The Dennis Farm in Women’s History
Although men--Prince Perkins, William Perkins, Henry Dennis and his sons, Perkins William Dennis, N.B. Dennis and S.B. Dennis--originally purchased, founded, developed, expanded and led The Dennis Farm into the 20th century, there is a Women’s History chapter in the history of the Farm. In the mid-19th, The Dennis Farm had a woman steward and in the 20th and 21st ...
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DFCLT Salutes Northeast Pennsylvania’s Lt. Colonel James H. Harvey, III, Tuskegee Airman and America’s First “Top Gun”
Class 44-I-SE1 graduated from flight training on Oct. 16, 1944, at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. Order unknown: Cornelius D. Dowling, Henry A. Hunter, Ferrier F. White, Rutherford H. Adkins, Thomas J. Daniels III, Edward D. Doram, Robert M. Glass, James H. Harvey III, Frank A. Jackson Jr., Theodore W. Lancaster, Charles E. Miller, Joseph M. Millett, ...
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DFCLT Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Historic Announcement
Presenters from the Ninth Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, a Virtual Webinar Cassandra Coleman, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial, was the keynote speaker for the Ninth Annual Dennis Farm Symposium, October 6, which was held virtually again this year. The symposium, that began with a welcome from Keystone College President, Tracy Brundage, PhD, ...
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DFCLT Welcomes New Board Member Curtis Johnson
The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust is excited to welcome Curtis Johnson, a dynamic new member to our Board. Curtis Johnson is a strategist and media executive with nearly 15 years of experience spanning media and entertainment, non-profit, sports and consumer packaged goods. He is currently the Director, Creative Council Integration for Disney’s Enterprise Diversity & Inclusion team. In ...
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DFCLT and Brooklyn (PA) Historical Society
The First Universalist Church in Brooklyn Township, Pennsylvania was the setting for the annual meeting of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust’s neighbors, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), on July 18, 2021. Denise Dennis was guest speaker at the meeting and updated BHS members on the DFCLT’s recent initiatives and accomplishments. Darryl Gore and Lonnie Moore, Vice Presidents ...
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Philadelphia Legacy Media Tours Dennis Farm On Juneteenth
On June 19, 2021, the United States celebrated Juneteenth, as a national holiday, for the first time. Two days earlier, President Joseph R. Biden designated Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the day, in June 1865, that formerly enslaved African Americans in Texas learned that the Civil War was over and they were free. They were the last ...
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Susquehanna County Commissioners Tour Dennis Farm
Standing in front of the monument at the Perkins-Dennis Family Cemetery: first row from left, Susquehanna County Commissioner, Judith Herschel; Susquehanna County Commissioner, Chair, Elizabeth M. Arnold; Hillori Schenker-Lione; seventh-generation Perkins-Dennis family descendants and DFCLT officers Lonnie Moore, Denise Dennis, and Darryl Gore; John Arnone; and Annie Palmer; second row, David Palmer; Richard Zick; Brian Michael Lione; Lucas Taylor and ...
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100 Years Ago…
One hundred years ago, in 1921, Marion A. Dennis, a fifth-generation direct descendant of the Perkins-Dennis Family, graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School, in Bloomsburg, PA, following her sister Edith who'd graduated in 1919. Marion Dennis Polk, the daughter of Sumner Dennis (who was born on the Dennis Farm) and Mary Kinslow Dennis of Wilkes-Barre, and the wife of Clarence Polk of ...
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