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Peace and Spirit ~ Third Haven Friends Meeting House<br />
We believe God is present in every person<br />
and that peace is preferable to war.<br />
We gather in silent communal worship to<br />
wait on the Spirit of God.<br />
(Third Haven Welcome Statement)<br />
Especially during<br />
this season most<br />
of us are feeling spiritual<br />
and wishing for<br />
peace and joy. For<br />
Quakers, worshipping<br />
at the Old Third<br />
By Bonna L. Haven Friends Meeting<br />
House, working<br />
Nelson<br />
for peace is a year<br />
round practice. Peaceful is what I felt when<br />
driving between the two brick pillars and<br />
down the tree-lined drive to the Meeting<br />
Houses off Washington Street in the heart<br />
of downtown Easton.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Historical Marker on one of the<br />
pillars proclaimed:<br />
Third Haven Meeting House of the Society<br />
of Friends, 1682-1684. One of the oldest<br />
frame houses of worship in the United<br />
States in continuous use since it was built.<br />
Through more brick pillars and under<br />
an umbrella of trees I arrived at the end of<br />
the drive. On my right stands a white wood<br />
frame building and on my left a red brick<br />
building. <strong>The</strong>y are circled by a red brick<br />
wall on the sides and back of the property.<br />
Both Meeting Houses were open that day.<br />
Some visitors were just leaving the old<br />
frame house of worship as I entered. A sign<br />
welcomes all to enter. <strong>The</strong> site is a frequent<br />
destination for visitors to <strong>Talbot</strong> County.<br />
I walked softly on the wide pine plank<br />
floors. <strong>The</strong> structure has the scent of history.<br />
Wooden pews, many with cushions,<br />
invited me to sit and contemplate. Multipaned,<br />
rippled glass windows allowed<br />
some light to stream in on the rainy day that<br />
I visited. Exposed beams hung overhead.<br />
I could imagine Quakers arriving by<br />
boat on the nearby headwaters of the Tred<br />
Avon River to worship in this holy place,<br />
now the oldest documented building in the<br />
state. Two years were spent on the con-<br />
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