The Mount Joy Area Historical Society will host Ernest Schreiber as guest speaker at its meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 15, at the Cemetery Road Schoolhouse, 120 Fairview St., Mount Joy. His program is titled "The Forgotten History of Quakers in Lancaster County."

Schreiber will examine the arrival of Quaker missionaries in the area in 1658 and the eventual construction of the modern day Friends Meeting House in 1954. He will discuss Quaker involvement in the Revolutionary War, the slave trade and resulting abolitionist movement, the Civil War, Prohibition, and both world wars.

Schreiber was a reporter for the Lancaster New Era for 27 years and its editor for 10 years. He is a co-founder of Respect Farmland, an adviser to the Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development, part of the Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy, and a member of the Lancaster Meeting and the Religious Society of Friends. Schreiber graduated from Millersville University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a resident of Lancaster Township. The ancestral home of his mother's family - the Mummas - was a pair of farms at Rock Point and Colebrook roads east of Maytown.

The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will follow the program.

The historical society building is open every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m., weather permitting. Community members may conduct research and view the displays of Mount Joy memorabilia. For more information about the historical society, visit http://www.mountjoyhistory.com.