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Brad Kolodner & Elke Baker

A community-building event to benefit Stony Run Friends (Quaker) Meeting

Sat., Oct. 198:00 p.m.Stony Run Friends Meetinghouse5116 N. Charles St.Baltimore, MD 21210

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About the Performers

Widely known as one of the foremost and most in-fluential hammered dulcimer players in the U.S.and a fine old-time fiddler, Baltimore’s Ken

Kolodner (hammered dulcimer, fiddle, hammered mbira)has joined forces with his son, Brad Kolodner (vocals,claw ham mer banjo, banjola, fretless banjo, guitar, fiddle) toperform tight and musical arrangements of original and old-time music “played in the purest way” on twin fiddles,banjo, guitar, hammered dulcimer and more. Father and sonhave just released their second album, “Skipping Rocks.”Joining Ken and Brad is the National Scottish Fiddle

Champion Elke Baker (fiddle, viola), whose playing hasbeen said to be a “rare delight,” with “precise technicalskill, and fulness of soul” (Celtic Beat) and capable “tomake hearts bleed” (The Frederick News). Elke and Ken per-form a rich variety of Scottish, Quebecois and Irish music,original compositions, and refreshing, foot-stomping OldTime twin fiddling that'll bring the house down.

Friends of the Concert

Deborah Bedwell

Arthur Meyer Boyd and Meg Boyd Meyer

Sue and John Carnell

Adrian Bishop and Rosalie Dance

Johanna and Bob DeRose

Norman, Kathy and Ned Forbush

Jen Hobbins

Lynn and Terral Jordan

Barbara and Chuck Mallonee

Sujata and Tony Massey

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Marjorie Forbush Scott and Roberta Scott MacNow

Kathleen Sergi

Joan and Eric Thompson

The Friends Camping Program

The Baltimore Yearly Meeting camping program was established

by Quakers in the Middle Atlantic region to provide memorable

outdoor experiences for campers, fostering in them a reverence

for nature while they engage in a host of physical activities in

a peaceful atmosphere of simplicity and cooperation.

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This Evening’s Program

8:00 - 8:45

Music

8:45 - 9:00

Brief Intermission

9:00 - 9:40

Music

9:40 - 10:15

Reception with Chocolate Treats

This concert was organized by the Event Planning Committee

of Stony Run Friends Meeting: Margaret Allen, Deborah Bedwell, Adrian

Bishop, Marcie Jones Brennan, Alice Cherbonnier, Betsy Forbush,

Lillian Freudenberger, Lynn Jordan, Melissa Kitner-Triolo,

John Merrill, Sandra Morton, Rebecca Snyder.

The committee thanks everyone who supported this effort.

Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run5116 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210•(443) 703-2590Email: [email protected] • www.StonyRunFriends.org

Friends of the Camping ProgramsDescriptions of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting

camping programs are sponsored by:

Michael and Amy Aquilino

Nancy Berger

Alice Cherbonnier

Lillian Freudenberger

Don and Gail Gann

Fred Hinze

John Merrill and Julia Barker

Myles Perkins and Christina Lindgren

David Pruitt and Laurel Kiser

David Macfarlane

Charles Maskell

Suzanne O’Hatnick

Harrison and Ruthanne Smith

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the care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting ofFriends. The extensive camping pro-gram supports campers through chal-lenging and life-affirming experiences.They typically return home feeling

more competent and confi-dent, with deepened spiritual roots andstronger ties to the broader Quaker com-munity.Camp Catoctin, which lies just below

the ridge of Catoctin Mountain, is adjacent toprotected state forests near Thurmont, Md. Here, campers enjoyswimming, arts and crafts, informal music and drama, low-pres-sure athletics, and chores. Spiritual development is nurturedthrough daily silent worship at the fire circle, regularly scheduledcampfires, and by caring example in daily activities.Campers take part in age-appropriate trips and service op-

portunities, which can include backpacking roads and trails,canoeing the Potomac, Rappahannock, and ShenandoahRivers, and rock climbing.

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Camp Shiloh, on432 acres of land nearthe Shenandoah NationalPark in Madison County,Va., offers similar in-campand trip experiences. Thecampers become comfort-able living in nature whiletreating the earth gently.

Each week, Camp Shiloh campers and counselors leave fora two- or three-night camping trip. They most often hike orrock-climb in Shenandoah National Park, or canoe on anearby river. They carry everything they need with them, andthough they are not back at the cabins, they are still “atcamp”—playing games, laughing and singing while on themove in nature.Opequon Quaker Camp is located just north of Winches-

ter, Va., surrounded by rich farm land. Here, campers live inscreened cabins and share meals in a pavilion inthe center of camp. Art activi-ties might includedigging OpequonCreek clay to createoriginal pieces for fir-ing; building tree houses and tipis; painting life-size murals;weaving fiber and words; and workshops in theatre, dance andmusic. Campers enjoy cooperative games, explore the woodsand creek, sing and work together, and take part in such activi-ties as batik-making, volleyball, puppet-making, star-gazing,candle-making, and tubing.

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Ken ’72 and Brad ’08 Kolodner

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nating from base camps in Lexington, Va., the three-week tripsfoster campers’ spiritual and emotional growth in an atmos-phere of challenging and rigorous community living. The tripsinclude a variety of other activities, such as tubing, caving, aropes course, rock climbing and service projects. Campersprepare their own meals and filter their own water. After din-ner they enjoy discussion or worship-sharing around the fire.The Baltimore Yearly Meeting camping program not only

provides exceptional experiences for hundreds of campersevery summer, it serves as a training ground for camp coun-selors and as a community service opportunity for many adultvolunteers. Donations from Quakers and others who value theextraordinary programs offered by BYM camps allow for ongoing improvements to facilities and scholarships.For more information, visit www.BYMcamps.org.

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The Religious Society of Friends was founded by George Fox in Eng-land in 1652. Early Friends, also called Quakers, were persecutedas nonconformists by the Church of England. Many of them sailed

to America in quest of religious freedom, with some landing in Marylandin 1656. By 1700, there were 3,000 Friends in Maryland. Meetinghouses,as we Quakers call our places of worship, sprang up first on the water-ways of the Eastern and Western shores of Chesapeake Bay.

Though early Quakers worshipped in silence, they did not withdraw fromthe world; instead, they made their livelihood in the hustle and bustle ofa booming port city. Early Quaker names in this region include Ellicott(flour mills in what would become Ellicott City), McKim (cotton mill),Tyson (grist mills), Hopkins (university and hospital founder) and Shep-pard (hospital founder). Philip E. Thomas and his brother Evan wereamong the founders of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Other Quakers,such as the Fell brothers, Randolph Winslow, M.D., and Benjamin Lundy,established shipping and importing companies, counting houses, med-ical practices, printing houses, banks, and insurance companies. Therewere manufacturers and craftsmen too: the potter Maulden Perine, thecabinetmakers John Needles and Gerrard Hopkins, and the silversmithSamuel Kirk.

Early Quakers were guided by a set of religious principles and practicesthat included strictures against activities such as betting and gambling,capital punishment, slavery, and all forms of war. They stood for integrityin business, penal reform, plainness of dress and language, relief of suf-fering, social order, and temperance. In their earliest business meetings(and through their wills), Friends expressed a concern for education, theorphaned, the ill, the elderly, and the poor. Forty Quaker women foundedthe Baltimore branch of the Y.W.C.A. In 1840, Quaker women started the Association of Female Friends for the Relief of the Sick and HelplessPoor. From the estates of Jonathan K. Taylor and Joseph C. Town sendcame money to establish homes for the elderly that preceded Broad-mead, a flourishing retirement community established by Stony RunFriends Meeting in Cockeysville, Maryland, in 1979.

As early as 1795, Baltimore Quakers were working to secure full rights forNative Americans. Philip E. Thomas assisted the Iroquois and Six Nations

Tribes in securing 52,000 acres in New York State in 1839. Quakers like-wise sought to ameliorate injustices done to Africans brought to Americaas slaves. Elisha Tyson was tireless in his work to free and assist Blacks.(At his death in 1824, it was reported that 10,000 Blacks walked behindthe hearse as his body was taken to Friends Burial Ground on AisquithStreet.) Today’s Quakers continue to work for the civil rights and humanrights of all people.

In response to a concern that there should be a means to vouchsafe a“guarded education” of all children, male and female, Friends School ofBaltimore was established in 1784. McKim's School, the first free schoolin Baltimore to educate indigent youth, was opened in 1821. Martha Elli-cott Tyson was a founder of Swarthmore College. M. Carey Thomasfounded Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and became the first femalepresident of Bryn Mawr College. Because women were refused degreesfrom Johns Hopkins University, she and four other Baltimore womenpledged to raise $500,000 for Hopkins if the medical school would agreeto admit women on an equal basis to men. They raised the money, andthe women were admitted. These institutions survive today, and weQuakers continue to be active in their operations.

We have also long been active in opposing war and striving to eliminatethe causes of war. We urged conscientious objection and alternative serv-ice in both World Wars and during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, andalso organized relief services. Through the work of Friends Committee onNational Legislation and the American Friends Service Committee, weseek to influence the political process toward peace and social justice.We also bear witness on behalf of these goals by participating in vigilsand peaceful demonstrations, meeting with political leaders, and speak-ing out publicly.

We Quakers believe that we can experience God directly in our lives with-out relying on paid clergy. We seek to adhere to the authority of con-science over creed or law. We worship together in silence, seeking divineguidance; when we are moved to do so, we stand to break the silenceand speak.

We welcome visitors to Meeting for Worship at Stony Run Friends Meeting,5116 North Charles Street, on First Days (Sundays) at 9:30 a.m. or 11:00a.m. Please visit http://www.stonyrunfriends.org for more information.

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