Education Mission: DFCLT Partners with University of Delaware on Historic Structures Report
Photo Caption: Staff for HSR field survey: Rebecca Sheppard, PhD. (third from right), Lauren Johnson, Kristen Herrick, Emma Gencarelli, Cathrine Morrisey, Michael Barni, Kevin Emmons, from the University of Delaware and Candice Myruski (fourth from right) from Commonwealth Heritage Group. Not shown – Philip Yocum, RA, NCARB from CHG. During the winter of 2015, Rebecca Sheppard, PhD, associate director ...
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DFCLT 2015 Symposium Program Celebrates 200th Birthday of Henry W. Dennis
Maria Madison, PhD, Board President of The Robbins House, Concord, MA's center for African and Abolitionist History, delivers Keynote Address at Dennis Farm's Third Annual Symposium, October 7, 2015 The 2015 DFCLT symposium program and luncheon, held in Brooks Theater at Keystone College, celebrated the 200th birthday of Henry W. Dennis. The program began with a thoughtful welcoming address ...
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DFCLT Symposium Funded by Chairman’s Award from National Endowment for the Humanities
Photo Caption: PHMC Commissioner, William Lewis (far right), stands with descendants of the Perkins-Dennis family, from left to right, Lonnie Moore, Edith Dennis Moore Stephens, Darryl Gore and Denise Dennis at unveiling and dedication ceremony of the Dennis Farm's PHMC historical marker, October 7, 2015. With the generous funding of a Chairman’s Award from the National Endowment for the ...
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DFCLT Hosts Dinner Meeting for Interpretive Planning Professionals
Photo Caption: First row, from left to right, Brent Leggs, National Trust for Historical Preservation; Marilyn Whittington, Delaware Humanities Forum; Denise Dennis, Jennifer Scott, Jane Addams-Hull House Museum, Chicago; Tricia Brooks, National Endowment for the Humanities. Second row, from left to right, Philip Yocum, Architect; Dale Glenwood Green, Morgan State University; Linda Ziemba, Trace Design Group; Maria Madison, The Robbins ...
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Third Annual Dennis Farm Symposium Celebrates 200th Birthday of Henry W. Dennis
The Third Annual Dennis Farm Symposium will take place on October 7, 2015.This year the symposium celebrates the 200th birthday of Henry W. Dennis (1815-1882). Maria Madison, President of Robbins House, Concord, MA’s African American History interpretive center is the guest speaker.Henry Dennis parents and grandparents were married in Concord, MA in 1804 and 1777 respectively. Their marriage ...
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DFCLT Recipient of NEH Chairman’s Award
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust is the proud recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman’s Award, under the auspicious of Chairman William Adams. The award will support the Third Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, October 7, 2015 including a meeting of a select group of heritage interpretive planning professionals from throughout the United States, on October ...
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An Eighth Generation Perkins-Dennis Family Member Reflects on Opening of Smithsonian Exhibition
An Eighth Generation Perkins-Dennis Family Member Reflects on Opening of Smithsonian Exhibition By: Lonae Moore Seventeen-year-old Lonae Moore and her twin brother Lonnie IV, are direct descendants of the Perkins-Dennis Family through their father, Lonnie Moore, III and grandmother Edith Dennis Moore Stephens. When I heard I was invited to the preview opening of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African ...
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Dennis Farm and Family Featured in Historic Smithsonian Exhibition
Photo caption: Perkins-Dennis direct descendants Denise Dennis and Darryl Gore pose next to exhibit “Early Settlers: the Perkins-Dennis Family” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s preview gala of exhibition, Through the African American Lens: Selections from the Permanent Collection, on May 6, 2015. The exhibition is on view at the National Museum of American History ...
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