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Page 4A Opinions... The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.com Wednesday, August 13, 2014 Yours, Ours, Others \ Quote of the week 7 ; yee MOUNTAIN Rehearsals begin at the Joy Performance Center in Kings Mountain next Monday, Au- gust 18, for the new Revolu- tionary War drama, “Liberty Mountain.” Director Caleb Sigmon and Producer Jim Champion have assembled a sterling cast of more than 60 talented actors of all ages, and now the exciting process of bring- ing my script to life begins. Caleb will guide the cast through seven weeks of rehearsals, culmi- nating with the world premier performances the first two weekends in October. Equally important will be a host of crew mem- bers, led by stage director/costumer Katy Biser, who will build and decorate sets, design lights and sound, craft authentic costumes, and do the myriad other technical jobs that are essential to a quality stage production. At the same time, work continues on an original musical score that will enhance the dramatic impact of the production. “Liberty Mountain” will tell the story of the settlers who came to the Carolinas in the 18th century, many of them Scots-Irish immigrants who moved to the southern American colonies to build new lives — work, worship, and raise families. They found themselves, often reluc- tantly, caught up in America’s war for independ- ence from Britain. By 1780, the Revolution had dragged on for five wearying years, with most of the battles in the Northeast, and was now at a stalemate. So the British decided on a southern strategy — in- Ui 4 Bob Inman Guest Editorial The Patriots are gathering at Liberty Mountain vade and conquer South Carolina, then North Carolina and Virginia, and trap George Washing- ton’s army between their southern forces and those attacking from the British stronghold in New York. It almost worked. In May of that year, South Carolina appeared firmly in British hands, and their commander, Lord Cornwallis had captured Charlotte. The left flank of his army was a force of a thousand Americans loyal to King George, led by British Major Patrick Ferguson. But when Ferguson and his force camped atop Kings Mountain, they were attacked by a slightly smaller force of Patriots from both Carolinas. Within an hour, the Loyalist force was destroyed ~ killed, wounded, captured. The battle turned the tide in the Revolution and led to the British surrender at Yorktown a year later. “Liberty Mountain” is the story of the people who lived that crucial piece of American history. The production will bring audiences intimately into their homes and churches, their frontier lands, their joys and sorrows, and ultimately onto the battlefield where Americans fought Americans in a grim, savage battle, with liberty at stake. October audiences will be the first to enjoy a stage production that promises to have a long and distinguished life. Plans are already in place for a month-long summer production beginning June 26, 2015 - and for every summer thereafter. The producers expect audiences from far and wide to flock to Kings Mountain for perform- ances at the Joy. Sidewalk Survey Folks around Kings Mountain were asked... Po you think Wal-Mart coming to town will be good for Kings Mountain? I've been living here 20- some years. It will save peo- | think it's great but I'm in fear for the locally owned Honestly, | think it's a good idea. It will save me from | think it's a good idea. | wonder what the hours will ~ Plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Stop the mass school killings We must change how we are raising our children | sold Grit newspapers when | nine years old. It was always a great day when | had sold my last Grit for the week. The profit was five cents per paper. Some weeks | made as much as two dollars! | lived in a very rural area so bicycling up and down the road and knocking on doors took time and was a workout. However, it was al- ways a good feeling of accom- plishment to sell all my Grits. | had other responsibilities as a kid, such as mowing a huge yard with a push mower or cut- ting the hillside with a manual mowing side blade. The list is longer but enough of that. Too many of today’s kids are missing that feeling of accom- plishing something from work. Too much is handed to them. Many come in from school, lock themselves up in their rooms and station them- selves in front of their hi-speed internet computers while tex- ting, posting on Facebook or doing it all on their expensive cell phones. They come and go from the house in cars provided by mom and dad stopping to converse with them only when they need gas or spending money. Some of these same kids never show their report cards, often lie about their whereabouts and are verbally abusive with their parents when they are questioned about any- thing. When asked to do dishes, make their beds, pick up trash or help mow the yard the moaning begins. Whose fault is all of this? It’s our fault. We can only blame ourselves. Parents have tried too hard to give their kids what they did not have. We have tried to make life easier for our kids than it was for us. We have tried to save our children from pain and comfort them with extra cash, gadgets and little to no responsibility. The result has been a generational disaster. Today we have kids who have enough time on their hands to sit and hate their classmates while plotting out how they Glenn Mollette Guest Editorial might destroy them. All of this because their classmates didn’t treat them like King Tut, or how mom and Dad treat them at home. The recent twenty-two year old California kid is a sad ex- ample. He was driving around in a BMW with a car full of ex- pensive guns, cash and time to create hate movies and write insane diatribes about killing people. The tragedy is that he followed through. People were killed and a community is now devastated for the ages. The kid from California needed his butt kicked by his parents, his cash, BMW, and all the gadgets stripped away. We can't lavish the abundance of life on people who are acting like monsters. As parents we make them monsters by contin- uing to underwrite their smart- mouthed, rebellious and even evil behavior. I understand he had severe mental issues. We live in a soci- ety of mental illness and it’s growing. Why is it growing? That's another column. How- ever, we don't like the stigma of mental illness but families must reach out for help. Importantly, we must be very active about implementing strong measures before disaster strikes. Dealing with such an illness requires more than a fifty minute coun- seling session once a week. There are a lot of great hard working kids in America. In most cases the kids in America who grow up a little hungry end up on top. Not always, but in most cases. These are the Kids who have responsibility at home. They have to work some in the family unit. They are ex- pected to earn some of their cash. They are expected to do well in school and know that someday they must leave the house and be on their own without the financial backing of mom and dad. We don’t want another Columbine, Sandy Hook, Vir- ginia Tech or Santa Barbara massacre and one of the ways to stop it is to change how we are raising our children. (Glenn Mollette is an American columnist and author.) Contact him at GMollette@aol.com. We welcome your comments®! Send your Letter to the Editor to: The Kings Mountain Herald ple a trip. | think everybody stores. | like the idea of "be — even though I live in going to Shelby or Gastonia. P.0. Box 769, Kings Mountian NC 28086 in Kings Mountain will shop more jobs though. 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