Please join us on Wednesday December 27th, 2006 for a Candlelight March for Religious Tolerance. This activity will launch Borough President Helen Marshall’s yearlong celebration of The Flushing Remonstrance, the courageous act of conscience by English colonists in the small town of Flushing which nearly 350 years ago launched the American struggle for religious tolerance.
The event will begin 7 pm in the auditorium of MS189Q/Flushing International High School, 144-80 Barclay Avenue (off of Parsons Blvd), where representatives from the community and the Borough President’s Office will greet participants.
At 8 pm we will begin the Candlelight March that will pass some of the great landmarks of spiritual and religious freedom in Flushing.
The Bowne House, Flushing, NY. John Bowne, an English settler, fought against governmental persecution of the local Quakers. The house was also a reputed station of the Underground Railroad.
