From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 09:01:25 MDT
I found this interesting
<<That group met every Friday from November, 1727 for several decades.
Out of those meetings, the group invented the first subscription library
in north america, the most advanced volunteer fire department of the
time, the first public hospital in Pennsylvania, an insurance company, a
constabulary, improved streetlights, paving and what became the
University of Pennsylvania. As it grew, a few of the original members
started similar groups (the Vine, the Union, etc.)>>
http://www.mbay.net/~jubois/id23.htm
-Mike
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