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DFCLT and Brooklyn (PA) Historical Society
The First Universalist Church in Brooklyn Township, Pennsylvania was the setting for the annual meeting of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust’s neighbors, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), on July 18, 2021. Denise Dennis ...
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Philadelphia Legacy Media Tours Dennis Farm On Juneteenth
On June 19, 2021, the United States celebrated Juneteenth, as a national holiday, for the first time. Two days earlier, President Joseph R. Biden designated Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the day, ...
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Susquehanna County Commissioners Tour Dennis Farm
Standing in front of the monument at the Perkins-Dennis Family Cemetery: first row from left, Susquehanna County Commissioner, Judith Herschel; Susquehanna County Commissioner, Chair, Elizabeth M. Arnold; Hillori Schenker-Lione; seventh-generation Perkins-Dennis family descendants and DFCLT ...
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100 Years Ago…
One hundred years ago, in 1921, Marion A. Dennis, a fifth-generation direct descendant of the Perkins-Dennis Family, graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School, in Bloomsburg, PA, following her sister Edith who'd graduated in 1919. Marion Dennis Polk, ...
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Hope Dennis and the Institute of Race Relations, 1945
Hope Dennis In the 1940’s, Hope Dennis (1906-2006), co-founder of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, was on the staff of Charles S. Johnson, PhD, at Fisk University’s Institute for Race Relations, in ...
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Saluting John Arnone and Lucas Taylor
From left to right: Lucas Taylor, DFCLT-Keystone College Liaison and DFCLT Property Manager, John V. Arnone With a 153-acre property and an educational, historical and conservation mission, the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust ...
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Artist Elmer Stoner, Dennis Family Friend
Artist Elmer C. Stoner (1897-1969) in his Greenwich Village apartment. In his new book, Invisible Men, author Ken Quattro tells the stories of sixteen African American artists who were trailblazers in the ...
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It Begins with Each of Us
From left, Forum Master of Ceremonies, Rev. Marshall P. H. Mitchell, Pastor, Salem Baptist Church of Abington; Panelist Alexandria Harris, Esq, Executive Director, the Andrew Goodman Foundation; and Panelist Charles Gallagher, Ph.D., Chair of ...
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Prince Perkins’ 270th Birthday Celebrated
Dear Friends, The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust would like to thank all of you who participated in our 8th Annual Symposium, our first virtual Symposium-Webinar, on October 16, 2020. We had approximately 100 registrants ...
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AmRev360: A Family’s Revolutionary Legacy
Denise Dennis, President of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, joined Dr. R. Scott Stephenson for a conversation about her rich, personal Revolutionary history; her work to preserve the historic, 153-acre Dennis Farm in the ...
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