Each year Trenton Meeting holds events during Patriots Week (Dec 26-Dec 31). We strongly support the reason for Patriots Week which is to highlight some of the very significant hitory that happened in and is still evident in Trenton. While many of the events revel in the battles which resulted in Washington's Patriots defeating the Royalist forces, the events at the Meetinghouse are aimed in a different direction. We highlight storys that reflects the lives of ordinary folks in Trenton at the time, and hold our annual Peace Vigil n New Year's Eve. This year at least 127 Friends and friends from 30 different communities participated in our Patriots Week events!
Quakers! Choose a Side
On both December 30th and 31st Fred presented an hour long talk/conversation about the early Quakers from the start of Quakers in New Jersey to the construction of Trenton Meetinghouse to the grave issues for Quakers in 1776 as pasifism and loyalities. The second presentation will be available on the South Jersey Quakers YouTube channel. When it is available this will be updated.
Trenton 1775: A Colonial Town Caught in a Revolution
The ever popular walking tour of the area around the Meetinghouse took a different turn this year with the addition of Trenton's Marc McKithen as part of the tour guide/presenters. For years Dr. Shan Holt has led similar but varried tours visiting areas and buildings that existed back in 1776. Despite bad weather, the tour this year was very succeessful but weather probably entered into the lack of any pictures :)
New Year's Eve Peace Vigil
Co-sponsored by Coalition for Peace Action, Trenton Meeting's annual Peace Vigil saw about 50 folks from more that fifteen ZIP codes gather. We sat in Worship in the manner of Quakers and short presentations from four religious leaders. Representatives of Muslim, Baha'i, Jewish and Christian traditions spoke about how "Peace" enters into the tenets and practice of their religion. In particular, the pastor of Greater Mt. Zion AME Church and founder of the Salvation and Social Justice organization led us through a inspired explination of the African American Christian experience over the years and today.
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