SUMMER 2014 35 Years FREE but not cheap Rooster Lowery SUSAN CARNEY 2 Issue 138 Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 LIKE US ON Established May 1979 FACEBOOK! Now on the Web! PUBLISHER Contents www.shepherdstowngoodnewspaper.org Shepherdstown Ministerial Association SEE ARTWORKS IN COLOR! EXECUTIVE EDITOR Summer 2014 Randall W. Tremba Essays, Art & Poetry EDITORS Mary Bell 3 We Are One. By Randall Tremba Cassie Bosley Kathryn Burns 6 The Faeries in Grandma’s Garden, Part 2. By Eleanor Hanold John Case Hannah Cohen 11 ARTWORKS Patricia Perry. By Marellen Johnson Aherne Todd Cotgreave Sue Kennedy 15 POETRY Ed Zahniser’s Shepherdstown. Mark Madison Wendy Mopsik 16 EARTHBEAT This Land Is Your Land. By Mark Madison Sarah Soltow Claire Stuart Ed Zahniser People, Places & Things PRE-PRODUCTION EDITOR 4 Dave Peters: It’s Not Just the Numbers. By Murray Deutchman Libby Howard 5 Linda Grant Snyder. By Wendy Mopsik SENIOR DESIGNER Melinda Schmitt 8 Saddles and Smiles and Chickens. 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Charles Barkley put it: It will take more than the Sometimes he shows up angry. It’s true: Jesus banishment of one NBA owner to banish racism is known for love, but love does not negate anger. from the heart and soul of our nation and its insti- Love is also persistent. It doesn’t rest until the last tutions. And I would add: that includes our own lost sheep (or goat) has been brought home to the hearts and souls, and the institutions we serve, fold. For only then will all be one. such as our churches, schools, and the criminal The Sunday after Easter, Americans by the justice system. millions rose up in righteous anger to judge and Pretending to be more righteous than we are condemn the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers keeps us above others. Getting off our high horse as a vile racist. By Monday it appeared the NBA ONE puts us on the same level with others. And only was on the verge of losing lots of respectability then do we have a chance to become one with and money. all. Despite a lifetime of effort, racism still lurks On that fateful Monday, players and fans spoke in my heart. So I keep at it, praying and working to with one voice. Players would not play and fans vanquish it. would not show up unless that vile man was punished. As Frederick Douglass put it: No struggle, Sponsors quickly disaffiliated from the team. no progress. And thus at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the com- Redemption is not quick and easy. It’s a long and missioner of the NBA—with the full backing of players sometimes tedious process of remorse, repentance, and every one of the 29 other team owners—judged, transformation, and making amends. We strive to live condemned, punished, and banished that errant owner just, holy, and whole lives. for life. NBA—along with millions of ordinary Americans—said And just like that the mood across America turned. with one voice: Racism has no place in our nation, for Nothing worth doing One voice after another declared: Today is a great day we are one. can be achieved in our lifetime; for America. And it was. Well, yes and no. Yes, we are one in more ways than therefore we must be saved by hope. I was one of many who couldn’t wait to see how the one. But not completely so. After all, smugness creates players and fans would respond that evening. I stayed up divisions. You see, We are one is also a way of saying Nothing which is true or beautiful or good late to see that historic moment live. You are not. For the “we” in We are one includes only makes complete sense At last the moment arrived. The players jogged onto the righteous, namely, “us” on the inside and not “you” in any immediate context of history; the floor of the Staples Center in LA while fans stood on the outside, especially that vile one banished way out therefore we must be saved by faith. as one to applaud them and a stunning moral victory for there in the wilderness! the NBA, its players, its fans, and by extension for the And that began to trouble me. I began to suspect Nothing we do, however virtuous, USA. The arena was bedecked with signs declaring: WE something else going on beneath the jubilation. It’s can be accomplished alone; ARE ONE. something we often see but don’t always recognize. therefore we are saved by love. A chill ran down my back and—much to my That night in the Staples Center an ancient ritual surprise—tears moistened my eyes. It was a moment to was at play. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous behold. It was a moment to remember a dream. In that cathartic moment countless hypocrites from the standpoint of our friend or foe suddenly felt pretty good about themselves. Millions of as it is from our own standpoint; Imagine all the people Americans who blithely harbor racist attitudes toward therefore we must be saved living life in peace people of color—but have never been caught saying so by the final form of love, You may say I’m a dreamer, out loud—were breathing a sigh of relief and reveling which is forgiveness. but I’m not the only one. in their piety. At last a scapegoat had been found and (Reinhold Niebuhr) I hope someday banished to the wilderness, carrying away our collective As it turns out, no one person—not even Messiah— you’ll join us, sins of racism. no one singular act can redeem us once and for all. We and the world will live That, in fact, is how the ancestors of my religious must participate in the process of redemption. And that as one. tradition got relief from guilt every year. They placed requires honesty, humility, and persistence. (John Lennon) their collective sins on the head of one unfortunate It requires work. It was a moment of redemption. A moment to goat that was then driven out into the wilderness to be We can do it. dream again. Even though most of the time we are devoured by wild beasts. And it’s best done in the spirit of compassion fractured and fractious, we still hope. The scapegoat. and grace. We Are One. You can hear echoes of that ritual in the Christian That evening in LA the voice of righteousness in tradition, which names Jesus as “the Lamb of God who our land was louder than the voice of wickedness. The takes away the sins of the world.” GOOD NEWS PAPER • SUMMER 2014 4 Dave Peters It’s Not Just the Numbers Murray Deutchman ave Peters is one of the more been the bookkeeper on the ship. Who recent additions to Sharpsburg’s says DNA means nothing? Dprofessional cadre. A certified Peters received a BS from the public accountant since 1974 with an University of Nebraska and an MBA extensive background in accountancy, in business and government affairs and business economics, and teaching, Peters an MS in accounting from American moved to Sharpsburg in 2007. His office, University. He gained experience in overlooking the main intersection in employment with the government and in downtown Sharpsburg, between city hall the corporate world before deciding to and Nutter’s, the famous ice cream parlor, open his private practice in accountancy makes him aware of, and part of, most in 1986.