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The Circles · C-35

Durham Circle

The most recently recognised circle in North America.

Place
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Recognised
2018
Affiliated house
Briar House
Assigned steward
Odile Sereno
Convener
Nia WhitfieldLaboratory technician. Term began 2025; second and final consecutive year.
Ordinary meeting
Weekly, Monday evenings
Typical attendance
12 to 18
Access
Open to visitors

Local history

Provisional 2017, recognised 2018 after a review attended by a steward from Lantern House. It is the youngest circle in the register and its second review is due in 2027.

The outward obligation

Food

Discharge meals, held with a district nursing team and the local food hub.

Meals cooked weekly for people newly home from hospital. Referrals come from the nurses.

The forms it carries

  • The Quiet Twelve

    Twelve minutes are kept before the reading. Nothing is assigned to the silence.

  • The Repair Table

    A table, a bench, or a marked shelf where ordinary objects wait to be mended.

  • The Weather Entry

    Before the first shared meal of the month, one person writes the weather in the house book.

The shared forms, as they are kept in the houses

Also attached to Briar House

Elsewhere in North America