vintage - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:24:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 vintage - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 YouTube star Jessica Kellgren-Fozard on her Quakerism https://www.quakerranter.org/jessica-kellgren-fozard-quakerism/ https://www.quakerranter.org/jessica-kellgren-fozard-quakerism/#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:38:08 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61073 Jessica Kellgren-Fozard is a disabled TV presenter with 266,000+ followers on YouTube. She’s also a lifelong Friend from the UK. She’s just released a video in which she talks about her understanding of Quakerism. It’s pretty good. She occasionally implies that some specifically British procedural process is intrinsic to all Quakers but other than that it all rings true, certainly to her experience as a UK Friend.

I must admit that the world of YouTube stars is foreign to me. This is essentially a webcam vlog post but the lighting and hair and costuming is meticulous. Her notes include affiliate links for the dress she’s wearing ($89 and yes, they ship internationally), a 8 1/2 minute video tutorial about curling you hair in her vintage style (it has over 33,000 views). If you follow her on Instagram and Twitter you’ll soon have enough details on  lipstick and shoe choices to be able to fully cosplay her.

But don’t laugh too much, because in between the self presentation tips, Kellgren-Fozard tackles really hard subjects–growing up gay in school, living with disabilities–in ways that are approachable and intimate, funny and instructive. And with a quarter million YouTube followers, she’s reaching people with a message of kindness and inclusion and understanding that feels pretty Quakerly to me. Margaret Fell liked herself a red dress sometimes and it’s easy to argue George Fox would be a YouTuber today.

Bonus:  Jessica Kellgren-Fozard will host a live Q&A chat on her Quakerism this coming Monday. If I’m calculating my timezones correctly, it’ll be noon here on the U.S. East Coast. I plan to tune in.

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/jessica-kellgren-fozard-quakerism/feed/ 0 61073 Wheat planting at Howell’s Living History Farm https://www.quakerranter.org/howells-farm-wheat/ https://www.quakerranter.org/howells-farm-wheat/#respond Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:39:57 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=49822 We’ve gotten into the habit of visiting Howell’s Living History Farm up in Mercer County, N.J., a few times a year as part of homeschooler group trips. In the past, we’ve cut ice, tapped trees for maple syrup, and seen the sheep shearing and carding. Today we saw the various stages of wheat–from planting, to harvesting, threshing, winnowing, grinding, and baking. I love that there’s such a wide vocabulary of specific language for all this–words I barely know outside of biblical parables (“Oh wheat from chaff!”) and that there’s great vintage machinery (Howell’s operations are set around the turn of the twentieth century).

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An Indi­an woman, a Japan­ese woman, and a Syr­i­an woman, all train­ing to be doc­tors at Women’s Med­ical Col­lege of Philadel­phia, 1880s.

Cool vintage picture of doctors in train from Philadelphia’s woman’s medical college.

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/timeline-photos-facebookfacebook-com-an-indi%c2%adan-woman-a/feed/ 1 36356 The coolest part of visits to my optometrist’s office is the vintage 1960’s… https://www.quakerranter.org/the-coolest-part-of-visits-to-my-optometrists-office-is-the-vintage-1960s/ https://www.quakerranter.org/the-coolest-part-of-visits-to-my-optometrists-office-is-the-vintage-1960s/#respond Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:37:37 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/2011/07/the-coolest-part-of-visits-to-my-optometrists-office-is-the-vintage-1960s/ The coolest part of visits to my optometrist’s office is the vintage 1960’s equipment that they still use.

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