Category: Events
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Lights! Camera! Action!
This past Thursday, I met with the crew of Elwin Studios at the Cincinnati Friends meetinghouse library to talk about the Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin for their documentary series, Agents of the Underground Railroad. Elwin Studios is a small production company made up of six brothers and sisters whose diverse skills—including writing, cinematography, and digital…
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Quakerrama: A Celebration of the Career of Thomas D. Hamm
The first time I ever reached out to Tom Hamm was when I was working on Friends Past and Present: The Bicentennial History of Cincinnati Friends Meeting (1815-2015). I was wading through the historic Disciplines (the guidelines on Quaker faith and practice that we now actually call Faith and Practice), but post-1828, it was extremely…
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Channeling Mary J. Taylor
Compassion and courage. Those two words leap to my mind when I think about Mary J. Taylor. They’re the reason why I chose to speak as her at the Heritage Village Museum’s First Person Program Series on March 24. Mary and her parents left Virginia in 1814 when she was six years old. They likely…
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Donning a Bonnet
On March 24 at 7 PM, I’ll be donning a long dress and bonnet and speaking at the Heritage Village Museum as Murray Shipley’s mother-in-law, Mary J. Taylor. Mary was deeply committed to caring for the poor, the neglected, the outcasts, and the unprotected—particularly women and children. She helped found and manage the Home for…
Sabrina Darnowsky 