FALL 2015

36 Years FREE but not cheap

Harpers Ferry Pulp Factory Ruins GARY BERGEL 2

Issue 142 Vol. XXXVII, No. 3 LIKE US ON Established May 1979 FACEBOOK! On the Web! PUBLISHER Contents www.shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org Shepherdstown Ministerial Association SEE ARTWORKS IN COLOR! EXECUTIVE EDITOR Fall 2015 Randall W. Tremba

EDITORS Marellen Johnson Aherne Essays, Art & Poetry Stephen Altman Mary Bell 3 Drug Alert: Pot, Porn, and Fox News. By Randall Tremba John Case Hannah Cohen 11 ARTWORKS Two Wonderful Women of Willowdale. By Eleanor Hanold Todd Cotgreave Sue Kennedy 14 POETRY Keegan Abernathy Mark Madison 15 EARTHBEAT In Defense of the Liberal Arts. By Mark Madison Wendy Mopsik Claire Stuart Ed Zahniser People, Places & Things PRE-PRODUCTION EDITOR Libby Howard 4 The Great Sign Project. By Wendy Sykes Mopsik SENIOR DESIGNER 5 Shepherdstown’s Backyard Chickens. By Stephen Altman Melinda Schmitt 6 Exit: Dr. Suzanne Shipley. By John Case DIGITAL IMAGE EDITOR Nan Doss 7 If These Walls Could Talk. By Sue Kennedy

PHOTOGRAPHERS 10 Jeni Peterson Spreads Love With Flowers. By Hannah Cohen Jamie Lawrence Jessica Schmitt 16 My Two Grandmothers. By Isabella Snyder

TYPIST 17 Books for Babies. By Monica Grabowska Kathy Reid 18 Welcome to Cymru. By Claire Stuart and Stephen Willingham COPY EDITORS Rie Wilson 20 Reclaiming Appalachia. By Brandon Dennison Claire Stuart

PROOFREADERS Faith, Hope & Charity Betty Lou Bryant Carolina and Brent Ford Eleanor Hanold 21 Religious Communities Ed Zahniser 22 Donors DISTRIBUTION 23 Business & Service Directory Lex Miller

TREASURER Alex Shaw

DESIGN & LAYOUT HBP, Inc. Cover Artist Circulation: 13,000 copies printed Bulk mail (11,200) Shepherdstown all patrons (3,450) Gary Bergel is a multidisciplinary Eastern Panhandle artist and teacher. Building on training in Kearneysville PO, RR 1-4 (3,000) research science, photography, and studio arts, he is drawn to solitude and “seeing,” exploring and Shenandoah Jct (800) Harpers Ferry PO, RR 1,3 (2,250) capturing the “isness” of things—light, layers, occurrence, nuance, silence, mystery, faith, beauty. Bakerton (80) Martinsburg RR 3 (620) Sharpsburg PO, RR 2 (1,060) Direct mail by request (1,000) Subscription Form Stacks: area restaurants, shops, and visitor centers (1,000) If you are not already receiving the GOOD NEWS PAPER we will be happy to send it to you free of charge. Fill in Address and mail this coupon. You can also request subscriptions on our website: shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org. GOOD NEWS PAPER, P.O. Box 1212 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 Telephone (304) 876-6466 • FAX (304) 876-2033 Name ______

Copyright 2015 Shepherdstown Ministerial Association, Inc. Address ______All rights revert to the author on publication. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the City/State ______ZIP ______views of the publishers.

On the Web! GOOD NEWS PAPER www.shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org P.O. Box 1212 • Shepherdstown, WV 25443 SEE ARTWORKS IN COLOR! 3

Drug Alert Pot, Porn, and Fox News

Randall Tremba

Be careful how you live, not as unwise people but as They see illegal immigrants hauling drugs and Be afraid, white people. Be very, very afraid. wise, making the most of the time, because the days diseases into our country and raping our daughters. Many people watch and listen. Many think they’re are evil. —Ephesians 5:15–16 And they see radical Islamic terrorist cells in nearly getting fair and balanced reporting. But what they’re every American city about to attack a mall, a school, or really getting is hooked. One fear is a gateway to Are these evil days? a church near you, and they think our president is too another and another and another. Fear, after all, is a Parents think so. wimpy, too spineless, and too un-American to name or rush, a kind of high. Pot, heroin, and pornography are readily available confront that threat. Many good and decent people see all this dif- everywhere. Be afraid, people. Be very, very afraid. ferently. But what I see is this: a well-funded, mean- Every parent I know is worried. Yes, these pundits are scary but they are not evil. In spirited, concerted effort—from Fox News and other And it’s not just children and youth that are vulner- fact, they can be civil, rational, kind, and even humorous sources in our nation—to misrepresent reality in order able. We all are. at times. But then it’s right back to doom and gloom, to undermine the great American vision, the great But as dangerous and destructive as drugs and porn fear and more fear. experiment of unity with great diversity (e pluribus can be, there is another evil out and about that is hurting unum); to forsake the way of cooperation for the way of our people and our nation. It’s called “fear mongering,” belligerence; to forsake democracy for oligarchy. and it, too, is a highly intoxicating, addictive, danger- These are smart and sincere people. But smart and ous, and destructive drug. sincere is not enough. And it’s readily available on Fox News. If you don’t As we learned to say after the catastrophic invasion think the world is evil, just watch Fox and you’ll see. These are smart of Iraq in 2003: So much intelligence; so little wisdom. When I tell my friends that I watch Fox News they Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean you’re wise. cringe, because “friends don’t let friends watch that net- and sincere people. To be wise, in part, means to listen to people we work.” But I watch it anyway, because I want to under- disagree with, to give them the benefit of the doubt stand how others see the world. I want to know why they But smart and we’d like for ourselves. And so I have, religiously, for think the way they do. Maybe they know something I more than two years. And I’ve learned again and again: don’t. It doesn’t hurt to be humble. sincere is not enough. We don’t all see the world the same way. And so I watch and listen. I want to be open—but Some see evil and terror around every corner. that doesn’t mean I surrender my values or convictions. Others see goodness and grace. Some foment fear and For the past several years I have watched Fox News hate. Others promote hope and love. In fact, sometimes religiously, and boy oh boy, talk about evil—four of I’m one sort; sometimes I’m another. the five pundits on “The Five” at 5 o’clock see evil One fear is a gateway to another and another. These are troubling times—troubling times for our everywhere all the time. And from what I’ve heard, the In case you hadn’t heard, fearful people will turn on youth tempted by drugs and troubling times for our prime-time pundits are not much different. The world in each other, surrender rights, and gleefully applaud the nation and others tempted to buy the seductive drugs of their eyes is a grim and scary place. death of enemies. And if that ain’t evil, what is? fear and violence. For example, they see our president’s deal with Iran If I didn’t know better or didn’t have other sources We don’t have to resign ourselves to fatalism or as leading Israelis to the “oven doors.” And if that ain’t of information, I’d be terrified and angry all the time. succumb to fear. We can seek wisdom and courage— evil, what is? I’d want to take this country back! Please, somebody, wisdom to understand the way of love and courage to They see a despicable criminal, a “traitor” to our anybody, get rid of all this evil and make America undertake it with all our hearts. nation about to become the Democratic presidential great again! Yes, there is much grim news in the world. But nominee. And if that ain’t evil, what is? If I didn’t know better, I’d want us to bomb Iran there is also great joy. They see the “Black Lives Matter” movement as right now—and possibly half of Syria and northern Iraq Take joy. a ploy to stir up racial animosity in this country, where on the way over. And I’d not rule out nuclear weapons, racism hardly even exists anymore. if that’s what it takes to destroy ISIS. They see gay rights as infringing on religious If I didn’t know better, I’d get a gun and be ready to freedoms. shoot any suspicious-looking Muslim or Mexican. They see Planned Parenthood auctioning off fetal If I didn’t know better, I’d think white men were the parts for profit. real victims in our society.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 4 The Great Sign Project Wendy Sykes Mopsik

mall towns throughout the country extend their that bear little resemblance to their odd unrelated parts. greeting to visitors in a variety of ways. Banners And with this property literally teetering on the eastern Sare strung across the main street, small flags are edge of Shepherdstown off Rte. 230, the answer of where mounted on poles placed along the road or, most com- to place the second marker was obvious. monly, entrance signs are erected to inform newcomers First the 8- to 10-inch stone bottom that comes of their exact whereabouts. Although Shepherdstown is up out of the ground has to be fabricated. As in often described as a vortex or more like a feeling than Shepherdstown buildings in the 1880s, stone would a place, it does occupy a physical space and does have anchor the sign and provide a solid foundation. On top specific boundaries. will be erected an ornate four-foot base made from When the 250th anniversary was approaching in bricks that Hurley salvaged from around town. Allusions 2012, members of Shepherdstown Rotary Club were to the architectural heritage of the fire hall and the old struck by the lack of originality of the West Virginia St. Agnes Catholic Church are specifically incorporated Department of Highways uniform green signage into the plan. Bricklayer and historic restoration spe- PHOTOS BY WENDY SYKES MOPSIK denoting the entrance to town. Seizing the opportunity Shepherdstown’s second redesigned welcome sign will be cialist Doug Claytor, builder of the Great Chimney in that only comes with momentous occasions like the located at the eastern end of town. O’Hurley’s Great Hall, was hired to make this portion of semi-quincentennial, the Community Service Committee the design into a reality. began to search for ways to reflect a feeling of pride and Rising from the brick are two cast iron pillars from uniqueness into the new design. the 1800s, found in a burnt-out mill south of town where The obvious first location for this creative venture they had resided in the rubble along the train tracks was the northernmost entrance where visitors from until Hurley spotted them. Unfortunately, a chunk of Maryland cross the James Rumsey Bridge. The Bavarian iron was missing from one pillar and would have been Inn, on whose property the sign is positioned, graciously useless until the magician began to do his work. Hurley collaborated with the Town Council, West Virginia carved a pattern of the missing piece, sent it to an iron Division of Highways, local citizens and businesses, foundry for replication and welded the completed chunk Shepherd University students, and Rotary to provide back in place. He has also had to make several tools in financial and community support for the project. order to adequately construct the sign where unusual Dedicated in the fall of 2013, the stone base topped with angles and a demand for perfection don’t correspond to the new sign motif meshes perfectly with the Bavarian conventional tools. Inn’s stone walls and overall sign design. The final component of the sign is an intricate arch Shepherdstown’s second sign location is also Jay Hurley displays some of the tools that he connecting the pillars. “This arch will bring a smile to any a natural. For many years Jay Hurley, proprietor of fashioned while constructing the new sign. ironworker’s face,” declared Hurley. “Long-angle iron was O’Hurley’s General Store, had been thinking about forged to get just the right shape to meet the columns. I ways to incorporate local history into signage. On road wanted the materials and design to symbolize the strength trips he noted how towns even smaller than his made an of the people and industrial nature of the east side.” Ron effort to depict a place’s character through its welcome Stocking, retired shop teacher and project volunteer, and sign. He hoped to pitch the idea that, in fact, each part Bill Simmons, a high-tech ironworker in Frederick who of town had something unique in its past that could be lives in Shepherdstown, have been a great source of help shown through symbols, materials, or design. in completing this last and most time-consuming phase. In preparation for his presentation to Rotary, Hurley Small LED strips in a copper housing will provide the gathered the necessary people while refreshing his low-profile lighting for the sign. knowledge of pertinent facts associated with his section Hurley’s goal has always been to tell the town’s of town. Bob Shelley, organic farmer, percussionist, and story. By indirectly recalling the ice plant, the grist mill graphic artist, was a key player. From Hurley’s overall near the railroad tracks, the orchards and apple packing design for the second sign, Shelley added the “all-seeing houses, and later the power plant, bicycle manufactur- eye,” the town name, and establishment date—all ele- ing, and the feed store, he has done so strikingly while Among the “treasures” spilling out of Hurley’s workshop is an ments to be part of each entrance marker. The rendering welcoming travelers at Shepherdstown’s eastern border. 1800s iron pillar that he found along the railroad tracks. also included a brick base, iron columns, and a dramatic Shepherdstown Rotary Club invites anyone with arch. When its elements are grouped, the composition Most residents and many visitors are familiar with interest in maintaining the existing welcome sign sites or and its physical manifestation, would tell the history of O’Hurley’s General Store and its large array of “time- in completing the re-signage in the western end on Rte. the people who worked and lived on the east end. tested merchandise” displayed attractively over several 45 and southern end on Rte. 480 to contact Paul Woods After the Rotarians approved the drawing and rooms. But few know of the multitudinous workshops that at [email protected]. Contributions of time, concept, Shepherdstown Town Council members lie behind the retail public space. That’s where the magic money, and ideas are always appreciated. recorded their agreement, and from there it traveled to happens. Found objects, rusty remnants, leftover pieces, the Shepherdstown Historic Landmarks Commission unrepaired articles, handmade tools, and salvaged trea- Wendy Sykes Mopsik, retired professional school coun- for approval. Finally, the Shepherdstown Planning sures can be found in this workman’s paradise. When put selor and practicing grandmother of nine, continues Commission endorsement gave Hurley permission to together by Hurley’s capable hands, beautiful creations, to be grateful for the opportunity to write about local begin the project. like a small airplane awaiting its maiden voyage, appear people and places.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 5 Shepherdstown’s Backyard Chickens Stephen Altman

hepherdstown is a place for pets. Dogs on leashes along German Street. Cats in the alleys or loung- Sing on sofas. Chickens scratching in backyards. Chickens? “Eggs,” says Lori Robertson, “I wanted eggs.” Hence the chickens. The chicken population in Shepherdstown may not rival that of dogs and cats, but it isn’t paltry. Half a dozen coops can be found in neighborhood backyards and gardens like Robertson’s. Her two hens are named Thelma and Louise. But are they legal, these chickens? Turns out that yes, they are. Chickens are covered under Title 4 of the Town Ordinances. Keep ’em tidy and don’t keep more

than 25. That’s about it. PHOTOS BY STEVE ALTMAN “You’re not supposed to let them fly around Amy Childers feeds her chickens. Lori Robertson and her chicken coop Maria Allen and rooster town, just keep them in your yard,” says Robertson, a therapeutic body worker, who is also recorder for the late fall and winter, when food is Corporation of Shepherdstown. In the garden Robertson scarce, so do hawks and foxes and tends on Princess Street, Thelma and Louise reside in a even possums. Wild Kingdom moments coop and a wire-mesh enclosure called a chicken run. are not common, but they do happen. But other chickens about town, even the ones that get Part of the fun of owning chickens the run of the backyard, pretty much tend to stay home. appears to be naming them. Childers’s “Once in a while one gets loose,” Robertson says, “but chickens—named with the help of we all know who owns which ones, so if somebody runs 10-year-old son Noah—are Big Black into one that’s strayed, they’ll probably just pick it up (a.k.a. Elvira), Rosie Roadrunner, and drop it back over the fence.” Violet Fancypants, Maggie, Queenie, The town’s best example of a free-roaming chicken Squawker Fluffernutter, and may be Daisy, who didn’t wander out of a backyard, but Babycakes. Maria Allen’s hens are into one—the Schmitt family’s, on German Street. “My Abigail, Betsy, Peach, Maple, Owl, daughter texted me at work,” says Melinda Schmitt, a and Predator. There’s also a rooster PHOTO BY JESSICA SCHMITT The Schmitts’ pet chicken, Daisy, spends her day in the catnip garden with family graphic designer at the National Park Service. “She said, named Hot Rod. cat Mary Lou. ‘Guess what’s in our backyard?’ She texted me a picture. Wait. Roosters do not lay eggs. And the chicken never left.” No one knows where she What’s more, roosters will wake you up. Did someone Out in the Schmitts’ backyard, she comes to the kitchen came from. acquire a rooster inadvertently? Actually, yes. “We door in the morning to rouse Melinda and calls for her That was February 2013. These days, Daisy has a had no intention of having a rooster,” Allen says. “We till she appears. But Daisy’s no cuddler. She doesn’t nice perch against a tree near the family rabbit and a got three chicks from a local feed store. They were want to be held. Melinda shrugs. “Maybe she wasn’t good playmate in Mary Lou, the family’s 19-year-old supposed to be pullets, which means they’ve been held enough as a chick.” outdoor cat. Schmitt says, “Daisy walks around the yard, identified as females but haven’t started laying yet. As But other chicken keepers acknowledge that, when she keeps an eye out for intruders on our behalf, and these three came into puberty, we noticed that one of it comes to warmth, chickens are kind of, well, limited. she eats bugs and whatever she can scavenge from the them was crowing.” Childers says, “They’re definitely pets in that you have compost pile, plus chicken scratch for egg layers, and a Allen has talked with the neighbors and says most to take care of them and that you do grow fond of them. protein pellet.” seem OK with Hot Rod. “He usually starts crowing But they’re not mammals. They don’t want to snuggle Daisy’s past may be mysterious, but her current life is about 6:30 in the morning and goes on intermittently all with you.” not atypical for a Shepherdstown chicken. “They hunt for day. Most folks say it’s a better sound than the train.” Lori Robertson says, “These hens are not here for food all day long,” says Amy Childers, an occupational When trains do rumble along the tracks a couple of show; they’re here for eggs. I love Thelma and Louise, therapist who keeps seven hens on New Street. “The thing blocks away, Hot Rod crows to them. but they’re not pets. When they’re done laying eggs, I about them is, they’re just hilarious. Everything they do is Is there a chicken craze in Shepherdstown? “I’d say won’t keep them around just for the heck of it.” funny. They bring us great joy…and eggs.” there’s a chicken craze nationwide,” Allen says. “The This may strike some outsiders as a tad unsentimen- And they produce something else as well. Maria more the media expose commercial food practices, the tal. But Robertson knows her chickens. “They hear your Allen, who owns Maria’s Taqueria, keeps chickens in her more people want to see the connection between what voice, they’ll come running to you. But they’re basically yard next-door to Childers. “Wherever they live, they they’re eating and where it came from.” like dinosaurs. Did you see Jurassic Park? They have scratch,” Allen says, “so they’re great for composting. Robertson says much the same thing. “Keeping those same blank round eyes like a velociraptor. If they You throw in leaves, grass clippings, kitchen scraps. chickens, I’m never going to earn my investment back were 15 feet tall, we’d be gone.” They’ll add to that their own waste and then you get in eggs. But I do it because I want to know what I’m really good compost for your garden.” eating. It’s worth it for that alone.” New to Shepherdstown, Stephen Altman has added For the chickens themselves, the good life carries Eggs are one thing. But are these chickens backyard chickens to the list of things that amaze and some risk. Local cats like the way they taste. And in really pets? Daisy, for one, does some petlike things. delight him about his new home.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 6

Exit Dr. Suzanne Shipley, President, Shepherd University John Case

nless there’s bad weather, I take a few moments the football program; a soccer complex, as well as new Dr. Shipley’s outreach to the Shepherdstown most weekday mornings around 7 a.m., just stands for the baseball and softball fields, and a student community has been rare and extraordinary. Mayor before my Shepherd University radio show, underpass linking the east and west campuses were Jim Auxer was emotional in reaction to her departure. Uto sit with coffee and a book of poetry. On a bench, finished. In addition, a new Center for Contemporary “Suzanne will be hard to replace. She has been an asset perched on a grassy balcony above the Town Run gar- Arts was built upon Shepherdstown’s growing renown in to Shepherd and the community. We became friends den, in the shadow of the WSHC radio antenna, I take theater and film. and we formed a bond for a healthy town-gown rela- in the views, bouquets, and fragrances of the garden. By tionship,” he said. “She is my friend. I will seasons, it is spread with the varied gospel lights of sun- miss her.” rise. Add to this cocktail the becalmed temperaments of In her interview with me, I asked her to identify the passersby, and there are few scenes more sustaining, the biggest challenges ahead. She observed that cuts in gentle, humbling, and spectacular. the West Virginia higher education budget—amounting It is a good place to improve upon Thoreau’s to over 20 percent in the past few years—have put Walden. The garden’s mask of tranquility and privacy tremendous pressure on Shepherd. It must trim costs conceals a thoroughfare of secret narratives: the rabbit, without dramatic rises in historically low West Virginia squirrel, sparrow, bunting, crow, raven and finch, even student tuition rates that make college within reach for a fawn, flitter and tread amid the stillness. But chief ordinary people. among the characters passing my bench is Dr. Suzanne “I think the state underestimates the tremendous Shipley, departing president of Shepherd University, growth potential of the Eastern Panhandle,” she said. sometimes with, sometimes without her husband, but “It has all the requirements for huge returns on strategic always walking, running with—or being walked and investments—not least in higher education.” She also run by—her two liberated shelter dogs. The dogs are of pointed to the constraints of a one-size-fits-all tendency indecipherable breeds. Both strain at their leashes and in state education policy and funding, since economic lead Dr. Shipley through and around the garden paths and other conditions vary so widely in different regions hoping to chase after the squirrels. Dr. Shipley is not of the state. quite as fast as the dogs but matches their endurance. Mark Rudolph, chairman of the Shepherd She waits until she is sure the dogs will not actually University Board of Governors, said Shipley “in a short catch the squirrels before giving them their wish, if only eight-year tenure, has navigated progressive change briefly. The squirrels make the nearest tree—but the during very difficult economic times. She has inspired a dogs are ecstatic and pleased. shared vision with a long-term comprehensive plan that The scene is an easy metaphor for Dr. Shipley’s will carry us well into the future as a leading COPLAC college leadership style: inspire students and faculty to university.…I will miss her as a leader and friend. As an strive for their goals in a place of wonder and beauty— alum, I am proud to have been represented by her.” but be sober about constraints and avoid carnage! Dr. Shipley has appeared on my program at WSHC After eight years as president, Dr. Shipley is return- three times, and we have conversed, not infrequently, ing to her native Texas to accept a position as president in the course of many transcendental mornings by the of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls and Town Run garden—to the extent her dogs would permit to be near her aging mother. MSU, like Shepherd, her to stand in one place! I share others’ admiration for is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts her getting-to-yes style and philosophy. Her deep train- Colleges. Shipley is also the president of COPLAC. ing in linguistics and her tours of most every European PHOTO COURTESY OF SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY PHOTO COURTESY She singles out Shepherd’s fully accredited acceptance country have instilled cultural breadth and openness and Shepherd University’s former president Suzanne Shipley into COPLAC as the achievement of which she is most an insight into the meanings beneath words. Positions proud. The council currently includes 29 U.S. colleges and postures can be peeled away, and common interests and universities. Shipley credits the 1991 book Getting to Yes, by can rise to the top and reveal the treasures of civiliza- During her tenure at Shepherd, Dr. Shipley saw Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton for her tion—to learn, to live together, and to seek truth. the completion of the university’s first comprehensive approach to academic and public administration. Instead fundraising campaign: “Create the Future.” It raised $26 of having a win-lose mindset, she became a believer in million and was completed a year early. She brought continuing discussions, listening attentively, and taking into being the Martinsburg Center for expanded continu- creative approaches to come to a solution that provides John Case is a retired software engineer and union ing education. The Wellness Center was completed; a win for all involved. (OK—let’s chase the squirrels; representative. He hosts the Winners and Losers radio artificial turf for the football field greatly advanced don’t kill them.) program on WSHC.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 7 If These Walls Could Talk Sue Kennedy

n 1764, Thomas Shepherd conveyed New owners restored the building Lot No. 33 in Shepherdstown, West and opened a new hotel. That endeavor IVirginia, to Henry Cookus. Lot 33, failed. Finally all the buildings on Lot 33 at the corner of German and Princess were turned into rental units. For the next Streets, was right in the middle of the 50 years, the property served as Shepherd little town. College men’s dormitories, quarters for Cookus then willed Lot 33 to his Navy and Air Force cadets studying at son Christian, who sold a portion of it Shepherd, Shepherd faculty apartments, to Philip Adam Entler Sr. Entler built and finally a storage warehouse. a large brick house on his property. In 1972 the State of West Virginia, Cookus built a large two-story brick now the property owner, targeted the building on his and sold the rest of buildings for demolition. Shoddy and the land to Daniel Bedinger, on which run-down as it was then, the once majes- Bedinger built a three-story brick build- tic Entler Hotel had significant historic ing. It was a large lot. value to the people. They organized the Time moved on. James Brown Historic Shepherdstown Commission leased the building from Bedinger, and to lobby the state and prevent the then he bought it. In 1809 the Globe demolition. First though, they got the Tavern started operating in what is now property placed on the National Registry the museum building. This was the first of Historic Places. They bought the indication of a tavern offering lodging, a property back from the state for a dollar saloon with a kitchen in the cellar, and a and resurrected the name: Entler Hotel. dining room on the main floor. That was the easy part. Then the people Over the next years, there was a of Shepherdstown, led by the historic PHOTOS BY JESSICA SCHMITT series of sales and leases between the Eleanor Finn (left) and Vicki Smith, current and past presidents of the Historic commission, got to work restoring a parties. In 1822 Daniel Entler, grandson Shepherdstown Commission repository of living history. of Philip, became the proprietor of the Enormous amounts of effort and entire complex containing 24 rooms, 19 money were contributed, thousands of fireplaces, three cellars, and three kitch- man and woman hours of labor were ens. The complex was known as Daniel volunteered, and priceless artifacts and Entler’s Hotel. From the 1820s until the documents from the citizens’ private col- Civil War, Daniel Entler’s Hotel was the lections were donated. The herculean task place for social Shepherdstown to be of many years resulted in the historical seen. The Globe Tavern was all about museum at home today on Lot 33. elegant parties and fine dining. The Historic Shepherdstown The Entler Hotel (the name was Commission has had enthusiastic and shortened in the 1850s) had a heyday committed leadership from the beginning. for almost 40 years, and then came Townspeople dedicated to keeping the the war. The Battles of Antietam and historic legacy vibrant have served as Shepherdstown turned the entire town board members, docents, advisers, and into hospitals and morgues, with the presidents. Eleanor Finn is the president exception of Trinity Episcopal Church. of the HSC today. She was passed the The people needed a place to pray. The reigns by the indefatigable Vicki Smith a Entler Hotel served as a hospital and as a year ago. Union billet for the remainder of the war. Finn, from New York via Along with the entire area, the Entler Connecticut, came to live in Jefferson fell on hard times, and the beginning of County 10 years ago. Armed with two the end began. Daniel Entler moved away. degrees in history and master’s degree The family still owned the property but in business, the former teacher and busi- was no longer involved in the operation nesswoman moved south to be closer of the business. The shops closed. Ten to her now grown sons, Alexander and years went by and the Entler house Vicki and Eleanor clean and prepare the Shepherdstown Red Sox baseball team uniform, glove David. Alexander and his wife Jane live burned down. The hotel property was and mitt for display. in Fairfax, Virginia, with little Isobel and sold at public auction. Luke; David, Nancy, and five-year-old

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 8

Delaine live in Mooresville, West the countryside, she fell in love with The historic commission provides Finn was voted in as president, Smith Virginia. Shepherdstown and bought a home in stewardship of the landmark Entler volunteered to take over as her First First settling in Martinsburg, Finn Maddox Farm, about a mile from the Hotel and Museum, so Finn became Lady of Docents. dedicated her time and efforts to the home of her sister, Elizabeth Starro. a docent at the museum; then as a “Being a docent is a modest time League of Women Voters board as “John Schley suggested I join the board member she managed the docent commitment, but it’s also important to the observer of the county commission and HSC when he discovered how interested I membership. Vicki Smith was the success of the museum. You don’t have to to the Berkeley-Jefferson Extension was in the history of the area, and I took commission’s president at the time and be an expert to be a docent, just friendly Master Gardeners. After exploring his advice,” said Finn. couldn’t have been more helpful. When and helpful. That’s the key,” said Smith. PHOTOS BY JESSICA SCHMITT Civil War exhibit, designed by Shepherd University students

Vintage quilts, a spinning wheel, and gun display

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 9 PHOTOS BY JESSICA SCHMITT A model of Snyder’s Boat, one of many interesting items at the museum

Shepherdstown’s mail wagon Chesapeake & Ohio Canal barge scale model, made by Charles Miller

Twenty-five docents volunteer ancestors of local families, founders of community in the museum, and I think Shepherdstown’s Brothers of Harmony time today but there is an ongoing need the town, is also a major project. One that should be fixed.” were a well-known singing group of that for more. more project Finn calls “wishful think- Many agree. Jim Schmitt has era in D.C., Philadelphia, and New York. Finn readily admits that Smith is a ing” is the availability of audio tours of already loaned his Shepherdstown Red Alexander and his students are research- hard act to follow, and they both agree the museum, for visitors to hear the his- Socks (a black baseball team from the ing baseball and music of the 1970s and that the commission should extend tory of the treasures within from those 1930s to the ’50s) memorabilia to the ’80s, but that is not all. So many stories efforts for more community outreach, who know it best. museum. Clarence Branson, Charles are waiting to be told, and they will be. especially to the children. There is no All the work of the commission Hunter, and Eugene Roman played for better way to preserve Shepherdstown’s is important, but the top priority of the Socks. Shepherd University’s oral proud heritage than instill it in the this president is to tell the story of history expert, Keith Alexander, along minds of our young. Renovation of the Shepherdstown’s black community. with George Rutherford of the NAACP, Sue Kennedy is an Entler Museum Shepherd Cemetery, to honor the many “There is really nothing on the black are working on interviews for the project. docent and enjoys the opportunity.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 10 Westvirjeni Jeni Peterson Spreads Love With Flowers

Hannah Cohen

temming from sum- she crafts freely, having absorbed the given ideas and mer heat, blossoms collected her inspirations for the space and the person. Sshoot upward into Peterson glows when she says her favorite part of a rays of sunlight. Like fire- wedding is hearing the bride exuding gratitude for her works they explode into work. She describes what she does as “spreading love colors: coneflowers, sun- with flowers.” flowers, zinnias, flowering Westvirjeni officially came into being in 2014. sage, calendula, snapdrag- Peterson credits Tara Sanders Lowe, of Tara Sanders ons, delphinium, daffodils, Lowe Event Planning and Promotion, with much of her tulips, lilac, and hosta. initial support as a fledgling Westvirjeni grew wings. When cut and arranged Recently, Peterson has been expanding her work into and delivered, flowers “eventscapes”—floral adornment of an entire venue, integrate the natural with not just chosen elements of the venue (traditionally the material world. Their centerpieces, bouquets, and such). She also has regular beauty adorns a physical accounts, including providing arrangements weekly for space, a person, a table. churches and local businesses. Those who arrange flowers On top of a full-time job during the regular offer something pleasing to workweek, running all aspects of a small business has the eye and the heart. They TUBHIRUN, PANGTOGRAPHY PHOTOS BY PANG proved challenging to Peterson are artists who bring the natural world from its harmoni- without an extra set of hands. ous place of creation into our living spaces, where its So this summer Peterson hired brightness catches our eye, holds our attention. Ashley Wertman to help with Earthly with an unencumbered spirit, designer Westvirjeni during the intensity Jeni Peterson brings those same qualities to her floral of the summer months. They arrangements. Her business, Westvirjeni, which began are doing up to two weddings as a hobby, has grown over the years to become par- a day. More recently, Peterson ticularly successful. Many of the flowers she uses are has worked to produce a styled cut from the gardens surrounding her house just outside shoot with Shepherdstown Shepherdstown. As her small business has grown, so has photographer Pang Tubhirun, the size and diversity of her gardens, currently winding of Pangtography (www.pang- from the left side of her house well into her backyard. A tography.com). For her future, collective sharing of inspirations and ideas among cli- Peterson hopes to become more ents and other floral artists widens the variety of flowers involved in crafting eventscapes. Peterson grows each season. The types of flowers and other natural elements She also anticipates that someone will ask her to provide Weddings make up the bulk of Peterson’s current that Peterson includes in her work have not changed floral arrangements for a winter wedding: She has done work, with the summer months keeping her as busy as drastically over time. Some of Peterson’s favorites are arrangements for three of the four seasons thus far and the bees that buzz in her gardens. The roots of her busi- blue globe thistle, sunflowers, zinnias, celosia, dahlias, has visions of evergreen and winter berries. ness were seeded at a friend’s wedding a few years ago, and any kind of David Austin roses. Though she grows In conversing with her, it’s obvious that Peterson’s but requests for floral arrangements have expanded as many of the flowers and succulents herself—over 40 natural ease and energy are the reason that such beauty the local community seeks her talents. kinds of flowers bloom in her gardens, typically from is evident in her arrangements—flowers extending their Even as a child, Peterson always cared for a flower April through October or the first frost—she also for- beauty through her touch. garden, learning alongside her mother. In her first ages, calling upon nature to provide her with seasonal apartment and each house along the way, she planted a contents. (If you ever see a woman with long blond For more information about Westvirjeni, garden. Prior to graduating with a degree in business, hair wandering through a field picking up feathers, contact Jeni Peterson at (304) 886-7543 Peterson studied art in college. Now, her medium is clipping branches from bushes, cutting wildflowers, or [email protected], or visit flowers. She translated her artistry to floral arrange- that’s Peterson—in her element.) As a result, her floral www.facebook.com/wvjeni. ments, gradually developing her own style as she arrangements are seasonally poignant and the colors arranged flowers for friends’ weddings over the years. could not be more vibrant. When working to create The first bouquet she assembled was one that she car- arrangements for a scheduled event, Peterson will also ried as a bridesmaid. Peterson can trace her first event to order flowers to get a particular color so that a statement a close friend’s wedding in Tennessee. Her friend con- or concept can be realized. Hannah Cohen is thankful for Jeni, Ashley, and Pang’s sidered forgoing flowers, but Peterson instead arranged As an artist, Peterson wants to know the event’s support in writing this article. And for flowers, for being wildflowers foraged in the surrounding area. theme, inspiration, and color scheme. From there, so beautiful.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 11 ARTWORKS Two Wonderful Women of Willowdale Eleanor Hanold

oon after moving to Willowdale two years ago, I that her aunt reached out to her, informing Mayman learned that the subdivision is resplendent with art- that her natural father was an artist, as was her paternal Sists who give one another tips and validation. Two uncle. This uncle, a well-respected German surrealist of those artists are Marlene Mayman and Judith Pharr. known as Ulli Mudi, used watercolor and pen and ink Mayman attended Washington College in as his media of choice. His work has been collected by Chestertown, Maryland. Earning a bachelor’s degree in Gucci and other New York collectors. art, she focused on drawing and painting. With a love The discovery of her artist lineage has motivated of light and color, she was drawn to impressionists and Mayman to return to art in a more focused way. She romantics, her principal medium being pastel. is moving away from her “representational (realism) An adventurous sort, Mayman after college worked approach to allow more serendipity without references,” as a mate on a fishing charter; a seller of fine art at what she calls “playing loosely.” Learning her uncle was McBride Gallery in Annapolis; a picture framer on a surrealist has her pushing the envelope, embracing Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; and then, from 1995 whimsy and allowing mistakes to take her to places she to 2006, as a website and graphic designer. Throughout might not otherwise go. She wants to do more sculpture this period, art was not a primary focus, yet she was and work in clay and cast in bronze. She would enjoy involved in the Annapolis art scene and studied with a collaborative work and some ambitious pieces that well-known artist, John Ebersburger. She also dabbled in are either large or detailed. The supportive nature of sculpture, taking portrait classes that included building Willowdale artists and living in a park-like setting, she PHOTO BY ELEANOR HANOLD Judith Pharr (left) and Marlene Mayman the head from the inside out. believes, enhance her artistic sensibility. In 2004 Mayman became involved with Burning Pharr moved to Willowdale from Martinsburg seven can see God in everything” which fits well with another Man, a counterculture arts festival involving huge pieces years ago. She comes from a musical family drawn to interest, photography. She is constantly thinking, “Oh of art. She was exposed to a new art form and cutting- education and the fine arts. A person of many interests, that would make a good picture or a good painting.” edge light installations. Burning Man became a big part Pharr has dabbled in art from the time she was in ele- The photograph A Cool Drink is an example. She of her life and got Mayman’s art juices flowing again. mentary school. Her drawing of a pelican, using finger snapped a picture of a fawn cooling off in the waterfall In 2006 she began attending local Burning Man events paints and watercolor, was displayed in the Zanesville in her backyard, entered the photo in the West Virginia throughout the mid-Atlantic and was invited to do a Art Museum. Another picture she drew as a young girl Strawberry Festival in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and couple of art grant pieces. A 10-foot seahorse effigy was of her father sitting in the living room. Her father received a People’s Choice Award. made from driftwood gathered along the Potomac was held on to the painting throughout his life. Although active with church and as co-director of one of the works. With Burning Man, she also became a Pharr’s first real job was directing a church choir. the Jefferson County Community Choir, Pharr plans to fire spinner, a live art form. She taught fifth grade after earning a BS in Elementary take art classes and continue to paint for special people In 2006 Mayman returned to school to study mas- Education from Ohio University. Later she earned a in her life. She paints individual Christmas cards and sage therapy. She moved to Willowdale in 2012 and BFA from Shepherd College. While attending classes, bookmarks; and she is dabbling in triptych, a Christian opened her Frederick Massage Therapy practice in 2013. she taught voice at the Inwood Performing Arts Studio art style with three sections or panels that make one She now also sees clients in Virginia and West Virginia. in Martinsburg. Eventually she opened a studio in picture. She also experiments with modern art abstracts, Her focus is lessening pain and mobility issues through her home. Besides substituting and teaching music, “using layers of color hinting of something not clearly orthopedic massage, among other techniques. It helps Pharr occasionally helped out at the family business in defined.” Her ultimate goal is to create 100 really won- that Mayman can visualize what a muscle looks like, Martinsburg. When her daughter was grown and mar- derful pictures. complementing her study of anatomy. As an artist, she ried, she added being a licensed realtor to her teaching. Reflecting on how much remains to be learned, is curious about human structure, posture, and what Then a friend called to inquire if she wanted to Pharr recollects a teacher who instructed the class to people’s body language communicates. take a painting class, and Pharr was hooked! She has draw a circle. “What is inside,” he said, “one knows. Currently Mayman displays her art in her Frederick taken various art classes since, starting with watercolors, What is outside the circle is what still is to be learned.” office. Her goal is to have a rotating exhibit that features moving to oils, and then on to acrylics. She suggests She appreciates how living in a community of artists local talent. She has been involved in the Friday Painters that with watercolor, mistakes aren’t forgiving; with provides a constant source of feedback, encouragement, at Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church, displayed at oils needing to dry, it takes too much time; but with and inspiration and suggests that residing in Willowdale the Devonshire Arms, and was in Artomatic in Charles acrylics that will dry faster and where mistakes might is “the icing on the cake of an interesting life.” Town in 2013. be corrected, she has found her medium. Pharr enjoys Knowing since she was very young that she was “painting the beauty, capturing the light, and creating an ARTWORK adopted, it was only six years ago that Mayman signed uplifting feeling that people can relate to.” She would on to an online adoption registry with her birth parents’ never want to paint anything ugly or that would make names. Just this March the German sister of her natural people feel depressed. father contacted Mayman. It was because of the adop- As a minister in the Eckankar Church, the religion Eleanor Hanold loves the beauty in people and the tion registry and the art Mayman posted on Facebook of “the light and sound of God,” Pharr believes that “we beauty they create.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 12

MARLENE MAYMAN

Burnside Bridge

Top right, Seahorse Effigy; above, Green Apples; left, Mary’s Poppies

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 13 ARTWORKS JUDITH PHARR

Clockwise from top: A Cool Drink; Tulips; Cove; Midnight

PHOTOS SUPPLIED BY MARLENE MAYMAN AND ELEANOR HANOLD

See artworks in color at shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 14 POETRY ‘If I had a secret for myself…’ Keegan Abernethy

Light House A Deep Bow Beloved Child There is a lighthouse on my windowsill. I close this evening in a deep bow At the bottom of every man The wick inside is kept oiled and light To my friend, the sun, who fell There is a child By a silent voice. And set behind the sound Who sings in the springs of life.

The voice directs this light atop the tower I find myself walking back to the place Watch a grown man when he sleeps Through the tiny window in my chest. Where I wanted to lean in Transform into that sweetness. But was too shy The heart light illuminates a great sea War boys turn to children Swirling beyond the glass window. I stand on a shore between two worlds: Stacked in quiet barracks Your freshness, my saltiness Like newborns bunked in a nursery. This heart is but one star Hovering over the oceanic soul. The yielder of orange has dropped behind his waters Swaddle yourself And the sight beckons my heart You child are a true human being. We come together like this That is where I want to be You are not deficient. Tiny pinhole souls You are nothing less. In the black tapestry of night That is where the soul is Just hovering Open your throat One light is behind the dark canvas Above the sound Let wail the natural cry of longing. Swirling in echo beams. If I live out tomorrow, morning breath There is no need to stuff yourself in trousers The midnight sky clears to pure light And evening death, when I see you out And choke yourself on collars. When we see ourselves empty. There in swirling center, let’s smile Spark into nothingness, turn free. And bow at one another Cry like an infant wanting mother’s milk. Coo as the mourning dove does Surely the day’s dance was one of grace Calling for dawn. Absorption of Essence Worthy of a kiss When you walk by a human being Hear the truth trickle down your spine Along the shore late at night With thickness of tree sap. All you see is shadow, no face Mindful Motion Just an absorption of essence Summer’s wind sends seismic shivers Then laugh like a child In the dark. Down my spine, your spine Who giggles in delight A shared sensation retrieved from sunshine Of her own company. All you have to go by are the stars And the reflection of the moon oceanside. Giggles glide goose bumps across our sides Children laugh just to be heard! Galloping cackles guide us Hear yourself. See the moon essence Back to gracious ground All you are is a beloved child. Of the brother, of the sister In your chest. True, time, it tick-tocks But we tinker not with turning Keegan Abernethy Be the one wave rolling in Think-thoughts grew up across That tugs on the bottom of your foot the bridge from And makes the sand you walk This is a perfect play day we punctuate Shepherdstown in Soft and wet. Personalities pour into a pool Sharpsburg, Maryland. Palpitating in patient potential As a kid he explored This water surge is longing in motion the local mountains Reaching and pulling We move moment to moment Contracting back and forth Meandering mindfully and creeks with his Into the great vast empty. To moonlight motion friends. In 2014 he graduated from Towson I dip my toes barely in the water Here, waves whisper a welcome University with a But I am already under. Washed in wonder waking us bachelor’s degree in Where what is unseen waits psychology. He began writing poetry recently after hearing Coleman Bark’s spoken translations of Persian poet Rumi (1207–1273). Keegan is completing yoga teacher training at Jala Yoga in Shepherdstown, attending grad school, and volunteer- ing for hospice.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 15 EARTHBEAT In Defense of the Liberal Arts Mark Madison

his is the season when we pack up our college students and send them off to new environments Tand desperately hope they find their niche. There are a wide variety of educational options, all of them preferable to the alternative—ignorance. However, in recent years there has been a distinct prejudice against studying the liberal arts in favor of the misnamed “prac- tical fields.” All areas of learning are important, but as someone who has taught in the liberal arts for 25 years, I would like to defend them on educational, social, and environmental grounds. Contrary to popular belief, the purpose of education is not to get a job, but to be educated. This seems an Beloit College students on Model T Ford (circa 1920) Rachel Carson (top row, second from right) on college field obvious logical proposition (the study of logic being hockey team in 1928 one of the traditional liberal arts) that is all too often Educationally, it is hard to argue against a curriculum well-rounded education that can provide the fundamen- ignored. If education were only a means to employment, that expands a student’s intellectual horizons to the tal skills to learn new jobs and master an evolving work- we would teach kindergarteners to run cash registers and broadest degree possible while, hopefully, giving them place. The growing emphasis on narrow specialization drive trucks. the tools to succeed professionally. and career training in the world of higher education may The idea that free citizens need a broad education Socially, the value of liberal arts has been recog- provide some type of placebo effect for students and goes back to the Ancient World. The term liberal arts nized for 2,500 years. The ancient Greeks and Romans bankrupt parents, but it does little to enrich our youths derives from the Latin word for free, liber, the same wanted citizens who could engage productively in or our economy. origin point for liberty—no coincidence there. Ancient social life; the Medievals sought to preserve learning Finally, broad-based grounding in the liberal arts Greeks and Romans wanted their citizens to actively for future generations; the Renaissance scholars wanted may secure the future of the environment. Our envi- participate in civic life, so they promoted this broad area to rediscover the best learning of the past and expand it ronmental crises are changing from decade to decade. of learning to make their elites better-educated citizens. with current new discoveries; and eventually American When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962, she In the Middle Ages the university was born universities sought to create an educated citizenry never imagined climate change, global invasive species as an institution designed to actively promulgate the capable of helping their nation progress and grow. The epidemics, or an increasingly urbanized, technologically liberal arts—described in that era as seven fields: liberal arts have always claimed that in a democracy, oriented youth disconnected from nature. music, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, grammar, improving the intellect, tolerance, and critical skills of As our environmental problems change, we need logic, and rhetoric. the citizens improves the society as a whole over time. creative and critical problem solvers to address them. In the Renaissance, modern languages, ethics, If we lived in a society where dictators or computers These future environmentalists will need to discover and history were added to the curriculum, allowing made all our decisions for us, perhaps we could risk new solutions to new problems, compromise without me to earn a living as an itinerant historian. Today the a less critically attuned public. But considering we all surrendering, and behave in a manner that is ethical liberal arts degree can include any of the humanities, live with the consequences of our decisions, a sane both to the human and nonhuman species directly social sciences, and many sciences. As such a broad and ethical citizen of a democracy would always prefer impacted. These skills are not easily broken down into category, it is perhaps most easily defined by what it is the best-educated decisions be made on a wide variety one discipline or technical skill. But they may be some not: specifically it is not a professional, technical, or of topics, rather than on ignorance or prejudice. A of the skills that future Rachel Carsons will develop vocational education. properly educated, well-rounded graduate would at with a broad-based education in the liberal arts. In fact, So what do the liberal arts teach versus a more a minimum know: the Civil War was about slavery; Rachel Carson graduated from a small liberal arts col- clearly defined program leading to a certification or evolution is the foundation for the biological sciences; lege in Pennsylvania, where she studied both English profession? When taught properly by the best educators, and other cultures have their own unique perspectives and biology, synthesizing these skills in a book that a liberal arts undergraduate degree should teach students and aspirations. changed our world! both oral and written communication, critical thinking Criticism of the liberal arts is most often voiced in skills, and the tools and perspectives in a wide array the platitudinous question, “What are you going to do of disciplines ranging from art history to zoology. The with a degree in [fill in the blank]?” Although seemingly idea being that the motivated student will emerge with a fair question, it is actually the wrong question to be a broad toolkit for human life, including both quantifi- asking. The correct question is, “How do we prepare able skills in, say, math or sciences, and a sense of their our youths for a world in which 30 percent of the jobs history, ethical guidelines, and a lifelong curiosity about that they will be working in do not yet exist and where Mark Madison teaches environmental ethics, other cultures and fields. This educational goal was only 27 percent of college graduates have a job closely environmental film, and environmental history at recognized as valuable for two centuries in American related to their major?” Shepherd University. His daughter will be a first-year higher education, and the preponderance of small If we honestly admit we cannot predict the future student at Beloit College—Wisconsin’s oldest liberal liberal arts campuses speaks to its persistent legacy. nor do we want to limit it, then perhaps the best bet is a arts college.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 16 My Two Grandmothers Isabella Snyder

y grandmothers come from one time she was stopped on the highway countries with different for driving too slowly. cultures, languages, and One time when Key was driving traditions.M Growing up, I’ve had the me and my brother William home from privilege of experiencing both of these school, we heard a beep. William asked different cultures through them. Each Key about it, and she responded, “Oh, of my grandmothers has a nickname. that’s nothing; the car beeps when I go My grandmother on my mom’s side, over 80.” Many years ago, when Key Sara, I call Nona, which is Italian for was on her way to a performance of grandmother. My grandmother on my The Sound of Music in my grandfather’s dad’s side, Jane, I call Key, a nickname Mercedes, she was pulled over for speed- one of my cousins chose for her. While ing. When the officer saw her, dressed Nona comes from a family that includes as a nun and wearing a lot of makeup, Spanish aristocrats as well as Criollos he decided to let her go with a warning. (children of Spaniards living abroad), While Nona has had the same car for Key has British ancestors going back to years, Key puts so many miles on her the Revolutionary War. In fact, she is a cars that she has to replace them often. Daughter of the American Revolution. One afternoon, Dad, Key, William, Nona was born and raised in Bogota, and I were playing basketball. Key took Colombia. Her mother knew how to sew, the ball and fell down. We were all ter- sing, and play the guitar, and her father PHOTO BY HOPE MAXWELL SNYDER rified, but she hopped right back up and Isabella Snyder (center) with grandmothers Jane Snyder (left) and Sara Maxwell. was an entrepreneur who engaged in dif- yelled, “I’m OK!” ferent activities, including emerald trad- Once when Nona accompanied ing and tourism. He founded El Dorado studies at Shepherd. During a card game enthusiasm that it makes you feel like a friend to a doctor’s appointment, Turismo, the first tourism company in in Martinsburg, she met my grandfather, you were there when it happened. I she felt faint and asked to be taken to Colombia. When Nona was young, her Bill, a third-generation editor and pub- admire Key’s passion for music and her the emergency room. After the doctor father sent her to study in the United lisher of the Shepherdstown Register. Key dedication to practicing. She has per- examined her, his diagnosis was that she States. She attended Brenau Academy, and Bill had three children, including my formed in many musicals and operas. had overheated because she had too many a prep school in Georgia, and then dad, John; my aunt, Martha Jane; and my I’ve learned something from both sweaters on. enrolled at the University of Alabama. In uncle Billy, who died at a young age. of them. Nona taught me how to make Even though I never got the chance Alabama, my grandmother won a beauty The only two things my grandmoth- arepas (Colombian pancakes filled to meet my grandfathers, I am grateful contest and met Bob, my grandfather. ers have in common are their grandchil- with cheese), lentils, Colombian hot that my grandmothers are present in my Of Scottish origin, he had blue eyes and dren and Shepherdstown. Whereas Nona chocolate, and how to be frugal with my life. Every year, they come to our house was tall, especially compared to Nona. moved from Colombia to the United money. Nona also insists that I never go to celebrate Thanksgiving, birthdays, They moved to Colombia and had two States, Key has spent her whole life in to bed with my hair wet, and that I take and Christmas. I’ve grown up with my children, my mother, Hope, and my West Virginia. Nona speaks Spanish and a sweater everywhere I go. From Key, dad and Key speaking English at one uncle, Michael. English, and for years she worked in I’ve learned how to knit and how to bake end of the table, while at the other end, Key was born and raised in social services in the state of Maryland. brownies and pound cake. Nona and my mom speak Spanish; that Martinsburg, West Virginia. Her mother Throughout her life, Key has focused Years ago, Key and Nona traveled to is to say, I’ve grown up being exposed to grew up on a plantation in Tennessee on singing and music. While Nona was England with us. We visited Buckingham the two different cultures and languages but spent her summers at Boydville, raised Catholic and is a dog lover, Key Palace, the Tower of London, the British represented by my grandmothers. her family home in Martinsburg, where was raised Presbyterian and is a cat lover. Museum (where I got to see the Rosetta she met her husband. During the Civil I admire them for many reasons. Stone), and Harrods. War, President Lincoln spared Boydville They always look nice. Nona loves to In their driving history and habits, from being burned down after receiv- travel, and throughout her life she’s you can see how different my two grand- ing a telegram from Key’s great-great traveled throughout Europe and South mothers are. I have some funny stories Isabella Snyder is a sophomore at Saint Maria Goretti High School. This past sum- grandmother. You see, Key’s great-great America. Key has been to Japan, to share about both of them. Nona, who mer she traveled to France for the first grandfather, Charles James Faulkner, was Europe, and Israel. Four summers ago, has never enjoyed driving, learned as an time. Unfortunately, she didn’t get to see minister to France at the time. His por- my family went to Bogotá with Nona. adult. While living in Bogotá, she didn’t the portrait of Ambassador Faulkner at trait still hangs in the American Embassy Visiting Colombia was interesting, need to drive because my grandfather had the American Embassy in Paris, but she in Paris. because I saw where my grandmother drivers. When Nona eventually took her plans to return there one day and hopes A music lover and singer, Key and my mom came from. Another thing driver’s test, she almost ran over a police- to see it then. She is a sixth-generation attended Wilson College, in Pennsylvania, I admire about Nona is her storytell- man. In the United States, Nona became Shepherdstonian who loves to ride her on a piano scholarship and completed her ing. Nona tells stories with so much a very cautious driver, so cautious that bike on the towpath.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 17 Books for Babies Monica Grabowska

harlotte Porter is a talker. Ask her friends, dogged persistence that created an organization, which and they will agree that she easily engages in over the past eight years, has presented a book to every Literacy Begins Cconversations on myriad topics and, like most baby born at Jefferson Medical Center in Ranson. That octogenarians, Porter has a wealth of experience to is a book for each of more than two thousand babies! draw on. Porter said the idea for the program came from on Day One Before settling in Shepherdstown, she and her neighboring Washington County, Maryland. She read The research is in and the evidence is strong: husband, Fred, moved 23 times and lived in six dif- a news story about a partnership between the hospital, Reading to babies has lasting benefits for their ferent states during his career with the Department of the public library, and the school system called Books cognitive, social, and emotional development. the Army. Porter can reminisce about rationing during for Babies. Librarians know it and offer programs geared World War II and school desegregation in the 1960s; she “I wanted to see us [West Virginia] get off the bot- specifically to babies and their parents. can describe the stifling heat of Alabama’s Gulf Coast tom of the lists for education and literacy,” said Porter, Doctors know it too. In 2014 the American and the subzero bite of winter in the Central Plains. “and this seemed like a good way to start.” Academy of Pediatrics released a policy state- She can also tell you about the West Virginia roots of She contacted the coordinators of the Washington ment recommending that its physicians talk to Abraham Lincoln’s mother and the squirrel migrations County program to learn the ins and outs of launching parents about reading to their babies during their witnessed by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Of course, a similar project. With that roadmap, Porter set out to very first pediatric visit; they had previously her 83 years do not reach back that far, but a lifetime of find sponsoring organizations, funders, and a cadre of recommended this for the 6-month checkup. reading does. like-minded people to serve on a committee to man- Educators like Charlotte Porter and the First age the project. She presented the idea to friends and Books for Babies committee also know it. Their strangers, businesses and government organizations. hope is to make sure that every baby born at The Shepherdstown Public Library signed on as the Jefferson Medical Center begins life with a book parent organization, a quasi-governmental entity that and a parent who also understands the impor- would allow the project to more easily raise funds. The tance of reading to their newborn. Jefferson County Reading Council joined as a funding Each book and information packet provided partner; the hospital’s auxiliary and the Jefferson County by First Books for Babies costs almost $8. With Commission each gave startup grants of $1,000; and 20 to 25 babies born at Jefferson Medical Center First Books for Babies was born. each month, the project needs a steady stream of Porter stepped down as the official project leader income. It welcomes donations from individuals, after seven years but still devotes many hours to First organizations, businesses—anyone who wants Books for Babies, whether coaxing donations from to impact literacy in our community. Donations local businesses (an ongoing effort and the group’s can be made with a check to the Shepherdstown most pressing need), acting as liaison between the Public Library and a note on the memo line committee and the maternity department, or meeting directing it to First Books for Babies. with the committee to prepare for the next little baby boom in the county. The committee now relies on children’s librarian Christy Hagerty to select and order the books they vegetable garden of her childhood, but it is soon evident

PHOTO BY MONICA GRABOWSKA present, but Porter still loves perusing bookstore shelves that the memory is laced with a mother’s love and tied Charlotte Porter (right) presents a special certificate in June to for new baby books. It reminds her of the 13 years she with the powerful strands of prose and poetry. Tessa Belsterling and baby Hope to commemorate the fact that spent as an elementary school librarian. Selecting new “After weeding, or while we were snapping beans, Hope was the 2,000th baby to receive a book from First Books library books was one of the responsibilities Porter Mom would read to us. If she didn’t have a book— for Babies when she was born at Jefferson Medical Center on enjoyed most, but it was not for the thrill of finding a we didn’t have easy access to a library—she would March 12, 2015. The First Books Committee also presented Porter with a special gift to honor her “vision, leadership, and well-written or beautifully illustrated book, it was about recite poetry, sing songs, or tell us stories. She was a tenacity” in founding the literacy program. finding the right books for her particular students: the great storyteller.” one book that might hook a reluctant reader, inspire a As her voice trails off and you return to the here Porter will gladly share the fascinating stories and budding writer, or help a lonely student feel connected. and now, you see what the First Books for Babies intriguing facts she has gleaned from the books she has “Those achievements mean more to me than any- Project means to Porter even before she sums it up: “I read recently—ask her what she is reading and she will thing else in my career,” she said. strongly believe that every child should have a book to list two or three titles—but more than stories, she wants Like reading, gardening has been a lifelong passion begin with. It might be the only book they ever get.” to pass along the love of reading. As a retired teacher for Porter. She still tends extensive flowerbeds along her and school librarian, she understands that a lifetime backyard patio in Shepherdstown’s Willowdale subdivi- of literacy begins at the beginning. To that end, she sion. Take a tour of those gardens with Porter and you founded First Books for Babies in 2007. will soon find yourself walking back in time and west Monica Grabowska is a fourth grade teacher and Officially, First Books for Babies is a project of the to the ridges and valleys of Allegany County, Maryland, occasional freelance writer who was tapped by Shepherdstown Public Library and the Jefferson County where she grew up. She will not sugarcoat the toil and Charlotte Porter four years ago to join the First Books Reading Council, but in truth it was Porter and her sweat required to plant, weed, and harvest the two-acre for Babies committee.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 18 Welcome to Cymru Claire Stuart and Stephen Willingham

Part 1 Claire’s Mini Travelogue

e wanted to see mountains South of Conwy is Bodnant Garden, and castles, so we visited 80 acres of terraces, water features, Wnorthern Wales. Cymru flower-filled woodlands, and the famous (Kum-ri) is what Welsh people call their 180-foot archway of laburnums—small country, and it is shown on buses, trains, trees with clusters of dangling golden and official buildings. The Welsh are flowers. Founded in 1874 by a wealthy very serious about keeping their language industrialist, it was expanded by succeed- alive. It is a compulsory subject for ing generations and given to the National Conwy street and castle public school students until age 16, but Trust in 1949. “Welsh medium” schools teach exclu- Bodnant is known for its rhododen- sively in Welsh. An entire education, dron, camellia, and magnolia collections, through college, can be earned in Welsh. as well as trees and shrubs from around Every sign we saw was bilingual, the world brought back by 19th-century as were bus schedules, menus, and even plant explorers. Flowers are in bloom coasters in pubs! We heard a lot of Welsh every season, and masses of roses wel- spoken, especially on buses between comed us. small towns where drivers and passengers Mt. Snowdon, the highest mountain obviously knew each other. in Wales, is stark and bare, with great We headquartered in Conwy, a few expanses of rocks left by glaciers. At minutes walk from Conwy Castle. The Llamberis, we hiked to the ruin of the Conwy Castle latrines for castle looms over Conwy, the entire old Welsh castle Dolbadarn, where there is king’s workers empty outside section of the town enclosed by the castle no admission fee, guards or docents. The walls. Vehicles must enter through ancient countryside is dotted with stone huts and arched stone gates, and buses squeeze crisscrossed by stone fences and walls. through literally by inches, attesting to Slate is mined here, leaving scarred hills drivers’ skill. Access to the top of the resembling West Virginia strip mines. walls is free for a stroll above the city (and We visited two more of King a peek down into people’s backyards). Richard’s castles, Caernarfon, a massive The castle rises from solid rock, fortress with polygonal towers, and with eight huge towers and a maze of Beaumaris on the island of Anglesey, the courtyards, passageways, and living most beautiful, complete with a moat quarters. Ropes attached to the walls and swans. help visitors navigate the narrow, circu- Wherever we wandered, people were B od n a nt Ga rd e n lar staircases to the tops of the towers helpful and friendly. A standout was an for spectacular views. older gent we encountered as we left a Serious walkers with their dogs were bus. He pointed us to our destination everywhere, and Conwy Mountain was and a public restroom and offered us 20 full of them. The mountain is covered pence for the pay toilet in case we didn’t with purple heather and golden gorse, have change! with patches of towering magenta fox- gloves, a flower I had never before seen growing wild. Sheep marked in colors for identification wander freely, and the summit offers panoramic views of nearby towns and the Irish Sea. Beaumaris moat with swans

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 19

Part 2 Steve’s Castles and Politics

oday, tourists from around the movement by an enemy force through that world flock to see the “steel ring” part of Snowdonia. Only a single tower Tof castles created by the English and accompanying foundations remain King Edward I, in Northern Wales. These of a fortress that continues to attest to the stone fortresses are inspirational architec- reach and influence of Llwelyn Fawr. tural marvels, several of which, Conwy, Following the labor and expense of Conwy mountain trail Caernarfon, Harlach, and Beaumaris, are building castles with royal quarters, cha- now included on the World Heritage List pels, and rooms for the king and queen’s for their historical and cultural value. combined entourage of over 700 people, Following a second Welsh war of it might be assumed that Edward would independence led by Prince Llywelyn ap have spent more time in his new palace. Gruffudd, who was killed in a skirmish History reports him only staying once at in 1282, Edward began construction on Conwy, during the winter of 1294–1295, a castle and accompanying town walls at while besieged by a Welsh army. Here he Conwy in 1283. During Edward’s admin- passed a miserable Christmas. During the istration, 17 castles were either constructed siege, Edward is reported to have shared or remodeled from previously existing a barrel of wine, which was being saved forts, including reworked Welsh castles. exclusively for him, with his troops. As might be expected, many Welsh Magnanimously, he declared that everyone Conwy Castle natives entertained a different view when was equal on this particular occasion, it came to an English king’s insistence that considering the circumstances. The Welsh Wales submit to English rule. To buttress rebellion ultimately failed. his claim on Wales, Edward began to To quell an endless stream of upris- import English settlers into the region. ings, since the “steel ring” had the feisty These new residents needed defensive for- Welsh bottled up in their Snowdonian tifications as quickly as possible, since life stronghold, Edward somehow got them to outside of the walls would have been short. agree to his eldest son being designated Conwy castle and walls were com- as “the Prince of Wales.” In 1284, a son pleted in only four years. was born at Caernarfon to Edward and his While building at Conwy, Edward queen, Eleanor of Castile. The terms of simultaneously commenced raising the agreement were that the Welsh would Caernarfon Castle castles at Caernarfon and Harlech. These accept a child born in Wales, who spoke undertakings were expensive. Conwy not a word of English. alone was estimated to have cost £15,000, However, it wouldn’t be until 1301 approximately £45 million today, and that Edward of Caernarfon was officially to have employed 1,500 craftsmen and anointed with this title. He would reign as laborers. While costly, these fortifications, King Edward II upon his father’s death in and subsequent occupations, were seen as 1307. Since then, two other reigning heirs a wiser expenditure than returning to war to the British throne have been invested every few years. at Caernarfon, Prince Edward in 1911, Edward apparently had intended for eventually crowned Edward VIII, and Conwy to become the seat for his newly Prince Charles, the current heir, in 1969. conquered territory, because he went to There have been at least 21 Welsh princes considerable effort to relocate a Cistercian of Wales. abbey to make way for his castle, at what The castle at Beaumaris, on the island was then known as Aberconwy. Here of Anglesey, would remain unfinished, Dolbardarn Castle Gwynedd Prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, as would the most elaborate of them all, also known as Llywelyn Fawr (the Great), Caernarfon. Trouble with the pesky Scots and his sons were buried. This fact was to the north would soon engage Edward’s no doubt a symbolic coup for Edward, time, money, and attention. although the seat of power would eventu- ally shift to Caernarfon, after the region was divided into three counties. Claire Stuart writes for various area Llywelyn Fawr was responsible for publications. She enjoys visiting beauti- building one of the best examples of ful gardens and old structures. Stephen a Welsh castle. Located at Llanberis, Willingham wants to know the history Dolbadarn Castle overlooks Lake Llyn of every place he sees. He teaches senior PHOTOS BY CLAIRE STUART Padarn and was designed to block any English at Washington High School. Beaumaris Castle AND STEPHEN WILLINGHAM

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 20 Reclaiming Appalachia One Place and One Person at a Time

Brandon Dennison

he prompt for this reflection was: How did I it is not. Our philosophy is that many of our problems get inspired to found Coalfield Development? here are a result of getting away from who we really TIn trying to answer this question, I think of are as Appalachian people—whether that’s becoming three special places in Shepherdstown: Shepherdstown dependent on a coal company or the government. We Presbyterian Church, White Hall, and the Rumsey know through our history that this has been a place of Monument. Before I explain why, here is a little back- enterprising, creative, close-to-the-land people. And we ground: Coalfield Development is a not-for-profit seek now to reclaim this identity, to reclaim who we organization working in southern West Virginia to diver- really are as Appalachian people. sify the economy one place and one person at a time. We can only really keep an idea going if we are Our newest work is centered on Reclaim Appalachia, part of community. First, we need family and friends.

LLC. Reclaim will be a social enterprise that creates I’m abundantly blessed with both, and especially with PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY BRANDON DENNISON opportunities for young adults by combining training in a strong, smart wife who supports and strengthens In action, at the Shepherdstown deconstruction project traditional Appalachian artisan trades with community- my work. But we need to live beyond the walls of our college education and life-skills mentorship. Trainees home, too. We need people who pray with us and for us. make furnishings out of reclaimed materials, which are We need people who challenge us to be real. We need then sold to support their education. The initial seeds of people who push us forward in the march for justice, the idea were planted during my time as a Shepherd stu- kindness, and mercy. The people who did this for me dent from 2004 to 2008. were the incredible congregation of Shepherdstown Any good idea is based on ideas that came before. Presbyterian Church. Here, Ethel Hornbeck taught me We’re never quite as original as we think we are. Our how to really pray. Here, Randy Tremba took a chance prayers begin where those of our ancestors left off. on me, tasking me with the role of youth director even History teaches us this, and it serves as a wise guide though I was only 18. I learned the value of mentorship, for any aspiring change agent. At Shepherd, whether it the power of a more experienced person taking the time was Dr. Thomas singing to us, Dr. Henrickson joking at to share experience with a younger lad, like what we Group meeting with congressional delegates in Washington, us in Russian, or Dr. Brasher enthusiastically debating do through Reclaim Appalachia today. Here, I accepted DC, here with Senator Joe Manchin with us, we history students were well taught, with God’s call to justice as we were inspired by the homeless passion and gusto. White Hall still had the feel of 1970. in inner city D.C., migrants at the orchards, and native that my visions were grand, naive, and incomplete. Yet The desks creaked, and the chalkboards screeched (the people on reservations. that’s how ideas start, and the ignorance of youth has science, technology, engineering, and math students had In my experience, truly good ideas, ideas that can been a continual blessing to me. white boards, or even SMART boards), but we learned last and matter, come from quiet reflection and prayer. Later, in the early days of Coalfield Development, how to think critically and within context. We need community, yes, but we also need secret when my grand ideas to sow justice in my home com- When people asked me, “What’s your major?” most encounters with the Holy. These moments in solitude munity of southern West Virginia were struggling to gain of them inevitably responded to my answer with, “What strengthen our inner core so that when our ideas inevi- traction, it was the SPC community that rallied around can you do with a history degree?” I didn’t have a good tably meet resistance, we can persevere. These quiet me and helped raise the start-up funds for what has today answer then. I simply said, “I just like history.” But moments keep us humble, aware of our limitations and become Reclaim Appalachia. At the end of the day, it is today I could answer with a full essay. What I learned in our reliance on God. No place put me in a better frame our family, our faith, and the community of the faithful White Hall is this: To really solve problems (as opposed of mind for prayer than the Rumsey Monument. The that keep our deepest hopes alive. For as Appalachia to applying band-aids), you’ve got to go back in time. peace of the place, the way the water slowly meandered reclaims what it really is as a region, we each need to be The hardest societal problems are generational. This is by and the birds sang happily, strengthened me. reclaiming who we really are as people. We are people especially true in Appalachia, where we face the com- Peace permeates Shepherdstown. That’s actually born into an eternal covenant to be loved by God and, plexity of generational (rather than circumstantial) pov- my first memory of the town: coming to visit the in turn, to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and erty compounded by the many harms of a coal economy. campus and seeing the PEACE signs in three differ- strength and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Solving a generational problem can only be achieved ent languages, left over from the Middle East Peace within the context of a historical understanding. The sins Talks President Clinton hosted. There is space in this Brandon Dennison was born and raised in Ona, West of our fathers shape us still. The dreams of our mothers little town to think and envision and reflect, just as the Virginia. He earned bachelor’s degrees in history and define our hopes still. Potomac reflects in its lazy waters the bridge beams political science from Shepherd and a master’s degree So it is that while Reclaim Appalachia seeks to above it. As I sat journaling at the base of the monument in public affairs from Indiana University. He served as address generational problems (poverty, low educational with a little world on top, I felt a deep urge to make youth director at Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church attainment, damaged environment, negative mindsets), better my own little world in my home state of West from 2004 to 2009. He can be reached at bdennison@ we are not trying to change Appalachia into something Virginia. Reading back through these journals, I see now coalfield-development.org.

Reclaim Appalachia is a social enterprise, created by the nonprofit Coalfield Development Corporation, that reclaims building materials from deconstruction sites— so far preventing over 250,000 square feet of building material from entering landfills. But more important, it reclaims opportunity for young adults in southern West Virginia. You can support Reclaim Appalachia by purchasing products trainees have upcycled from reclaimed building material. Custom builds are available upon request. Visit www.reclaimappalachia.com for more information. Coalfield Development’s mission is quality homes, quality jobs, and quality lives for the communities of southern West Virginia. You can support its work by sending a tax deductible donation to P.O. Box 1133 Wayne, WV 25570. Info: www.coalfield-development.org.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 21 Religious Worship and Education Schedules

Asbury Church Christ Reformed, Christian Science Society Religious Society of Friends 4257 Kearneysville Pike United Church of Christ Entler Hotel—German & Princess Streets (Quakers) Rev. Rudolph Monsio Bropleh, Pastor 304 East German Street Sunday Worship & Sunday School: 10 a.m. Shepherdstown Monthly Meeting Thanksgiving Day service: 10:00 a.m. Telephone: (304) 876-3112 Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. for Worship and First Day School Reading Room is in Entler Rm. 210, Sunday Worship: 8 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. www.christreformedshepherdstown.org Sundays at 10:00 a.m. open before and after the service and Mid-Week Mingle: Wednesday, 6:30–8:00 p.m. Shepherdstown Railroad Station, by appointment. Call to confirm Sunday Real Recognize Real Teen: Audrey Egle Drive school and child care: (304) 261-9024 Sunday, 2:00–3:30 p.m. All are welcome. Contact Clerk, Elizabeth Hostler, (304) 582-8090, E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] www.4pillarchurch.org http://shepherdstownfriends.org

New Street United Methodist St. Agnes Catholic Parish St. John’s Baptist St. Peter’s Lutheran Church & New Streets 106 South Duke Street West German Street King & High Streets Dee-Ann Dixon, Pastor Father Mathew Rowgh Rev. Cornell Herbert, Pastor-Elect Karen Erskine-Valentine, Vacancy Pastor Telephone: (304) 876-2362 Telephone: (304) 876-6436 Telephone: (304) 876-3856 Telephone: (304) 876-6771 Sunday Worship: 10:00 a.m. Sunday Eucharist: 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Saturday Eucharist: 5:30 p.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Children/Adult Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Youth Faith Class: 10:00 a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. (located in grey house adjacent church) [email protected] www.StAgnesShepherdstown.org www.Shepherdstownlutheranparish.org www.newstreetumc.com

Shepherdstown Presbyterian Trinity Episcopal St. James’ Lutheran Church, Uvilla 100 W. Washington Street Corner of Church & German Streets Rt. 230 Uvilla Randall W. Tremba, Pastor The Rev. G. T. Schramm, Rector Karen Erskine-Valentine, Vacancy Pastor Telephone: (304) 876-6466 The Rev. Frank Coe, Priest Associate Telephone: (304) 876-6771 Sunday Worship: 8:15 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Telephone: (304) 876-6990 Sunday Worship: 9:00 a.m. Sunday School: 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Children’s Sunday School 1st Sunday of month Nursery year-round Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. www.shepherdstownpresbyterian.org www.trinityshepherdstown.org

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 22 GOOD NEWS PAPER RADIO HOUR! Second Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. | Shepherd University Radio Co-Hosts: Michael Zagarella and Murray Deutchman | WSHC 89.7 FM www.897wshc.org/listen-live

The basic format of the show is to have a conversation with interesting people in this area who do good things. If you know someone who you think fits this description, send the suggestion to: [email protected].

For guests and topics, go to www.shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org

DONORS

Byliners Susan Brown & Barbara Heinz Rebecca Phipps Barbara & Clifton Brooks Jr. Marellen Aherne Arthur Wineburg Sharon & Al Henderson Cheryl & John Pullen Odetta Brown Bonnie Casely Susanne Offutt & Patricia & Claison Henkes Robert & Linda Reynolds Patricia & Charles Brown Mary Sue Catlett Michael Zagarella Jim & Norleen Hoadley Martha & Robert Rizzo Marian Buckner Denis & Nancy Doss Mary & James Holland Sherman & Elinor Ross Richard Conard Dr. Billy Ray & Cindi Dunn Partners James Horton Theresa & Lyle Rush James Davis Jean Neely Sheila Bach Beverly & Robert Hughes Ann Coulter & John Shaw Karen Davison Brian Palank DDS Barbara & George Baker Catherine Irwin Robert Shefner Margaret Didden Mary Ann Rogers I.T. & Courtney Baker Tinu Mathew & Oommen Jacob Lenore & Thomas Sloate Judith Van Dyke Lisa & Paul Welch Dennis Barron Virginia Janes Sara Smith Shelley Feist Mary Bell James Keel Donna Windsor & Alton Smith Josephine & Charles Fridinger Patrons Patricia Donohoe & Joan Keith Betty & Harold Snyder Debora & Michael Gresalfi John Allen Dr. David Borchard Cynthia & Robert Keller Frank & Elisabeth Staro N. Julian Elise & Martin Baach Karen Ashby & Larry Bowers Susan Kennedy Patricia & John Stealey Doug & Karen Kinnett Phil & Charlotte Baker-Shenk Dodi & Frank Bradley Ronald Kepple Clifton Stubblefield Bonnie & Walter Knott Yvonne Fisher & Gene Bayer Judith & Marc Briod Lillian & Glenn Kinser Susan Swanda Phyllis & Laurin Letart Nancy Hooff & Sandy Brown John & Melinda Landolt Anne & Joseph Teresa Irene & Paul Marsico James Campbell Beth Burkhardt Mr. & Mrs. James Leathers Gloria & Robert Thatcher George Mason Helen & John Burns Sandra & Thomas D’Onofrio Rebecca & Burt Lidgerding Darlene & Brian Truman Rebecca Murphy Linda Carter John & Judith Lilga S. Tsukuda Addie Ours Marit & Donald Davis Ann Christy Dorthea & Richard Malsbary Lois & Frederick Turco John Schmidt John Demory Andrea Collins Chris Mark David & Jeanette Vanbelleghem Burt & Cari Simon Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Hammann Philip & Frances Cox Dorothy & George Marshall Anthony Vanderveldt Robert Snipes Lily Hill Louise Cox Susan Martindale Charles VanMetre Alice Sowada Mary & Joseph Horky Rosemarie Coy Daniel & Teresa Mason Karene Motivans & Michael Steinberg Patricia Hunt Joann Crabbe George McKee Stuart Wallace Mrs. Lyle Tabb Stanley & Judith Jones Janice Danhart Jonan & William Meyer Elizabeth Walter Joseph Talago Wanda Keebler Martha Doss Floyd Miller James & Sandra Watkins Ann & Michael Taylor Jack Kendall Mark Eddy Althea Miller Judy Weese Louis Upwright Edward Edelen Jr. Kathy & Richard Klein Alta Miller Mildred & Fred Wells Mary Via Jean Elliott Alexander & Pamela Miller Richard & Joyce Welsh W.E. & Joann Knode Virginia Donovan & Lynne Wiseman & Helen Moore Stephen Williams Charles Ware Harriet Kopp & Marilyn England Wendy & Stanley Mopsik Eldon Winston Christine Parfitt & Terry Wills Richard Ledane Aldene Etter Saundra Moreland Esther Wood Nancy Wilson Rev. James & Nancy Macdonell Kristin Alexander & Ella Mose Eileen Dooley & Denis Woods Laura & Thomas Martin Jeffrey Feldman Rhea & Russell Moyer Jr. Johnna Armstrong & Philip Salladay Eleanor Finn Dorothy Mozden Paul Woods Key Victoria & Peter Smith Susan & Richard Fletcher Barbara & Richard Nickell Lynn & Chesley Yellott * Byliners ($150–$300 gifts) Carolina & Brent Ford Edwinna Bernat & Dan Oravic * Patrons ($100–$125 gifts) Judith Jenner & David Startzell Friends Marie Tyler-McGraw & Rev. James & Dorothy Fox Lisa Parkinson * Partners ($25–$75 gifts) Peter & Linda Fricke William & Mary Lee Baker Howard Wachtel Vina & Vincent Parmesano * Friends ($5–$20 gifts) Eleanor & George Hanold Pamela & Reynolds Parziale Margaret & Gayle Becker Jo & Bill Wilcox Roland & Barbara Bergman Marianne Howard & Ralph & Laura Petrie Let us know if your donation Henry Willard II Rufus Hedrick Carl Beyeler Judith & Clarence Pharr has not been acknowledged: (304) 876-6466.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 Potomac Integrative Health 23 Potomac Integrative304-579-4746 Health Potomac Integrative304-579-4746 Health david304-579-4746 didden, md david didden, md Schmitt Construction Company david didden, md 207 S Princess St, Ste 11 James A. Schmitt P.O. Box 428 207Shepherdstown, S Princess St, WV Ste 25443 11 fax 304-579-4673 (304) 876-2462 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 207Shepherdstown, S Princess St, WV Ste 25443 11 fax 304-579-4673 RSH TAX SERVICE Shepherdstown, WV 25443 fax 304-579-4673 RALPH S. HAVENS, EA

Enrolled To Represent Taxpayers Before The Internal Revenue Service

Tax Preparation 304-724-1099 Tax Resolution 113 West Liberty Street, Suite 206 Audit Representation Charles Town, WV 25414

Michael & Deborah Luksa Proprietors Holistic Psychology Associates 129 West German Street Children • Adolescents • Adults • Couples • Families Shepherdstown, WV 25443 304.876.8777 Randolph R. MacDonald, Ed.D. Licensed Psychologist Open for Sunday Brunch Board Certified, Clinical Hypnotherapy Mailing Address: Old Town Center P.O. Box 209 Suite 9 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 (304) 876-6729

Top 100 Retailer of BLUE MOON CAFE American Craft Once In a Blue Moon Isn’t Enough 121 E. German Street This Space Available P.O. Box 1273 Shepherdstown Call 304-876-6466 bluemoonshepherdstown Corner of Princess & WV 25443 .com High Streets Debbie Dickinson Shepherdstown, WV 304-876-0657 Meredith Wait 304.876.1920

Proprietor

Dr. David V. Miljour Chiropractic Physician Thank you for being our guests MADDEX PROFESSIONAL CENTER For future reservations please call Route 45 West 304-876-6907 304-876-2551 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 205 E. Washington Street • RFD#2, Box 833 www.bavarianinnwv.com (304) 876-2230 (Rt. 230 E. and Railroad Crossing) Shepherdstown, WV 25443

TREE QUESTIONS? Contact a certi  ed arborist.

304-876-3104 101 www.trees101.net

Educati on | Consulti ng | Tree Care

Mondays closed | Sundays 11:30am-8pm | Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays 11:30am-10pm | Fridays & Saturdays 11:30am-11pm 117 East German Street Shepherdstown, WV 25443 | 304.876.1030 wvdomestic.com

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2015 Shepherdstown Ministerial Association Non-profit Organization P.O. Box 1212 U.S. Postage Shepherdstown, WV 25443 PAID Shepherdstown, WV 25443 Permit No. 33

Patron P.O. Boxholder Rural Route Boxholder

On the Web! www.shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org SEE ARTWORKS IN COLOR!

LIKE US ON FREE FALL 2015 FACEBOOK! but not cheap

Jefferson County Clouds GARY BERGEL