One Hundred Years of Service Through Community: A Gould Farm Reader

Steven K. Smith‏ · Terry Beitzel‏

اپریل 2014 · University Press of America

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This reader consists of diverse writings about Gould Farm, considered the nation’s oldest residential rehabilitation community. The Farm now assists those with persistent mental illness. Informed by a Christianity that was neither sectarian nor doctrinaire, yet steeped in the Sermon on the Mount, Will Gould and his wife, Agnes, founded the Farm in 1913. In addition to serving those who arrive at Gould Farm as “guests,” the Farm has assisted refugees during World War II, hosted civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s, and sponsored three Vietnamese brothers who fled their country in the 1970s. More recently, the Farm hosted a family navigating the loss of a loved one in Iraq.

One Hundred Years of Service Through Community includes essays, letters, and book excerpts about Gould Farm written over the last 100 years including pieces by theologian James Luther Adams, author Rosemary Antin, sociologist Henrik F. Infield, Haverford College’s Douglas V. Steere, and Appalachian Trail founder Benton MacKaye. The book also includes a story of a brief encounter in 1961 between a Gould Farm executive director, a guest, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Steven K. Smith grew up on Gould Farm, where his parents lived and worked. He later returned to the Farm and now sits on the Farm’s Board of Directors. He is an investigator with the Office of the Public Defender in Winchester, Virginia, where he is also a member of the local National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). He has written for Communities Magazine, Latin American Perspectives, and The Mennonite Quarterly Review.

Terry Beitzel, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Justice Studies at James Madison University. He graduated from Harvard University and George Mason University. His teaching and research topics include issues and theories of justice, responsibility, and nonviolence. Beitzel is a member of the Justice Studies Association and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Gandhi Center at James Madison University. Recent publications include Living with Ambiguity, Risk and Responsibility; Building Peace in the Process of Restoring Justice; and From Passivism to Pacifism. Forthcoming books include The Other Side of Justice and Serving Justice.