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PRE-PRODUCTION EDITOR Libby Howard People, Places & Things

SENIOR DESIGNER 4 Back to School With Dr. Suzanne Offutt. By Sarah Soltow Melinda Schmitt 5 Dr. Suzanne Shipley. By David Zunker DIGITAL IMAGE EDITOR Nan Doss 6 Fun With Succulents. By Claire Stuart PHOTOGRAPHER Jessie Schmitt 7 Fresh Feast on the Farm. By Hannah Cohen

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Wash yourselves; make yourselves incarceration of African-American men became the Jim Crow laws of explicit seg- in two slightly different forms, and yet clean; remove the evil of your doings fueled by a trillion-dollar “war on drugs.” regation—you know, equal but separate, the form used mostly by blacks reaps from before my eyes; cease to do evil, Since that “war” amped up in the including drinking fountains, bathrooms, a much, much harsher sentence. Prison learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the 1980s, the number schools, even seats on demographics tell that story. oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for of inmates rose from buses and trains. If the war on drugs were colorblind, the widow. The Prophet Isaiah several hundred thou- The 20th-century you’d expect drug enforcement agents to sand to more than two civil rights movement cast their dragnets over white suburbs, y son is serving time in a million, nearly a 2,000 prompted significant white professional office suites and elite federal prison. I visit him percent increase in civil rights legislation colleges where marijuana use is known to Moften. He’s white and that the incarceration rate. including the Voting be higher than in black ghettos. Can you makes him a minority in the United We are 5 percent of Rights Act. Those laws imagine what would happen if police did State’s prison system where more than the world population eliminated discrimina- random “stop and frisk” on prep school half of the 2.2 million inmates are black with 25 percent of tory practices but not or college campuses instead of the streets or brown. The guards, on the other hand, the world’s prisoners. irreversibly. We’ve of inner cities? What if 50 percent of are nearly all white. And we’re building seen progress but white young men were suddenly under What’s wrong with this picture? even more and bigger regression as well. arrest or imprisoned? Unless you believe that people prisons, as if we had Still, there are But that doesn’t happen. White youth of color are genetically predisposed no common sense reasons to be hopeful. are largely given a pass on marijuana to crime, you have to suspect that the or imagination. More and more possession. Black arrests are 3 to 1 over social and economic conditions into Nearly half of people, including the whites; convictions are much higher. which many are born provoke criminal all young black men attorney general of the So, what if anything can we do to behavior or that law enforcement is not are either in prison or under probation. United States, are waking up to this trav- mitigate or eliminate this diabolical colorblind—or both. More African-American men are in the esty of justice within the borders of our system? You’d have to be blind not to see American corrections system now than beloved country. Even those who once The first thing is to open our eyes that when it comes to the criminal justice were enslaved in 1850. favored “locking ‘em up and throwing to the truth of its unjustness and cruelty. system, race matters. I’ve seen the Being in prison is bad enough. away the key” are changing their minds. Change begins with knowledge. Reading extreme racial disparity in federal and But the stigma that follows an ex-con It’s a moral awakening but also Alexander’s book or one of the many state prisons. And that, in part, led me to for a lifetime can be even worse, says an economic awakening. According to frequent articles in newspapers is a good Michelle Alexander’s book: The New Jim Alexander. The lifelong penalties for even Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, place to start. Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of a nonviolent drug conviction have cre- it costs the state of California more than Awareness. Contrition. Repentance. Colorblindness. ated a permanent second-class status for $150,000 a year to keep a juvenile in Action. Of course, in one sense, “race” is an millions of Americans who are prohibited detention. By contrast, the state spends The solutions aren’t simple or artificial construct invented by pseudo- from voting, getting licensed for work, or $10,000 a year on students in school. And obvious. Prisons are needed up to a point science in the 19th century. We are all accessing public assistance. that’s generally the case in most states. for public safety. But there is such a one family, one species with various and There’s more than one way to be Marc Levin, senior policy adviser thing as “cruel and unusual punishment,” irrelevant shades of brown skin. But, shackled! for the conservative organization Right on including long mandatory sentences out unfortunately, we’ve come to make a Ex-inmates live on pins and needles, Crime, describes the change of opinion of touch with reality and common sense. big, big deal of pigmentation and to base or we might say, under a dangling sword. on parole violators like this: “It used to be According to Alexander, it will take unrighteous policies on it. Once you’re marked you are never free ‘trail ’em, nail ’em, and jail ’em.’ But con- a multiracial and multiclass mobilization If only race didn’t matter. But it again. The slightest and even completely servatives are changing. We are now more to change things. But, she says, if all does—at least here in America. irrelevant violation of parole or proba- likely to say, ‘Yes, surveillance is necessary, we do is reduce arrests and incarceration The idea that we may never reach a tion can cost another five to 10 years in but we also want them to succeed.’ ” rates or modify sentencing formulas, state of perfect racial equality is not cause prison with little or no recourse. Lose The wicked genius of this new we will not have done enough. for alarm, says Alexander. What is trou- your job or fail to get one and you are at caste system is that it doesn’t depend on We need a change of heart, bling, however, is the real possibility that risk of re-incarceration. It’s hard enough overt discrimination or racial animosity. a transformation of our nation’s soul. we, as a society, will choose not to care. for white ex-cons to find work. Guess All it requires is racial indifference to What the Bible calls repentance. I am writing this because I’d like how hard it is to get a job in the inner the plight of a racial minority and the The change must go deep. It you to care, care enough to get informed city these days. illusion that the law is applied neutrally. must reach our hearts. And like most about this national tragedy, about this The system dooms to failure many Colorblindness can be simple blindness. wholesome transformations it begins new kind of racial oppression in the ex-cons of color. And that is what Perhaps you have heard about the with compassion. United States—what Alexander calls the Alexander identifies as a racial caste disparities of sentencing and punishment “New Jim Crow.” It’s based on the mass system, a system that began 500 years for the possession of crack cocaine ago with slavery, and after the Civil War versus powder cocaine. It’s the same drug

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 4 Back to School With Dr. Suzanne Offutt Sarah Soltow

problematic, and many schools wait years pleasantly shaded area already equipped this was a little-used, dry, grassy area before such projects can be completed. with a few benches. The plan is to create with only modest appeal. Over several As an old quote from the ’70s states, “It an outdoor classroom and performance years, it has grown into another outdoor will be a great day when our schools get space here. Designed by local blacksmith classroom area that features a central all the money they need and the air force and former parent Eric Johnson, the pro- “river” of dry stones, a tile mosaic of has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.” posed improvements include two metal sun and sunflower, and the welcoming So it goes. towers fabricated from old hot-water mural painted by artist Rachel Cody and As our local schools and com- tanks that can be used to hold props or her sister. This central area is now used munities continue to grow, the body of curtains, an iron railing to assist in walk- for various messy projects that engage volunteers continues to give and to build. ing the slope, and the addition of more students on so many levels of learning Dr. Offutt lights up when she talks about benches for seating. These improvements and enjoyment. the contributions and the number of loyal will feature designs that incorporate pea- Another piece of art in the courtyard volunteers to Shepherdstown Elementary cocks and pigs as an acknowledgement of that draws the visitor’s eye is a large, School, calling them “absolutely remark- Shannon Donley’s farming interests that colorful, circular flower design displayed

PHOTO BY SARAH SOLTOW SARAH BY PHOTO able.” And through the efforts of years of he shared with the students. on a wall protected by an overhang. Upon Dr. Suzanne Offutt is NOT in danger of having community volunteers, Shepherdstown Exploring a little farther in this closer inspection, one discovers that this her head eaten by the SES Roadrunner mascot. Elementary has developed unique area, one arrives at the boardwalk. design is composed of plastic lids of offerings for its students. The Habitat Constructed as an Eagle Scout project by various sizes, colors, and shapes! It is hepherdstown Elementary School Committee has the goal of developing Carl Johnson in 2000, this approximately a unique reminder of the value of recy- is nestled into a cozy back corner the grounds of the school to enhance 75-foot-long boardwalk carries students cling, and of the power of the creative of the town. Situated on approxi- and extend education. The Butterfly and staff over the wetland area that is the spirit that can, and must be, nurtured in mately eight acres, it is bounded on one Garden greets students, staff, and visitors back boundary of the school grounds. our public schools. Sside by the Town Run with neighbor- in the front circle of the facility, and Walking this strongly constructed A further improvement to this hoods enclosing it in other directions. various plants in the Songbird Thicket boardwalk is reminiscent of strolling courtyard is in the works, as well. Using When the school was built in 1957, the attract year-round feathered friends. along other wetland viewing areas one a $50,000 grant provided through Senator first principal, Freel Welshans, declared Shepherdstown Elementary has devel- might find in the Cranberry Glades of John Unger, a science room/greenhouse it “a model of efficiency, comfort and oped a “Roots and Shoots” program that West Virginia, in the parks of Florida, addition will provide an appropriate economy.” Times change, principals for many years has nurtured in students or in other wetland areas such as the space for teachers to do hands-on science change, students grow up and move on. an awareness of nature and growing Bog Garden in Greensboro, N.C. One is as well as gardening activities. Yet the building itself must be cared for, things. Former student Tim Schmitt instantly transported to a kind of total Shepherdstown Elementary School nurtured, and occasionally renovated and completed the sign at the front of the immersion in nature, and the staff and is a solid academic institution. Dr. Offutt expanded to accommodate the changes school as an Eagle Scout project, and students are instrumental in maintaining notes the school’s consistent strength that are simply part of life. both pavilions in the playground area the natural integrity of this space. That in reading and writing, as well as in 4th Since it was first built, the school were volunteer constructions. means that they learn about invasive and 5th grade science. She commends building has tripled in size, with the addi- Currently, a group of volunteers led plants such as wild mustard and English her staff of 19 classroom teachers as tions of the gym, music and art rooms, by Fred Dubay (grandfather of former ivy, and they work to remove them. They they work toward implementation of back hallway classrooms, and the library. student Tabitha Sponaugle) is busy participated in a wildflower rescue where Common Core Standards and team-based Dr. Suzanne Offutt is the fifth principal constructing a GaGa Dodgeball enclosure they saved twinleaf and bluebells from a curriculum throughout the school. The in the history of the school, and the cur- on the playground. He and Mike Drewes construction site and replanted them in specials teachers (art, music, library, and rent 2013–14 school year will be her 15th and the King children spent several days this wild spot behind the school. Other physical education) work integrally with year in that position. in the hot sun completing the sturdy natural vegetation such as skunk cabbage classroom teachers to extend and enhance As the full-time custodial staff octagonal structure for this high-action is being restored, and right now, the the learning environment. completes a summer of deep cleaning game that kids are sure to enjoy! As cardinal red flowers brighten the scene. As many of us know, it takes a in the building—in each classroom, one meanders through the play area, it The boardwalk ends at the Town Run village to raise a child. Shepherdstown everything is removed and cleaned, becomes obvious that one of the greatest flowing gently and quietly through this Elementary School is a good example floors are stripped and waxed—various assets of Shepherdstown Elementary spot. What a unique offering for students of that proverb in motion. contractor trucks have pulled up to School is the beauty of its setting—old- where they can experience this kind of complete the really big job. This year, growth trees provide shade, rock outcrops setting, learn the care and maintenance Sarah Soltow, a local school counselor, certain parts of the building are receiving provide natural interest in the play area, that it requires, and grow in the knowl- is convinced that one of the toughest jobs an energy-saving facelift in the form of sturdy play equipment is available, and edge of the importance it holds for us all. in education is being a good principal new windows. The cafeteria, which takes the opportunities for outdoors activities Back at the school building, there is who creates strong, structured, and up much of the front face of the building, and learning are continually enhanced a mural that depicts the boardwalk scene creative learning environments for our will have a new view, as will one class- and expanded. and provides another source of creative students. room and the cross-connector hallway. Another current project is called pride and outlet for the families of the While the building could certainly use Donley Grove. Off to the side and a school. As the original school building new windows throughout, county funding little bit back behind the play area, there was expanded with a back hallway, a for major school improvements is always is a natural slope that rolls down to a courtyard was created. For many years

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 5 Dr. Suzanne Shipley Looking Back, Looking Ahead David Zunker

t’s been German all along. It took nearly two years for Shepherd but she also acknowledges one overriding Undergrad, master’s, doctorate. become accepted as a COPLAC univer- need to take Shepherd to the next level— I So, why is Shepherdstown Mayor sity, a collection that includes the likes the university is badly in need of a plan. SHEPHERD UNIVERSITY COURTESY PHOTO Shepherd University President Jim Auxer calling Shepherd University of University of Mary Washington in Dr. Shipley learned from stakeholders Suzanne Shipley enjoys the President Dr. Suzanne Shipley a Virginia, University of North Carolina that Shepherd was a place where a person Homecoming parade. “chemist”? Asheville, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, developed fully, with a broad generalized That’s just confusing. and Keene State College in New education, but also had plenty of time for somewhat offset by an out-of-state tuition But it’s not, really. What Mayor Hampshire. It’s rarefied air among these fun things like football and band and choir. of about $14,000. More money from the Auxer has landed on is the perfect word to kinds of member institutions that combine It had high academic standards, but it wasn’t state would be helpful, and welcome. describe the various skills and abilities Dr. student-centered teaching in small classes all about the learning and the classroom. It Ambiance-wise, the Shepherd master Shipley has and has applied, effectively with innovative curriculums and student was about human development, too. plan sees a university campus that’s more and successfully, to her role as Shepherd life programming. “I think the main thing that I’ve done walkable and green, with parking perhaps University’s 15th president. Auxer also knows how important is to help people distill their values into a on the perimeter and more residence halls. Dr. Shipley applies a chemistry COPLAC was to Dr. Shipley, but he future direction,” said Dr. Shipley. “That’s “The whole master plan is about get- that works among personalities. It suc- points to things like her willingness to what strategic planning is all about. People ting traffic out of the middle of campus,” ceeds within the framework of higher be engaged with the town on almost all had planned, but it was more like a large wish said Dr. Shipley. education and especially in what appears aspects, from participating in parades, to list. We distilled our wishes into 20 things Dr. Shipley sees a Shepherd future that to be a seamless interaction between selling tickets for burgers at Rotary pic- we’d like to accomplish, attached a budget to may appear quite different, with a much Shepherdstown and the University. She nics, to cooperatively planning streetscape it, and started doing it. I think that was a big more residential main campus and signifi- mixes things carefully, takes the com- changes that would affect the university surprise. People had seen plans on a desk, but cant growth in the new Martinsburg campus, munity’s and the university’s temperatures, and the town, to working out mutual aid they hadn’t seen a plan in motion.” which just opened in July of this year. and carefully guards against flare-ups or agreements between police forces. After five years, with the completion “I could see a thriving Martinsburg explosions. All is smooth with this chem- “She’s good at living in a college of the underpass, the new theater/arts campus, which we opened primarily to ist—there’s nothing but pleasing results, town,” said Auxer. “She knows how to building, a state-of-the-art wellness center, meet the needs of the student 25 and over new discoveries and measurable progress. balance things.” and many other major accomplishments, with job or family,” she said. “I could see Voila! Better living through chemistry. That college town balance is some- Dr. Shipley initiated a second strategic the Shepherdstown campus looking more Dr. Shipley herself might not use the thing Dr. Shipley learned in a variety of plan in year six, and she says this time and more like a COPLAC leader, instead chemistry metaphor, but she recognizes that venues, from Lubbock, Tex., where she around people really got on board. of middle of the pack—highly residential, the six-year period since she was appointed grew up and attended college at Texas One of the most obvious and talked- and highly engaged. It will feel like a president in 2007 has been a time of incre- Tech, to the University of Texas at Austin. about challenges of university and town more serious, studious campus. Still a lot mental positive improvement for Shepherd. She took her first teaching position at the cooperation is the issue of parking, but of fun, but protected, idyllic. Some of it is obvious—new buildings like University of Cincinnati, where she also both Auxer and Dr. Shipley are dedicated “So you’d see a few new residence Contemporary Arts II, and an underpass that became an honors director and department to solving the problem collaboratively. halls, a third theater/arts building, a unites both sides of campus—and some is chair. She was dean at Northern Arizona “The parking garage obviously needs to completely pedestrian-friendly campus,” not so obvious, like inclusion in a prestigious State University then went on to Arizona be built,” says Auxer. “A paper written in she said. collection of 27 public colleges and universi- State University, and finally the College 1955 said parking was a problem, so this Mayor Auxer doesn’t doubt all that ties in 25 states called COPLAC (Council of of Notre Dame of Maryland before taking has been around a long time. What I like will happen. Public Liberal Arts Universities). the Shepherd position. is that Dr. Shipley is open to options and “Dr. Shipley is a visionary,” he Allowing for bricks (or stones or She likes the small-town atmosphere to solving this issue together.” said. “She gets Shepherdstown. I mean copper) and mortar, and the growth in of Shepherdstown—and especially her Dr. Shipley says, like so many Shepherdstown can be a tough place to student population from 3,800 to nearly “90-second commute,” but understands things, the problem comes down to live. There are a lot of bright people in 4,300, Dr. Shipley describes becoming some of the dangers and drawbacks of money, and although there seems to be a Shepherdstown and you can’t just tell a COPLAC university as the greatest small-town living. logical location for a parking deck, adja- people stuff and expect them to swallow achievement under her leadership. “You don’t want to jab at people cent to Ram Stadium, the cost of tearing it. Everybody here has an opinion and “If you ask me what I’m proudest of, because you’re too close to them,” she said. down the building in that location (Sara that’s a good thing. But you have to that’s what I’m proudest of,” Dr. Shipley “That’s one of the things I love about the Cree Hall) is itself about $1 million. To bring those people in and she’s been able said. “You really have to work hard to be community—it’s an opinionated, but gently do a parking deck right will take more to do that. in that collection of colleges and universi- so, community. People here are smart than $12 million and with money tight “Dr. Shipley is sensitive to all those ties, only 27 in the country, all highly enough to have an opinion, but they’re also and state funding decreasing, the chal- things, but when the time comes, she’s respected, and we’re the only one in West collaborative, so that helps. And a lot of lenge is monumental. been able to make tough decisions and Virginia. That’s something I started as people have had interesting lives.” Financial support from the state of she tries not to be too wishy-washy—she soon as I got here because I looked around Dr. Shipley is open to those opinions West Virginia is one of Dr. Shipley’s sticks to her guns,” said Auxer. “She and said, Why aren’t we COPLAC? We and in fact has integrated them into plans concerns since it’s estimated that it costs has a plan and she’s really bright. We’re ought to be. So, it’s given us a place for for the university’s growth. $10,000 a year to educate a student at fortunate to have her here. I’d be happy best practices and a group of colleagues She credits her predecessor, Dr. David Shepherd. With in-state tuition at $6,000, to have her here forever.” that have helped us improve ourselves.” Dunlop, with accomplishing great things, that’s clearly a losing proposition, only

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 6 Fun With Succulents Claire Stuart

be used to recycle found I noticed that some home-and-garden materials or create fairyland magazines have been featuring succulent landscapes. All they require is pictures. They consist of shadow boxes a container with good drain- similarly planted with sedums and hen- age and some growth media, and-chicks in pretty patterns. and they will grow just about If you are truly ambitious, you anywhere. can even make animals using the same

PHOTO BY CLAIRE STUART BY PHOTO KAREN LARIOSA WILLINGHAM BY PHOTOS The most impressive use method. Bend chicken wire into three- Cigar box garden Zoo 2 of succulents I have ever seen dimensional animal shapes and fill them hen weather is hot and dry, Probably the most popular succulents was in the breathtaking Filoli Gardens with damp sphagnum, then plant them gardeners must either water are the Semperviviums (from the Latin near San Francisco. A hut big enough to with succulents. Wmore, look for plants that for “always living”), commonly known hold several people is covered with grow- The succulents used in wreaths, thrive in those conditions, or switch to as hen-and-chicks. They are native to the ing succulents. They grow through wire pictures, and animals will grow readily in rock and container gardens. mountains of North Africa and southern mesh that holds sphagnum moss. Inside sphagnum alone, but you could also give Succulents (including cacti) are Europe. They were often called “house the hut is a cage of white doves. them a little soil sandwiched between plants with thick, fleshy parts that retain leeks” (no relation to the leeks in the Our daughter-in-law, Karen, is fash- layers of the moss. Succulents do not like water to survive in dry conditions. The onion family), because they were tradi- ioning an imaginative little zoo where regular potting mix, so a coarse cactus succulents commonly grown as orna- tionally grown on roofs, supposedly as dinosaurs coexist with tigers and giraffes. mix should be used. mentals are those with thick leaves and protection against lightning. She rescues broken toy animals, sprays Whatever you choose to do with suc- stems. Some are tall and showy enough The leaves of hens-and-chicks grow them in flamboyant colors and plants culents, the most important thing is not to be featured in flower gardens, but most close to the soil in a rosette that looks succulents in them. She says she has seen to overwater. Wait until the surface is dry are short and grow happily in containers, like a flower. This is the hen. It multiplies similar creations for sale on the Internet and water sparingly. If you are using pots on dry slopes, between stones, and other by sending out tiny identical rosettes for about $75 each, so she has saved a with saucers under them, never allow inhospitable around its edges— bundle! water to stay in the saucers. places. the chicks—that You can grow succulents in just Now, go out and have some fun with Sedums can be used to start about any sort of container, but they succulents! are probably another planting. prefer to be in containers that breathe, the most Growing in this way, such as terra cotta or cement. You can well known the plant quickly use a broken birdbath or an old basket. succulents. covers the surface Some friends of mine have a whimsical Autumn of a container, a collection of sedums growing in old Joy (Sedum dry area, or a space shoes. Another friend has made a beauti- spectabile) is between rocks. ful series of what he calls fairy gardens, a tall variety Different varieties growing them in cigar boxes. often found have leaves of many Succulents do best in shallow con-

in perennial CLAIRE STUART BY PHOTO shapes and colors, tainers where their roots are constricted. borders. It Succulents in crack including green, red, They will grow in plastic toys, old pots grows to pink, yellow, aqua, and pans, old lunch boxes, and the about two gray, and variegated. leaky old bucket, but in those cases, the feet and The hen will only important thing is to put holes in them to bears huge flower once, sending up a provide good drainage. Coarse, sandy soil pink flower long stalk from the center mix should always be used.

heads in late of the rosette that produces Succulents can even be grown in KAREN LARIOSA WILLINGHAM BY PHOTOS summer that a cluster of small daisy-like wreaths, using a wire wreath Zoo 3 are loved by blooms. After blooming, the frame stuffed with damp sphag- butterflies hen will die, but the chicks num moss. Wrap it in chicken and bees. will quickly push in and fill wire or wrap fishing line around PHOTO BY CLAIRE STUART BY PHOTO Low- Insects on Autumn Joy sedum the empty space. Hens-and- it to hold the moss in place. In growing chicks can be grown in any this case, cuttings are used and sedums serve as hardy ground covers in dry place with good drainage, including pushed into the holes of the net. dry areas and rock gardens. The foliage on roof shingles, in spaces between Keep the planted wreath flat of sedums comes in many shapes, rang- rocks, and in containers. and out of the direct sun until ing from round and flat to needle-like, The best thing about succulents is the cuttings root (warning: this stacked, or globular. They can grow the fact that they encourage the creative could take months) and water in dense mats or dangling chains with gardener to indulge his or her inner artist. when dry by soaking the back in PHOTOS BY KAREN LARIOSA WILLINGHAM BY PHOTOS white, pink, purple, or yellow flowers. With a bit of imagination, sedums can a container. Zoo 1

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 7 Fresh Feast on the Farm Hannah Cohen

hile hiking in Vinci, Italy the convenience (think Leonardo da Vinci), I of a home kitchen. remember passing a villa with If I were cooking Wa sign outside stating something agritu- for 60, we would rismo. At the time, I was more focused be eating peanut on finding the trail (maybe something to butter and jelly do with reading a hiking map in Italian and sandwiches. drinking a bottle of wine at the summit), A Fresh Feast only now recognizing the lure of the land on the Farm din- behind those gates. In the same year that I ner sample menu TABB KIYA BY PHOTOS Main entrée Cool cucumber soup on its way to the table was introduced to agritourism, Jane Tabb includes: Smoked organized the precursor dinner that led to trout ball, salsa and chips, fresh fruit tarts, acknowledges that Fresh Feast on the That feeling of connectivity is what the founding of Fresh Feast on the Farm. braided bread, cucumber soup, pepper Farm would not fulfill its purpose Jane serves at her dinners. Fresh Feast Agritourism (agricultural tourism) steak, new potatoes, squash tomato gratin, without a network of farms and local on the Farm unveils the interdependence allows people to see, tour, and participate corn on the cob, peach cloud, and ginger food producers. A dinner that couples our among the land, those who cultivate it, in activities that relate to farming and the drops. Served with wine and coffee. farming community with the people who what their craftsmanship produces, the food production process. Jane and her guests know where need those farmers to provide food for hands that cook, and the community that The West Virginia Department of the food was grown and produced: their plates refocuses our attention to the eats together. Farmers give and give and Commerce’s introduction to our state’s Aqua Green & Meadow Green Farm; importance of protecting and supporting give. What we eaters take, we give back ventures begins: Kilmer’s Farm Market; Sunnyside Farm our land’s agriculture. Hopefully for in appreciation and financial support. Have you ever driven on a country & Orchard; Lyle C. Tabb & Sons, Inc.; many years to come, Jefferson County Fresh Feast on the Farm offers that road and noticed the calming effect of Round Oak Farm; Tudor Hall Farm will continue to remain a prominent chance to give back our appreciation to simply being away from the hustle and Market; Dunn’s Sweet Corn; and the farming community. According to the farm. bustle of everyday life? Has a wide-open Black Dog Coffee Company. Wine is the United States Department of The meal’s proceeds are divided into field ever tempted you to pull off the road sourced from West Virginia wineries. Agriculture’s 2007 Census of Agriculture, covering costs and giving back: 10 per- just to listen, sit in silence, and observe And one other very important ingre- Jefferson County grows the most wheat, cent of the proceeds are given to the farm the scenery? dient: Love. soybean, and corn; produces the most and 10 percent are given to the charity Sounds alluring, but so does eating. Out of love and pride in Jefferson milk; and ranks 3rd for fruit and 4th for that assists in serving the meal. A Fresh Feast on the Farm dinner County farming, Jane organized the origi- vegetables within the state. In June this year, Mildred and is a farm-to-table style dinner, where nal farm-to-table dinner, when in 2008, When acquiring ingredients for a Forrest Hammond of Southwood Spring the ingredients for the meal are locally her brother-in-law, West Virginia delegate dinner, those of us shopping at today’s Farms hosted this summer’s Fresh Feast sourced and seasonally dependent. Bob Tabb, hosted a dinner for members traditional locations have a multitude on the Farm dinner and the Future Dinners of this nature occur wherever of the state legislature. Once the dishes of predictable, dependable options and Farmers of America (FFA) Alumni food lovers seek to connect their larger were washed and the table linens packed, alternatives. Supermarkets source their Associations from Washington and community to its land. It takes place on Jane realized that she could do something produce from all over the country and the Jefferson High Schools served the meal. farm property, and often features a chef. similar again. (That was after commend- world. If I wanted to serve berry tart in Whether they intended to support local Fresh Feast on the Farm has Jane Tabb: ing herself on preparing a dinner for 70 the middle of the winter, I could. Fresh agriculture or the FFA, the guests were home cooking at its finest. people, made from local produce, and Feast on the Farm could not. the most wonderful part of the evening Jane plans and cooks dinner for served at a properly set dinner table on Remember when we discovered for Mildred. Seeing their delight, Mildred about 60 guests—sans supermarket and a farm.) In any respect she can, Jane what was for dinner and scoffed with points out that a farm-to-table-dinner gives back to her defiance? Our parents said “tough.” (Our is more than food; it is a place to give community, and rationalized or impulsive responses then thanks. not long afterward, determined our consumption of dessert.) Fresh Feast on the Sometimes Jane still gets to hear “tough,” The next Fresh Feast on the Farm Farm was founded but from Mother Nature (who really will dinner is scheduled for Saturday, October to connect her com- not give you berry tarts just because you 5, 2013, at 6 p.m., at Historic Clay Hill munity to their land want them). The seasons and weather Farm. Jane Tabb also caters small events. through their forks. determine her menu, so the menu plan- For more information: www.fresh- Her first ning process initiates about a month in feastonthefarm.com farm-to-table advance. Imagine planning dinner for meal reaffirmed 60 people and not knowing whether you Hannah Cohen would love to hear your the value of the have salad greens. I believe the experi- stories about food. She can be reached at relationships that ence would lead me to become intensely [email protected]. she has sustained more appreciative of the farmers working within the local to grow them and Mother Nature’s com- Fresh Feast on the Farm, summer 2010, Meadow Green and Aqua agricultural com- passion in providing for her children. Green Farm munity. Jane frankly

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 8 You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover Wendy Sykes Mopsik

he new face in the Children’s lessons. She learned how to live on in Pennsylvania. In June 2013, just three Department of the Shepherdstown little money and how to rely on her own years later, she became our new chil- Public Library is one that many in resourcefulness to get what she wanted. dren’s librarian. Ttown will already recognize. She is Lilly She earned a regents’ bachelor of arts She remarried in June to Eric Bauer, Bauer, proud holder of a recently earned degree from Shepherd University over an her longtime companion and fellow master of library science, public library eight-year period, including testing out co-worker since the days at the U.S. concentration, and she is excited about of certain courses, providing a portfolio Coast Guard. They blended his family of the future. supporting her experiences, and taking four children from a prior marriage with In her typical hardworking, deter- traditional college courses. All the while, 13-year-old Orion Phipps and 9½-year- mined fashion, Bauer completed the she worked and raised her two children. old Lyra Phipps from her first marriage. degree while going to school part-time Initially, she worked for the U.S. Postal When queried about plans for the and online. “I’m persistent or stubborn, Service, doing shift work, but that didn’t Children’s Department, Bauer answered, depending on how you view it. Some allow time to parent the way she knew “Right now I’m just trying to get a have even called me crazy but I knew was important for Orion and Lyra. handle on the whole operation and try to that I would figure something out.” The U.S. Coast Guard National keep things running smoothly.” Beyond the book’s cover, Bauer Maritime Center in Martinsburg offered She already has considerable knowl- possesses intellect, creativity and the next opportunity for her to “figure edge of those services, since she volun- resourcefulness. This single mother out something” to fit her situation. teered for several years on Saturdays in with a full-time job attained her goal Honing her skills as a problem solver the Children’s Department with librarian of becoming a children’s librarian. and organizer of materials, she worked Anne Eden.

Born Lillian Clare Newton in as a government contractor for six years, One project that Bauer is exploring MOPSIK SYKES WENDY BY PHOTO Waynesboro, Va., and growing up on setting up various offices, writing poli- with the Shepherd University Language The Shepherdstown Public Library is pleased a crop farm in southern Maryland, she cies and procedures, and using some of Department is a foreign language story to introduce its new children’s librarian, Lilly Bauer, who’s eager to start her fall programs. learned early how to use her imagina- her art background to create an attractive hour. She is busy weeding out the old tion. She drove a tractor at age six weekly newsletter for employees. books and selecting new ones so that American ways passed on by her mother and, until age 13, when she moved to But the most appropriate job for the collection reflects the best materials and father, Katherine Hutson and James Shepherdstown, enjoyed the rural life. this time in her life became possible possible. Her challenge now is to prepare Newton. As adults, her parents wanted to Several unexpected happenings triggered when Bauer decided to take a big risk. the collection for the library’s move so reconnect with their roots stemming from the relocation and landed the family Without worrying, and in spite of her it will expand to fit the larger space in a Cherokee and multiple Southwest tribes. in Shepherdstown, where Aunt Carol family’s concerns, she resigned from the new building. Bauer was introduced as a youngster to a Sanders made her home. Living among Coast Guard to finish her senior year at “With such a small space, we can’t variety of traditions, rituals, and stories. cousins and other extended family mem- Shepherd. A subsequent paid internship afford to take up room with less than stel- Her Native American child nickname is bers added another dimension to Bauer’s for students at the Robert C. Byrd Center lar books.” Bauer added. “Waya” or wolf and connotes a loner or existence. for Legislative Studies, working for archi- “My hope is to provide better service one that is protective of her space. Bauer She recalls, “We hung out at the vists Keith Alexander and Mark Levitt, to patrons in the improved space but knows the Cherokee alphabet and can Wall and Lost Dog, went camping along proved to be the beginning of a fruitful still maintain the welcoming and unique speak some Cherokee and Lakota. Tattoos the C&O canal, tubing on the river, and partnership. atmosphere that we have in our current acquired in her 20s and 30s depict the hiking at Maryland Heights. There were Bauer soon earned the position of library.” name Waya in Cherokee, a raven, an lots of teenagers, and we had relative office manager and archive assistant, Perhaps one could judge Bauer’s owl, and a favorite Mongolian design, all freedom because everyone knew each continuing to develop her interest in “cover” and assume that she is a realist reflective of her inherited culture. other’s families. It was an open and safe maintaining and organizing a collection from her forthright manner and practical The best approach to judging a environment to grow up in.” of resources. As time passed, she began solutions to life’s everyday problems. book is to read it from cover to cover, Summers were always special and, as to realize that something was missing in But ask what her favorite books were and clearly the best way to judge a teen, Bauer spent many hours working the work she was doing. She was helping as a child (and still are today), she will Shepherdstown’s new librarian is to visit with Sanders Museum Services, the fam- to archive Senator Byrd’s vast collection respond surprisingly. “I’ve always loved the library and get to know her. Fall ily business. She assisted with displays of memorabilia, papers, and historical quirky stories with great illustrations like programming for children of all ages is for the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., material, but this had little effect on the those by Eric Carle, Roald Dahl, and currently underway with innovative story the Natural History Museum on the Mall, daily lives of local people. A library is Maurice Sendak. I was also drawn to hours and lots of enticing book titles and the Jewish Heritage Museum in New where she longed to be making a differ- fantasy and science fiction, loving The just waiting for patrons to check out. York City. Her favorite part was seeing ence. “I knew I wanted to help choose Chronicles of Narnia and the Wind in Introduce yourself to Ms. Bauer and ask the curators handling artifacts and learn- the right book for the customer and make the Door series. To this day, I collect old her to recommend something you won’t ing by doing, as she did, finishing work children delighted.” fairy tale books, having forever cherished be able to put down. on the installations. This fascination with Returning to school wasn’t as dif- older fairy tale versions illustrated with objects, books, and collections of papers ficult this time. Online graduate library pen and ink or watercolors.” Wendy Sykes Mopsik enjoys reading is a theme that continues to prevail. science programs were available, and her Another surprise that doesn’t fit real print books from the library almost Marrying at age 19 and divorcing children were in school, so Bauer began neatly with her “cover” or outward as much as she enjoys telling the story at 24 taught her at least two essential her course of study at Clarion University appearance is her keen interest in Native of the new librarian.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 9 Tommy’s Pizza Behind the “15 minute” curtain Todd Cotgreave

ne of my first experiences with One day I called in a pick-up order Tommy’s was finding a half- for just fries. Oeaten box of pizza lying in the “We don’t have any.” hallway of my dorm at Shepherd. Being “You don’t have fries?” heavily inebriated and forgetting that it “No.” had been there for the two previous days, “Really?” I ate it. That was a mistake. Sigh. “15 minutes.” I was reintroduced to Tommy’s a When I picked them up he said, PHOTO BY TODD COTGREAVE TODD BY PHOTO MABLE COTGREAVE BY PHOTO year later by visiting the establishment. “Who orders just fries?” Tommy’s Pizza in Shepherdstown George Kalathas, owner I’m not sure which experience was more “I do. They’re really good.” unpleasant. “OK.” George has a good thing going: a sometimes asks why it’s called Tommy’s. Known as a curmudgeon by most routine, a constant, steady flow of people She took the above photo of George one of the online reviewers, visitors, and Another evening, 10 minutes before who love his food and love seeing him. such afternoon when she was three. Is that townsfolk alike, George Kalathas is the closing time, I called and made a large He has time to get the gossip, talk about the face of a curmudgeon? sole owner and operator of one of the obnoxious order. the weather, and watch the kids in town friendliest and most delicious places in “You know I close in 10 minutes, grow up in front of him. He does this in “Some things to know before town to eat. right?” George said. between making food and answering a entering Tommy’s Pizza: “Really?” you say… “Oh well, if it’s inconvenient because phone that rings nearly off the damn hook. 1. Do not ask for an ice water; of closing time, I just live two miles anything free is going to greatly “George, a curmudgeon? Absolutely. down the road. Do you want to drop it off “Best pizza in Shepherdstown area. displease the shopkeep. It is likely that when ordering [over the on your way home?” Great value, too. It’s a medium thickness 2. Owner/operator is a curmudgeon phone], the only things you will hear are “Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha…bulls**t!” pizza dough with a perfectly chewy and yet and will have no gratitude for ‘Tommy’s’ and ‘fit-teen minutes.’ But when Click, dial tone. crispy crust. He doesn’t skimp on toppings. your business. I used to eat in with a friend over beers, When I next came in to pick up an He also makes good cheese steaks and 3. Food is ok, but it is expensive. he was actually pleasant and engaging. order, he had a smile on his face. I had Greek salads. The owner, George, is all 4. Owner has been in fistfights with He gets a bad rap, and his food surpasses done it. I had cracked the curmudgeon business, so don’t expect the red carpet customers. all other inexpensive, crap-food eateries egg. From that point on, I was privileged rolled out for you. He’s kinda like the pizza 5. Get your food to go, to avoid the in town. I place no false pizza idols above to slowly get to know the real George. nazi, but that’s ok. Just don’t push his high probability of rudeness.” Tommy’s pizza. Do so and be smote.” buttons unless you want NO PIZZA. I’ve —Google User Review —Google User Review “It’s true that George doesn’t say gotten pizza and salads here hundreds of much, but I’ve never witnessed any rude- times. Yes, they don’t take credit cards, so “People need to stop expecting res- Before I knew that I was in search ness from him. Really though, he could run bring cash or NO PIZZA. Ha Ha! I love it.” taurant owners to fawn over their service. of what it meant to be a local in over my grandma with a truck and I’d still —Google User Review Just because the owner doesn’t butter you Shepherdstown, I was complaining to my go there ’cause he makes the best food ever. up and say thank you repeatedly (or at friend Mike about George’s gruff attitude. His calzones and pizzas are amazing!” Several years ago I got the phone all), doesn’t mean you should stop going Mike told me in no uncertain terms that I —Google User Review numbers mixed up and called another there. Best pizza in the tri-state area, was mistaken. In college, Mike had worked pizza place in town. Not realizing, I went hands down. Also, disregard above state- as a delivery driver for George, and he said So what does it mean to be a local in in to pick up my pizza from George. ment that food is ‘expensive,’ because it’s George was one of the most caring and Shepherdstown? It may mean your family “I don’t have an order for you.” more than affordable.” considerate people he had ever met. has been planted in this town for two or “Ah man! I’m an idiot! I called the —Google User Review I knew the food was good, but to us more centuries. Or you have been at the wrong place!” college students Tommy’s was known farmer’s market for an hour, hanging out, “Yup…You’re an idiot.” George’s Pizza will not affect the as “Tommy’s Pizza; It’s the Hate That and haven’t bought anything. Or your One day I was sitting in the restau- grand scheme of the universe; it will not Makes It Great.” How could Mike say rear end has worn a groove into the Wall. rant and saw my friend Sylvia come in save dolphins from cast nets or pull a those things about George and be right? For me, I got closer to local status when for her pizza. She had the biggest smile puppy from a burning building. But his Valuing my friend’s word, I went in I started ordering my pizza “with spices; on her face and went behind the counter pizza shop creates unique experiences search of this caring person, using the burn it” from George. to give George a hug. She got her pizza for its visitors, local or passing through only tool I had: obnoxiousness. Tommy’s may be the secret place to and ran out the door. Later, I asked her Shepherdstown. No one can go to George’s Every week when I came in to order eat in town. It’s not mixed in with the other why she had hugged the pizza nazi. and leave saying, “Ho hum, what a rather my standard Friday night pizza, I would restaurants on main street; you have to walk “You’ve got it all wrong. Our kids ordinary place.” All have some reaction that ask a different annoying question. one block off the beaten path to find it. grew up on his pizza and he loves each raises the eyebrows, for the food, for the “Do you have anchovies?” One block. How can it be hidden if it’s one one of them. He is the best.” fury, or both. What else are we here for? “No.” block from the other restaurants? Well for My friends and I now take our chil- I’ll have my Shepherdstown “Can I bring my dog in here?” one thing, George does not advertise. At all. dren to Tommy’s sometimes after dance experience with one large pepperoni- “No.” But as the years passed, I have watched a class at the train station. I don’t know and-mushroom pizza with spices; burn it. “Do you take out-of-state checks?” steady stream of customers come through what I like more, watching our girls ask Thanks, George. “No.” the door. Day in, day out, never ending. George to turn the jukebox up so they can “What sizes do your fries come in?” People come in and, if they know George, dance in circles and scream like banshees, Todd Cotgreave is the chief operating Taps the menu above him with a pen. they come up to the counter, engage in or seeing the smile on his face as he peers officer of Shepherd University’s radio station brief conversation, and out they go. over the counter to watch them dance. WSHC 89.7, and has been classified as a My daughter loves going to George’s, and “mammal” by his daughter Mable.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 10 A Universal Bridge Sue Kennedy

Art is essential for human life. It can’t Burns was establishing the Sharon Today Burns’s gallery just belong to a few, it belongs to all Buckner Gallery. can boast years of exhibits mankind. Art is the universal language. Though the newlyweds enjoyed all of well-known names in —Diego Rivera Austin offered and “loved the city,” soon the art world: Suttenfield, they decided they were too far from fam- Keller, Austin, Praybe, hepherdstown, W. Va., is a piece ily. They moved north and settled near Rees, Love, Davis, Carney, of extraordinary art. From its Hauver’s hometown, Sharpsburg, Md., by Black, Perry, Basford, natural position in the countryside Antietam Creek. While Burns designed Allen, Mendez, Muse, to the integrity of its historic preservation and framed for Fraser’s Art Shop/Fraser Summerford, Hill. The list Sand the phalanx of local artists continu- Johnson and Associates in Gaithersburg, goes on. Each exhibit, each ally creating and performing, everything Md., Hauver established himself in the reception, is a gift to those about the little town is pure art. Signs of local arts community. who appreciate art, fun significance and beauty abound, and it’s Hauver is one of those multifaceted food, a glass of wine, and not easy to rate importance, but if one talents who turn everything he does into an opportunity to meet the were to designate the fine art focal point art. In addition to his paintings, he is artists and art lovers. of this little nest of creativity it would be, equally well known for his work as a In the middle of it all hands down, The Bridge Gallery. luthier and as a stonemason. Everything is a smiling Burns. “I’m In 1991, Wayne Skinner, in a stroke is a creative endeavor. always so thrilled to have KELLER BENITA BY PHOTO Kathryn Burns of genius, converted his Shepherdstown In 1991, Burns started Antietam people come to meet the garage, an unpretentious two-story brick Arts, a wholesale arts service business artists. I’d like to hold all kinds of events Steve Kemp, Susan Videtti, and Stacey building on the fringe of town, into The that helped designers, art consultants, and in the gallery and branch out to bring in Gerard. Also Grapes and Grains, and of Bridge Gallery. He had a true apprecia- architects from all over the Washington, even more artists.” course, all of the artists who allow her to tion for fine art, loved his community, D.C., area. Though this work of hanging The gallery has been the site of a exhibit their work. saw a need and filled it. Seventeen years shows and designing how best to exhibit variety of private gatherings and even Though Burns’s major focus is on the later, Skinner passed the torch of owner- for the desired reaction did pose some an annual meeting or two, but it’s her artists and art and her legion of friends ship to his colleague from Antietam Arts, serious challenges, there were none she generosity toward her friends that is most at the Bridge Gallery, she continues to Kathryn Burns. couldn‘t handle. touching. Within the past year, three of support projects and events around the Burns is so well known throughout When it came to impossible assign- Burns’s comrades have fallen—two art- region. A board member of the region’s the region one might just think she grew ments, little beat framing. Burns recalled ists and a fellow gallery owner. Without Arts and Humanities Alliance, she serves up here. Not so. Burns is a New York girl, with amusement her most memorably a blink, there was a fund raiser in the as secretary and on AHA’s Teaching Arts from Tonawanda, just outside of Buffalo, difficult projects. There was a full-size works at the Bridge to benefit the fami- Creatively (TAC) Committee. And in the fifth of Kathryn and Donald Burns’s shower curtain signed by Psycho’s Janet lies. That’s the kind of person Burns is. September she was a major factor in the six children. Little Kathryn was, as she Leigh. Then, the giant-sized, two-sided It’s not business; it’s personal. prestigious Berkley Arts Council Juried says “an explorer” and the only Burns Alice in Wonderland poster signed Last year Burns took some aban- Exhibit. The exhibit is open to artists sibling to “leave town.” by Johnny Depp and the entire cast doned kittens to the gallery and built in all media who reside in one of the While the others studied education of Hollywood notables. Her favorite, an event around them. They were all eight counties that compose the Eastern and engineering, Burns found her love though, was designing huge shadowboxes adopted. In August, there was a month- Panhandle of West Virginia. Those coun- was art. She earned a degree in design for the display of Beatles memorabilia: long auction and sale to benefit the ties are Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan, and art history at North Florida State in photos, trading cards, 8-tracks, and Animal Welfare Society of Jefferson Hampshire, Hardy, Grant, Mineral, and Jacksonville and a bachelors in fine arts Beatle bobbleheads. Nothing inside the County. Her ideas for even more include Pendleton. As was reported in the impres- from the University of Maryland, College Beltway is done on a small scale, and informal art critiques and discussion sive media coverage, “The Juror for the Park. While in college she did it all— when it came to creating memorable pre- groups; “meet the artist” happy hours; exhibit is Katherine Burns, owner of the sculpture, drawing, prints. She discovered sentations, Burns was in the thick of it. bridal showers; auctions; a lending Bridge Gallery in Shepherdstown, WV. her interests lay more in the business end In 2004, “after 13 years of isolation” library; field trips to museums; and Ms. Burns is an accomplished gallerist of the arts and put this major interest to in wholesale arts service, Burns leased promoting other art-related happenings and art consultant.” work organizing the Montgomery County the top floor of Bruce and Nora Roberts’s around the community. She’s a walking Burns is a fun, appreciative, and Parks and Rec Children’s Art Program historic building in Boonsboro, and the idea and open to more. magnetic lover of the arts, whose life’s and running Atlantic Arts, a wholesale retail Antietam Arts Gallery and Framing “How does an Evening of Bridge at work has always been to share that love. frame shop, in Hyattsville, Md. was born. At last, “It was great having the Bridge sound to you?” she asked. When Frederick Franck wrote in The Zen Burns met Michael Hauver when coffee with neighbors.” (It sounded great.) of Seeing, “Art is neither a profession nor they were students at Maryland. Hauver, Finally we come to the offer she She’s quick to state that these open- a hobby. Art is a Way of being,” he had to an award-winning arts major from couldn’t refuse. In 2008, Wayne Skinner ings and events don’t happen easily, have been thinking of her. Shepherd University, was in the masters offered Burns the opportunity to take and she has an army of unpaid friends program. They were married in 1989 over The Bridge Gallery. Burns has great without whom she could not do any of it. Sue Kennedy is a Shepherdstown and moved to Austin, Tex. While Hauver respect for her friend and former col- Friends such as: Laura Johnson, Bonnie resident who never misses an opening was studying at the University of Texas, league whom she calls “brilliant.” Edelen, Ned Marshall, Sally Schmitt, Bill at The Bridge Gallery. McCullough, Erin Ewer, Benita Keller,

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 11 ARTWORKS The Return of Joe Mayer David Zunker

A sit-down with both Joe and “When I was here, I ran my gallery Once, Joe suggested to Ann an Ann (and their delightfully attentive and taught,” he said. “That’s mostly how approach she could use in her work. small dog, Harry) provides an enchant- I made my living, and I was doing a lot “She told me to get the hell out of her ing perspective on good fortune and of realistic landscape painting. Now I studio,” he says. Ann laughs. She waxes life’s odd twists, along with plenty of love abstracts, despite the fact that some poetic about one of Joe’s abstracts: insightful philosophy and a view of people think perhaps I’m not wired real Magnum Opus. It’s one of her favorites, two dramatically varied art styles. Ann tight. But I think it’s the highest level of and she hopes it will never sell but she’s is a self-inspired artist who has always art, just like jazz is considered by some sure it will. enjoyed drawing and in college took fine the highest level of music. In art it’s Does the work reflect their arts classes. She has now taken Joe up abstract or non-objective painting. Just personalities? on his suggestion to forsake a career in as there’s a very limited audience for “Actually,” says Joe, “maybe. nonprofit management and focus on her jazz, it’s an acquired taste. So at age 75, I Although I think it’s just the opposite. passion: portrait painting. said I liked the whole concept of and the I work here, she works there; I work Joe was—and is—a painter of purity of abstract work. And so I started abstracts, she works representationally. naturalistic landscape watercolors, spe- painting abstracts.” I’m very controlled and she’s very wise.” cializing in representational, sometimes Mayer draws a distinction between Ann and Joe’s marketing style is

PORTRAIT BY ANN SHARP BY PORTRAIT impressionistic, pieces. Several years ago, abstracts and non-objective art. “Abstract also very different—a natural outgrowth Joe Mayer he moved into abstracts as well. painting can be realistic, to a degree,” he of the kind of art that they specialize How Joe got into abstract and says, “because you’re taking something in. Joe focuses on exhibits and shows. e’s baaaaaaack! And he’s brought non-objective art is a story of major from the real world and translating it. Portraiture requires Ann to work on com- someone very special with him. life decisions—like not joining the CIA Non-objective is when no objects are mission. These are also differences they HThe very popular, entrepreneurial, after he’d been a cryptographer in the recognizable and you’re down to the pure celebrate. talented, and engaging artist Joe Mayer is Army. And there were quirky, fortuitous color, lines, shapes, values, and textures. And Shepherdstown should back from a southwestern swing to Santa opportunities, including being a “gluepot It’s music without words, and it’s also celebrate. Joe is back, and with Ann, Fe, ready to reenter Shepherdstown life jockey” at an advertising agency; an art a very limited audience. There are no Shepherdstown gets a twofer: two very with his wife, artist Ann Sharp. teacher in Montgomery County schools, recognizable objects, but your audience different, and very creative, additions Despite finding Santa Fe inspir- then chairman of the school’s fine arts will work like hell to find them, saying to a creative and welcoming community. ing and fascinating, with a lively arts department by default; teaching art for things like, ‘Uhhh, I know there’s an Joe plans to catch up with many community of its own, the creator of several months in France; and open- elephant in there somewhere.’ ” of his art friends, colleagues, and former Shepherdstown’s Joe Mayer Gallery and ing a studio in the Torpedo Factory in Mayer says that abstract work students at the Friday morning artists’ the Friday artists’ group continued to feel Alexandria, Va. He started an artists’ frightens a lot of people. If you don’t events that start at the Presbyterian the gentle tug of this place. Something group in Easton, Md., that in six months understand it, you fear it, he says. church and sometimes find their way about Shepherdstown, where he’d kept a grew from several dozen to more than “A guy came up to me at an abstract to the great outdoors, but he does not studio and taught art classes, beckoned 200 before local coffee shops tossed them show one time,” Mayer said, “and said he plan to get back into the gallery game, him back from the land of rattlesnakes, out for taking over the space, finally didn’t like abstract work, and I said, ‘It’s preferring to be in shows. In September, scorpions, cactuses, and tarantulas. landing the group at the Tidewater Arts an acquired taste and that’s okay. I’m not he will exhibit 16 original pieces at the Neither he nor Ann saw any of those shop on the Eastern Shore. insulted by that, but is there anything I Foss Gallery in Easton, on Maryland’s creatures during their time in New Somewhere in there, Joe met Ann. can help you with?’ And he said, ‘That Eastern Shore. The same month, he will Mexico, so it was perhaps ironic that They lived his life as an artist, and she one piece you had…I can’t not look at participate in an abstract show being they were warmly welcomed here by a continued to manage nonprofits. But it. I keep coming back and looking at it. planned by Kathryn Burns for her Bridge three-foot blacksnake on their front step at one point they both decided they What’s wrong with me?’ ” Gallery in Shepherdstown. You can and word that a black bear was barreling were getting dull, and it was time to Nothing’s wrong with him, accord- contact Ann and see examples of her around in downtown Shepherdstown at do something completely different. ing to Mayer. It’s just the very different work on annsharpart.com. the same time. “I was tired of being the artist’s natures of abstract and non-objective art. Omens? Forget omens. Just find it wife,” said Ann. “So we decided to go David Zunker is a local writer and amazing that they would turn their backs somewhere where no one knew me or In Joe and Ann’s living room, two of editor who comes to this area by way of on the third-largest concentration of art Joe, so I’d have the chance to be the artist Joe’s watercolors, both landscapes, soft Minnesota, Virginia, and South Carolina. galleries in the whole world to return to I always wanted to become.” and mellow, are in one corner and across He can be reached at [email protected]. little ol’ Shepherdstown. That’s saying Joe saw Santa Fe as one heck of an the room are two brightly colored, vibrant something—about missing kids and fam- adventure, which it was. “But my heart’s abstracts—very different styles. They’re ily, yes, but it also speaks to missing the back here,” he said. also very different from Ann’s work. Her energy of a community that appreciates And this is a good place to grow pieces, hung in their own rooms through- the arts, where Joe says at one time he his new passion as an abstract painter out the house, keep their distance from probably knew 800 of Shepherdstown’s from the land of landscapes—a shift that Joe’s—separated by style, like peas and Artwork 1,200 residents (now up to around 1,700). occurred about seven years ago. potatoes on a plate.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 12 Joe Mayer

“you are here,” acrylic on canvas, 36"x36"

“The Boat House,” watercolor, 11"x14"

“Gathering Nets,” oil on canvas, 24"x30" “Unemployed,” watercolor, 22"x26"

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 13 ARTWORKS

“Violets Love Greens,” acrylic, 36"x36" “Perfect,” acrylic on canvas, 36"x36"

PHOTOS SUPPLIED BY ANN SHARP

See artworks in color at shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org “Unemployed,” watercolor, 22"x26"

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 14 POETRY Gene Ervine “The Letter” and other poems

Willow 1974 The Letter From “For a Traveling Friend”

Dad This is the letter Rice Paddies at Dawn Thinking ahead I never sent you. Vietnam To how the wet snow I have written so many Would bring that sapling down That disappear It isn’t really cooler Across our road In notebooks or drawers. But in the early light Made an undercut The rice paddy dikes Then toppled down the bank I have written you Mark the landscape Before the tree About how sorry Like nearly living His heart done I am, Contour lines of civilization About how much you Drawn by sore bent backs Never to worry again Are missed, Muck and hunger About potholes, the brush or ditches. Or how thankful on a land so old That all happened years ago. I am. That it is hard for me I started his saw and dropped that willow. To understand where Even now, sometimes But somehow they remain To begin with a camera. I look up to find myself Unsent, my most heartfelt, So I start here, catching Walking slowly down that road My deepest messages. The simple, sweeping lines In his direction. Maybe there isn’t enough Of these paddies in Here for a stamp. The new day breaking.

So I close the notebook, Padilla Bay, Salish Sea at Sunset Or shut the drawer, Wishing you knew After the Rain The sunset What was there. Vietnam Goes in stripes here. Even now There are waves Wishing you knew It was a downpour. Tiny waves in this bay. The clouds came quickly Playfully they flash All of it. Off the Gulf—a deluge. The pilings The water pounded off Across the surface. The roofs and sluiced Down ditches. Those tiny waves A Scroll With No Brush The steamy heat Rub around rocks Cedar Rock Preserve, Shaw Island, Washington Didn’t dissipate. Seem to slide away as the But the insects and spiders Sun sinks. At the edge of the window Thrush and swallow wings In thick fog Hid under leaves and held on. Catch the last of the day, A madrona branch projects Cobras swam for high ground. As a heron bends Into the view like brush work Afterward the air was sweeter To punctuate the evening. In a Japanese scroll While the streets glistened. In the late morning Beyond the silhouetted bough, People came outside. Rows of pilings stand in the water In saffron robes Your Name A mute testament A young monk To where a dock Walked seriously If it really means anything Once was. Down the street That I can’t recall, So many comings Skirting a large puddle Their names right now, And goings. In sandals I will continue to say yours. Now just cormorants Land to stretch their necks The four-year-old urchin I will say it like a smooth, And dry their wings. And his near naked little sister Moss agate touchstone, Splashed right through it. Like a Chinese jade talisman, Islands rise from the fog Ah, how brief are I will say it like a bright silk flag, Taking shape as if what The joys of this world With all the letters Could be art Ditching puddles For “YES!” on it. Shifts to become And floating small things Our world. Downstream. When I can’t remember anyone else, I will still utter your name, over And over under my breath. Simply celebrating you. Gene Ervine is a former resident of Jefferson County and former member of the Bookend Poets Workshop here. His career was devoted to publicizing the values of America’s federal public lands under the stewardship of the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Gene and his wife Nancy live in Anchorage, Alaska.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 15 EARTHBEAT The Top 10 Worst Environmental Films of All Time Mark Madison

he 11th annual American Jaws (1975). A hugely (hopefully the novel this The Lorax (2012). A slim, classic Dr. Conservation Film Festival entertaining film with a was based on among them) Seuss book is transmogrified into a T(ACFF) is rapidly approaching terrible message: Sharks while they wait for Dennis bloated, moronic, 3-D popcorn flick. (October 31–November 3), and this is and other large predators Quaid to rescue them on While the book’s message was thoughtful traditionally the time I look at some want to eat you. In fact, a snowmobile. The global environmental parable, the film was a of the best environmental films over the exact opposite is true. warming message and the slapdash mishmash, with Danny DeVito, the last year or so. This year about 150 Human consumption of acting provide such a zenith Betty White, and every other crude films were submitted, and the ACFF shark fin soup and careless of awfulness one can only character actor currently underemployed Selection Committee and an underground fishing techniques are conclude that the film put in service of a script pulled out of the bunker of supercomputers will winnow actually making many spe- must have been funded by Pixar trashcan. them down to about 25 of the best. So cies of sharks endangered climate change deniers. I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees it occurred to me that choosing the best globally. By contrast, in Whose deaths are pointless for films was a rather pointless exercise; the the United States, sharks Into the Wild (2007). This scripts such as these. ACFF will be doing that for you. kill about one swimmer Academy Award–nominated What is really needed is a list of every two years. So the five fatalities in film about Christopher McCandless, Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2008). films with a bad/wrong/incoherent Spielberg’s sharkphobic film represent on a troubled young man who dies in the As seems fitting, I have saved the environmental message. These may be average a decade’s worth of shark deaths. Alaskan wilderness, won rave reviews worst for last. With a title like this, one perfectly good films as entertainment, but In conclusion, environmentally this film from critics and audiences. However, its already knows it will live up to its bill- the environmental thought is more mess bites! As an added minus, it is directly environmental message was as confused ing. Birdemic was a homage to Alfred than message. So keeping in mind this responsible for the abomination that is as its unappealing protagonist. The Hitchcock’s The Birds (a rather good year’s ACFF begins on Halloween, here the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. protagonist’s view that nature was merely environmental film) and Al Gore’s An are some horrors of environmental films. a place to discover himself Inconvenient Truth. The Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981). (a woody therapist’s couch) result was more a homage to White Wilderness (1958). An Academy Yikes—the end of peak oil means we will was as simplistic as it was Ed Wood and his films, such Award–winning Disney True-Life dress like Conan the Barbarian and have fatal. Unlike earlier wilder- as Plan Nine From Outer Adventure seems an odd choice to open Mel Gibson as our savior. This action ness explorers such as Muir Space. Either climate change the worst list. Yet White Wilderness easily flick predicts the decline of fossil fuels and Brower, McCandless’s or avian flu is causing poorly earned the first slot by giving the first will mean that out-of-work pro-wrestlers ignorance about all aspects rendered CGI (computer (and most popular) visual depiction of will terrorize Australia’s last petroleum of his landscape proved generated imagery) turkey lemmings committing suicide by leaping facility. Anti-Semitic anti-hero Mel fatal—not the poison ber- vultures (an apt metaphor for off a cliff and drowning in the Arctic Gibson, ironically, agrees to lead the ter- ries depicted in the preten- this film) to attack wooden Ocean. In fact, the film was shot in rorized survivors out of the desert. This tious film version. actors. Although after watch- Alberta, Canada, a province that, inconve- fuel-starved post-apocalyptic film ends ing the film one concludes niently, has neither lemmings nor access to with an interminable car chase adding to The Happening the birds are ostensibly doing the sea. Not letting the facts get in the way the incoherence. (2008). Famous one-hit- the world a service, here it of dramatic footage, the Disney filmmak- wonder director M. Night is presented as a tragedy, ers purchased a few dozen lemmings and On Deadly Ground (1994). A deadly Shyamalan made this Arbor albeit a laughably bad one. herded them over a cliff into a river, where earnest eco-action film from the mind of Day horror story. Trees have created their The hippies and scientists both sound the many did in fact drown—from homicide brain-dead Steven Seagal. Evil Michael own version of the red tide (science is not same and are equally incoherent. This one not suicide. This improbable Disney myth Caine, in his best Snidely Whiplash role, Shyamalan’s strong suit) and are causing is probably worth watching on Netflix just of lemming suicide is still widely believed attempts to exploit Inuit lands for their humans to commit suicide. Perhaps the for the sheer grandeur of its awfulness. thanks to this popular film, which has as oil. Seagal foils his plot by drowning toxin should have come from lemmings. much to teach us about real rodents as a Caine in oil (saving us from Jaws 5, one The only realistic death in the whole film That concludes my “dishonorable Mickey Mouse cartoon. hopes) and boring the audience to death was the (long overdue) career suicide this mention” list of bad environmental films. via an incongruous end-of-film speech. presented for the director. I have watched them so you don’t have With this film Seagal successfully joined to. But if you succumb to curiosity, Billy Jack to the environmental film The Grey (2011). Another fun film with consider yourself forewarned! genre. The best argument for not drilling a moronic message. Liam Neeson helps in the Arctic Refuge would be to spare us six air-crash survivors escape a murder- Mark Madison is one of the founders of a Seagalian sequel. ous wolf pack in the far North. Wolves, the American Conservation Film Festival like sharks, are far more likely to be and has been on its selection committee The Day After Tomorrow (2004). human victims than vice versa. As if the for 11 years. He is not proud to admit he Global climate change leads to a frozen murderous wolf stereotype were not bad has seen all of the above films and even Northern Hemisphere was the suppos- enough, the film makes up another wolf enjoyed some of them. edly ironic, but in reality moronic, twist myth—wolf packs seek revenge. A howl- to this film. Survivors hang out in the ingly stereotypical wolf film. New York Public Library burning books

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 16 Shepherdstown Film Society Celebrates 10th Year Mary Bell

providing the first screenings happen, as well as everyone summer film festivals in 2005–2007. The several seasons who sees the films, are the film society. Historic Shepherdstown Commission, the of films. It was It takes a lot of behind-the-screen American Conservation Film Festival, her idea to follow work to make these wonderful evenings The Station at Shepherdstown, Christmas each film with happen. Volunteers choose films, some- in Shepherdstown, Shepherdstown 250, a discussion, a times around a theme and sometimes not, and the Byrd Center for Legislative tradition that and work with Shepherd’s Scarborough Studies have all sponsored and/or continues. With Library staff to determine if the films are inspired films for the SFS. the enthusiasm available and affordable. The film society When asked what it is about the SFS of the community reserves the space, distributes posters, that they like most, Welch and Miller both

PHOTO BY MARY C. BELL MARY BY PHOTO and the support writes press releases, arranges for describe that “magical moment” before a Shepherdstown Film Society lunch meeting at the Blue Moon. Left to of the university, discussion leaders, and sends reminder film begins, when the lights go down, and right: Charlie Brown, Lisa Welch, Mina Goodrich, Pam Miller, Lex the SFS was off e-mails to its members. On the day of the the audience settles in, ready to be trans- Miller, John Splaine, Mary Stanley, and Elliott Kirschbaum. and running. screening, Elliot Kirschbaum reviews all ported to another place, perhaps another isa Welch loves movies, so when she On October 8, 2004, SFS screened aspects of the audiovisual equipment to time, and another experience. and her husband Paul were thinking its first film, Moderato Cantabile, a ensure that the film is presented with the “It’s a wonderful feeling to know Labout moving to Shepherdstown, the 1959 French film. It was chosen because best picture and sound quality possible. you’ve been a small part of making that Shepherdstown Opera House was part of it was the shortest of the films being Even the SFS has to pay for the right happen,” Welch explained. what drew them here. It showed an array considered, and the SFS volunteers really to show films, and that can be expensive. Other members of SFS describe the of current, classic, art and foreign films did not know if anyone would show up In 2008, the SFS partnered with the social experience of watching a film as seven nights a week and is literally a few to their first screening. Well, 85 people Scarborough Society, an arm of the part of an audience. steps from their front door. Film lovers’ came, and, to this day, that film is one of Shepherd University Foundation, which “It’s not the same as seeing it at heaven! Sadly, the very weekend in May Welch’s favorites. provides the SFS with the financial and home. You experience the film as a com- 2004 when they moved to their home on Lex Miller, who attended films that other support it needs to continue showing munity, and the films encourage people German Street, the Opera House closed first season when he and his wife Pam films for free. to go out,” Mary Stanley offered. its doors to films. moved to Shepherdstown, volunteered to The partnership with the Scarborough John Splaine believes that the post- Shepherdstown without a film work with the SFS. Miller writes press Society is just one more example of the screening discussion, a trademark of the venue? Well, that just wouldn’t do, so releases and takes care of publicity for outstanding support the university has SFS, is what sets the SFS apart. Welch, a “can do” person, started the SFS. His love of film started when he provided to the SFS. From making space “People bring out points and ideas Shepherdstown Film Society. Welch was a college student and saw Ingmar available to leading post-film discussions, that never crossed my mind,” said Elliot describes the inception of SFS as a pro- Bergman’s films. Like several others in the Shepherd’s constant involvement with Kirschbaum. cess of listening and making connections. SFS, he had lived in the Washington, D.C., SFS has made it a success. As Welch says, Charlie Brown, who hangs SFS post- She and film enthusiast friend Mina area, where the theaters like the Circle, the “This is the best town-and-gown relation- ers, commented that people stop him on Goodrich talked up the idea of a film Biograph, the Key, and the Janus showed ship we could possibly have.” the street or at the bank and tell him why society with everyone they knew. They art, classic, and avant-garde films. Shepherd’s Common Reading a film was so special to them. listened to ideas and comments, and they In the last 10 years, SFS will have Program partners with SFS to show a The SFS fall season kicked off on identified a cadre of volunteers who love screened (including the upcoming fall film every year, and the Appalachian August 30 with an opening reception movies and brought skills and energy to films) 158 films from 25 countries in Heritage Writer-In-Residence program, organized by Pam Miller, an event that the table. Pretty soon, people were stop- 18 languages. Usually about 75 people chaired by Dr. Sylvia Shurbutt, sponsors begins each film season. The theme this ping them on the street to suggest films attend each showing. The oldest film one or two films each fall related to the fall is “Films from Japan.” and share ideas. Welch and Goodrich screened was a 37-second film from work of the featured writer. The Office of The SFS website (www.shepherd- listened to those suggestions, and incor- the 1890s of a train coming toward the Multi-Cultural Student Affairs has spon- stownfilmsociety.org), operated by porated them into how they shaped the camera. Miller read that when this film sored a film each of the past six years for volunteer webmaster Jim Ford, contains Shepherdstown Film Society. was originally shown, the audience, unfa- African-American History Month. the current film schedule, an archive of Dr. Michael Austin, who was dean of miliar with this powerful new medium, In addition to Shepherd, other groups the fabulous films screened over the last graduate studies at Shepherd University, panicked. The oldest full-length feature in the Shepherdstown community sup- nine years, and more. loved the idea of a film society and actu- screened to date is M from 1931, with port the SFS in myriad ways. Friends To support the SFS and help ensure ally suggested its name. He introduced Peter Lorre. Each film is presented with of the Shepherdstown Library was an that our community continues to enjoy Welch to Dr. Mark Stern, then vice presi- a pre-film introduction and a post-film early collaborator with SFS, and FOSL these free films, the SFS strongly encour- dent of academic affairs at Shepherd, who discussion led by someone knowledge- board member Agnes Freund, a gifted ages you to join the Scarborough Society. offered Reynolds Hall as a venue. Austin able about the film. graphic designer, designs the beautiful had installed new audiovisual equipment The SFS is not a club, a corporation, publicity posters one sees around town. Mary Bell is a Shepherdstown resident and trained SFS volunteers in how to use or a nonprofit entity. It’s simply local The Shepherdstown Opera House began who loves movie classics. Her favorite it. Dr. Rachel Krantz joined the Shepherd people who want to show and see great offering films again in fall 2004, and movie is The Third Man—or maybe faculty in 2004. She taught film courses, films. The volunteers who make the they collaborated with the SFS to offer The African Queen. Or Auntie Mame.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 17 Reprinted from Fall 2002

GOOD NEWS PAPER • FALL 2013 18 Reconstruction or Counter-Revolution? That Is the Question Stephen Willingham

hat takes 40 years to write, citizenship and seizure of property, and accounts for 10 pounds of gal- it involved loyalty oaths for voting, Wley proofs, and weighs 2.5 lawsuits, and restrictions on the practice pounds once it rests between covers? of certain professions, such as teaching The answer: West Virginia’s Civil War– and law. It would be these individuals and Era Constitution: Loyal Revolution, their supporters, and those who opposed Confederate Counter-Revolution, and actions by the federal government, who the Convention of 1872. This hefty tome formed a “counter-revolutionary” van- of 811 pages was written by Shepherd guard, spearheaded by Democrat/conser- University distinguished professor vatives, who would finally seize political emeritus of history Dr. John E. Stealey power in 1872. What Confederates had III. While the book did take 40 years been unable to accomplish with arms to complete, Stealey readily admits, “It they now succeeded in doing through wasn’t a continuous effort.” This book is electoral action. However, the real fly his fourth, his second to be published by in the ointment turned out to be the 15th Kent State University Press. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, With the perspective, size, and ratified on March 3,1869, which granted complexity of this project and the dedica- suffrage to recently freed slaves. (This tion it took to complete, the question amendment also seemingly invalidated looms large: Why would a busy college the proscriptions, but it actually only professor, even a distinguished one, take STEALEY JOHN SUPPLIED BY PHOTO added momentum to the movement for a The stone wall John labored over for 22 years exemplifies his natural persistence, much as his on such a painstaking task? After all, the book does. The stone was moved from other locations and reassembled by John at the home he new constitutional convention.) 1872 constitution remains the basic law shares with his wife, Pat. “Confederate delegates’ assets of West Virginia today. However, Stealey had shrunk after the war,” Stealey prides himself on being a researcher and constitution on August 22, 1872, Department chair, the late Margaret E. T. confirmed. He indicated that losing writer who is willing to explore well by a vote of 42,344 to 37,777. Byrer, a descendant of Samuel Woods of their basic rights to state citizenship beneath the surface to get at long-buried In attempting to “clear up the Philippi, whom Stealey describes as “a was too bitter a pill to swallow. facts that might provide clarification and amnesia” and provide a narrative about key convention committee chairman.” Though the political proscriptions guidance for, in this case, modern West the debates surrounding the “new” Besides possessing a bulldog were punitive and represented vested Virginians. Stealey says, “If you don’t constitution, Stealey was forced to determination to get at “the truth of the interests, he conceded, stripping returning know what has been done in the past, rely on newspaper accounts from matter,” Stealey said his basic modus Confederates of their suffrage, while how can you make intelligent decisions the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer operandi was to ask “more detailed ques- extending it to mostly illiterate former in the present?” (Republican), the Wheeling Daily tions than most. One must be persistent slaves—while many Confederates were Stealey asserts that in tackling this Register (Democrat), and the Kanawha and ask the right questions.” educated and had proven leadership mammoth project, he wanted to clear up Daily (Charleston), reputed to contain the Another question that naturally arises skill—was anathema to returning what he has previously dubbed “consti- most comprehensive collection of debate when surveying this gargantuan effort Southern veterans. Thus the issue of race, tutional amnesia” by giving historical reporting, which Stealey pointed out, “is is: Why was a second West Virginia hitherto mostly disregarded as irrelevant context to the development of the state not complete.” Interestingly enough, the constitution even necessary? After all, in past studies of the 1872 constitution, constitution. Kanawha Daily folded at the end of the the founding constitution, from 1863, becomes the central theme of Stealey’s What is the source of the amnesia? convention in 1872. provided for an amendment process. Why book and is the issue that separates it And why is it important to snap people Stealey then had to turn to the not simply pass an amendment to correct from other previous efforts to shed light out of this self-perpetuating trance? The personal papers of the convention partici- “wrongs” or to further clarify “original on the subject. main reason for the amnesia was that pants. Fortunately, much of this material intent”? For Stealey, this is where the For example, in 1868, during no official transcript was kept of the does exist, but it is in scattered locations, rubber starts to meet the road. debates surrounding the ratification of debates during the state’s Constitutional including Morgantown, Charleston, Political proscriptions, hastily the 15th Amendment, Waitman T. Willey, Convention of 1872. There was a journal Richmond, Shepherdstown, and codified by the Radical Republican state a Republican, and the only delegate to of basic drafting events, but little infor- Washington, DC. Stealey also depended founders, particularly the administra- serve in both constitutional conventions, mation about who said what when—and on private individuals who allowed tion of the state’s first governor, Arthur had vigorously stated in a speech that how any of these arguments affected the access to their illustrious ancestors’ I. Boreman, in an ultimately failed “Negro suffrage should never be forced final draft that was eventually submit- personal papers not included in any major effort to hold on to political power, had upon the citizens of West Virginia.” It ted to the West Virginia electorate for depository at the time of his research. disfranchised returning Confederates should be noted here that Willey proved ratification. Voters approved the new He particularly noted the contribution following the end of the Civil War. to be a moderate who ultimately provided by former Shepherd English Disfranchisement meant loss of state supported lifting proscriptions against

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which held that one-half of the people Massachusetts as part of the Missouri should own the other, and called that a Compromise, West Virginia is the only Republic.” It is laying bare this intense, one forged on the anvil of war. Historians and vitriolic, level of debate that Stealey will continue to debate the causes and wishes to reveal between the covers of a effects of the Civil War and states’ single volume for the first time. rights following ratification of the “War Americans now find themselves Amendments” to the U.S. Constitution. engaged in a continuing racial dialogue We hear much in the news today about as a result of the verdict in the Trayvon local control and states’ rights, while Martin murder trial in Florida and the many elected officials seek to trim the recent rulings by the Supreme Court of size of the federal government, in an the United States that rolled back some effort to transfer increased decision- provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights making power to the states. Sectionalism, Act. Most people, from President Obama regionalism, and geography are still as to the average citizen on the street, can active in contemporary American politics agree that race relations in the United as they were in 1872. States have improved mightily in the last Sectionalism, Stealey maintains, 50 years. Yet most will also agree that “still plagues West Virginia politics to work still needs to be done. It is too soon this day.” He agrees that migration in

PHOTO SUPPLIED BY JOHN STEALEY JOHN SUPPLIED BY PHOTO to rest on our laurels. Like it or not, race, certain regions has somewhat diluted The gray Irish draught is named Tazewell. He is one of John’s projects outside of academic research. as in 1872, continues to be an issue with regionalism but believes it remains a which America must grapple. driving force in state politics. former Confederates. He also vigorously of the state and their subsequent gen- (A source who spoke only on Stealey opens his historical narrative worked against the more extreme racial erational reign, thus contributing to the background for this article, steadfastly with an account from the 19th-century initiatives floated by Democrats at the resulting 21st-century “amnesia” that maintains that race is the reason “a Texas British historian and constitutional lawyer 1872 convention. However, his comments, Stealey hopes to dispel with his new convict” was able to garner nearly 70,000 Viscount James Bryce that brings this in 1868, indicate just how incendiary book. He continues: “Delegate John J. votes in the 2012 Democratic primary, remarkable effort into perspective, and the issue of race was later on at Davis of Clarksburg said if the phraseol- while running against President Barack offers context for any student of history Charleston for the second constitutional ogy of the bill were slightly changed, Obama from his cell in Texarkana.) about to undertake reading it. “If one convention. he would vote for it. Moving for recon- Contrary to the assertions of for- wishes to understand American political The Democrats, in their successful sideration, Davis amended the bill by mer Confederates at the time, Stealey thinking, it is necessary to study state bid to secure state political power, used inserting the word ‘white’ before ‘male’ argues, “West Virginia didn’t experience constitutions that are the oldest elements race-baiting to help corner the votes in describing eligible voters in Berkeley.” Reconstruction since it had been a Union in American political history.” In other needed not only to push through a new This particular attempt by Davis state since its inception.” For this reason, words, to understand where we are going constitution but to allow a firm grip on to exclude blacks from voting came he refers to the 1872 constitutional con- as a nation, it is necessary to know where the levers of power in the aftermath, during debates that surrounded the vention, and resulting new constitution, we have been. something they accomplished for a Flick Amendment, which would have as a “counter-revolution.” As with many professionals, retire- generation following 1872. “They guaranteed suffrage for all property- Stealey further explains in his book, ment for Stealey only means shifting wanted their own constitution,” Stealey owning males 21 years or older and “West Virginia was born out of revolu- gears. He keeps his finger “on the pulse elucidated. “Why amend a document removed the “whites only” designation. tion. It was a response to years of neglect of academia” from a modest office at [the 1863 constitution] that they didn’t According to Steven W. Rice and Otis K. by the political powers of the east, Shepherd University, where he taught have anything to do with creating, since Brown in their textbook West Virginia: A culminating with an outright rejection of for more than 40 years. He also reflects they had all been off fighting in the History, in June 1870, at the Democratic secession. Nothing such as this had ever that he has a couple more books in Confederate Army?” convention in Charleston, the delegates happened in the American Republican him, should the vagaries of life and “There were only about 3,000 refused to follow the lead of a majority experience.” health allow him time to write them. eligible black voters at the time,” Stealey report that recommended passage of the In this way, the regionalism that West Virginia’s War-Era Constitution explained further. “The Democrats Flick Amendment. Charleston newspaper Stealey says still permeates West is available locally at Four Seasons greatly inflated this number for their editor Henry F. Walker then announced Virginia’s politics manifested itself, Books. Stealey’s other books include own obvious purposes. Only in a couple from the podium that “it was the duty of since many Mountain State citizens one focused on the diaries of Berkeley of eastern counties could there possibly the Democrats to maintain the honor and in 1861 voted for secession with their Springs native David Hunter Strother, a have been enough black votes to affect dignity of the Caucasian race, and, as this feet by joining the Confederate Army. renowned 19th-century artist/illustrator the outcome of an election.” is a white man’s country so it should be a Those same individuals, along with their known widely as Porte Crayon, and two Just as with the Civil War, accord- white man’s government.” The Democrats political allies, would concertedly rise examining the importance of salt to the ing to Stealey, “Slavery was the issue.” agreed. Thus the stage was set for the to put an end to Radical Republican rule economic development of both Virginia He concedes that there are many who second constitutional convention less that only lasted seven years. Republicans and West Virginia. Stealey lives near disagree with his premise. “However, just than two years in the future. wouldn’t regain political control until the Shepherdstown with his wife Patricia read the reports,” he continued, referring To further illustrate just how big 1890s. Ann. Here he finds an outlet from the to the sources in the book. “A whites- the role of race was up to and during the In spite of its size, this 2.5-pound rigors of research and writing in stone- only vote: To keep it or not was a big 1872 Convention, Granville Davisson book with its 800 pages is, nonetheless, work and horseback riding. question. Race pops out again and again.” Hall, future editor of The Intelligencer, essential reading for any serious student Stealey writes: “‘Confederate amne- rebutted Davis’s speech against Flick, by of history focused on America’s ongo- Stephen Willingham continues to sia’ resulted from denial for the major referring to his remarks as, “a voice from ing republican government experiment. pursue his interests in history, politics, motivating causes of the war: secession the tombs…a genuine fossil, whose polit- While many states were born from terri- music, and the products of zymurgy. He and slavery.” This attitude would follow ical theories have never risen above the tory carved from already existing states, is the proud grandfather of Rowan W. the Confederates to a political takeover dead level of ancient Southern feudalism particularly Maine being created from Willingham, born on May 24, 2013.

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he killing of Trayvon Martin, all slaves had the master’s family name, complete. There was “the scratch and infection can be? The United States was the trial of George Zimmerman, or none, still thrived. slide of the shoes leaving the round, the already more multicultural and multi- T and the public discourse in the My elementary and middle schools shoes of the lynched men,” as poet Affa racial than most other nations in 1964, aftermath of the verdict have awakened were all white. I almost went to a high Michael Weaver hears in the music of when segregation became both impos- memories and emotions I had frankly put school that was integrated shortly after Thelonious Monk. sible and intolerable to sustain. American in the old-news pile of my mind. It’s not John F. Kennedy was elected president. I had to take a long walk from the is many times more diverse today. We that I thought unequal justice was a thing But my upper middle class neighborhood dark canopy of segregation to really must engage, engage, and engage again— of the past for African Americans. The figured out a way to get a brand new high see, and join with, the light of common because history teaches that this infection imprisonment, health, employment, and school built so I could be spared sharing humanity and the divine in every nation, can kill entire countries. education chasms that persist between a classroom with those children. race, and lifestyle. It was a disjointed and A white supremacist once told me black and white are plain to see. Still, I My social and athletic life after jerky walk that felt propelled in every that the outcome of integration would be was unprepared for the sharp color divide school was oriented around a country direction, each step half negation and half mud people. I think he got the expression in public opinion reflected in national club that was not only all white, but all affirmation. It was mainly luck that led from a translation of Mein Kampf. He polls after the Not Guilty verdict. Protestant. me to friends, had a painful personal biography, and he Confusion over Florida’s man­ No Jews. No I had to take a long walk from coworkers and also confessed one night that he believed slaughter statute is not surprising in Catholics. I the dark canopy of segregation comrades of his white skin was “all that separates me the wake of the state’s “stand your remember color who took from damnation.” Despite my aversion to ground” law. I could understand a jury’s that tennis to really see, and join with, the an interest in me his ideas, I had some pity—and love—for reluctance to convict where there was matches were light of common humanity … and took the time him. Indeed, he later recanted his views no independent eyewitness to the actual canceled with to school me in and associations for reasons he never shooting, although much would depend other clubs in the regional “country club more ways than just knowledge—to save fully revealed to me. However, I believe on the judge’s instructions. league” that had acquired a nonwhite or my life more than once, and at no small his affection for his mixed-blood (are But I also instantaneously felt Jewish member. (Integrating the tennis risk to their own. we not all mixed blood?) granddaughter the sharp pain of unequal justice. An courts would pollute the members with a The Zimmerman verdict was like played a role. unarmed black youth, on an innocent social diseases.) A special exception was a loud crack in a new canopy of the “Maybe it won’t be mud,” he said. errand, in a place he was supposed to made for Robert Kennedy, Catholic attor- post-racial society of which Dr. Martin “I always hated Jesse Jackson. But maybe be, is stalked, and then killed, and the ney general. Every previous attorney gen- Luther King dreamed 50 years ago, he’s right. Maybe it is a rainbow.” perpetrator is not held accountable for an eral “had been honored by the invitation,” and which the popular election of an It’s easy to be discouraged and lose avoidable loss of life. Avoidable? Since I was told. Kennedy famously declined African-American president seemed to hope. The explosions of discontent can lead when is stalking someone not an act of the membership and not long afterwards validate. The discussions I hear now have one to easily conclude that human history aggression? It’s not just “bad judgment” began engaging the civil rights movement a horrific resonance with those I heard tends more toward disorder and entropy under West Virginia law. What African- in a manner very different from previous after the torture-murder of Emmett Till, than progress and greater perfection—that American mother can now permit her attorneys general—not to mention the an African-American boy murdered in Dr. King was in error in predicting the arc son to go to a 7-11 without a squad FBI head, J. Edgar Hoover. Mississippi at age 14 after reportedly of history bending toward justice. of witnesses? How many youth will My questions to my family and flirting with a white woman. The trial of But when I consider the statistical logically conclude that Trayvon’s error others about these incidents were met the killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, evidence showing the unmistakable was that he, too, was not armed? If I, with silence. I am thankful now for those attracted a vast amount of press attention, pivot in positive attitudes toward mixed a relatively comfortable, retired white silences. My home was not a place where and those men were acquitted of Till’s race marriages that took off in the ’60s person felt it, how must African racist expressions, jokes, or other humili- kidnapping and murder. Only months in this country and has never reversed Americans feel it? ations were directly heard. Nonetheless, later, in a magazine interview, protected course, the light of redemption shines Virginia in the ’50s and early ’60s, no protest was ever heard there against against double jeopardy, they admitted to through. How can one explain it except where I grew up, was a segregated segregation. No move to separate from killing him. The verdict in the Emmett as love working its way beneath and society. My childhood and adolescence the vicious poisons, covenants, and Till trial was a pivotal point in the civil through all the contradictions and dif- never encountered a Negro who was not mutual degradations that racism, and rights movement. ficulties of our racial history? Like the a servant. Black workers from services toleration of it, injects into a human soul. We cannot, as a society, go back to rainbow, it speaks a truth and promise such as laundries, food delivery, and There was silence. But the pervasive that time. But are we? Are the scars of that God reveals after a storm. landscaping always seemed to have stench was everywhere, like a sulfuric this recession/depression, both caused only a first name: Jim, Willie. White paper mill right outside your home. and aggravated by manifest and growing John Case, a former engineer and workers in same or similar services were How come no one wanted to talk inequalities in every dimension, growing union representative, is clerk of the Mr. Jones, Mr. Smith. Even in the ’60s, about it? That question was my personal so deep that the infection of racism is Shepherdstown Friends Peace and Social features of the plantation culture where entry point into the civil rights move- spreading, not receding? Can anyone Justice Committee and a host on WSHC ment, because the silence was never really imagine how dangerous such an Radio, 89.7 FM, weekdays, 7–9 a.m.

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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 Fred A. Soltow Jr., 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. Children’s 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. Adult Sunday School: 11:15 a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. (located in grey house adjacent church) www.newstreetumc.com www.StAgnesShepherdstown.org www.Shepherdstownlutheranparish.org

Shepherdstown Presbyterian Trinity Episcopal St. James’ Lutheran Church, Uvilla 2nd Act Church 100 W. Washington Street Corner of Church & German Streets Rt. 230 Uvilla meets in the Ram’s Den Randall W. Tremba, Pastor The Rev. G. T. Schramm, Rector Fred A. Soltow Jr., Pastor Student Center, Shepherd University Telephone: (304) 876-6466 The Rev. Frank Coe, Priest Associate Telephone: (304) 876-6771 Rob Davis, Pastor Sunday Worship: 8:15 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. The Rev. Susan McDonald, Priest Associate Sunday Worship: 9:00 a.m. E-mail: [email protected] Sunday School: 10:45 a.m. Telephone: (304) 876-6990 Children’s Sunday School 1st Sunday of month Sunday Services: 10 a.m. Nursery year-round Sunday Worship: 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. www.2ndactchurch.org www.shepherdstownpresbyterian.org Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. www.trinityshepherdstown.org

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