Cumberland County Edition
July 2013
Vol. 14 No. 7
Life’s Second Draft Widowed Journalist Encourages Healing with Writing Circle By Chelsea Peifer Sometimes you create a life you’ve dreamed of and worked for, and something comes along that changes everything. In the aftermath, a person can choose to give up and stay put or to keep going forward, to find new meaning in a life with different circumstances. As a writer and journalist, Susan Weidener had not only heard the stories of people from all walks of life, but she had also articulated and retold their stories so others could hear and understand. Writing had always been a way for Weidener to connect with others and to nurture her own soul. So when Weidener was 44 and lost her husband—and love of her life—to a seven-year battle with cancer, she turned to writing as she chose to move forward. Weidener and her husband, John Cavalieri, had two sons, who were ages 7 and 11 at the time John passed away. “There were all of these messages then—and still are—that a single woman can’t raise boys alone,” said Weidener. “It’s not true. All a child needs is one charismatic adult in his or her life.” Weidener’s perspective on single parenting might sound like effortless perseverance, but she applies her hard work ethic to whatever she approaches, embracing the reality that one person can make a difference in a person’s life. please see DRAFT page 14 Susan Weidener, creator of the Women’s Writing Circle, inside the bookshop where the group meets monthly.
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Hospital Gowns Get a Redesign page 6
Crafting the Roads and History of New Hampshire page 8
The Way I See It
Birthday Thoughts Mike Clark celebrated my 62nd birthday on April 29, and I am still having trouble understanding how I could be two years immersed in my sixth decade. When I think about birthdays, I can’t remember a time when I said, “I wish I could be in my 60s.” I do remember saying that I wish I could be 21, for all the obvious reasons. I even thought that 30 was pretty good. By then I had a good job; I was married; I had a newborn son and a daughter two years later; I had a house and an inexpensive new car; and I felt that things were going well. It was hectic and chaotic, though. When I hit my 40s, things had begun to go wrong. I mean, I had been in my job for 12 years and I was actually making some money. A couple of bucks left over after household expenses were paid hinted that I was getting somewhere. But some serious health problems interfered with our lives by the time I was 43, and a couple of years later, the teenagers living in our home were overcome by hormonal madness and an omnipotent wisdom of all things that ever were and ever shall be. Controlling the demonic forces turned me into an unrecognizable figure of a man. Did I say there was anger? Oh, yes, and it was a righteous anger. With the patience of a saint, I taught both of my children to drive. And when each one passed their driver’s test, I was almost willing to buy each a good car and provide a year’s rent somewhere on the opposite side of the country. “Get there safely but get there as fast as you can,” I wanted to say, “and don’t come back until you realize how smart your mom and I actually are.” I remember when I was a teenager
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how folks who were the age that I am now would say, “Enjoy being young. Each new year flies by faster and faster.” And I would say, “Blah, blah, blah and blabbity, blabbity, blabbity.” Just like my teenagers, I knew everything. How frivolous and carefree and invincible I was. It’s the universal story of youth, isn’t it? I told my brother the other day that my new favorite song is “Yesterday, When I Was Young” by Roy Clark. Listen to it; you’ll see what I mean. A faded celebrity singer said one time on a talk show that there wasn’t one darned thing that was good about getting old. I suppose that’s true for once-famous people who have lost their luster and have been forgotten by the public. But I have never been famous or widely known by the public. Getting older for a regular guy like me is just routine; I have no delusions or flashbacks of glory. Look, I’m not saying that getting older is a dream. The inevitable loss of youth can be difficult. Many of you already know it; many more soon will. In sad resignation, I have often said good riddance to much of the foolishness and turmoil of that earlier time, while in my heart I yearn for one more stab at it. I don’t ever remember saying that I wish I could be in my 60s, but I sure hope I can be in my 70s. The alternative is difficult to ponder. Mike Clark writes a regular column for The Globe Leader newspaper in New Wilmington, Pa. He lives outside Columbia, Pa., and can be contacted at mikemac429@aol.com.
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Tales of Glenn Ford Nick Thomas f you’re a fan of old movies, “I have every letter he ever received you’ll recognize what the classics and copies of letters he wrote. I have Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The his baby teeth, the lock of hair from Courtship of Eddie’s Father, and his first haircut, the dish he used as a Fastest Gun Alive all have in baby, and every report card from common: Glenn Ford. Oddly school. There [were] also thousands enough, though he appeared in of photographs and thousands of around 100 feature films, the first books. biography on Ford was only published in 2011. Ford’s son, Peter, authored Glenn Ford: A Life and talked about his dad and the book, which is an insightful Hollywood bio filled with stories of one of film’s most underappreciated actors. In addition to acting, Ford had a number of other interests, including Photo credit: Peter Ford a great fondness for women, which Peter Ford, center, with his parents, Eleanor Powell and Glenn Ford. Peter approaches with objective candor without ever turning the book into a trashy memoir. “He’s perceived by the public as a Jimmy Stewart—a wholesome, allAmerican guy,” Peter told me. “He was that, but he also had a lot of Errol Flynn in him. In reviewing all my sources, I counted 146 women he had a dalliance with, including Marilyn Monroe.” Those sources included Ford’s Ford with Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946). own writings. “My father kept a diary every day of his life since 1933, and I have every one of them. So there was an enormous amount of material there,” explained Peter. “If you picked any day since then, I could tell you what he had for breakfast, where he went, what he did, what he thought, who he talked to, etc.” Glenn Ford was also a packrat of monumental proportions. When Ford Photo credit: Peter Ford died in 2006, Peter says he donated Ford, right, with Peter Ford on many of his father’s personal items to the set of Heaven with a Gun charities. Other items he sold, (1969). including a piano given to Ford by Judy Garland, a slot machine from “Wherever he went, he would Frank Sinatra, and a couch on which take scraps of paper and write his he “entertained” Monroe. thoughts. Often, he would stick In fact, an auction house hauled these randomly in books, along with off two 26-foot-long trucks filled with letters, Christmas cards, and even “stuff ”—and that still barely touched money.” the surface of the contents of Ford’s Peter donated hundreds of those 9,000-square-foot home in Beverly books to libraries but had to check Hills. each one in case his father had left “He saved everything,” said Peter. some long-forgotten treasure within
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its pages. In one, he found many letters from singer Sophie Tucker. Another Ford “hobby” was to secretly record telephone conversations. In the late 1950s, Ford, unbeknownst to his family and friends, installed a phone tap on the family’s phone. After his father died, Peter discovered hundreds of old reel-to-reel and cassette recordings of celebrities and politicians. “He has some of President Richard Nixon,” said Peter with a chuckle. “Isn’t that ironic? The most infamous taper himself getting taped!” Maybe we now know where Tricky Dick got the idea! Peter also recalls childhood Sunday-morning walks with his dad along Santa Monica Boulevard. The two would often stop under a leafy fichus tree, and Ford would ask his son if he wanted some chewing gum. Adept at sleight-of-hand tricks, Ford would appear to pull some chewing gum from the tree, leading young Peter to believe there really was such a thing as a “gum tree.” In another story, Peter remembers flying in a private plane with his dad to Cody, Wyo., for the dedication of the Buffalo Bill Museum. The ceremony culminated with a live buffalo dangling in a harness from a helicopter, flying over the crowd. But as the pilot hovered above the assembled dignitaries, the terrified animal’s bladder and bowels proved somewhat unstable. When combined with the downward force of the chopper’s rotor blades, Peter says it was a most memorable event! Glenn Ford was a complex man, which led to difficulties and intricacies in his professional and personal lives. Peter’s revelations about his dad—as well as his mom, the great dancer Eleanor Powell— provide a fascinating glimpse of the golden age of Hollywood. Thomas’ features and columns have appeared in more than 300 magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of Raised by the Stars, published by McFarland. He can be reached at his blog: http://getnickt.blogspot.com
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Beyond the Battlefield
His Ship Took Part in the Major Pacific Battles During World War II, Part 2 Alvin S. Goodman
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oseph Switaj, 88, of Camp Hill, was a gunner on the destroyer USS Marshall, which took part in many of the major battles of WWII against the Japanese navy and air force. Switaj served aboard the destroyer from the time it was commissioned in 1943 until just before the Japanese surrender. During that time, the ship participated in eight major operations as part of Task Force 58, including: • Asiatic-Pacific raids on Palau, Yap, Ulithi, Woleai, Truk, Satawan, and Ponape • Western New Guinea (Hollandia) Operation • Marianas Operation – Capture and occupation of Saipan, Battle of the Philippine Sea, Third Bonins Raid, and capture and occupation of Guam • Western Carolinas Islands Operation –
Assaults on Philippine Islands • Leyte Operation – Battle of Leyte Gulf and Third Fleet supporting operations • Luzon Operation – Supporting the Third Fleet • Iwo Jima Operation – Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima and Fifth Fleet raids on Honshu and the Nansei Shoto
said the Marshall rescued 21 pilots and air crewmen, some of whom ran out of fuel and had to ditch their planes in the sea, unable to make it back to their carriers. His ship also picked up 44 Japanese survivors of the cruiser Natori, which had been sunk by one of our submarines.
The POWs, who had spent 22 days at sea in a Joseph Switaj, USN. • Okinawa Operation – lifeboat, were transferred Assault and occupation to one of our carriers as of Okinawa we did not have the facilities to detain them. Switaj said his destroyer was credited From November 1944 through January with shooting down or assisting in the 1945, our task force was hit by some very destruction of five enemy aircraft. He
bad typhoons, and many of our ships sustained damage with heavy loss of life, although our destroyer escaped serious damage. During one particular typhoon, the Marshall rolled 62 degrees, and we thought we would capsize. Fortunately, it did not happen. Our ship was tossed in the air and came crashing down. I was afraid our bow would break off. I had a top bunk and ended up on the floor more than once in riding out the storms. Despite the displacement of 2,050 tons, the Marshall was no match for the potential fury of Mother Nature. That’s why, with imminent bad weather, our ship, when low on fuel, filled its empty tanks with water to give it more ballast. Our destroyer had a complement of 329 men. We suffered no fatalities, but three please see BATTLES page 11
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Hospital Gowns Get a Redesign Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES K, maybe it isn’t in the same league as the invention of the microscope, the discovery of penicillin, or the formulation of vaccines, but the creation of the hospital gown that closes in the back will certainly be applauded by every patient who has ever had to wear one and who has had to reach, pull, or twist it just so he can get to the bathroom without exposing his rear end to the world. When I was caring for patients in the hospital, we often used two of those flimsy, thin cotton gowns on our patients, one tying in the back and the second one over it, tying in the front. The patients were not as exposed as they were when they were forced to wear the single gown, and in addition, wearing two gowns made them feel a bit warmer. Sometimes we would let the patients bring pajama bottoms or boxer shorts from home and wear them under
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the gowns. The tiein-the-back version of the gown is handy for nurses and doctors, as it provides easy access to the patient’s back and makes it quick and simple to, for instance, listen to a patient’s lungs or Photos courtesy of Henry Ford Innovation Institute heart or to give an injection. And it makes it easier for the patient to use the bedpan if necessary.
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However, patients hate those darn gowns. And with good reason. And although they have provided fodder for cartoons for years, it’s time for them to go. I saw pictures of one kind of newly designed gown, and it looks more like a wraparound spa bathrobe. It has a crisscross V-neck closure in the front and elbowlength sleeves. There are snaps instead of
ties and, while it does close in the back, it also has an “access flap” from the neck down to the lower back. The particular gown I saw and read about was created at the Henry Ford Innovation Institute and is currently being used at a hospital in Detroit. So far, patient reviews have been positive. The goal now is getting the design licensed and sold to a manufacturer who can get this going on a grand scale. (I did a little research on the Internet and found that other designers and companies are working on this issue as well.) The current tie-in-the-back design goes back to the early 20th century, and while they were a great idea in a time when patients stayed flat in the bed much more than they do today, they haven’t changed much since then, and they certainly don’t offer any measure of privacy.
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And here’s another benefit of the spalike gown, beyond preserving patient dignity: The new gown is made of a thicker fabric, so using two gowns on patients who are cold (in addition to being embarrassed) would no longer be necessary, thus saving on the number of gowns the hospital needs to purchase. The manufacturing cost of the new gowns is comparable to those of the old
ones, and yes, the new gowns launder up well. So, while it may not win the Nobel Prize, a gown that closes in the back will be dearly loved. Way to go, designers! Gloria May is a registered nurse with a master’s degree in adult health education and a Certified Health Education Specialist designation.
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Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
Crafting the Roads and History of New Hampshire honda Besaw carefully places three small pouches on her dining room table. They are meticulously adorned with very tiny beads. One has three flowers, another has a geometric design, and the third—my favorite—has sparkles of light that swirl across a black background. Besaw explains that the sparkles represent her people as they cross over the Milky Way to a place where they will be reborn. Besaw’s people are the Abenaki, a tribe that has lived in southern Quebec and northern New England since before the beginning of oral history. Yet many people are unfamiliar with their culture and contributions. Besaw, an award-winning Native artist whose work is regularly shown in galleries throughout the Northeast, is on a mission to change this. “The Abenaki are still here,” she says. “Through these beads, I hope to share the story of our survival.”
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Crafting takes people along the back roads, where scenes like this abound.
Award-winning artist Rhonda Besaw uses beads to tell stories of her people.
Dartmouth history professor Jere Daniell calls Hillsborough “a quintessential New Hampshire town.”
My husband and I are visiting Besaw in her home, which is in a small village in the north woods of New Hampshire. The drive took us through the Notch, an area where you can’t communicate by cell phone but where you can—if you’re good at this sort of thing—talk with moose and bear. We were, in all respects, on a “road less traveled,” and this, for us, is part of the joy of “crafting,” a word that we coined more than 20 years ago. Crafting is the art of getting to know a place—its history, its traditions, its people—through its handmade objects. New Hampshire is the perfect place for this type of travel. In 1932 it became the first state to officially support its artists by establishing The League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, and the state’s craft tradition—which includes Native, Colonial, Shaker, and contemporary work—is among the nation’s finest. Besaw’s work includes beaded bags, moccasins, leggings, and drool-worthy
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necklaces and earrings. Her images are not reproductions of traditional designs but rather interpretations of ancient themes. In this way she passes on not only stories of her ancestors, but also their spirits. Our quest to glimpse New Hampshire’s colonial heritage takes us to Hillsborough Center, a town that is New England to its core, right down to the white-steepled church and stacked-stone fences. Jon Gibson, a second-generation pewterer, greets us with a smile. “I’ll show you the old schoolhouse, and then we’ll go into my studio,” he says. This is how we come to spend the morning in a 200-year-old schoolhouse as well as in an equally old post-andbeam barn, all the while learning about a craft that was essential to the daily life of the early settlers. I pick up a porringer and admire its decorative handle. “Paul Revere worked in silver rather than pewter, but he made some of the most famous colonial porringers,” says Gibson. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has in its collection several pieces made by Paul Revere as well as a few items made by Jon Gibson, a fact of which
Jon Gibson uses an old lathe to make pewter vessels in the traditional way.
Arched stone bridges near Hillsborough are examples of the dry-laid masonry that is a hallmark of what is aptly nicknamed “The Granite State.”
Sumner Bennett recalls New Hampshire’s Shaker tradition as he makes sets of nested boxes.
Gibson is rightfully proud. Some of Gibson’s pieces—which include bowls, plates, mugs, tankards, and candleholders—are cast, some are hammered, and some are spun on an antique lathe. From Hillsborough Center we travel to Amherst, where we meet Sumner Bennett, who painstakingly crafts individually fabricated Shaker boxes. The
Shakers, who arrived in the colonies in the late 1700s, believed in devoting their “hands to work and their hearts to God,” and thus became known for items that were made with utmost love and precision. I look at a set of oval nested boxes, perhaps the most well known of the Shaker crafts, and quickly realize the necessity for such precision. The top of
each box must not only fit snuggly onto the bottom of its handcrafted mate, but each box must also be sized to fit into the next larger one. Bennett makes sets that consist of up to 10 nested boxes. He is relaxed as he demonstrates the various steps required to make the boxes, from preparing the wood to cutting the ovals and distinctive finger-shaped joints that keep the boxes from buckling. As with Besaw and Gibson, Bennett’s willingness to share his knowledge, both technical and historical, gives me insight into the past, teaching me not only how people lived, but also how they thought. Like all our crafting journeys, we run out of time much too soon. There are more crafts to explore, more history to learn. We haven’t even begun to delve into the state’s thriving contemporary art scene. For that, we’ll have to return. The Annual League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair, which showcases the work of more than 350 craftspeople, takes place this year Aug. 3–11. Rhonda Besaw: www.rhondabesaw.com Jon Gibson: www.gibsonpewter.com Sumner Bennett: www.sbshakerbox.com Other NH craftspeople: www.nhcrafts.org Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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The Search for Our Ancestry
DNA Interrupted Angelo Coniglio
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When I explained this to Ancestry, had recently. they graciously agreed to refund my I volunteer as a librarian at my local money. Mormon FamilySearch Center. Recently Unfortunately, this episode throws a I was helping a patron with an online monkey wrench search for information into my plan to about the death of her give a Shouldn’t everything grandfather. When I commentary on suggested that we try concerning genealogy these pages the subscription site about my DNA Fold3 be on one of the testing and its (www.fold3.com), she foremost online results. I’ll take a referred to FamilySearch moratorium on (www.familysearch.org) genealogy sites? DNA columns and asked, “Doesn’t Not quite! and resume them FamilySearch have when I have everything?” decided which DNA testing venue to use In this day and age of information, I from the many available candidates. suppose it’s easy to fall into the notion Instead, I’d like to revisit a subject I that everything about everybody is have addressed previously: online somewhere online. So, shouldn’t genealogy resources. My reason for everything concerning genealogy be on returning to this topic is a conversation I one of the foremost online genealogy
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sites? Not quite! FamilySearch has millions of records of all sorts on microfilm, and it is diligently indexing its images of original records so that they will be viewable online. However, I venture to state that “everything” will never be online, neither there nor at any other site. Some sites will have voluminous numbers of ships’ passenger manifests but nothing else. Some will have Civil War pension records but no passenger manifests. Some will have Irish records but no German records, and so on, and so on. Just as every family is different, its history is different, and a genealogy researcher must be prepared to dig out whatever sources are available that apply to his or her unique ancestry. I believe another widely held misconception is that, because many of
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the records we pursue are public documents, they should be available free of charge. Folks object to paying for copies of birth records or paying subscriptions to online venues before they can access information. This philosophy ignores the fact that even with public records, someone has to find them (labor), copy them (equipment and material), mail them (postage), and, in the case of online venues, digitize and organize them (labor and equipment), etc. I pay for an online service for no small annual fee. Using that service, I have found dozens of images of original birth, marriage, and death records for
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shipmates sustained shrapnel wounds and received the Purple Heart. I suffered an injury to my fingers when the gun mount door slammed shut on my hand. We had one close call when one of our crew, who was doing some deck painting, accidentally triggered a depth charge rack. The barrels rolled into the sea while we were anchored, but they were in the safe mode and did not explode. Had they blown up, our ship could have been destroyed or badly damaged. When activated, they are programmed to go off at certain depths. Some of our frogmen retrieved the explosives from the shallow water and returned them to the ship. On March 19, 1945, during the Okinawa Operation, enemy air attacks were heavy and our carrier, the Franklin, was hit by an enemy bomb, resulting in fire and tremendous explosions throughout the ship. Our destroyer was one of the ships designated to stand by the stricken carrier. After rescuing 212 men in the face of recurring air attacks, we joined the special group screening the carrier, which was then listing badly but still afloat. Her crew assigned to damage control put out the fires and she was taken in tow. Later, she got up steam and was able to sail out of the danger area under her own power, although not before two near misses had been scored on her. Of those plucked from the water, 17 crewmen of the Franklin subsequently died while onboard our ship and received the traditional burial-at-sea services. The carrier’s survivors were delivered to Ulithi on March 24. On April 14, 1945, ours was one of seven destroyers attacked by 18 kamikaze planes. Two of our destroyers were hit,
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Calendar of Events
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July 6, 7 to 8 p.m. – Snakes of Pennsylvania, Pine Grove Furnace State Park July 7, 4 to 8:30 p.m. – Music on the Mountain Concert: Two Classic-Rock Bands, Kings Gap Environmental Education Center July 13, 7:30 to 9 p.m. – CCC in Pennsylvania: Pine Grove 100th Anniversary Event, Pine Grove Furnace State Park
Big Spring Senior Center – (717) 776-4478 91 Doubling Gap Road, Suite 1, Newville Mondays in July, 2:15 p.m. – Group Painting Session July 5, 10 a.m. – Dan Dorty, Organist July 31, 9:30 a.m. – Rails to Trails Senior Citizen Walk
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Mondays and Wednesdays, noon to 12:45 p.m. Silver Sneakers Class: Muscular Strength and Range of Movement Living Well Fitness Center 207 House Ave., Suite 107 Camp Hill (717) 439-4070 July 2, 7 p.m. CanSurmount Cancer Support Group HealthSouth Acute Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd. Mechanicsburg (717) 691-6786 July 4, 10:30 a.m. New Cumberland Town Band Performance New Cumberland Public Library 1 Benjamin Plaza New Cumberland www.nctownband.org
July 9, 7:30 to 10 p.m. New Cumberland Town Band Performance Dauphin Lions Club Carnival 202 Church St., Dauphin www.nctownband.org July 10, 11:30 a.m. NARFE West Shore Chapter 1465 VFW Post 6704 4907 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg (717) 737-1486 www.narfe1465.org Visitors welcome; meeting is free but fee for food. July 10, 1:30 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group HealthSouth Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd. Mechanicsburg (717) 877-0624
Free and open to the public. July 10, 6:30 p.m. Amputee Support Team Annual Picnic HealthSouth Acute Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd. Mechanicsburg (610) 867-9295 rbuck18015@verizon.net www.astamputees.com July 16 1 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Mechanicsburg Church of the Brethren 501 Gale St., Mechanicsburg (717) 766-8880
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Her positive mind has forged the way for a positive life. And her natural charisma may be what prompted so many women to join the Women’s Writing Circle that Weidener began in November 2009. The Women’s Writing Circle began out of Weidener’s hope and dream of finding kindred spirits who could connect as a community of writers. “It is very important when you are a writer to ease the loneliness and isolation of the work and find a community of likeminded souls,” Weidener said. “All of these women have given me a new lease on life.” The group of women meets on the second Saturday of each month at a local bookshop. They share their writing with each other and offer support and validation—things essential to any writer’s success, both in their careers and as individuals. “The emphasis is on how writing can lead to healing, self-discovery, and empowerment,” she said. To merely say that Weidener loves writing would be an injustice to her true feelings, as she loves every aspect of it— “even the blood, sweat, and tears” that go into it. “I found that writing was a journey into the soul—a path to self-discovery, as well as a way to develop understanding and empathy for others,” she said. “When you put on paper what has tormented you, you take away the power
of painful memories and put them Philadelphia Inquirer before leaving the behind you.” paper in 2007. Weidener is quick to point out that While she is committed to freely the group meets to connect not only as cheering others on in their journeys—no writers, but also as matter what age wives, mothers, they may be— daughters, sisters, Weidener has also and friends sharing been so bold as to their journeys. share her own life The group has journey in its rawest since evolved into a form in two monthly critique memoirs. session with a Her first book, concentration on Again in a developing pieces of Heartbeat, was writing for potential published in publication, 2010—the same explains Weidener. Books authored by Weidener as well as year that she turned Workshops have 60. It is a memoir the entire Women’s Writing Circle have also been formed of love, loss, and been featured at the bookshop where from the Women’s dating again. they meet monthly. Writing Circle, Weidener has not where the focus is on the craft and remarried since losing her husband but alchemy of writing. still dates occasionally. The group recently published an “I never met a man as strong or as anthology of stories and poems, called confident, as kind and as honorable as Slants of Light: Stories and Poems From the John,” said Weidener. “What has kept Women’s Writing Circle. The anthology me going since John’s death is the can be purchased in some local memory of how he believed in me, my bookstores or at Amazon.com, and it will strength as a woman, and he never be available as an e-book on Aug. 1. doubted for an instant that I could raise Weidener brought in outside his sons on my own.” workshop instructors to teach on topics She learned a lot about herself as she like fiction and memoir writing and wrote Again in a Heartbeat and hopes the journaling. She shares her own skills and book can help anyone who is going experiences as well. Weidener worked as through the loss of a loved one. a news and feature writer for The “When a person we love has cancer, or
any chronic illness, we may not always live up to our own set of personal standards,” she explained. “My anger and grief should not have been directed at my husband for dying but at the cancer and how the disease impacted our family, our two little boys, and my own naïve dream of a happily-ever-after.” She points out in the book that when a person you love is dying, they will often distance themselves from you. “It would have helped me at the time if I had had someone to talk about it and why I felt so abandoned by him.” Weidener’s second memoir, Morning at Wellington Square, published in 2012, is the story of a woman’s search to find herself beyond traditional roles. She discusses the beginning of the Women’s Writing Circle and the end of her career as a journalist. Leaving the newspaper was painful in its own way; her time in the newsroom was so rewarding and felt like more of a calling than it did a job. “I am always amazed when I think of how an idea to start a writing circle has turned into a place where, over the last three and a half years, more than 200 women have read their work,” Weidener said. “Some come once or twice and don’t return to the circle, while others have been coming steadily for a year, two years, even three.” To follow the happenings of the Women’s Writing Circle, you may visit their blog at www.susanweidener.com.
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