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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Annual Forum, A Way Forward
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust (DFCLT), in partnership with the Museum of the American Revolution (MoAR), hosted their Sixth Annual Lonaé A. Moore Forum, “It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding,” on Saturday, February 25, 2023.The stellar panel included Errin Haines, a founding member and Editor-at-Large of The 19*, a non-profit newsroom, former Associated ...
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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 moved to Wilkes-Barre in 1886. Standing, first on the left, Charles Payne who was born in Bradford County, PA, lived in Kingston, Luzerne County, PA ...
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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 inside the cemetery, two were placed on the cemetery gate, and two were placed at the Perkins-Dennis Family Cemetery Monument. "We are proud to do ...
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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 with them, as part of a documentary about the Dennis Farm that Treasurer Garrity commissioned and is presenting in Harrisburg, during Black History month. Following ...
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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 permission, we have reprinted the text of her slideshow presentation to share with you. In her address, Ms. Whaley answers the question, “What is the ...
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