Archive for August 2016
Peace Pole blessing at New Hampshire United Church of Christ Outdoor Ministries summer camp, New Hampshire-USA
Horton Center in Gorham NH is the site of the New Hampshire United Church of Christ Outdoor Ministries summer camp. Horton Center is on top of Pine Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. During one of the middle school camper weeks in July-2016, we blessed a new Peace Pole plate each day at…
Read MoreWindsor Community Garden Peace Pole in Windsor, Colorado-USA
Three of us, Boni Fanning, Lynn Rauer, and I, donated this Peace Pole to our town – Windsor – in honor of its 125 year anniversary. We wanted to honor Windsor’s history through the languages chosen – Germans for the Germans who came here from Russia, Russian for our people who speak Russian, Spanish for…
Read MoreTwenty language Peace Pole at Georgian Court University, New Jersey-USA
The Peace Pole with the 20 language plates were recently installed. As a reminder the wooden Peace Pole itself is from 2001-there are 12 language plates on the Peace Pole and 8 around the base. The languages are a combination of the most common ones spoken in the world as well as those of current…
Read MoreRemembering the 71st anniversary of Hiroshima Day on August 6th, 2016
WPPS members of Hiroshima organized the annual World Peace Flag Ceremony in front of the atomic bomb dome in the heart of the Hiroshima Peace Park on August 6th. WPPS in collaboration with James Twyman of World Peace Pulse hosted a live synchronized global meditation at the exact moment the bomb was dropped 71 years ago along…
Read MorePeace Poles "2020 Vision" for the Hudson Valley—New York-USA
On May 28, 2016 a Peace Pole was dedicated in Pine Bush, New York in the town park in Crawford. A Peace Pole will be dedicated next Saturday in Wappingers Falls, to follow with another Peace Pole in Goshen & Kinder Hook in September and one in Cornwall High School in December. The local…
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