Historical News

HISTORICAL NEWS The Spring Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held, with the Friends Social Union, on Sunday, May 14, 1972, in Easton, Maryland, with Friends of Third Haven Meeting as hosts. About thirty-five visitors on the day preceding visited homes and gardens in the Easton neighborhood. On Sunday, meeting for worship was held in the old meetinghouse, erected 1682-1684. In the newer brick meetinghouse adjacent, lunch was served to about 100 guests by Easton Friends. There followed remarks on Third Haven history by William H. Norris, and an address by Kenneth Carroll, professor of religion at Southern Methodist University, on George Fox's visit to America 300 years ago. His address appears in this issue of Quaker History. Appropriately enough, Kenneth Carroll had spoken to the Association just two years earlier on "Quakerism in Maryland before George Fox's visit." 122 ...