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Powell House Quaker Musings: April 2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Yes, that's Jacki serving the ghosts in the graveyard cake at a youth conference. Throughout the year, our cooks find ways of celebrating the seasons. This blog will feature Halloween and yes, the two cakes will be in our new Cooks' Book. At our fall work weekend last year, Tom Rothschild created faces on the ghosts for the cake. The "litter box" cake was so popular with the youth, that we tried it in Pitt Hall with a few monthly meeting retreats. It wasn't nearly so popular!
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Powell House Quaker Musings: Work weekend - Quilters finish 4th quilt for Barclay
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Friday, May 8, 2009. Work weekend - Quilters finish 4th quilt for Barclay. Over 5 years ago, Liseli Haines, our property manager, put out a request across the yearly meeting - we wanted quilt squares in order to make 5 quilts - one for each bed in Robert Barclay. The response was amazing. There were plenty to make all 5 quilts. Hazel Haines and Liseli pieced those 1st quilt tops together and then volunteers coming to Powell House began to quilt. These young women worked long and hard.
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Powell House Quaker Musings: Our cooks
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Sunday, April 17, 2011. What's your favorite food at Powell House? As you can imagine, each cook is known for their recipes. Here are our current cooks at PoHo. We also have wonderful volunteers who help out as assistants and butlers. You know that if you are a butler in the ACC with Jacki during a youth conference, you'll work a lot harder than if you're helping in Pitt Hall. Jacki Gray is our Food Service Manager and she keeps the other cooks in line . Chris Koster making cupcakes at a WinterSong.
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Powell House Quaker Musings: Cooking for Halloween
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Yes, that's Jacki serving the ghosts in the graveyard cake at a youth conference. Throughout the year, our cooks find ways of celebrating the seasons. This blog will feature Halloween and yes, the two cakes will be in our new Cooks' Book. At our fall work weekend last year, Tom Rothschild created faces on the ghosts for the cake. The "litter box" cake was so popular with the youth, that we tried it in Pitt Hall with a few monthly meeting retreats. It wasn't nearly so popular!
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Powell House Quaker Musings: September 2008
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Thursday, September 18, 2008. Supporting and Nurturing the Life of the Meeting: Rediscovering Eldering. Our fall schedule has begun and with it, we can offer epistles, queries and advices or other Quaker musings that come out of the weekend. This past weekend we were blessed to have Elaine Emily facilitate a workshop, “ Supporting and Nurturing the Life of the Meeting: Rediscovering Eldering.”. 1 How does our meeting call us to higher standards? 2 Who voices the hard truths in this Meeting? 5 Are we hold...
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Powell House Quaker Musings: August 2008
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Thursday, August 14, 2008. Toolbox for Sustainability: An Introduction to Permaculture. Toolbox for Sustainability: An Introduction to Permaculture – that’s what brought about 30 people, including teenagers, families with children, and grandparents, to Powell House from August 1st to 3rd. The conference was led by Ethan Roland, a graduate of the PoHo youth program, a permaculture designer ( http:/ www.appleseedpermaculture.com/. And a wonderful teacher. What an inspiring weekend! Sunday, August 10, 2008.
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Powell House Quaker Musings: Powell House Cooks' Book coming soon
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Saturday, April 16, 2011. Powell House Cooks' Book coming soon. Jacki Gray has been feverishly checking 200 pages of recipes from our Powell House cooks. You'll be delighted with our "standard" fare (depends which Cook's standard). The Youth attenders have created wonderful drawings and sketches to illustrate the recipes e.g. zucchini bars (just imagine). Here are a few photos to wet your appetite. Stay tuned for future photos and maybe even some recipes. July 20, 2011 at 8:05 PM.
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Powell House Quaker Musings: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009. Growing, Eating, and Preparing Foods Locally. Healing the Earth,. Growing, Eating and Preparing Food Locally. August 21-23, 2009. We held an experiential weekend in August with Andrew Faust, pictured above. Andrew is one of the premier Permaculture teachers in North America, from The Center For Bioregional Living in New York City and Ellenville, NY. He shared his expertise with us in several sessions. We then went to work. Here's the group with their bounty from the weekend.
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Powell House Quaker Musings: Growing, Eating, and Preparing Foods Locally
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009. Growing, Eating, and Preparing Foods Locally. Healing the Earth,. Growing, Eating and Preparing Food Locally. August 21-23, 2009. We held an experiential weekend in August with Andrew Faust, pictured above. Andrew is one of the premier Permaculture teachers in North America, from The Center For Bioregional Living in New York City and Ellenville, NY. He shared his expertise with us in several sessions. We then went to work. Here's the group with their bounty from the weekend.
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Powell House Quaker Musings: Constructing a Boiler
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Saturday, February 28, 2009. It's been a busy 7 days. A week ago, Anola Gowin primed the boiler room, painting over WHITEWASH, if you can believe it. Sunday afternoon found Liseli and Buffy cleaning out around the edges of the concrete floor, so that the plywood would fit. After a couple of tries, the plywood fell into place. Now the room was ready for Buffy to paint. All this was in preparation for the new boiler, being delivered on Monday. And a wooden flat with 3 new sections. Nice pictures, I really ...