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The peace vigil in Cambridge Photo: Photo courtesy of Finola O’Sullivan.

From peace to 'alternative' oversight

Eye - 29 June 2012

From peace to 'alternative' oversight

by Eye 29th June 2012

Peace and punters

Friends were pictured during the ‘Witness for Peace Silent Vigil’ in Cambridge last Saturday, 23 June.

Finola O’Sullivan told Eye that a student nearby, trying to attract tourists to sign up for a punting trip, quipped: ‘Peace is harder to sell than punting’!

The library goes online

Quakerly surfers have a new destination to ride their keyboards to – Friends House library has launched a new blog!

Now you can keep up to date online with highlights from the collections, news about their work, recent additions, exhibitions and events. Take a look at: http://librarysocietyfriendsblog.wordpress.com

Topics coming up include:

  • The papers of a first world war conscientious objector
  • Papers and drawings of a nurse serving in the Friends Ambulance Unit 1917-1918
  • The Great Books of Sufferings and other records of religious persecution
  • Anti-caste: the radical anti-racist paper published by Catherine Impey 1888-1895
  • Controversial Quaker pamphlets of the nineteenth century

Starting young

‘Is this a record?’ Michael Hennessey, of Frandley Meeting, quizzed Eye after their youngest attender, Annika May Dekker, attended Area Meeting in May… at the tender age of just six days old! Well Friends, it’s a challenge: has anyone encountered a younger Friend at Area Meeting?

Alternatives

The Alternative Quaker Dictionary has been so popular that Eye has decided to sprinkle new definitions as they pop up. We are on a mission to shed light on Friends’ frequently baffling phrases!

This week Sally Mason, from Forest of Dean Meeting, considers ‘Oversight’:

Advantage afforded to Friends in the front row gallery in old Meeting houses to drop things onto hats of those seated directly below.

Continuing traditions

Following ‘Huddersfield bouncers’ (22 June) Susan Robson got in touch:

‘In sharing the burial ground with the local community by hosting a bouncy castle Huddersfield Friends continued their own tradition. This picture of ‘co-operative juggling’ at the interfaith garden party 2006 is on the same spot (viewed from the other side)…

‘Since then the game has become CoCoThrow and features on the stories.coop page for the UN International Year of Co-operatives, which is having a celebration day on July 7. You can see CoCoThrow being played in the Huddersfield burial ground at
http://vimeo.com/40892469’

CoCoThrow at Harlow | Photo: Mike Glover.

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