The Quaker church that James Dean attended with his aunt and uncle sits just down the road from the Winslow farm Jimmy called home. The Back Creek Friends Church or Meetinghouse was built in 1899. It has been preserved but they have added onto the church. Their website says that addition houses a pastor's study, classrooms, fellowship hall and restrooms. Their church history also says that the first meetings were held in the log cabin home of Joseph Winslow - I assume a relative of James Dean's family.
Can we pause a moment to appreciate that James Dean was raised a Quaker?
I have long been interested in the Quaker faith and their beliefs that we all have a unique value and that there is something of God in us all. Quakers seek religious truth from within.
It makes me wonder how faith informed Jimmy's development. Incidentally, he attended Fairmount High School where the mascot was a Quaker.
To this day, this church holds a memorial service for their most famous friend every September. Want to visit? I'm sure they welcome guests. Learn more about them here.
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