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We publish a biography of about 1,000 words in the "Pages for All Ages" section of each issue of Western Friend.
Here's what we've published so far:
| Issue | Story Title | Story Subject | Historic period | Man/Woman | In brief |
| Jan/Feb 2014 | Cruelty and Kindness in Wartime | Josephine Duveneck | WWII | Woman | Her work with Japanese internees |
| Mar/Apr 2014 | Waiting for the Light to Come | Marilyn Banks | 1950s | Woman | Mental health hospitals |
| May/June 2014 | Summer Camps that Made a Difference | AFSC work camp members | 1930s-1950s | Both | AFSC work camps |
| Jul/Aug 2014 | Laugh and Laugh and Laugh | Hanna Mackinney | 2010s | Woman | El Salvador Project teen trip |
| Sept/Oct 2014 | The Wedding of Seaweed and Fungus | Fantasy characters | prehistoric | n/a | Evolution of plant life |
| Nov/Dec 2014 | Too Full of Himself | James Nayler | 1650s | Man | Nayler's biography |
| Jan/Feb 2015 | The Quaker Nobel Peace Prize | AFSC | WWI & WWII | Both | Quaker service in wartime Europe |
| Mar/Apr 2015 | The Phoenix of Hiroshima | Reynolds Family | 1950s | Both | Protest of nuclear bomb tests |
| May/June 2015 | John Woolman: Pure and Simple | John Woolman | 1700s | Man | His work with Quaker slave-owners |
| July/Aug 2015 | Love in the Desert | Jim Corbett | 1980s | Man | "Goatwalking" and Sanctuary Movement |
| Sept/Oct 2015 | The Children's Meeting of 1663 | Children's meeting | 1650s | Girls and boys | Children uphold meeting while parents in gaol |
| Nov/Dec 2015 | A Good Chcolate Business | Cadburys | 1800s | Men | Socially progressive employment practices |
| Jan/Feb 2016 | A Family Story of War | Family and WWII | 1940s | Girl and father | An experience with a Japanese detention center |
| Mar/Apr 2016 | A Life the Speaks | Bayard Rustin | 1960s | Man | His life of nonviolent action |
| May/June 2016 | The Angel of Prisons | Elizabeth Fry | 1800s | Woman | Her childhood and work in prisons |
| July/Aug 2016 | Equal Rights for All | Lucrtia Mott | 1800s | Woman | Her childhood and work against slavery and for women's rights |
| Sept/Oct 2016 | The World of the Early Quakers | Robert Barclay and England | 1600s | Man | Context of wars between kings and churches in England |
| Nov/Dec 2016 | Moteverde Friends | Origins of this meeting | 1900s | Mulitgenerational | Friends leave US to establish Monte Verde Friends Meeting |
| Jan/Feb 2017 | Victory is impossible | Susan B. Anthony | 1800s-1900s | Woman | Fight for women's vote |
| Mar/Apr 2017 | Love Eternal | Isaac & Mary Penington | 1600s | Man & woman | Their life together |
| May/June 2017 | The Voice that Speaks to Everyone | Rufus Jones | 1800s | Man | His childhood learning to hear God speak |
| July/Aug 2017 | How-to-do-it for Civil rights | Bill Moyer | 2000s | Man | His work with organizing |
| Sept/Oct 2017 | Beans and "Beanites" | Joel and Hanna Bean | 1800s | Man & woman | The rift that lead to PYM etc |
| Nov/Dec 2017 | Learning by Doing | Marjorie Sykes | 1930s-1960s | Woman | Her work in India promoting nonviolence |
| Jan/Feb 2018 | Ring the Joy of Freedom | John Greenleaf Whittier | 1800s | Man | His poetry and abilition work |