4A The Mountain Messenger, Thursday, May 24,1990
The joy of driving ov-er Mucicly Creek Mountain in the morn-
ing is sublime. That road has become a five-mile long sanctu-
ary with the young-green trees forming a vaulted arch over
your head. A splashing mountain stream becomes a baptis-
try. The morning rays of sun filter through tracery windows
while ure skies and roseate clouds form translucent pat-
terns to rival da Vinci.
Morning bird songs are anthems to the heavens on high.
Fat little squirrels scurry hither and yon. They are the vergers
keeping order and carrying their tails as emblems of their
office. A snake slithers silently off the pavement reminding
us of Eden.
Phlox blooms nod and kneel as nmrning breezes demand
their obeisance. Sawgrass waves slowly to the litany of the
winds. All these things, and more. combine to remind us
Wesl Virginia iS a cathedral.
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Memorial Day traditionally marks
the beginning of summertime in the
United States. Although school is
still in session, and some trees have
yet to come out fully, warm weather
s here to stay for at least four
months, and most of us are more
4ban ready for it.
With the advent of summer here
in southern West Virginia, I once
again think how glad I am to live in
the mountains. For several years
ived in the ftatlands of Florida and
the Piedmont area of Georgia, suf-
fering summer after summer from
incessant, merciless heat. Anyone
who has lived in hotter climates
knows what I am referring to when
speak of southern summers. They
°are taxing,
It's one thing to have a few un-
usually hot days tn a row, It's quite
another to see no break at all for
weeks on end. That was certainly
my experience n Florida. and often
in Georgia, too. Florida's summers
are characterized by 90-degree-plus
qeat which makes extended outdoor
activity torturous, unless it involves
swimming. Stepping outside ~s very
much like entering a blazing fur-
nace. The onty respite comes ~n the
afternoons, often punctuated by
powerful thunderstorms which cool
the air briefly and sometimes even
make evening walks halfway toler-
able
In Georgia I ived at the edge of
the mountains, not close enough to
enjoy their cooler temperatures. The
Piedmont is every bit as hot as Flor-
da--made even worse by the fact
thunderstorms are not nearly as
qumerous. The summer of 1982
was especially exasperating, with
day-after-day heat in the 90's and
I 100's--and no rain.
My !rips to West Virginia to visit
my parents during those years in
Georgia made the mountains look
better and better. Here was a land
where temperatures rarely made it
out of the 80's--and even stayed in
the 70's in the middle of the sum-
mer. I was quickly taken in by it all
and soon harbored a secret desire
to move to this land of natural air
conditioning.
The opportunity came in 1984.
rm still here, enjoying the mild sum-
mers that renew my energy with
their relatively cool temperatures
and fresh air. I laugh when I hear
someone here say, "Boy, it's hot!"
when the thermometer reads only
82 degrees.
Yes, I know it can get stiflingly
hot here n the mountains. But it's
rare--that's the difference. Here's to
another good summer!
Dear Editor:
We have been reading with inter-
est, the many letters you receive. As
we read some of them, a sadness
comes over us, and we th~nk about
a nation whose foundation and prin-
ciples were based upon it's fear of
God and a respect f~r his word, the
Bible. Our ancestors ~ft their homes
in Europe and came to this country
searching for a place tO serve God.
Even today, we still illave printed
upon our money "In God We Trust,"
o but this nation has lost not only it's
trust, but also it's fear of God.
George Washington once said, "It is
impossible to rightly govern the
world without God and the Bible."
It's apparent that most of our
leaders don't feel that way today. It
is only through God's grace that the
U,S. has been blessed and allowed
to prosper so far but God has grown
weary of our nations disregard for
him and his commandments, and
America is falling.
We can look back through history
and see that every great ~mpire has
fallen because of it's ungodliness. In
the Bible, the prophet Daniel .fore-
told about these empires rising and
falling, Dr Walkup recently wrote a
letter to your paper which spoke of
God judging nations. Most people
like to believe that God has
changed. Then it's easy to live their
lives as they wish and have no fear
of Him. But in Malachi 3:6, he says,
'1 am the the Lord, I change not."
In the book of Nahum, the bible
preach a message of doom to them
and within 100 years, Nineveh was
totally distroyed.
God is a God of love, but he also
tells us all through the bible that he
is a God of judgment and venge-
ance. We believe the the time of his
appearing is close at hand. I wonder
how many of us will be ready?
Judy and Andrew Poage
Lewisburg
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Dear Editor:
In light of current events in Lewis-
bdrg (the Civil War Battle Reenact-
ment) I would like to share the en-
closed rememberance with your
readers. The information was g=ven
to me by the late Ruth W. Kincaid. A
transcript, which I made, of Mrs
Kincaid's statement appeared origi;
naJly in The Greenbrier .News
Leader May 12, 1976. Fort Hilt
tn 1862, during the period of the
Battle of Lewisburg, Virginia (now
West Virginia), the Union forces of
General George Crook made every
effort to take the Town of Lewisburg
and quite a bit of action was being
put forth to break the resistance of
the confederate forces of Colonel
George M. Edgar.
General Crook, in command of
one of the Union Forces, in trying to
flank movement of the other,forces,.
had dispatched several of his men
to surprise colonel Edgar by sending
one force down to the New River
speaks about the city of Nineveh, Valley and another to a high hill
This city" was a great city. It was above Ronceverte.
powerful economically and had once in the meantime, Captain W. R,
been Jonah Hefner and Captain H, H, Caraway,
had been sent tO preach with their Confederate forces, had
t~ximately 150 years taker~ a circling route and ~estab-
Nahum. At the word of
the people changed their lished themselves on top of Fort Hill,
and God spared the city. But opposite and above Ronceverte,
ungodly acts started once ready for the Union forces when
and brought judgmejlt uponthey dame to take up position on the
Nahum'was tl en seni tO hill. The'Confederates h ad also ar-
ranged a signal code with Mrs Eliza-
beth Ann Edgar Creigh, wife of Le-
wis S. Creigh and daughter of
Archer M: Edgar, who lived at th~
old Edgar home in sight.of Fort Hill.
The Union Army took advantage
of the forest and tree foliage and
took a course coming in from the
lower end of Muddy Creek Mountain
which brought them past the Et:lgar
home When they ~ached the
Edgar home, the Commander called
Mrs Creigh out to the roadside and
asked her if there was a Confeder-
ate Army troop near. She told him
yes and that they may be "fired upon
at any minute. They started on down
the hill to the Greenbrier River. As
Mrs Creigh turned back toward the
house, she threw her apron over her
left shoulder as a signal to the Con-
federates to fire. The Confederates
started shooting and continued until
the Union forces retreated.
This story was told to me (Ruth
W. Kincaid) by the late Lewis Stuart
Creigh of Ronceverte. The Mrs
Elizabeth Ann Edgar Creigh men-
tioned in the story, was his grand-
mother.
I wrote,this just as Mrs Kincaid
related it to me. I hope it Will be of
interest to your readers.
Sincerely,
Mrs Paul (Virginia) Yates
Ronceverte
Dear Editor:
I have known Mrs Clingman for a
number of years and I say my very
best wishes to her for getting it as
Mother of the year. ! owned a barber
shop in Lewisburg for 20 years
across the street from her place of
business and I have had my lunch
there many times and never once
did I feel cheated on the food.
I also remember, her late hus-
band Garland, if he was outside
sweeping off the street and you
walked, drove, or ran by him he
would always have a friendly hello
for you. "To me he was one swell
guy."
God Bless Mrs Clingman in eve-
rything that she does or tries to do.
Michael Moses
Ronceverte
Dear Editor:
Believe it or not!
My son Roger and I were cross-
ing the mountain from Richwood to
Trout on May 2nd. Near the high
knob on top the mountain above
Trout we saw a wolverine
Lonnie S. Miles
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MY WITH Q
By Robert Head
In 1964-5 I was studying Old
English under Professors Bliss and
Chesnutt at University College, Dub-
lin, Ireland, when Lyndon Johnson
started bombing Vietnam. I had ac-
cess to Reuter's news dispatches.
My colleague and I took our pass-
ports to the American Embassy, saw
the ambassador, and told him in no
uncertain terms what we thought of
Johnson's act. He said he didn't
handle things like that and we
should write to our congressman. I
became a Marxist revolutionary in
twenty-four hours.
We returned to hometown new
Orleans to "protest" the war, little
knowing that it would take the best
part of our lives. We published the
newspaper NOLA Express for six
years and became the first newspa-
per to be indicted by the Federal
Government in modern times. Irl
1972, '73, '74 I intervened (sole
intervenor) before the Atomic En-
ergy (-Sink) commission against
proposed nuclear reactor. After
three years work, the Atomic Energy
(-Sink) Commission deleted 173 of
my expert witness's testimony (Dr
Charles W. Huver. Curator of
Fishes. James ~ord Bell Museum of
Natural History, Minneapolis). Dr
Huver chose to walk out and I
walked out with him we thus be-
came the first civilians in history to
walk out of an AEC adversary hear-
ing on the grounds it was a kanga-
roo court.
We then moved to Blue Sulphur
Springs, West Virginia, and founded
West Virginia Regional Land Trust,
Inc., it bding our thought that the
best thing a poor, powerless person
could do in the hopeless 70's was to
maintain a wildlife refuge.
My defeat at the hands of the
AEC had a profound effect on me. It
is a deep and abiding shock for a
young man to realize there is some-
thing in the world more powerful
than his own ego.
In 1982 and '83 I taught myself
Elementary Ancient Greek in the
woods and went up to West Virginia
University, Morgantown, and passed
the examinations under Dr Lois
Hinckley.
In 1984-5 I privately taught Greek
Philosophy Through the Language
and, via my work with the Episcopal
Reve[end Wallace Reynolds, began
to teach new Testament Greek.
In the winter of 1986/7 I went to
live in Katakolo. Greece, the seaport
for Phygos, where lives the greatest
living Greek poet Yorges Pavlopou-
los. It was the coldest winter in thirty
years and I was livir{g in a summer
house.
Fate led me to Saint James Epis-
copal church and I had the great for-
tune to meet the astoundingly sensi-
tive and scholarly Reverend Christo-
pher Roberts. We began to co-teach
the Episcopal Church School, he al-
lowing me to translate Luke add
Matthew, for which I will always be
grateful
I also had the good fortune to sell
books for John Stroud, who special-
izes in theological books,
monthly brought in boxes
and I began to read them
references to Q.
What is Q? Q stands for (~
Quelle "source" which
mystical in English but in
a hypothetical document of '~
(Jesus') sayings available
thew and Luke but not to
surviwng contents of this
cal document can be
by a careful selection of
ings of Yesou fou nd both
and Luke but not in mark.
Then, amazingly
covered n Conybeare,
and Morals, a complete
translation)
there called The
ment, by A. V. Harnack.
Harnack's methodology
consider Matthew the more C
vattve in wording and
accurate in chronology.
Harnack's
me a great deal of work
translating. After one year
decided to return to
to obtain a degree so I
having come to believe Q
made available to the
did and ~n March 1990,
the translation the day
for an interview at the Higt~
pal School of Theology,
Tennessee. I m~
Department of Religion,
ginia University, with a
hours college
other with me to
to the professor of Church
the day before the
would have time to look at it.
I then took the most
psychological test that I
taken in my life.
Interview: I said I
of two sayings of Yesou
radically from the standard
tion and would like to
professor said that the
Greek was in England. I
the professor of Church
had ever been published.
he didn't know.
On May 3, 1990, I
other copy of my transl~
back from West Virginia
The Department of
not give me any credit
use the "English Bible."
This brings us up to
work, is an
document, described as
document, the sayings
2, 3, 4 .... 70. There
about the execution. It is
of the kingdom.
I am looking for a
will publish it
the method I use in
and find that people
read New Testament
astounding short time if
rect perception of the
ings of the living Yesou;
Mr Head owns The
in ILewisburg. He
at Saint James
Recently Mr Head, a
lege student, gradUa
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