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 successful forum, “It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding,” in Keystone’s Brooks Theater. Lucas Taylor, Keystone College-DFCLT liaison, was master of ceremonies. In ...
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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 Showcase, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, March 31- April 1, 2018. To see more photos from the event, click through the slide show above. On ...
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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 and the teaching packet that accompanied it were trail-blazing environmentalist, Rachel Carson; legendary muckraking journalist, Ida Tarbell; abolitionist and women’s suffrage leader, Lucretia Mott; and ...
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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 the highlight of the program. In his presentation, Introducing the Dennis Farm Documentary Film Project, he described the impetus behind producing a documentary film about ...
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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 of Black History Month, Dennis family descendant, Darryl Gore, gave a presentation about the farm at the Phillippian Baptist Church's Men's Breakfast Group in Philadelphia, ...
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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 Elm Park Women’s annual meeting. Front, from left: Louise Jones, president UMW, Elm Park Church; Cathy Hunt, vice president UMW, Elm Park Church, Dennis and ...
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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), DFCLT has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), matched by DFCLT, to create an interpretive plan for the ...
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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 Farm in August 2017. Denise Dennis welcomed Secretary Redding to the farm and Dennis family member, Darryl Gore and DFCLT Board member, Wade Catts, escorted ...
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