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Issue 115 K. STEPHEN MORRIS Vol. XXVIX No. 2 President & CEO Established May 1979 Direct 304/876-9025 PUBLISHER Cell 304/876-9807 Shepherdstown Ministerial Association Contents Fax 304/876-0671 Schmitt Construction Company ADVISORY GROUP [email protected] Mary Ann Clark P.O. Box 35 Member FDIC • Equal Housing Lender Marge Dower SUMMER 2007 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 James A. Schmitt P.O. Box 428 Cindy Keller (304) 876-2462 Shepherdstown, WV 25443 SHEPHERDSTOWN • CHARLES TOWN • MARTINSBURG • SOUTH BERKELEY Tobey Pierce Joan Snipes Essays, Art & Poetry Martin Sibley Michael Schwartz EXECUTIVE EDITOR 3 Sojourners Arise. By Randall Tremba Randall W. Tremba W.H. KNODE’S SONS Things have you feeling Boxed In? EDITORS 12-13 ARTWORKS: Don Black. By Nan Broadhurst Benjamin Moore • J. 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[My dear nephew Screwtape: Under the code name “sojourner,” certain pathetic Christians are attempting to resurrect the Christian movement, which we had effectively dis- credited last millennium. Be aware: Even though this is the same old sappy stuff about faith, hope, and love, it still has legs. I obtained a copy of a pep talk given on Pentecost Sunday by an old and decrepit agent of our Enemy. The talk was presented to some youngsters who once were firmly in our camp. This agent may be old, but he’s devilish. Even Donors though we have lured him into the Lost Dog and into the pub at the Meck countless times, he remains uncontaminated and fiercely loyal to the Enemy’s Son. Take note of his clever arguments and make sure no more of our young, cultured despisers of religion get a copy of this. This is the only copy left. Be sure to burn it once you have read it. Affectionately yours, Wormwood.] Byliners Robert Fodor & Thurid Clark Mrs. Charles Printz Miriam Ellis John Demory Carl & Charlotte Frasch Martha & Bob Rizzo Patricia Florence Denis & Nancy Doss Herbert & Mary Lu Freeman Gwendolyn R. Robinson Charles & Josephine Fridinger Lester Fant III Wood & Rosemary Geist Sherman & Elinor Ross John & Susana Garten Jo Ann & W.E. Knode Jr. William & Barbara Gillespie Charles & Marilyn Sabatos Patrick & Robert Gossard Patrica Lovelace Edmund & Susan Goldsborough Sanders Museum Services Assoc. Michael & Debora Gresalfi Jean Neely Raymond & Elizabeth Hadfield Victoria Savage Lola M. Hamm Brian Palank, DDS Connie Lucas Halliwell John Schley Marianne Howard & Rufus Hedrick By Randall Tremba Ray & Jane Vanderhook Mr. & Mrs. Conrad C. Hammann Elizabeth S. Scott Dorothy & John Huff Lisa & Paul Welch James & Ada Hatchett Carole & David Scott Eleanor Jamison Barbara Heinz W. Curtis Sharp Quinith Janssen Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? From “This Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver Patrons Jessie & Mary Hendrix Shepherdstown Woman’s Club Norman Julian Martin & Elise Baach Calison & Patricia Henkes Eleanor Ann Shirley Juris & Sylvia Kundrats Tracy & Grace Boyer Jim & Norleen Hoadley Lynn & Dolores Shirley Laurin & Phyllis Letart Mary Sue Catlett Diane Hoffman Thomas & Lenore Sloate William & Dorothy Lowe Anderson Clark elcome to the catacombs, my young friends. Sit close. I want to churches. That devil wants your soul and your money and has a good chance of James & Mary Holland Harold W. Snyder Eveyln & George Mason speak softly. getting it. “Come, my child, my darling one, this thing will satisfy you. This thing Erdem & Carole Ergin Joan F. Hopkin Vivian Snyder Joe McCabe Today is Pentecost. Once upon a time, long, long ago (before will make you happy. This thing will save you. This thing will make others notice Judith & Stanley Jones Ruth deWindt Hoxton Sallie Shepherd Spaulding James & Elizabeth McGowen it morphed into a Jewish festival and then a spiritless Christian Holy Day), you and maybe even love you.” Richard & Joan Lyon Elaine Hurd Vergie G. Spiker Peg McNaughton Pentecost was a day to get drunk. It was a day to celebrate the fruitfulness of Beware. That is an old and devious trap disguised as consumerism, with new George & Pat McKee Jack & Mary Elinor Huyett Bronson & Mary Helen Staley Naomi Demory Miller the earth. and flashy messages to exploit your fears. It will tell you over and over again: Helen Moore Catherine Irwin James & Mary Staley Karene Motivans & Stuart Wallace Just before Pentecost, just before summer began—if the seeds were good, if You are what you have! Be vigilant. the rain had fallen, and if the sun had shone—the first fruits of grain were cut, a Sojourners are like a lot of other Christians but we are different and distinct Robert & Linda Reynolds Perry & Stephanie Jamiesonww Robert & Gloria Thatcher Russell & Rhea Moyer promise of more to come. Hallelujah! Mother Earth has done it again! We will as well. When we say Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, we don’t mean by Victoria & Peter Smith James E. Keel, DVM Kaye & Gerald Thompson Calvin & Shirley Myers eat and live another year! Let the dancing and drinking begin! that what many American Christians mean. We don’t mean that Christianity is Lucy Swift Joan Keith Terry Thorson & Jeffrey Bannon James & Rebecca Prather Van & Maris Wilkins Once upon a time, Pentecost was an occasion for drunken happiness, but the one and only way to get to a heaven beyond this world. We mean that love Rev. William & Viola Kieldsing Marie A. Tyler-McGraw David & Jean Anne Pugh you’d never know it by attending most churches. It’s not the only thing too much as embodied in Jesus is the way, the one and only way to live righteously on this Henry K. Willard, II Barbara Jane Kines Capt. Peter & Dorothy Van Tol David & Betty Ramsay piety has ruined for you. But as a sojourner you can be different. You can tap the planet, in the world, and with all its creatures, humankind and otherkind. Love is John & Barbara King Catherine Waite Rebecca Murphy Spirit Wisdom within. all you need! Partners The sojourner tradition at its best awakens the rebel spirit to confront idola- Your tribe is eager to see what you do with your one wild and precious life. Katherine Akers Douglas & Karen Kinnett Elizabeth S. Walter Lyle & Theresa Rush try in church and culture. If your tribal elders haven’t given you the courage to Maybe you’ll save the world or die trying. Paul Woods & Johnna Armstrong Richard & Kathy Klein Ethel Waltz Jean & Randolph Burrell Melida & William Knott, Col. (Ret.) Richard & Joyce Welsh John F. Schmidt question your parents, your church, your minister, your religion, and your nation When I was your age, I graduated from high school and headed off to college Tommy & Courtney Baker then we haven’t done a very good job. in Illinois. That was 1965, and the air was full of idealism. Viet Nam had begun to Mr. & Mrs. James Leathers Bill & Jo Wilcox Mary Catherine Sencindiver George & Barbara Baker Sojourners are like a lot of other Christians but we are different and distinct gnaw at the heart and soul of America. We marched to end war forever chanting: Willoughby & Ellen Lemen Esther Wood Burton & Cornelia Simon Tom & Rae Banks as well. I can’t speak for all sojourners but I can speak for many. For instance, All we are saying is give peace a chance. Martin Luther King, a sojourner child Stanley & Hazel Barkdoll John & Judith Lilga Chelsey & Lynn Yellott Grant & Renny Smith we take the Bible too seriously to take it literally. Then again, we don’t take the of the church, rallied many of us to his side. We marched for Civil Rights to end James Bauman Robert & Constance Lucas Ed Zahniser & Christine Duewel Sara Smith Bible so seriously that we ignore the voices of art and science, personal experi- discrimination. In 1970, I began working in California with Cesar Chavez, another Edwinna Bernat James & Nancy Macdonell Scarlett Spielman ence and other religions. A wise person listens to the counsel of many. A fool sojourner child of the church, to change laws for the benefit of migrant farm Friends Patricia Donohoe & David Borchard Mildred & Floyd Miller Joseph & Shirley Talago does not. workers. For the sake of lettuce pickers, I even stopped eating Big Macs—one of Betty Allen Be suspicious of any Christian who waves the Bible saying, “This book is the hardest things I’d ever done for Jesus!! Robert & Mary C. Borden Frank & Althea Miller Larry & Donna Teeling William & Roxanna Andersen the Word of God!” Be suspicious but kind. Sojourners deeply respect the Bible Sojourners got to start somewhere. Where will you start? When and where Bob & Betty Lou Bryant Charles Miller Sandra Vickstrom & John DeMars Dabney & Alta Miller Myra & Leroy Ault John & Sarah Walker as we do our parents and grandparents, flaws and all. But we do not worship will you stand up against a system that is grinding people in this country and John & Helen Burns the Bible. around the world to a slow death? Genevieve Monroe Sylvia H. Boyer Judy Weese Sojourners Arise Snowdon Byron Sojourners love the creation myth of the Great Ancestors found in Genesis. To live a life of bodacious love for others while living in the belly of the Carl & Judy Moore Frances Brolle & Steven Lietz Eugene Wilkins Elizabeth Carlson Barbara & Clifton Brooks We hold it in one hand while holding the theory of evolution in the other hand. empire takes a lot of wisdom and courage. It helps to belong to a sojourner tribe. Charles & Ellen Moore Stephen Williams The myth of creation suggests that life, including personal life, regenerates out It helps to have a good friend or two. And it helps to have a lifetime partner. George & Bonnie Casely Odetta Brown Arthur & Wilma Morabito Nancy & Bill Wilson of darkness time and time again on the breath of love. Evolution by itself cannot I was lucky to meet and marry a woman who, as a high school student, R. Dabney Chapman Beth Burkhardt Rev. Dr. Raymond Moreland Virginia Winston define or measure love, but it explains a lot of other things well. worked in a Catholic Worker’s soup kitchen in Los Angeles, marched for migrant F. Dennis & Lola Clarke George & Margaret Cashin Robert & Kelly Collins Ella Mose Jeff & Bethany Worth For some Christians the biggest question in life is: Where will you spend farm workers, spent her spring breaks in Arizona working on an Indian reservation, Paul & Shirley Chiriaco eternity? That is not our biggest question. We ask: How can we live with eternal and, when she went to San Jose State University, got involved in Amnesty Rosemarie Robson Coy Philip Moss & Donna Covell Church of the Way gratitude here and now? This world is our home, and we’re not just passing International. There is a lot more to my wife, but it was those things that meant a Ann & Michael Cross Tim & Esther Murphy Betty Myers William & Yvonne Claytor Key through. This world is our home to love and cherish. We mustn’t condone the lot to me when we began falling in love and becoming friends more than 30 years Lyndall Dickinson * Byliners ($150–$300 gifts) blasting of West Virginia mountaintops to smithereens. We believe there’s more ago. When you follow your soul’s passion into the world, you will be attractive Margaret & Robert Northrup R. Richard Conard Meade & Honnor Dorsey * Patrons ($100–$125 gifts) to reality than meets the eye. But we see “heaven” itself in this awesomely fierce to others. Addie M. Ours Ora Cooper Martha A. Doss James K. Davis * Partners ($25–$75 gifts) and beautiful world. Please live your wild and precious life for all it’s worth to the glory of your Wendy Pacek By the way, don’t be suckered into the wrong religious debate. For heaven’s Maker. Have fun. Have a ton of fun! Meanwhile your elders will hope and pray Richard Durham Karen L. Davison * Friends ($5-–$20 gifts) Carroll & Ruth Palmer sake, don’t remain “sophomores” forever! Take your suspicious and rebellious that you discover as soon as possible that the greatest fun and joy in life comes Betty Egan Carol & Michael Demchik Vina Vaughan Parmesano Let us know if your donation spirit toward popular Christianity and turn it on the diabolical force that’s out to from living for others not merely for yourself. To live for others is heaven. To live David & Mary Sue Eldridge Nancy Dickey Jean A. Elliott Joan Piemme & Mavis Ferguson has not been acknowledged: win your heart and steal your soul. That devil is preaching at you day and night for self and greed is hell. Bernice Dove (304) 876-6466. from a thousand different pulpits, and I don’t mean the kind of pulpit you see in Richard & Susan Fletcher Avery & Margaret Post H. Potts Jean Ehman

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Sierra Grabowska is a rising 8th grader at Shepherdstown Middle School. Religious Worship and Education Schedules

Paging Doctor Dog! Sierra Grabowska Asbury United Methodist Baha’i Faith Christ Reformed U.C.C. Christian Science Society lick on the nose. A cocked head. Yogi works with firefighters too. had awakened from a coma Rt. 480 (Kearneysville Road) Entler Hotel ~ German & Princess Streets 304 East German Street Entler Hotel ~ German & Princess Streets My dog always seems to know Mr. Streeter even takes Yogi to the sites the day before—with the help Rev. Rudolph Monsio Bropleh, Pastor Telephone: 535-2351 Bronson Staley, Pastor Sunday Worship & Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Ahow to make me melt. And of the fires so that in between saving of one of her therapy dogs. Telephone: 876-3122 Sunday Devotions: 11:30 a.m. Telephone: (301) 241-3972 Testimony meetings: 1st & 3rd Wednesdays though his sweetness brings me happi- lives, the firefighters can stop to pet Yogi Another dog therapist I Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Study circles and monthly discussion group Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. year-round in the Reading Room

ness, I now know that he can bring me, as a calming break from the traumatic met at the hospital was Meg Photographs supplied by the author (call for information) Sunday School for all ages: 10:10 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Christian Science Reading Room, located at and others, much more. situations. Ellacot. She is a volunteer Sierra and Yogi and a patient 203 S. Princess Street, is open Mondays and Wednesdays I’ve always loved dogs, even before I also met Leslie Horton of with the animal assisted pro- (except holidays) from noon until 3 pm. we finally got Rumsey, our cairn terrier. Frederick, a nurse and the director of the gram. She told me that she When the daughter asked why Kelly had Telephone: 876-2021 As far as working dogs, I knew there animal assisted care program at Inova is also a journalist and that was actually done that, the nurse who was monitor- Sentinel radio program Sundays 7 a.m. were dogs that acted in movies, and Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. how she became a part of the program. ing said. “She must have sensed it.” The on WINC 92.5 FM search and rescue dogs, and Seeing-Eye She invited me to shadow her and one of She explained how she had come in to woman’s heart had just stopped. dogs, and police dogs. But I had never her four trained therapy dogs during her interview volunteers about the program Meg was very upset by that visit. heard of therapy dogs. rounds. We drove to the hospital with and had liked the idea so much that she Kelly seemed to understand her owner’s her youngest dog panting in put one of her dogs through the training sadness and anguish, and was reluctant the back, a German shep- to become a therapy dog. Her dog Kelly, to go to the hospital the next day. herd pup named Griffin. I a golden retriever, was one of only two Therapy dogs can play an important received many wet noses to out of a class of fifteen to pass the test. role at hospitals because of the physical my shoulder. and emotional benefit that the patients As soon as we walked and workers get from their simple, happy in the door, Griffin and Ms. presence. Some hospitals don’t allow Horton were happily greeted dog therapy programs because they by many people: a child assume the dogs would be unsanitary in patient using a walker, star- a hospital environment. But the dogs are tled when she got a slobbery bathed every morning before they go in New Street United Methodist St. Agnes Roman Catholic St. John’s Baptist St. Peter’s Lutheran lick on the cheek; two smil- to work. Church & New Streets Church & Washington Streets West German Street King & High Streets ing nurses in scrubs who Patients are encouraged by dogs to Dee-Ann Dixon, Pastor Father Mathew Rowgh Rev. Cornell Herbert, Pastor-Elect Fred Soltow, Pastor immediately bent over to get throw a ball for them just a few more Telephone: 876-2362 Telephone: 876-6436 Telephone: 876-3856 Telephone: 876-6771 their doggie hugs; doctors times each day, strengthening their arms, 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. in lab coats who said, “Hey, or walking one more hallway with the Children’s Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Saturday Eucharist: 5:30 p.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Adult Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Yogi, Sierra Grabowska and John Streeter Griffin!”; and families, on dog to build up their health. That can Adult Sunday School: 11:15 a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. Children’s Church: 11:15 a.m. their way to visit loved ones, shorten hospital stays. Emotionally, Sunday Evening Worship and Bible Study: 6:15 p.m. Then right here in Shepherdstown who stood back with wide eyes and therapy animals can reassure patients St. James’ Lutheran Church, Uvilla I found John Streeter, a therapist at the exclaimed over how huge Griffin was. before an operation, when they miss their Sunday Worship: 9:00 a.m. Women’s Shelter in Martinsburg. He One social worker, who referred pets at home, or even when they miss Children’s Church: 9:15 a.m. and his German shepherd, Yogi, have to herself as Auntie Jane, absolutely their family and friends. Therapy animals talk therapy sessions with mostly women grinned with pleasure at the sight of Sierra with the Tower 9 Staff provide so much hope and love for the and children. When I met him, Yogi us and had Griffin put his paws in her patients that I think this program should hopped right up on the couch with me lap. She said she loved seeing the dogs Ms. Ellacot told me that she loves work- be in all hospitals. and had a puppet he was chewing. It was because they made her day brighter. ing with Kelly, and the best part is that I’ve seen people who are in hospital very obvious that Yogi was very used to The first patient we visited was a she’s helping people along the way. The beds looking helpless and alone. Yet, people sitting on that couch and hugging woman with her eyes closed, tubes in hardest part though, she says, is to hide when they see a dog or other therapy ani- him. her nose and arms, lying in a hospital your emotions. mal, their eyes just have a new sparkle Not only do Yogi and Mr. Streeter bed with her sister standing beside her. It Once, Meg and Kelly came to see a to them. You can see the people around work at the shelter but they also went to looked as if she were sleeping, but when woman who was very ill and surrounded them cheer up a little more too, because New Orleans after Katrina and helped Ms. Horton told her a dog was there to by her family. To everyone’s surprise, of how inspiring it is to see someone in a victims of the hurricane. I was surprised see her, she opened her eyes and looked the golden retriever climbed right up such a situation able to feel happy. when he told me that Yogi also helped around for Griffin. Ms. Horton got a on the bed and lay across the woman’s I’ve learned so much about how Shepherdstown Presbyterian Trinity Episcopal Unity of Shepherdstown the Red Cross volunteers by reliev- chair for the dog and sat him right up body. “How did she know to do that?” special therapy dogs are that I’ve been 100 W. Washington Street Corner of Church & German Streets Minister: Reverend Anne Murphy ing them of their stress. Studies show beside the woman. Ms. Horton took the the woman’s daughter asked. When really inspired. My dog, Rumsey, might Randall W. Tremba, Pastor The Rev. G. T. Schramm, Rector Morning Celebration Services that just petting a dog can lower blood woman’s hand and laid it on the dog’s Meg asked what she meant, the daughter not be able to pass the test since he is a Telephone: 876-6466 The Rev. Siobhan Patterson, Curate Sundays at 11:00 a.m. pressure. Yogi was so popular that Mr. back. She was able to move her fingers explained that her mother had always little rambunctious (he is a terrier, after Sunday Worship: 8:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Frank Coe, Priest Associate Shepherdstown Train Station Streeter had to ask people not to disturb to pet him, and when we had to go she wanted her own dogs to lie on the bed all), but I would love to have the joy of Sunday School: 10:45 a.m. Telephone: 876-6990 Seasonal Classes & Workshops him during his nap because the dog was able to move her fingers to wave with her but they never would do that. knowing that I’m helping other people Nursery year-round Sunday Worship: 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Telephone: (304) 268-4222 needed a rest from all the love that he goodbye. When we had left, Ms. Horton After some time, Kelly looked up into while doing it with one of my favorite www.spcworks.org Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. www.unityofshepherdstown.org was spreading! told me that the woman we had just seen the woman’s face and licked her cheek. companions.

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have been bred and trained to run. That is According to Johnson, horses can s summer closes in, you may (CASA) of the Eastern Panhandle; more people sign a petition before we be sure, we were not the only activists what they want to do, and they must be understand hundreds of instructions, both have noticed that there are camps and perhaps even Mary Beth Tinker, forwarded it to a government official. focused on this issue, but we were part completely retrained before they can be verbal and nonverbal. They are keenly for just about every sport, activ- the namesake of the landmark free Imagine my surprise after our camp- of the movement that made life better for used for other purposes. aware of the rider’s body language and A Horse training should probably be nonverbal cues that include the seating ity, or academic interest. Still “human speech case of Tinker v. Des Moines ers from the 2006 camp collected over the children who had been dubbed “the rights” and “camp” are not often used in Independent Community School. 200 signatures on their own petitions in night travelers.” In my view, this is a considered an art. “Instructors teach you position and the pressure of the legs of the same paragraph, let alone the same This fairly weighty curriculum under two hours! clear example of the true strength of the to train, but some people are natural the rider. “A young horse needs both phrase. Shepherdstown, however, is set will be balanced by frequent breakout All told, the campers from the human rights community and all grass- trainers,” said Johnson. “You need good words and body language,” said Johnson, to host the Third Annual Human Rights sessions for hiking, sports, games, swim- last two years took 12 distinct actions roots movements—the synergy that their empathy. I always had a natural eye for “but the ideal is when a horse is com- Camp for Kids. This program is excel- ming, and all-around fun. It is amazing involving grassroots lobbying, peti- many voices create when joined together seeing a good horse.” In the 1980s, she pletely tuned to body language and it lent for 10- to 14-year-old students inter- to witness the kids’ enthusiastic response tions, letter writing, etc. These young for a much greater cause. bought horses off the racetrack, retrained looks like the rider isn’t moving.” Artie’s win at Charles Town ested in law, justice, and social issues. to this methodology. For anyone who people added their voices and played a Ideally, human rights education them, and sold them as show horses. Johnson schooled Artie in dressage, Photograph by Scott Kitching It will help to prepare your children to doubts how fun a human rights camp role in changing lives and history. The should do much more than simply teach. Johnson has always been a horse in which a show horse walks, trots, and understand and protect their own rights At its best, it should promote action, lover. She started riding lessons when canters with the proper conformation at and the rights of others. Sponsored and motivate the students, and satisfy the she was 12 and got her first horse when the designated time. It includes moves members and former members, and there supported by The Children’s Rights needs of the larger community for toler- she was l7. “I snuck out and bought a such as “turning on the front hand,” is a lot of parental and volunteer involve- Coalition, Amnesty International, and ance and understanding. According to horse without my mom knowing about where the horse pivots around, keep- ment. “Most international championship Human Rights Campers it,” she laughed. “She wasn’t too happy.” ing one front foot in place. Dressage is riders and Olympic equestrians were in private donations, this year’s day camp create a personalized letter their Web site, “Amnesty International will be held at Shepherd University from believes that learning about human However, Johnson had that horse another a team endeavor where horse and rider Pony Club,” she said. to Ambassador Ssempala. 17 years. work together effortlessly and the rider’s Artie, at 20, has been in his second June 26–29, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. rights is the first step toward respecting, Artie at a Pony Club Show jumping In 2005 this camp was the first of promoting, and defending those rights.” She found Artie when some of commands seem invisible. semi-retirement for the past two years. competition ridden by Jen Walker her co-workers had invested in him as She also taught Artie to jump. It is He is now at home with Johnson and her its kind. Now it has become a fixture Moreover, several treaties and U.N. Photograph by Chris Parsons for the local human rights community resolutions and declarations make human a racer, and she became his agent at a very slow process, starting with very husband Robert on their five acres just and the focus of national and interna- rights education for children an inter- Charles Town Races. She explained that low barriers called trotting poles, about outside Shepherdstown, together with her e’ve all heard the old saying, tional attention. When I first conceived national priority. Sadly, public schools a racehorse’s agent has a role similar to a horse length apart, that a horse must Appaloosa horse, Cherokee, and several “You can’t teach an old dog of this camp, it seemed like a natural in the United States have not integrated that of a human performer’s agent. She step over. This teaches the horse to lift pygmy goats for company. “They cleaned new tricks,” although there are fit to combine education, action, and human rights education into their cur- W arranged for trainers, riders, and races. its feet and develops the balance required up all the honeysuckle and multiflora plenty of people who might argue about fun. I never imagined that our town and ricula, although individual teachers may She saw his potential and took him to to clear jumps of increasing height. Artie rose around the fencerows,” Johnson said that. But what about a horse? A thor- our university would become the test- decide to teach it. We do have blocks retrain when he retired. was a natural and excelled at jumping. of the goats, adding that goats and horses oughbred called A Royal Try, Artie for ing grounds for organizations that have of instruction on civil rights in public All racehorses cannot be retrained, When Artie was completely trained, get along very well. short, now 20 years old, went from the looked at our camp as a model, and that One of three groups schools, but civil rights comprise only she explained, because many are too Johnson placed him with a friend who Artie is still in excellent condition. racetrack to a career as an award-winning we would be reported in both English of campers from several pieces of a very large puzzle. high-strung to ever make good pleasure has a stable and riding students. There, “The vet was here,” said Johnson, “and show and pleasure horse, thanks to the and Spanish language media by Amnesty 2006 working on Once assembled, the human right puzzle horses. When Artie first left the track, people who could not keep a horse of she couldn’t believe that he was 20.” “an action.” skill and patience of his owner, Maryann International (AI). presents a very clear and compelling he was very nervous and excitable. “He their own could lease one. Artie was Johnson said that Artie could possibly Johnson of Shepherdstown. The academic portion of this camp picture of the law and universality of all would bite,” said Johnson, “but handling very friendly and adaptable, and he was live another 10 years. Photographs submitted by the author The sweet-natured dark bay geld- includes discussions, films, on-line human rights, including civil rights. and age quieted him.” Now he is gentle, leased to 4-H members, competed in Johnson, who commutes by train to ing, sired by the well-known Maryland research, activism, and prominent guest can be, I simply report the following most impressive of the several success Not surprisingly, this camp is often affectionate, and friendly. shows, went to summer riding camps, her job with a medical research firm in stallion Hail Emperor, raced until he speakers. Campers will learn about observations received on feedback sheets stories we could report was the sign- a first exposure for our campers. In She noted that racehorses do not and worked with Pony Club. “He loves the city, doesn’t have as much time as was five years old, which is considered the Convention on the Rights of the from past campers: “This camp rocks!” ing of a peace agreement in Uganda. convincing the campers that they can have proper balance and must be taught to jump,” said Johnson. “One girl won a she would like for riding. “Artie wants to a respectable career for a racehorse. Child, the Universal Declaration of “Human rights rule!” and “I liked swim- Our campers jumped into action when make a difference, we use the slogan “10 to walk, trot, and canter correctly. “It Grand Championship on him. All of his work,” she said. “He wants a rider.” She Johnson explained that horses start racing Human Rights, natural law theory, the ming and rock climbing the best.” The their research found this Human Rights to the 10th.” If only 10 of those that we takes a lot of time and patience to get a championships have been from jumping.” noted regretfully that there are fewer and at the age of two but that, “Many horses Convention on the Elimination of all only real complaint we received was, Watch report, “Children in Uganda are teach and inspire reach out and teach and racehorse to the show ring or to become a Johnson explained that Pony Club fewer places to ride locally. “Mostly it’s don’t make it to their third year. Their forms of Discrimination against Women, “Make it last longer.” abducted and frequently murdered by inspire 10 others and so on, then 10 bil- pleasure horse,” she said. “It took me two is a nationwide organization started in riding bareback around the property. All front legs break down.” She noted that the U.S. legal system, and the Bill of As an experienced human rights the Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA], a lion people could be reached. Of course, years to teach him to lunge properly.” England in the 1880s and in the United the development has taken away most of Artie comes from strong stock and that Rights. In addition, we will research activist, professor, and attorney, I know heavily-armed rebel group fighting the this is greater than the world’s current Lunging is a procedure in which the States in the 1950s. Young riders, age the trails.” many of Hail Emperor’s foals raced until and take actions on several compelling just how tricky activism and organizing Ugandan government . . . . The captive population, so in theory everyone every- trainer stands in the center of a large ring eight through 21, learn to properly care Although many retired racehorses they were 12 or 13. human rights crises, including the geno- can be in a small community. In past children are forced to take part in com- where could (and should) be empowered with the horse on a long line. The horse for a horse, to ride, and to participate in are in need of homes, and lots of racers At the time Artie retired, Johnson cide in the Darfur Region of Sudan. efforts involving adults, I was always bat, carry heavy loads, act as personal to understand, enjoy and respect their learns the required gaits and to follow competitions. Teachers are professional do make good show and pleasure horses, recalled that many former racehorses Inspiring these young people isn’t thrilled when groups of volunteers servants to the rebels, and, in the case of human rights and the rights of others. instructions. horse people, upper-level Pony Club Johnson reminded potential buyers that were sold at auction to be slaughtered difficult, but it doesn’t hurt to bring “tabled” petitions regarding prisoners girls, serve as ‘wives’ to rebel command- With this in mind, we challenge these they must be prepared to provide the for pet food or human consumption in in experts with years of education and of conscience or other human rights ers.” They prepared several poster-sized young people to create a movement essential time and effort that is absolutely Europe. Recent legislation prevents that experience. Guest speakers from pre- issues at large public gatherings. Even in letters imploring the Honorable Edith that will stir others to act and change necessary for retraining them. She cau- but created a new problem. There are vious years have included Dr. Helen friendly settings with lots of sympathetic Grace Ssempala, the Ambassador to the our world. After all, they are its future tioned that one should either be a trainer now fewer buyers at auctions, and own- Bond; Julia Nemon, Director of AI’s folks about, having people sign peti- United States from Uganda, to urge her leaders. or have a trainer before buying a retired ers often can’t sell their horses. This Urgent Action Network; Lynn Yellot, tions is not an easy task, especially when government to negotiate a peace/disar- racehorse. led to a crisis in Kentucky, where some founder of the local chapter of AI; and they must disclose personal information, mament agreement with the LRA and to Robert Scharmer is an adjunct profes- There are periodic horse auctions racehorse owners simply turned their Frank Salzano, Shepherdstown Town such as addresses, phone numbers, etc. protect the children of Uganda, as these sor of economics and political science at in Thurmont, Md., and Winchester, Va., old horses out into the wild to starve. Councilmember. This year, the camp In addition, some cases are controver- were the most vulnerable in the conflict. Shepherd University. For more informa- Johnson said. She explained that people Fortunately, this has not happened here. has tentatively scheduled Representative sial and people tend to shy away. I and Within three weeks of the delivery of our tion about this year’s camp, contact him could also go directly to the racetrack to Racehorses don’t take easily to Shelley Moore Capito; Vickey Wilcher other activists felt a real sense of accom- petitions, an agreement was reached and at (304) 582-7900 or hrlawyer@yahoo. buy horses. “Horses that are not running retirement, said Johnson, because they Artie at 10 years of age Artie and Cherokee grazing of Court Appointed Special Advocates plishment if we managed to have 50 or the children of Uganda were safer! To com, subject line: HR CAMP. well are sold,” she said. Photograph by maggie Smith Photograph by maryann Johnson

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 6 19 She’s Been Born but Not Buried Forty-eight Hours to Lhasa, Tibet or How I Spent My 77th Birthday on Top of the World

Claire Stuart Al Henderson

Photograph by Ruth Weese “Come quick,” said the Danish teenager. “It’s Albert. His face is green The trip was all the bright idea of my father-in-law, Owen. Over the past 20 years . . . and he’s groaning.” or so, beginning in 1982, this retired railroader had been to China 12 times. Stirred on one more time by the chance to ride the Qinghai-Tibet train, introduced into he young Dane and I, along with another Danish lad and my brother-in-law, service in July 2006, this would be the 86-year-old’s “last hurrah,” at least as far as Asia was concerned. hen Betty Snyder town. She was born Snyder mused She continued her edu- Larry, were sharing a soft sleeper-car cabin aboard the Qinghai-Tibet train. Spurred on by his enthusiasm and a chance to take some interesting photographs, was growing up, “on the wrong side that there are cer- cation, earning a master of Each night, the train leaves Beijing’s west rail station at 9:30. Precisely 48 T I, too, signed on. Wife Sharon, always the practical one, stayed back home to keep she would observe of the blanket,” as tain pivotal points business administration, and hours later, it pulls into Lhasa’s Liwu station, 2,525 miles away. You’re now in Tibet, W the home fires burning and to keep her mother company off and on during our the behavior of adults and con- they said in the where her life spent the next 20 years with an a strange, exotic wonderland full of religious mysticism and—as the Chinese and 31-day sojourn through southeastern China, Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Tibet, fidently tell her grandmother 1940s, when out- might have organization offering financial others know all too well—natural resources. Lots of natural resources. And with March 30 through May 1, 2007. Lisa, who had been to China and Hong Kong several what she absolutely would do or of-wedlock births changed com- and housing counseling, fam- China’s rapidly expanding need for energy and natural resources, the temptation to times with her grandfather, used her spring break from her job as a school psycholo- would never do if she were in stigmatized both pletely. “When ily and marital counseling, and exploit is much too much for restraint. The rape of Tibet, aided by the Qinghai-Tibet gist to take the trip. She was joined by one of her colleagues. Larry and his girlfriend their shoes. Her grandmother’s mother and child. I resigned from help for displaced homemakers. train moving Han Chinese into Tibet, has quietly begun. rounded out our family group. (We also “adopted” one of Owen’s neighbors as a way of informing the inexperi- Her father fled AT&T,” she In the meantime, her marriage According to one geographic survey, the Tibetan Plateau is rich in oil resources, family member.) enced child that she could not to join the army said, “comput- ended in divorce, and a second with potential reserves estimated at more than 10 billion tons. The survey also found Unquestionably the biggest—literally and figuratively—culprit in the group was possibly know what she might when he learned ers were just marriage left her widowed. large iron-rich ore deposits, with a potential reserve of more than 50 million tons Dave “Choo-Choo” Corbett, an addicted railroad buff before he was out of diapers. do in a future situation was that her mother was starting. They At her 35th class reunion, each. So what’s holding back large-scale exploitation? According to Grist Magazine, (We called Dave our very own living Buddha, and took turns rubbing his tummy. He to say, “You’re born but not pregnant, and he was offered to send she became reacquainted more infrastructure has to be put in place. The railway, with its influx of Han was not amused.) He was accompanied by his daughter Kaitlin. Dave had hired “June buried.” never a part of their me to computer with Hal Snyder, her current Chinese, is one step to exporting materials back to China’s big cities. Baby,” a railroad buff and professional photographer, to be our guide through Tibet. Born but Not Buried is the lives. Snyder was raised, school and pay all my husband, and they have been The game plan, as I see it, is the dilution of a native population of gentle peoples It was pitch dark when our train arrived in Lhasa, the highest city in the world. title Snyder selected for the along with a cousin and a expenses if I’d stay, but married 14 years. She has two more interested in worship and ancient ways than modern-day commerce. On the We were greeted by our young Tibetan guide, who placed white scarves around our little book she has written about young uncle, by her grand- I wanted to go to college. daughters and he has one, and other hand, it’s easy to look on monks as parasites on society, particularly when you necks and escorted us to our hotel in a remote part of Lhasa. There was no heat in the her childhood. “I wondered mother, while her mother went Who knows where I’d be if I they have nine grandchildren see them lounging about in their monasteries talking on their cell phones and playing lobby and our rooms were not much warmer. I shared a room with Owen. We both what Granny’s life had been to work in a factory. had taken the offer?” between them. Although they with other electronic gadgets. You also become suspicious when you see them accom- Betty Snyder put on our pajamas over our long johns. Owen threw his coat over his bedding. like when she was a child,” she Her strong but undemon- Her savings were enough met while she was living in panied by novice monks, young boys, some of whom grow up to become what’s I snuggled up to the oxygen generator. explained, “so I started writing strative grandmother was twice in season or vegetables she’d to send her through two years at Chicago, he lived in subur- known as “monk’s wives.” I was awakened by the chattering of Owen’s teeth. for my grandchildren so that widowed. She raised her son canned, and pie from fresh or nearby Potomac State College. ban Maryland and worked in There are now two Lhasas: the one occupied by the Han We were served an excellent breakfast, with a choice they’ll know about my life.” and two grandchildren and ran canned fruit. I didn’t appreciate At the end of two years, she Washington D.C. After they Chinese and the one lived in by native Tibetans. The popula- of Western or Chinese foods. The restaurant was rela- Her book began as a story the 40-acre truck farm, together the quality of the food we had went back to Washington and married, they lived briefly in tion of 260,000 is split almost 50/50. There is little or no com- tively warm, and the wait staff—all Han Chinese— about a small slice of her life. with the children and the occa- until I grew up!” found a job at the Department Columbia, Md. while they built munication between the two groups. The Chinese police are were attentive. (Privately, one acknowledged they are She was taking a class with sional help of an itinerant hired Snyder was eager to get of Defense, again saving most their home in Shepherdstown. ever watchful. Carrying a photo of the Dalai Lama is a criminal hated by the native Tibetans, an emotion you would not local writer Donna Acquaviva, man. “Granny said she’d buried away from the farm. She was of her money. She returned to When they moved to offense resulting in jail time even for tourists. It’s like living in think possible by such gentle people.) who encouraged her to submit two husbands and wasn’t going the first person in her family to finish college, this time at West Shepherdstown, Snyder contin- an occupied country. There’s something very special about Tibet and it for publication. Snyder was to bury a third one,” Snyder graduate from high school and Virginia University where she ued her social services career, The railway, a great ambition of Chinese leaders since the the Tibetan people. It’s like the Big Sky Country of full of fear of rejection, but she recalled. was determined to get a col- earned a bachelor of science in working for Hospice for sev- “liberation” of Tibet in 1950, is an engineering marvel. Semi- the American West, only more so. I had never before sent it off to Wonderful West The farm was almost lege education. “The day after Business Administration. eral years, and then serving pressurized trains speed on tracks at the highest elevations of photographed such intensely blue skies, snowcapped Virginia magazine. She was completely self-sufficient. The I graduated from high school, I She married directly out of as the first president of Court any in the world. With an average elevation of more than 13,000 mountains, and brilliantly white clouds. The many tem- rejected with the explanation vegetable garden and orchard headed to Washington, D.C., to college and, over the next five Appointed Children’s Advocates feet, the trains pass through the rugged, 16,640-foot Tanggula ples with their ubiquitous steep steps reach for the sky that it wasn’t the type of mate- provided fruit and vegetables look for a job,” she said. years, gave birth to two daugh- (CASA). Mountain Pass, forcing passengers who aren’t taking an alti- and the people walk through the temples and villages, rial they publish, but the editors that her grandmother canned. Her mother had married a ters, and moved to Chicago. She Snyder loves Shepherds- tude-sickness medication to grasp for oxygen breathing tubes. twirling their prayer wheels, and chanting softly. encouraged her to submit it to They always had two or three railroad man when Snyder was worked part-time on and off town. “I think this community I was taking medication but fell ill nonetheless. Headache, Generally Tibetans do not shy from eye con- Goldenseal magazine. cows and a flock of chickens. 15, and his family could take the when her children were small, is very special,” she said. As a shortness of breath, and a persistent need to urinate. The tact, welcome picture taking, and acknowledge your Goldenseal published her “The only things we had to buy train for free. Snyder jumped on and when they started school, breast cancer survivor, she was bathrooms were a mess, the West version more so than the presence with a demure smile, not a frown. It’s easy article, giving Snyder the confi- were flour, sugar, coffee and a train to D.C., bought a news- she “decided to do something amazed and gratified by the out- East. There was at least a quarter inch of urine on the floor of to see how these people have become so gentle and so dence to continue writing. She animal feed,” said Snyder. paper when she arrived in the meaningful” and went on to a pouring of love and assistance the West bathroom. Toilet paper ran out. No paper towels. A close to their god. Perhaps that’s why, even though I expanded her remembrances For years, they lived with- city and scoured the want ads. career in social services. she received from her friends communal washstand provided two washcloths to be shared by did not speak their language, I felt as though I could into a book-length manuscript, out electricity or indoor plumb- AT&T was testing prospective She became involved in an and neighbors during her gruel- all. In service for less than a year, the train was already show- communicate with them, even enjoy a joke with them. submitted it to three publishers, ing. Her grandmother cooked job applicants. She took their organization dedicated to turn- ing treatment and recovery. ing signs of neglect. What mattered most, it seems, was getting Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. Forty-eight hours later, this “ethnic cleansing At the highest lake in the world, Lhagba Pool, and one of them accepted it for on a woodstove and they heated test, and they advised her that ing a declining neighborhood “I’d never been sure of Han Chinese—the dominant Chinese ethnic group—into Tibet. express” rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. The train we stopped to enjoy the view and the cool fresh air. publication. with coal. Snyder remembered they would notify her. She gath- around into decent affordable my faith,” she said, “but now The push is on. has brought thousands of people into Lhasa’s Liwu Pointing to the ground, I nodded to a middle-aged Her story was fictionalized her grandmother saying, “The ered her courage to tell them housing. Working with the I know what God’s love looks We apparently reached the 16,640-foot apex around station every day, most of them Han Chinese. genteel Tibetan and said “poopy.” He replied, “Yak and different names and places Depression came and went and that she had to know immedi- Department of Housing and like through the people who midday of April 9. That’s when my cabin mate noticed that, The $4.2 billion railway began operating in July 2006. You can get an idea of the massiveness of the poopy.” We both laughed and I looked him in the eye were used, but she said she tried made no difference to us.” They ately because she had no money Urban Development (HUD), ministered to me when I was ill. “Albert’s face is green.” Our Chinese guide, “June Baby,” who elevated structure by comparing the size of it with the and touched his forehead to mine. He then repeated to be very honest emotionally. didn’t feel poor because the to stay over and had to take the they were able to buy, renovate They brought me food, flow- was in the cabin next to mine, came rushing to my aid, and size of the shed. the name of the lake and coached me into pronounc- “We all tend to rewrite his- farm always kept them well fed. evening train home. and sell houses, frequently with ers, videos, anything to make stuck an oxygen tube into my nose. He was followed by Larry With an average elevation of more than 13,000 feet, ing it correctly. I wish I had asked him for his e-mail tory and forget the things that Every Sunday, Snyder AT&T hired her, starting buyers earning sweat equity it easier for me, and they did it and my daughter Lisa. Each handed me greeting cards wishing the railway has the highest elevation of any railroad me a happy 77th birthday. in the world. As it ambles through the 16,640-foot address. don’t make us look good,” she recalls that the menu was the the following Monday. She with their work. Her work won with such love.” Tanggula Mountain Pass, the semi-pressurized train laughed. same. “Granny would kill found a one-room apartment and her a Congressional Medal of Betty Snyder’s book “Bah Humbug,” said I, to no one in particular. Another forces passengers who aren’t taking an altitude-sickness Al Henderson’s e-mail address is varmland1@comcast. Snyder grew up on her a chicken. We’d have fried worked for the next year and a Merit. She went on to start a Born but Not Buried is avail- passenger in our car, an American, also happened to be cele- medication to grasp for the oxygen breathing tubes. The net. He’d love to share his photos with you at his blog, grandmother’s farm outside a chicken, mashed potatoes, and half, saving diligently and send- housing council to help people able at Four Seasons Books in brating his birthday. He stuck his face into my cabin and cheer- author got sick despite taking medication. It was his 77th birthday. http://TheOccidentalPhotographer.blogspot.com. small West Virginia mountain gravy, whatever vegetables were ing her money home. threatened with eviction. Shepherdstown. fully wished me a happy birthday. I was not cheerful. Photographs supplied by the author

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 18 7 Grounds for Nature The Long-Lasting Links Monica Dailey Grabowska

BETTy Lou BRyAnT ith a name that in Italian Lonicera sempervirens, coral honeysuckle means dirt, Terra DeMedici, I love vines and this one in par- W31, was probably destined to ticular because, unlike Japanese hon- wind up here: on a West Virginia moun- eysuckle, it is not invasive at all. The tainside, potting up seedlings and wrest- coral, trumpet-shaped flowers appear off ing gardens out of dry, shady shale. But and on throughout the summer if it is she was not born into the nursery busi- planted in full sun. Best of all, it attracts ince this is the final article in our he and his brother, Bayrle, joined his ness. She was born into a military family hummingbirds. series about couples who have father’s business—Adam Link and Sons. where she learned to love the itinerant Sbeen married over 60 years, it is They owned and operated a men’s and life, on the move every two or three Phlox stolonifera, woodland phlox appropriate to conclude with the couple women’s clothing store in downtown years. It was a wanderlust she carried This is a favorite because it works married the second longest time. (Edna Charles Town. At that time, there had into adulthood, so she did not imagine in dry to moist areas, and in part shade and Henry Snyder had been married 66 been seven generations of Links in herself putting down roots—figuratively to deep shade. There are not many plants years when we wrote our first article 16 Jefferson County. or literally. Love and passion would that like deep shade. It is low to the months ago.) Adam and Margaret lived with his Photograph supplied by subject eventually change that. ground until its flower stalks stand up six On January 15, 2007, Margaret and Photograph supplied by the Links parents in Cottage Hall Farm until they Terra went to Virginia Tech in 1993 to ten inches tall. It’s a wonderful but- Adam Link, Jr. celebrated their 64th set up housekeeping in nearby Linden to prepare for a career in psychology, but terfly attractor for the woodland garden. wedding anniversary. What a remark- Grove Farm in 1948. Their first child, by graduation in 1997, she was headed The variety I grow is ‘Sherwood purple.’ able accomplishment! Born in Jefferson Pamela Marlow Link was born that year. in another direction. During her junior Terra DiMedici Other varieties have blue, pink, or white County, they have known each other Four years later, Adam Baker Link III year, she concentrated on courses in hor- flowers. One of my favorite plant com- since they attended elementary school. arrived. Adam helped his father farm the ticultural therapy. This blend of botany, landscapes. Such designs worked well on “I want my place to eventually be a binations in the woodland garden is Although Adam had his eye on Margaret Adam and Margaret Link in February 2007 1,000 acres on three farms while Bayrle biology, and psychology might simply be paper, but there was a problem when it place where people are willing to go out dwarf crested iris, foamflower, and the in the sixth grade, they didn’t start dating helped at the store. Margaret also helped called a prescription to garden. It is used came to putting shovel to soil. It was dif- of their way to visit.” ‘Sherwood Purple’ woodland phlox. until they were sophomores at Charles for the blood test and got the marriage As part of the ground crew of the at the store after their children were in to help cure a variety of social, mental, ficult to find a ready supply of the native The nursery is, indeed “out of the Town High School—now Wright license in Adam’s absence. They had 8th Air Force, he was a parts clerk and in school and then worked 20 years as a and physical ills. plants she knew would flourish in the way.” Though the entrance to the neigh- Baptisia australis, blue false indigo Denny Intermediate School. After high a small wedding in Margaret’s family the motor pool. Although he did not fly, dental assistant for Dr. C.E. Cunningham Realizing the myriad benefits of local environment. borhood on Route 9 is easily acces- This is another plant that, with time, school graduation in June 1941, both home, Federal Hill, and had a 24-hour Adam says he saw some terrible things in Charles Town. They lived at Linden planting and nurturing a garden, Terra She began collecting seeds and sible, the trek to Terra’s soon becomes can stand in as a shrub, so it has many of them attended Shepherd College. honeymoon in Winchester. He returned that he will never forget. Throughout Grove from 1948 to 1972 when they changed her career goals. “I just thought, cuttings to propagate the plants herself an adventure in four-wheeling, par- different uses in the garden. It lends That Christmas, Adam gave Margaret to Langley, and Margaret joined him a his tour of duty, whenever he was able purchased another nearby farm, Broad if this is so therapeutic, it would also be and in so doing discovered her real pas- ticularly the bridgeless stream crossing. great architectural form and a brilliant an engagement ring. Adam was drafted week later. It was a good time for them to secure a few days leave, he trav- View. For three years they renovated and a healthy lifestyle, and if I’m going to do sion. Now she has literal and figurative Fortunately, at this point Terra does blue focal point in the spring. It stands into the Army Air Corps and ordered as he was able to eled throughout remodeled this lovely old home before something for the rest of my life, why roots in West Virginia. She still works not expect people to come to the nurs- alone as a spring-blooming plant for the to Kessler Field near Biloxi, Miss., for come home every England and they moved in. Their beautiful rose gar- not do something healthy?” as a landscape designer, but a visit to ery. Instead, she takes her plants to the butterfly garden. Most butterfly plants basic training. Upon completion of basic evening. Margaret Scotland. He has den was the site of five weddings. About She began her career working in her nursery reveals how much pleasure people by selling at several local and don’t bloom until late summer. By then, training he was sent to Syracuse, N.Y., was able to get a fond memories of five years ago, they built and moved into nurseries and for landscape designers she finds in planting and gardening. The regional farmers markets and plant sales. Baptisia’s lupine-like flower stalks are for six months of Airplane Identification job at the Hampton the good sights their present home, Link’s Retreat. in Frederick, Md. In 2002, she decided nursery, home to about 4,000 young Look for Terra at the Berkeley hanging with dark seedpods, which can Training. It was winter when he arrived Roads Port of he saw, which In 1980, they retired and purchased to become a landscape designer in native plants from allium to zizia, is Springs Farmers Market on Sundays be used in dried flower arrangements. and the weather was very cold. He only Embarkation counterbalanced a motor home in which they took many her own right, so she headed to the nestled among stately mature trees on a from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and It’s drought tolerant and grows in part had summer khaki uniforms, and soon he during the six the grim sights of trips throughout the United States and Conway School of Landscape Design in heavily wooded slope just steps from her the Great Frederick Fair Farmers shade to full sun. There is also a white was hospitalized with pneumonia. When months they were war. Canada. They have also enjoyed cruises Massachusetts. “That’s where I learned back door. She and Rich sited the area Market from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on species. he recovered and completed that training, at Langley. She In the spring to Alaska and Hawaii. In 1985 they the importance of native plants, and for the plants in such a way that they had Saturdays. Other sales and special events his next duty station was Bradley Field accompanied him of 1945, he purchased a home in Estero in southern that’s where my obsession for them to remove only one large tree to bring in are listed on the nursery’s Web site: Helianthus divaricatus, woodland in Hartford, Conn. His officers learned to his next duty returned to the Florida, and they winter there. They have began.” the sun the young plants need. groundsfornature.com. sunflower that he had attended college, and he was station in Jackson, United States on many friends here and there.

Love and those figurative roots All around her home, Terra is creat- People get really excited about this made an instructor. From there he was Miss. After three Photograph by Tim Simm the Queen Mary, Much of the information for this came next. Terra had met West Virginia ing gardens: an herb garden outside the Terra grows and sells some 40 plant. Most people just don’t imagine transferred to Savanna, Ill., which was months, Adam was and he reported article was obtained during phone calls native Rich DeMedici just before she kitchen door, a rain garden to capture different species of plants. I asked her there is a native sunflower that tolerates near his great-grandmother’s home. He ordered to Camp to Fort Meade in to Florida. Adam and Margaret returned left for Massachusetts. Despite the dis- runoff on the other side of the house, and to extol the virtues of a few of her light shade. It does best where it gets took advantage of the opportunity to visit Kilmer in New Maryland. When to our area for Mother’s Day weekend. tance, love bloomed and the two were several shade gardens where she experi- favorites. a few hours of sunshine a day, like the several of the relatives on his mother’s Jersey for transfer he was able to get I had a delightful chat with Margaret married when she returned in 2003, a ments with plants she will later incorpo- woodland edge. It gets a bright yellow side of the family. overseas. He sailed a leave, Margaret a few days ago, and as I left I observed freshly minted landscape designer. They rate into her clients’ landscape plans. Her Monarda didyma and Monarda fistulosa, disk flower with a golden center in mid During his next assignment at on the troop ship, joined him in Adam out on the riding mower cutting set up housekeeping on five acres at the newest garden is on top of the nursery bee balm and wild bergamot respectively to late summer. I’ve tried collecting Langley Field in Virginia, they decided Aquitania. It was Washington, D.C. grass on an adjoining lot. It has been foot of Sleepy Creek Mountain between shed. When I visited in late April, she These two related summer-blooming seeds, but the birds always get there to be married. He rented a room near the hot and crowded Adam and Margaret Link, They were in a great pleasure to talk to this charming, Hedgesville and Berkeley Springs. was still determining which plants would plants are showstoppers. If you have the first! It is a great bird and butterfly plant. base and applied for and was granted a below deck, so January 15, 1943 their hotel room devoted couple. We wish them many Terra named her landscape design cover the building’s “living roof.” space, plant lots. They grow three to five It’s good for the gardener, too, because it three-day pass. Unfortunately, a ship- Adam and many when they heard more years together. business Grounds for Nature. She I was astonished at the amount of feet tall and look almost shrub-like, mak- is so carefree. It’s hardy in poor soil and ment of secret ordnance equipment others slept on deck. They docked in a lot of noise in the lobby and in the focused on designs that incorporate work all of those gardens and the nursery ing a strong impact in the garden. Plant is fairly drought tolerant. It’s also a great arrived on base, and he was one of the Iceland on the fourth of July, 1943. They streets. When Adam went down to inves- Betty Lou Bryant majored in English at habitat plantings (gardens that attract represent. Terra laughed and explained, either one and you’ll have butterflies and cut flower. few who could oversee the packing of were not part of a convoy as they were tigate, he learned that the war in Europe Miami University, Oxford, Oh., and went and sustain wildlife, especially birds, “It’s what I do for a living, and I love it bumble bees galore. And the bees won’t this equipment for shipment overseas. a fast ship and could depend on their had ended. on to become a school librarian. She and butterflies, and other pollinators), and so much that it’s what I do for fun, too!” sting because they are just so happy to His leave had to be delayed. Finally, speed to avoid being detected by German His final duty station was Kelly her husband Bob, who celebrated their native plants. Her aim was to balance She is also looking forward to a day be sipping the abundant nectar. Bee balm Monica Dailey Grabowska is a a junior officer took pity on him and submarines. He docked at the Firth of Field in Texas. A staph infection hos- 60th wedding anniversary in February human needs with environmental respon- when she can invite people to come and is scarlet red; bergamot is lavender. They Shepherdstown educator and award- released him. Because of this delay, Clyde in Scotland and was stationed in pitalized him for a month and delayed 2006, have lived in Shepherdstown for sibility through ecologically sustainable see ecological gardening in action. bloom in July and August. winning garden writer. Margaret’s father secured a waiver England. his discharge. When he did return home, 15 years.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 8 17 Dr. David L. Dunlop The Great Cross Controversy Marjorie Dower

Jim Laise

Under his direction, the Frank Center was reno- outcome ultimately was a banner created by Shepherd vated and a new nursing building is under construction. students for the 33 who died in the recent Virginia Tech Reynolds Hall was also renovated and the Robert C. catastrophe. Dunlop said the students, who also had been Byrd Center for Legislative Studies was added to the affected by a slaying in Shepherdstown, initiated it. library building. Phase I of the Center for Contemporary Obviously there were lighter moments, and far isputes within churches are Jane and Brian met for several Art and Theater is being built and a new multi-purpose more of them. not uncommon, (you noticed, days in a row. After each meeting they wellness facility is going up. The President made it a practice throughout his Ddid you?) but this one had the both emerged looking determined and More expansion on the old Tabler Farm is in the tenure to go out to lunch with at least two students on whole village involved. The disputants severe. (I understand that the veggie man planning stage. a weekly basis. He was the head cheerleader at Ram (is that a word?) were the rector, Brian from the neighboring village was taking The student enrollment has seen a 35 percent athletic events and attended student government meet- Thomas, in one corner; and in the other, bets—but then the British will bet on increase, even with the loss from the rolls of the sev- ings, too. Jane Lemon, MBE*: world-renowned anything.) eral thousand students now enrolled at the Blue Ridge Sometimes his relationships had comical endings. campus. Like the time a student in a $50,000 sports car drove up designer of altar hangings, author of Then one day, after their meeting, In 11 years, there have been ups and downs. In the to Popodicon, the President’s home, and asked where many needlework books, and a member they both emerged wreathed in smiles. early years, weekly trips to Charleston to see legislators the hose was. He wanted to wash his car. Dunlop and of the congregation. Neither one would comment on the fron- put a stress on his time in Shepherdstown. Today, he his wife were entertaining. After some back and forth The church wherein the controversy tal so we held our collective breaths until finds himself as the purveyor of something of a clear- banter, Dunlop told the student that he could either: arose is All Saints, my husband’s family Trinity Sunday. inghouse for all things Shepherd. a) go to a local car wash, or b) come back to his church in Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, The attendance for that Sunday “As President, people inside and outside the univer- Shepherd Grade home when the guests were gone. England. It is nestled near the Wylie, a rivaled Christmas. Everyone turned out, sity know I probably can serve as a resource. So, I hear “He said he didn’t have enough money to wash his car. from students complaining about late semester projects Anyway, we never saw him again,” said Dunlop. clear chalk river that winds through the even the postmaster who was Hindi. they deem unfair,” Dunlop said. He also hears from Another story dealt with a student and an art Wylie valley. Beyond the river are roll- Photograph supplied by the author At first it seemed as if Jane had won:

Photograph by Ruth Weese uncles who request he bend Shepherd’s admission rules student. The student wanted to use some bamboo shoots ing fields of green, above which rise the The Jane Lemon Altar Hanging completed for All Saints, Steeple Langford, UK No cross was in sight; but as the torches to allow in a favored nephew. in a project. She asked Cathy Dunlop if she could pick golden and brown downs. (I was going (Can you see the cross?) passed the altar, there was a gasp. For “My advice is for a candidate like that is to go from a stalk of the plant, which braces the presidential to say the fields rise up to the downs, a brief moment a large cross was vis- David L. Dunlop somewhere else and then transfer back in,” he said residence’s back yard. but unless one knows that the downs of heavy silk and embroidered in gold Jane, the artist, was equally insis- ible on the frontal, but then it was gone. pragmatically. “I tell them that if our admissions office “Of course,” the outgoing Shepherd First Lady are really higher hills, it sounds odd.) with religious symbols. Trinity season tent. “There doesn’t need to be a cross Throughout the service a cross would utgoing Shepherd University President David has a policy, I am not going to break it, but I would replied. Several weeks later, the housekeeper on the The new tower of the church dates back follows Eastertide in the church year, to remind people that God is present in become visible and then it would not be L. Dunlop brought the venerable institution into welcome the student here in time.” property alerted Mrs. Dunlop (the President was in Othe 21st century—literally and figuratively. Many times, he hears from constituents who drop Charleston) that there was some noise coming from to the 13th century, and the baptismal and the ecclesiastical color is green (for the valley—just look out there and you there. Hired by a committee, which included then West a governor’s name into the communication. The funny the dark backyards. It was 1 a.m. Cathy Dunlop alerted font is an even more ancient one from the growing season). All altar hangings feel God’s presence everywhere. A cross Jane’s ingenious solution was to Virginia Gov. Cecil Underwood in the 1995–96 aca- part is that through Dunlop’s decade-plus career, he has campus security which arrived in seconds to cordon a Celtic church that was on the site. for the season have a preponderance of would spoil the effect.” affix an almost invisible Plexiglas cross demic year, Dunlop, 64, will lay down his academic had personal working relationships with all of the gov- off the lush plant as the top of the shoots wavered like It is not a church cryovaced and pre- green. Jane designed a modern quilted Brian replied, “This is inside the onto the hanging. When the light struck mantle some time after the May 19 commencement. ernors who have served West Virginia. stalks of corn. Out stepped the diminutive student: served for posterity, but one containing and appliquéd hanging that was a picture church, and I insist that there be a cross.” it just right, the congregation could make He and his wife Cathy, a Washington County, The low point at Shepherd came over Labor Day busted, embarrassed. Everyone had a good laugh in bits and pieces of all the centuries of of the valley. Shades of green silks and Both sides were adamant. Jane stomped out the cross and then it was gone. Md. educator, will move full-time to their home in The weekend 2006, when a father of two students gunned the end. its existence: children’s crayoned pic- velvets flowed into the blue silks of the back to her workroom a bit up the lane How I wish that all ecclesiastical Villages, north of Orlando, Fla., where he has been down his sons and then took his own life. “It was Perhaps, the most unique story involved Dunlop Wylie River, above which were the tan to ponder, and Brian went off to another hired to continue raising funds for the college that he shocking. It never occurred to me that a father, any himself. As an administrator at Pitt-Johnstown, he had tures are affixed to the medieval oak disputes could be settled in a similar helped turn into a university. parent, could kill his own kids. I shouldn’t say never never been to Shepherd and knew little about it. He doors; Victorian memorials blend with and browns weavings representing the of his little churches (he was in charge of simple manner. We so often do need Of all the many things for which Dunlop will be occurred to me because I’ve read about it. I never read an ad about the college search in a trade journal, Elizabethan carvings and 20th-century riverbanks and the downs. seven altogether) to baptize someone. gentle reminders that God, who is always remembered, the lasting impression is that he took thought I’d ever know anybody whose dad killed him. but chucked the journal, assuming from its name that trial liturgy prayer books. It was in The effect of the hanging in the The village waited. Even the everywhere, is also here. Shepherd from college to university status. All two- “It really hit home. I don’t think it formed me Shepherd was a church school. “It didn’t make much this idyllic location, and in this lovely ancient church was to be fresh, modern, residents of the village who were not year technical training courses were moved to the because I was already formed. At my age, my world- sense to me, because my whole lifetime was spent in church, that the controversy arose. and wonderful. But there was no cross Anglican became hotly involved. The Marge Dower hopes that she will never view was in place. It did sensitize me that no organiza- public education,” said Dunlop. When dining several Blue Ridge Community and Technical College in Jane was commissioned to create anywhere on the frontal. The rector, a villagers took sides and debated. The completely adjust to life in eastern Martinsburg. tion is immune,” said the President. Both students were days later with a faculty member, he learned the man’s a new modern Trinity season frontal gentle giant of a Welshman, was nor- villagers changed sides and debated Maryland and wishes fervently that the Shepherd’s 14th president’s tenure, long for a private by nature because of a closed culture their father son was a student at Shepherd. “I didn’t know your university president (the national average is less than formed in their hometown. What Dunlop did was per- son was at a church school,” Dunlop recalls saying. for the altar. A frontal is like a heavy mally easygoing and accepting—but not again. Trinity Sunday was near and the Baltimore Sun carried more news of the five years), has seen expansion of both the campus and sonally assist the girlfriend of one of the boys. It was “He’s not. Shepherd is public. It’s a great school and tablecloth, which hangs down over the in this case. He insisted that there had to new frontal was to be dedicated that day. Shepherd University Rams. enrollment; dealings with the students, alumni and the not until sometime later that he thought of the ordeal in a great bargain,” said the professor. “I ran back home altar or table. Traditionally the frontal is be a cross. legislature; and a gazillion challenges long forgotten. terms of murder-suicide. “For the first 48 hours, I didn’t and pulled that paper out of the trash,” he said. And Since he arrived, the Master’s program has been think about it that way. What was in my mind was, ‘Are Shepherd has been the better since. expanded, seven new undergraduate degrees have been the rest of the students safe? How do we deal with the * Jane Lemon is one of Britain’s most celebrated embroiderers, who for many years has commanded the respect of all those who have been fortunate enough to hear initiated, six new majors and minors have been added to media? Is there something we could have done to pre- her speak, been her students, or who have been able to see her work. the curriculum, and 19 new concentrations have begun, vent it? The first time it hit me personally was when I Jim Laise is the senior writer with She is an honorary member of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain; the Royal School of Needlework has made up a number of her designs at Hampton Court many of which are preparing Shepherd students for went to the funeral. By that time, we had the other stuff westvirginia.rivals.com, a content-based Web site that Palace; and in 2004, Her Majesty the Queen accorded Jane the rare accolade, at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace, of being appointed Member of the Order of 21st-century electronic and computer jobs. behind us. I saw three caskets. Then I felt sad.” The independently covers Mountaineer athletics. the British Empire (MBE) for her services to needlework.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 16 9 Grandpa’s Well A Father’s Day Devotional for James Franklin G. Taylor Tim Smith (1881–1947) A GiFTEd TEACHER Evelyn M. E. Taylor Marie Carter

Editor’s Note: This article is an adapta- could have chosen to do evil for evil but simply not his style. Again, he offered tion of a devotional service presented by helped all who had need. his loving, permissive support. His wife the author. The Lord saved Grandpa in 1932. did not choose anything outlandish but im Smith took a circuitous of getting a master’s degree and teaching Shepherdstown Elementary ever since. that “there seem to be more troubled His kindness toward family, neighbors, instead a slightly used, four-door, 1929 route to his current career as certificate, which he did at the University He taught second grade for one year and kids” now than several years ago. He * * * and strangers developed further dimen- Dodge as the new family car. Ta teacher of gifted students at of Maryland, having picked up some is currently back working with gifted believes the media exposes young people sions. He worked quietly in his “shop,” Fortunately, the tight-knit com- Scriptures: Romans 5:3b-5; Shepherdstown Elementary School. He credits at Shepherd University. During students. Smith teaches language arts and to a lot of adult issues: “They seem to which doubled as his prayer closet, munity of Browns, Johnsons, Timbers, was born in Lancaster, N.H., about 50 his student teaching, someone suggested math to students in second, third, fourth, know a lot more about the way the world I Corinthians 13; II Timothy 1:17. where he perfected his Christian charac- Smiths, Foxes, and Davenports had just miles from the Canadian border, and to Smith that he might be well suited for and fifth grades. works.” Smith’s perception is that chil- ter and carpentry skills. The new church the right driver education teacher: Elder was in the second grade when his fam- dren are not better critical thinkers due to Hymn Selection: Love Lifted Me he and Grandma helped to pioneer was Eugene Baltimore, a handsome new ily moved to Hyattsville, Md., a suburb that exposure but neither are they worse blessed with newly handcrafted pews farmer with a divine call on his life, of Washington, D.C. Smith attended St. critical thinkers than children in the past. and pulpit from his shop. His quiet had moved into the community with his randpa went home to Glory Mary’s College in Maryland for three He does not think that they read any less; example of leadership at home and family across the Blue Ridge Mountains the year before I was born. years, beginning as an education major however he does think the classics are church coupled with charity—values from Linden, Va. Within several weeks, GInasmuch as the fascinating and later switching to sociology. The passed over in general. The rich vocabu- accounts from the 1930s to the 1940s burnished in the fires of the trials he suf- Grandma, although somewhat past the career of a sociologist “seemed grim” lary in books like Peter Pan and Wind spoke volumes about this saintly gentle- fered—continue to reproduce themselves critical-readiness phase for driving, was according to Smith, and he dropped out in the Willows is not matched in the cur- man farmer, I know him best through the generations later in patience, experience, known to chauffeur her family as far of college after three years. rently popular fantasy/action novels. example of my father, his son; my broth- hope, and the love of God. away as Hagerstown, Md. Carpenters ers; and his great grandsons. The values The nest emptied a year later. Taylor and Baltimore’s friendship fur- Smith began doing renovation car- Smith is in a minority, being a male and principles Grandpa practiced in life Daughter Edith, who studied at Storer ther strengthened as the two built a new pentry in northeast D.C. and enjoyed in a female dominated field. “I don’t would speak to and instruct three genera- College in Harpers Ferry, was the last wood-frame garage to house the family seeing the results of his labor. After con- think about it as much as I used to,” he tions succeeding him. of four to go. Part of her tuition was car. tinuing his carpentry work for a period said, and he noted that the distinction is One month before the Great paid from Grandma’s savings from the One major trip was repeated weekly. of time back in New Hampshire, Smith not as pronounced since he is in a spe- Depression in September 1929, my little fruit pies sold for a nickel each to Grandma faithfully drove the family to felt pressure from his parents to go back cialist position. “There have been times grandparents moved to Johnsontown, Grandpa’s co-workers at the Bakerton church. Young Charles grew up in the Photograph submitted by Evelyn m .E. Taylor from family archives to school, and he went to the University when my gender has been at least as James Franklin G. Taylor, 1881–1947 founded in 1848 as one of the first free Quarry. Now grandparents, they tended fear and admonition of the Lord at the of Maryland, earning a B.A. in English important as my teaching ability in terms black communities in western Virginia. vegetable and flower gardens during the House of Prayer while Grandpa became Literature. At that time, “unclear about of reaching a student.” Previously they had been tenant farm- summer of 1933. By November, a major the church’s first trustee and Grandma its the practical value of English literature Smith does not see himself as fit- ers in Kabletown on the Langdon farm. change would occur. Grandma, who first usher. She also wrote letters to their morning. Thanks to Grandma’s contin- scholarship,” he spent some time hitch- ting into the stereotype of the elementary Grandma spent her childhood on the made many of the major decisions in the eldest son, urging him to give his heart ued prayers, the younger son became a hiking through Western Europe. school teacher as an emotionally nurtur- east side of the Shenandoah River in home, decided they were still young and to the Lord before it was too late. pastor four decades later, and among his When Smith returned to the United Photograph by Ruth Weese ing individual. Noting that most gifted the former free black community of energetic enough to adopt a new baby Just as the couple’s love and honor, grandchildren and great grandchildren States, he went to Charlottesville, Va., to Tim Smith kids function fairly independently, he boy just a few days old. His mother, one one for the other, flourished among are a bishop, pastors, preachers, teachers, Shannondale. The Johnsontown home, work in a friend’s health food restaurant. said that he is interested in ideas and that of Grandma’s nieces, had died during shared goals and a sense of community evangelists, deacons, and missionaries. their first, had been a two-room, two- He served as a caretaker at a girls’ pri- teaching gifted education. “Elementary Smith was drawn to teaching what he provides is “intellectual nurtur- childbirth. Grandpa rarely objected to and outreach, Grandpa’s well maintained Connecting past and present, story, red-brick auxiliary schoolhouse for vate school, a transportation aide at the ed was not what I thought I was going because, “Teaching seemed like a public ance” more than emotional nurturance. whites that Grandpa renovated, adding his wife’s good sense and timely deci- its quiet, steady supply of water to each Grandpa’s well still functions, now University of Virginia Hospital, a rural to do,” said Smith. “I thought I’d do service.” Smith remembers the “hope “Fred Rogers I’m not,” Smith said. He two rooms and front and back porches. sions. With his blessings, they adopted village household—an arrangement that outfitted with an automatic pump, con- newspaper carrier, a painter, a carpenter, secondary ed, but my student teaching in and promise” of President Kennedy as tries to put his students at ease and says, On the property stood a covered well, 75 the child. As son Charles grew, Grandma would continue another 25 years. veying an endless source of water that and a woodworker. the elementary setting turned out to be being especially inspirational to him “I think people learn better in a relaxed feet deep, dug by hand during the 1870s saw the need for a family car, a matter Grandpa’s became a life that fully still has never run dry, into the home and 1880s. Grandpa could have done without. He honored God. His final wish was granted now occupied by his granddaughter. Smith’s friend, the health food a more positive experience than that in during his youth. He appreciates the atmosphere.” In July 1930, the Depression tight- had walked most places he needed to go upon hearing eldest son, Robert, preach The church he and Grandma founded, restaurant owner, moved to Berkeley middle school.” opportunity to contribute something One of the joys of Smith’s life is ened its grip with a devastating, record- when he couldn’t get a ride. Ruling the his trial sermon, just hours before God together with her sister and brother-in- Springs, West Virginia, and called upon Smith had done substitute teach- meaningful to society. “I wanted to give walking his hound dog a couple of times breaking drought lasting thirteen months. roost with an ironclad will, however, was took him home. Joy had come early that law, continues to provide light and direc- Smith’s carpentry skills to help restore a ing in Morgan County, W. Va., and something back.” a day. “She is a beautiful dog, and it is a Grandpa’s well became the only source tion to residents of the city of Charles home there. Smith felt comfortable liv- he had a lot of friends in the Eastern “I didn’t think I’d last more than delight to see her run.” He likes to read, of drinking water for miles around. Town. Two more generations of progeny ing in Berkeley Springs, where he said Panhandle. That connection made teach- five years,” Smith said. But he has found nonfiction mostly, and currently in the Prayer: Almighty God, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Sadly, many of those frequenting his await their turn to mature as God’s mes- he met everybody his age during his first ing in Jefferson County a natural fit. that he enjoys “trying to remove obsta- area of Jungian psychology. His fiction backyard had not treated him well and We thank You for being the author of values and principles that enable us sengers to the world. two weeks there. He found he preferred Smith first took a position as an itinerate cles and tie things together” for children. reading is mostly novels or stories he’s had spoken evil of him. Nonetheless, he a small-town atmosphere. teacher of gifted, serving three schools He tries to remember what it was like for trying to work into the classroom. He to triumph, to glorify You and to bless the earth’s families. Speak through ministered impartially to each—friend Smith had his own wood shop for a at once—Blue Ridge Elementary, South him when he was the age of the students does not describe himself as “musically and foe, black and white—greeting them our tearful tribulations, especially to our fathers and heads of households, Evelyn M. E. Taylor, M.A., is a licensed while and he enjoyed doing “something Jefferson Elementary, and Ranson that he teaches. “The essence of it is literate,” but he does play the guitar by with kindness, providing water for their evangelist, short-term foreign mission- as we seek to present the awesome responsibility of promulgating godly tangible.” However, shop work became Elementary. Single-school gifted teacher to help students get in touch with what ear and occasionally plays the fiddle and families and livestock without cost. Our ary, administrator, and author, whose lonely and he yearned for more intellec- positions are not common and, when one they’re thinking and express it clearly.” banjo as well. “I love music. I’ve got a gracious God permitted Grandpa’s well legacy to succeeding generations. Propel us in the direction of Your focus is church history and historic tual stimulation. He also admits, “I was opened at Shepherdstown Elementary He remembers being aware of his own bookcase full of CDs, mostly blues, folk, preservation. The above profile is that to become muddy temporarily but mirac- not a good business man.” in 1999, Smith took it. Except for one efforts to put ideas into words. and rock. There’s usually something on Word for correction and instruction in righteousness. This we pray in the of her paternal grandfather, House of ulously never dry in the yearlong short- Smith became a substitute teacher in year working as librarian at T.A. Lowery Reflecting on changes he has seen in the player at the house.” Prayer’s first trustee. E-mail: ETaylor@ age. This humble, soft-spoken servant precious, matchless name of Jesus, Your Son. Amen. the public schools, which led to the idea Elementary School, Smith has been at his students over the years, Smith notes Brookings.edu.

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In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas Conversation with the Dead Carol Marcus 1946–1969 Cheryl Mansley In the house of the voice of Maria Callas We hear the baby’s cries, and the after-supper It was a minor argument with my future sister-in-law on the way to the wedding. When we arrived Rattle of silverware, and three clocks ticking for the ceremony, I apologized, and the more specifically I explained where I’d been wrong, the more moTHER oF ALL muSiC CooRdinAToRS To different tunes, and ripe plums intransigent she became, leaning against the altar, refusing my meager mea culpa. The whole incident Sleeping in their chipped bowl, and traffic sounds got smaller, and never went away. Dissecting the avenues outside. We hear, like water Jim Laise Pouring over time itself, the pure distillate arias She died some months later. Now when I rehearse my explanations to the dead, hers come first. We are Of the numerous pampered queens who have reigned, all dressed up, as at the wedding. We sit across from each other, and raise our hands, as if in surrender, And the working girls who have suffered or as if to play a child’s game, knowing that the winner wins and the loser, well, the loser always wants The envious knives, and the breathless brides to play again. I am at my most reasonable, most contrite, and still I can’t stop explaining. With their horned helmets who have fallen in love And gone crazy or fallen in love and died —Steve Orlen On the grand stage at their appointed moments— of acts traipsing through town life has She charges a small fee, with most Who will sing of them now? Maria Callas is dead, been little interrupted. She has also cre- of the money going to the artists. Fees Although the full lips and the slanting eyes ated new venues for local musicians. in Keedysville or at York Hill were a And flaring nostrils of her voice resurrect Steve Orlen has published six books of Live music sure won’t go stale as long bit higher but all the proceeds went to Dramas we are able to image in this parlor poetry, including The Elephant’s Child: as Cheryl can keep it up. Plato said that the artists. She has freelanced produc- On evenings like this one, adding some color, New & Selected Poems 1978–2005, when the mode of music changes, the tion and volunteer sign-ups of the former Adding some order. Of whom it was said: Kisses, and This Particular Eternity. walls of the city shake. Cheryl’s a musi- New Song Festival at Claymont outside She could imagine almost anything and give voice to it. cal mover-shaker.” Charles Town and the dinner showcases Among his awards are a Guggenheim Mansley was born into a U.S. Navy last year in Shepherdstown and was paid —Steve Orlen Fellowship, three NEA grants, and the family in Morocco. The Mansleys left from $100 to $1000. She coordinated the George Dillon Memorial Award for Africa when she was a baby and then music for the West Virginia Wine & Arts Poetry. He teaches at the University of moved with the service up and down the Festival May 26–27, 2007. L Arizona in Tucson and in the Warren east coast of the U.S. She started listen- In addition to Fairport Convention, ing to folk, sixties and seventies rock, McIlwaine, and Hodge, Mansley has Wilson MFA Program. Orlen’s poems Let Her Go here are from The Elephant’s Child, Photograph by Ruth Weese madrigals, and country music in her hosted Robbin Thompson, formerly of youth. the Bruce Springsteen Band. Old folkies Ausable Press, 2006. Cheryl Mansley As she raised three biological sons listened to these acts on WMAL-FM in Fields open, bicycles lock. Every girl sees and adopted others, she earned an associ- the 1960s and WHFS-FM in the 1970s. through the leaves, lured to the edge: mind open, body locked. ate degree in early childhood education Emanating from the D.C. area, both Running feet, beating heart, blue yonder. he has been called the “Mother would bubble up her world-famous from Delaware Tech and then a Regents alternative stations rang clear as a bell in Can’t every girl escape childhood, in charge of herself—flora Bearing Misfortune With the Abstract Man of All Music Coordinators,” and chocolate syrup. Friends came to play, Bachelor of Arts degree from Shepherd the Eastern Panhandle. But Mansley is to be fawned over, a body she unlocks? Virtue, from the Latin vir, man, and tus, abstract Sin the last seven years, there is listen, and mingle. The River House con- in 2003. She has worked in early child- equally excited about the acts and people no one in this community who has pro- certs have been to the old Full Circle in hood development, but as with any artist, with whom she has performed—old If she missed being the field swayed by one small shoe, The duck-billed platitude duced and promoted more shows than Keedysville, the Blue Ridge Center for daytime work is a means to an end. First friends David LeFleur, Mary Dailey, lock of hair in the backseat, body lays the eggs which confine Cheryl Mansley (with a little help from Environmental Stewardship, York Hill it was her career; now it’s the careers of Laura First, Don Oehser, the Celtic hidden under pines—at least not wholly a disruption of clues— another truth, define her friends). Today, she puts on Blue Recreational Farm and B&B, her current others. “I am not a 9-to-5 person,” she Parliament, and Treehouse, to mention how does she endure her hidden body freshness as yoked to the heavy wagon. Moon Sundays at the Blue Moon Café farm, and finally to the bohemian corner says with a smile. just a few. “The name of the act is unim- ruptured? on the corner of Princess and High in café in West Virginia’s oldest town. Mansley only rarely searches for portant to me,” she said. Patience is a virtue, the pregnant woman Shepherdstown and the West Virginia “For seven years I have not had to an act for her Blue Moon Sundays. The names of the venues change, Every girl is bored looking for summer hears when she complains Wine & Arts Festival at Boydville in pay a penny for these venues, which is Occasionally, someone will toss her the artists’ names change, but Mansley’s when it’s disappearing and every girl disappearing whispers in our ears of illness and Martinsburg. amazing in and of itself. With the help of the name of an act, but she has been name remains the same. For seven years, outwitting desire. I do not beguile. The Blue Moon series and the Wine a lot of people, we would produce them doing this so long that acts come to it has been her P.A. system, her ameni- —Amy Holman & Art Festival are really children of what and people would show up,” she said. her. Generally, they will send her a CD, ties. She and close friends have formed But why wait for the light to change Cheryl has been planning since she was Most artistic endeavors like hers, up which she listens to at home or in the the River House Gypsies, headed by when the volcano is erupting, a young girl singing in a choir in elemen- and down the Shenandoah Valley, make car, and then she negotiates. John and Wilma Holdway, who produce or for the husband to distract her when he’s distraction? tary school. no money unless they are tied to a foun- “Negotiates” is too strong a word. the action now at the Blue Moon. One “My dream was always to have a dation. In fact, most of hers end up in a In seven years, she has maybe dealt son, Ezra Newkirk, is the chef, whose Amy Holman, writer and con- He was always physical in his pursuit coffee house,” Mansley said in May loss for her. On the farms, she cooked, with ten agents of historic acts like dinners are a highlight of the Blue Moon sultant from Brooklyn, N.Y., of her, so clear. from her farm outside Shepherdstown. sometimes housed the musicians, bor- Fairport Convention or Catfish Hodge shows. teaches writers to take the road And she can’t be vir tus, “I would travel around and visit friends rowed and set up tables and chairs or Canada’s Ellen McIlwaine. Cheryl She turned over her River House even if she prided herself once at colleges and listen to the music there (though many concertgoers sat on her old will have hosted McIlwaine’s last two name and series to the Holdways, who to their publishing success. She and decided that one day, I would put on parquet floor), made tablecloths, bought birthday parties by this September, and have continued it as the New River is the author of An Insider’s on being one of the guys. concerts myself.” picnic plates and cutlery. McIlwaine needed proof that she was House. The Holdways produce shows at Guide to Creative Writing So, she stops complaining, stops ducking Having sung with three of her eight To say she does it out of the love coming to America for work. their church, where some of the proceeds Programs: Choosing the Right those phrases that clatter sons (five are foster children), including for helping musicians is superficial. As Several of her performers have back- go to the church and the acts. on the low pile carpet, cuts MFA or MA Program, Colony, the groups Little Maggie, the Slapsticks, Stephen King once said, “What makes door keys to her house, which rests on The “Mother of All Music Coordi- and Wilma, of local fame, Mansley, the you think I have a choice?” when asked 64 acres near the Potomac River. When nators” continues to spawn a melodic Residency, Grant or Fellowship. the pretense to daughter of a photographer and painter, why he writes morbid tales. her residence was being renovated, she family, which was the idea to begin with. Her collection, Wait For Me, bearing misfortune with an abstract man. is now the brains behind up to 50 acts “If you like live music—one of washed dishes in her bathtub upstairs and The Blue Moon Cafe opens its doors I’m Gone, won the 2004 Dream She knows her real man in bed has blue movies boxed under it, annually who play at the Blue Moon Shepherdstown’s chief claims to qual- continued to host shows. Sundays throughout the year, except Horse Press National Poetry on Sundays, under the billing of her ity of cultural life—Cheryl Mansley Her performers either are friends or Christmas and New Year’s, at 5:30 p.m. Chapbook Competition. She recently ejected. former production outfit, River House has been our town’s reigning booking become friends from doing her shows. Ezra Newkirk’s specialties are served up teaches at The New School, She feels his own moves erupted Concerts, which she started at a farm agent for many years,” said Ed Zahniser, It is the intrinsic part of her business, at 6 p.m. and the live music begins at 7 Hudson Valley Writers Center, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Holman’s “Let Her Go,” inside her, rebuilding the earth of her near Bakerton. Shepherdstown’s well-acclaimed poet, which is why she is confused by zoning p.m. See www.bluemoonshepherdstown. with extra soul and attitude. published by Failbetter.com, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. With the help of friends who essayist, and columnist. “The venues laws that prohibit shows with small fees com for more information. brought potlucks to her farm, Mansley have changed over time, but the parade from going on at her residences. —Amy Holman

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 14 11 Featured Poets F or the The Right Place, The Right Time

Christopher Robinson october 5–7, 2007 edited by ed Zahniser or several years now, one of my The next several days were a surreal good Shepherdstown friends, Jamie whirlwind of one-of-a-kind experiences. FBernstein, has been trying to con- I accompanied Jamie and his merry band of vince me to visit him in New Orleans for jazz players to gigs all over town, although the Jazz and Heritage Festival. Year after seeing Dr. John play to a full House of A Line from Robert Desnos Used to year, I had to decline his generous offer in Blues from behind the stage was a definite order to help my parents with spring plant- highlight. During the festival day, a multi- Commemorate George “Sonny” Took-the-Shield, Michael Collier, director of ing on the farm and the opening of our tude of wonderful musicians play in rotation Fort Belknap, Montana the Bread Loaf Conference, roadside stand. However, this year my par- on ten stylistically segregated stages from is the author of five books of ents had some good employees, and Jamie’s 11:00 in the morning to 7:00 in the evening. I have dreamed of you so much, poems: The Clasp and Other brother, Mikal Giancola, known around At night, the music moves to cram every you are the headless hawk town as Mac, had just moved to New bar, club, pub, and speakeasy in the city. Poems; The Folded Heart; I found in a field, upturned Orleans from Madrid. I couldn’t resist any The Crescent City Allstars were sched- a like a plow blade of feathers. The Neighbor; The Ledge, longer, and man, did I pick the right time to uled to appear on the Heritage Stage at the “Pick me up,” you said, “so I might roost finalist for the National Book visit the Jazz Fest. close of Saturday’s lineup, a good time slot, as if I were the hawk.” Critics Circle Award and Jamie moved to Shepherdstown in but Jamie and 12 were worried because they the Los Angeles Times Book 1993. He fell in love with the town after would be competing against some greats. I have dreamed of you so much, Bardo Prize; and most recently, visiting his mom, Meg Hughes, during Rod Stewart, Norah Jones, Ludacris, and a tree grew where I stood, a break in college. For a few years, he the New Orleans Social Club with Irma Dark Wild Realm. Poet and grass rose up in flames bartended at the Mecklenburg and lived Jamie Bernstein and Dr. John at Holt Cemetery Thomas were playing against them on dif- Dangerously frail is what his hand was like Laureate of Maryland from 2001–2004, he teaches as if the hawk had sown a fire at the Y farm. He was starting to write ferent stages. Not wanting to get lost in the from which its head appeared. When he showed up at our house, in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Three or four days after his death, some poetry and play guitar when he was cast in Ed has come to refer to both the position of the marchers crowd, Jamie hustled up a few thousand roses and had “Pick me up,” it said. Maryland. Collier’s poems here are from Dark Wild And stood at the foot of our bed. Herendeen’s play, Marat Sade. Jamie fell in love with behind the musicians and the style of music played. some friends and I stalk the festival with thorny arm- Realm, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. performing and started practicing his chops at the As Jamie was filling me in, a white convertible loads of floral attention-grabbers. We begged, pleaded, I have dreamed of you so much Though we had expected him to appear Words and Music nights at the Meck. Feeling the need pulled up to the curb. A grizzled old man with a long flirted, demanded, cajoled, and bribed every poor single that now there is no dream,Sotto Voce Poetry Festival for a bigger audience and a warmer climate (after his mane of grey hair stepped out, wearing a black fedora woman and irritated boyfriend we could find, and were In some form, it was odd, the clarity no field or tree or fire, landlord took away his woodstove), Jamie moved to and carrying a cane covered in feathers and charms. I eventually rewarded with a nice-sized crowd dancing only you roosting in the air. And precise decrepitude of his condition, And how his hand, frail as it was, New Orleans, another town that made an impression on shot a hopeful glance at Jamie and he said, “Yeah, you and singing. Although the roses certainly made for a “Pick me up,” I say, “so I might roost him in college. right, you get to second line with Dr. John today.” memorable experience, I think it was the sweet, loud as if the world consumed my head.” Lifted me from behind my head, up from the pillow, L Jamie has been back to visit a few times, always This march was not a funeral procession but a soul music of the Allstars that won the people. Jamie So that no longer could I claim it was a dream, bringing some new ideas and wonderful energy to the memorial celebration. Next, I met James “12” Andrews, ended up on stage, singing the songs he wrote with the —Michael Collier town. Together with Dennis Ott and some other locals an awesome trumpet player, and the head of the band. For my efforts, I was granted free passage to the Nor deny that what your father wanted, Lewis Carroll Thinks About Time Even with you sleeping next to me, he formed the band Moonshine Logic and played a few Crescent City Allstars, the band Jamie has been pro- rest of the festival. Birds Appearing in a Dream gigs around town. During this time, I really got to know ducing and writing songs for. We danced, more than After a lot of long days and longer nights following After a while, the days have a way of looking after themselves him, and we had some great conversations on music, marched, for over a mile, backing up traffic on every the music in a huge never-ending second line around Was to kiss me on the lips. Things are idly turning under the left hand One had feathers like a blood-streaked koi, art, and politics. I had been looking forward to checking street, to the music of tubas, trombones, drums, tambou- the city of New Orleans, my ears were filled with brass There was no refusing his anointing me While the right has been tooled another a tail of color-coded wires. out his new music and his life in the Big Easy. rines, and the gleaming peals of 12’s trumpet, with Dr. dreams and my heart was beating in a complex synco- With what I was meant to bear of him Into efficient turning toward goals. Time drifts. One was a blackbird stretching orchid wings, Mac picked me up at the airport, and inside of John leading the procession, to an old, scurvy graveyard pated rhythm. My eyes were filled with the glorious From where he was, present in the world, Today is Monday, and tomorrow will be Monday, too. another a flicker with a wounded head. 20 minutes I was plowing my way though a hot dressed covered in dying vines—hidden, forgotten, behind con- costumes of the Mardi Gras Indians and the myriad of Alice turns eleven. Yesterday she was seven, A document loose from the archives roast beef po’ boy at the Parkway, then sipping on a struction fences. beautiful paintings and intrinsically quirky sculptures All flew like leaves fluttering to escape, Though what I remember of seven is a flock of photos Of form—not spectral, not corporeal— fresh lime margarita next to the Bayou St. John. At We finally arrived at a bone-white new headstone, laid out in ragtag tents around the festival. My belly bright, circulating in burning air, Which have waited for years to fly out of their box. In transit, though not between lives or bodies: the crack of noon the next morning, Jamie blew into planted among the falling wooden crosses and faded was glowing with a satisfied hum from spicy crawfish and all returned when the air cleared. Mac’s shotgun shack, where I was lucky enough to plastic flowers. This was the grave of Jessie Hill, James beignets, soothing strawberry lemonade, shrimp toast, Those lips on mine, then mine on yours. I can’t sleep and I can’t stay awake and the sun’s coming up, One was a kingfisher trapped in its bower, score couch space for the Fest, and herded me into his Andrews’ grandfather and the creator of a beloved New mango ices, po’ boys, and gumbo. And my soul—my So I lift the lid of the box and watch the two worlds collide truck. He stuck a straw hat on my head and handed me Orleans song, “Ooh Poo Pah Doo.” Jessie Hill was soul was filled with a deep, deep feeling of content- —Michael Collier Softly as dust particles in the first shaft of light. deep in the ground, miles from water. a digital camera. By the time I was half awake, we were originally buried under a plywood cross and had long ment and joy: New Orleans was happy again. The town I took these photographs! Everything is real and everything isn’t. pulling into the Banks Street Bar, where a very color- since been lost, with hundreds of talented musicians, is still beaten and battered, the people are still weary, One river is forever running down and the other upstream, Some had names and some didn’t. ful crowd of musicians, tourists and local legends was in Holt Cemetery, the only below-ground cemetery in but the music is alive and bigger than life, marching And the children in one boat are always waving hello, Named an nameless shapes of birds, gathering. New Orleans, originally reserved for those families the streets from dusk till dawn. If you want to experi- And in the other, no one waves goodbye, no one. Chalked onto the door of the bar was a small mes- who couldn’t afford an above-ground crypt. Jessie ence something better than Christmas for kids, I suggest Their faces are as stilled as photographs can make them. at night my hand can touch your feathers sage, “second line today.” I quickly found out that the Hill’s headstone was one of only three or four new you get on down to the Fest at least once in your life. and then I wipe the vernix from your wings, second line is a New Orleans tradition with deep roots. ones recently built by surviving friends and families I know if I ever miss another one, grits ain’t groceries, The leisurely oars of the boatmen you who have made bright things from shadows, As far back as the 1700s, fraternal African American to restore the honor of the great musicians lost in this eggs ain’t poultry, and Mona Lisa was a man. Are taking them toward and away from that zone you who have crossed the distances to roost in me. organizations offered burial services, insurance, and brown, root-strewn wasteland. Many kind words were Jamie’s CD, “People Get Ready Now” by the Alice tumbled down, startled and bemused, education to freed slaves who couldn’t find help else- said, and we all sang an eerily sober version of “Ooh Crescent City Allstars, can be found on CDBaby.com. And I’m the Reverend Dodgson on the shores of Eden. —Michael Collier where. These organizations would march behind funeral Poo Pah Doo.” The line moved to a few other key My hair is brown and curly. My eyes are blue. processions to honor their fallen brethren and offer graves, singing the songs of the artists over them, then Christopher Robinson is a local artist who can be their help and support to the community. Second lining wandered back into the streets for the long march home. found at www.Robinson-Designs.com —Steve Orlen

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 12 13 A RTWo R k S Don Black Abstract Impressionist Nan Broadhurst

Eventually Don and his family returned to Virginia, and more abstract, until now most of his paintings have Photographs of artwork supplied by the artist where he took a job teaching clarinet and music theory become largely nonrepresentational. He is inspired by Possibilities of Light The Calm of White at Shenandoah Conservatory. After three years he all sorts of visual stimulation, such as light, unusual took over the direction of the well-regarded symphony shapes and textures, or even just the mood of a scene. orchestra, which he continued for 20 years. He was Occasionally he will find a realistic subject that emerges chairman of the Instrumental Division at Shenandoah, in his work on its own, and he may help it along. But which is one of the largest music schools in the region. his main interests are the elements of painting, such as He is now in his 39th year as a professor at Shenandoah color, shape, texture, and line. When he starts a paint- Conservatory, and has shifted to a more relaxed sched- ing, he may approach it like a musical composition, ule, teaching two days a week. He is also part of an delineating divisions of unequal but harmonious pro- ensemble called The Professors, all current or former portions. Or he may just begin playing with the colors faculty at Shenandoah, who play jazz and standard tunes and juiciness of the paint itself, applying layers and from the forties, fifties, and sixties at festivals, wed- layers that peek through in the final result. He enjoys dings, and other events. He claims that he never wants experimenting with the inherent qualities of the paint, to retire—he is having too much fun. and capitalizes on unexpected results. These days he In 1986 Don developed another love—painting. often adds other media, such as pastels, pencil, ink, or This new passion began to blossom at boring faculty occasionally collage. He feels that the individual style meetings, where he would entertain himself by doo- of artists reflects the way they solve the problems that dling. Eventually he bought painting supplies, dab- arise while creating a painting. Photograph by n an Broadhurst bling by himself for a year to try it out. He found that These days, with his reduced schedule at school, Don Black he loved it and was full of questions—and so began Don can devote more time to painting. He has been to pursue answers with local coming to Shepherdstown classes. At first, he did very regularly to paint and show on Black, a lifelong musician, has transported realistic landscapes in oil, and with the Friday Painters ever rhythm, melodies, and lyrics to the world of became proficient in the techni- since the group formed with Joe Dvisual art. His abstract paintings reflect the cal aspects of handling paint. Mayer about 13 years ago. He A Village Place Antietam Creek Bridge improvisations of an artist who questions everything Then he became attracted to and Nancy spend the summer and enjoys the ensuing ride. watercolor because he loved at the family cottage at Lac Don was born and raised in Roanoke, Va. From the looseness and flowing qual- Pemichangan in Quebec, Canada, an early age, Don took lessons in the clarinet—once ity of the paintings he saw. He where he can paint full time. from a circus musician. By the age of 12 he was play- also thought that the medium Don has achieved consider- ing in local dance bands. In high school Don excelled would be easier to handle, and able success with his second in science, winning a prestigious award and thus earn- that the time commitment would passion. His paintings are strong, ing strong encouragement from his teachers to continue be more reasonable, given his loose, and vibrant, and he has his education in the sciences. But music won out, and heavy responsibilities at school. acquired a following of interested he enrolled in Shenandoah College and Conservatory He took workshops with Zoltan clients. His work has been juried of Music in Winchester—the only college in Virginia Szabo and Tony Couch, and into many regional shows, and where males could study music and teaching. He then he found Joe Mayer in currently can be seen at Gallery transferred to and graduated from Concord College in Shepherdstown. He attributes One and Judy’s Cards and Gifts, Athens, W.Va., with a bachelor of science in music Joe Mayer with being the stron- both in Winchester, Va.; Gallery education. He was drafted into the army just as the gest influence on him for his 222 in Leesburg, Va.; and the Korean War was ending, and so, luckily, a major part current path. Another strong Newman Gallery in Washington, of his tour of duty was one year in the famous U.S. 7th influence is John Moran, another D.C. He is currently working on Army Symphony Orchestra, which played throughout artist who lived and painted in a commission for an upcoming Europe. After the army, he obtained a master of fine Shepherdstown. Currently he restaurant in the historic George arts in Music Theory at Ohio University, where he has also been exploring acrylics, Washington Hotel in Winchester met his wife, Nancy. After graduate school, Don and and has learned from artists he called the Dancing Goat. Details Farmscape VII Nancy moved to Texas, where Don taught music at admires like Ed Ramsburg in of many of his works can be seen various colleges, playing first clarinet in the Amarillo Frederick, Md. at his Web site: www.donblack Symphony for six years. During this time, he also did The impressionistic land- artist.com. some work toward a doctoral degree in clarinet. scapes that Don painted for Warm Afternoon on the Farm years gradually became more Time to Wish Yellow Field

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Eventually Don and his family returned to Virginia, and more abstract, until now most of his paintings have Photographs of artwork supplied by the artist where he took a job teaching clarinet and music theory become largely nonrepresentational. He is inspired by Possibilities of Light The Calm of White at Shenandoah Conservatory. After three years he all sorts of visual stimulation, such as light, unusual took over the direction of the well-regarded symphony shapes and textures, or even just the mood of a scene. orchestra, which he continued for 20 years. He was Occasionally he will find a realistic subject that emerges chairman of the Instrumental Division at Shenandoah, in his work on its own, and he may help it along. But which is one of the largest music schools in the region. his main interests are the elements of painting, such as He is now in his 39th year as a professor at Shenandoah color, shape, texture, and line. When he starts a paint- Conservatory, and has shifted to a more relaxed sched- ing, he may approach it like a musical composition, ule, teaching two days a week. He is also part of an delineating divisions of unequal but harmonious pro- ensemble called The Professors, all current or former portions. Or he may just begin playing with the colors faculty at Shenandoah, who play jazz and standard tunes and juiciness of the paint itself, applying layers and from the forties, fifties, and sixties at festivals, wed- layers that peek through in the final result. He enjoys dings, and other events. He claims that he never wants experimenting with the inherent qualities of the paint, to retire—he is having too much fun. and capitalizes on unexpected results. These days he In 1986 Don developed another love—painting. often adds other media, such as pastels, pencil, ink, or This new passion began to blossom at boring faculty occasionally collage. He feels that the individual style meetings, where he would entertain himself by doo- of artists reflects the way they solve the problems that dling. Eventually he bought painting supplies, dab- arise while creating a painting. Photograph by n an Broadhurst bling by himself for a year to try it out. He found that These days, with his reduced schedule at school, Don Black he loved it and was full of questions—and so began Don can devote more time to painting. He has been to pursue answers with local coming to Shepherdstown classes. At first, he did very regularly to paint and show on Black, a lifelong musician, has transported realistic landscapes in oil, and with the Friday Painters ever rhythm, melodies, and lyrics to the world of became proficient in the techni- since the group formed with Joe Dvisual art. His abstract paintings reflect the cal aspects of handling paint. Mayer about 13 years ago. He A Village Place Antietam Creek Bridge improvisations of an artist who questions everything Then he became attracted to and Nancy spend the summer and enjoys the ensuing ride. watercolor because he loved at the family cottage at Lac Don was born and raised in Roanoke, Va. From the looseness and flowing qual- Pemichangan in Quebec, Canada, an early age, Don took lessons in the clarinet—once ity of the paintings he saw. He where he can paint full time. from a circus musician. By the age of 12 he was play- also thought that the medium Don has achieved consider- ing in local dance bands. In high school Don excelled would be easier to handle, and able success with his second in science, winning a prestigious award and thus earn- that the time commitment would passion. His paintings are strong, ing strong encouragement from his teachers to continue be more reasonable, given his loose, and vibrant, and he has his education in the sciences. But music won out, and heavy responsibilities at school. acquired a following of interested he enrolled in Shenandoah College and Conservatory He took workshops with Zoltan clients. His work has been juried of Music in Winchester—the only college in Virginia Szabo and Tony Couch, and into many regional shows, and where males could study music and teaching. He then he found Joe Mayer in currently can be seen at Gallery transferred to and graduated from Concord College in Shepherdstown. He attributes One and Judy’s Cards and Gifts, Athens, W.Va., with a bachelor of science in music Joe Mayer with being the stron- both in Winchester, Va.; Gallery education. He was drafted into the army just as the gest influence on him for his 222 in Leesburg, Va.; and the Korean War was ending, and so, luckily, a major part current path. Another strong Newman Gallery in Washington, of his tour of duty was one year in the famous U.S. 7th influence is John Moran, another D.C. He is currently working on Army Symphony Orchestra, which played throughout artist who lived and painted in a commission for an upcoming Europe. After the army, he obtained a master of fine Shepherdstown. Currently he restaurant in the historic George arts in Music Theory at Ohio University, where he has also been exploring acrylics, Washington Hotel in Winchester met his wife, Nancy. After graduate school, Don and and has learned from artists he called the Dancing Goat. Details Farmscape VII Nancy moved to Texas, where Don taught music at admires like Ed Ramsburg in of many of his works can be seen various colleges, playing first clarinet in the Amarillo Frederick, Md. at his Web site: www.donblack Symphony for six years. During this time, he also did The impressionistic land- artist.com. some work toward a doctoral degree in clarinet. scapes that Don painted for Warm Afternoon on the Farm years gradually became more Time to Wish Yellow Field

GOOD NEWS PAPER • WINTER 2006 WINTER 2006 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 14 11 Featured Poets F or the The Right Place, The Right Time

Christopher Robinson october 5–7, 2007 edited by ed Zahniser or several years now, one of my The next several days were a surreal good Shepherdstown friends, Jamie whirlwind of one-of-a-kind experiences. FBernstein, has been trying to con- I accompanied Jamie and his merry band of vince me to visit him in New Orleans for jazz players to gigs all over town, although the Jazz and Heritage Festival. Year after seeing Dr. John play to a full House of A Line from Robert Desnos Used to year, I had to decline his generous offer in Blues from behind the stage was a definite order to help my parents with spring plant- highlight. During the festival day, a multi- Commemorate George “Sonny” Took-the-Shield, Michael Collier, director of ing on the farm and the opening of our tude of wonderful musicians play in rotation Fort Belknap, Montana the Bread Loaf Conference, roadside stand. However, this year my par- on ten stylistically segregated stages from is the author of five books of ents had some good employees, and Jamie’s 11:00 in the morning to 7:00 in the evening. I have dreamed of you so much, poems: The Clasp and Other brother, Mikal Giancola, known around At night, the music moves to cram every you are the headless hawk town as Mac, had just moved to New bar, club, pub, and speakeasy in the city. Poems; The Folded Heart; I found in a field, upturned Orleans from Madrid. I couldn’t resist any The Crescent City Allstars were sched- a like a plow blade of feathers. The Neighbor; The Ledge, longer, and man, did I pick the right time to uled to appear on the Heritage Stage at the “Pick me up,” you said, “so I might roost finalist for the National Book visit the Jazz Fest. close of Saturday’s lineup, a good time slot, as if I were the hawk.” Critics Circle Award and Jamie moved to Shepherdstown in but Jamie and 12 were worried because they the Los Angeles Times Book 1993. He fell in love with the town after would be competing against some greats. I have dreamed of you so much, Bardo Prize; and most recently, visiting his mom, Meg Hughes, during Rod Stewart, Norah Jones, Ludacris, and a tree grew where I stood, a break in college. For a few years, he the New Orleans Social Club with Irma Dark Wild Realm. Poet and grass rose up in flames bartended at the Mecklenburg and lived Jamie Bernstein and Dr. John at Holt Cemetery Thomas were playing against them on dif- Dangerously frail is what his hand was like Laureate of Maryland from 2001–2004, he teaches as if the hawk had sown a fire at the Y farm. He was starting to write ferent stages. Not wanting to get lost in the from which its head appeared. When he showed up at our house, in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Three or four days after his death, some poetry and play guitar when he was cast in Ed has come to refer to both the position of the marchers crowd, Jamie hustled up a few thousand roses and had “Pick me up,” it said. Maryland. Collier’s poems here are from Dark Wild And stood at the foot of our bed. Herendeen’s play, Marat Sade. Jamie fell in love with behind the musicians and the style of music played. some friends and I stalk the festival with thorny arm- Realm, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. performing and started practicing his chops at the As Jamie was filling me in, a white convertible loads of floral attention-grabbers. We begged, pleaded, I have dreamed of you so much Though we had expected him to appear Words and Music nights at the Meck. Feeling the need pulled up to the curb. A grizzled old man with a long flirted, demanded, cajoled, and bribed every poor single that now there is no dream,Sotto Voce Poetry Festival for a bigger audience and a warmer climate (after his mane of grey hair stepped out, wearing a black fedora woman and irritated boyfriend we could find, and were In some form, it was odd, the clarity no field or tree or fire, landlord took away his woodstove), Jamie moved to and carrying a cane covered in feathers and charms. I eventually rewarded with a nice-sized crowd dancing only you roosting in the air. And precise decrepitude of his condition, And how his hand, frail as it was, New Orleans, another town that made an impression on shot a hopeful glance at Jamie and he said, “Yeah, you and singing. Although the roses certainly made for a “Pick me up,” I say, “so I might roost him in college. right, you get to second line with Dr. John today.” memorable experience, I think it was the sweet, loud as if the world consumed my head.” Lifted me from behind my head, up from the pillow, L Jamie has been back to visit a few times, always This march was not a funeral procession but a soul music of the Allstars that won the people. Jamie So that no longer could I claim it was a dream, bringing some new ideas and wonderful energy to the memorial celebration. Next, I met James “12” Andrews, ended up on stage, singing the songs he wrote with the —Michael Collier town. Together with Dennis Ott and some other locals an awesome trumpet player, and the head of the band. For my efforts, I was granted free passage to the Nor deny that what your father wanted, Lewis Carroll Thinks About Time Even with you sleeping next to me, he formed the band Moonshine Logic and played a few Crescent City Allstars, the band Jamie has been pro- rest of the festival. Birds Appearing in a Dream gigs around town. During this time, I really got to know ducing and writing songs for. We danced, more than After a lot of long days and longer nights following After a while, the days have a way of looking after themselves him, and we had some great conversations on music, marched, for over a mile, backing up traffic on every the music in a huge never-ending second line around Was to kiss me on the lips. Things are idly turning under the left hand One had feathers like a blood-streaked koi, art, and politics. I had been looking forward to checking street, to the music of tubas, trombones, drums, tambou- the city of New Orleans, my ears were filled with brass There was no refusing his anointing me While the right has been tooled another a tail of color-coded wires. out his new music and his life in the Big Easy. rines, and the gleaming peals of 12’s trumpet, with Dr. dreams and my heart was beating in a complex synco- With what I was meant to bear of him Into efficient turning toward goals. Time drifts. One was a blackbird stretching orchid wings, Mac picked me up at the airport, and inside of John leading the procession, to an old, scurvy graveyard pated rhythm. My eyes were filled with the glorious From where he was, present in the world, Today is Monday, and tomorrow will be Monday, too. another a flicker with a wounded head. 20 minutes I was plowing my way though a hot dressed covered in dying vines—hidden, forgotten, behind con- costumes of the Mardi Gras Indians and the myriad of Alice turns eleven. Yesterday she was seven, A document loose from the archives roast beef po’ boy at the Parkway, then sipping on a struction fences. beautiful paintings and intrinsically quirky sculptures All flew like leaves fluttering to escape, Though what I remember of seven is a flock of photos Of form—not spectral, not corporeal— fresh lime margarita next to the Bayou St. John. At We finally arrived at a bone-white new headstone, laid out in ragtag tents around the festival. My belly bright, circulating in burning air, Which have waited for years to fly out of their box. In transit, though not between lives or bodies: the crack of noon the next morning, Jamie blew into planted among the falling wooden crosses and faded was glowing with a satisfied hum from spicy crawfish and all returned when the air cleared. Mac’s shotgun shack, where I was lucky enough to plastic flowers. This was the grave of Jessie Hill, James beignets, soothing strawberry lemonade, shrimp toast, Those lips on mine, then mine on yours. I can’t sleep and I can’t stay awake and the sun’s coming up, One was a kingfisher trapped in its bower, score couch space for the Fest, and herded me into his Andrews’ grandfather and the creator of a beloved New mango ices, po’ boys, and gumbo. And my soul—my So I lift the lid of the box and watch the two worlds collide truck. He stuck a straw hat on my head and handed me Orleans song, “Ooh Poo Pah Doo.” Jessie Hill was soul was filled with a deep, deep feeling of content- —Michael Collier Softly as dust particles in the first shaft of light. deep in the ground, miles from water. a digital camera. By the time I was half awake, we were originally buried under a plywood cross and had long ment and joy: New Orleans was happy again. The town I took these photographs! Everything is real and everything isn’t. pulling into the Banks Street Bar, where a very color- since been lost, with hundreds of talented musicians, is still beaten and battered, the people are still weary, One river is forever running down and the other upstream, Some had names and some didn’t. ful crowd of musicians, tourists and local legends was in Holt Cemetery, the only below-ground cemetery in but the music is alive and bigger than life, marching And the children in one boat are always waving hello, Named an nameless shapes of birds, gathering. New Orleans, originally reserved for those families the streets from dusk till dawn. If you want to experi- And in the other, no one waves goodbye, no one. Chalked onto the door of the bar was a small mes- who couldn’t afford an above-ground crypt. Jessie ence something better than Christmas for kids, I suggest Their faces are as stilled as photographs can make them. at night my hand can touch your feathers sage, “second line today.” I quickly found out that the Hill’s headstone was one of only three or four new you get on down to the Fest at least once in your life. and then I wipe the vernix from your wings, second line is a New Orleans tradition with deep roots. ones recently built by surviving friends and families I know if I ever miss another one, grits ain’t groceries, The leisurely oars of the boatmen you who have made bright things from shadows, As far back as the 1700s, fraternal African American to restore the honor of the great musicians lost in this eggs ain’t poultry, and Mona Lisa was a man. Are taking them toward and away from that zone you who have crossed the distances to roost in me. organizations offered burial services, insurance, and brown, root-strewn wasteland. Many kind words were Jamie’s CD, “People Get Ready Now” by the Alice tumbled down, startled and bemused, education to freed slaves who couldn’t find help else- said, and we all sang an eerily sober version of “Ooh Crescent City Allstars, can be found on CDBaby.com. And I’m the Reverend Dodgson on the shores of Eden. —Michael Collier where. These organizations would march behind funeral Poo Pah Doo.” The line moved to a few other key My hair is brown and curly. My eyes are blue. processions to honor their fallen brethren and offer graves, singing the songs of the artists over them, then Christopher Robinson is a local artist who can be their help and support to the community. Second lining wandered back into the streets for the long march home. found at www.Robinson-Designs.com —Steve Orlen

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In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas Conversation with the Dead Carol Marcus 1946–1969 Cheryl Mansley In the house of the voice of Maria Callas We hear the baby’s cries, and the after-supper It was a minor argument with my future sister-in-law on the way to the wedding. When we arrived Rattle of silverware, and three clocks ticking for the ceremony, I apologized, and the more specifically I explained where I’d been wrong, the more moTHER oF ALL muSiC CooRdinAToRS To different tunes, and ripe plums intransigent she became, leaning against the altar, refusing my meager mea culpa. The whole incident Sleeping in their chipped bowl, and traffic sounds got smaller, and never went away. Dissecting the avenues outside. We hear, like water Jim Laise Pouring over time itself, the pure distillate arias She died some months later. Now when I rehearse my explanations to the dead, hers come first. We are Of the numerous pampered queens who have reigned, all dressed up, as at the wedding. We sit across from each other, and raise our hands, as if in surrender, And the working girls who have suffered or as if to play a child’s game, knowing that the winner wins and the loser, well, the loser always wants The envious knives, and the breathless brides to play again. I am at my most reasonable, most contrite, and still I can’t stop explaining. With their horned helmets who have fallen in love And gone crazy or fallen in love and died —Steve Orlen On the grand stage at their appointed moments— of acts traipsing through town life has She charges a small fee, with most Who will sing of them now? Maria Callas is dead, been little interrupted. She has also cre- of the money going to the artists. Fees Although the full lips and the slanting eyes ated new venues for local musicians. in Keedysville or at York Hill were a And flaring nostrils of her voice resurrect Steve Orlen has published six books of Live music sure won’t go stale as long bit higher but all the proceeds went to Dramas we are able to image in this parlor poetry, including The Elephant’s Child: as Cheryl can keep it up. Plato said that the artists. She has freelanced produc- On evenings like this one, adding some color, New & Selected Poems 1978–2005, when the mode of music changes, the tion and volunteer sign-ups of the former Adding some order. Of whom it was said: Kisses, and This Particular Eternity. walls of the city shake. Cheryl’s a musi- New Song Festival at Claymont outside She could imagine almost anything and give voice to it. cal mover-shaker.” Charles Town and the dinner showcases Among his awards are a Guggenheim Mansley was born into a U.S. Navy last year in Shepherdstown and was paid —Steve Orlen Fellowship, three NEA grants, and the family in Morocco. The Mansleys left from $100 to $1000. She coordinated the George Dillon Memorial Award for Africa when she was a baby and then music for the West Virginia Wine & Arts Poetry. He teaches at the University of moved with the service up and down the Festival May 26–27, 2007. L Arizona in Tucson and in the Warren east coast of the U.S. She started listen- In addition to Fairport Convention, ing to folk, sixties and seventies rock, McIlwaine, and Hodge, Mansley has Wilson MFA Program. Orlen’s poems Let Her Go here are from The Elephant’s Child, Photograph by Ruth Weese madrigals, and country music in her hosted Robbin Thompson, formerly of youth. the Bruce Springsteen Band. Old folkies Ausable Press, 2006. Cheryl Mansley As she raised three biological sons listened to these acts on WMAL-FM in Fields open, bicycles lock. Every girl sees and adopted others, she earned an associ- the 1960s and WHFS-FM in the 1970s. through the leaves, lured to the edge: mind open, body locked. ate degree in early childhood education Emanating from the D.C. area, both Running feet, beating heart, blue yonder. he has been called the “Mother would bubble up her world-famous from Delaware Tech and then a Regents alternative stations rang clear as a bell in Can’t every girl escape childhood, in charge of herself—flora Bearing Misfortune With the Abstract Man of All Music Coordinators,” and chocolate syrup. Friends came to play, Bachelor of Arts degree from Shepherd the Eastern Panhandle. But Mansley is to be fawned over, a body she unlocks? Virtue, from the Latin vir, man, and tus, abstract Sin the last seven years, there is listen, and mingle. The River House con- in 2003. She has worked in early child- equally excited about the acts and people no one in this community who has pro- certs have been to the old Full Circle in hood development, but as with any artist, with whom she has performed—old If she missed being the field swayed by one small shoe, The duck-billed platitude duced and promoted more shows than Keedysville, the Blue Ridge Center for daytime work is a means to an end. First friends David LeFleur, Mary Dailey, lock of hair in the backseat, body lays the eggs which confine Cheryl Mansley (with a little help from Environmental Stewardship, York Hill it was her career; now it’s the careers of Laura First, Don Oehser, the Celtic hidden under pines—at least not wholly a disruption of clues— another truth, define her friends). Today, she puts on Blue Recreational Farm and B&B, her current others. “I am not a 9-to-5 person,” she Parliament, and Treehouse, to mention how does she endure her hidden body freshness as yoked to the heavy wagon. Moon Sundays at the Blue Moon Café farm, and finally to the bohemian corner says with a smile. just a few. “The name of the act is unim- ruptured? on the corner of Princess and High in café in West Virginia’s oldest town. Mansley only rarely searches for portant to me,” she said. Patience is a virtue, the pregnant woman Shepherdstown and the West Virginia “For seven years I have not had to an act for her Blue Moon Sundays. The names of the venues change, Every girl is bored looking for summer hears when she complains Wine & Arts Festival at Boydville in pay a penny for these venues, which is Occasionally, someone will toss her the artists’ names change, but Mansley’s when it’s disappearing and every girl disappearing whispers in our ears of illness and Martinsburg. amazing in and of itself. With the help of the name of an act, but she has been name remains the same. For seven years, outwitting desire. I do not beguile. The Blue Moon series and the Wine a lot of people, we would produce them doing this so long that acts come to it has been her P.A. system, her ameni- —Amy Holman & Art Festival are really children of what and people would show up,” she said. her. Generally, they will send her a CD, ties. She and close friends have formed But why wait for the light to change Cheryl has been planning since she was Most artistic endeavors like hers, up which she listens to at home or in the the River House Gypsies, headed by when the volcano is erupting, a young girl singing in a choir in elemen- and down the Shenandoah Valley, make car, and then she negotiates. John and Wilma Holdway, who produce or for the husband to distract her when he’s distraction? tary school. no money unless they are tied to a foun- “Negotiates” is too strong a word. the action now at the Blue Moon. One “My dream was always to have a dation. In fact, most of hers end up in a In seven years, she has maybe dealt son, Ezra Newkirk, is the chef, whose Amy Holman, writer and con- He was always physical in his pursuit coffee house,” Mansley said in May loss for her. On the farms, she cooked, with ten agents of historic acts like dinners are a highlight of the Blue Moon sultant from Brooklyn, N.Y., of her, so clear. from her farm outside Shepherdstown. sometimes housed the musicians, bor- Fairport Convention or Catfish Hodge shows. teaches writers to take the road And she can’t be vir tus, “I would travel around and visit friends rowed and set up tables and chairs or Canada’s Ellen McIlwaine. Cheryl She turned over her River House even if she prided herself once at colleges and listen to the music there (though many concertgoers sat on her old will have hosted McIlwaine’s last two name and series to the Holdways, who to their publishing success. She and decided that one day, I would put on parquet floor), made tablecloths, bought birthday parties by this September, and have continued it as the New River is the author of An Insider’s on being one of the guys. concerts myself.” picnic plates and cutlery. McIlwaine needed proof that she was House. The Holdways produce shows at Guide to Creative Writing So, she stops complaining, stops ducking Having sung with three of her eight To say she does it out of the love coming to America for work. their church, where some of the proceeds Programs: Choosing the Right those phrases that clatter sons (five are foster children), including for helping musicians is superficial. As Several of her performers have back- go to the church and the acts. on the low pile carpet, cuts MFA or MA Program, Colony, the groups Little Maggie, the Slapsticks, Stephen King once said, “What makes door keys to her house, which rests on The “Mother of All Music Coordi- and Wilma, of local fame, Mansley, the you think I have a choice?” when asked 64 acres near the Potomac River. When nators” continues to spawn a melodic Residency, Grant or Fellowship. the pretense to daughter of a photographer and painter, why he writes morbid tales. her residence was being renovated, she family, which was the idea to begin with. Her collection, Wait For Me, bearing misfortune with an abstract man. is now the brains behind up to 50 acts “If you like live music—one of washed dishes in her bathtub upstairs and The Blue Moon Cafe opens its doors I’m Gone, won the 2004 Dream She knows her real man in bed has blue movies boxed under it, annually who play at the Blue Moon Shepherdstown’s chief claims to qual- continued to host shows. Sundays throughout the year, except Horse Press National Poetry on Sundays, under the billing of her ity of cultural life—Cheryl Mansley Her performers either are friends or Christmas and New Year’s, at 5:30 p.m. Chapbook Competition. She recently ejected. former production outfit, River House has been our town’s reigning booking become friends from doing her shows. Ezra Newkirk’s specialties are served up teaches at The New School, She feels his own moves erupted Concerts, which she started at a farm agent for many years,” said Ed Zahniser, It is the intrinsic part of her business, at 6 p.m. and the live music begins at 7 Hudson Valley Writers Center, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Holman’s “Let Her Go,” inside her, rebuilding the earth of her near Bakerton. Shepherdstown’s well-acclaimed poet, which is why she is confused by zoning p.m. See www.bluemoonshepherdstown. with extra soul and attitude. published by Failbetter.com, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. With the help of friends who essayist, and columnist. “The venues laws that prohibit shows with small fees com for more information. brought potlucks to her farm, Mansley have changed over time, but the parade from going on at her residences. —Amy Holman

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Editor’s Note: This article is an adapta- could have chosen to do evil for evil but simply not his style. Again, he offered tion of a devotional service presented by helped all who had need. his loving, permissive support. His wife the author. The Lord saved Grandpa in 1932. did not choose anything outlandish but im Smith took a circuitous of getting a master’s degree and teaching Shepherdstown Elementary ever since. that “there seem to be more troubled His kindness toward family, neighbors, instead a slightly used, four-door, 1929 route to his current career as certificate, which he did at the University He taught second grade for one year and kids” now than several years ago. He * * * and strangers developed further dimen- Dodge as the new family car. Ta teacher of gifted students at of Maryland, having picked up some is currently back working with gifted believes the media exposes young people sions. He worked quietly in his “shop,” Fortunately, the tight-knit com- Scriptures: Romans 5:3b-5; Shepherdstown Elementary School. He credits at Shepherd University. During students. Smith teaches language arts and to a lot of adult issues: “They seem to which doubled as his prayer closet, munity of Browns, Johnsons, Timbers, was born in Lancaster, N.H., about 50 his student teaching, someone suggested math to students in second, third, fourth, know a lot more about the way the world I Corinthians 13; II Timothy 1:17. where he perfected his Christian charac- Smiths, Foxes, and Davenports had just miles from the Canadian border, and to Smith that he might be well suited for and fifth grades. works.” Smith’s perception is that chil- ter and carpentry skills. The new church the right driver education teacher: Elder was in the second grade when his fam- dren are not better critical thinkers due to Hymn Selection: Love Lifted Me he and Grandma helped to pioneer was Eugene Baltimore, a handsome new ily moved to Hyattsville, Md., a suburb that exposure but neither are they worse blessed with newly handcrafted pews farmer with a divine call on his life, of Washington, D.C. Smith attended St. critical thinkers than children in the past. and pulpit from his shop. His quiet had moved into the community with his randpa went home to Glory Mary’s College in Maryland for three He does not think that they read any less; example of leadership at home and family across the Blue Ridge Mountains the year before I was born. years, beginning as an education major however he does think the classics are church coupled with charity—values from Linden, Va. Within several weeks, GInasmuch as the fascinating and later switching to sociology. The passed over in general. The rich vocabu- accounts from the 1930s to the 1940s burnished in the fires of the trials he suf- Grandma, although somewhat past the career of a sociologist “seemed grim” lary in books like Peter Pan and Wind spoke volumes about this saintly gentle- fered—continue to reproduce themselves critical-readiness phase for driving, was according to Smith, and he dropped out in the Willows is not matched in the cur- man farmer, I know him best through the generations later in patience, experience, known to chauffeur her family as far of college after three years. rently popular fantasy/action novels. example of my father, his son; my broth- hope, and the love of God. away as Hagerstown, Md. Carpenters ers; and his great grandsons. The values The nest emptied a year later. Taylor and Baltimore’s friendship fur- Smith began doing renovation car- Smith is in a minority, being a male and principles Grandpa practiced in life Daughter Edith, who studied at Storer ther strengthened as the two built a new pentry in northeast D.C. and enjoyed in a female dominated field. “I don’t would speak to and instruct three genera- College in Harpers Ferry, was the last wood-frame garage to house the family seeing the results of his labor. After con- think about it as much as I used to,” he tions succeeding him. of four to go. Part of her tuition was car. tinuing his carpentry work for a period said, and he noted that the distinction is One month before the Great paid from Grandma’s savings from the One major trip was repeated weekly. of time back in New Hampshire, Smith not as pronounced since he is in a spe- Depression in September 1929, my little fruit pies sold for a nickel each to Grandma faithfully drove the family to felt pressure from his parents to go back cialist position. “There have been times grandparents moved to Johnsontown, Grandpa’s co-workers at the Bakerton church. Young Charles grew up in the Photograph submitted by Evelyn m .E. Taylor from family archives to school, and he went to the University when my gender has been at least as James Franklin G. Taylor, 1881–1947 founded in 1848 as one of the first free Quarry. Now grandparents, they tended fear and admonition of the Lord at the of Maryland, earning a B.A. in English important as my teaching ability in terms black communities in western Virginia. vegetable and flower gardens during the House of Prayer while Grandpa became Literature. At that time, “unclear about of reaching a student.” Previously they had been tenant farm- summer of 1933. By November, a major the church’s first trustee and Grandma its the practical value of English literature Smith does not see himself as fit- ers in Kabletown on the Langdon farm. change would occur. Grandma, who first usher. She also wrote letters to their morning. Thanks to Grandma’s contin- scholarship,” he spent some time hitch- ting into the stereotype of the elementary Grandma spent her childhood on the made many of the major decisions in the eldest son, urging him to give his heart ued prayers, the younger son became a hiking through Western Europe. school teacher as an emotionally nurtur- east side of the Shenandoah River in home, decided they were still young and to the Lord before it was too late. pastor four decades later, and among his When Smith returned to the United Photograph by Ruth Weese ing individual. Noting that most gifted the former free black community of energetic enough to adopt a new baby Just as the couple’s love and honor, grandchildren and great grandchildren States, he went to Charlottesville, Va., to Tim Smith kids function fairly independently, he boy just a few days old. His mother, one one for the other, flourished among are a bishop, pastors, preachers, teachers, Shannondale. The Johnsontown home, work in a friend’s health food restaurant. said that he is interested in ideas and that of Grandma’s nieces, had died during shared goals and a sense of community evangelists, deacons, and missionaries. their first, had been a two-room, two- He served as a caretaker at a girls’ pri- teaching gifted education. “Elementary Smith was drawn to teaching what he provides is “intellectual nurtur- childbirth. Grandpa rarely objected to and outreach, Grandpa’s well maintained Connecting past and present, story, red-brick auxiliary schoolhouse for vate school, a transportation aide at the ed was not what I thought I was going because, “Teaching seemed like a public ance” more than emotional nurturance. whites that Grandpa renovated, adding his wife’s good sense and timely deci- its quiet, steady supply of water to each Grandpa’s well still functions, now University of Virginia Hospital, a rural to do,” said Smith. “I thought I’d do service.” Smith remembers the “hope “Fred Rogers I’m not,” Smith said. He two rooms and front and back porches. sions. With his blessings, they adopted village household—an arrangement that outfitted with an automatic pump, con- newspaper carrier, a painter, a carpenter, secondary ed, but my student teaching in and promise” of President Kennedy as tries to put his students at ease and says, On the property stood a covered well, 75 the child. As son Charles grew, Grandma would continue another 25 years. veying an endless source of water that and a woodworker. the elementary setting turned out to be being especially inspirational to him “I think people learn better in a relaxed feet deep, dug by hand during the 1870s saw the need for a family car, a matter Grandpa’s became a life that fully still has never run dry, into the home and 1880s. Grandpa could have done without. He honored God. His final wish was granted now occupied by his granddaughter. Smith’s friend, the health food a more positive experience than that in during his youth. He appreciates the atmosphere.” In July 1930, the Depression tight- had walked most places he needed to go upon hearing eldest son, Robert, preach The church he and Grandma founded, restaurant owner, moved to Berkeley middle school.” opportunity to contribute something One of the joys of Smith’s life is ened its grip with a devastating, record- when he couldn’t get a ride. Ruling the his trial sermon, just hours before God together with her sister and brother-in- Springs, West Virginia, and called upon Smith had done substitute teach- meaningful to society. “I wanted to give walking his hound dog a couple of times breaking drought lasting thirteen months. roost with an ironclad will, however, was took him home. Joy had come early that law, continues to provide light and direc- Smith’s carpentry skills to help restore a ing in Morgan County, W. Va., and something back.” a day. “She is a beautiful dog, and it is a Grandpa’s well became the only source tion to residents of the city of Charles home there. Smith felt comfortable liv- he had a lot of friends in the Eastern “I didn’t think I’d last more than delight to see her run.” He likes to read, of drinking water for miles around. Town. Two more generations of progeny ing in Berkeley Springs, where he said Panhandle. That connection made teach- five years,” Smith said. But he has found nonfiction mostly, and currently in the Prayer: Almighty God, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Sadly, many of those frequenting his await their turn to mature as God’s mes- he met everybody his age during his first ing in Jefferson County a natural fit. that he enjoys “trying to remove obsta- area of Jungian psychology. His fiction backyard had not treated him well and We thank You for being the author of values and principles that enable us sengers to the world. two weeks there. He found he preferred Smith first took a position as an itinerate cles and tie things together” for children. reading is mostly novels or stories he’s had spoken evil of him. Nonetheless, he a small-town atmosphere. teacher of gifted, serving three schools He tries to remember what it was like for trying to work into the classroom. He to triumph, to glorify You and to bless the earth’s families. Speak through ministered impartially to each—friend Smith had his own wood shop for a at once—Blue Ridge Elementary, South him when he was the age of the students does not describe himself as “musically and foe, black and white—greeting them our tearful tribulations, especially to our fathers and heads of households, Evelyn M. E. Taylor, M.A., is a licensed while and he enjoyed doing “something Jefferson Elementary, and Ranson that he teaches. “The essence of it is literate,” but he does play the guitar by with kindness, providing water for their evangelist, short-term foreign mission- as we seek to present the awesome responsibility of promulgating godly tangible.” However, shop work became Elementary. Single-school gifted teacher to help students get in touch with what ear and occasionally plays the fiddle and families and livestock without cost. Our ary, administrator, and author, whose lonely and he yearned for more intellec- positions are not common and, when one they’re thinking and express it clearly.” banjo as well. “I love music. I’ve got a gracious God permitted Grandpa’s well legacy to succeeding generations. Propel us in the direction of Your focus is church history and historic tual stimulation. He also admits, “I was opened at Shepherdstown Elementary He remembers being aware of his own bookcase full of CDs, mostly blues, folk, preservation. The above profile is that to become muddy temporarily but mirac- not a good business man.” in 1999, Smith took it. Except for one efforts to put ideas into words. and rock. There’s usually something on Word for correction and instruction in righteousness. This we pray in the of her paternal grandfather, House of ulously never dry in the yearlong short- Smith became a substitute teacher in year working as librarian at T.A. Lowery Reflecting on changes he has seen in the player at the house.” Prayer’s first trustee. E-mail: ETaylor@ age. This humble, soft-spoken servant precious, matchless name of Jesus, Your Son. Amen. the public schools, which led to the idea Elementary School, Smith has been at his students over the years, Smith notes Brookings.edu.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 8 17 Dr. David L. Dunlop The Great Cross Controversy Marjorie Dower

Jim Laise

Under his direction, the Frank Center was reno- outcome ultimately was a banner created by Shepherd vated and a new nursing building is under construction. students for the 33 who died in the recent Virginia Tech Reynolds Hall was also renovated and the Robert C. catastrophe. Dunlop said the students, who also had been Byrd Center for Legislative Studies was added to the affected by a slaying in Shepherdstown, initiated it. library building. Phase I of the Center for Contemporary Obviously there were lighter moments, and far isputes within churches are Jane and Brian met for several Art and Theater is being built and a new multi-purpose more of them. not uncommon, (you noticed, days in a row. After each meeting they wellness facility is going up. The President made it a practice throughout his Ddid you?) but this one had the both emerged looking determined and More expansion on the old Tabler Farm is in the tenure to go out to lunch with at least two students on whole village involved. The disputants severe. (I understand that the veggie man planning stage. a weekly basis. He was the head cheerleader at Ram (is that a word?) were the rector, Brian from the neighboring village was taking The student enrollment has seen a 35 percent athletic events and attended student government meet- Thomas, in one corner; and in the other, bets—but then the British will bet on increase, even with the loss from the rolls of the sev- ings, too. Jane Lemon, MBE*: world-renowned anything.) eral thousand students now enrolled at the Blue Ridge Sometimes his relationships had comical endings. campus. Like the time a student in a $50,000 sports car drove up designer of altar hangings, author of Then one day, after their meeting, In 11 years, there have been ups and downs. In the to Popodicon, the President’s home, and asked where many needlework books, and a member they both emerged wreathed in smiles. early years, weekly trips to Charleston to see legislators the hose was. He wanted to wash his car. Dunlop and of the congregation. Neither one would comment on the fron- put a stress on his time in Shepherdstown. Today, he his wife were entertaining. After some back and forth The church wherein the controversy tal so we held our collective breaths until finds himself as the purveyor of something of a clear- banter, Dunlop told the student that he could either: arose is All Saints, my husband’s family Trinity Sunday. inghouse for all things Shepherd. a) go to a local car wash, or b) come back to his church in Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, The attendance for that Sunday “As President, people inside and outside the univer- Shepherd Grade home when the guests were gone. England. It is nestled near the Wylie, a rivaled Christmas. Everyone turned out, sity know I probably can serve as a resource. So, I hear “He said he didn’t have enough money to wash his car. from students complaining about late semester projects Anyway, we never saw him again,” said Dunlop. clear chalk river that winds through the even the postmaster who was Hindi. they deem unfair,” Dunlop said. He also hears from Another story dealt with a student and an art Wylie valley. Beyond the river are roll- Photograph supplied by the author At first it seemed as if Jane had won:

Photograph by Ruth Weese uncles who request he bend Shepherd’s admission rules student. The student wanted to use some bamboo shoots ing fields of green, above which rise the The Jane Lemon Altar Hanging completed for All Saints, Steeple Langford, UK No cross was in sight; but as the torches to allow in a favored nephew. in a project. She asked Cathy Dunlop if she could pick golden and brown downs. (I was going (Can you see the cross?) passed the altar, there was a gasp. For “My advice is for a candidate like that is to go from a stalk of the plant, which braces the presidential to say the fields rise up to the downs, a brief moment a large cross was vis- David L. Dunlop somewhere else and then transfer back in,” he said residence’s back yard. but unless one knows that the downs of heavy silk and embroidered in gold Jane, the artist, was equally insis- ible on the frontal, but then it was gone. pragmatically. “I tell them that if our admissions office “Of course,” the outgoing Shepherd First Lady are really higher hills, it sounds odd.) with religious symbols. Trinity season tent. “There doesn’t need to be a cross Throughout the service a cross would utgoing Shepherd University President David has a policy, I am not going to break it, but I would replied. Several weeks later, the housekeeper on the The new tower of the church dates back follows Eastertide in the church year, to remind people that God is present in become visible and then it would not be L. Dunlop brought the venerable institution into welcome the student here in time.” property alerted Mrs. Dunlop (the President was in Othe 21st century—literally and figuratively. Many times, he hears from constituents who drop Charleston) that there was some noise coming from to the 13th century, and the baptismal and the ecclesiastical color is green (for the valley—just look out there and you there. Hired by a committee, which included then West a governor’s name into the communication. The funny the dark backyards. It was 1 a.m. Cathy Dunlop alerted font is an even more ancient one from the growing season). All altar hangings feel God’s presence everywhere. A cross Jane’s ingenious solution was to Virginia Gov. Cecil Underwood in the 1995–96 aca- part is that through Dunlop’s decade-plus career, he has campus security which arrived in seconds to cordon a Celtic church that was on the site. for the season have a preponderance of would spoil the effect.” affix an almost invisible Plexiglas cross demic year, Dunlop, 64, will lay down his academic had personal working relationships with all of the gov- off the lush plant as the top of the shoots wavered like It is not a church cryovaced and pre- green. Jane designed a modern quilted Brian replied, “This is inside the onto the hanging. When the light struck mantle some time after the May 19 commencement. ernors who have served West Virginia. stalks of corn. Out stepped the diminutive student: served for posterity, but one containing and appliquéd hanging that was a picture church, and I insist that there be a cross.” it just right, the congregation could make He and his wife Cathy, a Washington County, The low point at Shepherd came over Labor Day busted, embarrassed. Everyone had a good laugh in bits and pieces of all the centuries of of the valley. Shades of green silks and Both sides were adamant. Jane stomped out the cross and then it was gone. Md. educator, will move full-time to their home in The weekend 2006, when a father of two students gunned the end. its existence: children’s crayoned pic- velvets flowed into the blue silks of the back to her workroom a bit up the lane How I wish that all ecclesiastical Villages, north of Orlando, Fla., where he has been down his sons and then took his own life. “It was Perhaps, the most unique story involved Dunlop Wylie River, above which were the tan to ponder, and Brian went off to another hired to continue raising funds for the college that he shocking. It never occurred to me that a father, any himself. As an administrator at Pitt-Johnstown, he had tures are affixed to the medieval oak disputes could be settled in a similar helped turn into a university. parent, could kill his own kids. I shouldn’t say never never been to Shepherd and knew little about it. He doors; Victorian memorials blend with and browns weavings representing the of his little churches (he was in charge of simple manner. We so often do need Of all the many things for which Dunlop will be occurred to me because I’ve read about it. I never read an ad about the college search in a trade journal, Elizabethan carvings and 20th-century riverbanks and the downs. seven altogether) to baptize someone. gentle reminders that God, who is always remembered, the lasting impression is that he took thought I’d ever know anybody whose dad killed him. but chucked the journal, assuming from its name that trial liturgy prayer books. It was in The effect of the hanging in the The village waited. Even the everywhere, is also here. Shepherd from college to university status. All two- “It really hit home. I don’t think it formed me Shepherd was a church school. “It didn’t make much this idyllic location, and in this lovely ancient church was to be fresh, modern, residents of the village who were not year technical training courses were moved to the because I was already formed. At my age, my world- sense to me, because my whole lifetime was spent in church, that the controversy arose. and wonderful. But there was no cross Anglican became hotly involved. The Marge Dower hopes that she will never view was in place. It did sensitize me that no organiza- public education,” said Dunlop. When dining several Blue Ridge Community and Technical College in Jane was commissioned to create anywhere on the frontal. The rector, a villagers took sides and debated. The completely adjust to life in eastern Martinsburg. tion is immune,” said the President. Both students were days later with a faculty member, he learned the man’s a new modern Trinity season frontal gentle giant of a Welshman, was nor- villagers changed sides and debated Maryland and wishes fervently that the Shepherd’s 14th president’s tenure, long for a private by nature because of a closed culture their father son was a student at Shepherd. “I didn’t know your university president (the national average is less than formed in their hometown. What Dunlop did was per- son was at a church school,” Dunlop recalls saying. for the altar. A frontal is like a heavy mally easygoing and accepting—but not again. Trinity Sunday was near and the Baltimore Sun carried more news of the five years), has seen expansion of both the campus and sonally assist the girlfriend of one of the boys. It was “He’s not. Shepherd is public. It’s a great school and tablecloth, which hangs down over the in this case. He insisted that there had to new frontal was to be dedicated that day. Shepherd University Rams. enrollment; dealings with the students, alumni and the not until sometime later that he thought of the ordeal in a great bargain,” said the professor. “I ran back home altar or table. Traditionally the frontal is be a cross. legislature; and a gazillion challenges long forgotten. terms of murder-suicide. “For the first 48 hours, I didn’t and pulled that paper out of the trash,” he said. And Since he arrived, the Master’s program has been think about it that way. What was in my mind was, ‘Are Shepherd has been the better since. expanded, seven new undergraduate degrees have been the rest of the students safe? How do we deal with the * Jane Lemon is one of Britain’s most celebrated embroiderers, who for many years has commanded the respect of all those who have been fortunate enough to hear initiated, six new majors and minors have been added to media? Is there something we could have done to pre- her speak, been her students, or who have been able to see her work. the curriculum, and 19 new concentrations have begun, vent it? The first time it hit me personally was when I Jim Laise is the senior writer with She is an honorary member of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain; the Royal School of Needlework has made up a number of her designs at Hampton Court many of which are preparing Shepherd students for went to the funeral. By that time, we had the other stuff westvirginia.rivals.com, a content-based Web site that Palace; and in 2004, Her Majesty the Queen accorded Jane the rare accolade, at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace, of being appointed Member of the Order of 21st-century electronic and computer jobs. behind us. I saw three caskets. Then I felt sad.” The independently covers Mountaineer athletics. the British Empire (MBE) for her services to needlework.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 18 7 Grounds for Nature The Long-Lasting Links Monica Dailey Grabowska

BETTy Lou BRyAnT ith a name that in Italian Lonicera sempervirens, coral honeysuckle means dirt, Terra DeMedici, I love vines and this one in par- W31, was probably destined to ticular because, unlike Japanese hon- wind up here: on a West Virginia moun- eysuckle, it is not invasive at all. The tainside, potting up seedlings and wrest- coral, trumpet-shaped flowers appear off ing gardens out of dry, shady shale. But and on throughout the summer if it is she was not born into the nursery busi- planted in full sun. Best of all, it attracts ince this is the final article in our he and his brother, Bayrle, joined his ness. She was born into a military family hummingbirds. series about couples who have father’s business—Adam Link and Sons. where she learned to love the itinerant Sbeen married over 60 years, it is They owned and operated a men’s and life, on the move every two or three Phlox stolonifera, woodland phlox appropriate to conclude with the couple women’s clothing store in downtown years. It was a wanderlust she carried This is a favorite because it works married the second longest time. (Edna Charles Town. At that time, there had into adulthood, so she did not imagine in dry to moist areas, and in part shade and Henry Snyder had been married 66 been seven generations of Links in herself putting down roots—figuratively to deep shade. There are not many plants years when we wrote our first article 16 Jefferson County. or literally. Love and passion would that like deep shade. It is low to the months ago.) Adam and Margaret lived with his Photograph supplied by subject eventually change that. ground until its flower stalks stand up six On January 15, 2007, Margaret and Photograph supplied by the Links parents in Cottage Hall Farm until they Terra went to Virginia Tech in 1993 to ten inches tall. It’s a wonderful but- Adam Link, Jr. celebrated their 64th set up housekeeping in nearby Linden to prepare for a career in psychology, but terfly attractor for the woodland garden. wedding anniversary. What a remark- Grove Farm in 1948. Their first child, by graduation in 1997, she was headed The variety I grow is ‘Sherwood purple.’ able accomplishment! Born in Jefferson Pamela Marlow Link was born that year. in another direction. During her junior Terra DiMedici Other varieties have blue, pink, or white County, they have known each other Four years later, Adam Baker Link III year, she concentrated on courses in hor- flowers. One of my favorite plant com- since they attended elementary school. arrived. Adam helped his father farm the ticultural therapy. This blend of botany, landscapes. Such designs worked well on “I want my place to eventually be a binations in the woodland garden is Although Adam had his eye on Margaret Adam and Margaret Link in February 2007 1,000 acres on three farms while Bayrle biology, and psychology might simply be paper, but there was a problem when it place where people are willing to go out dwarf crested iris, foamflower, and the in the sixth grade, they didn’t start dating helped at the store. Margaret also helped called a prescription to garden. It is used came to putting shovel to soil. It was dif- of their way to visit.” ‘Sherwood Purple’ woodland phlox. until they were sophomores at Charles for the blood test and got the marriage As part of the ground crew of the at the store after their children were in to help cure a variety of social, mental, ficult to find a ready supply of the native The nursery is, indeed “out of the Town High School—now Wright license in Adam’s absence. They had 8th Air Force, he was a parts clerk and in school and then worked 20 years as a and physical ills. plants she knew would flourish in the way.” Though the entrance to the neigh- Baptisia australis, blue false indigo Denny Intermediate School. After high a small wedding in Margaret’s family the motor pool. Although he did not fly, dental assistant for Dr. C.E. Cunningham Realizing the myriad benefits of local environment. borhood on Route 9 is easily acces- This is another plant that, with time, school graduation in June 1941, both home, Federal Hill, and had a 24-hour Adam says he saw some terrible things in Charles Town. They lived at Linden planting and nurturing a garden, Terra She began collecting seeds and sible, the trek to Terra’s soon becomes can stand in as a shrub, so it has many of them attended Shepherd College. honeymoon in Winchester. He returned that he will never forget. Throughout Grove from 1948 to 1972 when they changed her career goals. “I just thought, cuttings to propagate the plants herself an adventure in four-wheeling, par- different uses in the garden. It lends That Christmas, Adam gave Margaret to Langley, and Margaret joined him a his tour of duty, whenever he was able purchased another nearby farm, Broad if this is so therapeutic, it would also be and in so doing discovered her real pas- ticularly the bridgeless stream crossing. great architectural form and a brilliant an engagement ring. Adam was drafted week later. It was a good time for them to secure a few days leave, he trav- View. For three years they renovated and a healthy lifestyle, and if I’m going to do sion. Now she has literal and figurative Fortunately, at this point Terra does blue focal point in the spring. It stands into the Army Air Corps and ordered as he was able to eled throughout remodeled this lovely old home before something for the rest of my life, why roots in West Virginia. She still works not expect people to come to the nurs- alone as a spring-blooming plant for the to Kessler Field near Biloxi, Miss., for come home every England and they moved in. Their beautiful rose gar- not do something healthy?” as a landscape designer, but a visit to ery. Instead, she takes her plants to the butterfly garden. Most butterfly plants basic training. Upon completion of basic evening. Margaret Scotland. He has den was the site of five weddings. About She began her career working in her nursery reveals how much pleasure people by selling at several local and don’t bloom until late summer. By then, training he was sent to Syracuse, N.Y., was able to get a fond memories of five years ago, they built and moved into nurseries and for landscape designers she finds in planting and gardening. The regional farmers markets and plant sales. Baptisia’s lupine-like flower stalks are for six months of Airplane Identification job at the Hampton the good sights their present home, Link’s Retreat. in Frederick, Md. In 2002, she decided nursery, home to about 4,000 young Look for Terra at the Berkeley hanging with dark seedpods, which can Training. It was winter when he arrived Roads Port of he saw, which In 1980, they retired and purchased to become a landscape designer in native plants from allium to zizia, is Springs Farmers Market on Sundays be used in dried flower arrangements. and the weather was very cold. He only Embarkation counterbalanced a motor home in which they took many her own right, so she headed to the nestled among stately mature trees on a from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and It’s drought tolerant and grows in part had summer khaki uniforms, and soon he during the six the grim sights of trips throughout the United States and Conway School of Landscape Design in heavily wooded slope just steps from her the Great Frederick Fair Farmers shade to full sun. There is also a white was hospitalized with pneumonia. When months they were war. Canada. They have also enjoyed cruises Massachusetts. “That’s where I learned back door. She and Rich sited the area Market from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on species. he recovered and completed that training, at Langley. She In the spring to Alaska and Hawaii. In 1985 they the importance of native plants, and for the plants in such a way that they had Saturdays. Other sales and special events his next duty station was Bradley Field accompanied him of 1945, he purchased a home in Estero in southern that’s where my obsession for them to remove only one large tree to bring in are listed on the nursery’s Web site: Helianthus divaricatus, woodland in Hartford, Conn. His officers learned to his next duty returned to the Florida, and they winter there. They have began.” the sun the young plants need. groundsfornature.com. sunflower that he had attended college, and he was station in Jackson, United States on many friends here and there.

Love and those figurative roots All around her home, Terra is creat- People get really excited about this made an instructor. From there he was Miss. After three Photograph by Tim Simm the Queen Mary, Much of the information for this came next. Terra had met West Virginia ing gardens: an herb garden outside the Terra grows and sells some 40 plant. Most people just don’t imagine transferred to Savanna, Ill., which was months, Adam was and he reported article was obtained during phone calls native Rich DeMedici just before she kitchen door, a rain garden to capture different species of plants. I asked her there is a native sunflower that tolerates near his great-grandmother’s home. He ordered to Camp to Fort Meade in to Florida. Adam and Margaret returned left for Massachusetts. Despite the dis- runoff on the other side of the house, and to extol the virtues of a few of her light shade. It does best where it gets took advantage of the opportunity to visit Kilmer in New Maryland. When to our area for Mother’s Day weekend. tance, love bloomed and the two were several shade gardens where she experi- favorites. a few hours of sunshine a day, like the several of the relatives on his mother’s Jersey for transfer he was able to get I had a delightful chat with Margaret married when she returned in 2003, a ments with plants she will later incorpo- woodland edge. It gets a bright yellow side of the family. overseas. He sailed a leave, Margaret a few days ago, and as I left I observed freshly minted landscape designer. They rate into her clients’ landscape plans. Her Monarda didyma and Monarda fistulosa, disk flower with a golden center in mid During his next assignment at on the troop ship, joined him in Adam out on the riding mower cutting set up housekeeping on five acres at the newest garden is on top of the nursery bee balm and wild bergamot respectively to late summer. I’ve tried collecting Langley Field in Virginia, they decided Aquitania. It was Washington, D.C. grass on an adjoining lot. It has been foot of Sleepy Creek Mountain between shed. When I visited in late April, she These two related summer-blooming seeds, but the birds always get there to be married. He rented a room near the hot and crowded Adam and Margaret Link, They were in a great pleasure to talk to this charming, Hedgesville and Berkeley Springs. was still determining which plants would plants are showstoppers. If you have the first! It is a great bird and butterfly plant. base and applied for and was granted a below deck, so January 15, 1943 their hotel room devoted couple. We wish them many Terra named her landscape design cover the building’s “living roof.” space, plant lots. They grow three to five It’s good for the gardener, too, because it three-day pass. Unfortunately, a ship- Adam and many when they heard more years together. business Grounds for Nature. She I was astonished at the amount of feet tall and look almost shrub-like, mak- is so carefree. It’s hardy in poor soil and ment of secret ordnance equipment others slept on deck. They docked in a lot of noise in the lobby and in the focused on designs that incorporate work all of those gardens and the nursery ing a strong impact in the garden. Plant is fairly drought tolerant. It’s also a great arrived on base, and he was one of the Iceland on the fourth of July, 1943. They streets. When Adam went down to inves- Betty Lou Bryant majored in English at habitat plantings (gardens that attract represent. Terra laughed and explained, either one and you’ll have butterflies and cut flower. few who could oversee the packing of were not part of a convoy as they were tigate, he learned that the war in Europe Miami University, Oxford, Oh., and went and sustain wildlife, especially birds, “It’s what I do for a living, and I love it bumble bees galore. And the bees won’t this equipment for shipment overseas. a fast ship and could depend on their had ended. on to become a school librarian. She and butterflies, and other pollinators), and so much that it’s what I do for fun, too!” sting because they are just so happy to His leave had to be delayed. Finally, speed to avoid being detected by German His final duty station was Kelly her husband Bob, who celebrated their native plants. Her aim was to balance She is also looking forward to a day be sipping the abundant nectar. Bee balm Monica Dailey Grabowska is a a junior officer took pity on him and submarines. He docked at the Firth of Field in Texas. A staph infection hos- 60th wedding anniversary in February human needs with environmental respon- when she can invite people to come and is scarlet red; bergamot is lavender. They Shepherdstown educator and award- released him. Because of this delay, Clyde in Scotland and was stationed in pitalized him for a month and delayed 2006, have lived in Shepherdstown for sibility through ecologically sustainable see ecological gardening in action. bloom in July and August. winning garden writer. Margaret’s father secured a waiver England. his discharge. When he did return home, 15 years.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2007 SUMMER 2007 • GOOD NEWS PAPER 6 19 She’s Been Born but Not Buried Forty-eight Hours to Lhasa, Tibet or How I Spent My 77th Birthday on Top of the World

Claire Stuart Al Henderson

Photograph by Ruth Weese “Come quick,” said the Danish teenager. “It’s Albert. His face is green The trip was all the bright idea of my father-in-law, Owen. Over the past 20 years . . . and he’s groaning.” or so, beginning in 1982, this retired railroader had been to China 12 times. Stirred on one more time by the chance to ride the Qinghai-Tibet train, introduced into he young Dane and I, along with another Danish lad and my brother-in-law, service in July 2006, this would be the 86-year-old’s “last hurrah,” at least as far as Asia was concerned. hen Betty Snyder town. She was born Snyder mused She continued her edu- Larry, were sharing a soft sleeper-car cabin aboard the Qinghai-Tibet train. Spurred on by his enthusiasm and a chance to take some interesting photographs, was growing up, “on the wrong side that there are cer- cation, earning a master of Each night, the train leaves Beijing’s west rail station at 9:30. Precisely 48 T I, too, signed on. Wife Sharon, always the practical one, stayed back home to keep she would observe of the blanket,” as tain pivotal points business administration, and hours later, it pulls into Lhasa’s Liwu station, 2,525 miles away. You’re now in Tibet, W the home fires burning and to keep her mother company off and on during our the behavior of adults and con- they said in the where her life spent the next 20 years with an a strange, exotic wonderland full of religious mysticism and—as the Chinese and 31-day sojourn through southeastern China, Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Tibet, fidently tell her grandmother 1940s, when out- might have organization offering financial others know all too well—natural resources. Lots of natural resources. And with March 30 through May 1, 2007. Lisa, who had been to China and Hong Kong several what she absolutely would do or of-wedlock births changed com- and housing counseling, fam- China’s rapidly expanding need for energy and natural resources, the temptation to times with her grandfather, used her spring break from her job as a school psycholo- would never do if she were in stigmatized both pletely. “When ily and marital counseling, and exploit is much too much for restraint. The rape of Tibet, aided by the Qinghai-Tibet gist to take the trip. She was joined by one of her colleagues. Larry and his girlfriend their shoes. Her grandmother’s mother and child. I resigned from help for displaced homemakers. train moving Han Chinese into Tibet, has quietly begun. rounded out our family group. (We also “adopted” one of Owen’s neighbors as a way of informing the inexperi- Her father fled AT&T,” she In the meantime, her marriage According to one geographic survey, the Tibetan Plateau is rich in oil resources, family member.) enced child that she could not to join the army said, “comput- ended in divorce, and a second with potential reserves estimated at more than 10 billion tons. The survey also found Unquestionably the biggest—literally and figuratively—culprit in the group was possibly know what she might when he learned ers were just marriage left her widowed. large iron-rich ore deposits, with a potential reserve of more than 50 million tons Dave “Choo-Choo” Corbett, an addicted railroad buff before he was out of diapers. do in a future situation was that her mother was starting. They At her 35th class reunion, each. So what’s holding back large-scale exploitation? According to Grist Magazine, (We called Dave our very own living Buddha, and took turns rubbing his tummy. He to say, “You’re born but not pregnant, and he was offered to send she became reacquainted more infrastructure has to be put in place. The railway, with its influx of Han was not amused.) He was accompanied by his daughter Kaitlin. Dave had hired “June buried.” never a part of their me to computer with Hal Snyder, her current Chinese, is one step to exporting materials back to China’s big cities. Baby,” a railroad buff and professional photographer, to be our guide through Tibet. Born but Not Buried is the lives. Snyder was raised, school and pay all my husband, and they have been The game plan, as I see it, is the dilution of a native population of gentle peoples It was pitch dark when our train arrived in Lhasa, the highest city in the world. title Snyder selected for the along with a cousin and a expenses if I’d stay, but married 14 years. She has two more interested in worship and ancient ways than modern-day commerce. On the We were greeted by our young Tibetan guide, who placed white scarves around our little book she has written about young uncle, by her grand- I wanted to go to college. daughters and he has one, and other hand, it’s easy to look on monks as parasites on society, particularly when you necks and escorted us to our hotel in a remote part of Lhasa. There was no heat in the her childhood. “I wondered mother, while her mother went Who knows where I’d be if I they have nine grandchildren see them lounging about in their monasteries talking on their cell phones and playing lobby and our rooms were not much warmer. I shared a room with Owen. We both what Granny’s life had been to work in a factory. had taken the offer?” between them. Although they with other electronic gadgets. You also become suspicious when you see them accom- Betty Snyder put on our pajamas over our long johns. Owen threw his coat over his bedding. like when she was a child,” she Her strong but undemon- Her savings were enough met while she was living in panied by novice monks, young boys, some of whom grow up to become what’s I snuggled up to the oxygen generator. explained, “so I started writing strative grandmother was twice in season or vegetables she’d to send her through two years at Chicago, he lived in subur- known as “monk’s wives.” I was awakened by the chattering of Owen’s teeth. for my grandchildren so that widowed. She raised her son canned, and pie from fresh or nearby Potomac State College. ban Maryland and worked in There are now two Lhasas: the one occupied by the Han We were served an excellent breakfast, with a choice they’ll know about my life.” and two grandchildren and ran canned fruit. I didn’t appreciate At the end of two years, she Washington D.C. After they Chinese and the one lived in by native Tibetans. The popula- of Western or Chinese foods. The restaurant was rela- Her book began as a story the 40-acre truck farm, together the quality of the food we had went back to Washington and married, they lived briefly in tion of 260,000 is split almost 50/50. There is little or no com- tively warm, and the wait staff—all Han Chinese— about a small slice of her life. with the children and the occa- until I grew up!” found a job at the Department Columbia, Md. while they built munication between the two groups. The Chinese police are were attentive. (Privately, one acknowledged they are She was taking a class with sional help of an itinerant hired Snyder was eager to get of Defense, again saving most their home in Shepherdstown. ever watchful. Carrying a photo of the Dalai Lama is a criminal hated by the native Tibetans, an emotion you would not local writer Donna Acquaviva, man. “Granny said she’d buried away from the farm. She was of her money. She returned to When they moved to offense resulting in jail time even for tourists. It’s like living in think possible by such gentle people.) who encouraged her to submit two husbands and wasn’t going the first person in her family to finish college, this time at West Shepherdstown, Snyder contin- an occupied country. There’s something very special about Tibet and it for publication. Snyder was to bury a third one,” Snyder graduate from high school and Virginia University where she ued her social services career, The railway, a great ambition of Chinese leaders since the the Tibetan people. It’s like the Big Sky Country of full of fear of rejection, but she recalled. was determined to get a col- earned a bachelor of science in working for Hospice for sev- “liberation” of Tibet in 1950, is an engineering marvel. Semi- the American West, only more so. I had never before sent it off to Wonderful West The farm was almost lege education. “The day after Business Administration. eral years, and then serving pressurized trains speed on tracks at the highest elevations of photographed such intensely blue skies, snowcapped Virginia magazine. She was completely self-sufficient. The I graduated from high school, I She married directly out of as the first president of Court any in the world. With an average elevation of more than 13,000 mountains, and brilliantly white clouds. The many tem- rejected with the explanation vegetable garden and orchard headed to Washington, D.C., to college and, over the next five Appointed Children’s Advocates feet, the trains pass through the rugged, 16,640-foot Tanggula ples with their ubiquitous steep steps reach for the sky that it wasn’t the type of mate- provided fruit and vegetables look for a job,” she said. years, gave birth to two daugh- (CASA). Mountain Pass, forcing passengers who aren’t taking an alti- and the people walk through the temples and villages, rial they publish, but the editors that her grandmother canned. Her mother had married a ters, and moved to Chicago. She Snyder loves Shepherds- tude-sickness medication to grasp for oxygen breathing tubes. twirling their prayer wheels, and chanting softly. encouraged her to submit it to They always had two or three railroad man when Snyder was worked part-time on and off town. “I think this community I was taking medication but fell ill nonetheless. Headache, Generally Tibetans do not shy from eye con- Goldenseal magazine. cows and a flock of chickens. 15, and his family could take the when her children were small, is very special,” she said. As a shortness of breath, and a persistent need to urinate. The tact, welcome picture taking, and acknowledge your Goldenseal published her “The only things we had to buy train for free. Snyder jumped on and when they started school, breast cancer survivor, she was bathrooms were a mess, the West version more so than the presence with a demure smile, not a frown. It’s easy article, giving Snyder the confi- were flour, sugar, coffee and a train to D.C., bought a news- she “decided to do something amazed and gratified by the out- East. There was at least a quarter inch of urine on the floor of to see how these people have become so gentle and so dence to continue writing. She animal feed,” said Snyder. paper when she arrived in the meaningful” and went on to a pouring of love and assistance the West bathroom. Toilet paper ran out. No paper towels. A close to their god. Perhaps that’s why, even though I expanded her remembrances For years, they lived with- city and scoured the want ads. career in social services. she received from her friends communal washstand provided two washcloths to be shared by did not speak their language, I felt as though I could into a book-length manuscript, out electricity or indoor plumb- AT&T was testing prospective She became involved in an and neighbors during her gruel- all. In service for less than a year, the train was already show- communicate with them, even enjoy a joke with them. submitted it to three publishers, ing. Her grandmother cooked job applicants. She took their organization dedicated to turn- ing treatment and recovery. ing signs of neglect. What mattered most, it seems, was getting Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. Forty-eight hours later, this “ethnic cleansing At the highest lake in the world, Lhagba Pool, and one of them accepted it for on a woodstove and they heated test, and they advised her that ing a declining neighborhood “I’d never been sure of Han Chinese—the dominant Chinese ethnic group—into Tibet. express” rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. The train we stopped to enjoy the view and the cool fresh air. publication. with coal. Snyder remembered they would notify her. She gath- around into decent affordable my faith,” she said, “but now The push is on. has brought thousands of people into Lhasa’s Liwu Pointing to the ground, I nodded to a middle-aged Her story was fictionalized her grandmother saying, “The ered her courage to tell them housing. Working with the I know what God’s love looks We apparently reached the 16,640-foot apex around station every day, most of them Han Chinese. genteel Tibetan and said “poopy.” He replied, “Yak and different names and places Depression came and went and that she had to know immedi- Department of Housing and like through the people who midday of April 9. That’s when my cabin mate noticed that, The $4.2 billion railway began operating in July 2006. You can get an idea of the massiveness of the poopy.” We both laughed and I looked him in the eye were used, but she said she tried made no difference to us.” They ately because she had no money Urban Development (HUD), ministered to me when I was ill. “Albert’s face is green.” Our Chinese guide, “June Baby,” who elevated structure by comparing the size of it with the and touched his forehead to mine. He then repeated to be very honest emotionally. didn’t feel poor because the to stay over and had to take the they were able to buy, renovate They brought me food, flow- was in the cabin next to mine, came rushing to my aid, and size of the shed. the name of the lake and coached me into pronounc- “We all tend to rewrite his- farm always kept them well fed. evening train home. and sell houses, frequently with ers, videos, anything to make stuck an oxygen tube into my nose. He was followed by Larry With an average elevation of more than 13,000 feet, ing it correctly. I wish I had asked him for his e-mail tory and forget the things that Every Sunday, Snyder AT&T hired her, starting buyers earning sweat equity it easier for me, and they did it and my daughter Lisa. Each handed me greeting cards wishing the railway has the highest elevation of any railroad me a happy 77th birthday. in the world. As it ambles through the 16,640-foot address. don’t make us look good,” she recalls that the menu was the the following Monday. She with their work. Her work won with such love.” Tanggula Mountain Pass, the semi-pressurized train laughed. same. “Granny would kill found a one-room apartment and her a Congressional Medal of Betty Snyder’s book “Bah Humbug,” said I, to no one in particular. Another forces passengers who aren’t taking an altitude-sickness Al Henderson’s e-mail address is varmland1@comcast. Snyder grew up on her a chicken. We’d have fried worked for the next year and a Merit. She went on to start a Born but Not Buried is avail- passenger in our car, an American, also happened to be cele- medication to grasp for the oxygen breathing tubes. The net. He’d love to share his photos with you at his blog, grandmother’s farm outside a chicken, mashed potatoes, and half, saving diligently and send- housing council to help people able at Four Seasons Books in brating his birthday. He stuck his face into my cabin and cheer- author got sick despite taking medication. It was his 77th birthday. http://TheOccidentalPhotographer.blogspot.com. small West Virginia mountain gravy, whatever vegetables were ing her money home. threatened with eviction. Shepherdstown. fully wished me a happy birthday. I was not cheerful. Photographs supplied by the author

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have been bred and trained to run. That is According to Johnson, horses can s summer closes in, you may (CASA) of the Eastern Panhandle; more people sign a petition before we be sure, we were not the only activists what they want to do, and they must be understand hundreds of instructions, both have noticed that there are camps and perhaps even Mary Beth Tinker, forwarded it to a government official. focused on this issue, but we were part completely retrained before they can be verbal and nonverbal. They are keenly for just about every sport, activ- the namesake of the landmark free Imagine my surprise after our camp- of the movement that made life better for used for other purposes. aware of the rider’s body language and A Horse training should probably be nonverbal cues that include the seating ity, or academic interest. Still “human speech case of Tinker v. Des Moines ers from the 2006 camp collected over the children who had been dubbed “the rights” and “camp” are not often used in Independent Community School. 200 signatures on their own petitions in night travelers.” In my view, this is a considered an art. “Instructors teach you position and the pressure of the legs of the same paragraph, let alone the same This fairly weighty curriculum under two hours! clear example of the true strength of the to train, but some people are natural the rider. “A young horse needs both phrase. Shepherdstown, however, is set will be balanced by frequent breakout All told, the campers from the human rights community and all grass- trainers,” said Johnson. “You need good words and body language,” said Johnson, to host the Third Annual Human Rights sessions for hiking, sports, games, swim- last two years took 12 distinct actions roots movements—the synergy that their empathy. I always had a natural eye for “but the ideal is when a horse is com- Camp for Kids. This program is excel- ming, and all-around fun. It is amazing involving grassroots lobbying, peti- many voices create when joined together seeing a good horse.” In the 1980s, she pletely tuned to body language and it lent for 10- to 14-year-old students inter- to witness the kids’ enthusiastic response tions, letter writing, etc. These young for a much greater cause. bought horses off the racetrack, retrained looks like the rider isn’t moving.” Artie’s win at Charles Town ested in law, justice, and social issues. to this methodology. For anyone who people added their voices and played a Ideally, human rights education them, and sold them as show horses. Johnson schooled Artie in dressage, Photograph by Scott Kitching It will help to prepare your children to doubts how fun a human rights camp role in changing lives and history. The should do much more than simply teach. Johnson has always been a horse in which a show horse walks, trots, and understand and protect their own rights At its best, it should promote action, lover. She started riding lessons when canters with the proper conformation at and the rights of others. Sponsored and motivate the students, and satisfy the she was 12 and got her first horse when the designated time. It includes moves members and former members, and there supported by The Children’s Rights needs of the larger community for toler- she was l7. “I snuck out and bought a such as “turning on the front hand,” is a lot of parental and volunteer involve- Coalition, Amnesty International, and ance and understanding. According to horse without my mom knowing about where the horse pivots around, keep- ment. “Most international championship Human Rights Campers it,” she laughed. “She wasn’t too happy.” ing one front foot in place. Dressage is riders and Olympic equestrians were in private donations, this year’s day camp create a personalized letter their Web site, “Amnesty International will be held at Shepherd University from believes that learning about human However, Johnson had that horse another a team endeavor where horse and rider Pony Club,” she said. to Ambassador Ssempala. 17 years. work together effortlessly and the rider’s Artie, at 20, has been in his second June 26–29, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. rights is the first step toward respecting, Artie at a Pony Club Show jumping In 2005 this camp was the first of promoting, and defending those rights.” She found Artie when some of commands seem invisible. semi-retirement for the past two years. competition ridden by Jen Walker her co-workers had invested in him as She also taught Artie to jump. It is He is now at home with Johnson and her its kind. Now it has become a fixture Moreover, several treaties and U.N. Photograph by Chris Parsons for the local human rights community resolutions and declarations make human a racer, and she became his agent at a very slow process, starting with very husband Robert on their five acres just and the focus of national and interna- rights education for children an inter- Charles Town Races. She explained that low barriers called trotting poles, about outside Shepherdstown, together with her e’ve all heard the old saying, tional attention. When I first conceived national priority. Sadly, public schools a racehorse’s agent has a role similar to a horse length apart, that a horse must Appaloosa horse, Cherokee, and several “You can’t teach an old dog of this camp, it seemed like a natural in the United States have not integrated that of a human performer’s agent. She step over. This teaches the horse to lift pygmy goats for company. “They cleaned new tricks,” although there are fit to combine education, action, and human rights education into their cur- W arranged for trainers, riders, and races. its feet and develops the balance required up all the honeysuckle and multiflora plenty of people who might argue about fun. I never imagined that our town and ricula, although individual teachers may She saw his potential and took him to to clear jumps of increasing height. Artie rose around the fencerows,” Johnson said that. But what about a horse? A thor- our university would become the test- decide to teach it. We do have blocks retrain when he retired. was a natural and excelled at jumping. of the goats, adding that goats and horses oughbred called A Royal Try, Artie for ing grounds for organizations that have of instruction on civil rights in public All racehorses cannot be retrained, When Artie was completely trained, get along very well. short, now 20 years old, went from the looked at our camp as a model, and that One of three groups schools, but civil rights comprise only she explained, because many are too Johnson placed him with a friend who Artie is still in excellent condition. racetrack to a career as an award-winning we would be reported in both English of campers from several pieces of a very large puzzle. high-strung to ever make good pleasure has a stable and riding students. There, “The vet was here,” said Johnson, “and show and pleasure horse, thanks to the and Spanish language media by Amnesty 2006 working on Once assembled, the human right puzzle horses. When Artie first left the track, people who could not keep a horse of she couldn’t believe that he was 20.” “an action.” skill and patience of his owner, Maryann International (AI). presents a very clear and compelling he was very nervous and excitable. “He their own could lease one. Artie was Johnson said that Artie could possibly Johnson of Shepherdstown. The academic portion of this camp picture of the law and universality of all would bite,” said Johnson, “but handling very friendly and adaptable, and he was live another 10 years. Photographs submitted by the author The sweet-natured dark bay geld- includes discussions, films, on-line human rights, including civil rights. and age quieted him.” Now he is gentle, leased to 4-H members, competed in Johnson, who commutes by train to ing, sired by the well-known Maryland research, activism, and prominent guest can be, I simply report the following most impressive of the several success Not surprisingly, this camp is often affectionate, and friendly. shows, went to summer riding camps, her job with a medical research firm in stallion Hail Emperor, raced until he speakers. Campers will learn about observations received on feedback sheets stories we could report was the sign- a first exposure for our campers. In She noted that racehorses do not and worked with Pony Club. “He loves the city, doesn’t have as much time as was five years old, which is considered the Convention on the Rights of the from past campers: “This camp rocks!” ing of a peace agreement in Uganda. convincing the campers that they can have proper balance and must be taught to jump,” said Johnson. “One girl won a she would like for riding. “Artie wants to a respectable career for a racehorse. Child, the Universal Declaration of “Human rights rule!” and “I liked swim- Our campers jumped into action when make a difference, we use the slogan “10 to walk, trot, and canter correctly. “It Grand Championship on him. All of his work,” she said. “He wants a rider.” She Johnson explained that horses start racing Human Rights, natural law theory, the ming and rock climbing the best.” The their research found this Human Rights to the 10th.” If only 10 of those that we takes a lot of time and patience to get a championships have been from jumping.” noted regretfully that there are fewer and at the age of two but that, “Many horses Convention on the Elimination of all only real complaint we received was, Watch report, “Children in Uganda are teach and inspire reach out and teach and racehorse to the show ring or to become a Johnson explained that Pony Club fewer places to ride locally. “Mostly it’s don’t make it to their third year. Their forms of Discrimination against Women, “Make it last longer.” abducted and frequently murdered by inspire 10 others and so on, then 10 bil- pleasure horse,” she said. “It took me two is a nationwide organization started in riding bareback around the property. All front legs break down.” She noted that the U.S. legal system, and the Bill of As an experienced human rights the Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA], a lion people could be reached. Of course, years to teach him to lunge properly.” England in the 1880s and in the United the development has taken away most of Artie comes from strong stock and that Rights. In addition, we will research activist, professor, and attorney, I know heavily-armed rebel group fighting the this is greater than the world’s current Lunging is a procedure in which the States in the 1950s. Young riders, age the trails.” many of Hail Emperor’s foals raced until and take actions on several compelling just how tricky activism and organizing Ugandan government . . . . The captive population, so in theory everyone every- trainer stands in the center of a large ring eight through 21, learn to properly care Although many retired racehorses they were 12 or 13. human rights crises, including the geno- can be in a small community. In past children are forced to take part in com- where could (and should) be empowered with the horse on a long line. The horse for a horse, to ride, and to participate in are in need of homes, and lots of racers At the time Artie retired, Johnson cide in the Darfur Region of Sudan. efforts involving adults, I was always bat, carry heavy loads, act as personal to understand, enjoy and respect their learns the required gaits and to follow competitions. Teachers are professional do make good show and pleasure horses, recalled that many former racehorses Inspiring these young people isn’t thrilled when groups of volunteers servants to the rebels, and, in the case of human rights and the rights of others. instructions. horse people, upper-level Pony Club Johnson reminded potential buyers that were sold at auction to be slaughtered difficult, but it doesn’t hurt to bring “tabled” petitions regarding prisoners girls, serve as ‘wives’ to rebel command- With this in mind, we challenge these they must be prepared to provide the for pet food or human consumption in in experts with years of education and of conscience or other human rights ers.” They prepared several poster-sized young people to create a movement essential time and effort that is absolutely Europe. Recent legislation prevents that experience. Guest speakers from pre- issues at large public gatherings. Even in letters imploring the Honorable Edith that will stir others to act and change necessary for retraining them. She cau- but created a new problem. There are vious years have included Dr. Helen friendly settings with lots of sympathetic Grace Ssempala, the Ambassador to the our world. After all, they are its future tioned that one should either be a trainer now fewer buyers at auctions, and own- Bond; Julia Nemon, Director of AI’s folks about, having people sign peti- United States from Uganda, to urge her leaders. or have a trainer before buying a retired ers often can’t sell their horses. This Urgent Action Network; Lynn Yellot, tions is not an easy task, especially when government to negotiate a peace/disar- racehorse. led to a crisis in Kentucky, where some founder of the local chapter of AI; and they must disclose personal information, mament agreement with the LRA and to Robert Scharmer is an adjunct profes- There are periodic horse auctions racehorse owners simply turned their Frank Salzano, Shepherdstown Town such as addresses, phone numbers, etc. protect the children of Uganda, as these sor of economics and political science at in Thurmont, Md., and Winchester, Va., old horses out into the wild to starve. Councilmember. This year, the camp In addition, some cases are controver- were the most vulnerable in the conflict. Shepherd University. For more informa- Johnson said. She explained that people Fortunately, this has not happened here. has tentatively scheduled Representative sial and people tend to shy away. I and Within three weeks of the delivery of our tion about this year’s camp, contact him could also go directly to the racetrack to Racehorses don’t take easily to Shelley Moore Capito; Vickey Wilcher other activists felt a real sense of accom- petitions, an agreement was reached and at (304) 582-7900 or hrlawyer@yahoo. buy horses. “Horses that are not running retirement, said Johnson, because they Artie at 10 years of age Artie and Cherokee grazing of Court Appointed Special Advocates plishment if we managed to have 50 or the children of Uganda were safer! To com, subject line: HR CAMP. well are sold,” she said. Photograph by maggie Smith Photograph by maryann Johnson

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Sierra Grabowska is a rising 8th grader at Shepherdstown Middle School. Religious Worship and Education Schedules

Paging Doctor Dog! Sierra Grabowska Asbury United Methodist Baha’i Faith Christ Reformed U.C.C. Christian Science Society lick on the nose. A cocked head. Yogi works with firefighters too. had awakened from a coma Rt. 480 (Kearneysville Road) Entler Hotel ~ German & Princess Streets 304 East German Street Entler Hotel ~ German & Princess Streets My dog always seems to know Mr. Streeter even takes Yogi to the sites the day before—with the help Rev. Rudolph Monsio Bropleh, Pastor Telephone: 535-2351 Bronson Staley, Pastor Sunday Worship & Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Ahow to make me melt. And of the fires so that in between saving of one of her therapy dogs. Telephone: 876-3122 Sunday Devotions: 11:30 a.m. Telephone: (301) 241-3972 Testimony meetings: 1st & 3rd Wednesdays though his sweetness brings me happi- lives, the firefighters can stop to pet Yogi Another dog therapist I Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Study circles and monthly discussion group Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. year-round in the Reading Room

ness, I now know that he can bring me, as a calming break from the traumatic met at the hospital was Meg Photographs supplied by the author (call for information) Sunday School for all ages: 10:10 a.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Christian Science Reading Room, located at and others, much more. situations. Ellacot. She is a volunteer Sierra and Yogi and a patient 203 S. Princess Street, is open Mondays and Wednesdays I’ve always loved dogs, even before I also met Leslie Horton of with the animal assisted pro- (except holidays) from noon until 3 pm. we finally got Rumsey, our cairn terrier. Frederick, a nurse and the director of the gram. She told me that she When the daughter asked why Kelly had Telephone: 876-2021 As far as working dogs, I knew there animal assisted care program at Inova is also a journalist and that was actually done that, the nurse who was monitor- Sentinel radio program Sundays 7 a.m. were dogs that acted in movies, and Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. how she became a part of the program. ing said. “She must have sensed it.” The on WINC 92.5 FM search and rescue dogs, and Seeing-Eye She invited me to shadow her and one of She explained how she had come in to woman’s heart had just stopped. dogs, and police dogs. But I had never her four trained therapy dogs during her interview volunteers about the program Meg was very upset by that visit. heard of therapy dogs. rounds. We drove to the hospital with and had liked the idea so much that she Kelly seemed to understand her owner’s her youngest dog panting in put one of her dogs through the training sadness and anguish, and was reluctant the back, a German shep- to become a therapy dog. Her dog Kelly, to go to the hospital the next day. herd pup named Griffin. I a golden retriever, was one of only two Therapy dogs can play an important received many wet noses to out of a class of fifteen to pass the test. role at hospitals because of the physical my shoulder. and emotional benefit that the patients As soon as we walked and workers get from their simple, happy in the door, Griffin and Ms. presence. Some hospitals don’t allow Horton were happily greeted dog therapy programs because they by many people: a child assume the dogs would be unsanitary in patient using a walker, star- a hospital environment. But the dogs are tled when she got a slobbery bathed every morning before they go in New Street United Methodist St. Agnes Roman Catholic St. John’s Baptist St. Peter’s Lutheran lick on the cheek; two smil- to work. Church & New Streets Church & Washington Streets West German Street King & High Streets ing nurses in scrubs who Patients are encouraged by dogs to Dee-Ann Dixon, Pastor Father Mathew Rowgh Rev. Cornell Herbert, Pastor-Elect Fred Soltow, Pastor immediately bent over to get throw a ball for them just a few more Telephone: 876-2362 Telephone: 876-6436 Telephone: 876-3856 Telephone: 876-6771 their doggie hugs; doctors times each day, strengthening their arms, 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. in lab coats who said, “Hey, or walking one more hallway with the Children’s Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Saturday Eucharist: 5:30 p.m. Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Adult Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Yogi, Sierra Grabowska and John Streeter Griffin!”; and families, on dog to build up their health. That can Adult Sunday School: 11:15 a.m. Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. Children’s Church: 11:15 a.m. their way to visit loved ones, shorten hospital stays. Emotionally, Sunday Evening Worship and Bible Study: 6:15 p.m. Then right here in Shepherdstown who stood back with wide eyes and therapy animals can reassure patients St. James’ Lutheran Church, Uvilla I found John Streeter, a therapist at the exclaimed over how huge Griffin was. before an operation, when they miss their Sunday Worship: 9:00 a.m. Women’s Shelter in Martinsburg. He One social worker, who referred pets at home, or even when they miss Children’s Church: 9:15 a.m. and his German shepherd, Yogi, have to herself as Auntie Jane, absolutely their family and friends. Therapy animals talk therapy sessions with mostly women grinned with pleasure at the sight of Sierra with the Tower 9 Staff provide so much hope and love for the and children. When I met him, Yogi us and had Griffin put his paws in her patients that I think this program should hopped right up on the couch with me lap. She said she loved seeing the dogs Ms. Ellacot told me that she loves work- be in all hospitals. and had a puppet he was chewing. It was because they made her day brighter. ing with Kelly, and the best part is that I’ve seen people who are in hospital very obvious that Yogi was very used to The first patient we visited was a she’s helping people along the way. The beds looking helpless and alone. Yet, people sitting on that couch and hugging woman with her eyes closed, tubes in hardest part though, she says, is to hide when they see a dog or other therapy ani- him. her nose and arms, lying in a hospital your emotions. mal, their eyes just have a new sparkle Not only do Yogi and Mr. Streeter bed with her sister standing beside her. It Once, Meg and Kelly came to see a to them. You can see the people around work at the shelter but they also went to looked as if she were sleeping, but when woman who was very ill and surrounded them cheer up a little more too, because New Orleans after Katrina and helped Ms. Horton told her a dog was there to by her family. To everyone’s surprise, of how inspiring it is to see someone in a victims of the hurricane. I was surprised see her, she opened her eyes and looked the golden retriever climbed right up such a situation able to feel happy. when he told me that Yogi also helped around for Griffin. Ms. Horton got a on the bed and lay across the woman’s I’ve learned so much about how Shepherdstown Presbyterian Trinity Episcopal Unity of Shepherdstown the Red Cross volunteers by reliev- chair for the dog and sat him right up body. “How did she know to do that?” special therapy dogs are that I’ve been 100 W. Washington Street Corner of Church & German Streets Minister: Reverend Anne Murphy ing them of their stress. Studies show beside the woman. Ms. Horton took the the woman’s daughter asked. When really inspired. My dog, Rumsey, might Randall W. Tremba, Pastor The Rev. G. T. Schramm, Rector Morning Celebration Services that just petting a dog can lower blood woman’s hand and laid it on the dog’s Meg asked what she meant, the daughter not be able to pass the test since he is a Telephone: 876-6466 The Rev. Siobhan Patterson, Curate Sundays at 11:00 a.m. pressure. Yogi was so popular that Mr. back. She was able to move her fingers explained that her mother had always little rambunctious (he is a terrier, after Sunday Worship: 8:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Frank Coe, Priest Associate Shepherdstown Train Station Streeter had to ask people not to disturb to pet him, and when we had to go she wanted her own dogs to lie on the bed all), but I would love to have the joy of Sunday School: 10:45 a.m. Telephone: 876-6990 Seasonal Classes & Workshops him during his nap because the dog was able to move her fingers to wave with her but they never would do that. knowing that I’m helping other people Nursery year-round Sunday Worship: 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. Telephone: (304) 268-4222 needed a rest from all the love that he goodbye. When we had left, Ms. Horton After some time, Kelly looked up into while doing it with one of my favorite www.spcworks.org Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. www.unityofshepherdstown.org was spreading! told me that the woman we had just seen the woman’s face and licked her cheek. companions.

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[My dear nephew Screwtape: Under the code name “sojourner,” certain pathetic Christians are attempting to resurrect the Christian movement, which we had effectively dis- credited last millennium. Be aware: Even though this is the same old sappy stuff about faith, hope, and love, it still has legs. I obtained a copy of a pep talk given on Pentecost Sunday by an old and decrepit agent of our Enemy. The talk was presented to some youngsters who once were firmly in our camp. This agent may be old, but he’s devilish. Even Donors though we have lured him into the Lost Dog and into the pub at the Meck countless times, he remains uncontaminated and fiercely loyal to the Enemy’s Son. Take note of his clever arguments and make sure no more of our young, cultured despisers of religion get a copy of this. This is the only copy left. Be sure to burn it once you have read it. Affectionately yours, Wormwood.] Byliners Robert Fodor & Thurid Clark Mrs. Charles Printz Miriam Ellis John Demory Carl & Charlotte Frasch Martha & Bob Rizzo Patricia Florence Denis & Nancy Doss Herbert & Mary Lu Freeman Gwendolyn R. Robinson Charles & Josephine Fridinger Lester Fant III Wood & Rosemary Geist Sherman & Elinor Ross John & Susana Garten Jo Ann & W.E. Knode Jr. William & Barbara Gillespie Charles & Marilyn Sabatos Patrick & Robert Gossard Patrica Lovelace Edmund & Susan Goldsborough Sanders Museum Services Assoc. Michael & Debora Gresalfi Jean Neely Raymond & Elizabeth Hadfield Victoria Savage Lola M. Hamm Brian Palank, DDS Connie Lucas Halliwell John Schley Marianne Howard & Rufus Hedrick By Randall Tremba Ray & Jane Vanderhook Mr. & Mrs. Conrad C. Hammann Elizabeth S. Scott Dorothy & John Huff Lisa & Paul Welch James & Ada Hatchett Carole & David Scott Eleanor Jamison Barbara Heinz W. Curtis Sharp Quinith Janssen Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? From “This Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver Patrons Jessie & Mary Hendrix Shepherdstown Woman’s Club Norman Julian Martin & Elise Baach Calison & Patricia Henkes Eleanor Ann Shirley Juris & Sylvia Kundrats Tracy & Grace Boyer Jim & Norleen Hoadley Lynn & Dolores Shirley Laurin & Phyllis Letart Mary Sue Catlett Diane Hoffman Thomas & Lenore Sloate William & Dorothy Lowe Anderson Clark elcome to the catacombs, my young friends. Sit close. I want to churches. That devil wants your soul and your money and has a good chance of James & Mary Holland Harold W. Snyder Eveyln & George Mason speak softly. getting it. “Come, my child, my darling one, this thing will satisfy you. This thing Erdem & Carole Ergin Joan F. Hopkin Vivian Snyder Joe McCabe Today is Pentecost. Once upon a time, long, long ago (before will make you happy. This thing will save you. This thing will make others notice Judith & Stanley Jones Ruth deWindt Hoxton Sallie Shepherd Spaulding James & Elizabeth McGowen it morphed into a Jewish festival and then a spiritless Christian Holy Day), you and maybe even love you.” Richard & Joan Lyon Elaine Hurd Vergie G. Spiker Peg McNaughton Pentecost was a day to get drunk. It was a day to celebrate the fruitfulness of Beware. That is an old and devious trap disguised as consumerism, with new George & Pat McKee Jack & Mary Elinor Huyett Bronson & Mary Helen Staley Naomi Demory Miller the earth. and flashy messages to exploit your fears. It will tell you over and over again: Helen Moore Catherine Irwin James & Mary Staley Karene Motivans & Stuart Wallace Just before Pentecost, just before summer began—if the seeds were good, if You are what you have! Be vigilant. the rain had fallen, and if the sun had shone—the first fruits of grain were cut, a Sojourners are like a lot of other Christians but we are different and distinct Robert & Linda Reynolds Perry & Stephanie Jamiesonww Robert & Gloria Thatcher Russell & Rhea Moyer promise of more to come. Hallelujah! Mother Earth has done it again! We will as well. When we say Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, we don’t mean by Victoria & Peter Smith James E. Keel, DVM Kaye & Gerald Thompson Calvin & Shirley Myers eat and live another year! Let the dancing and drinking begin! that what many American Christians mean. We don’t mean that Christianity is Lucy Swift Joan Keith Terry Thorson & Jeffrey Bannon James & Rebecca Prather Van & Maris Wilkins Once upon a time, Pentecost was an occasion for drunken happiness, but the one and only way to get to a heaven beyond this world. We mean that love Rev. William & Viola Kieldsing Marie A. Tyler-McGraw David & Jean Anne Pugh you’d never know it by attending most churches. It’s not the only thing too much as embodied in Jesus is the way, the one and only way to live righteously on this Henry K. Willard, II Barbara Jane Kines Capt. Peter & Dorothy Van Tol David & Betty Ramsay piety has ruined for you. But as a sojourner you can be different. You can tap the planet, in the world, and with all its creatures, humankind and otherkind. Love is John & Barbara King Catherine Waite Rebecca Murphy Spirit Wisdom within. all you need! Partners The sojourner tradition at its best awakens the rebel spirit to confront idola- Your tribe is eager to see what you do with your one wild and precious life. Katherine Akers Douglas & Karen Kinnett Elizabeth S. Walter Lyle & Theresa Rush try in church and culture. If your tribal elders haven’t given you the courage to Maybe you’ll save the world or die trying. Paul Woods & Johnna Armstrong Richard & Kathy Klein Ethel Waltz Jean & Randolph Burrell Melida & William Knott, Col. (Ret.) Richard & Joyce Welsh John F. Schmidt question your parents, your church, your minister, your religion, and your nation When I was your age, I graduated from high school and headed off to college Tommy & Courtney Baker then we haven’t done a very good job. in Illinois. That was 1965, and the air was full of idealism. Viet Nam had begun to Mr. & Mrs. James Leathers Bill & Jo Wilcox Mary Catherine Sencindiver George & Barbara Baker Sojourners are like a lot of other Christians but we are different and distinct gnaw at the heart and soul of America. We marched to end war forever chanting: Willoughby & Ellen Lemen Esther Wood Burton & Cornelia Simon Tom & Rae Banks as well. I can’t speak for all sojourners but I can speak for many. For instance, All we are saying is give peace a chance. Martin Luther King, a sojourner child Stanley & Hazel Barkdoll John & Judith Lilga Chelsey & Lynn Yellott Grant & Renny Smith we take the Bible too seriously to take it literally. Then again, we don’t take the of the church, rallied many of us to his side. We marched for Civil Rights to end James Bauman Robert & Constance Lucas Ed Zahniser & Christine Duewel Sara Smith Bible so seriously that we ignore the voices of art and science, personal experi- discrimination. In 1970, I began working in California with Cesar Chavez, another Edwinna Bernat James & Nancy Macdonell Scarlett Spielman ence and other religions. A wise person listens to the counsel of many. A fool sojourner child of the church, to change laws for the benefit of migrant farm Friends Patricia Donohoe & David Borchard Mildred & Floyd Miller Joseph & Shirley Talago does not. workers. For the sake of lettuce pickers, I even stopped eating Big Macs—one of Betty Allen Be suspicious of any Christian who waves the Bible saying, “This book is the hardest things I’d ever done for Jesus!! Robert & Mary C. Borden Frank & Althea Miller Larry & Donna Teeling William & Roxanna Andersen the Word of God!” Be suspicious but kind. Sojourners deeply respect the Bible Sojourners got to start somewhere. Where will you start? When and where Bob & Betty Lou Bryant Charles Miller Sandra Vickstrom & John DeMars Dabney & Alta Miller Myra & Leroy Ault John & Sarah Walker as we do our parents and grandparents, flaws and all. But we do not worship will you stand up against a system that is grinding people in this country and John & Helen Burns the Bible. around the world to a slow death? Genevieve Monroe Sylvia H. Boyer Judy Weese Sojourners Arise Snowdon Byron Sojourners love the creation myth of the Great Ancestors found in Genesis. To live a life of bodacious love for others while living in the belly of the Carl & Judy Moore Frances Brolle & Steven Lietz Eugene Wilkins Elizabeth Carlson Barbara & Clifton Brooks We hold it in one hand while holding the theory of evolution in the other hand. empire takes a lot of wisdom and courage. It helps to belong to a sojourner tribe. Charles & Ellen Moore Stephen Williams The myth of creation suggests that life, including personal life, regenerates out It helps to have a good friend or two. And it helps to have a lifetime partner. George & Bonnie Casely Odetta Brown Arthur & Wilma Morabito Nancy & Bill Wilson of darkness time and time again on the breath of love. Evolution by itself cannot I was lucky to meet and marry a woman who, as a high school student, R. Dabney Chapman Beth Burkhardt Rev. Dr. Raymond Moreland Virginia Winston define or measure love, but it explains a lot of other things well. worked in a Catholic Worker’s soup kitchen in Los Angeles, marched for migrant F. Dennis & Lola Clarke George & Margaret Cashin Robert & Kelly Collins Ella Mose Jeff & Bethany Worth For some Christians the biggest question in life is: Where will you spend farm workers, spent her spring breaks in Arizona working on an Indian reservation, Paul & Shirley Chiriaco eternity? That is not our biggest question. We ask: How can we live with eternal and, when she went to San Jose State University, got involved in Amnesty Rosemarie Robson Coy Philip Moss & Donna Covell Church of the Way gratitude here and now? This world is our home, and we’re not just passing International. There is a lot more to my wife, but it was those things that meant a Ann & Michael Cross Tim & Esther Murphy Betty Myers William & Yvonne Claytor Key through. This world is our home to love and cherish. We mustn’t condone the lot to me when we began falling in love and becoming friends more than 30 years Lyndall Dickinson * Byliners ($150–$300 gifts) blasting of West Virginia mountaintops to smithereens. We believe there’s more ago. When you follow your soul’s passion into the world, you will be attractive Margaret & Robert Northrup R. Richard Conard Meade & Honnor Dorsey * Patrons ($100–$125 gifts) to reality than meets the eye. But we see “heaven” itself in this awesomely fierce to others. Addie M. Ours Ora Cooper Martha A. Doss James K. Davis * Partners ($25–$75 gifts) and beautiful world. Please live your wild and precious life for all it’s worth to the glory of your Wendy Pacek By the way, don’t be suckered into the wrong religious debate. For heaven’s Maker. Have fun. Have a ton of fun! Meanwhile your elders will hope and pray Richard Durham Karen L. Davison * Friends ($5-–$20 gifts) Carroll & Ruth Palmer sake, don’t remain “sophomores” forever! Take your suspicious and rebellious that you discover as soon as possible that the greatest fun and joy in life comes Betty Egan Carol & Michael Demchik Vina Vaughan Parmesano Let us know if your donation spirit toward popular Christianity and turn it on the diabolical force that’s out to from living for others not merely for yourself. To live for others is heaven. To live David & Mary Sue Eldridge Nancy Dickey Jean A. Elliott Joan Piemme & Mavis Ferguson has not been acknowledged: win your heart and steal your soul. That devil is preaching at you day and night for self and greed is hell. Bernice Dove (304) 876-6466. from a thousand different pulpits, and I don’t mean the kind of pulpit you see in Richard & Susan Fletcher Avery & Margaret Post H. Potts Jean Ehman

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