They feel it belongs to them and that a Hindu symbol was desecration of the chapel.īut it is not in fact theirs to decide on. The community, including Creech’s numerous descendants, feel Pine Mountain is their heritage, their homeplace. It gave me a better sense of how deeply the community feels about Pine Mountain as the site of generations of marriages and family reunions. Two years ago, I wrote a story about the Nativity Play that has been staged at the Pine Mountain Settlement School every year since the school’s founding in 1913.
We were shocked by this as we had rented out the entire campus of PMSS for our event and were treating the entire property with respect and in the manner we had communicated to PMSS prior to our event.” Our group was told they did not belong there, were desecrating a Christian space, and needed to leave right away. According to the Waymakers’ statement, “the people who entered the chapel demanded that we leave.
Pine Mountain officials asked the Waymakers to move the “healing space” to another location, and the Waymakers agreed, according to the statement.īut before they could do so, a group of men and women in trucks and on ATVs, entered the Pine Mountain campus, blocked the exit, and then made their way to the chapel. According to a statement from the Pine Mountain board, community members called the interim director and board chair about the chapel. On Saturday, someone took a picture of the chapel and posted it on social media, which was soon shared around the Harlan County community of Bledsoe, where Pine Mountain is located.
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