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Among the exclusives in this issue: How the celebrated painting “The Peaceable Kingdom” by the Bucks County Quaker primitive artist Edward Hicks became a symbol of peace around the globe. A woman named Jere Knight, nicknamed “Mrs. Lassie” for her marriage to the man who created the most famous canine character of all time, and how she became a fierce activist for equality and the environment. The story of the nearly-forgotten Naval Air Development Center in the hamlet of Johnsville, which played a giant role in putting man on the moon. Fiction by Rusty Allen and Bill Stieg. Poetry by Ashara Shapiro and Jim Brennan. Neshaminy is published twice annually by the Doylestown Historical Society and the Bucks County Writers Workshop. It celebrates history, biography, fiction, poetry, memoir, and interviews with a focus on Pennsylvania’s rich literary and historical traditions.