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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Wreaths Across America
In December 2022, as part of "Wreaths Across America," the Brooklyn (PA) Historical Society, placed eight wreaths at the Perkins-Dennis Cemetery, in honor of the veterans interred there. Three wreaths were placed on graves ...
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Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity Welcomes Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust
Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity welcomed Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust President & CEO Denise Dennis, VP of Development Darryl Gore, and VP of Marketing Lonnie Moore, to Harrisburg, where she held a videotaped conversation ...
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Adrienne Whaley Delivers Stirring Symposium Keynote Address
To celebrate DFCLT’s Tenth Annual Symposium, October 6, 2022, we welcomed Adrienne Whaley, Director of Education and Community Outreach for the Museum of the American Revolution, who presented a stirring keynote address. With her ...
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Rosement College Students Create Dennis Farm Symposium Scrapbook
Professor Christine Hagedorn, Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences, and Sociology Professor Joanne Campbell, of Rosemont College, located in suburban Philadelphia, accompanied approximately twenty-six students to the Dennis Farm’s 10th Annual Symposium in ...
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Farmhouse Restoration, Phase I Completed
Repaired northeast basement walls. Through a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and donations to DFCLT, Phase I of the Dennis Farmhouse Restoration was completed in ...
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Students from the Museum of the American Revolution’s Living History Youth Summer Institute at the Dennis Farm
The Museum of the American Revolution’s (MoAR) Living History Youth Summer Institute traveled to The Dennis Farm for a field trip, on July 29, 2022. The Youth Summer Institute, held from July ...
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On the Pennsylvania Road tours Dennis Farm
Journalist Jon Meyer of WNEP-TV, the ABC News affiliate in Northeast Pennsylvania, visited the Dennis Farm on June 28, 2022, for his documentary series, On the Pennsylvania Road. Meyers toured the ...
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European Cultural channel interviews DFCLT President
In June, the European Cultural Channel, ARTE, which is the equivalent of the United States’ PBS, interviewed DFCLT President, Denise Dennis, for their series Invitation au voyage. ARTE producer Anne Sedes, interviewed Denise ...
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Keystone College Salutes DFCLT
On June 15, 2022, Keystone College hosted a luncheon for DFCLT officers in appreciation of DFCLT’s ten thousand dollar donation to the college.Following the luncheon, the Dennis Farm team was treated ...
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