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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Rosement College Students Create Dennis Farm Symposium Scrapbook
Professor Christine Hagedorn, Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences, and Sociology Professor Joanne Campbell, of Rosemont College, located in suburban Philadelphia, accompanied approximately twenty-six students to the Dennis Farm’s 10th Annual Symposium in October. The impressive group included students who are taking a course called “Healing Earth: Theory and Practice” and several from Rosemont’s Black Student Union. In ...
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Farmhouse Restoration, Phase I Completed
Repaired northeast basement walls. Through a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and donations to DFCLT, Phase I of the Dennis Farmhouse Restoration was completed in May 2022. This marks the first major step toward restoring and transforming the 200-year-old farmhouse to a museum. The project entailed repairing the original stonewalls ...
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Students from the Museum of the American Revolution’s Living History Youth Summer Institute at the Dennis Farm
The Museum of the American Revolution’s (MoAR) Living History Youth Summer Institute traveled to The Dennis Farm for a field trip, on July 29, 2022. The Youth Summer Institute, held from July 6 to August 12, introduced participants to the field of costumed historical interpretation and various departments within the MoAR. The students were between 16-21 years ...
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