Southern Indiana Living MayJune 2017

• Special Section: Home Improvement • 

Southern 

IndIana 

Inside This Issue: 

Summer Fun 

in SoIN 

May / June 2017 

Living 

Beany 

Smith: 

Life Behind the 

Wheel

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Featured Stories 

18 | YOU CAN CALL HIM BEANY 

Life has been good to this Southern Indiana Raconteur 

29 | RUGGED MANIAC 

Two Perspectives 

Special Sections 

30 | SUMMER FUN 

Inspiration for summer fun in Southern Indiana 

12 

45 | HOME IMPROVEMENT 

Southern Indiana’s guide to updating and renovating 

your home 

Southern Indiana Living 

MAY / JUNE 2017 

In Every Issue 

7 | FLASHBACK PHOTO 

Farmers Market, 1916 

9 | A NOTE TO BABY BOOMERS 

Recognizing the Importance of Recognition 

30 

11 | A WALK IN THE GARDEN WITH BOB HILL 

Signs of Spring 

12 | OUR TOWN 

Charlestown, Indiana 

22 | COMMUNITY PAGES 

Spotlight on the 17th annual Imagine Awards, NA-FC 

Education Foundation, and more! 

26 | #BUYLOCAL 

Local Business Spotlight 

44 | LIFE BEYOND DUCT TAPE 

Sneaking in a Granny Column 

11 

50 | EVERYDAY ADVENTURES 

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A Note to Baby Boomers 

Recognizing the Importance of 

Recognition 

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The only child of Jane and Art Moss is becoming 

a hall of famer. I got the good 

news between dinner and dessert on a 

Friday night. 

Then I waited and waited for the OK to 

tell somebody. I am about as good at patience 

as I was at disco dancing. After all, this was the 

best news since my grown-up daughter finally 

got her own cellphone bill. This is me — a guy 

who misspells “dessert” without help — joining 

a list of writers that includes Ernie Pyle. 

Forget that I probably am more like 

Gomer Pyle. Remember that I apparently made 

the most of my opportunity to tell Southern Indiana’s 

story in The Courier-Journal. Am I worthy 

of the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame? A panel 

of strangers says so. 

That group likes the life I breathed into 

the newspaper for a quarter century. I spotlighted 

friends and neighbors often more special 

than the people who most 

assume themselves special. 

Long before this honor, I felt 

honored to learn at the side 

of those typically not out to 

teach. Ordinary people offer 

the most extraordinary inspiration, 

again and again. 

Computer programmers, 

insurance salesmen, 

chefs, plumbers — the 

tops in any field deserve 

their names on a wall and 

a standing ovation. 

They invariably 

were surprised to be singled 

out. And so am I. 

I had grown grateful winning kudos 

while in the grocery store line or at a ballgame. 

Big-time awards are rarely earned from writing 

about coon supper organizers, a woman who 

loves Lassie as much as life itself and a man who 

pans for gold he will not find. The Pulitzer Prize 

committee obviously was unimpressed that I 

found a woman who taught fish to eat hot dogs 

out of her mouth. 

Nevertheless, now I get to put on a tie 

and go give a speech in Indianapolis. 

I bring this up not to urge you to change 

your summer vacation plans to join the mobs at 

the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in Bloomington. 

(Think of Walt Disney World without 

the overpriced bottles of water.) My point is less 

to brag and more to encourage you to feel good 

about how you spend, or spent, your life’s work. 

Doing well on the job may matter less 

than doing well at home, or with God, or in 

school. But it should matter more. 

If there is not a hall of fame for machinists 

or accountants, or one for bus drivers 

or receptionists, there could be. Computer programmers, 

insurance salesmen, chefs, plumbers 

— the tops in any field deserve their names on a 

wall and a standing ovation. 

One of my hometown’s busiest streets 

is named for my grandfather. He was more than 

worthy and I am proud. Thing is, we are about 

out of roads and parks and such to label in salute. 

Today’s leaders worry that to recognize some is 

to honk off others. So too many important people 

die without their marks duly appreciated. If 

only Indiana had built that Ohio River bridge in 

time for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to 

help cut the ribbon. 

Sometimes we sell names, understandably, 

to sports stadiums, rather than choose them 

on merit. Other times we hand out trophies and 

ribbons merely for showing up, not for standing 

out. The place for recognition is all over the 

place. 

Pats on the back both are nice and necessary. 

Being named a hall of famer is like magic 

to me. Too many nights or weekends away from 

home now seem worth it. Too many years of mini 

pay raises and mega health-insurance 

hikes are easier to blow 

off. My career feels like more of 

an accomplishment, my retirement 

better earned. 

If I am lucky, someone 

I most love will read this 

column. I am not always lucky. 

My biggest fan, my mother, 

died nearly 20 years ago. An 

English major, she enjoyed the 

heck out of me knowing an adverb from an adjective. 

My father, who passed away when I was 

a still-younger man, had been less impressed. 

Then an editor gave me World Series tickets and 

I took Dad to Cincinnati. He never again suggested 

I apply to law school. 

Jane and Art Moss will be at my Hall of 

Fame induction in spirit. Thank goodness they 

no longer can insist on sitting in the smoking section. 

Like my parents, you could see my 

work. When I screwed up, everybody this side 

of Australia seemed to notice. Many people do 

not have jobs like that. When they excel, it may 

go without a hint of praise. 

That is a shame. Thank somebody today 

for a job well done. Thank you. • 

After 25 years, Dale Moss retired as 

Indiana columnist for The Courier- 

Journal. He now writes weekly for the 

News and Tribune. Dale and his wife 

Jean live in Jeffersonville in a house 

that has been in his family since 

the Civil War. Dale’s e-mail is dale. 

moss@twc.com 


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A Walk in the Garden with Bob Hill 

Signs of Spring 

Peonies, bloodroot, hostas and poppies are in bloom 

From where I now sit, the window 

to my gardening world is divided 

into six rectangular panes. Our 

house is about 150 years old, the 

glass much younger. The outside images 

of approaching Spring are clean and clear, 

the world a million shades of green. 

For 42 years, we have been in this 

house. It spoke to me the first minutes 

we walked into it and it still talks to me 

now. There are no words involved. It just 

speaks. I listen. No translation required. 

With eight Hidden Hill acres in 

which to play and plant, the dozen separate 

gardens outside our house can be 

overwhelming. Window-gazing-whileyou-write 

brings it all down to size. One 

garden at a time. I can see the trees for the 

forest. 

But it’s not just our trees. There is an 

old red hand pump in the side yard which 

could be as old as our house. Every time I 

look at it I think about the men who dug 

the well below it, lined its sides with brick 

and cement, pumped up the water from 

the depths below as their reward. 

There was an old, rotting fence 

around this side yard when we bought 

the house. We tore it out, opened things 

up and began the planting that continues 

to this very day. 

There are four Japanese maples out 

there, cut-leaf to full-moon, their summer 

leaves light green to maroon red. They 

are magnificent in late fall, drenched in 

orange and scarlet. Most of that happens 

after we close Hidden Hill in October. The 

colors are all mine. It never hurts to be a 

little selfish in gardening. 

Just around the corner is a weeping 

Japanese snowbell covered in dangling, 

delicate, white bell-shaped flowers. Somebody 

named it “Carillon.” Spring music. 

They got that right. 

The snowbell reaches out toward 

our dwarf peach tree, a gift from a man 

named Theodore Klein, an old-school 

gardener who grew his art at what is now 

Yew Dell Botanical Gardens. It flowers a 

lovely pink each spring. Right next to the 

white bell flowers. Right by our side door. 

Theodore lives. 

Our peonies are slowly rising from 

the earth now, thick masses of dark green 

leaves on slender stems. Their frothy, 

delicate flowers will be along in another 

month, a sure precursor to the thunderstorms 

that will obliterate them. 

Our bush peonies have as companions 

tree peonies, incredible showy flowers 

on woody stems. They only bloom for 

about 10 days — or is it ten minutes? Tree 

peonies can be stubborn about that. Their 

blooms just don’t last very long. Enjoy us 

while you can, they say. Real poets could 

find a larger message in that. 

There is an old red hand 

pump in the side yard 

which could be as old as 

our house. 

Our yellow daffodils are fading 

now. A single red-and-orange tulip rises 

up among them, looking lonely, the last 

survivor of the family. I’ve now decided 

to plant new tulips every fall and dig out 

the old as they fade. What’s more sad than 

one lonely tulip? 

There is one clematis vine growing 

up a flower-shaped arbor next to the 

dwarf peach, the vine, now in bud, patiently 

waiting its turn. The arbor was 

crafted by a man who had since died, but 

his art lives on. Maybe that’s all we can 

ask for. 

The clematis is named Etoile Violette, 

which in French means “Violet Star.” It 

has a deep purple flower that grows to a 

restrained 10 to 12 feet. The French name 

gives it some class, a larger mission. Any 

good garden must be a little bilingual, 

even in Indiana. 

A little further away, out past the 

red-brick edging and the cement bird 

birth, is our bloodroot, or the Sanguinaria 

canadensis if you speak Latin. All I can remember 

from my high school Latin is amo, 

amas, amat. It must have taken. I’ve been 

married to my high school sweetheart for 

54 years. 

I love bloodroot because, a little like 

the tree peony, its funky flowers are shortlived, 

and the plant goes dormant by midsummer. 

Enjoy me why you can, it whispers, 

because I’ll be gone before you know 

it. 

Our hostas are now peeking up in 

cylindric cones over by the bloodroot and 

beneath the protective limbs of our Japanese 

maples. The hostas rise in assorted 

greens, yellow and blues. They are very 

happy there in deep, rich soil, waiting to 

push up long scapes topped with white, 

often-fragrant flowers. Buried beneath 

them are my oriental poppies, ready to 

toss up their flimsy orange leaves with 

black centers. Poppies always seem more 

a novelty than a treat, except for one of my 

favorite poems by John McCrae. 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow 

Between the crosses, row on row, 

That mark our place; and in the sky 

The larks, still bravely singing, fly 

Scarce heard amid the guns below 

We are the Dead. Short days ago 

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 

Loved and were loved, and now we lie 

In Flanders fields. 

You can think about a lot of things 

looking out the window at your Spring 

garden. • 

About the Author 

Bob Hill owns Hidden Hill 

Nursery and can be 

reached at farmerbob@ 

hiddenhillnursery.com. 

For more information, 

including nursery hours 

and event information, go 

to www.hiddenhillnursery. 

com 


Our Town 

Our Town: 

Charlestown, 

Indiana 

Charlestown State Park 

May/June 2017 • 12 

Story by John Watkins 

Photos by Michelle Hockman

In 1808, when Charles Beggs assisted 

in surveying and platting a 300- 

acre stretch of land a mile outside 

of Springville, he could not possibly 

have fathomed the immense historical and 

cultural impact his namesake town would 

bring to Southern Indiana. Charlestown 

has periodically undergone tremendous 

town-shaping transformations in the 200- 

plus years since it was founded, but it is 

within the past 20 years that the township 

has become one of the key factors helping 

to redefine Southern Indiana. The most 

noticeable of these changes involves the 

former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant 

(INAAP). 

Drawing upon the abundant supply 

of water furnished by the Ohio River, the 

INAAP (announced in 1940 as the largest 

plant of smokeless powder in the world) 

supplied munitions through several wars, 

including World War II and the Vietnam 

War. More than 27,000 people were employed 

there, and the site helped Charlestown 

and neighboring areas recover from 

the Great Depression. In 1998, Congress 

authorized the split of the former plant 

site between Charlestown State Park and 

the River Ridge Commerce Center. 

River Ridge’s top employers now 

collectively employ well over 5,000 people 

at a 6,000-acre site that includes such Fortune 

500 companies as Enjoy Life Foods 

and Amazon. And River Ridge’s success 

has led to the introduction of another 

business previously thought unlikely to 

succeed in Charlestown. 

Roughly 2½ years ago, when Jill 

Miller was first approached for the general 

manager position of the Cobblestone 

Inn & Suites location in Charlestown, she 

was skeptical of a possible hotel’s success. 

“How would a hotel ever make it in 

Charlestown, Indiana?” she wondered. 

However, after researching the area (and 

River Ridge in particular) she said her 

findings revealed the business park was 

“going crazy” with success. With her initial 

concerns abated, Miller and her team 

diligently worked to turn the hotel into a 

thriving venture. “We’ve been open two 

years now, and we won Property of the 

Year last year, and that is out of 84 properties,” 

Miller said. She noted that the 

award is based on sales, and that the hotel 

is “full a majority of the time.” On a recent 

non-holiday Thursday, the hotel had only 

one room available. Miller attributes the 

constant supply of hotel guests not only 

to the economic traffc being brought in 

by River Ridge but also events such as the 

National Farm Machinery Show, the Kentucky 

Derby and the Mid-America Trucking 

Show. 

One of the more touching moments 

at the hotel involved a recent guest and her 

Pictured: (top and bottom) Rose Island is an abandoned amusement park. The land is now part of Charlestown State 

Park. Rose Island was built in 1923, and included a hotel, swimming pool, and an amusement park with wooden coaster 

and ferris wheel. Rose Island could only be reached by boat or footbridge. The park was closed after the 1937 flood, 

though remains of the park can still be found, including the original swimming pool and a few brick formations. The 

“Walkway of Roses” shown below is a recreation of part of the original walkway into the park. In its heyday, you would find 

lightbulbs strung between the arches, and roses climbing up the posts. 


Pictured: (top, left) The First United Methodist Church of Charlestown at 423 Main Cross 

Street; (bottom, left) a beautiful stained glasw window from the First United Methodist 

Church of Charlestown; (top, right) The garden at the Historic Charlestown Mall; (bottom, 

right) A memorial in Jennings Park in downtown Charlestown. 


daughter. “Her daughter’s 18 years old. 

She has cancer, and it was her last chemo 

treatment,” Miller said. “So they came in, 

booked a room, and we actually upgraded 

them to the suite.” The Cobblestone team 

then put an Easter basket in the room, full 

of “fun things” specifically for the daughter. 

“And they left us the sweetest note out 

there,” Miller said, pointing towards the 

front desk. “We meet a lot of neat people. 

We really do.” 

Other members of Charlestown’s 

business community also enjoy creating 

comradery and companionship. 

In 2007, Shawn Vest, a former employee 

of Rich O’s Public House (also 

known as Sportstime Pizza) in New Albany, 

opened the Charlestown Pizza Company 

with his wife, Tajana Johann. Vest, 

an 18-year resident of Charlestown and 

connoisseur of craft beers and high-quality 

pizzas, said there has been a dramatically 

positive change in the town within 

the past seven of his 10 entrepreneurial 

years. “We get more corporate customers. 

We get people on their lunch breaks now.” 

Vest also attributes the restaurant’s 

success to lower operating costs than 

those found in larger cities like Louisville. 

But another key factor is his and 

his team’s interactions with customers. 

“It’s definitely more community-oriented 

where we’ve known most of our customers, 

seven, eight, nine, 10 years,” he said, 

smiling. “It’s like Norm from ‘Cheers.’” 

Vest added that Charlestown is “a really 

nice place to live now, and I think it’s 

getting better. When we first moved here, 

there wasn’t a lot of excitement about this 

part of Clark County at all. Whereas now, 

it seems like most of the excitement in 

Clark County is east of 265.” • 

For historical information about Charlestown, 

visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlestown,_Indiana. 

The Charlestown Pizza Company, 850 Main Street 

Information on the INAAP can be found at 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Army_Ammunition_Plant. 

Additional information on the INAAP is at 

charlestown-in.com/history 

For more on River Ridge Commerce Center’s 

top employers, visit riverridgecc.com/siteselection/major-employers 


Crawford County, Indiana’s 2017 Lilly 

Endowment Community Scholar 

Crawford County High School Senior Bree Ann Tyler is honored 

The Community Foundation of 

Crawford County (CFCC), along 

with its Board of Directors and 

Staff, is pleased to announce Bree 

Ann Tyler as its 2017 Lilly Endowment 

Community Scholar (LECS). 

The LECS Program offers this scholarship 

each year through Indiana’s network 

of community foundations. The 

LECS program provides a four-year, 

full-tuition scholarship along with a $900 

yearly stipend for required books and 

equipment to any Indiana college or university. 

Tyler is a senior at Crawford County 

High School and will be pursuing a degree 

in Radiation Therapy in the fall of 

2017. Tyler’s parents are Brad and Patricia 

Tyler of Leavenworth, Indiana. 

All Crawford County senior level 

students were invited to apply. The community 

foundation’s scholarship committee 

used a double-blind approach to 

review the applications, and the nominee 

and alternates were then approved for 

submission by the CFCC Board of Directors 

to Independent Colleges of Indiana, 

Inc. (ICI), the statewide scholarship 

administrator for the Lilly Endowment 

Community Scholarship Program. ICI 

then had final approval of the entire process. 

ICI is a nonprofit corporation that 

represents 31 regionally accredited degree 

granting, nonprofit, private colleges 

and universities in the state. 

The scholarship is the result of a 

statewide Lilly Endowment initiative to 

help Hoosier students reach higher levels 

of education. Indiana ranks among the 

lowest states in percentage of residents 

over the age of 25 with a bachelor’s degree. 

There were 142 scholarships awarded 

statewide. • 

For more information on the Community 

Foundation of Crawford County, visit www. 

cf-cc.org, email us at cf-cc@cf-cc.org, or call 

us at 812.739.2616. 

The CFCC was founded in April 1998 by a 

volunteer Board of Directors that represented 

a variety of interests from Crawford County. 

To date, the CFCC has awarded nearly $6 

million in grants for programs/projects 

supporting Crawford County children and 

youth, education, housing, health and human 

services, the environment, technology 

advancements, literacy and the arts, and has 

awarded more than $2 million in scholarships 

benefiting Crawford County students. 

The CFCC currently manages more than 

75 charitable endowment funds on behalf of 

families, individuals, corporations and nonprofit 

organizations. 

2017 Youth Philanthropy Council 

Pictured: 

Front Row: Teresa Saling, Morgan Hollen, Bree 

Tyler, Emily Williams, and Svitlana Wilhite 

Middle Row: Erin Erwin, Sandreia Breeden, Abby 

Mortensen, Abigail Pierson, Stephanie Johnson, 

Haley Wilhite, and Jenna Ford 

Back Row: Walker Bolen 

Not Pictured: Trevor Knight, Brent Smith, and 

Brianna Atwood 


2016-2017 Winter Education 

Grant Recipients - $40,006 

Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison - Crawford Counties 

Crawford County 4-H Council 

Crawford County CASA 

Crawford County Community School Corporation 

Crawford County Middle School 

Hoosier Hills PACT 

Peacock Children’s Theatre 

YMCA of Harrison County 

2016-2017 Spring Education 

Grant Recipients - $42,900 

Blue River Services, Inc. 

Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison - Crawford Counties 

Crawford County 4-H Council 

Crawford County Community School Corporation 

Crawford County Historical and Genealogical Society 

Crawford County United Ministries, Inc. 

Crawford County, Indiana Veterans Memorial Association 

Fairview General Baptist Church 

Faith of the Mustard Seed Ministry 

Milltown American Legion Post 332 

2017 Scholarship Winners* 

Leavenworth High School Alumni Scholarship 

Leavenworth High School Alumni Scholarship 

Milltown High School Alumni Scholarship 





English High School Alumni Association Scholarship 

CFCC Marengo High School Alumni Scholarship 

Patoka Elementary Alumni Scholarship 

Kaiser Family Scholarship Fund 

Carly Marie Birkla Memorial Scholarship 

Carly Marie Birkla Memorial Scholarship 

Eddie & Robert Hammond Everett Mason VFW Post 6160 

Elsia Patricia Cox Memorial Scholarship 

Larry K. Eastridge Memorial Scholarship 

Noman A. Roggenkamp Memorial Scholarship 

Janet Marie Carr Memorial Scholarship 

Dr. Milton W. & Mrs. Ruth I. Roggenkamp Scholarship 

Novy and Lulu Gobble Memorial Scholarship 

Zachary Robert Allen Baseball Memorial Scholarship 

Teresa Saling 

Sandreia Breeden 

Brianna Atwood 

Emily Williams 

Jeremy Fow 

Tyrell Nickelson 

Walker Bolen 

Carley Allen 

Morgan Hollen 

Helen Bean 

Carley Allen 

Sandreia Breeden 

Samantha Stutzman 

Teresa Saling 

Carley Allen 

Madison Eastridge 

Madison Eastridge 

Helen Bean 

Adam Beasley 

Carley Allen 

Morgan Hollen 

* Not all 2017 Scholarships were finalized at the time of publication * 

CFCC Team 

The vision of the CFCC is to engage a majority of Crawford 

County residents, and friends of Crawford County, as ongoing 

donors for the common good; to be a catalyst in advancing 

philanthropy and charitable giving, developing civic pride 

and citizen leadership in an effort to always be responsive to 

community needs in Crawford County, now and forever. 

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Cover Story 

You Can Call Him Beany 

Life behind the wheel has been good to this Southern Indiana raconteur 

Story by Cary Stemle 

Photo (this page) by John Nation 

Photos (pages 19-21) provided by Beany Smith 

With one notable exception, 

you could call Beany Smith 

the Forrest Gump of Southern 

Indiana. 

Just don’t call him Eugene. 

Gump, of course, is the title character 

of the 1994 film starring Tom Hanks as 

a dimwitted but sweet-natured country 

boy who falls into one historic situation 

after another. 

Smith is a luxury motor coach driver 

for Jeffersonville, Indiana-based Free Enterprise 

System. 

It should be noted that he’s far more 

intelligent than Gump, but he has the 

same knack for being in the right place 

at the right time. Naturally, as fate would 

have it, Smith also knows the “real” Forrest 

Gump, who once gave him a custom 

Hohner harmonica. 


It’s a long story. Let’s start at the beginning. 

Little buddy 

Clay Eugene Smith grew up the third 

oldest of six children in Louisville’s Shawnee 

neighborhood, a close-knit community 

where he cut grass and shoveled snow 

and never met a stranger. Their neighbor 

Mrs. Kurtsinger, whose husband Charley 

won the Triple Crown aboard War Admiral, 

even cautioned Mrs. Smith about her 

chatty little boy. “You better watch him — 

he talks to everyone. Someone will steal 

him!” 

Jack and Ruby Singhiser also lived 

nearby. They owned the popular Fontaine 

Ferry amusement park, and Smith would 

walk Mrs. Singhiser to work on summer 

mornings and do other jobs in exchange 

for riding privileges. 

Kids those days loved a cartoon 

show that followed the exploits of a boy 

with a propeller hat named Beany and 

his friend Cecil, a sea serpent. Cecil often 

came to Beany’s rescue, and one day 

when Beany was getting beaten up by an 

older kid at the YMCA, his big brother 

Ricky stepped in. Their friend Jimmy 

Henken (who happens to be the father of 

Olivia Henken, who sang on “The Voice”) 

took to calling the Smith brothers Beany 

and Cecil. 

Ricky wasn’t thrilled, but young Eugene 

was ready for a new name. 

“My mom’s name was Martha Gene 

— it was misspelled with the man’s spelling 

on her birth certificate,” Smith recalls. 

“When I got old enough to write my name,

I was confused. I had my mom’s name 

and my brothers’ plumbing. I said, ‘Call 

me anything else.’ I just thought Gene was 

a girl’s name.’” 

It stuck — a photo of him sliding 

into second base that ran in the West End 

Star newspaper even identified him as 

“Beany” Smith. 

So did the work ethic he picked up 

at Fontaine Ferry Park, where his love for 

driving on the turnpike foreshadowed his 

life’s work. 

Another piece fell into place after the 

family moved across the river to Jeffersonville, 

Indiana. Beany was determined 

to finish eighth grade at St. Columba, so 

after his dad dropped him off at 39th and 

Market in the morning, he’d catch a TARC 

bus to downtown Louisville after school, 

transfer to a bus that let him out at Ewing 

Lane in Jeffersonville and hitchhike home. 

The youngster was fascinated by the 

bus and loved talking to the Jeffersonville 

driver, Vernon “Mike” Niemeyer. Years 

later that relationship would pay off. 

Smith attended Jeffersonville High 

School (Class of 1975), where his wife 

Kathy (‘76) recalled him as a fun guy to 

be around. “He made you laugh, just being 

silly. He had a lot of friends,” she says. 

They dated for a while in school, then reconnected 

later. 

Beany’s dad died at 45 and his stepmom 

kicked him out, so he finished out 

his senior year living in his car and grabbing 

showers at his friend Billy Zinser’s 

house. 

He spent time in the Navy and 

worked as a deckhand on the Delta 

Queen, the Cincinnati steamboat that 

traveled up and down the Ohio and Mississippi 

rivers. But deckhands work in isolation, 

shielded from the public, and that 

wasn’t going to work for Beany. He got 

off in New Orleans, had a little fun and 

caught a Greyhound bus home. Naturally, 

he chatted up the driver, who spoke 

about the glamorous life of a charter bus 

driver — ball games and golf, nice hotels, 

and a heavily female clientele. 

That sounded pretty good to a 

young single guy, and the wheels started 

turning in his head. 

‘Looking for a career’ 

Greyhound bus drivers had to 

be 25 years old, and Beany Smith was 

only 21. But his high school swim coach 

knew Mike Sodrel, who’d acquired the 

old Home Transit and Daisy Lines bus 

companies that ran in Southern Indiana. 

Sodrel, who also owned a trucking company, 

had added charter bus service. 

Though he didn’t know Sodrel at the 

time, Smith had family members working 

there, and Niemeyer, the bus driver from 

eighth grade, also put in a good word. 

Smith showed up for his interview looking 

like a lot of young people in the late 

1970s. 

“Here was this young guy, twentysomething 

years old with long hair and 

a beard, and I really questioned whether 

he’d give that up to have a career driving 

a motor coach,” Sodrel says. “I told him if 

he was serious to be back at 9 in morning 

with a shave and haircut. I thought that 

was the last I’d see of him.” 

Above: Beany, with the IU pep band before a football game. 

Smith did come back, though, with 

bits of blood-stained Kleenex dabbed on 

his newly buzzed head and some attitude. 

“I told him I was looking for a career, 

not a job,” Smith says, “so if you’re gonna 

hire me today and fire me tomorrow, I’m 

not interested. I told him I’d work two 

weeks for free, and if I was good, then 

keep me busy.” 

Sodrel says Smith showed promise 

from the start. 

“Heavy vehicles in that era all had 

manual gearboxes, and there were no tachometers 

to show you how fast the engine 

was going,” Sodrel says. “It was quite 

an accomplishment to change gears without 

grinding. Beany was a really quick 

study, and he had the people skills to go 

along with it. 

“For a good coach operator, there 

are parallels to be drawn to an excellent 

waiter. ... We’re in the service business. 

You don’t hover over people, but you anticipate 

their needs. That is something you 

develop over time. Beany is very personable, 

and he had what it takes to handle 

both parts of the job.” 

Smith is ever-grateful for Sodrel’s 

leap of faith, and he still tells a story that 

illustrates his mentor’s leadership style. 

The early training included a trip to Nashville 

to carry employees of the Ernst and 

Ernst accounting firm to a company softball 

tournament. Smith had an idea for 

how to kill some time. 

“I told him that since he was teaching 

me to drive, I’d teach him to bowl.” 

Bad idea. 

“I beat him three games,” Sodrel 

says, laughing at the naïveté of Smith’s assumption. 

“I told him, ‘Here’s your first 

practical lesson — it’s in humility. Don’t 

ever tell anyone what you’re gonna do, 

just do it.’” 

Years later on a whim, Sodrel entered 

a bus rodeo sponsored by the American 

Bus Association. He won a regional 

contest in Reno but was disqualified on a 

technicality, so he suggested Smith compete 

at Indianapolis. He won there and 

advanced to the finals, where he completely 

flopped. 

“It was heartbreaking and pretty 

embarrassing that I didn’t do better,” he 

recalls. “I went out on the ocean with Billy 

Zinser, and let’s just say we had a long 

night.” 

Beany is no moper, and he jumped 

right back into the ring. Eleven more times 

he advanced to the finals, never finishing 

worse than third, and six times he came 

in first and earned the title “International 

Bus Driver of the Year.” 

The $5,000 winner’s checks were 

nice, but Smith says the recognition of his 

skills was the real payoff. The competition 

included personal interviews, a written 

test and a staged component that required 

drivers to identify and correct planted defects. 

“It’s the Super Bowl of what I do — 

you can’t win anything bigger,” he says. 

“It was always for personal pride, not the 

money.” 

Six degrees of Beany 

If you’ve been around Southern Indiana 

anytime at all, it’s an even money 

bet that you or someone you know has 

ridden on one of Beany’s buses and heard 

his rapid-fire spiel. 

It goes something like this: 

“Ladies and gentlemen, my name is 

Beany Smith. It’s not a God-given name 

but it works. My real name is Clay Eugene 

Bernard Thomas Smith III (um, not quite 

true), and I’d like to welcome you to the 

Free Enterprise System. 

“I’ve been doing this for 39 years, 

and I’ve driven for a lot of famous people. 

I have a few priorities, and safety is the 

first — yours and mine. I love everyone 

on this bus, but myself the most. I wanna 


come home.” 

Then he’’ll share some very important 

passenger information. 

Motor coaches like the MCI model 

he drives cost about a half-million dollars. 

They have high-tech features such as 

LED lighting, satellite TVs and Wi-Fi. But 

there’s only so much you can do with the 

bathrooms. They’re basically fancy outhouses. 

“Ladies and gentlemen,” he’ll say, 

“you can think of it like a bank — what 

goes in this morning will draw interest 

this afternoon. Those people sitting in the 

last 10 rows — we call it ‘The Smellers 

Club’ — will appreciate it if you could use 

the bathroom off the bus any chance you 

get.” 

Beyond safety, he tells me, “I’m 

about building relationships and making 

memories. I’m not in the transportation 

business, I’m in the people business. If 

someone forgets their toothbrush, I’ll say, 

‘Let’s get on the bus and go find a Walgreens.’” 

Indeed, driving a charter bus is a 

realm where personality and showmanship 

can fuel demand. As his driving 

awards attest, Smith has chops. He’s detail-oriented 

and fastidious about planning. 

He sweats over logistics to know 

precisely where he’s going and what he 

might encounter when he gets there. Every 

trip is different. 

But it’s his shtick — snappy repartee, 

corny but clean jokes, a little harmonica 

music over the intercom — that’s 

likely made him a driver of choice. When 

the University of Louisville contracted 

with Free Enterprise to transport its sports 

teams, for example, athletics director Tom 

Jurich and assistant Kevin Miller stipulated 

that he could pretty much pick his own 

trips. He typically drives for the baseball, 

men’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming/diving, 

and women’s volleyball, 

basketball and rowing teams. 

Then there’s the royal connection. 

Prince Albert II Is the current reigning 

monarch of Monaco and the son of Prince 

Rainier III and the American actress Grace 

Kelly, both deceased. Her father, Jack 

Kelly, an Olympic rowing champion and 

later a wealthy businessman, was also involved 

in Thoroughbred racing. In 1945 

he started taking customers and family 

members to the Kentucky Derby on a train 

Pictured: (top row, left to right) Beany and Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, at the 

opening of the Louisville Slugger Museum in the early 1990s; Beany’s 

ring given to him by the U of L World Series team; Beany with Prince 

Albert, wearing matching ties. 

Pictured: (bottom, left to right) Beany playing taps at the traveling Vietnam 

War Memorial that he helped orgainze; Beany with Bruce Johnston, 

during one of his trips driving for the Beach Boys. 


from Philadelphia. A tradition was born. 

In 1991, as Beany hosted a local company 

on Derby Day at Churchill Downs, 

some of the Kelly party stopped to admire 

his executive coach and take some photos. 

He gave them a business card and forgot 

about it, but the following year, Free 

Enterprise got the gig. The Kelly party 

is now in its fourth generation, and this 

year’s Kentucky Derby will be Beany’s 

28th straight driving for them. 

Albert and Beany were fast friends, 

bonding over humor and White Castle 

hamburgers. “I have a photo of him on 

the bus eating a Crave Case,” Beany says. 

As head of state, Albert can’t always make 

the trip anymore, but the friendship has 

endured — Beany and Kathy even received 

an invitation, written in French, to 

the monarch’s 2011 wedding. With characteristic 

chutzpah, Beany declined, explaining 

that, “When I come to Monaco, 

I want you to entertain me, not 60,000 of 

your buddies.” 

In the middle of everything 

Sometimes it seems Beany Smith 

might show up just about anywhere. 

When “A League of Their Own” was 

filmed in Evansville in the early 1990s, he 

ferried director Penny Marshall to the set. 

He’s driven in presidential motorcades 

since Ronald Reagan and has tie 

clasps from both Bushes and a photo with 

Bill Clinton to prove it. (“There’s nothing 

like a police escort,” he says.) 

He hauled The Beach Boys on and 

off for a decade. Dennis Wilson took a 

liking to him and invited his young sons, 

Charlie and Corey, onto the bus to meet 

the band. Smith was devastated by Wilson’s 

tragic drowning in 1983. 

He’s had close-ups on ESPN, fistbumping 

U of L baseball players as they 

got off his bus at the College World Series 

and sitting in the Superdome as Teddy 

Bridgewater led the Cardinals to their 

2013 Sugar Bowl win. His Facebook page 

blew up on that one. To the surprise of no 

one, he found his way onstage to blow 

harp with a band in the French Quarter. 

The brushes with the limelight aren’t 

limited to work. 

In late 2011, when Indiana ruined 

Kentucky’s dream of an undefeated season 

on Christian Watford’s buzzer-beater, 

Beany and Kathy were spectators. It was 

her first IU game and his connections had 

provided front-row seats. The following 

day’s Lexington Herald-Leader included 

a front-page photo of UK star Anthony 

Davis — with a close-up of the red-clad 

couple right over his shoulder. 

Twice in recent years the traveling 

Vietnam Veterans Memorial has been 

erected in front of the Clarksville Town 

Hall. He worked behind the scenes to 

help that happen, and he was on the scene 

daily to play Taps on his bugle. 

In the early 1980s, the Bill Murray 

comedy “Stripes” was filmed in and 

around Louisville. Beany and his brother 

signed up to be extras, but the director 

liked him and included him in two scenes. 

One featured actor was Warren Oates, a 

Louisville native, and Beany later learned 

that his mother had once dated Oates. 

“It’s a good thing that didn’t work 

out,” he says. 

Then there’s the Forrest Gump connection. 

A few years ago, several Medal of 

Honor recipients came to Louisville for a 

convention, and Beany was their driver. 

The group included Sammy Davis, a soldier 

whose mother sent him harmonicas 

that he then learned how to play while 

fighting in Vietnam. Davis is known as 

the “real” Forrest Gump, and his actual 

Medal of Honor Convention appears in 

the film, with Tom Hanks’ face superimposed 

over Davis’. 

During the Louisville convention, 

as he often did, Smith regaled his guests 

with a harmonica rendition of “My Old 

Kentucky Home.” Davis was so moved 

that he gave Smith one of his harmonicas. 

“He asked if I could play ‘Shenandoah,’” 

Smith recalls, referring to one of 

Gump’s favorite tunes in the film. “I said, 

‘No, but I’m gonna learn it.’ That was a big 

deal to me. It took my breath away that he 

thought enough to give me a harp.” 

Million mile reflections 

Beany Smith lives a life that many 

find enviable and exciting. But it’s real life 

behind the scenes. 

Moving those majestic chromewheeled 

behemoths up and down the 

highway is grueling — hundreds of miles 

at a stretch, often in the dead of night 

and sometimes without passengers, on 

ever-more crowded interstates filled with 

drivers who can’t leave their smartphones 

alone. He’s seen drivers typing on laptops. 

Kathy didn’t used to worry much 

but says these days “more weird stuff 

seems to happen.” 

He’s taken guests to the hospital. 

One Father’s Day he gave CPR to a man 

who did not make it, while the daughter 

of the deceased witnessed the entire 

scene. For the record, he’s had one minor 

accident and three speeding tickets (two 

from the same cop). 

Being on the road 200 days a year requires 

hard trade-offs. He’s missed out on 

important things at home. 

“I practically raised the kids alone,” 

Kathy says. Her father drove a truck for 

Sodrel, so she understands. “I was used 

to it. I didn’t plan on him being there. If 

he was, good, and if he wasn’t, that was 

normal.” 

- Beany Smith 

As Smith reflects on his career, he is 

clearly taking stock. He’s seen a lot, done 

a lot and lived to tell about it, though he 

swears he’ll never take up frequent suggestions 

to write a book. Before Vegas 

ever said it, he preached that “what happens 

on the bus, stays on the bus.” 

At age 60, he understands there are 

more miles in his rearview than in front of 

him, but he’s still focused straight ahead. 

He’s battled a thus-far manageable form 

of leukemia for a while, and he’s told 

Kathy, his wife of 37 years, that he can see 

shutting his bus down for good in 2018. 

He’d like to spend more time with their 

grandson and do more hunting and fishing. 

He loves riding his white Harley- 

Davidson, named Pearl. The last thing he 

wants to do is drive. 

But Kathy hasn’t seen the Canadian 

Rockies. She’s been pretty tied to her job 

in a Clarksville optometrist’s offce, and 

she’d like to buy a motor home and visit 

some of the majestic sites he’s seen. She’s 

pretty sure he could mount a photo exhibition 

with all of the postcard-quality pictures 

he’s snapped. 

This could be a fork in the road. 

Then again, it seems possible that in some 

form or fashion, and someday soon, Beany 

Smith will get to be someone else’s passenger 

for a while. • 


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‘BEAUTY AND THE BEAST’ ENTHRALLS MINI ROYALTY 

Having their hair done--complete with tiara--by Prosser Cosmetology 

students, posing with cast members, making souvenir mirrors, learning a 

dance on stage, and listening to Belle read them a story created a magical 

day for 127 young girls. They were treated to “Princess for a Day” in conjunction 

with New Albany High School Theatre’s extravagant production 

of “Beauty and the Beast” this season. Most came in princess outfits, and after 

the luncheon, the total of 240 “Princess for a Day” attendees then joined 

the packed audience for the matinee. 


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A 

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fun time. In the event one can choose 

to walk, jog, run, jump, crawl, climb, slide 

and I’m probably missing an activity or 

two but it’s all good. The challenge isn’t in 

how the event is completed, but in knowing 

that you pushed yourself to new limits 

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Nothing has changed in the way I 

see the Rugged Maniac or any other mud 

run except how I feel about the experience 

on a more personal level than I did 

on that first run in 2013. Fun? Yes they 

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the funds raised at these events hits me 

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removed and since then, just this year 

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and weeks of life (if one could call it that) 

were pitiful and an embarrassing way to 

leave this world after living such a full 

life. He deserved much better. Despite the 

wonderful medical professionals, doctors 

and nurses, who did all they could to save 

him; there just wasn’t a treatment available 

to allow him to win his battle. 

I take part in these events not only 

for my well-being (reduces stress, keeps 

me fit and my love of the outdoors) but 

because the funds raised by the event go 

to such a good cause, cancer research. 

Maybe the few dollars I spend entering 

will help to expand the knowledge on 

how to fight this disease, allowing someone 

else to win their battle, like my son is. 

In short, I will continue to take part 

in events such as these for my son, father, 

cousin, uncle, friend or whoever else can’t 

or just plain doesn’t feel like participating. 

Who knows, I may even make some new 

friends like Lydia in the process and be a 

much luckier person for it. Life is a journey 

of ups and downs and the only way 

we can make sure that there are more ups 

than downs is to support events like these, 

the sole purpose of which is to help those 

battling cancer. One never knows what 

his or her path might be in life, but one 

thing is certain, that is if you don’t fight 

for a better life as many cancer victims 

have to do on a day to day basis, life isn’t 

as great as it can be. After all, isn’t that 

what we are hoping for out of life? 

The least we can do as a healthy 

population is to help those who can’t help 

themselves. Too often we get caught up in 

our daily routine and forget that each new 

day with the rising of the sun is a gift and 

we should make the most of it because life 

is too short. • 

A Plan Going In 

By Lydia Manship 

Ivolunteered for this maniac idea not 

knowing what I was getting into. I 

was excited and nervous not knowing 

what I was really getting into. 

I monitored the course and had a pretty 

good idea which two obstacles would be 

too much for me. I had a plan going in that 

I just didn’t want to get hurt and to finish 

the course running. I did WAY more than 

that. I attempted every obstacle but two. 

One was a crazy tall wall that my short 

body just couldn’t do & the other was 

crawling through a pipe called “claustrophobic.” 

I even climbed the warped wall! I 

came out of this race feeling accomplished 

& so proud of what I had done. I finished 

the race running AND I didn’t get hurt. 

It was a tough course up the hills at the 

Peaks, but it was so much fun. I enjoyed 

(mostly) every minute and I am ready for 

the next one! If you feel like a maniac like 

I do--and can handle the rugged--join the 

Southern Indiana Rugged Maniac event, 

September 2, Paoli Peaks, Paoli, IN! • 

Follow the Southern Indiana Rugged Maniac 

on Facebook at facebook.com/RuggedManiac 

and on Twitter at @RuggedManiac. For more 

information, go to www.ruggedmaniac.com 


May is Mental Health Awareness 

month across the country. 

Organizations such as the 

National Alliance on Mental 

Illness and Mental Health American will 

be starting campaigns through social media 

to end the stigma and raise awareness 

for mental health and mental illness. 

What does that mean within our 

own community? How can we help end 

the stigma against mental health issues 

and mental illness. 

It starts with speaking out. I can 

almost guarantee that someone in your 

circle has or is facing a mental health issue, 

whether you know it or not. One in 

five adults suffer from mental illness each 

year. Suicide is the third leading cause of 

death among 15-24 year olds. Nearly twothirds 

of adults go without treatment for 

their mental illness. 

Whether you’re aware of mental 

health issues or not, it’s an issue and there 

is a stigma. 

Speaking out can be extremely difficult, 

but the best way to break down the 

stigma is to share our stories. That being 

said, take your time! It may take months 

or years or however long before you 

feel comfortable talking about your own 

journey with mental health. Nevertheless, 

when you are ready, open up. In the 

meantime, you can “speak out” by supporting 

those who are sharing their stories. 

Our voices, combined, make people 

aware that there are people struggling 


with valid health issues—they aren’t personality 

defects and they aren’t something 

we can control without proper treatment 

and support. 

If you struggle with a mental 

health issue, start supporting your own 

community. Psychotherapy (talk therapy) 

alone may work really well for one person, 

while another person may also need 

to couple that with medication in order to 

maintain their health. Every single person 

is different and yet, sometimes I see one 

person struggling with anxiety insulting 

another person who is going about it differently 

or someone with a mood disorder 

telling someone they’re handling their 

own wrong. 

All of our brains are wired differently, 

which means we process and handle 

things in different ways. The illness 

itself is also unique to the individual so, 

it will be handled uniquely depending 

upon how it presents itself. Be healthy in 

the best way you can for yourself and be 

supportive, not judgmental, of another 

person’s path to health. 

Be aware and educate yourself. 

It’s as simple as being aware of your surroundings. 

Ask your friend who hasn’t 

been interested in his favorite thing lately, 

if he’s doing ok. Ask your co-worker how 

their week has been and actually listen 

to them. Ask yourself how you’re doing 

that day, what are you struggling with. 

Lastly, educate yourself. Read up on different 

mental illnesses and what exactly 

they are. So many times, we use mental 

illnesses in casual conversation. If you’re 

feeling stressed you may say you’re having 

a panic attack or if you’re cleaning 

something you may say you’re being 

OCD that day. These are real illnesses that 

real people face. You wouldn’t drop other 

illnesses in random conversation. You 

may not see it as a big deal, but when we 

use those words in that way, we are telling 

people who are suffering, that it’s not an 

issue—that it’s just a way to be dramatic. 

We need to recognize them for what they 

are and talk about them in that context. 

There are so many ways to get involved 

this month and go green for mental 

health and mental illness awareness. 

Change your Facebook profile picture, 

educate yourself on mental health issues, 

seek help for yourself, share your story, 

support a friend…Whatever it is you 

decide to do this month, do something. 

Speaking up and speaking out is the only 

way to truly change the culture surrounding 

mental health. • 

PCS is located in Clarksville, Ind. and has 

been serving the community since 1959. The 

organization provides counseling services in 

the form of psychotherapy, pastoral counseling, 

play therapy, trauma counseling, addictions 

therapy, music therapy, and more. For 

more information, please visit the website at 

www.pcs-counseling.org or call our intake coordinator 

at 812-283-8383 x21.

Special Section: 

Summer Fun 

in Southern Indiana 



Special Section: Summer Fun 

Farmers markets 

of Southern Indiana 

Story by Sara Combs 

Photos of the Fred Cammack Corydon Farmers Market by Lorraine Hughes (pages 31, 35) 

Lush red tomatoes, crisp green 

beans and vibrant yellow ears 

of corn are images that pop into 

one’s head at the thought of farmers 

markets. Along with cabbage, lettuce, 

potatoes and other fresh garden vegetables, 

these are the heart of markets. Access 

to a bountiful supply of fresh vegetables 

and fruits through multiple farmers markets 

is one of the perks of living in Southern 

Indiana. 

Offerings also include eggs, homebaked 

items, jams and jellies, crafts and 

other goods such as candles and soap. Locally 

grown meat is available at some sites. 

Most markets have plants and herbs. And 

to sweeten it all, one can find sorghum, 

syrup and honey. 

Farmers markets are not just about 

commerce ― they provide a gathering 

place and promote a sense of community. 

“People vend for a variety of reasons,” 

says Kim Arnold, of Orange County 

HomeGrown Community service, who 

oversees the Orleans market. “Some come 

to supplement their income. Others come 

because it is their income. And some just 

Farmers markets are not just 

about commerce - they provide 

a gathering place and promote 

a sense of community. 

come for the fellowship.” 

The Orleans market is the 10th largest 

in the United States, with 90 to 150 

vendors, and is in its 15th year. “The 

vendors don’t all come at once,” Arnold 

says. “Some just come when their special 

product is in season; some come for all 24 

weeks. We have become somewhat of a 

family. We know about each others’ marriages, 

births, divorces, operations.” 

Another large market is in New Albany. 

With 80-plus vendors taking part in 

2016, market coordinator Susan Kaempfer 

is pleased with its growth. “When I 

came in 2004 there were three members,” 

she says. “The market had been here for 

100 years or so, but the numbers were really 

down.” Now it runs year-round with 

room for 30 to 35 vendors under cover and 

ample space for the others on the street. 

The Fred Cammack Corydon Farmers 

Market is operating in a newly constructed 

facility along the creek in its historic 

downtown, says Catherine Turcotte, 

of Main Street Corydon. “We have around 

32 vendors, with 75 percent offering fruit 

and vegetables and 25 percent crafts.” 


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Some markets, such as the one in Jasper, promote special 

events for youth. The first Saturday of the month, children 12 

and younger can participate in the Jasper market free of charge, 

says market master Joe Huddleston. He’s also planning a market 

bucks program, with a grant from Dubois County Community 

Foundation. Details on the program will be announced. 

At the Orleans market, every child is given a free book, 

thanks to the successful Buck-a-Book program operated by Bob 

and Debbie Turner. Bob Turner also creates old-time wooden 

toys and distributes them at the market, but the Turners’ passion 

is the book project they started 12 years ago to help support the 

market. 

Starting with 42 books from their own shelves and a card table, 

the Turners have raised about $30,000. Now 3,000 books are 

housed in a trailer that was converted by the Paoli High School 

welding class to hold them. 

Book donors are free to select one book for each two they 

contribute. 

“So with the free books for youth, we promote literacy 

as well as provide a sustaining sponsorship,” says Bob Turner, 

who retired from the national headquarters of the Presbyterian 

Church (U.S.A.). Debbie Turner is the retired editor/publisher of 

the Bedford Times-Mail and is a manager at the Lost River Co-op 

Market and Deli in Paoli. 

The spirit of community and blending of cultures that happens 

at farmers markets is something the Turners appreciate. “I 

like that there are a lot of Old Order Amish who participate in 

the Orange County markets,” Bob Turner says. “It gives English 

and Amish a chance to meet and become friendly in a convenient, 

safe place. The market is a good place for neighbors to visit and to 

get to know each other.” 

And all of those lovely, tasty vegetables provide many 

healthful meals for Southern Indiana families. • 

7th Annual 

St. Meinrad 

RocksFest 

St. Meinrad, IN 

September 

22 & 23 

Family-friendly benefit event 

2 stages: 22 acts 

Rock, Country, a little bit of Jazz 

Beer garden 

(ID required to enter beer garden/no carry-in allowed to event) 

Children’s activities 

Proceeds benefit the St. Meinrad Town Museum 

For more information: 

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Clark County 

Jeffersonville 

Big Four Station 

June through October 

Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon 

Floyd County 

Downtown New Albany 

202 E. Market St, New Albany 

Second weekend in May - October 

Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

Farmers Markets 

of Southern Indiana 

Faith Lutheran Church 

2014 Allison Lane, Jeffersonville 

Tuesdays, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

Crawford County 

English 

2017 schedule not yet available. 

Traditionally, Saturdays, 9 a.m. to noon, 

near the Justice Center. 

Dubois County 

Jasper 

North of the Jasper Train Depot, 

under the historic oak tree 

Saturdays, May 27, through Oct.7, 7:30 

to 11:30 a.m. 

Baptist Health Floyd 

1850 State Street, New Albany 

Wednesdays, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. 

Harrison County 

Fred Cammack Farmers Corydon 

Farmers Market 

124 S. Mulberry St, Corydon 

Fridays, 4 to 7 p.m., May 5 to Oct. 27 

Tuesdays, 11 a.m to 1 p.m. 

Harrison County Farmers Market 

1390 Old Hwy 135, Corydon 

2017 hours not yet announced but 

traditionally Saturdays at 8 a.m. 

Perry County 

The Depot 

333 Seventh Street, Tell City 

June through October 

Wednesdays, 4 p.m. until sellout; Saturdays, 

8 a.m. until sellout 

Orange County 

Congress Square 

Downtown, Orleans 

Saturdays, May through October, 

8 a.m. to noon; 

Valley Market 

French Lick Town Green 

Saturdays, May - Sept. 

9 a.m. 1 p.m. 

Scott County 

Scottsburg Heritage Station 

Train Depot 

Scottsburg, IN 

May through October, Saturdays, 8 a.m. 

to noon; Thursdays, noon to 5 p.m. 

Washington County 

Washington County Fairgrounds 

Salem, IN 

2017 dates not set at press time 

Traditionally, May - September, 

Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. - noon 

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Celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week May 7-13, 2017. 

Stop by the Blaine H. Wiseman Visitors Center for free popcorn 

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Valid May 1-31 Do not copy. 

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Hampton Inn 

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Indiana Caverns 

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Festivals & Events 

May 

One Destination... 

Unlimited Memories 

in Historic Corydon & Harrison County 

21-29 Memorial Trail of Valor, Hayswood Nature Reserve 

27-28 Memorial Day Weekend on the Farm, O’Bannon 

Woods State Park 

27 Southern Indiana Uncorked 

June 

16-17 Art at the Old Captiol 

18-24 Harrison County Fair 

July 

1-2 Independence Day Weekend, O’Bannon Woods 

State Park 

3 Kiwanis 4th of July Fireworks Display 

7-23 Hayswood Theatre present “The Odd Couple” 

8 Corydon Capital Day 

8-9 Battle of Corydon Re-enactment 

August 

5 Evening on the Farm, O’Bannon Woods State Park 

19 Murder Mystery Dinner 

Ongoing Events 

Go to thisisindiana.org for more details or 

to order your Visitor Guide. 

888-738-2137 

Summer Concerts at the Wineries 

Cruisin with Culver’s Car Show 

3rd Saturday May - September 

Corydon LIVE! 

Every Saturday 

Friday Night Summer Band Concerts 

June to August 7 pm 

Downtown Corydon 

Bluegrass on the Square 

4th Saturday in June, July & Aug 4 pm - 8 pm 

Downtown Corydon 

Harrison County Farmers Market 

May - October 

Every Saturday 8 am - noon 

Every Wednesday 3 pm - 6 pm 

God’s Church Parking Lot 

Fred Cammack Corydon Farmers Market 

Every Friday 4 pm - 7 pm 

Every Tuesday 11 am - 1 pm 

124 S. Mulberry Street 


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A Step Back in Time 

Looking for adventure this summer? 

The Dubois County Museum 

offers something for visitors 

of all ages! 

The Dubois County Museum is one 

of the largest county museums in the state 

of Indiana with over 50,000 square feet of 

display space and over 39,000 pieces in its 

collection. 

Take a step back in time as you view 

the exhibits on archaeology, German 

heritage, wood manufacturing, military, 

sports, town murals, antique agricultural 

machinery, and model trains. 

You can step into a complete German 

Log House, walk down a replica of 

Dubois County Main Street, or view the 

seventeen rooms portraying life at the 

turn of the 20th century. 

A recent addition, the Wildlife Adventure 

Exhibit Room, displays local animals, 

pictures of area wildlife enthusiasts, 

early guns made locally, and mounted 

animals from North America and Africa 

from the collection of Frank Fromme. 

Children can visit the hands-on 

Little Pioneers area, where they can play 

in the one-room schoolhouse, Lewis and 

Clark expedition boat, dress up area and 

log reading nook. Visit the museum website 

before you go to print off a museum 

scavenger hunt, or an interactive activity 

sheet that children can complete as they 

tour the museum. 

The museum offers special programs 

and guest speakers throughout the 

year. This summer’s calendar includes 

a construction themed program for preschoolers, 

the opening of a new exhibit 

on the Cold War (1945 - 1991), a morning 

of educational activities in the one room 

school house, and several days of Strassenfest 

programs. 

The Dubois County Museum is the 

perfect spot to explore Southern Indiana 

history with your family and friends! Pick 

a date, grab some friends, and plan your 

adventure today. • 

The Museum is open Tuesday thru Friday 10- 

2:00pm EST, Saturday 10-4:00pm, and Sunday 

1-4:00pm. Closed Monday. 

Visit www.duboiscountymuseum.org for the 

latest information. Like us on Facebook and 

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Life Beyond Duct Tape 

Sneaking in a Granny Column 

This column, while deviating a bit 

from the title of “Beyond Duct 

Tape,” will still be about something 

new — at least to me. 

Thirty-one years ago, I gave birth to 

a beautiful squirming baby boy named 

Jeff. My little man stubbornly didn’t make 

his appearance until two weeks after his 

due date, and then it took 21 hours of labor 

and a Caesarean section for him to 

make his debut. 

Even with the delayed birth date, 

Jeff still had more developing to accomplish. 

He had severe heartburn (also 

called GERD or acid reflux). The nurses 

would bring him to me because he was 

screaming for so long he broke out in 

sweat. I’m pretty darn sure nobody has 

ever had a baby that screamed that long 

and that loud. 

Nothing appeased him; he would 

stop crying only to eat and then fall asleep 

from exhaustion. He was hurting and he 

knew no other way to tell us about it — for 

eight weeks. I referred to going back to 

work as “vacation time,” although by that 

time, he was much better. I loved my son, 

even during the most diffcult weeks, but I 

vowed to be a one-and-done mom. 

During our marathon mother-son 

rocking sessions, I began to dream of the 

day I could become the proud bearer of a 

sweet, cuddly, absolutely perfect, seldom 

crying grandchild. Through the years, I 

often spoke of this grandbaby. 

When Jeff was just 2½ years old, he 

used my grandmother passion as a bargaining 

chip. If I made him angry, instead 

of saying he didn’t love me, he said something 

much more powerful: “No grandbaby!” 

Hmmph — surely he didn’t mean 

that, I would think. Wait — can a toddler 

even understand the concept of a grandbaby? 

Fast-forward many years of loving 

everyone else’s grandchildren and I get 

the news that my son and his amazing 

wife, Kristie, will be coming through with 

that coveted grandbaby. The baby, Davis 

James Dawson (“DJ”), was to be born the 

first week of May. I loved him unconditionally 

— even before he ever took his 


Thirty years of yearning to 

cuddle my grandbaby for the 

first time was about to end. 

first breath. 

On March 7, DJ decided he wanted 

out — a full two months before his due 

date. He had no intention of duplicating 

his father’s entry route into the world, although 

DJ’s birth did require an emergency 

Caesarean section. He was delivered 

bottom first, weighing a mere 4 pounds 

and 10 ounces. His weight dropped to just 

4 pounds in a week, but then he started 

rebounding. When I dreamt of watching 

my grandchild grow, I never imagined it 

in ounces. 

There he was, my tiny grandson, lying 

in the NICU incubator, hooked up to 

far too many wires, monitors and tubes — 

and not crying. The prayers for his health 

flowed into that tiny baby from many who 

loved him. 

I watched and prayed fervently as DJ 

fought for independence. God answered 

and one by one, tubes were removed and 

monitors were disconnected. DJ’s parents 

were able to hold him for the first time, 

skin to skin. After a couple of weeks, he 

became strong enough to escape the incubator, 

and three weeks after he was born, 

he was strong enough to be held by his 

grandparents (I’ve been told not sharing 

is not an option). 

Through the years, experienced 

grands have discussed this incredible 

grandparenting gig, and my typical flippant 

response was that I already knew all 

about it. After all, the granny-DNA flows 

naturally through my veins. However, 

nobody could prepare me for the emotions 

to come. 

I was sitting in the NICU room when 

my daughter-in-law asked if I wanted to 

hold DJ. Thirty years of yearning to cuddle 

my grandbaby for the first time was 

about to end. The nurse picked up the 

tiny bundle and presented the precious 

gift. The instant DJ touched my arms, my 

heart felt as if it had ruptured into a million 

pieces and I dissolved into tears. I dearly 

love my son, but this — this is different. 

The difference is age and the subsequent 

evolution of wisdom, confidence, independence, 

security and comfort — traits 

we often lack when raising our children. 

I looked into DJ’s dark eyes as he 

struggled to stay awake in my arms and 

it felt like my entire life led me to this miracle 

God-moment. Instantly I knew it has 

always been my destiny to be DJ’s Mimi • 

Carol Dawson is a Jeffersonville 

resident and owner of 

EEO GUIDANCE, Inc. This 

column will reflect various 

products Dawson has found 

that may make our Southern 

Indiana lives a bit easier. 

Comments can be emailed to: 

Cdawson@eeoguidance.com

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A Season for Change 

Home Improvement 

From spring cleaning to major renovations, 

this is the perfect time to update your home inside and out 

What “springs to mind” for 

you this time of year? Love? 

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improvement projects? 

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Spring is, by its very nature, a time 

of change, the season of renewal, so it’s no 

surprise that almost everyone has his or 

her own “plan” to do some upgrades of 

one sort or another. 

Many use this time of year to do the 

basics – to open the windows and air out 

the house, dust every nook and cranny 

and simply give everything a deep cleaning 

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Story by Carol Ubelhor-Troesch 

smoke detectors, clean your silver, your 

oven, your patio furniture (whatever’s on 

YOUR list), and declutter your closets and 

garage. A good spring cleaning will help 

you breeze right through the season feeling 

very accomplished! 

Others often focus on beautifying 

their landscaping, brightening their yard, 

adding to the curb appeal of their home 

when the days begin to get warmer. You 

can add some color with flowers and 

shrubbery that will last throughout the 

season or for years to come. Don’t forget 

to add mulch and decorative rock to accent 

your new plants, finally, and most 

importantly, design a sitting area that will 

allow you and your family and guests to 

enjoy your handiwork! 

The most ambitious among us (you 

know who you are) will tackle major 

spring home improvement projects, both 

inside and out. Kitchen and bathroom updates 

rank high in home improvements 

made each year and even higher in those 

that add true value to you home. Patios 

and decks are also popular, and let you 

easily enjoy the longer, warmer days. 

Many of these things, like adding a fresh 

coat of paint, can be do-it-yourself projects, 

but oftentimes, it pays to call in a 

professional. It’s important to plan ahead 

and be realistic with time, money, and expertise 

levels. 

From the smallest ideas to those that 

solicit the “Wow, that’s amazing” effect, 

spring projects are often the best way to 

handle a true case of “spring fever.” Make 

a plan, work the plan, and get it done! • 

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Everyday Adventures 

GAME OVER 

The drugstore by my grandma’s 

house had a small arcade where I 

used to go to play Donkey Kong 

and a video game called Joust. I 

had to pay a quarter for each game, but 

some of the teenagers who hung out there 

figured out how to play for free. 

These guys had a special quarter 

with a piece of fishing line taped to it. If 

you dropped it in the coin slot just right, 

you could trick the game into thinking 

you’d paid your 25 cents. Then you 

could reel the quarter back up and do it all 

over again, playing as many times as you 

wanted. It was the next best thing to owning 

your own arcade. Except, of course, it 

was stealing. 

I never tried it myself, but it was fun 

to watch. One guy was skilled enough 

with the trick quarter that he could rack 

up dozens of games without breaking a 

sweat. His buddy, however, just didn’t 

have the touch. 

The first time he put his rigged quarter 

into a pinball machine, it got stuck. He 

tugged at the fishing line trying to yank it 

free, but he snapped the line and lost the 

whole thing in the coin slot. 

When the guy who owned the drugstore 

came to fix the jammed machine, the 

jig was up. There was the smoking gun 

right inside the cabinet: quarter, tape and 

all. 

Sometimes I feel a bit like those teenagers 

in my relationship with God. I’m 

always trying to beat the system. I surrender 

just enough of my life to God to try get 

credit for it, but then I yank it back before I 

fully release it to Him. 

Jesus met a guy one day who had the 


same problem. On the outside it looked 

like he had it all together. He was a good 

guy and followed all the rules, but Jesus 

knew inside he was holding out, finding 

his value and security in his money instead 

of in God. 

So Jesus told him to sell all of his 

stuff and give the money away to the 

poor. All of it. 

It was the next best thing 

to owning your own arcade. 

Except, of course, 

it was stealing. 

The guy didn’t know what to do. 

Up until this point he had always been 

able to beat the system. He had a checklist 

of good deeds a mile long — all the ways 

he was able to obey God just enough to 

rack up plenty of credit for his reputation. 

But Jesus didn’t care about his reputation. 

He cared about his heart. And 

He knew this man would be a prisoner 

of his possessions unless he let them go. 

As long as he held onto his stuff, his stuff 

would hold onto him. 

And so it goes with us. 

It may not be the love of money 

you’re holding onto. It may be a love for 

approval. On days when you’re praised, 

you’re on top of the world, but you crumble 

at the first sign of criticism. Your 

worth is built on what people say about 

you instead of what God says about you. 

If approval’s not your thing, maybe 

it’s control. You’re a planner and as long 

as everything and everyone cooperates 

with your plan, life is good, but when unexpected 

problems arise or people don’t 

follow the plan, heaven help anyone who 

gets in your way. 

It could be an addiction, even a socially 

acceptable one. I tend to use food 

to deal with stress or sadness instead of 

taking my pain to God and learning to depend 

on Him. It wouldn’t seem like a big 

deal to anyone else, but for me, I know I’m 

holding out on what’s God’s asked me to 

release. 

I wish I could tell you that the rich 

young man followed Jesus’ advice better 

than I do, but the Bible tells us that he 

went away sad because he loved his stuff 

way more than he loved God. I get it. I do 

the same thing every day. 

The older I get, though, the more I 

realize that when I hold out on God, I’m 

really just holding out on myself. I’m 

missing out on God’s best, trying to rig a 

game, where in the end, the only loser is 

me. • 

Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Iconic Bestiary 

Jason Byerly is a writer, pastor, husband and 

dad who loves the quirky surprises God sends 

his way every day. You can catch up with 

Jason on his blog at www.jasonbyerly.com or 

on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jasondbyerly.


Here at Sullivan, we offer a wide range of 

programs. Whether you’re interested in 

business administration, pharmacy, or one 

of our other career-focused programs, we’ll 

help you get the experience you need. 

Think about where you want to be next year. 

Now’s the time to start making that vision a 

reality. Check out sullivan.edu to learn more. 

At Sullivan University, we believe in you. 

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