Growing Our Community

Quakers Come to Acadia

In the Beginning . . . and into the Future

1971 Two (of 4) founders of Acadia Friends Meeting: David and Phyllis Wetherell (with son, Davide John).

1971 The two other founders of Acadia Friends Meeting: Dean and Mary Booher (pictured here) and their children, Wendy and Brian

1978 Jonathan and Nina, first Acadia Friends couple married “under the care of the Meeting”.

1980 Acadia Friends at the summit of Mt. Katahdin on Labor Day weekend

1980 Carol Woolman and children, Christian and Mark at Mt. Katahdin

1981 Mark Woolman Horner and Amy Horner with statue of Mary Dyer, Quaker martyr 

1981 Young Friends play, Mary Fisher and the Sultan of Turkey. Edward Mobraaten (striped robe), Danny Kane as Sultan and others.

1984 Tom Crikelair and Brian Booher prepare pot luck meal.

1984 Acadia Quakers Kayaking and Canoeing at Northeast Creek

2002 Alma Delic-Ibukic, our Bosnian exchange student (and her parents) at Neighborhood House

2011 Acadie Friends Sunrise Vigil

2017 Friends celebrate Equinox

2026 Monthly Quaker lunch in Ellsworth

Acadia Friends Share their Quaker Journeys