Mr. Phanor had traveled to Haiti to invest in land for an apartment building, and ended up trapped in the ruins of his room on the first floor of the Hotel Montana. He was buried for seven hours, with only one arm free, before members of a United Nations peacekeeping unit dug him out.
During that […]
On his way to the Constitution Center in Philadelphia a few days ago, to give a historic speech about race relations in America, Barack Obama stopped outside a Quaker school to “meet and greet” with a group of second graders.
This picture was taken on Race Street, outside the Friends Select School.
Race Street ??? Hmm . […]
In the news these days is geneticist Mario Capecchi, who has been awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine (for work on “knock-out mice”). By Googling for Capecchi + Quaker, you’ll find a number of articles explaining that after he’d survived World War II as a beggar in Italy, age 4 to 8, his mother brought […]
I’m still watching the Fighting Dems (see posts I and II) and reflecting on what their campaign could mean for how the Quaker peace testimony is heard at the national level.
Three more (*) veterans are now added to the list of those who might actually win election. Of these, at least 4-5 will […]
An email from my dad in Atlanta:
The operation is still scheduled for next Thursday at which time I will be in the hospital for three days. Several times when Kathy and I would ask a question during our pre-op sessions they would say I am in “the system”.
It reminded me of when the Open Door […]
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