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Helen Addison, who is approaching membership, discusses her journey to Quakers

An open door

Helen Addison, who is approaching membership, discusses her journey to Quakers

by Helen Addison 25th January 2019

I became aware of Quakers as a child when my family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, in the United States, which is adjacent to Sandy Spring, the location of a community of Quakers founded in the early eighteenth century. I had spent my first ten years in the UK, in Lancashire. Several children in my new neighbourhood attended the Sandy Spring Friends School.