Upcoming Quakertown Events:

This event is hosted by the University of North Texas History Department. 

Friday, March 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the University of North Texas Business Leadership Building and Wooten Hall.

This one-day symposium will focus on the lived experiences of African Americans in Texas. This isn’t strictly or even mostly about Quakertown, but some scholars will be focused on the North Texas area. This symposium will feature a keynote speaker, and will I think provide an interesting counterpoint in that these histories are about the vibrancy of day to day living that sometimes gets (understandably) lost in the overarching histories of slavery and racial violence of the American South.  

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This event is hosted by the City of Denton.

Thursday, March 9 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the City of Denton Development Services Building (401 N. Elm St.)

White Lilacs author Carolyn Meyer and former Denton Council Member Linnie McAdams will discuss Carolyn’s book, the research it took to complete, and the boundaries between fiction and lived reality in Denton for African Americans in the 1920s. 

Those wishing to join on Zoom can use the following registration link: https://cityofdenton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cPSbS5ONQEiwcKXImjndCw

This event is hosted by the Tejas Storytelling Association. 

Saturday, March 11 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at the Denton Civic Center (321 E. McKinney St.)

This special event will include three storytellers providing a history of Quakertown from the community’s creation, its displacement, and its continuation in Southeast Denton.

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This event is hosted by Denton Public Library. 

This is an unusual, but also unusually compelling project. Emily Frenkel took it upon herself to stitch a quilt that is a map of Quakertown as it existed. She will be displaying the quilt at the library and will also be giving a talk at VAST, that we may also include in the calendar.  

The quilt will be on display at Emily Fowler Central Library (502 Oakland St.) until early May 2023.

This event is hosted by the Visual Arts Society of Texas. 

Wednesday, April 5 at 6:45 p.m. at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center (400 E. Hickory St.)

Ellen Frenkel will present her quilt “The 1922 Displacement of the Town of Quaker in Denton, TX” to the Visual Arts Society of Texas at their April meeting. The presenters are free for VAST members and $5 for guests. A student attending with a VAST member (Educator Level) may also attend at no charge.