Peace pole for US Friends
Pole calling for world peace in more than a dozen languages installed between the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A Quaker Meeting in the US has erected a peace pole in its garden.
The peace pole at Port Townsend Friends Meeting is about twenty feet tall and calls for world peace in more than a dozen languages. Caroline Wildflower from the Meeting said in US newspaper The Leader that the pole was a labour of love led primarily by Meeting members and carpenters Jeff Johnson and Doug Milholland.
Having lived in Japan at one time and being interested in calligraphy, Caroline Wildflower said she wanted to make sure the peace pole had ‘peace’ in Japanese as one of the more than a dozen languages. ‘I sketched it out,’ she said. ‘I’m not fluent, but I wanted that right on that pole. I wanted to be sure to have Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew,’ she added. The pole also includes three indigenous languages, along with many others. It was placed on 7 August, between the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
