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Hollow Oak
Sit with us on First Day
Hollow Oak
HomeMeeting for WorshipWhat Friends holdFirst Day SchoolPeace and witnessThe meetinghouse

416 President Street, Yellow Springs, OH 45387

(555) 016-4410

clerk@example.org

Sit with us on First Day

The meetinghouse

416 President Street


A white barn with green doors, set back behind two oaks on the edge of Glen Helen.

The door is on the latch every weekday morning for anyone who wants to sit.

President StCorry StGlen HelenHollow Oak MeetinghouseN↑400 ft

Getting here

Behind the two oaks

416 President Street, Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Get directions
Parking
Gravel lot beside the building, with two marked accessible spaces nearest the porch.
On foot
Ten minutes from the Xenia Avenue shops; turn at the library and follow President Street east.
Access
Step-free porch entrance, accessible toilet, hearing loop on the front two benches.

Open for sitting

When the door is open

Anyone may come in and sit in silence during these hours. You do not need to tell anyone you are coming.

Open nowLocked now

Locks at Opens

todaytomorrow

Snow closes the gravel lot before it closes the meetinghouse. If the lot is unplowed, park on President Street.

When the door is open
MondayToday8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
TuesdayToday8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
WednesdayToday8:00 AM – 9:00 AM6:45 PM – 8:00 PMMidweek worship at 7
ThursdayToday8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
FridayToday8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
SaturdayTodayLocked
First Day (Sunday)Today10:00 AM – 1:00 PMWorship at 10:30

Changes this season

  • Thu, Nov 26Thanksgiving No morning sitting. Potluck is the Sunday before.
  • Fri, Dec 25Christmas Day Meeting for worship at 10:30 as usual, by request.

Who to ask

Clerks and committees

Quakers have no pastor. These Friends serve the meeting this year and will answer your email.

Clerks

  • Abigail ThornburyPresiding clerk

    clerk@example.org(555) 016-4410

  • Lorna FairchildRecording clerk

    minutes@example.org

Committees

  • Samuel AchterbergMinistry and Worship

    worship@example.org

  • Ada KinnearCare and Counsel

    care@example.org(555) 016-4412

  • Teodoro BassiPeace and Social Concerns

    peace@example.org

  • Ione CastellanosFirst Day School

    children@example.org

  • Wendell AmesProperty and the wood stove

    (555) 016-4419

Write to the clerk

A letter, a question, a request for care

Abigail reads every message and passes it to the right committee, or keeps it to herself if you ask.

  • Address416 President Street, Yellow Springs, OH 45387
  • Phone(555) 016-4410
  • Emailclerk@example.org
  • OfficeMeetinghouse open for silent sitting weekdays 8–9 AM

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Hollow Oak
  • Home
  • Meeting for Worship
  • What Friends hold
  • First Day School
  • Peace and witness
  • The meetinghouse

Hollow Oak Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed worship since 1951, under the oaks at the edge of Glen Helen. 416 President Street, Yellow Springs, OH 45387 · (555) 016-4410

© 2026 Hollow Oak Friends MeetingWebsite by Greater Purpose Web

Design notes

Why Hollow Oak looks the way it does

A site for a small unprogrammed Quaker meeting that has to explain, gently and without jargon, what happens in an hour of silence. Everything is pared back: one typeface pair, two quiet colors, generous space, and no decoration that a plain-dressing Friend of 1850 would have raised an eyebrow at.

Built for
Curious neighbors, Antioch and Wright State students, seekers coming from other churches, and the meeting's own forty or so regular attenders and members.
Navigation
Full-screen menu. Only a Menu button shows; it opens a full-screen index with large type. Keeps the first screen uncluttered.
Pages
Home, Meeting for Worship, What Friends hold, First Day School, Peace and witness, The meetinghouse
Hero
a short manifesto as the opener: four to six plain declarative lines set very large, one after another, followed by a small closing paragraph and one action. Variants: a = left-aligned lines each sitting on a full-width rule; b = lines stepping in like a staircase with accented lines in the link colour and no rules; c = right-aligned lines with a vertical rule and side label, accented lines underlined with a heavy stroke

Typography

Spectral at a light weight carries the headlines. It was drawn for long reading on screens, and at 300 it reads like a well-set Quaker pamphlet. Source Sans 3 does the work underneath: plain, open and unremarkable on purpose, the way Friends talk about plainness of speech.

Color

The palette comes from iron-gall ink and undyed linen: a blue-black slate for links and actions, a soft gray-green paper for the background, and one note of oak-leaf ochre used sparingly. The dark theme moves to a night-time slate with the ink lifted to a pale blue so links stay legible.

Layout and navigation

The overlay menu keeps the first screen empty except for the words. A Quaker meeting is mostly waiting, and the site starts the same way: one button, a lot of space, and the full list of pages one tap away when you want it.

The hero

The opening is a short manifesto of plain statements, each on its own ruled line, because the most common question a first-time visitor has is 'what actually happens?' Five sentences answer it before any photograph or sermon could.

Calls to action

The main action is 'Sit with us on First Day'. It uses the meeting's own word for Sunday and the verb people actually do. The secondary actions ('Find the meetinghouse', 'Write to the clerk') name a real person and a real building.

Photography

Very few people appear, and none of them are performing. Woodland paths from the Glen, morning fog over the meadow, Wendell's bicycle shop, children outdoors at First Day School. There is no photo of a pulpit or a stage because the meetinghouse has neither. The one gap is the meetinghouse itself: we have left the woodland in that slot until someone can photograph the barn and the benches in winter light.

Accessibility

Body text is set at 18px with a 62-character measure. Every link is underlined, so nothing depends on color alone. The menu traps focus while open and returns it to the button when closed, and the meeting's hearing-loop and step-free details are written out in full on the meetinghouse page.

Type system

  • DisplaySpectralSpectral is a book face drawn for reading on screens; at a light weight it is quiet enough to sit beside long stretches of white space without raising its voice.
  • TextSource Sans 3A plain, open sans with no mannerisms, chosen so the body copy stays out of the way of the words.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Light theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa13.05:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa14.31:1AAA
Secondary textAa5.6:1AA
LinksAa8.29:1AAA
Button textAa9.67:1AAA
Accent label textAa4.73:1AA
Text on dark bandsAa13.05:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.13:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa9.67:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa6.29:1AA

Dark theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa13.93:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa12.63:1AAA
Secondary textAa6.38:1AA
LinksAa9.0:1AAA
Button textAa9.62:1AAA
Accent label textAa9.51:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa15.05:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.7:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa9.62:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.68:1AA

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