Middle East Peace

Anne Barstow Helps Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Celebrate Anniversary

One of the privileges of my position is to represent FOR in many gatherings that call us to our needed work through the voices of those who have lead the way, some still hard at work, others who have now passed on. The past few weeks have been rich with such people.

The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship has been hosting a luncheon with peace makers periodically since its move to Stony Point Center last year. Anne Barstow was the featured guest in September. She provided a biographical story that began when her then boyfriend (later fiancée and husband), Tom Driver, invited her to a reception with FOR Journey of Freedom riders in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. For a 17-year-old Southern white girl to attend a biracial gathering was nearly unthinkable in 1947, but she went and had her introduction to nonviolence through the lens of the civil rights movement.