Join the Chamber of Commerce Agribusiness Committee and a distinguished panel for a discussion regarding the marketing potential for locally grown products in our area. Could we market our own locally grown produce and other products? Hear what’s already happening in our area and other parts of the state and nation. We encourage producers, consumers and vendors alike to participate in this discussion.  continue reading »

What are historic and current realities for LGBTQ folks in the Religious Society of Friends? What is the range of experiences of queer Quakers? How have Quakers understood sexuality (especially LGBTQ sexuality) in the past, and what are current Quaker understandings? What is a local Friends Meeting currently experiencing?
Trayce Peterson and Susan Hillmann de Castaneda share from their wealth of experience in the Quaker world.
Join us for Peace Forum every Thursday at noon in the ESR dining room. Delicious food and luscious conversation are always free!
Contact Anna Lisa Gross (914.2973 or grossan@earlham.edu) for more information.

Please join us at Arden Hearth, 202 N. 15th St., for an elegant evening of sharing recitations and readings of poems or short excerpts from your favorite books. If all books were to be destroyed by fire, what fragments of literary greatness would you snatch from the flames? What lines of poetry are etched in your memory safe from the fate of ashes? After sharing our readings and reasons for preserving these writers, we’ll enjoy well-read conversation, coffee, and dessert in the charming setting of a fine old Victorian home of Richmond.  continue reading »

When poetry works, it becomes a line of connection between people – the writer, the people whose lives are captured in the poem, readers, and still others. Ironically, this powerful aspect of poetry may be one reason why so many people go out of their way to NOT read poetry – and it may also be why, when people are finally confronted with poetry, they are so glad! Creative writing professor David Ebenbach will share with us. Come for hearty conversation and free lunch!

700 years of colonial history represented in less than an hour with the goal of stimulating discussion about the impact and potential healing from the resulting pain and injustices of racism. Focus on European, African, and Amerindian contact. Performed by a group from Haiti currently touring the US and Canada.

Event held in Orchard Room, Runyan Center, Earlham College.

Melissa Hill, Richmond resident and volunteer coordinator for the Nader/Gonzalez presidential campaign talks about the range of third parties in America today -- and how the electoral voting system unfairly discriminates against women, minorities and marginalized political groups.
Learn about solutions: a constitutionally protected right to vote, universal voter registration, a national popular vote for president, instant runoff voting, proportional representation and more!
Join us for Peace Forum on October 23 at noon in the Earlham School of Religion dining room for free, delicious lunch! Contact Anna Lisa Gross (765-914-2973, annalisa144@gmail.com) for more information. No RSVP necessary.

Mark Stosberg wrote, "I'm setting up a discussion group for all things bicycle-related around Richmond, Indiana. This will include announcements of upcoming rides and discussions of how to make this a better community for cyclists.

Whether you want to participate actively or infrequently, I encourage to you to join, because Google has options to allow you to get as much or as little e-mail from the group and still be involved.

Some of us recently discussed getting together for a ride next weekend, and planning that will be the first order of business!"

Visit the group's website at its Google Groups: Bike Richmond page.