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Baltimore Yearly Meeting builds and nurtures a strong and vibrant Quaker community across the Mid-Atlantic. We seek to build community, grow in the life of the spirit, discern right action, and bear witness in the world. BYM includes Quaker meetings in parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The BYM Office, located in Sandy Spring, MD, provides technical support to local Quaker Meetings and opportunities for Quakers in our region to work, play, serve, learn, and grow spiritually together as Friends. 

Night Sky Program with astronomer Kevin Bowles

Saturday, February 25, 2017
6:00 pm11:00 pm
Friends Wilderness Center (Harpers Ferry, WV)

Weather permitting (i.e. no rain, snow, thick clouds or dangerously high winds) come join us for an evening of Sky Watching with Kevin Bowles of the Morgan County (WV) Observatory and his telescope. Kevin is a font of wonderful information about the night sky and Cosmos ranging from ancient mythology and star stories to intergalactic collisions and black holes and he loves to share this information on these occasions. Objects that may be visible in the sky include: Venus and Mars if not too low on the horizon, also the Andromeda galaxy, Orion nebula, double cluster in Perseus and Pleiades. So not only can you see some wonderful objects in the sky but you can learn a lot as well. Meet at the Niles Cabin. A home cooked dinner is available at 6:00 if you make a reservation ($10 for ages 7+; 5$ for children under 7. The program will begin at 6:45 for which we are suggesting a $10 tax deductible donation per person (or $25 per family). Please RSVP to Sheila Bach (snbach@earthlink.net) if you plan to attend the program and when doing so indicate whether you would like dinner reservations.

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