by Tom DeWolf | May 15, 2024 | News
A Burial Site Reveals the Healing Power of Living Histories Deep in the brush of Seneca Creek State Park in Maryland, a group gathered on a small field to clear overgrown trees and shrubs. They stood together in a circle and read the names of deceased loved ones. Some...
by Tom DeWolf | May 15, 2024 | News
Zehr Institute Webinar: Restorative Justice & Racial Healing Jodie Geddes and Tom DeWolf serve as co-managers of Coming to the Table, which was founded in 2006 on the campus of Eastern Mennonite University utilizing principles highlighted in the teachings through...
by Tom DeWolf | May 1, 2024 | News
Linked Descendants Q&A In the Spring Issue of Furman Magazine (published by Furman University in South Carolina), two linked descendants discuss their connection and friendship. Goldie Owens is a medical assistant living in Winnsboro, SC. Her husband, Veshawn...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 5, 2024 | News
Building a bigger table for celebrating milestones “I still remember that fateful day when I received a letter from Coming to the Table’s national office that said my application for a Historic Triangle chapter was approved. It wasn’t until I read the letter for...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 1, 2024 | News
Getting Under My Skin: Reckoning with My White Confederate Ancestor My essay seeks to move discussions of race, both past and present, away from partisan and ideological frameworks and toward the living dynamics of a particular family. Tracing my own efforts to...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 8, 2024 | News
A Way Forward (podcast on 1898 Wilmington Massacre) In November 1898, an armed White supremacist mob—supported by most White elites in North Carolina—murdered untold numbes of Black Wilmington residents and drove the city’s elected Fusionist government from power,...