Voices and choices
Caroline Westgate writes about an exhibition that demonstrates the enduring value of ‘letting lives speak’
In 2015 local Friends in Hexham organised an exhibition entitled ‘WW1 Voices and Choices’. It told the story of decisions made by individual men and women in Hexham, and its twin towns in France and Germany, in response to the first world war.
The exhibition represented the development of a distinctive Quaker concern, from an initial ‘still small voice’ in the mind of a Friend in Hexham Meeting over three years ago, through the joint endeavour of a support group that helped translate the vision into reality, to its ultimate fulfilment in reaching an international audience.
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