Penn Manor MAY 21, 2025
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXII • NO 4
Penn Manor senior publishes novel
Millersville will recognize a community leader BY GEORGE DEIBEL
BY GEORGE DEIBEL
a daughter, but loses both his wife and daughter in a tragedy, egendar y acerbic fiction which drives him to vices and author Dorothy Parker is self-loathing. said to have remarked, “I Higgins isolates himself further hate to write, but I love having from his friends and members written.” of the community, and his anger Robert Ethan White enjoys and regret manifest inside him, both aspects of the process. first in recurring nightmares. The Penn Manor High School Then the creatures that were senior’s first book, “Susque- hurting him in his dreams enter hannock,” was recently released the world, hurting the people through Lulu Self he loves. Higgins Publishing. must reconcile with The tome can be himself and the “I hope it’s a book creatures to save purchased by going that helps people the land and other to https://lulu. com, clicking on and that changes people, as well as “Bookstore,” and himself. people.” searching for either “I’ve never been “Robert Ethan a fan of self-help White” or “Susquebooks,” Ethan said. hannock.” Ethan is hoping it will “Fiction exists to provide selfalso become available at local help in a way that’s fun to read. I bookstores and on Amazon. hope my book unites people and Ethan said “Susquehannock” helps someone who is struggling is the story of redemption for a to get past a hard place.” “miserable old man” named Dean He had long had the idea for a Higgins. Higgins is growing up story about a sad, lonely old man in a city when he suffers a trau- living along a river, but the beginmatic experience, which prompts nings of a short story remained his father to take him to a place untouched for years in a docuwhere he will be safe, a small ment titled “Express Yourself.” river community in the SusqueHe woke up one morning in a hannock region. Higgins grows bad mood and started evolving up in an isolated, ratty shack on the character that would become the banks of the Susquehanna Dean Higgins. While on a campRiver. He gets married and has ing trip to Susquehannock State
river, and it looked like I could see the whole world in one view.” He noticed a shack by the side of the Susquehanna, wondered what kind of person lived there, and See Author pg 4
See Dedication pg 7
Penn Manor High School senior Ethan White shows a copy of his debut novel.
Park with a group from church, he came across an overlook called Hawk Point, and he did not overlook it. “I could see left side of the river and the right side of the
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Millersville will honor one of its own. Pavilion A at Freedom Memorial Park will be christened The John Herr Jr. Pavilion in a ceremony that fittingly will be held on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, at 9 Shertzer Lane, Millersville, beginning at 11 a.m. Jack , as he was known, graduated from Penn Manor High School in 1943, served in the military during World War II, operated the family supermarket, and was a friend to numerous local organizations. He died in January 2024 at the age of 99. The ceremony will begin with an invocation by Grace United Methodist Church minister Kerry Leeper. Organizations that donated to the purchase of the plaque will be given the opportunity to have a representative speak at the dedication: the Millersville Area Historical Society (MAHS), which spearheaded the project; the Millersville Lions Club; the Millersville Woman’s Club; the Penn Manor Alumni Association; Millersville-Manor VFW Post 7294; and the Conestoga Area Historical Society.
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