Join us from the comfort of your own home for our virtual lecture series. Whittier Birthplace Virtual Lectures will take place over Zoom. Prior registration is required.
Suggest donation: $10/household
Speaker: Ed Mair of the Religious Society of Friends in Amesbury
Topic: The Faith of John Greenleaf Whittier.
JGW was born in East Haverhill, Massachusetts and lived in several locations including Hartford, CT, Philadelphia, PA, Ossipee, NH, Danvers, MA, and Newburyport, MA. He died in Hampton, NH. He always returned to Amesbury, MA and the local Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Amesbury for most of his life. His Quaker faith inspired much of his writing and other activities, including serving as Clerk of the Committee which built the 1851 Meeting House in Amesbury which is still standing, He wrote Christian hymns as well as poetry. One of his more famous poems, "The Meeting" was composed while attending Quaker Meeting for worship in Amesbury. Central to the Quaker faith are simplicity. peace, integrity, community, and equality. These values certainly prompted his work as an abolitionist. Whittier seems to have incorporated his Quaker faith into much of his daily life.