By Philip Kaveny
revised (06-05-96) (2695) words in progress) With Illustrations by Samuel, Salter)a work in progress with the hope that
my readers will want to know what happens next.
There is a town in Wisconsin about thirty miles north east of Rice lake that is so small it is not even on the map, and it is soooo small that it does not even have a name. It Has Gus' gasss station, Emie's Tavern, and ten houses. It also has a Quaker meeting house that holds six meetings a week three on Wednesday at seven am Noon and 5:15 PM and three on Sunday at the same time.
For those of you that don't know much about Quakers they are a small group of Christians scattered world wide, who have probably done more good than harm, which is more than can be said of a lot of Christians, because, they preach toleration and feed people. Their roots go back to an Englishman named George Fox, who shortly before the English Civil War started teaching the radical doctrine of Toleration and non-violence, which looked pretty good to a lot of people in England who were looking at their ruined country after seven years of a very horrible civil war between the king and parliament which lasted from 1642-1649. Fox continued to preach untilthe 1690's, and by the time of his death Quakers were the largest protestant denomination in England numbering around 60,000. This is according to a to a very respected Quaker elder who would not bullshit me. Of course the trick this statement is that the Church of England thought of itself as more Catholic than the pope in the late 1690's