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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DFCLT Recipient of PHMC Keystone Historic Preservation Grant
On June 17, 2015, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), under the leadership of Chairman, Andrew Masrich, and Executive Director, James Vaughn, announced that the DFCLT was approved for a Keystone Historic Preservation Grant in the amount of $25,000.00. The grant will help fund a historic structures report (HSR) on the Dennis farmhouse, which is required in order to ...
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Keystone College Partners with DFCLT to Host Second Annual Dennis Farm Symposium
Photo Caption: Guests gather for dedication of monument at Perkins-Dennis Cemetery at 2nd Annual Dennis Farm Symposium. “I’m fascinated at the idea of so much history…and artifacts in this land…owned by a Black family at a time when this was unheard of. To actually experience this is truly unique.” –Jesse Lucas, Cheyney University student More than eighty guests gathered ...
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Education Mission Thriving
Photo caption: Cheyney University’s Chief of Staff, Sheilah Vance, Esq., far left, Patrice Jeppson, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences, third from right, and Denise Dennis, center, pose with Cheyney students (in alphabetical order) Wyneta Burton, Samantha Hall, Jesse Lucas, Mirkyle Mitchell and Tyler Trahan at 2nd Annual Dennis Farm Symposium. From its inception, the ...
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Monument Dedicated at Perkins-Dennis Cemetery
Photo caption: Darryl Gore, second left and Lonnie Moore III, fourth from right, of the seventh-generation and their children Hope Gore and Lonae and Lonnie Moore IV, eighth generation members of the family, unveil Perkins-Dennis Cemetery monument at dedication ceremony, October 8, 2014 as Denise Dennis looks on. One of the highlights of the Second Annual Dennis Farm Symposium ...
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Dennis Farm Listed On National Register of Historic Places
"The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.” -- NPS In September 2014, the Historian of the National Register of Historic Places, Edson H. Beall, authorized by the Director of the National Park Service, Jonathan B. Jarvis, announced that the Dennis Farm has been listed on ...
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