The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, in partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution, is proud to present The Annual Lonaé A. Moore Memorial Forum, "It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding” on February 8, 2020.
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Darryl Gore and Lonnie Moore, III stand with PA Secretary of Agriculture, Russell C. Redding at the DFCLT booth at the 104th Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, the oldest farm show in the United States.
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On a sunny, blue-skied October day, in ceremonies to begin the on-site tour during 2019 Seventh Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, DFCLT unveiled a new welcome sign at the entrance to the farm. The entrance sign is one of eleven new interpretative signs installed from the farm’s lower tier to the farm’s upper tier, a half-mile
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In March 2019, students from the Mountain View School District (MVSD) made history at the Dennis Farm. Under the direction of their teacher, Brion Stone, seven students participated in a science project: tapping maple trees on the Dennis Farm for sap, from which they produced maple syrup. This marked the first time in more than
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Cain Chamberlin, executive director, Endless Mountains Heritage Region, delivers keynote address at Seventh Annual Dennis Farm Symposium. The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust welcomed Cain Chamberlin, executive director of the Endless Mountain Heritage Region (EMHR), as keynote speaker for the Seventh Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, held at Keystone College, October 10, 2019. Although this was
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On February 8, 2020, at 1:00 PM, DFCLT will present The Lonae A. Moore Memorial Forum: It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding.
The forum will be held at the Museum of the American Revolution, our partner for the event, 3rd and Chestnut Streets, in Philadelphia.
Two African American veterans of the American Revolution, who fought for liberty and equality, rest in the cemetery on the Dennis Farm. Although they were free men, in spite of their service and that of thousands of Black men in the Revolution, liberty and equality were denied to the majority of Americans of African heritage. Since that time, we–Americans–have been working and are still working to become “a more perfect union” that lives up to the early promise of equality, especially in regard to race.
Both the Museum of the American Revolution and the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust are committed to telling a more full history of our nation’s beginnings and to keeping the best of our ideals alive, as an inspiration for the present and the future. The forum is designed with this in mind.
For more information, visit our website in the months to come.
Museum of the American Revolution
A beautifully carved and signed Revolutionary War powder horn taken from the lifeless body of Gershom Prince, an African American soldier and Dennis family ancestor who was killed in the Battle of Wyoming, is on exhibition at the Museum of the American Revolution for one year.
The Gershom Prince powder horn is on loan to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia for one year. Denise Dennis spoke about the power horn at a press conference and a special reception at the museum.
Philly museum has the only surviving relic of its type from a slain African American colonial soldier
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Rare powder horn illuminates little-known story of Black soldiers of the Revolutionary War