Fayetteville Quaker House celebrates 50 years

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What started with a former Fort Bragg soldier, Dean Holland, protesting the Vietnam War has led to 50 years of history for a local organization known as the Quaker House in Fayetteville.In 1969, Holland asked for a “conscientious discharge” from the Army. He hitchhiked to Chapel Hill with one request: “The Quakers should be in Fayetteville,” according to a narrator in a documentary that was shared with Quakers from across the state, and past and former […]

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