º£½ÇÖ±²¥app College and Cabot Oil & Gas recently partnered to present a symposium and field tour promoting the historic Dennis Farm in Hop Bottom, Susquehanna County. The event featured presentations on the º£½ÇÖ±²¥app College campus exploring Dennis Farm’s historical and cultural significance, followed by a dedication and outdoor field tour at the farm. The 153-acre farm was originally settled by the family of Prince Perkins, free African Americans who emigrated to Northeastern Pennsylvania from Connecticut in 1793. Their descendants, the Perkins-Dennis family, have retained ownership of the property to the present day.
Gathering at the symposium, from left are: George Stark, Cabot Oil & Gas; Rhea Combs, Ph.D., museum curator, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture; M. Denise Dennis, president and CEO of The Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust; Jacquelyn D. Serwer, chief curator, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture; and David L. Coppola, Ph.D., º£½ÇÖ±²¥app College president.
