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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Hope Dennis and the Institute of Race Relations, 1945
Hope Dennis In the 1940’s, Hope Dennis (1906-2006), co-founder of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, was on the staff of Charles S. Johnson, PhD, at Fisk University’s Institute for Race Relations, in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1942 and funded by the American Missionary Association and the Rosenwald Foundation, the Institute was the first think tank to be ...
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Saluting John Arnone and Lucas Taylor
From left to right: Lucas Taylor, DFCLT-Keystone College Liaison and DFCLT Property Manager, John V. Arnone With a 153-acre property and an educational, historical and conservation mission, the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust could not function without a team of highly committed and hard-working individuals who have a passion for what they do. Two of the most committed ...
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Artist Elmer Stoner, Dennis Family Friend
Artist Elmer C. Stoner (1897-1969) in his Greenwich Village apartment. In his new book, Invisible Men, author Ken Quattro tells the stories of sixteen African American artists who were trailblazers in the comic book industry, including a Northeast Pennsylvania artist named Elmer C. Stoner (1897-1969). Stoner was born and grew up in Wilkes-Barre and was a lifelong ...
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It Begins with Each of Us
From left, Forum Master of Ceremonies, Rev. Marshall P. H. Mitchell, Pastor, Salem Baptist Church of Abington; Panelist Alexandria Harris, Esq, Executive Director, the Andrew Goodman Foundation; and Panelist Charles Gallagher, Ph.D., Chair of the Departments of Sociology and Criminal Justice, La Salle University. The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, in partnership with the Museum of the ...
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Prince Perkins’ 270th Birthday Celebrated
Dear Friends, The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust would like to thank all of you who participated in our 8th Annual Symposium, our first virtual Symposium-Webinar, on October 16, 2020. We had approximately 100 registrants from throughout the United States and Europe, which made it a truly national and international event. For all of you, as well as those of ...
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