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Our 22^^ Year 2 SPRING 2001 Free but not cheap Paper Our 22^^ Year 2 Issue number 90 Vol. XXIII No. i Contents Established May 1979 Spring 2001 PUBLISHER Sbepherdsiown Minislerial .^sociaiion EDITOiUAL BOARD COLUMNS Tara Bell Mary Ann Garfc 3 Jesus in the WDderness or, Confessions of a Budding Environmentalist. By Randall Tremba Marge Dower Cindy Keller 16 The Search for Perfection or "The Way My Mother Made It". By Marge Dower Emcst D. Lyies Joan Snipes 17 EARTHKEEFING. Smart Growth. Ensuring a Livable Future for the Panhandle. Randall Tremba E X E C I T I V E E D I T O R By Maigarita Provenzano Randall W. Trcinba EDITORS 19 Dogwoods. A Feast for AH Seasons. By Virginia Provenzano Susan Ford Priichard Naomi Rohrer Claire Siuarr DEPARTMENT EDITORS PEOPLE Tara Bell ioanie Blanion 4 Betty Custer. Extra-Ordinary Volunteer. By Naomi Rohrer Marge Dower Vincc Parmesano 5 Reverend Ernest Lyles Leaves a Legacy. By Naomi Rohrer Margarita Piovenzano Virginia ^venzano 6 Nadya's Happy Ending. An Abused Dog Gets a New Leash on Life. By Claire Stuart Keith Snyder Ed Zahniser 7 Unearthing Memories. An Interview with Porky May. By Susan Ford Pritchard CONTRIBLTING EDITORS Judith Layman 8 Malung Life Easier ©Unlimited Living. By Naomi Rohrer Emily Lcvitan Dorothy McGhce 9 Professor Jason Best His Life in Astrophysics. By Jason Best, PhD Berry Morgan J. LaPearWard 15 Shepherd College International Student Union. By Whitney Coleman Stephen Willingham Robin Young PRE-nWHIUCTION EDITOR Libby Howard SENIOR DESIGNER F E A T U R E S ' ' Melmda Schmitt PHOTOGRAPHERS 10 CIVIL WAR SERIES. ASad and Purpo^less Xffair. Ttie Battle Df Shiepherdstorwn. LarsWigren By Keith Snyder J. Davis Erica Simon-Brown Bill Howard 1-2 Vandalians. Comics by Erik Van Horn TYPIST Marv Ann Strider 14 WORLD CONNECTIONS. Exchange Programs. By Vincent Parmesano PROOFREADERS Betty Lfw Bryant 18 Julia "Butterfly" Hiil. Author and Environmental Activist to Speak. By Patrick Drohan. John Foxcn Julie Gregg 20 Children and Spirituality. By Anne Winter Ada Haicben Jim Hoadley DISTRIBLTION Dabney Chapman (ret) B A C K F O R T Y Clyde Kentek TREASURER 21 Religious Communities of the Shepherdstown Ministerial Association. A l e x S h a w D E S I G N & L A Y O U T 22 Donors. We have, only one debt. And it's a good one. A debt of gratitude. J a r e d S c h e e r e r a i t d t r v a 23 Business & Service Directory. Tell them you saw it here. CIRCULATION 13400 copies printed Bulk maU (11430) She(^erdsiown all patrons (3,010) Keameysville PC. RR 1 -4 (2.730) Cover artist is freelance photographer Beaita Keller. Featured aie photo^phs taken on a recent trip to Cuba with students Shenando^ Jet (700) Harpers Ferry PO. RR U (2.950) from the Photojoumalism class, which she leaches at Shepherd College. Keller has taught adjunct classes at Shepherd Bakerton (ISO) Martinsburg RR 3 (510) College for 13 years, and is photo editor of Antietam Review. She resides in Shepherdstown. Sharpsburg PO. RR 2 (1.480) Direct mail (1000) by request If you are not already receiving the GOOD NEWS PAPER we.will be happy to send it to you free of Slacks (1400) area restaurams. shops and vishor centers charge. Fill in and mail the coupon below. i-i . : - ADDRESS GOOD NEWS PAreR. P. O. Box 1212. Name: Sbepbenlstown. WV 25443 • TelqrboK (304) 876-6466 • FAX (304) 876-2033 Adress; Copyrigbt 2001 Town: ZIP; Sbepbenlstown Ministmal AssodaHon. Inc. All nghts teveit to the aalhor on publication. The GOOD NEWS PAPER opinloos expressed do not necenarily refleel (he views of tbe Edllotiai Board or the publisben. P. O . B o x 1 2 1 2 Shepherdstown WV 25443 t f r O S ' d / i y n d i N ? ■p 9 Jesus in the Wilderness or, confessions of a budding environmentalist By Randall Tremba Which is where Jesus got trapped for forty days and forty News Paper these days. In this issue you can read Virginia nights. And what was out there, I ask you? The Devil. SATAN! You Youcan't Provenzano'shelp but notice articlean emphasis on the Floweringon nature Dogwood,in the Good Comus see my point. Wilderness may be the place for a body to be during florida, "probably the most admired of all our native eastern trees, the the forty days of Lent but, as for me and my house, we're treating very symbol of spring in our woodlands and gardens." You can read it as a metaphor. Patrick Drohan's brief introduction of author and environmental At least for the moment. activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill who lived in a tree for two years and Whatever else that wilderness experience meant for Jesus, it will be speaking at Shepherd College and the National Conservation meant a place of self-discovery. You just can't tromp around on this Training Center this month (March). earth thinking it's OK to mess with nature any ole way you want You can read Margarita Provenzano's essay on to. Maybe we have the power to turn stones into "Smart Growth" noting that "our area is vulnerable bread but it's not always a good idea. Let stones to uncontrolled, sprawling expanses of subdivisions And Jesus was be stones; otherwise you start spewing things and strip malls, destroying our precious farmland, into the atmosphere and before you know it, the open space, and natural resources." Jason Best, in the wilderness polar ice caps are melting and fish are dying. assistant professor of astrophysics at Shepherd You don't leap off high steeples expecting College tells of his early fascination with "the evo forty days, tempted God to intervene and save your sorry buns. And lution of the stars." Our summer issue will include you don't cut down the rain forests and expect a piece by a local woman on her recent exploration by Satan. God to save the planet. (A certain former of Antarctica. Secretary of the Interior thought Jesus was about On this page, from now on, you can expect (The Gospel according to Mark 1:13) to return and thus Wilderness Preservation Acts ecology in your face since I will be trekking were unnecessary. I read the same Bible. I round the world later this year to converse with various religious wouldn't hold your breath, if 1 were you.) officials (and unofficials) in various regions about their percep Now, where was I? Oh, yes. Jesus in the wilderness. tion of ecology and religious responsibility (or, lack thereoO- You don't let human dominion go to your head so that you start Thanks to a Lilly Endowment grant I will be able to visit New thinking you can do any ole thing you want to. It's true that one of Zealand, Australia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Greece, Italy, Spain and the the two stories of creation in Genesis includes the (I suppose) flatter Republic of Ireland over a period of three months with ing notion that humans have divinely sanctioned dominion over all (biodegradable) sketchbook and (unbiodegradable) video camera other creatures. in hand. Last time I looked "dominion" meant "governing on behalf of a Now I should tell you this; I'm no natural-bom naturalist. I thrive on sovereign." Dominion is not to be confused with arrogance and domi indoor activities like reading, writing and, well, reading and writing. I'm nation. Dominion means stewardship. We are not sovereign. God is. (I reading this even as I write it and I'm having a very good time. The know, I know. There are lots of problems with that but let's let that onset of spring actually depresses me a bit since there's a lot of pressure slide for the time being.) to go outside and claim to enjoy the budding of trees and the singing of Our so-called dominion must always be exercised in kinship with tods. Don't get me wrong. I'm thrilled that trees, birds, bees and worms the entire web of life. We are-part of an evolving ecosystem. Get used are out there. I just don't need to witness it on a daily basis. to it. Despite eschatological visions of a new heaven and a new earth, My father was a brakeman on the P&LE railroad all his working don't count on it. The outcome is hardly certain. If it were, we would days. He worked outside in wind, rain, sleet, and snow. I once told n't need prophets harping at us about repentance. him I wanted to do the same thing and he told me to get an education Repent or else. so I would never have to woik outside. I never looked back. So I've begun. When it came to the idea of sitting around a campfire, sleeping in Repenting is not what it's usually cracked up to be. It means, quite tents, hunting and fishing, my parents had a simple reply. Why would simply, a turning of the heart and mind to what is right, or righteous, or, you? It took humankind four million years or so to create climate- to put it another way, getting in right relationship to other pereons and controlled, pes(-free environments and supermarkets. Enjoy it, they'd things, including (why not?) the whole earth. It's getting back into the say. I have. family, into the community, into the whole splendid web of life where So, of course, I'm asking myself: what demon put this sedfbatical we belong.
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