A good foundation: Couples still marrying at meeting house.

Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA);  September 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ......29--One bride cleaned the Forty Fort Meeting House from top to bottom as she prepared...couples who exchanged vows inside the Meeting House, and you'll see they consider themselves...sense the history of the Forty Fort Meeting House during a concert, ceremony and vespers...

meeting house

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;      20 words ...meeting house [MC]. A non-conformist place of worship. The term was (and still is) used particularly by Independents and Quakers.

Digging into history Volunteers team up with archeologists, hoping to...

The Boston Globe;  October 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Today, little remains of the Second Meeting House. It served the town from 1706 to 1785...general size and location of the Second Meeting House, through the bits of 300- year-old...highways and roads" led to the town's Meeting House. Religious services and town meetings...

Quaker Meeting House in Md. Vandalized

The Washington Post;  August 15, 1991 ;     143 words ...A 180-year-old Quaker meeting house north of Baltimore has been targeted...member of the Gunpowder Friends Meeting House in northern Baltimore County...lifelong neighbor and member of the meeting house board of trustees, said the meeting...

A Voice Speaks `Gently, Clearly' From the Past; Old Presbyterian Meeting...

The Washington Post;  November 30, 1989 ;     650 words ......minutes of Alexandria's Old Presbyterian Meeting House fail to record the purchase and installation...and that record is sufficient for the Meeting House to have scheduled a Christmas-season...of which survive. The Erben in the Meeting House has itself survived the Civil War...

RELIGION TODAY; SHIP SHAPE; Celebration marks 325th anniversary of...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  July 22, 2006 ;     603 words ......celebration of this landmark, Old Ship Meeting House will hold a party and activities during...community. Old Ship, built as a church and meeting house in 1681 and now home to a Unitarian...country and one of the few surviving meeting house of its period. "It's really a remarkable...

Meeting house fetes 200 years of service to black community

The Boston Globe;  December 7, 2006 ;     568 words ......anniversary celebration of Boston's African Meeting House, the nation's oldest standing church...kicks off a celebration of the African Meeting House, which is being restored and in January...who made Boston their home and of the meeting house that became their place of worship...

Here's a chance you may dig ; Historical society will hold session for...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  September 26, 2008 ;     232 words ......looking for the foundation of the Second Meeting House. The society believes that the First Meeting House, built around 1637 on what is now a cemetery, was replaced by the Second Meeting House, just to the east of the cemetery, around...

Volunteers shall gather again today ; The excavation is part of a $3...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  April 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ......million effort to restore the Abyssinian Meeting House in Portland. Byline: ANNE GLEASON By...through a dirt pit behind the Abyssinian Meeting House on Newbury Street in Portland. They...kind of activities took place at the meeting house. The Abyssinian Meeting House is ...

Governor-elect takes to the stage at African Meeting House 200th...

The Beacon Hill Times;  December 5, 2006 ;     360 words ......nation's oldest still-standing African Meeting House at the Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street...that were first spoken at the African Meeting House, ranging from those by abolitionist...this so embodies the purpose of the meeting house," said Gibbs. "It will be so powerful...

Fast track for African Meeting House

The Boston Globe;  June 29, 1998 ;     322 words ......complete restoration of the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill. The work must be done...energy and reopen in the year 2000. The meeting house is the oldest black church still standing...reward. This history trembles inside the meeting house walls. But even in a city as historic...

Meeting House Commencement tradition in jeopardy at Brown U.

University Wire;  March 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ......seat the entire senior class in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America...e-mail sent March 9. Traditionally, the Meeting House, which is located at 75 North Main...baccalaureate degrees by the president. The Meeting House was initially built in 1775 to provide...

REVIVING THE SPIRIT AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE TO REOPEN AFTER REPAIRS

The Boston Globe;  October 6, 1987 ;     700+ words ......Statue of Liberty on Beacon Hill." The African Meeting House, the oldest standing black church in America...National Park Service's site manager for the meeting house. "But this meeting house -- this church," she said, correcting herself...

Henniker; Meeting House Inn faces tax lien; Eatery can't be sold until...

Concord Monitor;  May 11, 2005 ;     445 words ......string of troubles for the owner of the Meeting House Inn and Restaurant, the town has placed...June, when the foundation beneath the Meeting House kitchen crumbled. He had already refinanced...court May 26. Charity Ross, a former Meeting House worker, said Mitnitsky did not tell...

'Voices of Protest' retraces 300 years of debate at Old South Meeting...

The Boston Herald;  April 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ......we are not getting the Old South (Meeting House) associated in many people's minds...from Walter M. Whitehill, Old South Meeting House board member. From poet and slave Phillis...within the walls of Boston's Old South Meeting House, an institution that has tested the...