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 completely uprooted and toppled. Under the supervision of DFCLT Land Manager, John Arnone, the trees were removed and chopped for firewood. Once again, Nature asserted ...
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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 “We believe that heritage tourism could be a significant driver of economic growth because of our region’s amazing history. Our history is not just ...
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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 Forum, “It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding, the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust in partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution ...
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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 Farm, August 13, 2024. Restoration of the two-hundred-year-old Henry W. and Angeline Perkins Dennis House for use as a public space involves many different ...
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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 Darryl Gore and Lonnie Moore, and CEO Denise Dennis spent two days meeting with six members of Congress, to brief them about the Dennis Farm’s ...
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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; PA Treasurer Stacy Garrity; US Senator, Robert Casey; and PA Auditor General Timothy DeFoor. On June 28, 2023, the Dennis Farm welcomed 200 elected ...
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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 series of paintings based on the history of the Dennis Farm and donate them to the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust (DFCLT). Although she and ...
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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 is seated on the right, in the foreground. For Women’s History Month, The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust (DFCLT) honors the memory of ...
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