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The Power of Nature
On the Farm: Fallen tree removed and repurposed into firewood by grounds crew, following a recent storm During one of two ferocious summer storms in 2024, four healthy trees on the Dennis Farm were ...
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The Irem Temple Restoration Project Highlights Region’s History
From left: Tony Brooks, Director, Wilkes-Barre Preservation Society; Alan K. Stout, Executive Director, Luzerne County Convention and Visitors Bureau; and ITRP Board members, Denise Dennis, Clark Switzer, Gewas Schilder, Christian Wielage, and Dale Parmenteri ...
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Forum 2024
Chelsea Frank, Director of Library Services, Gertrude Kistler Library, Rosemont College, speaking at 7th Annual DFCLT-MoAR Lonaé A. Moore Forum, "It Begins with Us: Fostering Racial Understanding." Through our annual Lonaé A. Moore ...
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Restoration Process Update
In front, DFCLT VP, Lonnie Moore; behind him, from left, Brian Dorn and Ken Ruby, hc Architects; Building Code Official, John Marino; DFCLT Board member, archaeologist, Patrice Jeppson; DFCLT VP, Darryl Gore, on the ...
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The Dennis Farm on Capitol Hill
In March, 2024, with introductions from Congressman Chris Carney, Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust (DFCLT) officers and Board members traveled to Washington, DC for meetings on Capitol Hill. Board member, archaeologist, Wade Catts, Vice Presidents ...
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Dennis Farm Welcomes America250PA’s Semiquincentennial Bell
From left, George Stark, Coterra Energy; Darryl Gore, Dennis Family descendant; Patrick Burns, Chairman, America250PA; Cassandra Coleman, America250PA Executive Director; M. Denise Dennis, Dennis Family descendant and DFCLT CEO; Lonnie Moore, Dennis Family descendant; ...
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Artist Eileen Potter Kopelman Donates Paintings to DFCLT
Prince Perkins playing the fiddle for the community's July 4,1800 celebration. Painting by Eileen Potter Kopelman, 2023. In November 2022, Denise Dennis received an email from artist, Eileen Potter Kopelman offering to create a ...
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Women’s History Month Honors Harriette Payne Dennis
On the left, Harriette Payne Dennis,1920s; on the right, 1926 engagement photograph with Norman H. Dennis; lower center, in the 1960's; center, the South Side YM-YWCA Board of Directors, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Mrs. Dennis ...
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Annual Forum, A Way Forward
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust (DFCLT), in partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution (MoAR), hosted their Sixth Annual Lonaé A. Moore Forum, “It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering ...
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The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust Salutes Black History Month
The Thousand Dollar Club, Wilkes-Barre, PA, circa 1905 Seated, first on the left, Sumner B. Dennis, a fourth-generation member of the Perkins-Dennis family who was born on the Dennis Farm in 1866 and ...
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