Schlueter's Camp to Close! the link will bring you to the July 2012 edition of the Cornwall Chronicle. Trinity Church of New York has been running it as a conference center; but, has decided to close the camp valued at an estimated $6,000,000. Trinity has not decided whether or not to sell the property. There's a lot of bad karma and tears buried in the earth, the stone, the timbers. Lots of good memories for some, thank God, but for other's the memory is bound in shame, silence.
The man that would model manhood, raise them up in the way they should go, was also the man that held the family sustenance, the young boys' hopes and dreams within his hands. I know he is the man that led my grandfather, guided him to Storr's, and eventually steered him west (which was also Father Huntington's unfulfilled dream) to the Wheelock School in Oklahoma, then Pine Ridge North Dakota, then back to New York, eventually to arrive in Manchester. Schlueter followed my family through these changes, making visits I am told (perhaps enforced time away from the parish to consider changing his pedophile ways). He would eventually retire to Rockport MA, just a few miles from my grandparents. Close tabs and cover were provided through his infiltration of our family.
The legacy of the "Good Father Schlueter" within my family? multi-generational violence, disintegration of family, post traumatic stress disorder, a father that raped and beat every one of his children.
I often wonder how many other families still feel the repercussions of this man's actions.
Gramps loved the farm, if not the man that raped him.
hard words, hard thoughts. so be truth. where there be any error, may i learn.
on the upside: That piece of property would make a terrific artist retreat center.
may there be grace and mercy, best
deb.
