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Issue 134 Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 Established May 1979 Now on the Web! Contents www.shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org PUBLISHER Shepherdstown Ministerial Association see artworks in color! Fall 2012 EXECUTIVE EDITOR Randall W. Tremba Essays, Art & Poetry EDITORS 3 Song of Peace for 9/11. By Randall Tremba Nan Broadhurst Libby Howard 9 Freedom’s Defining Moment. By Dan Vermilya and Keith Snyder Sue Kennedy Mark Madison Wendy Mopsik 11–13 ARTWORKS Fran Skiles. By Nan Broadhurst Sarah Soltow Claire Stuart 14 POETRY Shepherdstown 250th Anthology Ed Zahniser 16 Thomas Shepherd Walks at Midnight. By Georgia Lee McElhaney PRE-PRODUCTION EDITOR Libby Howard 17 EARTHBEAT “Earth Beatles.” By Mark Madison

SENIOR DESIGNER 20 Hunger and Other Games for Children. By Sarah Soltow Melinda Schmitt

DIGITAL IMAGE EDITOR People, Places & Things Nan Doss

PHOTOGRAPHER 4 The Making of an Orchestra. By Wendy Mopsik Jessie Schmitt 5 Jay Hurley. By Sue Kennedy TYPISTS Kathy Reid 6 Pronunciator. By Sarah Soltow

COPY EDITORS 7 The Joy Line Railroad. By Todd Cotgreave Rie Wilson Claire Stuart 8 Exploring the Spaces Between Fact and Fiction. By Stephen Willingham PROOFREADERS 10 England—Seen Through Raindrops. By Claire Stuart Betty Lou Bryant John Foxen 15 Georgia Lee McElhaney. By Margaret Demer DISTRIBUTION 18 Marker Dedication, Bee Line March. John E. Stealey III Lex Miller

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Make me a channel of your peace. intentionally and consistently cultivate compassion and have yet to learn our manners not to mention —St. Francis of Assisi against all odds. That’s no guarantee we’ll all turn out unlearn tribalistic ways. To think violence will end like Father Judge, but it’s a step in the right direction. violence is childish. I don’t care how sophisticated uestion: Do you know the name of the person It takes more, much more, than formal classes, our rationalizations—Hate cannot drive out hate. who gave the winter coat off his back to a lectures, or sermons to cultivate compassion. It takes Only love can do that. Qhomeless woman and then said: She needed it practice in all the moments of a day. Eleven years ago, two weeks after 9/11, my wife, more than me. If you’re thinking St. Francis, you’re close. What better antidote to the lingering trauma of Paula, and I began a journey around the world. It was Hint: This person cared for recovering alcoholics, 9/11 than this affirmation: The way of love has not been a sabbatical planned nearly a year before. We visited 10 the homeless, the hungry, the sick, injured, and grieving. forsaken. The way of light and hope has not been different countries over 100 days. Few Americans were He cared for immigrants, gays, and lesbians. He once forgotten. The way of forgiveness is still being taught traveling at that time. Most tours had been cancelled. knelt beside a man dying of AIDS and when that dying in a post-9/11 world. Many tourists stayed home. man asked if God hated him, the one kneeling picked No, forgiveness is not easy. And no, it doesn’t In each country we visited—from New Zealand, him up, kissed him, and silently rocked him in his arms. mean you forget what happened to you. And no, it to Kenya, to Greece, Spain and Ireland—our hosts and If you’re still thinking St. Francis, you’re still close doesn’t mean you let people walk over you or beat strangers greeted us with words of deep sympathy for because St. Francis was known to America. We were honored have embraced lepers as though and humbled to receive such they were the Beloved Christ. gestures of goodwill on behalf Alright. One more hint: of our country. This person is the same It seemed the world was person who on 9/11 rushed on the threshold of a new day. into the North Tower of the America’s gaping wound had World Trade Center to offer opened up a moment of grace. prayers for the dying only to The world saw the mightiest die himself from flying debris. nation hurting and humbled; That person would become the no longer invincible but, just first officially recorded fatality like every other nation, vulner- of 9/11. No, of course, it’s not able to profound suffering. St. Francis. It is Father Mychal In that poignant moment Judge, a priest in the Order a song buried deep in the of Franciscan Minors and long- world’s collective heart arose. time chaplain of the New York Not a song of victory or City Fire Department. © Shannon Stapleton vindication or war; but rather Father Judge wasn’t born a song of peace, a song of with an instinct to rush into burning buildings. But, as you up. To forgive, or to be willing to forgive, means peace for all the nations. And if you heard it, please it turns out, he was nurtured in the spirit of St. Francis, you believe the past can be transformed by grace. It don’t forget it. Never let it go. It’s sung in many different a spirit encapsulated in the prayer attributed to the saint. means we can be set free from crippling resentments. ways. Here’s one. And, by the way, you don’t have to be a priest or even a Eleven years ago on September 11, enemies of our Christian to make it your prayer or, better yet, to make it nation danced for joy as we reeled from a devastating This Is My Song your true vocation. attack. They weren’t the first or last to dance upon the This is my song, O God of all the nations, grave of an enemy. A song of peace for lands afar and mine. Make me a channel of your peace: In May last year, nearly 11 years after 9/11, This is my home, the country where my heart is; Where there is hatred, let me bring your love, Americans danced for joy over the death of Osama bin Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine; Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord, Laden. Sweet revenge. But, of course, it wasn’t sweet But other hearts in other lands are beating And where there’s doubt true faith in you. enough to cure the aching in many hearts. With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine. Glee over the death of one’s enemy is as old as the My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean Make me a channel of your peace: hills. Here’s a song 3,000 years old: I will sing to the And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine; Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope, Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider But other lands have sunlight, too, and clover, Where there is darkness, only light, he has thrown into the sea. The Lord is a warrior. And skies are everywhere as blue as mine. And where there’s sadness, ever joy. For those who might think otherwise: That is not O hear my song, O God of all the nations, from the Quran. It’s from the Bible. A song of peace for their land and for mine. Father Judge wasn’t the first or the last to give up Does God intervene that way—to kill some and May truth and freedom come to every nation; his coat that another might be warm, or give a meal that spare others, or is that what certain people in a childish may peace abound where strife has raged so long; another might eat. He wasn’t the first or the last to bring frame of mind think God is like? Some of our ancestors that each may seek to love and build together, light into darkness, hope into despair, or pardon to the thought so, as do some of our current national leaders. a world united, righting every wrong; injured. He wasn’t the first to be a channel of peace or But it doesn’t mean we have to think like them. It’s a world united in its love for freedom, to urge others to love the whole world and not just their childish. It’s OK to be childlike in faith; but childishness proclaiming peace together in one song. own kind or their own people or their own nation. does not befit an adult. There were many before and will be many after, Of course, childishness in our species should be —Lloyd Stone, 1934 in part, because parents, schools, and faith communities no surprise; we are quite recent arrivals on this planet

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 4 The Making of an Orchestra Wendy Mopsik

hat do Lars Prillaman, Kirsten As her children developed their the spread of the program. Extending Lemaster, Mason Ellsworth, musical interests, Price-DelGallo looked instruction to other age groups and WFrank Sabado, Zoe Jenkins, around the region for schools offering schools throughout the county, hiring and 500 intermediate, middle, and high strings instruction. At age three, David a permanent strings teacher, obtaining school students have in common? They began Suzuki training on the violin at additional sheet music and instruments, all have been touched by the musical Shenandoah University’s Community Arts and creating a combined youth orchestra genius and magnetic personality of Program in Winchester, Va. Instruction for the Martinsburg area would have to wait Eva Price-DelGallo, Berkeley County’s was also available in Hagerstown, Md., until permanent funding could be secured. Orchestra Program director. She is a but Shepherd University had yet to begin In the fourth year of the strings fundraiser extraordinaire, evangelist for their preparatory department in music. program, the Millbrook Orchestra went

strings music education, cheerleader and Berkeley County offered only band and out of operation. Knowing that her goals PHOTO BY WENDY MOPSIK standard-bearer for her students, and chorus in the schools, not orchestra. could only be met by obtaining ongoing Berkeley County Orchestra Program Director a tireless publicist, churning out press Price-DelGallo noted, “It turns out that support from Berkeley County, Price- Eva Price-DelGallo is a teacher, advocate, and releases for every event and activity. She when given a choice, children will pick Delgallo had been consistently lobbying fearless leader for strings education. The fruits of her labor can be heard throughout the area was voted 2012 Outstanding Classroom the instrument that sounds good to their the school system. She regularly appeared in music played by the talented students she Teacher of the Year by the West Virginia ears. There is always a reliable number before the school board, wrote proposals, has inspired. String Teacher Association. Without Price- of students who prefer the sound of string demonstrated the program’s value through DelGallo, Berkeley County would have no instruments.” One result of her early student performances of ever-increasing throughout the 16 years of Eva Price- strings education or local youth orchestra. search for strings instructors was to begin numbers and, finally in 1999, established DelGallo’s tenure with the school system. The story begins in Heidenheim, teaching violin privately from her home, a formal affiliation with the Berkeley Being touched by this gifted and driven Germany, where then Eva Moser grew a practice that continues to the present. County Public Schools and the Board woman causes miracles to happen. up in a family that loved classical music. The Millbrook Orchestra Board was of Education as fiscal agent for the The arts world expands, families’ lives Her first violin was a gift from her dad, looking for an education chair, and in strings program. Now with 100 students are enriched, student confidence and who told his impressionable daughter that 1995 Price-DelGallo accepted that posi- in four schools getting weekly instruction responsibility grows, individual talents a traveling gypsy had come to their door tion. This coming together of resources, and adding string bass to the mix, the are nourished, the region’s exposure to asking for bread to feed his large family. drive, and talent was the spark that led program was able to compete in the West orchestral music is extended, and Berkeley In exchange for food, he gave them the to the formation of the area’s first strings Virginia Orchestra Festival thus continu- County’s recognition as a model for music violin, insisting that they keep it to enjoy. program and laid the initial groundwork ing to actualize its creator’s dreams. education increases. It is on this instrument that she learned to for Berkeley County’s comprehensive Others had said, “Give it up, Eva,” Will the vision end here? If past play, from age 10 through her participation music education curriculum. During her but Price-DelGallo credits her German performance is any predictor of the in the high school orchestra. Price- time on the Millbrook’s board, the orches- stubbornness and perseverance for future, Price-DelGallo is not ready DelGallo played in her college orchestra tra received a $7,500 grant from Ronald refusing to abandon her vision. Despite to rest. She will continue to be ready as well, and later in the Schwäbisch McDonald Children’s Charities, and Price- formidable obstacles like limited budgets to teach her first class at 7 a.m., race Gmünd Philharmonie from 1970 to 1986. DelGallo was able to create the Millbrook to fund additional teachers, instruments to the next school location as the day She also played in the Nittany Valley Youth String Program. After only one year for all interested students regardless of progresses and finish at 4:05 p.m. Orchestra and substituted in the Altoona of cello and violin lessons, given free to their ability to rent instruments, and before returning home to teach privately Symphony while living in Pennsylvania. students twice a week during noon recess finding class time during the normal day or attend a rehearsal in the evenings. Spending the 1973–74 school year at and part of lunchtime, fourth graders at for students to take credit classes, this She won’t stop initiating programs like Ball State University in Indiana as a grad- Opequon Elementary and eighth graders energetic one-woman show managed the “Instruments in the Attic,” where donated uate assistant in the German Language at North Middle had string ensembles that impossible. As of the 2011–12 school used string instruments can be dropped Department changed her life dramatically. performed at several events. year, four full-time string teachers instruct off at any school in Berkeley County Price-DelGallo got a taste of life in the The original seven middle schoolers 500 students in all intermediate and to be cleaned and repaired for use by United States. Having majored in English and 16 fourth and fifth graders gradually middle schools and every high school in students. She will ardently plan more as a foreign language while studying swelled in number as word spread among Berkeley County Public Schools. Middle concert performances and competitions, music as a minor, she comfortably taught students, parents, and community. Teacher schoolers have their orchestras and more trips to hear celebrated musicians and advised German students. But the and conductor of these pioneering string those in high school have combined to play, more workshops to augment instruc­ most significant event that occurred was players, Price-DelGallo reported, “Playing form the Berkeley County High School tion. As the recent bride of college ultimately meeting the man who would an instrument well gives an unbelievable Symphony Orchestra, which includes history professor Dino DelGallo, she become her first husband 13 years later. boost to a child’s self confidence that full brass, wind, and percussion sections. will continue to be a dynamic force They married in 1986, and Price-DelGallo carries on into other areas.” She defended Parents, teachers, school staff members, broadening the appeal of orchestral became a mother to Elizabeth in 1987 and the idea that strings instruction must be as well as home-schooled and private music in local schools. to David the following year. Not surpris- a part of the curriculum. “A love of music school students can also be heard in this ingly, her daughter, now a PhD candidate creates the same self discipline as devotion group of 60 musicians. Mountain Ridge Wendy Sykes Mopsik retired long ago. in psychology, plays the flute and has to sports for a student.” Intermediate School runs a successful She is now content to sit under her favorite been a ballet dancer and singer. Her son The realities of budget constraints experiment including third graders in the cork tree and quietly smell the flowers has a music education and violin perfor- and multiple subjects competing for time string classes. while listening to orchestral music on her mance degree and plays professionally, in the school day caused continued tension Berkeley County School Superintendent MP3 player. She loves all kinds of notes: both classical and rock music. between the music educator’s dreams and Manny Arvon has helped in many ways [email protected].

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 5 Jay Hurley Sue Kennedy

of seven, and his father was going blind. some real estate, and Kalamazoo became Most of time we spent talking, this This did not make life any easier. his residence until 1977. man’s sense of humor was front and Jay graduated from Shepherdstown Over the years Jay returned to center. He’s a very funny guy. The conver- High and admits he wasn’t the best Shepherdstown to help his folks and to sation took on a serious tone only when student. He undoubtedly would have been visit, but that was between work assign- he spoke of the Shepherdstown 250th had the subjects been of more interest ments and not for long. By 1977 MG had anniversary. “The 250th is a wonderful to him, but they weren’t. Jay’s passion lost his eyesight completely and his health time to celebrate and reflect,” he said. “To was electronics. It was the 50s and he was failing fast. Ruth needed her son’s celebrate 250 years of community, years could see electronics was “the wave of help. So Jay came home to stay. MG died that have seen neighbor helping neighbor the future,” and the subject he wanted to a month later. and a community working together for a PHOTO SUBMITTED BY JAY HURLEY FROM HURLEY FROM PHOTO SUBMITTED BY JAY 2008 MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY WASHINGTONIAN study. As there was no money for college, Jay decided to start his own store, common good. To reflect upon the times Jay Hurley inside O’Hurley’s General Store he knew to he had to do it on his own. in the same location but with a completely that tested our mettle, no greater time of First stop was in Kanawha Valley to different concept. While MG carried test in our history than the Civil War and hepherdstown, W.Va, is widely study radio/TV repair. Next stop, WARK, modern-day merchandise, Jay was going its aftermath. But our town has gone on, known for its beauty and charm. Hagerstown’s newest radio station. Here Jay to remain true to the turn of the century. after a period of healing, to thrive.” Jay SThis unique little university town is financed this education by becoming skilled The store opened in 1979 and 30-some was quick to point out that there are many, such a vision of historical magnificence in tower maintenance. Every climb up the years later remains in a time warp, many unsung heroes around; men and it would unquestionably make a great set- sky-scraping radio tower to make repairs offering everyone who enters a delicious women who do great things for the town, ting for a movie. However, it takes more and change light bulbs netted him $20. opportunity quietly and for no recognition. He’d like to than good looks to get the reputation this Jay was a natural in electronics to lose themselves in thoughts of the best do something about that. town has. So the question is: What makes but he had other talents as well. Arthur of yesterday. The store sells penny candy Jay’s contribution to the yearlong Shepherdstown unique? Prayther taught Sunday school in for goodness’ sake! celebration has been in his mind’s eye for And the answer is…people do. If Shepherdstown and this boyhood Sunday The seven acres remains intact a long time. Intent on drawing awareness you’ve lived here for years, or all your school teacher first recognized Jay’s with the mobile home park still there, to the town’s extraordinary architectural life, you might not get what it means to talent for public speaking—and told him but the land now holds two barns, two appointments, he started taking photos. arrive in a town, knowing no one, and have so. Jay never forgot Prayther’s encourage- workshops, and a house. The whole About a year ago, he tapped Jonathan every other person on the street, young ment and went on to take radio courses at scene is pretty amazing and Jay is direct “Turtle” Clingenpeel, owner of Small and old, say “hi” or smile or engage you Shepherd College [University]. This gave as to his catalyst. “When I want to do Town Photo and Design, to collaborate in conversation. Just like that; no agenda, him on-air experience interviewing “talk- something it never occurs to me that I on a poster. The result, inspired by no suspicion…just friendly. You might not ing heads” and eventually landed him a can’t.” He wanted a Great Hall so he built “The Doors of Dublin” poster, is a true understand why that’s unique because to weekend job at WOL in Washington, DC. one. This huge and surprisingly peaceful work of art. The contest was Historic you that’s the norm. It always has been. WOL was expanding to Annapolis and space, with its cabinets from the old Shepherdstown’s idea and it’s almost like a Where did this come from? What needed a combo engineer/on-air person. Martinsburg B&O roundhouse, massive scavenger hunt. You comb the town look- force deemed it commonplace to accept He earned his First Class Radio and stone fireplace, towering ceiling and soft ing to match the poster photos with the strangers and make them feel so welcome? Telephone operator’s SCC/FCC license music, helps make O’Hurley’s even more real thing, fill out your key, and send it in. Digging for an answer, I decided to return through his studies at the Grantham of a Welcome Center. Jay doesn’t take full The posters are for sale all over town and to the scene of my first “I don’t believe School of Electronics in DC by day while credit for anything. To him O’Hurley’s is so far hundreds have been sold. this!!” sight of Shepherdstown—O’ working the WOL midnight-to-6-a.m. the work of a longtime, close-knit team. Jay Hurley, man of many ideas, Hurley’s General Store. For if shift in Annapolis. Genevieve O’Loughlin has been the has a long-held wish for the town. It’s Shepherdstown, with all its understated He then took writing courses at manager/buyer for more than 30 years. Shepherds Rest—a pocket park in the elegance, friendliness, intelligence, creativ- community college. “I just wanted to keep Jay says, “It’s Genevieve’s store; I just triangle between Sky’s the Limit and ity, and rustic charm, is a movie…then Jay my mind developing and learn all I could. own it.” Loretta Short, Doc Thatcher, and McMurran Hall, bordered by the Town Hurley has a starring role. It was a whole new experience for me.” a 14-year-old, 22-pound cat named Milo Run and the wall. “I’d like a place to take Jay Hurley is a legend around these Then came DeVry Institute of Technology complete this “family” picture. the paper and a cup of coffee and sit and parts. Everyone seems to know him and in Chicago. Finally, equipped with top Jay Hurley has lots of friends, but read, or just listen to the Run. I’ll bet have a story, a laugh, a piece of wisdom. grades in radar detection from DeVry and says he’s never been much of a joiner. others would too.…I think the craftsmen He was born in Shepherdstown. As a the willingness to relocate anywhere, the He prefers to see things that need doing in town would build it. I’ll make the chess matter of fact he was born in the same doors opened and big-name employers and do them. Repairing the McMurran table.” It would mean cutting an entry bed he sleeps in today. The Hurleys were came calling. clock tower being one example. However, through the wall, which he said makes the five in number: Melburn Glenn (MG), General Electric was the lucky bid- some projects take collective wisdom and idea DOA. There doesn’t seem to be much Ruth, and three sons, Glenn, Jay, and der and Jay came on board. When spy effort to succeed, so he joined Riverwalk, Jay can’t do once he decides to do it, so I Thomas. The Hurley property extended satellites were launched from the Soviet the Historic Landmarks Commission, the wouldn’t bet against him. for seven acres around the store and on Union, Jay was in the Aleutian Islands Town Council, and The Rumseian Society. As he was saying it won’t happen, he it also sat a couple of outbuildings and tracking them. When satellites went up When the idea of building a replica of was thinking about the design of the gate. a mobile home park. The Hurleys lived again, he was in Diyarbakir, Turkey, track- James Rumsey’s steamboat was born, “over the store.” Despite the land, money ing them. Two years in Turkey and Jay Jay chaired the steamboat committee Five years ago, Sue Kennedy drove into was pretty tight. Jay remembers meals was becoming less enchanted with radar and brought in the U.S. Navy’s chief Shepherdstown for the first time and coming exclusively from his mother’s detection and decided to “pack it in.” naval architect, Bill Hunley, for design almost ran off the road at the sight of garden and days taken working with his Western Michigan University accepted guidance. Today, the James Rumsey O’Hurley’s General Store. She took it as father. Poor eyesight was in the family all of his credits and he went back to the Steamboat replica is one of the town’s a sign and moved here. genes. Jay had cataract surgery at the age States to finish up his degree, bought major attractions.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 6

a love for many languages Sarah Soltow

How do I love thee? Let me count the information. He also worked in Paris with speaks two languages is bilingual; a person ways…in Spanish: uno, dos, tres, cuatro, a publishing firm and married his Danish who speaks one language is American. It cinco, sies, siete, ocho, nueve, diez wife, Ann, all the while gathering the is also worth noting that in Denmark, even …or in German: eins, zwei, drei, vier, languages of these places into his mind, truck drivers speak three languages. funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn his mouth, and his manner of viewing Pronunciator has now joined the …or in Swahili: moja, mbili, tatu, nne, the world. ranks of language-learning systems

tano, sita, saba, nane, tisa, kumi Savage has a strong concept of for children and adults. It may very SAVAGE PHOTO PROVIDED ROBERT …or in Tagalog: isa, dalawa, tatlo, apat, our world as a global village, and Pro­ well exceed most of them in terms of Robert Savage lima, anim, pito, walo, siyam, sampu nunciator is designed to be as global as the breadth and depth of the language- development of this immense project. Or…how about Maltese? possible. While casually cruising the site, learning experiences it can offer, as In September 2011, Pronunciator was Would you prefer to try your tongue you might notice within the agriculture well as in accessibility and affordability. launched with its target distribution in Romanian, Polish, or Persian? learning module that the term maize is Beneath the uncluttered look of the site focused on pubic libraries. According to Will you be traveling to Norway? used instead of corn. is embodied a vision and an idealism Savage, there are approximately 17,000 To Brazil? To Vietnam? He explains, “In much of the that is difficult to fathom until one dives public libraries in the United States, Need to brush up on your Russian, English-speaking world, the term ‘corn’ in and begins to plumb the depths of and he is currently in the process of Greek, or French? is a generic term for cereal crops, such this service. Remember the tag line? 60 contacting them, one by one, in order to Or, are you, like me, just a language as barley, oats, rye, and wheat, and is languages. 3 million lessons. There are develop the kind of relationship that this junkie who ardently loves all possible thus ambiguous. We chose the more 10,000 exercises per language course. particular labor of love deserves. combinations of sounds and meanings precise term, which in turn resulted in The lessons are designed for the student Shepherdstown Public Library that can tumble forth from the mouth of more precise translations.” to “learn by reinforcement to com- occupies a special niche in Savage’s the world? Oh, let me count the ways in Savage demonstrates a great respect municate.” Online drills train the ear and heart, and as a result, Pronunciator is as many languages as possible! for the global community by recognizing the voice in the new language. Online available free to its card-holding library The tag line of Pronunciator small detail like this and giving them quizzes target pronunciation, vocabulary, patrons. From the Shepherdstown Public (www.pronunciator.com) is “60 lan- credence. While Pronunciator is a great listening, and reading skills. There are also Library homepage, it is easy to register guages. 3 million lessons. The world’s asset to our cultural need to learn other 354 hours of downloadable MP3 lessons with Pronunciator using your library card largest language-learning service.” languages, it is also finely tuned to the per language along with downloadable number. From there, you can begin your Simple? Yes. global community of learners who tend e-phrasebooks and trip preparation multiple language learning adventures True? Quite. to take the pursuit of learning languages lessons. Good morning, Vietnam! immediately. Vielen danke, Herr Savage. Possible? Absolutely. much more seriously than Americans do. Savage worked with 947 collabo­ According to a recent Huffington Effective? You’ll have to decide Language is the gateway to an rators around the world to design and Post contributor, “language courses that for yourself! entire culture, but sadly, we Americans implement the instruction in these are much like dieting plans. People And the next question is… seem to be quite content with our own 60 languages. The global village of buy them, hoping for miracles, but not How can this be??? limited exposure. Language education Pronunciator includes translators, proof- truly expecting them.” Many times, our To explore the romantic beauty in elementary schools has decreased readers, voiceover artists, programmers, desire to learn another language is listed of this complex computer software from 31 percent in 1997 to a current 25 and pictogram illustrators, to mention a along with so many other New Year’s that will assist us in learning any of 60 percent. Middle school numbers are not few. The development of 60 languages resolutions and is as quickly discarded languages, let us turn to Robert Savage, much more impressive having fallen involved working with native speakers of as the others. “The bad news is that it Shepherdstown resident since 2000, and from 75 percent in 1997 to 58 percent 60 nations. Tangential development issues takes hard work and concerted effort for entrepreneur extraordinaire. Now doesn’t currently. But stories abound of children that are belied by the lean design of the adults to learn a foreign language. The that have a rather nice French ring to it? who are multilingual at very early ages. site itself are contained in the human sto- good news is that it’s not impossible and Savage has an extensive history According to USA Today (2007), “chil- ries of various hardships, religious issues, it’s so rewarding when you succeed.” with reference materials, languages, and dren who are exposed to other languages and one heart attack in India. Pronunciator is ready, willing, and able complex database programs that can also do better in school, score higher on One of the most unique aspects of to help you overcome the 10,000 barriers serve up unimaginable amounts of infor- standardized tests, are better problem this instructional system is its ability to you may have personally erected against mation rapidamente! His parents (John solvers and are more open to diversity.” evaluate the pronunciation capabilities of accomplishing this particular life goal… Savage and the late Victoria Savage, of Savage’s six-year-old daughter is the learner. Using a “complex proprietary one lesson at a time. Shepherdstown) instilled in him a love currently learning four languages, algorithm” developed with a Ukrainian of language and libraries, and, and he using her dad’s user-friendly site. While collaborator, a “pronunciation coach” Sarita Soltow ([email protected]) attended the University of Michigan’s anecdotes and research portray early will encourage learners to refine ther tiene la meta de vida a hablar fluente School of Information with the intent childhood multiple language learning pronunciation until the computed score en español. Ella piensa que Pronunciator of creating reference products. He lived in glowing terms, our society and public nears 100 percent. puede ayudarla. nearly eight years in Italy, where he education remain resistant. An old joke The well-organized and orderly taught at the University of Venice, and notes that a person who speaks three approach provided by Savage’s library created an encyclopedia of Italian business languages is trilingual; a person who training was essential during the two-year

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 7 The Joy Line Railroad Todd Cotgreave

ising fuel costs and soccer War II. Hours can be spent investigating The Toy Train Museum and matches have all but killed the and admiring these highly valued trains Joy Line Railroad were built by the Ronce commonplace Sunday drive. from days past. Children enjoy watching passion of one man, Robert Wallich. There is a trip, though, that may be worth the standard gauge engine go around a Growing up in D.C., where his great- the fuel. Hop into your 1972 puke-green mountain and over a little bridge. They grandfather operated a trolley car, Chrysler station wagon and drive out also get very excited at the single pho- he used to take his family’s rail pass of Shepherdstown. Go past the Daycare tograph of Thomas the Train, but what and sneak his siblings onto they Center down to River Road and follow is really on their minds is the miniature trolley, where they would ride its length of overhanging trees and river train ride in the front yard. around the city all day. Working view. Leave the low land and take a left Robert Wallich and his son, Chris, in sales for a living, he said his at Moler Crossroads onto Bakerton Road. built the rail line in the late 1960s when interests revolved around “anything The road reconnects with the Potomac it outgrew the baggage car in downtown with a flanged wheel.” He started River here and winds, matching the bends Harpers Ferry. Since its reopening in collecting trains at age 10, and of the water as you go. Just past the one- 1970 they have watched a steady pace he would often go to model train lane train tunnel where you have to honk of up to 400 people ride the train every shows, picking up bits and pieces to safely pass under, there is a destination weekend. The first rides were given on and trading information. His wife, on the right just before you get to the a coal-powered steam engine made in Kitty, said she never worried when highway, a destination that has called to the late 1800s by the Miniature Train he was away. “At least I know where Sunday drivers for over 40 years. Company of Tonawanda, NY. The two he is, and it’s not a bar,” she said. Open Saturdays and Sundays from engines used now were made in the Kitty’s passion wasn’t in trains, April through October, the Joy Line 1950s, originally designed for amusement but after Mr. Wallich’s passing, she Railroad is on Bakerton Road, one mile parks. One is a modern looking diesel led the tours in the museum and PHOTOS BY TODD COTGREAVE before you reach US 340. Set just off engine and the other is a steam replica. knew more about the trains than Train Number 9 the road, the Joy Line has been running (Both engines now run on gasoline.) Only probably most of the collectors in here since 1970. There is a toy train 43 steam replicas were made, as the main the world. Robert’s son, Chris, who the Joy Line going, year after year. For 22 museum on the top of the hill that houses concept of the ’50s moved more toward now operates the Joy Line with his wife, years now Chris Wallich has been taking a 75-foot working Lionel train layout the modern era and diesel-powered Donna, is a retired aviator and was teased families around the track. Over the little that snakes around hundreds of trains engines. Today, however, most people by his father for “working for the enemy” creek that runs through the land, through on display, most of which predate World want to ride the steam replica. by flying instead of riding the rails. the tunnel and past the rock break, then The Joy Line Railroad In addition to the miniature train back to the station while slowly clanging is an interesting place—or there is a pair of Hodges handcars, the bell on the replica steam engine. rather phenomenon. There lovingly named “Bob” and “Kitty,” to The Joy Line’s engineer now shares are no video screens, no ride around on a separate track. Kids a passion his father had, but for Chris it interactive electronic tours, use these handcars to navigate a small is brought about by meeting people and no snack bars, no shops version of a working rail yard. There seeing the smiles on his passengers’ faces. nearby, and no wireless are a few work stations in the yard, as These riders could be anywhere in the connection to tag your well as a coal storage bin and a building modern world, yet they take a drive to visit location on Facebook. that houses extra cars and equipment. the miniature railroad. Over half the riders Despite this lack of modern Everything at the Joy Line has been are repeat customers who come back more conveniences, it has arranged and set up to look like a work- than once a month. Some have visited plenty of visitors, visitors ing railroad station. With all of this nearly every week for a whole season. from nearly every place equipment, you may even half expect to Train nostalgia may not be the main on earth. It is currently see tiny engineers working in the yard. attraction here, but more likely the feeling Mable Jo Cotgreave and Aunt Kacey Largent on the listed as a destination in Chris has added a little bit each year you get when everything is just right. handcars. the Japanese Embassy’s to give the feeling of a real railroad—a There is an overwhelming calmness to the places of interest in the working water tower, crossing gates and rail yard. There is peace when the rail car Washington, D.C.— signals, even replica power lines that run sways as it crosses over the little bridge. Baltimore metropolitan parallel to the track. The one thing Chris There is a mysterious “joy” in the Joy area. The Joy Line recently hadn’t planned on adding was himself. Line, and it is just a Sunday drive away. had guests from Berlin Taking over the Joy Line in 1990 See more pictures and a video who stopped in one after his father died, Chris did what many online at: www.facebook.com/ weekend. On the following people do in a family-run business— ShepherdstownGoodNewsPaper weekend, before they went make sure the business keeps going. He back to Germany, they had always been a major part of the Joy Todd Cotgreave is the chief operating decided to revisit the Joy Line and loved working with his family officer of Shepherd University’s radio Line instead of seeing the to create it. Like his mother, though, he station WSHC, and is fairly certain that Chris Wallich on the Joy Line sights in Washington. felt the trains were Robert’s passion, not his daughter, Mable, is perfect. Contact his own. With love for his father, he kept him at [email protected].

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 8 Exploring the Spaces Between Fact and Fiction Stephen Willingham

feels comfortable writing instance, “Catesby,” a real-life slave from He feels lucky that this particular break historical fiction, since O’Connor’s novel, Eyewitness to the Civil came his way. the process has helped War. However, bringing the life and times As with many people who have in some cases to correct of Ward Hill Lamon, a Lincoln confidant, “retired,” O’Connor feels that he has accounts of the war. law partner, staff assistant, and bodyguard, only shifted gears. He maintains a full Another example to the 21st century now occupies the main schedule of personal appearances at book in the struggle to remain focus of O’Connor’s nonfiction work. fairs, seminars, and workshops where accurate while weaving O’Connor has written a fictional account he enjoys meeting people and “hawking a story concerns the fact of Lamon’s life with Lincoln titled, The my own books.” He also engages in first that General Lee rode Virginian Who Might Have Saved Lincoln. person accounts of Lamon for schools and

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY BOB O’CONNOR several horses during the O’Connor developed an interest in nonprofit organizations. Bob O’Connor and his latest book course of the war other Lamon while working for The Berkeley “Most authors are introverted,” than his famous mount, County Convention and Visitors Bureau. remarked O’Connor. “I’m not.” pivotal moment in Bob Traveler. “When writing about Lee at He says that he had been developing a O’Connor’s life occurred in Gettysburg,” O’Connor said, “I had to be program on “Famous People You Never The Sesquicentennial A1958 when his parents took certain that it was indeed Traveler that he Heard Of ” when Lamon, “reached out When asked about why the Civil him to a centennial reenactment of was riding at the time before I could say and latched onto me.” War continues to capture the interest and one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, in so.” (As it turned out, it was Traveler who Lamon, born near Summit Point, Va. imagination of Americans, O’Connor Galesburg, Ill., where the keynote address made the trek to Gettysburg and back.) (now W.Va.), grew up in Berkeley County, reflected, “Most of our battles were fought was delivered by Galesburg native son, “Most of my characters are real,” at Mill Creek—now Bunker Hill. As a somewhere else, mostly abroad. [The Carl Sandburg, the Lincoln biographer O’Connor continued. He bases character young man, he moved to Illinois where he Civil War] was us against us.” He agreed and poet. A subsequent family trip to development mainly on studying letters became a lawyer and met Lincoln while that the Civil War is a defining moment Gettysburg finally guaranteed a lifelong exchanged between soldiers and their they both served as circuit-riding attorneys. in history that ultimately resulted in the interest in the Civil War that has made families while they were away at war. This proved to be a lifelong friendship that nation we know today. O’Connor the storyteller that he is today. “Sometimes I read 100 or more to get ended with Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. O’Connor feels that the sesquicenten- O’Connor has written both nonfiction a sense of what he, or she, was like.” In In later years, Lamon relocated to Berkeley nial’s most valuable contribution to the and fiction focused on the Civil War writing his most recent novel, A House County. He is buried in the Gerrardstown Civil War discussion will be a renewed period. By his own admission, he prefers Divided Against Itself, O’Connor studied Presbyterian Church cemetery. focus on the slavery issue. “At the centen- fiction. “I once had a girlfriend who the letters of brothers Wesley and William Investigations into Lamon improbably nial there wasn’t as much mentioned decided that she couldn’t be with me Culp, the principal characters in the book. led O’Connor to southern California about slavery due to [controversy and because she claimed that she would never He also uses photographs and maps where Lamon’s papers are part of a collec- debate over] the Civil Rights issues of the know if I was telling the truth or not,” in an effort to get to know his characters tion accumulated by Henry E. Huntington, day,” he observed. “We can stress slavery O’Connor chuckled. better. O’Connor believes in including nephew of railroad magnate Collis P. more now and the role that it did play.” As a dedicated historian, O’Connor these in his novels; he says they “sub- Huntington. Lamon’s daughter Dollie One thing that concerns O’Connor says that he is constantly asked about stantiate my real characters.” had sold her father’s papers for $20,000 is what he sees as a lack of interest in the why he spends so much time gathering “The novel police might come and in 1910 to an individual who later resold Civil War era by young people. While he and vetting the facts before distilling it get me for that,” he chuckled. “I don’t them to The Huntington Library, where believes that there is an unending source all into fiction. “I like to fill in the holes care. Let them come. It’s just my way.” they still reside. of “interest out there,” he is concerned between the facts,” he explained. “I like O’Connor claims not to be writing Among this collection, O’Connor that interest and involvement in this the challenge of creating a storyline so for the historical academic. “A doctor of made a startling discovery. Here was a formative national event doesn’t lend itself that readers can’t tell where the facts end history probably won’t read my books,” handwritten and typed copy of Lamon’s well to “social networking.” and the story begins.” he confessed. Instead, O’Connor says his memoir of his years with the 16th For instance, O’Connor personally O’Connor went on to elaborate that intention is to reach people who “might president that had never been published. likes to go to Gettysburg, Antietam, he isn’t “creating history” and why getting just now be getting the [Civil War] bug.” O’Connor explained that this is actually and Packhorse (Boteler’s) Ford, below “the facts right” actually strengthens a good Historical fiction is a vehicle that the third biography of Lincoln to bear Shepherdstown, where he says one can story. “For example,” he cited, “Thomas allows O’Connor to more freely focus his Lamon’s name, but it’s the only authentic see virtually the same scene that presented Jackson, [later known as ‘Stonewall’] interest on “the line soldier and how the one. According to O’Connor, the first one itself to soldiers 150 years ago. “One can and Robert E. Lee were both in Jefferson war affected towns and lives” of those in was ghost written. A subsequent biogra- sit and contemplate what actually hap- County during John Brown’s Raid. the regions where major campaigns were phy had actually been penned by Lamon’s pened on these spots, see what they saw, However, they never met here.” O’Connor waged. In addition, he senses that most daughter, with Lamon’s name attached, and try and feel what they felt,” he said. further explained that it would be disin- ordinary readers, who might have only based on her own recollections of what “Preservation is something I don’t see genuous, as well as historically inaccurate, a passing interest in the period, may find her father had told her. happening en masse. This is why I just to have Lee and Jackson meeting on the themselves turned off by layers of military Once O’Connor had verified the try to keep telling a good story.” street in Charles Town and having a chat. jargon associated with campaigns, authenticity of this work, he sought and O’Connor revealed that in fact check- brigades, regiments, and divisions. gained permission from The Huntington Stephen Willingham teaches English ing he has uncovered errors in reports Library to edit and publish what he con- 12 at Washington High School. At home, from officers concerning battles and troop Ward Hill Lamon siders to finally be the definitive Lamon he gardens and plays music on his As often happens with historians memoir of his years in service with movements. “Inaccuracies can happen with front porch, while consuming the latest a general’s recollections of events,” he said, and authors of historical fiction, a figure Lincoln. This is the kind of discovery that zymurgy offerings. “so one can’t be too careful about getting from the past will step forward and historians live for, O’Connor confessed. the facts right.” For this reason, O’Connor command attention and imagination, for

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 9 Freedom’s Defining Moment By Antietam Park Rangers Dan Vermilya and Keith Snyder

of the act; yet, Antietam Creek, the Confederate Army Secretary of State of Northern Virginia and the Union Army William Seward of the Potomac met in a one-day battle suggested that that was, by day’s end, the bloodiest single Lincoln wait before day of combat that this nation has ever issuing the docu- known. Due to heavy casualties, Lee was ment. Such forced to retreat back to Virginia; George a bold move McClellan claimed a Union victory, needed the strength and that was enough for Lincoln. On of a victory lest September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the it be viewed as preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a desperate act declaring that on January 1, 1863, when by a desperate the final version was signed, all slaves in government. those states then in rebellion would be Lincoln presents the Emancipation Proclamation On September “thenceforward and forever free.” 5, 1862, the The effects of the proclamation s park rangers at Antietam the competing Confederate ranged far and wide. For the first National Battlefield, we spend sections. Without Army of Northern time in American history, the Federal PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FROM PARK FILES FROM PARK BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ANTIETAM Aevery working day fielding slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation poster Virginia crossed government was taking an active role questions and comments about the Civil North was the Potomac River in preserving and protecting the liberty War and its causes. In fact, one of the thriving. With slavery, the South was in a bold attempt to capitalize on that and freedom of slaves. Because of the reasons we feel it is so important that trying to protect its “peculiar institution,” summer’s hard-won momentum and to proclamation, over 200,000 African Antietam be a park is to provide a place and along with it, the Southern way carry the war north. With a defeated Americans would join the Union army for education, contemplation, and con- of life. With the election of Abraham Federal force in Washington and war and navy during the Civil War, bolstering versation about these very issues. It is Lincoln in 1860, a man who was on weariness spreading through the Northern Federal troop strength and proving on also important to remember that meanings record as declaring slavery to be morally public, Lee believed the timing was the battlefield that there is no color and interpretations have changed over wrong, sectional tensions led to secession, right for an aggressive and bold strike barrier for patriotism, courage, honor, time. A veteran who returned to the which in turn led to civil war. against the Union. For Abraham Lincoln and duty. As Federal armies advanced battlefield just after it was created in Yet, while slavery was always the and the North, this was a make-or-break into Southern states, they were now acting 1890 had a very different viewpoint than cause of the war, by the summer of 1862, moment. In and around Washington as a military force as well as an agent someone who visits today. it still remained to be seen whether the were nearly 100,000 Federal troops who of freedom. Every step that a Union Antietam is one of our nation’s most war would do anything to alter its root had just been driven back to the capital soldier would take for the next two and hallowed historical sites. Visitors from cause. Various acts of the United States after the stinging defeat at Manassas. a half years, freedom marched with him. across the country and around the world Congress had chipped away at the edges Sitting in Lincoln’s desk drawer was the The president of the United States had make the trek to Antietam to see the of slavery by abolishing it in the District now almost two-month-old draft of the set a military goal of saving the Union, fields where the bloodiest day in American of Columbia and allowing for slaves to Emancipation Proclamation, still waiting not as it once was, where millions of history occurred. Seeing the battlefield be taken in by Federal armies. However, for a Union victory before it could see people were held in bondage, but as it evokes a wide array of emotions, from there was still no concerted policy for the the light of day. Emboldened by the would and should be—where all men nationalistic pride to sorrow over the Federal government to deal with slavery victories of the past summer, Lee’s army and women, created equal, would enjoy blood that was shed. Often, visitors ask during the Civil War. Union success in was now forcing the issue. the blessings of liberty. the all-important question: “Why did all the war was not yet tied to the abolition Whichever side won the upcoming This year, as we commemorate of this happen?” of slavery, leaving an uncertain future for fight in Maryland would likely decide the the 150th anniversary of the Battle of From the first shots fired on Fort over 4 million slaves in the country. future of the nation. If the Confederates Antietam, it is especially appropriate Sumter on April 12, 1861, to the surrender By the late summer of 1862, it won, then the South would very likely for us to remember both the battle and of the last Confederate soldiers in 1865, appeared as though the Confederate win its independence, and the Southern its impact on history. Antietam was a the American Civil War was first and armies would decide the question on the vision for the future of the nation would battle fought between two armies, yet foremost about the future of freedom battlefield. That summer, under the lead- be preserved, as would the institution its implications stretched far beyond in the United States of America. A ership of Robert E. Lee, Southern armies of slavery, which was firmly protected those wearing the blue and the gray. The longstanding debate, originating from the had defeated Union forces time after in the nascent Confederate Constitution. If blood shed at Antietam helped to liberate nation’s beginning, had spilled over from time on the fields of Virginia. Casualty Union forces, led by Major General George millions of slaves in this country. The the halls of Congress to the battlefield. tolls were mounting by the day, and B. McClellan, could turn back Lee’s army Emancipation Proclamation struck at The North and the South represented along with them, pressure was mounting with a Federal victory, then not only would slavery itself, the undeniable cause of two competing visions for the country’s on President Abraham Lincoln to do the Northern armies have a desperately the conflict. Far too often, we think of future. Northern society offered the something to change the course of the needed battlefield victory, but moreover, Antietam only as America’s bloodiest hope of industry and free labor, while war. On July 22, 1862, Lincoln began a Lincoln would have the necessary opportu- single-day battle. Perhaps we will do Southern society was based on agrarian- cabinet meeting by introducing a possible nity for his proclamation, striking directly more justice for the men who fought ism and slave labor. The chief difference emancipation proclamation, using his at the institution of slavery. at Antietam if we remember that their between these two competing sections powers as commander in chief to free the Like many of history’s great contests, sacrifices on September 17, 1862, made was the institution of slavery; its presence slaves in the Southern states. Believing the matter was indeed settled on the a remarkable contribution to the history in the South and its absence in the this war measure to be a bold statement battlefield. On September 17, 1862, of freedom in this country. The Battle of North was a foundation for the political, about the war, many of Lincoln’s cabinet outside the sleepy town of Sharpsburg, Antietam was, after all, a battle for the economic, and social differences between members and advisers were in favor Md., along the meandering waters of future of freedom in America.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 10 England—Seen Through Raindrops Claire Stuart

n AD 122, Roman Emperor Hadrian of deep, slick mud. We finally turned back shoving to stow their bags. Tip: built a coast-to-coast wall to defend on a washing-out, muddy farm lane with Travel light and use overhead bins. IRome’s British holdings against the puddles over-the-boot deep. Bath was known for its hot barbarian Scots. It stretched 73 miles with Another day’s attempt at the wall springs for millennia, but most of forts across northern England. Hadrian’s crossed cow and sheep pastures, over the present city was built in the Wall Path, a National Trail, follows the stiles and through gates. Again, rain. Gate 17th or 18th century. Not to be wall. Sizable lengths of the wall and ruins passages were deep in mud and manure; missed are the restored Roman still stand. the alternative meant clambering over baths, dating to the first century My husband, Steve, and I made our walls bordered by stinging nettles, seem- AD. They include pools, hot and first trip to England aiming to hike along ingly the commonest weeds in pastures. cool rooms, plumbing and heating some of the wall. We also wanted to visit On another rainy day, we jumped a systems, changing rooms, a temple London and Stonehenge, at the other end train to Durham, home of a spectacular honoring the water goddess, and Claire and Steve, Avebury of the country. Hesitant to try driving on Gothic cathedral built in 1093. There is the hot spring itself, still bub- the left, we took public transportation. We also a castle, which belongs to a university bling. There are even holograms roofs or personal designs woven into roof flew into Glasgow and took a train down and was not open to the public because of Romans going about their business, peaks. A two-bedroom thatched-roof cot- to the small English town of Hexham. exams were in progress. including one fellow entreating the god- tage can sell for as much as $1.3 million. We quickly learned that most small We visited a Roman fort (in the rain) dess to curse the person who stole his On to London by train, into a madden- rail stations have pedestrian overpasses at Vinolandia, where excavation is still clothes as he bathed! ingly confusing station. We wandered until where baggage must be lugged up stairs going on. It had resembled a small town, The architecture of Bath is incredible, we thought perhaps we had died and were in on one side and down the other. Arriving with a civilian population that included with street after street of camera-worthy purgatory, forced to lug baggage in circles near the solstice, we realized that northern military families and merchants. There is buildings, including the 500-year-old forever. We did finally reach our hotel. England is really north. It didn’t get dark a museum as well as replicas of a wooden abbey. The Royal Crescent, made of 30 We took a “jump-on/off “double-deck until about 11:30 p.m., with dawn about milecastle (say what?) and a stone turret townhomes, is one of the UK’s finest tour bus and learned that they only go in 3:30 a.m. Finally, we learned that most and wall section. examples of Georgian architecture. one direction. To return the way you came, public restrooms are either up or down a Housesteads is a fort complex atop Number One Royal Crescent, now a you either ride the whole circuit for hours flight of stairs. a steep hill with spectacular views in all museum, was closed for construction or “jump-off ” and take public transport! We found a lovely B&B in a directions. That day featured wind nearly except for the kitchen, where we saw how We had tickets to a Shakespeare play converted stone dovecote, and hearty strong enough to blow us over, in addition meat was cooked in the fireplace on a spit at the Roundhouse Theatre, and a bus went breakfasts held us all day. It was less than to rain! A fine section of the wall stands turned by a “dog wheel.” As dog lovers, we directly there. We learned that one can’t a mile walk to Chester’s Roman Fort and here, along with ruins of many buildings, were distressed to learn that an unfortunate board a bus without a ticket, which may be the picture-perfect village of Humshaugh including communal latrines flushed by short-legged dog ran in a wheel like a ham- bought from a red machine on the street and (with a great pub). The countryside was collected rainwater. ster to keep from stepping on hot coals! must be used within an hour of purchase. breathtakingly beautiful, with hills, homes, Immediately after our departure from In Bath, we connected with the Mad We naively assumed that there would be a and gardens right out of a BBC drama. the north, disastrous floods hit the area. Max mini-bus daylong tour to Stonehenge ticket machine near the theatre for returning Chester’s was a Roman cavalry fort, Southward to Bath, reached by three and Avebury—definitely worth the cost. buses. We walked for blocks, vainly looking and there are ruins of barracks, walls, tow- changes of trains with very tight connec- Stonehenge was much smaller than we’d for red machines while buses we needed ers, and a sophisticated bath complex. A tions, we made one train with two minutes pictured, particularly since it sits in a passed, before finally hailing a cab. portion of Hadrian’s Wall is visible across to spare. The rail system is efficient and stark, treeless landscape and visitors are Hoping to see the changing of the the River Tyne where a bridge once stood. goes everywhere, but luggage space fenced at a considerable distance. guard at Buckingham Palace, we found Luckily, we saw Chester’s on a sunny day, is limited, with people scrambling and Avebury, on the other hand, was a that thousands of other people were too, because this turned out to be the wettest wonderful surprise. It is an immense circle and it was impossible to get anywhere June in recorded history, raining almost of gigantic stones surrounded by a bank near. We settled for the Queen’s Mews— continuously. and ditch. It dates back some 5,000 years the royal stable and coach house—where We braved a light rain, determined to and could hold 14 Stonehenges. Visitors we gawked at gold-encrusted coaches and walk along the best-preserved wall section are free to walk among the stones. It is trappings for coach horses. between Steel Rig and Housesteads. We said to be a place of great energy, and I We visited the Tower of London, a scaled some towering heights on small volunteered in a test of dowsing rods. A much larger complex than we expected. stone steps and went downhill on the same, born skeptic, I was amazed when the rods We saw the famous ravens and learned starting out in mist that soon turned to driv- pulled and moved in my hands. about the many executions. There we saw ing rain, beating the trail into a quagmire Thatched cottage We strolled through the picturesque the Crown Jewels, dazzling beyond imagi- villages of Lacock, where some Harry nation. We did see some of the famous Potter films were shot, and Castle Combe, guards doing their thing on a small scale where parts of War Horse were filmed. In in front of the building housing the jewels. reality, the economic bases of these towns Then it was home to sort through a are long gone, and they are now peopled couple thousand photos in the middle of by commuters. a record heat wave. Obstacles make good Beautiful thatched-roofed cottages stories! We loved it and we’d return. abound, historic-district rules mandating their upkeep. Thatching is a prestigious, Claire Stuart has been writing for the high-paying trade requiring classroom GOOD NEWS PAPER for over 20 years

PHOTO BY STEVE WILLINGHAM all other PHOTO s BY CLAIRE STUART study and apprenticeship. Thatchers sign and can’t think up any more catchy Claire at Stonehenge King John’s Hunting Lodge tea room with their work with thatch animals on the garden, Lacock things to say in a bio!

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 11 ARTWORKS Fran Skiles: Capturing and Abstracting Nature’s Essence Nan Broadhurst

ran Skiles has a deep and inti- fabric, wood, metal—held together mate connection to nature. She with stitches and a backing. The term Fgathers the earth’s rich bounties “art quilting” was coined by a group of as memories, emotions, specimens, or artists in the 1970s, who came from all photographs, and intuitively transforms art disciplines. They wanted to make them into abstract collaged landscapes. quilts as an art form and distinguish Fran Skiles began life in Cincinnati, them from traditional quilts. A support Ohio, and lived there for 13 years until industry for art quilting arose in the her family moved to Martinsburg, form of periodicals, books, workshops, W.Va. Her father was a ceramicist, craft supplies and exhibition venues. and his company was called Hartwood For 12 years she pursued art quilt- Glass and Metals. She was the second ing as her main artistic expression. She oldest of six children and enjoyed started using her own photography by being immersed in her mother’s and screen printing on fabric. She entered grandmother’s world of fabric crafts. and won awards in national and interna- She learned embroidery and sewing at tional competitions. This was a period their knees. Her first projects were doll of intensive artistic growth for Skiles. clothes and then funky lopsided skirts In 2000, several galleries showed for herself in her teen years. Joining an interest in her work. She began to do fabrics was her first, and still favorite, semi-rigid collage paintings, consisting barnes at mode of artistic expression. of paper as well as fabric, where stitch- This passion followed her to West ing was still a major component. These

Virginia University, where she graduated works were smaller, easier and faster to PHOTO BY P Fran Skiles with a degree in home economics (with execute, and easier to sell. A gallery in emphasis in dress design and clothing) Santa Fe was the most successful venue especially appreciates the music oppor- starting with simple suggestive shapes, and a minor in fine art. She married for these pieces. Skiles teaches her tunities at Shepherd University. line and colors. She responds and soon after graduating, and moved to Fort techniques of paper and fabric collage Skiles travels extensively, mostly to reacts in the moment, with each layer Lauderdale, Fla., where she was able to construction in workshops, quilt groups, explore the textiles of foreign countries. inviting the next. Many times a layer is stay home to raise her two children and and symposiums all over the country. She has been to South Africa, Peru, used to cover an area that is working practice her art. While her children were In 2007, Skiles moved to Bolivia, Italy, France, and Ireland. against the whole, or the piece has young, she concentrated on producing Shepherdstown where her sister and Today the work is collaged on developed more than one focus and constructions with fabric, such as pil- niece live. She bought a beautiful old heavy 300-pound watercolor paper. needs to be simplified. lows, purses, and small framed pieces, historic home with room for her art Appreciation for nature is the inception Collage has always been her selling these at art festivals and in stores. studio. She still has friends, family, of each work. She has reams of materi- medium of choice, beginning in her She took graduate level classes in art and contacts in Florida and maintains a als at her disposal, including papers preschool years. The materials have history, photography, and painting in condo and studio there where she goes such as cotton rag watercolor paper, changed and her eye and experiences Fort Lauderdale and Miami. She found each winter for a few of the coldest Japanese mulberry, silk tissue paper, have become more sophisticated, but inspiration with the American abstract months. She remarks on the different Chinese, found paper and old docu- she still enjoys the thrill of discovery expressionists, like Robert Motherwell, energy and atmosphere between the two ments. Her fabrics are cotton duck, silk as she did as a child. Richard Diebenkorn, and Willem de places. In South Florida, the sun is all- gauze, silk habotai, cotton gauze and Skiles’s work can be seen at Kooning, as well as Robert Rauschenberg pervasive, giving a vibrant and intense interfacing. The texture, and in some the Bridge Gallery in Shepherdstown, and pop art. feel to the environment throughout the cases transparency, add depth and inter- and also on her website at www. Eventually she cut back on the year. The change of seasons in West est. She uses gloss medium and PVA franskiles.com, where you can find a production aspect of crafts and began Virginia brings an atmosphere of rest adhesive to adhere the papers and cloth. list of her exhibits, awards, workshops, to focus on framed one-of-a-kind and renewal. Changes in temperature With the exception of found papers and publications. collages. At this time, she acquired a and light lend softness to the landscape. and documents, she starts work with studio outside the home, and was able She has taken up gardening in her unprimed and untreated materials. Nan Broadhurst is a graphic designer to begin larger pieces. At the suggestion lovely yard, which she couldn’t do Before assembling the collages, she and artist, living in Shepherdstown of a friend, Skiles began to explore the easily in Florida. She relishes her flow- might process torn or whole sheets of and learning to be grateful for all life’s world of art quilting, which was rela- ers and shrubs, and has constructed paper and fabric with machine and hand lessons. tively recent on the art scene, and fell inviting hardscape areas among them. stitching, ink and acrylic washes, inkjet in love. It felt like a perfect setup—no The rich arts and culture environment printing, marbling, mono printing and rules, no perfect stitches, no even of Shepherdstown draws her in. She mark-making with crayons and other Artwork edges. It could be any material—paper, resists. Each piece is built intuitively,

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 12 Fran Skiles

Pier I

Crow

Celebration Rock and a Nest

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 13 ARTWORKS

Red Landscape Earth

Resurrection

Rocks and Other Things

Still Life

Red Landscape II See artworks in color at shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org

ARTWORK Photos SUPPLIED BY THE ARTIST

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 14 POETRY Sneak Peek: the Shepherdstown 250 Poetry Anthology

Boredom Vital Signs Shepherdstown, She’town by Any Other Name For Fred Ethan Fischer When there is no possibility of a poem Shepherdstown small as it is has an orchestra sink your teeth into drudgy prose A friend two rivers away told me A town of historic homes You will gag I had my noir down pat, my blues, And alleyways with old chicken coops on dull and you will dig my midnights with their quirky moons, Wooden garages and a town run. far beneath where you dare my dwellers in the chuckle-dark. and then your need to say things right He said I ought to try a morning poem. From upstairs, the edges of the tin roofs wade will bruise and tear the flatness of white paper Across the sky, stepping unevenly and you will have to clean up the mess But when your cobwebs have cobwebs Like the sidewalks aged into disrepair with your only cleanser and trash is piled around your rooms And there’s the bebop of the train whistle moan. words like life’s mistakes—no longer relevant, but hard to throw away, like the guy The cry of the dogs calling their news. —Patricia Carter who finally got his shit together, We had a few town dogs before leash laws arrived. only to find he couldn’t lift it—well, They’d hang out on main street Sit where they pleased, greet you Driving Range you go for the smoke and the piano— at least a stomach Steinway— The main street parades and the local middle school band We are here because a neighbor gave my son, even as you’re looking for the inhaler Playing past my window, makes me run to look, nine and in fourth grade, an old set of clubs. and that catalogue with the CD in it Most people don’t know that small town type life. I tried golf 25 years ago, but had no patience for it. of the secret, coded message Bach sent out It’s a good life to me, special after his wife died: a sad little chorale The driver is too long for him, yet, devoid of deference, buried between the lines of a violin concerto —Sue Silver he claims he will better me. In an age of reverence, & recently found and ciphered out by a woman I worshiped my father. I am grey at the temples, who was looking for something else. but ready for my son. My driver is longer than his. You want to send it to someone you hold dear. Wading in Town Run

He cannot know how, in his grade, in Catholic school, See, Ethan, even Bach, clean lines and all, The current gently tugs at me I taught my brother the skills of an acolyte. Using couldn’t escape his place in a mystery. in a small child’s bid for attention. a cardboard square as pall to cover a drinking glass, Hell, this is a morning poem. I glance down at my feet the chalice, I recited to him my responses in Latin. The sun’s just not up yet. forming, deforming, re-forming in funhouse-mirror distortions. A white-haired man next to us drives balls farther — Paul Grant than both of us. I say it has been 25 years Water striders skitter over the surface since I’ve hit a golf ball, that I never learned the game. heralding my approach with giddy dances, She’town alerting schools of minnows lined up “Life is too short,” he says. “You have to find time in the shallows at parade rest. to do the things you want.” I nod and think of things Left her hook I wish I’d done. Golf is not one of them. in your heart Like falling daffodil petals buoyed by the breeze goldfinches drift down through the trees After two baskets of balls, we reach the 200-yard flag. and when you’ve to the gravel to preen and dip My son’s face glistens with sweat. His hair is wet almost forgotten then scatter before me with peeps of alarm. at the temples. I say “Great,” when he connects. He is ready for what comes. He swings hard. she’ll tug Turquoise darning needles wheel and dart in tandem till it bleeds. stopping in midair to hover and survey me suspiciously —Tom Donlon through thousand-faceted eyes. —Sarah Kezman —Claire Stuart Shepherdstown

Ten minutes behind times, Editor’s note: Shepherdstown Poet Laureate Georgia Lee McElhaney and Ed Zahniser have co-edited an off key, unhurried, anthology of area poets, In Good Company, for Shepherdstown 250. Winifred Bernat of the Shepherdstown the town clock describes the hour 250 Committee will host a publication party for the anthology at the Shepherdstown Opera House on Tuesday and the town. evening, October 16, 2012.

—John R. Yost A Community Grant from AHA!, the Arts and Humanities Alliance of Jefferson County, provided major funding for the anthology, with additional funding by Sotto Voce Poetry Festival and Hope Maxwell Snyder; Shepherdstown 250 Committee and Winifred Bernat; and Ilona Popper. Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown is the publisher and exclusive sales outlet. Please see the profile of McElhaney, and her poem “Thomas Shepherd Walks at Midnight,” on pages 15 and 16 of this issue.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 15 POETRY Georgia Lee Engle McElhaney Margaret Demer

Georgia Lee had dreamed of writ- Jefferson High, and then to Penn State. “We had some homes that could ing for the New York Times, but poetry Today, Christy is a lawyer in Florida. not be saved. One was a small house became her passion, along with a young “Grocery shopping meant Kave’s with tarpaper on it. A huge, old tree man named James McElhaney. Georgia Market [The Sweet Shoppe] or the leaned over the roof. The house was met her husband through a mutual friend News Agency [Bistro 112]. The Western unsafe in every way. Inside, it was who recognized that both enjoyed word Auto [Dickinson and Wait Craft Gallery] spotless. It had been the home for games and puns. carried toys, kitchen appliances, etc. generations of the same family. One “He kept going out on our dates Blacks and women were denied access family member remained. We moved with us. We weren’t sure if he wanted to to the pool hall until it closed and the him to an apartment near the elementary make sure we were a good match or just late Keith Knost opened his shop [Blue school. He was thrilled. PHOTO BY JESSIE SCHMITT Georgia Lee McElhaney enjoyed being with us.” River Clothing].” “Parking has been an issue in The young marrieds went from In 1971, Georgia Lee bought her Shepherdstown since the college has grown ome of us know Georgia Lee American University to Penn State as Jim current home and moved into town. and become a university. During the ’50s McElhaney as a poet, founder of pursued his graduate studies in English. Almost immediately, then-Mayor Silas when I was a commuting student, we Sthe Bookend Poets, and poet lau- While working on his doctoral disserta- Starry convinced Georgia to run for Town parked perpendicular to the sidewalks, front reate of Shepherdstown. However, there tion and teaching in New Paltz, NY, he Council, a move similar to inviting the end first. The only thing I had to worry is a political Georgia Lee, a mover and was offered a position at UCLA. fox to visit the henhouse, for Georgia about was backing out. There was always shaker, a prodder, and a visionary. Georgia Lee convinced Jim that a makes things happen. room, even in front of McMurran Hall. Georgia Lee Engle was a Shepherd cross-country trip in a VW van, camping Georgia Lee did a lot: She led the “Parking is problematic because of College student when she began writing at national parks with their daughter, move to form the planning and zoning the university, but establishing residential about Shepherdstown. An article in the Christy, would be fun. Arriving in commission; wrote the zoning ordinance; parking stickers was not popular either.” Shepherd College Picket, October 28, California, they found what Georgia Lee helped apply for HUD Block Grants Getting rid of the stoplight at 480 and 1954, “Restless Spirit Roams Campus, called a “McElhaney house”—a small to rehabilitate eight houses, largely on German Street brought Georgia Lee nose Haunts Old High Street Cottage,” relates house no one else could love. But Jim’s the east end of town; measured streets to nose with Elizabeth McFetridge, MD. the mysterious events in “a plain yellow sudden death at the age of 32 brought with Charles Branson for repaving; “She was doctor for the fire depart- house with a green roof, and it sits high Georgia and her young daughter back to got arrested for the purchase of a fire ment, and she would watch the stoplight on a hill on East High Street next to Shepherdstown. hydrant; wrote the rules and regulations for emergency calls. It would switch to Snyder Hall.” She remembers much about “We were living with Jim’s parents in for the Appeals Board; and circulated and a four-way blink to signal stop for emer- the town at that time and has carefully Hagerstown. Christy’s teacher felt sorry submitted a petition against a Potomac gency vehicles. She was one of the few monitored its evolution since. for her and was coddling her. I knew Edison rate increase. The list goes on. unhappy about the light’s removal. “My freshman year I shared the Shepherdstown was a great place to raise “There were some very good people “McFetridge wanted to sell her house house next to Margaret Skinner’s house at a child. My aunt helped me find a house working for Shepherdstown. Some of and retire. If the house sold for student the four-way stop. I had to walk through to rent across from Dick Schlack’s garage them are gone now. Chuck Bosley was housing she would get a higher price. my roommate’s bedroom to get to mine. [Cool Green Auto and Tire].” a wonderful mayor. I always thought The zoning commission turned down her We did some cooking, but I usually ate Georgia Lee opened the Bookend Charles Branson was the Robert Byrd request for rezoning. She was my doctor at the Old Town Restaurant [now China bookstore in 1968, first in a storefront on of the Town Council. He knew rules and and she would call me up and tell me I Kitchen], Betty’s Restaurant, or the German Street [Plum] and then in a small regulations, correct procedures. Arthur had ruined her life. She could vent and I soda fountain at Thornton’s Pharmacy frame building behind what is today’s Prather worked selflessly for the town. would listen. We were still friends.” [Greentree Realty]. My sophomore year, China Kitchen. That building no longer He was our first zoning officer and was Georgia Lee McElhaney has a I wanted to learn to drive, so I went back exists. The bookstore was heated by a aware of what went on because he was passion for poetry, a strong sense of to Martinsburg, lived with my grand- potbelly stove, and people stopped in for always out and about town.” justice, respect for due process of mother, and commuted.” a chat or a song. Shepherdstown in the 1970s–1990s: government and law, and an abiding Shepherdstown in the 1950s: “Patty Kilpatrick and I sat on the “There were many positive changes love for Shepherdstown. She has served “I can remember one of the old front stoop in good weather and she especially in the east end. There was a her community in many diverse ways, ladies who lived at Rosebrake, driving played the guitar while I played the water main that froze every winter on but for Georgia Lee it is people who her horse and buggy to town. I used to autoharp. One year the bookstore had a College Street. Residents had to let their matter most. smoke, and I bought my cigarettes at float in the Homecoming Parade. I rode water run and the Water Board had to “Thomas Shepherd was the first Owens’ store. Hiram Owens, the owner, the float with a stuffed dog in my mouth, make allowances in their bills. When it city planner of Shepherdstown. He laid tried to convince me to smoke a lower holding a placard reading ‘Man bites came time to repave town streets we had the town out with the lots and streets nicotine brand. dog.’ It was not well received.” that street lowered and buried the water over two hundred years ago. I have “Blacks had no standing in town. Shepherdstown in the 1960s: main below the frost line. worked with some wonderful people Segregation was the norm. There were “I think the schools in “The HUD Block Grants provided to maintain his vision.” black schools. John Harris was principal Shepherdstown and Jefferson County for refurbishing eight houses. One at the East End School [Shepherdstown were excellent. Perhaps it was due to was a house on High Street with a log Margaret Demer came to Shepherd Day Care Center] and blacks could not the college with the regular influx of summer kitchen and much of the College, fell in love, and stayed. She met enter restaurants in town; service was at enthusiastic graduates. My daughter went original Victorian details of the main her husband, John, in church. Miracles the back door only.” from the Shepherdstown Junior High to structure intact. do happen.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 16 POETRY Thomas Shepherd Walks at Midnight A poem for the Semiquincentennial Celebration

By Georgia Lee McElhaney streets 65 feet wide, town ending eastward at Mill, west- Poet Laureate of Shepherdstown, 2012 ward at Shoe, Rocky to the north, Back Alley to the south; named the streets: Rocky, High, and German running east and west; Mill, Princess, King, Church, …here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, and Duke, running north to south. Lots sold for five Near the old court house pacing up and down… pounds current Virginia, 5 shillings ground rent, purchaser —Vachel Lindsay, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (1914) to “build or erect or cause to be built or erected on the said lot one

A deep sorrow I hold in my heart. Were it not sorrow good dwelling house 20 feet long and 17 feet wide it would be rage. Something woke me as a lightning strike, with a stone or brick chimney to the same…all trees, something like a war, like the late war, the sounds of caisson woods, underwoods…waters to be the property of and artillery, rifle crack. the purchasers.” Houses of logs; story and a half.

Two hundred and fifty years have passed This town was mine to cherish. I made of it a gift since last I was here, since last I walked the streets to neighbor and friend. As it was theirs, so now has it come of my town, or talked with neighbors or friends. And so I began into your hands—for safekeeping, by those of you gathered here. a walk, a journey around the town. My God— All towns grow and change, but only if the bridge to the past

the land! From Alexander Colwell’s place on German is sustained. Now, as I make my rounds searching for the past Street to his neighbor Philip Lowe’s across Church Street, and the new, looking toward the future, I return to the all has changed, is changing. I pause at the English Shepherd Burial Ground and I pause, looking at the Burial Ground and remember names: Henry Bedinger, Magdalena tombstones of those who came after, and in the early

Bedinger, Robert Tabb. William Morgan lies close by, now under morning hour I kneel to pray, to pray for those in this hill, the church east chancel. The old English Church still for those in the old English Burial Ground, and for those stands. Street names the same. Under many a home ghosts out on the Germans’ hill, and for this town, my town. Before of a log house remain, houses with long memories. Around my eyes yet another house dies! Gone. I recall Mecklenburg,

my town I walk, taking stock, recalling: My grist mill and my named next Shepherd’s Town, now named Shepherdstown. saw mill, the lovely meadows in spring, the town creek, my Will my town, your town, our town endure? Have my towns- 1762 petition before the Virginia General Assembly, viz.: people become inured to seeing houses fall to the wrecking “Thomas Shepherd of the county of Frederick, ball, interior walls sucked out of a home, all that family

hath laid off about fifty acres of his land history gone down into the dust of the town. Hush! What is on Potowmack River, in the said county, that sobbing I hear? The grieving voices of men and women into lots and streets for a town, and hath disposed long dead? Shall we, can we, stop the senseless noise caused of many of the said lots, the purchasers whereof by axe and hammer and battering ram? Hush! I will awaken

have made their humble application my beloved Elizabeth. Together we will walk back to the heart that the said land may be established a town.…” Passed. of this good town to greet the sun of the dawning of the town’s “It is hereby enacted by authority of the same two hundred and fifty-first century; with the sun, let us send that the lots and streets so laid off on the said land our message for this new year

be, and are hereby constituted, appointed, erected and loud and clear: “This reign of the wrecker’s ball against this established, a town, to be called by the name of Mecklenburg.…” town you and I hold so very, very, dear, shall end, shall end.” My town. My town I divided of fifty acres ninety-six lots, 103 feet by 206 feet, laid out eight to a square,

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 17 EARTHBEAT “Earth Beatles” The Top 10 Environmental History Songs Mark Madison

early 1970s, Shirley Jones added these 8. Don’t Go Near the Water (The Beach forgettable lyrics to the atonal grunts Boys, 1971). An odd tune to open the of whales: album “Surf’s Up,” this was the Beach Song of the whale so sweet and so clear Boys’ attempt to be political. Not exactly a But no song at all to the ones who classic but oddly relevant again after the BP won’t hear oil spill in the Gulf. Timely lyrics include: And if people don’t listen, and if Don’t go near the water people don’t know Don’t you think it’s sad Might the song of the man be the next What’s happened to the water song to go. Our water’s going bad have been doing this column for 10 civilizations have evolved without Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams years or so (you think a historian copyright lawyers or record executives. 5. Pollution (Tom Lehrer, 1965). A great Have all been touched by man Iwould keep better track of such satirist (and musician), Lehrer tapped into The poison floating out to sea things) and it has had an occasionally 2. Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell, 1970). the early fears about pollution killing Lake Now threatens life on land recurring title of “All Creatures Great and Joni Mitchell’s most-covered song, it is a Erie and our local water supplies. Noting Small.” I thought this was a nice nod both combined song of remorse for a lost love how Americans were incessantly warned 9. Country Roads (John Denver, 1971). to a classic English hymn and a good and a lost nature. It should not work, but it about drinking the water in Mexico, he If this song can’t shame West Virginians description of my interests in working for does. Best lyrics: suggested Mexicans visiting the U.S. into protecting their natural areas nothing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But They took all the trees and put ’em might want to heed this advice: can. From the look of things recently, in the interest of brevity and hipness my in a tree museum If you visit American city, nothing can! Best lyrics (before moun- column has been changed to Earthbeat. And they charged all the people You will find it very pretty. taintop removal): In a brief Google search, Earthbeat a dollar and a half just to see ’em Just two things of which you must Almost heaven, West Virginia has been used in a variety of ways. Don’t it always seem to go beware: Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah Earthbeat is: a Dutch music site, a spiri- That you don’t know what you’ve Don’t drink the water and don’t River tual drumming site, a theater company for got til it’s gone breathe the air. Life is old there, older than the trees adults with learning disabilities, and (my They paved paradise and put up Pollution, pollution, Younger than the mountains, blowing favorite) a groovy internationalist hotel a parking lot They got smog and sewage and mud. like a breeze band out of Edmonton, Canada. So while Fun fact: This may be the only rock song Turn on your tap and get hot and cold Fun fact: The only part of West Virginia I feel I am in good company under this ever to use DDT in its lyrics (the sub- running crud. through which the Shenandoah passes is new moniker, I am working to make this stance was banned two years later). actually here in the Eastern Panhandle. column more hip and trendy to keep up Hey farmer farmer 6. Little Boxes (Pete Seeger, 1963). A The lyrical landscape of “Country Roads” with my namesakes. Put away that DDT now combined critique of conformity and sub- was actually viewed in Maryland. To that end, I made the giant leap from Give me spots on my apples urbanization, “Litte Boxes” resonated more “beat” to music and realized I have never But leave me the birds and the bees strongly than ever in the most suburbanized 10. All Things Bright and Beautiful. commented on environmental music before. Please! nation on Earth. In the Panhandle a striking (Anglican Hymn, 1848). A wonderful Now as someone whose car radio speed percentage of our former agricultural land encapsulation of natural theology the dom- dials all go to NPR or news sites, I may 3. Wild Thing (The Troggs, 1966). I realize now grows “little boxes.” Best lyrics: inant belief for 1800 years before Darwin. seem singularly unqualified for such a list. this song was almost certainly not written Little boxes on the hillside, Also one last homage to the former title of However, I do teach and occasionally have about nature but rather some British lad’s Little boxes made of ticky tacky this column. Best lyrics: used music to soothe the savage under- latest “bird.” Yet it works both ways in spite Little boxes on the hillside, All things bright and beautiful, graduates, and so here is my unofficial list of seemingly having only about 20 words Little boxes all the same, All creatures great and small, of my favorite environmentalish songs. in the whole song. Should be the official There’s a pink one and a green one All things wise and wonderful: theme song of every national wilderness And a blue one and a yellow one The Lord God made them all. 1. Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles, area. Best (of the very limited) lyrics: And they’re all made out of ticky tacky Each little flow’r that opens, 1969). Not only the most beautiful song Wild thing you make my heart sing And they all look just the same. Each little bird that sings, written by the Beatles but also one whose You make everything groovy, wild thing Fun fact: For the first few seasons this was He made their glowing colors, meaning has changed a great deal in an Oh come on, come on wild thing the theme song for the Showtime hit “Weeds.” He made their tiny wings. era of global warming. Best lyrics (for an Check it, check it wild thing Fun fact: Monty Python made a parody era of global warming): 7. After the Gold Rush (Neil Young, 1970). of this famous hymn called “All Things Little darling 4. Whale Song (The Partridge Family, Although nobody (not even Neil) could Dull and Ugly.” I feel that ice is slowly melting 1972). With a name like “Partridge” really explain what the lyrics meant, they Little darling they had to be environmental. The were a good zeitgeist for the year of the Mark Madison teaches environmental It seems like years since it’s been clear entire family goes to MarineLand to first Earth Day. Young describes an earth history, environmental ethics, and Fun fact: Carl Sagan wanted this song save orcas from extinction. Amazingly so ravaged that our remaining resources have environmental film. He rarely listens included on the famous Voyager golden the family’s maroon pantsuits and to be sent to space to survive. Best lyrics: to music recorded after 1972. Suggestions record to communicate with possible lip-synced music turn out to be a perfect Look at Mother Nature on the run for missed songs should be sent to aliens. The record company EMI refused fit for the similarly musically-challenged In the nineteen seventies. [email protected]. to release the rights. Here’s hoping other marine mammals. Building on a brief Look at Mother Nature on the run craze for humpback whale music in the In the nineteen seventies.

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 18 Marker Dedication, Bee Line March, July 4, 2012 John E. Stealey

PHOTOS BY JENNIFER HAMRICK The 249th histories served as “a fortress of strength” exists with Stephenson and the raising of Army and “pillars of the temple of liberty” of Virginia troops. Stephenson’s father was National the American Republic. Lincoln feared a friend of George Washington in Fairfax Guard the disappearance of this history as the County, and the general knew the son who Band at the generations passed. Lincoln contended had moved to present Jefferson County. dedication that these revolutionary pillars fostered Of the second company recruited in of the Bee Line March “a reverence of the constitution and laws.” Shepherdstown, which included many vet- marker He urged citizens to swear by the blood of erans of the Bee Line March, the British on the 4th the Revolution to support the Constitution captured a great proportion of the men at of July. and not to tolerate its violation. To violate the Battle of Kingsbridge in the New York the legacy and trust was to trample the Campaign. Forty percent died in captivity, revolutionary fathers’ blood. Little did many on British prison ships in New York Lincoln realize in what way he would be Harbor, where they starved to death. The called to defend the legacy and trust of the few who survived had endured four years Editor’s note: John E. Stealey III, of the original entrance roads to Morgan’s Constitution of the United States and laws in prison. These experiences and many distinguished professor, emeritus, of Spring, off modern State Route 480. within 25 years. others known well to Shepherdstown history, Shepherd University, delivered In July 1975, on the 200th anniversary Lincoln’s revolutionary histories contemporaries illustrate and substantiate these remarks on July 4, 2012, on the of the march, the Jefferson County His­ and pillars seem to have survived in the Abraham Lincoln’s assertions. occasion of the marker dedication at torical Society held its annual picnic at Shepherdstown or Mecklenburg com- I have not devoted my limited time Shepherdstown’s Town Hall as part Morgan’s Spring. Prominent attorney and munity, as this dedication reaffirms and to relating the facts of the Bee Line of the 250th anniversary celebration state senator, the late Robert Mason Steptoe, past celebrations testify. The American March. I have concentrated on deeper of the incorporation of Mecklenburg. was the speaker to around 100 attendees. Revolution and Shepherdstown are meaning and significance of the march We are engaged in a much more inextricably linked. The Shepherdstown and Morgan’s Spring, called by Alexander e are gathered to celebrate solemn task than dedicating a much area, because of its great contributions Boteler, a sacred spot. The rapid raising the most important event in needed, accurate historical marker. Around and sacrifices to the revolutionary cause, of Hugh Stephenson’s company reflected the town’s extensive and 1830, Americans became concerned about has been destined to maintain the patriotic the spontaneity of the revolt against Great Wsometimes fabled history—the Bee Line maintaining their revolutionary heritage. memory and pillars of national strength. Britain and the desire for independence March. In previous years and centuries, The 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Listeners are reminded that Mecklenburg of residents of “the back country.” The many formal and informal celebrations Paris of 1783, ending the conflict with was the largest market town in the recently battles of Lexington and Concord had of the historically significant march Great Britain, was approaching. The created (1772) Berkeley County. It was occurred only two months before. It also have occurred in the months of June, greatly diminished number of surviving larger than Martinsburg, and Charlestown demonstrates the incipient national nature July, or August. Revolutionary War veterans had already did not exist. The community and area of the Revolution outside Massachusetts As many of you know, when Captain reached or was reaching its Three Score furnished seven military companies to the and New England. Western Virginia Hugh Stephenson and his company began and Ten. In 1832, the U. S. Congress and cause. After the war, about 100 veterans troops, signing on for one year, from their trek to Massachusetts from Morgan’s President Andrew Jackson had approved a resumed their lives in the immediate area. Shepherdstown (Mecklenburg) willingly Spring, all vowed to return in 50 years liberal pension bill for Revolutionary War A significant number of area answered the call of General Washington to commemorate their enterprise. Two of veterans. The application procedures for a Revolutionary soldiers had given their and marched outside of Virginia to lift the the five survivors did so in a community pension compelled veterans to recall and last full measure to the cause. Captain siege of Boston. I urge you to read the celebration in 1825. relate their service and secure documenta- Hugh Stephenson (who led the Bee Line dedicated marker for details. In 1858, the Hamtramck Guards tion and testimony attesting to it. This March) died, probably from the stresses In closing, I might note that it is meet of Shepherdstown organized a com- process aroused a heightened national of service, on Bullskin Creek in and right that a descendant of Charles memoration on September 2 with awareness of the War of Independence. September 1776. An obscure, direct Carroll of Carrollton of Maryland, an at least three bands (one from as far In 1838, a 29-year-old Springfield, connection with George Washington early backer of the Revolution and the away as Cumberland and another from Ill., lawyer named Abraham Lincoln deliv- last surviving signer of the Declaration Williamsport) and eight military units ered a local speech that eventually became of Independence, Diana Suttenfield, is that marched from German Street to nationally known for its call for remem- responsible for the Bee Line March Morgan’s Spring for the great barbecue. brance of the meaning of revolutionary historical marker. Five thousand people allegedly crowded history and for relating his fear that the grounds. The welcoming speaker, understanding of its significance might Alexander Robinson Boteler, immortalized disappear. He noted that the revolutionary the affair with his sometimes apocryphal generation was going “to rest.” Until that 1860 work, “My Ride to the Barbecue.” time, almost every family had a relative In 1932, in the midst of the Great who possessed “a living history”—“a Depression, the Pack Horse Ford history bearing the testimonies of its own Chapter, National Society, Daughters of authenticity, in the limbs mangled, in the the American Revolution, erected and scars of wounds received, in the midst of dedicated the plain yet majestic stone scenes related—a history too that could Dr. John Stealey, speaker at the monument with descriptive plaque at one be read and understood alike by all.” dedication of the Bee Line March marker on the 4th of July. Interpretive marker located outside town hall. Lincoln asserted that these revolutionary

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 19 Driving Marvin Hamlisch Mike Henderson

Editor’s note: On April 18, 2004, at his hotel but I felt it as part of Shepherd University’s “Year was rude to leave him of the Piano” Marvin Hamlisch on his own. I mean, this performed on the newly acquired was a famous man who $140,000 Fazioli piano to a sold-out had composed music audience in the Frank Center. Mr. almost everyone knew. Hamlisch died August 6, 2012. Only He had won Oscars and one person could write the following Tonys and countless other remembrance. And he did. It’s a awards and I felt obli- GOOD NEWS PAPER exclusive. gated to show him a good time. I was mindful of n 2000 I made an impulse purchase: the slogan of the 70s that a 1993 Lincoln Town Car limousine I could be some foreign Iwith facing rear seats. I bought visitor’s best memory. a black suit, black tie, white shirt (no He was from New York, cap) and went into the limo business. so he qualified at least as I figured it would be fun to take people a foreign tourist! I asked to the airport, weddings, etc. Soon after, him what he would like I heard that Marvin Hamlisch was com- to do next. He wanted ing to Shepherd University and was to get his wife and dog going to play the Fazioli piano they had so she could to do some purchased. I was familiar with his work sightseeing in small from the movie The Sting and realized town America. he was a true celebrity and it would be So we picked up

fun to drive him around Shepherdstown. wife and dog (I didn’t PHOTO BY PHIL KONSTANTIN I was right; it was a blast. get either of their names). Marvin Hamlisch I first picked up a professor from She was noticeably younger than Marvin way stop, turned the corner and parked. On our way back to the Bavarian, Shepherd at the Frank Center and took (I thought I could call him that by now) I figured the downhill walk to the I told Marvin how my wife and I had him to the Bavarian Inn to meet Mr. and had a small beagle on a leash. Yellow Brick Bank would suit them. gotten together during the time that Hamlisch. Then I made the four-minute Marvin clearly was bushed and looked I called for a reservation and then The Sting came out. We used the con ride back to Shepherd and was told to ready for a nap. His wife was clearly volunteered to watch their dog while man signal of brushing the forefinger be back at the end of the concert. ready to see the town. Marvin told me they had dinner. I gave them my cell across the nose as an indication that we One of the problems with the aging they were Civil War buffs, so I offered phone number and told them to call were to drop whatever we were doing limo was that even though it had two to take them to Antietam. He almost me when they ordered dessert. and have a private conversation. He air conditioners, they were not up to the gave out a cheer at the suggestion. Even though I thought I had didn’t comment. job of cooling the dark blue car with a Upon entering Sharpsburg, I become friendly with Marvin, when I left them at their room about 10 black vinyl top on a day in the high 90s. pointed out General Lee’s campsite. His he called me to pick them up at the p.m. I was pulling into my driveway I decided to keep the engine running so wife asked a question about Stonewall restaurant, he said, “This is Mr. Hamlisch, when my cell phone rang. In his clear the temperature inside would be at least Jackson that clearly showed she thought my wife wants to go to a party and voice, I heard, “This is Mr. Hamlisch, bearable when Mr. Hamlisch returned. Jackson was in the Union army. From we are leaving now.” It seems she had my wife has lost her cell phone, can you I went back after two hours, but waited that point on, I wasn’t afraid of my own been table-hopping and was invited to help her find it?” I looked around the another hour before Mr. Hamlisch and knowledge of the battle. I was amazed a garden party down the street. Marvin limo and found the phone. I took it over the professor walked toward the car. at how much I actually knew and at the looked half asleep but he asked if I to their room and Marvin came to the I drove them to Popidicon, home of same time, how little I knew. Marvin would watch the dog for a while longer door and opened the door enough for me Shepherd’s president, for a reception. offered a few facts to augment my while they attended the party. Marvin to hand him the phone and for him to After the reception, we (minus the stories and there we were, three Civil explained that he was ready to go back give me a tip. He thanked me and closed professor) headed back to the Bavarian. War “bluffs.” I can’t speak for the dog. to the hotel but he couldn’t get his wife’s the door. I was about to leave when he I talked as I imagined one would talk to They were ready for dinner, but attention to tell her his desire to call it opened the door again and said, “Don’t a celebrity if I were a real limo driver. first wanted to walk downtown. The a day. I could hear the crowd over the forget,” as he brushed his forefinger He asked about Shepherdstown and day had finally started to cool down, so fence and could tell that Mrs. Hamlisch against his nose. wondered if there was a place to eat. the walk seemed possible. The problem was the life of the party. The bigger they are, the nicer they My original agreement was to leave him was the dog. I took them to the four are, right?

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 20 Hunger & Other Games for Children Sarah Soltow

he Hunger Games trilogy is a is fully televised to all inhabitants in a quite realizing it, and as he grows into When toy soldiers are lost in the World hot topic these days. High on manner that many will readily recognize adulthood, he seeks some kind of peace Peace Game, students are required to Tthe reading lists of intermediate in reality TV shows like Survivor, for that knowledge. write a letter of condolence to the imagi- and middle schoolers, it follows the American Idol and Big Brother. How do we feel about training our nary family explaining what happened to adventures of 16-year-old Katniss The author Suzanne Collins has children to be killers? Whether it is in a their soldier—why and how their son or Everdeen as she participates in the a stated goal for these books: “In The disembodied form such as many video daughter was lost. pageantry and barbarity of post-apoca- Hunger Games, she continues to explore games portray, or in the flesh-and-blood Just like the game we call real life, lyptic survival games for children. In this the effects of war and violence on those context of conventional soldiering, what the World Peace Game is different every futuristic scenario, tributes, age 12 to coming of age.” Given that this is a stated is the effect of war and violence on our time. Sometimes it’s more about social 18, are randomly chosen from outlying goal, it is appropriate to ask ourselves how children as they come of age? issues, sometimes more about economic Districts and placed in an outdoor arena we feel about this as well. How do we feel Now, let’s explore the World Peace issues, sometimes more about warfare, where they must fight to the death. There about the children living in two-thirds of Game. In 1978, a Charlottesville, Va., but Hunter always allows the students can be only one winner of each of the our world whose populations struggle for teacher John Hunter designed a 4-by- the reality of being human in this game. annual Hunger Games staged to entertain daily food while our culture consumes 5-foot piece of plywood that would They are provided the opportunity to the dominator culture of the Capitol… roughly 80 percent of available resources? provide “an empty space” where 4th grade learn, in a bloodless way, how not to do that is until Katniss enters the arena. How is violence related to hunger and students could “make meaning out of their what they consider to be the wrong thing, While these novels are written for poverty? And how will we react when own understanding.” In this space, four and they find out what is right in their adolescents, they are highly informative these realities become part of our chil- nation entities are created along with 50 own way and in their own selves. for adults as well. Our children will dren’s lives? How do we feel about raising interlocking problems: social, political, We have entered a time where the watch the heroine Katniss transform into our children to protect this extravagant economic, and environmental. Students choices for our children’s future can be the Mockingjay, the symbol for the rebel- lifestyle no matter the cost to others? deal with ethnic and minority relations, laid out in the games they play. We can lion of the oppressed Districts against the Close on the heels of rereading The water rights disputes, toxic chemical and certainly render our world into scenarios tyranny of the Capitol. They will admire Hunger Games, I happened to pick up oil spills. They deal with famine, global similar to those created in The Hunger her fiery temperament, her skill with an old favorite book written in 1977. warming, and war. Sometimes they form Games and Ender’s Game. The paths bow and arrow, and her disregard for Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, is a a peace force. They learn how to think leading to these futures are entirely vis- the rules. They will urge her to victory futuristic story set in a familiar culture of long term about issues and situations, ible in our world today. There are other as she fights for survival, as well as for school buses and student laptop comput- and they learn how to win this game. In possible paths, though, as well as infinite the survival of her family, loved ones, ers. This time the enemy is an alien life order to complete the World Peace Game, possible futures that our children can cre- and community. Mature readers will form called “Buggers” because of their all 50 interlocking crises must be solved ate. Our own conscious choices may well recognize the seeds of cultural decay in a insectile appearance and behavior. In this and every country’s asset value has to be be the final determiners of the future privileged class that lives opulently at the scenario, children about six years old, increased above its starting point. games our children will play as real life. expense of others, in a casual disregard mostly boys, who are deemed appropri- John Hunter introduces this game How do we feel about teaching our for individual lives, in the virtual slavery ately intelligent, gifted, and to his students by saying that he simply children how to live in creative coex- of lower classes, and in the excessive talented, are scooped away from their does not have the answers for them. “I’m istence with others rather than how to wealth concentrated in the hands of the families to attend Battle School. There so sorry, boys and girls, but the truth is dominate and destroy? few and the very powerful. These are the they are educated and trained in the ways we have left this world to you in such John Hunter and this game are seeds of destruction that preceded the of war via video games, zero-gravity a sad and terrible shape, we hope you currently described in a documentary downfall of the Roman Empire and that simulations, child army formations, and can fix it for us, and maybe this game film entitled World Peace and Other threaten our own cultural viability. Other psychological conditioning to become will help you learn how to do it.” The 4th-Grade Accomplishments. He says, interesting facets of the story for both the generation who will save Earth from countries have different assets; some are “If only they [our children] could pick young and old include the existence of certain destruction — or so say the rich, some are poor. They have prime up a critical thinking tool or a creative technologies that can manipulate weather, adults in charge. Ultimately Ender, at ministers and cabinets, a world bank, thinking tool from this game and lever- create genetically altered life forms, and age 11, becomes the commander of this and many interlocking complex age something good for the world, they perform medical miracles—all geared child army and leads Earth’s preemptive problems—just like real life. Hunter may save us all.…if only.” toward providing panem et circenses invasion of the Bugger home world. cedes control of the game to the collec- How do we feel about this (bread and circuses) for the Capitol while He, of course, believes it is just part of tive wisdom of a group of children who potential for good, and perhaps more the outlying Districts suffer and starve in the training, just another component of then wage philosophical discussions importantly, what can we—the parents, despair. Additionally, the entertainment the game. Ender is responsible for the about conditional good and the value of teachers, and grandparents of our value of the annual slaughter of children destruction of billions of lives without going to war in a game of world peace. children—do about it?

GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 21 Religious Worship and Education Schedules

Asbury Church Christ Reformed, Christian Science Society Religious Society of Friends 4257 Kearneysville Pike United Church of Christ Entler Hotel—German & Princess Streets (Quakers) Rev. Rudolph Monsio Bropleh, Pastor 304 East German Street Sunday Worship & Sunday School 10 a.m. Shepherdstown Preparative Meeting Reading Room is in Entler Rm. 210, Telephone: 876-3112 Br. Ronald C. Grubb, OCC, Minister Worship in silent expectant waiting open before and after the service and Sunday Worship: 8 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Telephone: (304) 876-3354 Sundays at 10:30 a.m. by appointment. Call to confirm Sunday Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Four Seasons Books (thru the side gate) Bronson Staley, Minister Emeritus school and child care: (304) 261-9024 Family Fun Nite: Wednesday, 6:45–8:00 p.m. Contact: Neal Peterson (304) 582-0852 Telephone: (301) 241-3972 All are welcome. E-mail: [email protected] Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. http://shepherdstown.bym-rsf.net/about-2-2/ www.4pillarchurch.org www.christreformedshepherdstown.org

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GOOD NEWS PAPER • Fall 2012 22 Commemorating Antietam A Choral Meditation Fifty voice community choir Directed by Dr. Georgiann Toole Presents Sunday • September 23 Workin’ for the Dawn of Peace by Jeffers 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. At the River by Copland Historic Presbyterian Meeting House Hard Times Come Again No More 100 W. Washington St. by Foster Shepherdstown, West Virginia & more Admission is free • Seating is limited A Shepherdstown 250th Anniversary Program

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