Background on Upper Connecticut Valley Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends)
Abbie Loring in Cape Cod Quaker attire, ca.1930.
Photo by Alton H. Blackington
In about 1954, a number of local Quaker meetings and worship groups in Vermont and New Hampshire coalesced to form the independent Vermont and New Hampshire Friends, which joined the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends in 1956 as the Upper Connecticut Valley Monthly Meeting. A loose confederation based in Woodstock, Vt., it included groups in Burlington, Hanover, Middlebury, Rockingham, Rutland, and Springfield during the brief period of existence. In 1959, the Upper Connecticut Valley Meeting was supplanted by the new Northwest Quarter, which was initially comprised of the monthly meetings in Burlington and Hanover.
