DFCLT Honors 100th Anniversary of Norman H. Dennis Surviving the Sinking of His Ship in World War I
Norman H. Dennis, US Navy, World War I One hundred years ago this year, Norman H. Dennis (1898-1976), the oldest of the fifth generation of the Perkins-Dennis family in Pennsylvania, participated in the great adventure of ...
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It Begins with Each of Us: DFCLT Sponsors Forum on Race
A view of DFCLT Forum: "It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding." On the evening of October 10, the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, in partnership with Keystone College, sponsored a ...
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DFCLT Featured at African American History and Culture Showcase
Seventh-generation Perkins-Dennis family descendants, Darryl Gore, left, DFCLT, VP of Development and right, Lonnie Moore, III, DFCLT, VP of Marketing represent the Dennis Farm at the Fifteenth Annual African American History and Culture ...
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Women’s History Month: DFCLT Honors Edith Angeline Dennis (1899-1980)
Thirty-five years ago, March 1983, Pennsylvania’s Department of Education honored a select group of the Commonwealth’s most outstanding women in, Pennsylvania’s Women, a Women’s History Week publication. Among the women profiled in the publication ...
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Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker, Gregory Matkosky Keynote Speaker at Fifth Annual Dennis Farm Symposium
In October 2017, DFCLT hosted our Fifth Annual Dennis Farm Symposium at Keystone College and the farm. Our keynote speaker, Emmy and Cine Golden Eagle Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Gregory Matkosky, proved to be ...
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DFCLT Presentation at Delaware State Museum
DFCLT Board Member, Wade P. Catts, MA, RPA, presents a lecture about the Dennis Farm, during the Delaware State Museum's celebration of Black History Month, February 17, 2018, in Dover, DE. Also In celebration ...
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Symposium Pays Homage to Women of the Perkins-Dennis Family
Symposium Pays Homage to Women of the Perkins-Dennis Family Denise Dennis and Darryl Gore visit Elm Park Methodist Church in Scranton 85 years after their great-grandmother, Mary Kinslow Dennis (Mrs. Sumner Dennis), spoke at the ...
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Endless Mountains Heritage Region, Inc. Executive Director Tours Dennis Farm
Endless Mountains Heritage Region Executive Director, Annette Schultz, stands next to Perkins-Dennis Cemetery monument during a field trip to the farm, May 2017. Through our membership in the Endless Mountains Heritage Region, Inc. (EMHR), ...
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Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Tours Dennis Farm
Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Russell C. Redding, in front of Dennis farmhouse, with Denise Dennis, Darryl Gore, and Wade Catts Russell C. Redding, Secretary of Agriculture for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania visited the Dennis ...
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DFCLT Archival Project
Frontispiece, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry by William Wirt, third edition, © 1818, from Dennis Farm Collection. Signature of Angeline Dennis, 1853, inside front cover of her book, Memoir of ...
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