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Quaker calendar alternatives

Martin Kelley — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:41:41 +0000

John Jeremiah Edminster sent me a note about yesterday’s post about the demise of the Scattergood Motto Calendar:

I hadn’t realized that the Scattergood Calendar was ceasing publication. But the Tract Association of Friends continues to publish its calendar in both the pocket version and the wall version, each for $2 per copy and $20 per dozen, and it might be a worthy public service of thee to direct readers to the website, tractassociation.org, so that anyone grieving the demise of the Scattergood Calendar and wondering what to do for the Friends they used to give gift-calendars to might know where else to look.

Tract Association of Friends

Martin Kelley — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:28:45 +0000

The Tract Association is venerable Quaker publisher dating back to the early part of the Nineteenth Century. They had a website but wanted a new one built with a content management system that would allow for easier editing. The new site is built in WordPress. Befitting the organization’s ethos, the site is relatively plain but there’s a lot going on underneath the surface.

Many people use the site to print out copies of the tracts. There’s a special print stylesheet–created by the template designer and customized by me–that means print-outs of these pages will be very clean and uncluttered, perfect for personal photocopying. There’s the ability to make tracts available as PDFs through Scribd and there’s a interface in the WordPress dashboard to allow embedding of these in the sidebar.

Visit site: http://www.tractassociation.org

Quaker publications meeting (QUIP) in Indiana

Martin Kelley — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:44:45 +0000

Quakers Uniting in Publications, better known as “QUIP,” is a collection of 50 Quaker publishers, booksellers and authors committed to the “ministry of the written word.” I often think of QUIP as a support group of sorts for those of us who really believe that publishing can make a difference. It’s also one of those places where different branches of Friends come together to work and tell stories. QUIP sessions strike a nice balance between work and unstructured time. It has its own nice culture of friendliness and cooperation that are the real reason many of us go every year.

Quakers Uniting in Publications annual meeting in Richmond Indiana 2004.