Day: November 3, 2020

  • Excerpt: Writing Home

    The following excepts are from Donald Ulin’s new book Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, which offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Quaker immigrant Emma Alderson through her own letters. From the introduction… “On September 17, 1842, a Quaker family of seven stepped off the Shenandoah at Philadelphia, having […]