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Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting (Black Mountain, N.C.) Records
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Swannanoa Valley Preparative Meeting began under the care of Asheville Monthly Meeting (part of Southern Appalachian Yearly Meetnig and Associtaion) in September 1996. It traces its history to 1994 as a mid-week worship group, shifting to a First Day worship group in early 1996, and it was set off as a monthly meeting in 1997.
Swannanoa Valley Monthly Meeting left SAYMA at the end of 2021 after a year of concern over management and budgeting for SAYMA's Uplifting Racial Justice Committee. The meeting is active and independent.
Records include both physical and born-digital records. The collection includes a nearly comprehensive run of minutes, membership directories and reports, State of the Meeting reports, a sampling of committeee records (including Peace and Social Concerns and Ministry and Counsel), and miscellaneous records largely related to the history of the meeting and its affiliation and disaffiliation with SAYMA.
Deposits, Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting.
Organization
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- Publisher
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Date
- 2024
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy. Digital files are accessible to TriCollege accounts or on-campus users.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Collection Inventory
The first minutes begin with Swannanoa Valley Preparative Meeting's first meeeting for business in Ninth Month 1996.
Minutes are printed from "SVFM ANNOUNCEMENT" email list.
Minutes are frequently collated by fiscal year (Jul 1 - Jun 30), date descending.
Monthly minutes from Meeting for Business (July 2021 - June 2023), as well as the December 2022 annual State of the Meeting report covering the 2021-2022 FY.
The minutes have a particular concern with Swannanoa Valley's discernment around their affiliation with Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting Assocation, with the ultimate decision to withdraw from SAYMA becoming the sense of the meeting in January 2022.
Physical Description29 files (PDF and DOC)
1 DOC file
1 DOC file
22 files (DOC)
Includes the year's approved budget, condensed financial statements, and the June 2022 Treasurer's report for the fiscal year.
Physical Description21 files
Files include committee members and drafts of committee charges.
File consists of minutes along with correspondence and secondary material related to PSC concerns, including gun control, Israel and Palestine, prison justice, racism and the SAYMA Uplifting Racial Justice committee, and the Poor People's Campaign.
Includes a SVFM approved minute on Women's Reproductive Freedom, an appeal from P&SC to the Meeting regarding Ukraine War Relief, a report to P&SC about Waking Up to Our Whiteness, and a January 2022 report from groups concerned with racial justice (SVFM's Immigrant Support Committee; Toward Right Relationship Group; Spiritual Formation and Racial Justice Group; Peace and Social Concerns Committee).
Physical Description4 files (PDF and DOC)
Sample of committee records of various SVFM standing committees, including Adult Education, Building, Finance, Grounds, Library, Nominating, and ad hoc committees that may or may not become standing committees, including Sanctuary and Uplifting Racial Justice.
Includes a 2003 "church history questionnaire," as well as copies of correspondence related to the establishment of SVFM as a monthly meeting and a 1999 history published in Friends Journal.
SVFM files related to their concern about SAYMA approach to working for racial justice, and the Uplifting Racial Justice committee whose methos and funding divides SVFM and SAYMA more broadly.
The January 2, 2022 minute from Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting asking for immediate release from membership in SAYMA, along with the January 5, 2022 transmittal letter from SVFM clerk Pat Meehan to SAYMA.
Physical Description2 DOC files