Color image of Sister Rosemary Lynch sitting on the ground in the Nevada desert during a demonstration against nuclear testing organized by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience).
Color image of several protesters marching along the highway leading to the Nevada Test Site to demonstrate against nuclear testing. They are part of the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience). Some are carrying wooden crosses.
Color image of Sister Klaryta Antoszewska sitting on the ground in the Nevada desert during a demonstration against nuclear testing organized by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience).
Color image of Sister Rosemary Lynch (left), standing next to Fred (center) and other protesters at a demonstration against nuclear testing organized by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience).
Color image of a man holding a sign that reads "Try Testing Peace," as part of a demonstration held by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group protesting nuclear testing.
Color image of Felicitas Lilleaper (sp?) and Sister Klaryta Antoszewska sitting on the ground in the Nevada desert during a demonstration against nuclear testing organized by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience).
Color image of Sister Rosemary Lynch standing in front of the "No Trespassing" sign at the entrance of the Nevada Test Site. She was part of the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience), a group opposing nuclear testing.
Color image of Richard Rohr, Franciscan brother and O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor) during a weekend of protests against nuclear testing organized by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience). Behind him is a cross draped in a blue cloth.
Larry Scott and other Quakers protest nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site.
1977 August 06
Sr. Rosemary Lynch and 18 others return to the NTS to honor the anniversary of the Quaker protests.
1981
Michael Affleck, Louis Vitale, and other Franciscans in California and Nevada begin to contemplate holding a Lenten witness at the NTS to commemorate the 800th birthday of St. Francis of Assisi.
1982
Michael Affleck, Louis Vitale, and other Franciscans begin protests at the NTS.