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Minority Coalition Black History Breakfast
Black History came alive at the Cass County Council on Aging Edward Lowe Center, as Brenda emceed the Black History Breakfast on Feb. 5th. Keynote speaker, Rev. Russell Haines of Community Chapel Church spoke about the significance in Cass County of local Black Heroes.
Will Beadenkopf provided music on trombone to "Lift Every Voice" and "The Star Spangled Banner" while Gerry Bundle led the singing.
Middle School Underground Railroad Docents
Will and Brenda, as members of the Board of the Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, Michigan, were tour guides
twice in April to give area elementary students a visit to the past at the Bonine House Carriage House on M-60, Cassopolis. First was a group of about 100 Second Graders from Elkhart, and then a few days later, 66 Fifth Graders from Sam Adams Elementary visited.
The Sam Adams fifth graders also participated in a bus trip to the sites of the Kentucky Raid of 1847 which took place in this very area. Students learned how Quakers and others in the communities of Cassopolis and Vandalia sent away empty-handed Kantucky slave catchers who had attempted to recapture at least nine Freedom Seekers staying on local farms.
July 25 and 27 2024
QUAKERS IN TWO CENTURIES IN CELEBRATION OF SADSBURY FRIENDS (QUAKER) MEETING'S 300TH ANNIVERSARY
BRENDA WALKER BEADENKOPF PRESENTED: QUAKERS IN TWO CENTURIES
PART 1 --- Her Quaker Ancestors in the 1850s and '60s: Sadsbury Meeting and the Underground Railroad, Thursday July 25, Christiana Historical Society (6PM) *Note
PART 2 --- Her Philadelphia Quaker fa
ther in the 1950s and '60s: Charles Coates Walker worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, July 27, Sadsbury Friends Meeting (10AM)
Along with celebrating George Fox's 400th Birthday in July of 1624
Edward Lowe and Front Street Crossing Senior Center Speaker
This past March, Brenda and Will accomplished a two-part talk at the local Councils on Aging, otherwise known as the local Senior Centers. On March 11, with Will running the power point, Brenda spoke with her power point presentation on the subject, "My Dad and Dr. King." She brought her tri-fold exhibit, "Did the Civil Rights Movement Just Happen? No!" to the Front Street Crossing
She spoke two days later on March 13 at the Ed Lowe Center in Cassopolis, Michigan, on the same subject and with the power point and tri-fold. There was a good crowd both places, and they both got a free lunch in Cass.