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DFCLT 2015 Symposium Program Celebrates 200th Birthday of Henry W. Dennis
Maria Madison, PhD, Board President of The Robbins House, Concord, MA's center for African and Abolitionist History, delivers Keynote Address at Dennis Farm's Third Annual Symposium, October 7, 2015 The 2015 DFCLT symposium program ...
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DFCLT Symposium Funded by Chairman’s Award from National Endowment for the Humanities
Photo Caption: PHMC Commissioner, William Lewis (far right), stands with descendants of the Perkins-Dennis family, from left to right, Lonnie Moore, Edith Dennis Moore Stephens, Darryl Gore and Denise Dennis at unveiling and dedication ceremony ...
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DFCLT Hosts Dinner Meeting for Interpretive Planning Professionals
Photo Caption: First row, from left to right, Brent Leggs, National Trust for Historical Preservation; Marilyn Whittington, Delaware Humanities Forum; Denise Dennis, Jennifer Scott, Jane Addams-Hull House Museum, Chicago; Tricia Brooks, National Endowment for the ...
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Third Annual Dennis Farm Symposium Celebrates 200th Birthday of Henry W. Dennis
The Third Annual Dennis Farm Symposium will take place on October 7, 2015.This year the symposium celebrates the 200th birthday of Henry W. Dennis (1815-1882). Maria Madison, President of Robbins House, Concord, MA’s ...
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DFCLT Recipient of NEH Chairman’s Award
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust is the proud recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman’s Award, under the auspicious of Chairman William Adams. The award will support the Third Annual ...
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An Eighth Generation Perkins-Dennis Family Member Reflects on Opening of Smithsonian Exhibition
An Eighth Generation Perkins-Dennis Family Member Reflects on Opening of Smithsonian Exhibition By: Lonae Moore Seventeen-year-old Lonae Moore and her twin brother Lonnie IV, are direct descendants of the Perkins-Dennis Family through their father, Lonnie ...
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Dennis Farm and Family Featured in Historic Smithsonian Exhibition
Photo caption: Perkins-Dennis direct descendants Denise Dennis and Darryl Gore pose next to exhibit “Early Settlers: the Perkins-Dennis Family” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s preview gala of exhibition, Through ...
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DFCLT Recipient of PHMC Keystone Historic Preservation Grant
On June 17, 2015, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), under the leadership of Chairman, Andrew Masrich, and Executive Director, James Vaughn, announced that the DFCLT was approved for a Keystone Historic Preservation Grant ...
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Keystone College Partners with DFCLT to Host Second Annual Dennis Farm Symposium
Photo Caption: Guests gather for dedication of monument at Perkins-Dennis Cemetery at 2nd Annual Dennis Farm Symposium. “I’m fascinated at the idea of so much history…and artifacts in this land…owned by a Black family at ...
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Education Mission Thriving
Photo caption: Cheyney University’s Chief of Staff, Sheilah Vance, Esq., far left, Patrice Jeppson, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, third from right, and Denise Dennis, center, pose with Cheyney students ...
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