On Sunday, May 22, 2005, Longwood Progressive Friends will be celebrating their 150th anniversary. The Kennett Underground Railroad Center, Longwood Gardens, Western Quarter of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and the Chester County Convention and Visitors Bureau are working together to plan a commemorative event. The official program should be from about 2 pm to 3:30, but with the Longwood Friends Burial Ground adjacent, one can no doubt make a day of it (or a weekend - or a week!) From 1855 to 1940, the Longwood Meetinghouse was the site, not only of Quaker Meeting, but of abolitionists and women's rights advocates. Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Robert Purvis and many others met there. I am not the person in charge - just spreading the word - and will add information here as I learn of more details. Maybe some of us can actually MEET each other there :-) Judy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Judith Walter Heald jheald@pennswoods.net Spring Mills, PA 16875 Our roots include: Lots of Quakers from 1600's to present. . . Surnames: Barnard, Dickson, Ely, Heald, Hilaman, Hoopes, Kirk, Kline, Lippincott, Marshall, Mercer, Moore, Ogden, Paxson, Plankinton, Pownall, Pusey, Pyle, Rodgers, Sellers, Sharpless, Swayne, Taylor, Thompson, Walter, Watson, Way, Webb, Wickersham. . . PA Counties, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Bucks, Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson, Elk, . . .