SPRING 2002 Free Good but not cheap own NeS^Paper Our 22^^ Year 2 I s s u e n u m b e r 9 4 Vo l . X X I V N o . 1 Established May 1979 Contents PUBLISHER Shcphcrdslown Ministerial Association Spring 2002 ADVISORY GROUP Mary Ann Clarfc Marge Dower COLUMNS Cindy Keller Emesi D. Lyics 3 Reflections on Building the Blessed Community. Guest editorial by Ed Zahoiser Tobey Pierce Joan Snipes 16 Old Man's Beard. By Virginia Provenzano Martin Sibley Michael Schwartz 17 EARTHKEEPING. There's Nothing Like Asparagus io Springtime... Randall W. Tremba E X E C U T I V E E D I T O R By Margarita Provenzano Randall W. Tremba EDITORS 18 Eating Locally, Acting Locally. By Alan Balliett Inge Lcland Susan Ford Priichard 20 The WHAT??? Pots. By Marge Dower Naomi Rohrer Claire Siuan PEOPLE Anne Winter DEPARTMENT EDITORS 4 George Fisher. By Anne Winter Tara Bell Marge Dower 5 Eric Johnson, the Blacksmith. By Susan Ford Pritchard Vince Parmenzano Margarita Provenzano 6 The Men's Club. By Betty Lou Bryant Virginia Provenzano Keith Snyder 7 From Comics to the Clergy. By Claire Stuart Ed Zahniscr CONTRIBUTING EDITORS FEATURES Judith Laymen Emily Lcvitan 8-9 Notes from Around the World. By Rev. Randall W. Tremba Doroihy'McGhee Berry Morgan 10-11 Vernacular Architecture. Barns of Jefferson County. By Anne Winter J. LaFcar Ward Stephen Willingham 12-13 Comic Centerfold. By Erik Van Horn Robin Young PRE-PRODUCTION EDITOR 14-15 CIVIL WAR. The Image of War. By Keith Snyder Libby Howard 19 Outside. By Tara Bell SENIOR DESIGNER Melinda Schmitt PHOTOGRAPHERS B A C K F O R T Y Lars Wigren TYPIST 21 Religious Communities of the Shepherdstown Ministerial Association. Mary Ann Stridor PROOFREADERS 22 Donors. We have only one debt. And it's a good one. A debt of gratitude. Betty Lou Bryant John Foxcn 23 Business & Service Directory. Tell them you saw it here. 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WV 2.5443 ♦ Telephone Town: ZIP: (304) 876-6466 • FAX (304) 876-2033 Copyright 2002 Shcphcrdstown Ministerial Association. Inc. G O O D N E W S P A P E R All rights revert to the author on publication. P. O . B o x 1 2 1 2 The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Advisory Group or Shepherd-stown WV 25443 the publishers. 3 Reflections on Building the Beloved Community By Ed Zahniser Editor's note: Reprint of a talk given It both lional. That's why I woik of great hope, caring for the by Ed Zahniser at the Martin Luther amazes aitd say this work can digtiity of the continuity of life. King. Jr. Convocation (January 20. perturbs be begun by Building the Beloved Community, to 2002) sponsored by die me that a few but be effective, must also be a work of Sliepherdsiown Ministerial we rarely can't be multi-generational hope. This is a Association at St. Peter's Lutheran get to hear done by work that can be begun by a few, but Church. Shcpherdstown. W. Va. and know a few. it it can't be done by a few. So what other peo cannot will you do? eing part of the "Building the ple's real sto jf.vi even be The Ministerial Association slo Beloved Community" class ries. To hear done in our life gan IS "We Are Many Congregations. B (May 2001) was a rare oppor people's real sto times. But if we dott't Bui One Church." Ours is a Biblical tunity to take part in a class that grow ries. as a male at least, you begin this work now, who tradition of multi-generational hope toward becoming community. I hope almost must join a 12-step group or will? And when? that reaches back all the way to that was just a foretaste of glory psychotherapy group. But in this In Shcpherdstown we are well Abraham and Sarah. They set off on divine. I hope we can make it that. "Building the Beloved Community" equipped for multi-generational hope. an unknown journey for the sake of Recently at church our small class we heard real stories, and that I don't think our town's name— the whole world, pursuing a promise. group was reading aloud Paul's letter means a great deal to me. What I Shepherd's Town, as it once was—is We are now that joumey. to the Ephesians. Here is Ephesians want to share with you is that accidental. We have a tradition of Now. like in the biblical "Song 2: 14-16 in the New Revised Building the Beloved Community is leadership in multi-generational hope of Songs." ] adjure you. oh daughters Standard Version: "For [Christ] him a work that can be begun by a few. in the Shcpherdstown Ministerial and sons of Shcpherdstown, enroll in self is our peace; in his flesh he has but it can't be done by a few. So Association. For the past 25 years, Building the Beloved Community. made both groups into one and has what will you do? the finest and best work of Cast wide our nets of hospitality. broken down the dividing wall, that I don't believe Jesus was crucified Shcpherdstown has not been done by Break down the barriers of racism is, the hostility between us. He has for big political reasons or big reli the mayor and town council. Our that divide us and stymie the gospel. abolished the law with its command gious reasons. I think Jesus was cruci community has done its finest and This is a work that can be begun by a ments and ordinances, that he might fied because he cast his net of hospi best work as an inclusive theocracy few, but it can't be done by a few. So create in himself one new humanity tality so wide. That was the big threat led by the Shcpherdstown Ministerial what will you do? in place of the two, thus making he posed to the powerful. Jesus was Association. Twenty-five years is a If the anthropologists are correct, peace, and might reconcile both killed because of whom he took meals technical generation, so already, we all arose from common ancestors groups to God in one body through with. He ate with marginalized folk: today, right now, we are enacting a in Africa. Race is a myth we have the cross, thus putting to death the women. Samaritans, turncoat tax col hope that is multi-generational. constructed. But we profess to be one hostility through it." lectors, ritually unclean lepers, prosti The Ministerial Association people of God. and anything we Here's that same passage as tutes, foreigners. Jesus was crucified began and has kept alive this tradi humans coastructed. we humans can translated by Clarence Jordan into for the wide net of hospitality he cast. tion of remembering, &s a communi deconstruct. We can begin right here colloquial American speech: That to me is the second step in ty, the life and work of Martin Luther in Shcpherdstown to dismande the "[Christ] himself is our peace. It was Building the Beloved Community. King, Jr. In the 1980s the myth of race by Building the he who integrated us and abolished How can we turn a class into mutual Presbyterian Church, with coopera Beloved Community. Here. Now. For the segregation patterns which lives of hospitality, casting our nets tion from the Ministerial Association, the future. Forever. And that is a glo caused so much hostility. He allowed as widely as Jesus showed us? Dr. began town recycling. Recycling rious act of hope. no silly traditions and customs in his King said we are bound by "an symbolizes our multi-generational This is a work that can be begun fellowship, so that in it he might inescapable network of mutuality." hope for a livable world for coming by a few. but it can't be done by a integrate the two into one new body. An "inescapable network of mutuali generations. Recycling was not the few. So what will you do? In this way he healed the hurt, and ty." Building the Beloved work of the mayor and town council by his sacrifice on the cross he Community is a work that can be but of the Mimslcrial Association. joined together both sides into one begun by a few, but it can't be done The Ministerial Association also Ed Zahniser is author of body for God.