Historical News

Historical News The Spring Meeting of Friends Historical Association was held, with the Friends Social Union, on Sunday, May 9, 1971, at the Westfield Meetinghouse, Riverton, New Jersey. After meeting for worship and a picnic lunch, attendere heard an address, "300 Years Ago: Penn-Mead Trial and its Sequel," by Alfred W. Braithwaite, London solicitor and co-editor of the Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. On May 31, 1971, Dorothy Gilbert Thorne retired as Curator of the Guilford College Quaker Collection, ending more than fortyfive years of service to the College as teacher and librarian ; she has made valuable contributions to Quaker historical studies, both in this journal and others. In June of 1970 the Levi Coffin House at Fountain City, Indiana, the so-called "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad," was opened to the public. The State of Indiana purchased the building and turned it over to the Wayne County Historical Society, which restored and refurnished it in keeping with the period when Coffin lived there. 124 ...