Brown and White Vol. 132 no. 11

              The Brown and White Vol. 132 No. 11
Friday, March 10, 2017 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Sarah Epstein/B&W Staff
Lehigh senior guard Austin Price, left, and sophomore forward Matt Holba console each other after Lehigh’s loss to Bucknell, 81-65, Wednesday in
Sojka Pavilion. Lehigh beat Bucknell twice during the regular season.
It’s Lit: Coffee roastery opens on 3rd St.
Daughter of
Charleston
shooting
victim speaks
at MLK lecture
By MEG KELLY
Deputy News Editor
In 1967, the Rev. Sharon Risher
Risher’s mother brought her to a
church to hear Martin Luther King,
Jr. give a speech. Though she could
not see King from the back of the
crowded congregation, she was
moved by his message of forgiveness
and tolerance.
Four decades later, she addressed
the Lehigh community Tuesday eve-ning
in Baker Hall at Zoellner Arts
Center as this year’s MLK lecturer.
In her talk, Risher spoke of loss
and reaching forgiveness on her own
terms.
The lecture was co-sponsored by
the department of Africana stud-ies
and the university’s Dialogue
Center.
Risher’s mother, Sexton Ethel Lee
Lance, was one of the nine victims
of the Charleston, South Carolina,
shooting in the Mother Emanuel
African Methodist Church on June
15, 2015. Among the other victims
were two of Risher’s close friends
and a cousin.
Risher began the lecture with a
reflection of the events that led up
to the shooting. She read aloud the
names of the victims, pausing for
a moment when she reached her
mother.
“To say that I am truly over-whelmed
with raw emotion 21
months after this tragedy has hap-pened
is understating what I truly
feel,” Risher said.
Her voice wavered as she described
her mother’s life, mentioning how her
mother took classes at her daughter’s
high school, and they both graduated
on the same day. How guests could
never leave Lance’s house “without a
meal or a trinket.” How her mother’s
life tragically ended at the hands of
Dylann Roof while he joined Lance’s
group for Bible study.
Risher said she was in Dallas
when the tragedy occurred, and it
took several days for her to gather
herself and fly home. Forty-eight
hours after the shooting, Risher
watched her sister Nadine Collier at
a televised press conference.
The reverend was struck by how
her sister and other members of the
church said they forgave Roof. For
Risher, it still felt too soon.
“During the trial, the word ‘for-giveness’
was thrown around like it
was any other word,” Risher said.
“Most of us don’t take the act of
forgiveness as a deep, spiritual pro-
See MLK Page 3
By MADISON GOUVEIA
Managing Editor
Matt Hengeveld believes a great
cup of coffee is like a great steak.
“When you have a really good cut
of meat you don’t want to serve it
well done because all you’re tasting
is the char, not the meat,” he said.
“If you roast coffee too dark, all
you’re tasting is the burned parts,
not the integral flavors of the cof-fee.”
Lit Coffee Roastery and
Bakeshop, which opened Friday at
26 E. Third St. and is co-owned
by Hengeveld and his friends Dan
Taylor and Melanie Lino, operates
with this idea at the core of its
production.
Hengeveld started roasting his
own coffee as a hobby when he
couldn’t find what he was looking
for in a Lehigh Valley cup of joe. He
felt chain shops didn’t put enough
care into preserving the integrity
of a coffee bean’s natural flavors, so
he learned how to do it himself. He
began spending time at The Wise
Bean on the North Side where he
was first initiated into the world of
roasting coffee.
He experimented with coffees
from different areas of the world
and enjoyed being in control of
deciding which coffees he want-ed
to roast. His first roaster was
a whirley-pop, a stovetop roast-er
also used to make popcorn. As
he refined his skills, his machines
became more advanced.
With every temperature fluctu-ation
of his small, two kilogram
roaster he learned to distinguish
between light, medium and dark
roasts, acknowledging the natural
flavors of different beans.
“Everyone who handled it before
you had an idea of what this coffee
is supposed to be like,” he said.
“And to over roast it is to say, ‘None
of that mattered.’”
His hobby became a business
when Taylor, who had been roast-ing
coffee at Square One Coffee
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, called
him spontaneously to ask if he’d
want to start a coffee-roasting busi-ness.
He had no idea Hengeveld
was already roasting, he just knew
he could count on his old friend
who “was always one to have weird
See LIT Page 3
Born out of farmers market stands, Monocacy
Coffee Co. and Made by Lino settle in Bethlehem
March Sadness
Lehigh falls to
Bucknell in PLC