“And now,” Weaver said, “it feels like home.” Now with children aged between 6 and 15, Jeanine Weaver is a success story, one who found peace with the rural area she ran from so long ago. While she still fears that something like that could happen again, she mostly feels grateful to her new friends and support group, who will always be there for her. And then, she decided last October to rent an office and hang up her accountant sign.
Through the kindness and caring of local residents and her determination, she eventually found work from home as an accountant and moved into her own home.
Weaver remembers the time as a struggle between being a mother of four, trying to find work, and fighting the periods of depression which threatened to overtake her.
That was just a few weeks before she gave birth to her fourth child. No family and friends could take on a pregnant woman and her three young children, but eventually, a friend could relocate her to a shelter. Now pregnant with her fourth child, Weaver, on the advice of a friend, reluctantly decided to return to Adams County. Her partner decided to leave, and soon after, she lost her job and house and was eventually evicted from the apartment where she lived. She attained a degree in accounting and landed a job at Johns Hopkins Hospital, was buying her first home, and looking forward to the future. She left as a young woman to seek her future in the more urban area of Baltimore, where she attended and graduated from college while working and raising three children. Jenine Weaver was born and raised in a rural area of Adams County, but it never felt like home.
Jenine Weaver: And Now It Feels Like Home The YWCA Gettysburg and Adams County Library System provided human books for checkout during National Library Week, April 24 to 29, allowing participants to learn firsthand about other cultures and experiences. The nine living authors who participated include Athar Rafiq: From Diplomacy to Refugee-it has been a Journey Rukhsana Rahman: So where are you from: and other such questions Kay Hollabaugh: The Race to the Blueberry Patch Brigid Goss: Two years in China: Tales from the Middle Kingdom Carla Christopher: The One-Stop Diversity Shop: Story of a black, Jewish, Lesbian Lutheran Pastor-activist Judith Leslie, My Eyes Were Opened Joe and Maria Levenstein: You Shall be Holy: Two paths to Jewish spirituality Lavetta Thomas: TLC for the Soldiers of WWII and Jenine Weaver: And Now it Feels Like Home. In these stories, our reporters share their experiences at the sessions. Participants in the series participated in small groups during 30-minute sessions with the living authors. The model inspired the YWCA’s Acting CEO Nancy Lilley, along with Sara Edminston and Bob Brown from the Adams County Library System, to offer a similar sort of experience locally.
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