On Sunday, June 15, 2025, re-enactor Laurie Toms will share aspects of the life of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), a writer, speaker, abolitionist, and member of both AME and Unitarian congregations in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Harper was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States, with a book of poetry when she was only 20 and a novel, Iola Leroy (1892).
The program will also feature representatives from the Bellevue Passage Museum project and the Waters Edge Museum in Oxford. The program will be led by UUFE members Beth Lawton and Topher Lawton. The service will be at 10 am, in person at the Unitarian Fellowship (7401 Ocean Gateway (US 50) Easton, Maryland) and streamed online via Zoom. For more information, please go to uufeaston.org.
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