Gene Keyes, nonviolent action photos, p.2

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GK PHOTO ALBUM, NONVIOLENT ACTION AGAINST WAR

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Polaris Action / New England Committee for Nonviolent Action, I have compiled a quick photo-scan album of myself and others participating in those and similar nonviolent demonstrations against war, 1961-1964.

Gene Keyes
2010-05-15

Page 2, 1962, 1963

Set 6) Chicago to Washington Peace March, 1962 April to June.

I seem not to have many pictures of this; some rolls of film may have been lost in transit. The selected photos here are from two periods: Indiana in April, and Maryland / Pennsylvania in June.

INDIANA:

L-R, guest marchers Bob Green, Beth and Gail Skinner (13 & 15); core marchers, Ruffin Harris, Dennis Weeks. Hidden at back might be GK.

Beth and Gail Skinner.

PENNSYLVANIA - MARYLAND

1962-06-05, Centerville, PA: Sharon LaVelleur, Dennis Weeks, Ruffin Harris, Peter Bodlaender, Kathy Mermin.

1962-06-05, Centerville, PA: Gene Keyes, Dennis Weeks, Ruffin Harris, Peter Bodlaender, Kathy Mermin.

1962-06-05, Brownsville, PA: Dennis Weeks greeted by Mayor Marion C. Klingensmith, who also took us to lunch.

1962-06-09, near Grantsville, MD: Peter Bodlaender, Dennis Weeks, Kathy Mermin

1962-06-09, near Grantsville, MD: Gene Keyes, Kathy Mermin, Dennis Weeks.

1962-06-09, Big Savage Mountain, MD: Kathy Mermin, Dennis Weeks, Gene Keyes.

1962-06-09, Big Savage Mountain, MD: Kathy Mermin, Dennis Weeks, Peter Boadlaender.

1962-06-17, Frederick, MD: L-R, Peter Boadlaender, Joel Kent; 2nd from R, Dennis Weeks. In white T-shirt, Jim Higgins, editor of York (PA) Gazette and Daily, then a renowned liberal-left newspaper (ended 1970; now called York Daily Record.

1962-06-17, Frederick, MD: L, Peter Boadlaender, 4th from L, Dennis Weeks; R, Joel Kent. In white T-shirt, Jim Higgins, editor of York (PA) Gazette and Daily. Other two are probably newspaper photographer, and Higgins' son. Dennis is holding a "Civil Defense Highway" sign, even then outdated and ramshackle.

1962-06-17, Frederick, MD: L, Dennis Weeks, Gene Keyes; R, Joel Kent; center, in white T-shirt, Jim Higgins, editor of York (PA) Gazette and Daily; other two are probably newspaper photographer, and Higgins' son.

All photos in this set by or for Gene Keyes on his cheapo camera;
scanned by gk 2009-11

Set 7) 1962-07: Summer program at Voluntown

I wasn't going to scan my only five snapshots from the NECNVA summer program, but at least these are better than nothing.

Beverly Sterner and Bill Henry.

Main farmhouse at Voluntown.

Ex-chicken-coop at Voluntown. I did a lot of typing here (e.g., thank you letters for Chicago-Washington Peace March hosts; NECNVA minutes), as wasps zoomed in and out.

Charles Jackson (?), Dennis Weeks (in truck), Henry Wershaw (?).

Same truck at Voluntown, but I can't ID anyone here from behind.

All photos by Gene Keyes on his cheapo camera;
scanned by gk 2010-04-17

Set 8) 1962-12, Pendle Hill

In 1962-63, I began research in nonviolence at Pendle Hill, the Quaker Study Center in Wallingford, PA, near Philadelphia. Here I am presenting an early draft of my paper on unarmed military forces, which was eventually published in 1982 by Co-Evolution Quarterly [Whole Earth Review] — after it was accepted, then rejected, by Fellowship magazine.

Set 9) 1963-12-24: "To Light This Candle With a Draft Card"

After Pendle Hill, I did a 6-month stint at the national CNVA office in New York in 1963, then returned to Champaign, IL, to gird for draft resistance. On Christmas Eve 1963, I lit a candle with a draft card, following a 12-hour vigil in front of the Selective Service office. There was a lot of publicity, and I have a bunch of my own fuzzy photos; however, this better-quality newspaper photo will suffice for that event.

Photo by Dennis Trumble, Champaign-Urbana Courier.

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