WINTER
2001
The evening of that dark September day when tragedy struck the lives of so many, Linda Jeffrey of Woodstown MM, after having evacuated the UN building and reaching her hotel room, received a phone call from Friends Journal. The Quaker periodical will publish Mary Mills' article on the reaction of the Society of Friends in Germany to the George Grosz case, in which an artist's powerful anti-war images were attacked by the state as blasphemous. Friends Journal wanted to include information about the Peace Center that was being established at Woodstown Meeting. It seems that on one of the darkest days in American history, a little light from a recently founded peace center was penetrating a darkness that threatened to be all-pervasive.
On November 4th, peace- and tolerance-related materials were transferred to the Salem Peace Center, which will be the subject of our March 2002 Quarterly Meeting. A catalogue that will list and describe these materials is being composed and will be made available to anyone wishing to use the Peace Center. Initially, it will be open to all members of Salem Quarterly Meeting on Sundays. It is hoped that the Salem Peace Center will provide needed services to the Quarter and assist with the reduction of bias, bigotry, discrimination, and intolerance. Please drop by for a visit. Any assistance to the peace center, in the way of resource materials, time, or financial aid, will be greatly appreciated.
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