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SUMMARY:Book Club for May
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) will hold its next book club meeting on Wednesday\, May 20 at 7 pm on Zoom (Note new day. Book Club is typically scheduled for the third Tuesday of the month). There is no fee to attend and everyone is welcome. Participants should come ready to discuss the book. The selection is Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia Quakers in Exile\, 1777-1778 by Norman Donoghue II\, which details the 1777 exile of 19 prominent Philadelphia Quakers to Virginia by the Continental Congress\, who viewed their refusal to support the war effort as dangerous to national security. \nThe book explores this event through the experiences of four families (Drinkers\, Fishers\, Pembertons\, and Gilpins)\, examining the conflict between individual liberties and wartime security\, and how the once-powerful Quakers became political prisoners. Published in 2023\, it’s considered the first comprehensive scholarly work on this episode\, highlighting the tension between pacifism and patriotism during the Revolution. \nThe Zoom link will be sent out the week of the meeting in the APT Tour Talk email. Non-members who wish to attend should contact APT Secretary Pam Covey phillyguides@gmail.com by 5 pm the day of the meeting to get the Zoom link.
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SUMMARY:Book Club for March
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) will hold its next book club meeting on Tuesday\, March 17 at 7 pm on Zoom. There is no fee to attend and everyone is welcome. Participants should come ready to discuss the book. The selection is The Power to Deny by APT’s own Wendy Long Stanley. \nIt is not uncommon for people to live in Horsham or some place very near Horsham for years and years before they somehow happen to discover Graeme Park. But when Wendy Stanley moved here from Canada almost 20 years go\, it took her only a few weeks to find it and only minutes to become excited about it. She learned a bit about Elizabeth Graeme’s life as a privileged but restricted woman of the eighteenth century and started to write a novel about her. Wendy describes her book\, The Power to Deny\, as historical fiction. But it is hardly fiction at all. There is very little in it that is not documented or did not actually happen. \nThat is because Wendy did such extensive\, detailed research about her subject. She visited Elizabeth-related sites in Philadelphia – her burial site at Christ Church\, the graveyard at Old Swedes Church where Graeme and Henry Fergusson were married\, the house where her sister Jane lived\, as well as lots of libraries and\, of course\, Graeme Park. While poring through an original journal at the Pennsylvania Historical Society library\, written in solitude with a quill pen by Elizabeth’s own hand\, a pressed flower fell out of the pages. It had been there nearly three centuries! \nElizabeth’s life story seems a natural for a novel\, considering her struggles in romance\, as a writer\, as a property owner during the Revolutionary War\, and generally as a female during that turbulent era. Wendy put it all together in this book\, which took her eight years of working in solitude at her computer\, when time away from juggling all of the obligations of life as a 21st century wife\, mother\, and employee would allow\, to write. \nThe Zoom link will be sent out the week of the meeting in the APT Tour Talk email. Non-members who wish to attend should contact APT Secretary Pam Covey phillyguides@gmail.com by 5 pm the day of the meeting to get the Zoom link.
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SUMMARY:January Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides (APT) will hold its next Zoom book club meeting on Tuesday\, January 20 at 7 pm. All are welcome to attend. \nThe January 2026 Book Club selection will be Complicity: How the North Promoted\, Prolonged\, and Profited from Slavery by Anne Farrow\, Joel Lang\, and Jenifer Frank of The Hartford Courant.  The North’s profit from and dependence on slavery has been a well-kept and shameful secret. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative “Triangle Trade” of molasses\, rum\, and slaves  that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits — run in some cases by abolitionists — and exposes northern plantations as well. \n\n\nCulled from long-ignored documents and reports—and bolstered by rarely seen photos\, publications\, maps\, and period drawings—Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America’s past.\n\n\n\n\nAPT members will find Zoom details in the Tour Talk newsletter the week of the meeting. Non-APT members who would like to participate in the January book club should email APT Secretary Pam Covey at secretary@phillyguides.org no later than 5 pm the day of the meeting to receive the Zoom link.  Please join us!
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