Since he began living with his mother, Tim tried to injure himself twice, once with scissors, the other time trying to electrocute himself, he was just 6 years old. I often tried to get someone in Yellow Springs to listen to his cries, including among others his principal, Jennie Hudson, and Tim’s mother, but I was effectively prevented from doing so. His mother kept me, his father, out of his life by painting me as a monster. I wasn’t aware of the extent of her efforts until I found myself at first avoided, then finally ignored by the only people who could have effectively intervened on his behalf.

Barbara McQuiston’s assassination of my character was apparently complete. Jennie Hudson, whom I had attempted to recruit to help Tim, rejected all efforts, including the psychological testing and evaluation conduced by Dr. Robert Mackenzie. He wrote Hudson and McQuestion to warn that Tim was deeply troubled and needed help. Dr. Mackenzy even predicted that Tim would attempt to self-medicate and if left without care that he would almost certainly self destruct. I didn’t know the reason for her character assassination campaign until the Green County detectives informed me that she had faked her education credentials, that she had duped everyone, including her employer (YSI) into believing that she had a Ph.D.

The last two years of Tim’s life (from 16-18) Barbara McQuestion lived half of the year in California and the other half in Yellow Springs. Tim lived solely in Yellow Springs. The mother of one of his friends told me that Tim was often left to fend for himself, that his loneliness was palpable, that it caused her to feel that she had to care for him as his mother. She often make him meals, and treated his bumps and bruises.

Bad apples don’t grow on trees, that’s because the tree provides access to plenty of nutrition and sunlight. But if not picked in time however, the ripe ones will fall from the tree, and will only then, in time, go bad.

Thank you Rob.

Joe, Will, and Henry. Each of you live in Yellow Springs, each of you cherish Yellow Springs, each of you defend Yellow Springs. But where are you getting your information? In a given city grid of homes and a few businesses do you think it’s common to have 50+ felony drug arrests from the residents? Wasn’t there just a “grow” operation taken from the home of the Village Mediator who was reported to have children in the home? Do you know the amount of crime in your Village?

Yellow Springs is unique I’ll give it that. The villagers complained and cared more for a dog shot a few years ago than the officer that shot it. It was never reported the officer was in a foot pursuit and the man told his dog to attack. It was never reported the man (now in prison for beating a homeless man with a hammer in front of Art’s Theatre) was a drug dealer.

Which is another unique topic for Yellow Springs. The liberal paper. There’s a winner for best toilet paper. They don’t report on the real news because, as with many colleges, the real news would tarnish the tye dyed shine off your town. Was it ever reported a young man got his eyeball knocked completely out and was rushed to the hospital in a felonious assault at the Post Office. My god…if you only knew the stuff that happens in your little town. But you three are content with putting your heads down and pretending it’s fair weather all around.

Yellow Springs is the Community without consequence!!