There’s a Facebook page for its Philadelphia events. I’ve copied them below. I can’t make the Haddonfield Meeting event, as my own Cropwell Meeting set up a fabulous event that day before we knew the Golden Rule schedule, but I’ll try to make the Tuesday afternoon and evening ones.

Sun May 7: 10:00 am — 12:30 pm, Haddonfield Friends Meeting (Shore Support) SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT HERE: https://fb.me/e/1cUiatSh5  
Learn about the resistance embodied in the actions of the Golden Rule, and especially the role of George Willoughby, a past member at Haddonfield. 

- Tuesday, May 9 
3 – 4pm The Northwind Sailing Schooner escorts Golden Rule to 
Penns landing. (All seats filled)
https://northwindsail.org/ meets and 
4 – 5 pm Penn’s landing greeting event with flags, bells etc. 
City Councilor Mark Squilla is expected to present a Citation. 
5:30 – 7 pm Cherry Street TBA speakers, video, workshop on 
TPNW?

- May 10 WED
Local action 11 — 1 at Vietnam Veterans Memorial — Speaking and leafleting to passers by 
SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT HERE: https://fb.me/e/2zUhSZKws 
1 – 3 Break free time
3 ‑6 Boat tours and sails at Penn’s Landing

- May 11 Thurs. 
Local action May 11 7–9 Swarthmore Library, 
Swarthmore College — Israa Al-Helli ialhell1@swarthmore.edu
and the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies will participate.

- May 12 FRI  
Local action 11 — 1 at Korean War Memorial — Speaking and 
leafleting to passersby SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT HERE: https://fb.me/e/I4plU3io 
1 – 3 Break free time
3 ‑6 Boat tours and sails at Penn’s Landing

- MAY 13, SAT 1:30 – 4pm Peace walk from Liberty Bell with stop at 
Christ’s Church at 2nd and Market for brief peace observance.  
Participants will then proceed to Penn’s Landing and meet others 
at Golden rule for concert at pier. 4 – 8 pm Golden rule concert, 
speakers, food fun dancing and the ever popular “Wash the Flag”. 
This will be the official send off… (Golden Rule leaves the 
next day)

That might have gone differently if Whitefield had encountered someone like Woolman — someone whose imagination was shaped by the gospel and the Golden Rule rather than the brute banality of Whitefield’s actual, real-world scheme.

An alternate history and an alternate future

The Golden Rule project is an improbable accomplishment by unlikely volunteers. Members of Veterans For Peace, they are a motley bunch that might have appalled the original crew, all conscientious Quakers. They smoke, drink and swear like the sailors, though most of them are not. Aging and perpetually strapped for money, the mostly retired men sought to banish their war-related demons as they ripped out rotten wood and replaced it plank by purpleheart plank.

Friends Journal ran an article by Jane, Restoring the Golden Rule,  back in 2011 when the VFP volunteers first contemplated restoration, and a longer followup by Arnold (Skip) Oliver in 2013, The Golden Rule Shall Sail Again. Of course, the cool thing about working at a established magazine is that it was easy for me to dip into the archives and find and compile our 1958 coverage of the ship’s famous first voyage.

You ca follow more about the restoration work on the VFP Golden Rule website or check out pictures from the re-launch on their Facebook page.