DFCLT Hosts Inaugural Spring Fete & Fundraiser
From left, Author Lee Daniels, Wendy Lyles, Paul Cola, Denise Dennis, Tony Lyles, Nina Cola, Dan Seiden, Lonnie Moore, III and Shante Moore. To officially launch the Capital Campaign to raise funds to match our $400,000 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, DFCLT hosted a Spring Fete & Fundraiser: “The Preservation of a Historical Legacy,” on a lovely ...
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2019 African American Showcase at the Pennsylvania Convention Center
Lonnie Moore III, DFCLT VP of Marketing, left and Darryl Gore, DFCLT VP of Development, right, return to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia for the annual African American History and Culture Showcase. Photography by Al B. For The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust was featured in the 2019 African American History and Culture Showcase at the Pennsylvania Convention Center ...
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National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $400,000 Matching Grant to Historic Dennis Farm
Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), far left, with members of the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust (DFCLT) team during a program announcing NEH grant to DFCLT, Christ Church, Philadelphia. Photo, Alfred B. For, courtesy DFCLT. On a sunny morning, March 28, 2019, during a program at Historic Christ Church in Philadelphia where George ...
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Women’s History Month Tribute Mary Kinslow Dennis (1869-1957)
This Woman’s History Month, the Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust celebrates the 150th birthday and life of Mary Priscilla Kinslow Dennis. Born March 17, 1869, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Louis and Mary Phoenix Kinslow. Her maternal grandfather, James Phoenix, was one of the founders, in 1848, of Wilkes-Barre’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) where her ...
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DFCLT Hosts Forum at National Constitution Center
Guests arrive at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for DFCLT's Lonae A. Moore Memorial Forum, "It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding, February 7, 2019. The setting of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, with its spectacular view of Independence Hall illuminated across the mall, was the ideal setting for DFCLT’s Lonae A. Moore Memorial Forum ...
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The Dennis Farm at The 2019 Pennsylvania Farm Show
DFCLT President Denise Dennis addresses audience at the 103rd Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show's Public Officials Luncheon, January 9, 2019. Seated behind her to the right, Russell C. Redding, PA Secretary of Agriculture. On January 9, 2019, DFCLT President Denise Dennis was one of the featured speakers at the 103rd Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show’s Public Officials Luncheon, in Harrisburg. The ...
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In Memoriam: Lonaé Ashley Moore (1997-2018) Eighth Generation
Pictured above, Lonaé A. Moore, an eighth generation-direct descendant of the Perkins-Dennis family, at DFCLT Forum, "It Begins with Each of Us: Fostering Racial Understanding," October 10, 2018. The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust mourns the loss of our beloved Lonaé Ashley Moore, 20, an eighth-generation descendant of the Perkins-Dennis Family. The daughter of Lonnie III and Shante Moore ...
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DFCLT Honors 100th Anniversary of Norman H. Dennis Surviving the Sinking of His Ship in World War I
Norman H. Dennis, US Navy, World War I One hundred years ago this year, Norman H. Dennis (1898-1976), the oldest of the fifth generation of the Perkins-Dennis family in Pennsylvania, participated in the great adventure of his generation, the First World War.Enlisting in the United States Navy, he became one of 370,000 to 400,000 African Americans who served in what became ...
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