new retreat, Reclaiming Rest: Nourishing Practices to Renew and Restore Body, Mind, and Spirit. She will be joined by Pendle Hill staff who can answer all your questions and support your discernment.
Register to get the Zoom link at https://pendlehill.org/calendar/spring-term-info-session-with-valerie-brown/

11/21/2025

I (Betsy) attended a lovely vigil of remembrance this evening. Remembering people who are very prematurely no longer here with us on earth mainly because they chose to live in outward integrity as who they truly were.

May we all be so brave as to embrace and seek out integrity and authenticity in our own lives, in whatever way that may be for us each as individuals 💜

~Betsy

FGC honors Transgender Day of Remembrance, to lift up lost lives and affirm dignity and safety for all trans, intersex, and nonbinary people.

08/06/2024

03/14/2024

Alice Paul was a Quaker suffragist who fought to secure women the right to vote and other feminist causes. The author of the Equal Rights Amendment, written in 1923 but still not ratified, died at the age of 92 in 1977, and remains one of the nation’s most outspoken voices in the battle for equali...

03/13/2024

Jim Fussell, posted on "The Lighter Side- Quakers" on Facebook.
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Quaker John Dalton - Devised the atomic theory of matter in the early 1800s!
Quaker Joseph Lister - Discovered antiseptics; Listerine is named after him!!
Quakers Thomas Hodgkins and Thomas Young - Inventors of the microscope!!!
Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Discovered the first reported pulsar; first female president of the Institute of Physics (and also Clerk of London Yearly Meeting) !!!!
… and Arthur David of Adelphi Friends Meeting taught YOUR phone to change time on daylight savings time! (And also serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice Committee with me)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

07/30/2023

PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, GENEVA, LONDON (July 27, 2023) — This month, the Global Coalition of Civil Society, Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and Local Communities for the Universal Recognition of the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment was recognized as one of the ...