The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Clergy Association and its partners took a hot afternoon to clean swastikas spray-painted on rocks in an abandoned quarry near the West River.
A group of about a dozen people representing Windham County's interfaith community did the work last Friday, including the Rev. Lise Sparrow, pastor of Guilford Community Church, the Rev. Phillip Wilson of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Cheryl Meachen and her son, Joshua, of First United Methodist Church, the Rev. Barbro Hansson of All Souls Church, and the Rev. Peggy Yingst of Trinity Lutheran Church.
Others helping out included the Rev. Susanna Griefen of Dummerston Congregational Church, the Rev. Emily Heath of the West Dover and Wilmington Congregational Churches and Rev. Sandy Daly of Newfane Congregational Church. Also assisting were Frank Sopper of Habitat for Humanity and Curtiss Reed Jr. of the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity.
The quarry is located about a mile south of the West Dummerston Covered Bridge, the site of a similar incident of racist and anti-semitic graffiti last month. Both cases are under investigation by the Vermont State Police.