Newtown Quakers to View Film on Quaker Rainforest in Costa Rica
Reply Newtown Quakers to View Film on Quaker Monteverde Settlement in Costa Rica Via Zoom The adult class of Newtown Quaker Meeting will view via Zoom the film Sweet Home Monteverde (www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org) at 9:45 a.m. on First Day (Sunday), March 14, 2021. The film tells the true story, beginning in 1950 just months after the U.S. entered the Korean War, when four Quaker war-resisters from Fairhope, Alabama led some 40 people to emigrate to Costa Rica, a country that had just abolished its army in 1948. Subscribe Monteverdi is also the site of biennial trips by Newtown Friends Scho...
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