[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Another Loss and Archives Find

Mon Feb 10 10:34:58 PST 2014

Just to be clear: It was Esther Lyman who died; all three daughters are alive, so far as I know. Sue and Darryll live in Lemmon now, I believe.
(My English-teacher nerdiness is showing.)
Esther was a fine woman and of great help to us when we lived in Cannonball. We also saw her and Tom from time to time after we moved to Bismarck. We have all lost a great friend and terrific spirit woman.
(Those of you who read Kathleen Norris know this family was mentioned in her book Dakota: A Spiritual Geography.)
Pat Druckenmiller

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From: "Beret Griffith" <beretgriffith at charter.net>
Sent: February 10, 2014 10:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Another Loss and Archives Find

Thank you Margaret. Helen Lyman was in the Minneapolis House when I was
there  in the early 70's. I recall her as a strong, thoughtful young woman.

And.your note brought up a memory of doing circuits in North and South
Dakota. I was on the Fargo to Bismarck run.  I knew there was a young pastor
at Cannon Ball who was interested in EI work. I set out to find him.  I
headed south out of Bismarck/Mandan not knowing exactly where I was going,
except it was  roughly 40 miles south. HDP locations had not yet been
selected. I got lost, stopped the car on the highway and along came a state
police car. I mentioned Cannon Ball and the Pastor's name. The policeman
knew him, gave me directions and sent me on my way. Found the pastor, we had
a cup of coffee and talked a bit. I recall the desolation and desperate feel
of the place. Later after the HDP's were selected I was at the Cannon Ball
Consult. The pastor was no longer there.

Loving The ICA Global Archives, I looked up Cannon Ball on Explorer.  For
the Internet search I entered:

cannon ball north Dakota hdp

A document came up in the midst of a lot of references starting with "Cannon
Ball, North Dakota" and one was listed as

Native American - Wedgeblade.net  I clicked on it and found a document from
Golden Pathways,   REPORT ON NATIVE AMERICAN TREK. It starts out, "This is a
brief report on an almost 10,000 mile trip to nine states covering 58 days
visiting 49 possible sites on 23 reservations among 26 tribes for a Native
Human Development."  It is a good read. There is no attribution. Does anyone
know who wrote the report?

COLLEGIUM October 1, 1976, CHICAGO NEXUS

http://wedgeblade.net/gold_path/data/worc/101459.htm

Beret Griffith

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[mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Margaret Aiseayew
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 9:30 PM
To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'
Subject: [Oe List ...] Another Loss

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to inform you of another loss to our community.  It may clearly
have participated in the strength of the dream I shared.

Esther Lyman of Lemmon, South Dakota, passed on January 19 at the age of 95.
She, along with her husband Tom who died some over ten years ago were great
guardians of our mission for many years.  Among other things, they lent our
task four of their children and they only had four.  Almost all of us know
one or more:  Helen Lyman Williams (in Toronto), George Lyman (Texas), Addie
Lyman Holm (South Dakota) and Susan Lyman Marley (who along with Darrell is
in Massachusetts).

As far back as the seventies when we didn't have the money we promised
ourselves to have to start new houses in Europe, the Lyman's gave us what
was needed to secure an apartment in Rome.  They were wise and only did it
when we all had jobs and enough money coming in to sustain ourselves, but no
prospects for a sufficient windfall that would pay our advance rent
guarantee.  Addie and Susan came to visit us in that apartment.  Tom and
Esther came to visit after we had already moved to Trastevere (remember that
was one of the original eight HDPs that we never did).

Probably any one of us in a house with one of the family has memories we
could share.  I know that they were a lifeline to Cannonball when a project
finally got that close to the family ranch in Lemmon.  Esther always joked
with me that she was glad that Esther was my daughter's name because the
pattern of naming children was such that she had feared the use of that name
might die with her.

I don't know what else to say except that it feels necessary to honor those
who year after year guarded our mission.  Nancy Trask was  interviewed on
Public Radio last week (as the town librarian) about one of the notables of
Winterset who was/is one of the characters in the new movie Monuments Men.
The interviewer asked her what was special about Winterset in that it had so
many notables (also home of John Wayne).  She said (loosely quoted)that
every community had heroes, lots of them.  We just didn't look for or pay
attention to their stories.

Thanks for that good word, Nancy.

Blessings to you all, Margaret

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