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History of <strong>Indiana</strong> Barns | Our Town: Lanesville | Arts Camp for Kids<br />

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Sept / Oct <strong>2016</strong><br />

<strong>Living</strong><br />

One Hundred Years:<br />

The Elsby Building


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Featured Stories<br />

14 | ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HISTORY<br />

The Elsby building and the man behind it<br />

36 | A STORY TO TELL<br />

Celebrating the history of <strong>Indiana</strong> barns<br />

14<br />

40 | FILLING A GAP<br />

Jeffersonville arts camp introduces kids to different types<br />

of music, instruments, dance, and crafts<br />

<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong><br />

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER <strong>2016</strong><br />

In Every Issue<br />

7 | FLASHBACK PHOTO<br />

<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> Barn, 1981<br />

9 | A NOTE TO BABY BOOMERS<br />

Some Words About Words<br />

22<br />

10 | A WALK IN THE GARDEN WITH BOB HILL<br />

The Paperback Maple<br />

20 | YOUR COMMUNITY<br />

Spotlight on L & D Mail Master’s 30th Anniversary,<br />

Jasper Strassenfest, and more!<br />

22 | OUR TOWN<br />

Lanesville, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

28 | #BUYLOCAL<br />

Local Business Spotlight<br />

42 | EVERYDAY ADVENTURES<br />

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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 5


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ON THE COVER: David<br />

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Floyd County historian, Ruth<br />

Ann Elsby, member of the<br />

founding family, and Kelly<br />

Carnighan, chair of the Elsby<br />

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Photo courtesy of Stuart B. Wrege <strong>Indiana</strong> History Room, New Albany-Floyd County Public Library.<br />

This snapshot of a barn in Floyd County was taken in 1981 by Ruth Ann Kramer. According<br />

to library records, this barn was on Stiller Road, north of U.S. 150.<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 7


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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 8


Ijust joined a book club.<br />

It is not because the Rotary will<br />

not have me, really. A bunch of other<br />

mostly-retired guys want me in their<br />

monthly discussions. They believe I lend a<br />

fresh perspective. Or maybe they foolishly<br />

imagine me offering great snacks. Fritos<br />

or Doritos, decisions, decisions.<br />

Anyway, I thought about it, did not<br />

get a headache, and agreed. I have told<br />

school kids for years that writing<br />

never killed anybody. That<br />

holds true for reading as well,<br />

I suppose. Though I recall a<br />

few bruises jostling classmates<br />

for the shortest library book on<br />

which to report.<br />

I continue to muddle<br />

through the early stages of retirement.<br />

Doctors are saying<br />

nice things. I may grow old,<br />

not just older. Meanwhile, I<br />

still wrestle with how much to<br />

work, how much to nap and<br />

how much to drive my wife<br />

crazy.<br />

I can squeeze in time to<br />

learn. I can debate something<br />

beyond whether tomorrow or<br />

the next day is better to cut<br />

grass. I may give up on my left<br />

big toe’s fungus going away. I<br />

should not give up on knowing<br />

more. At least I can be<br />

smart enough to be smarter.<br />

Too bad I quit playing Trivial<br />

Pursuit a decade ago.<br />

Knowledge and I get<br />

along, but not always. Remember<br />

Ask Andy in the newspaper?<br />

I read it occasionally,<br />

at best. PBS? It is little more on<br />

my radar than cheesy Lifetime<br />

movies. I vacationed for years,<br />

literally a mile or two from the<br />

Wright Brothers Memorial in<br />

North Carolina. Didn’t visit<br />

once.<br />

I served more than a decade<br />

on the board of the Howard<br />

Steamboat Museum, in<br />

Jeffersonville. Yet you well may know its<br />

story better than I do. Just being honest,<br />

I’m afraid.<br />

My wife has three college degrees.<br />

She nonetheless married me. I earned<br />

but a bachelor’s with absolutely no credit<br />

hours to spare. I am asked why I do not<br />

teach a little college. Four decades of published<br />

articles alone do not count, that’s<br />

why. Only more school apparently equals<br />

more wisdom. So higher education plods<br />

along without Professor Moss.<br />

But I can read more.<br />

I will not skydive or bungee jump or<br />

whatever else a friend of my age has next<br />

in store. But I can read more. I doubt I<br />

will visit China or so much as get a handle<br />

on what Bluetooth is. But I can read more.<br />

While I wait for doctors to finally to declare<br />

the Whopper nutritious, I can read<br />

more.<br />

When I have not misplaced my<br />

glasses, I can read more.<br />

I am well into my second book-club<br />

assignment, a compelling explanation of<br />

Some Words about Words<br />

“My schooling proved a means to an end.<br />

My reading affords an end in itself.”<br />

how better much of the world provides<br />

health care. Page after page, my envy<br />

grows as does my health insurance premium<br />

and deductible.<br />

The first book detailed likewise<br />

creepily that our country manipulates the<br />

economy of every corner of the globe it<br />

can. I detect a trend. This book club is not<br />

for Doris Day.<br />

Perhaps ignorance really is bliss. Yet<br />

I am ready for more Fifty Shades of Angst.<br />

Perhaps I had better add a chapter<br />

to the candy-shop biography I recently<br />

wrote. Duty calls to tie the store to the obesity<br />

epidemic or at least to tooth decay, I<br />

A Note to Baby Boomers<br />

Photo by Franzi / Shutterstock.com<br />

gather. Big-time books apparently are to<br />

leave readers concerned, not contented.<br />

Years ago, I covered one of our local<br />

counties opening a center for lifelong<br />

learning. The thrust was more to retool<br />

displaced workers than to turn out more<br />

gray-haired, book-club prospects. I get the<br />

drift more now than ever, however. My<br />

schooling proved a means to an end. My<br />

reading affords an end in itself.<br />

What I need is fewer<br />

nighttime bathroom trips, a<br />

stock market that only goes<br />

up and a once-and-for all answer<br />

to how often my car’s oil<br />

should be changed. Nothing<br />

I read or will read helps with<br />

any of that. Being in this book<br />

club is undeniably unnecessary.<br />

It just feels right, regardless.<br />

I really like the members,<br />

tolerate the commitment and<br />

appreciate the wide range of<br />

avenues book topics lead me.<br />

Before, I only read books from<br />

which I would get a kick. I<br />

now read books that challenge<br />

my politics and my vocabulary.<br />

The Rotary offers something<br />

of the same, I realize. But<br />

I can read more. And now I am<br />

without dues.<br />

Book-club members take<br />

turns assigning books and<br />

hosting get-togethers. We allot<br />

a while to discuss books and a<br />

while to discuss anything and<br />

everything else. Best as I can<br />

tell, Bunco clubs have little on<br />

us except the Bunco.<br />

I know people who read<br />

more and then some, without<br />

peer pressure. They visit public<br />

libraries as often as I do<br />

the grocery. Texts and tweets<br />

are not their idea of the written<br />

word. They still even read<br />

newspapers, bless their hearts.<br />

Find a book club or form one. At<br />

least just read more. If reading kills either<br />

one of us, that will make a good book. •<br />

After 25 years, Dale Moss<br />

retired as <strong>Indiana</strong> columnist for<br />

The Courier-Journal. He now<br />

writes weekly for the News<br />

and Tribune. Dale and his<br />

wife Jean live in Jeffersonville<br />

in a house that has been in<br />

his family since the Civil War.<br />

Dale’s e-mail is dale.moss@twc.com<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 9


A Walk in the Garden with Bob Hill<br />

The Paperback Maple<br />

The perfect tree offering something of interest every day of the year<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 10


An approaching autumn always<br />

revives in me an internal horticultural<br />

debate of ever-growing<br />

interest: If and when I do get<br />

beyond the Pearly Gates what one tree do<br />

I most want to see planted on the other<br />

side for eternal woody companionship?<br />

Not to dig too deeply into this philosophical<br />

conversation, but in autumn the<br />

days do get shorter, the nights longer and<br />

sunset colors a little more inspiring. We all<br />

run out of seasons. So join in on this conversation.<br />

What is your all-time favorite<br />

tree – and why – and what’s your vision<br />

of the future?<br />

The only rule I have is your winner<br />

must offer something of interest every<br />

day of the year; spring, summer, fall and<br />

winter. It’s not allowed a day off – or even<br />

15 minutes. It must be the perfect tree.<br />

On some trees that’s a pretty<br />

tough call. I’ve always been a big fan of<br />

the American beech. They have wonderful<br />

gray bark and project such a lofty, majestic<br />

presence, albeit a century or two in<br />

the creative process. They also hold their<br />

leaves all winter, presenting a stubborn,<br />

visual timetable for the eventual arrival of<br />

spring.<br />

Japanese maples have a visual<br />

magic all their own; twisty limbs; leaves<br />

of many shapes and sizes that can turn<br />

bright colors in the fall, and some cultivars<br />

with orange-red bark.<br />

Ginkgo trees come close to perfection.<br />

They have been around a few hundred<br />

million years, have funky leaves that<br />

turn golden yellow in fall and grow to<br />

neck-bending altitudes.<br />

Some maples such as ‘Autumn<br />

Blaze’ offer screaming fall colors, but<br />

frankly just aren’t all that interesting the<br />

rest of the year.<br />

And many conifers have their<br />

own charm; a hundred shades of green in<br />

dwarf, upright and all manner of weeping<br />

shapes and attitudes.<br />

But my winner – the tree that never<br />

takes a day off – is the paperbark maple,<br />

or Acer griseum in the language of the ancient<br />

gods.<br />

It’s the one tree that never fails to<br />

stop Hidden Hill visitors in their tracks,<br />

either when wandering past it in pairs,<br />

or on group tours from April to October.<br />

It’s no self-centered showoff either. It offers<br />

just as much beauty when no one is<br />

around, and I get to enjoy that all by myself.<br />

How do I love thee tree? Let me<br />

count the ways:<br />

1<br />

It teaches patience in a world much<br />

too given to instant gratification. Its<br />

average growth is about six to eight inches<br />

a year, and it takes a while to get up to<br />

that speed. They can also be a little hard to<br />

find, and you’ll probably have to buy one<br />

fairly small and slender or end up paying<br />

a full car payment for one.<br />

So keep your children and grandchildren<br />

in mind when planting, or, better,<br />

yet, ask them to help you. That way<br />

you all can enjoy the journey. Our tree,<br />

in fact, was a retirement gift to Janet Hill<br />

from a grateful teaching staff, principal<br />

and family. It has accepted that responsibility<br />

with grace and charm.<br />

2<br />

The paperbark maple has some history.<br />

All politics aside, it’s another<br />

Chinese product, having first been imported<br />

to England in 1901, and then on to<br />

the USA shortly afterward. That’s OK, a<br />

lot of the trees now so familiar in England<br />

actually were imported from the United<br />

States. Look at it this way, Giant Pandas<br />

also came from China.<br />

3<br />

The effect is almost<br />

mesmerizing, particularly<br />

when a rising or setting sun<br />

backlights the tree, adding<br />

a solar-flared look to the<br />

paper-thin peels.<br />

It is the ultimate specimen tree. Its<br />

average height is maybe 20 to 30 feet,<br />

and again, it could be your grandchildren<br />

doing the measuring. It has a nice, upright-to-oval<br />

shape filled with spreading<br />

branches. The word that best describes<br />

that look is “dignified.” The next three<br />

best words are “pretty darn cool.”<br />

4<br />

It’s very adaptable. It will do well in<br />

clay soils as well as more calcareous<br />

soils. Regular watering is a necessity. It<br />

takes full sun to part shade, and is particularly<br />

nice at the edge of a clearing. But<br />

above all – and more on this later – site it<br />

so the rising sun and setting sun can caress<br />

its bark. The bad news: I don’t want<br />

you to feel any pressure after spending<br />

all that money, but if it’s unhappy it will<br />

croak in a year or two.<br />

5<br />

It has interesting leaves that can turn<br />

an orange-red in the fall, although<br />

many years it settles for a muted reddishbrown.<br />

6<br />

OK, finally, the reason for its 365-day<br />

appeal: Exfoliating bark in every season.<br />

It begins to peel when the tree is a few<br />

years old, flaking away in exquisite cinnamon<br />

to reddish-brown sheets with a rich,<br />

brown color in the background.<br />

The effect is almost mesmerizing,<br />

particularly when a rising or setting sun<br />

backlights the tree, adding a solar-flared<br />

look to the paper-thin peels. Even during<br />

normal daylight hours, the bark is fascinating,<br />

pushing out from the limbs in<br />

tight swirls and curls.<br />

Almost – dare I say it – heavenly.<br />

So what’s your pick – and why? •<br />

About the Author<br />

Bob Hill owns Hidden Hill<br />

Nursery and can be<br />

reached at farmerbob@<br />

hiddenhillnursery.com.<br />

For more information,<br />

including nursery hours<br />

and event information, go<br />

to www.hiddenhillnursery.<br />

com<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 11


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Cover Story<br />

One Hundred Years of History<br />

Pictured: The outside of the Elsby building, at the corner of Pearl and Spring Streets in New Albany.<br />

The Elsby building and the man behind it<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 14<br />

Story and Photos (except where noted) by Darian Eswine


When you drive down Spring<br />

Street in downtown New<br />

Albany, one of the first<br />

things you’ll notice is the<br />

Elsby building at the corner of Spring and<br />

Pearl—a staple of the New Albany skyline<br />

for the last 100 years.<br />

Kelly Carnighan, great-grandson of<br />

Samuel J. Elsby and executive director of<br />

Silver Hills Historical Society, has been<br />

researching Elsby’s life for the last two<br />

years and most recently wrote a book that<br />

will soon be published, telling the story of<br />

Elsby’s life and pursuits.<br />

“For me, the research began and<br />

then it just kind of snowballed and kept<br />

going and going and going,” Carnighan<br />

said.<br />

Elsby, along with others, formed the<br />

German American Realty Company for<br />

the sole purpose of purchasing the property<br />

in order to build the Elsby building.<br />

The building opened in 1916 and was designed<br />

by Joseph and Joseph, still in business<br />

today in Louisville.<br />

Elsby housed the German American<br />

Bank on the ground floor of the building<br />

when it opened. Other businesses housed<br />

at the building upon opening were Miller<br />

Dry Cleaning, Joseph M. Roehrig barber,<br />

Chamber of Commerce of New Albany,<br />

and Young Business Men’s Club, among<br />

others.<br />

Carnighan said it is unclear as to<br />

why Elsby chose New Albany for this<br />

building, since he was living in English,<br />

Ind. at the time, but the building has since<br />

become an iconic landmark in the city and<br />

was its very first skyscraper.<br />

“The who’s who of New Albany<br />

moved into the Elsby building,” Carnighan<br />

said. “Lawyers, doctors, dentists…”<br />

The building itself has an interesting<br />

history since it is one of the only buildings<br />

remaining from the original 1916 street.<br />

However, Carnighan’s goal is to educate<br />

people on the man behind the building,<br />

who had an interesting history, himself.<br />

Elsby had a reputation for reaching<br />

out to the common individual in the community.<br />

He was a very influential man<br />

and would help people by loaning money<br />

and financing institutions other banks refused.<br />

He also invested his money in factories,<br />

which created jobs for those in the<br />

community.<br />

“His impact was substantial<br />

throughout <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>, “ Carnighan<br />

said.<br />

Elsby was born in 1859 in Perry<br />

County, Ind. According to Carnighan’s<br />

book, Elsby grew up surrounded by a devoted<br />

family who believed in the need for<br />

discipline and moral values.<br />

One of the most intriguing pieces of<br />

his history was uncovered when his wife<br />

Brittie Elsby gave her grandson, Harry, a<br />

ring belonging to Samuel Elsby. Harry—<br />

Carnighan’s father—wore the ring most<br />

of his life. Recently, an engraving inside<br />

the ring was discovered reading “Lissie’s<br />

Gift.”<br />

Carnighan said no one in the family<br />

knew who Lissie was. After some research,<br />

it was discovered that Lissie stood<br />

for Melissa, who turned out to be Elsby’s<br />

first wife. Melissa and Elsby were childhood<br />

friends and eventually married. According<br />

to a census, they both lived with<br />

Melissa’s mother in Derby, Ind. until they<br />

moved to Cannelton where they opened a<br />

general store.<br />

Pictured: Samuel J. Elsby (provided by Kelly Carnighan<br />

He was a very influential<br />

man and would help<br />

people by loaning money<br />

and financing institutions<br />

other banks refused.<br />

During his time with Melissa, Elsby<br />

also took a turn in politics, serving for four<br />

years as Perry County Circuit Court Clerk.<br />

Unfortunately, in 1890 Melissa became<br />

ill and went to spend time at the<br />

White Sulphur Wells in English, Ind.<br />

The sulphur, at the time, was thought to<br />

help with sickness. She returned home a<br />

few weeks later and died at the age of 31.<br />

Melissa is buried on a hilltop cemetery in<br />

Derby, Ind.<br />

Carnighan said Elsby and Melissa’s<br />

love was evident based on the life Elsby<br />

led after Melissa’s death. He not only remained<br />

very family-oriented, but he followed<br />

pursuits Carnighan said he might<br />

not have followed otherwise.<br />

Elsby went to pharmacy school,<br />

possibly due to Melissa’s illness. He also<br />

bought the White Sulphur Wells Hotel<br />

with a friend and hired the first hotel doctor.<br />

Carnighan said it is clear how much<br />

of an impact Melissa had on the rest of<br />

Elsby’s life, regardless of their short time<br />

together.<br />

He was remarried to Brittie Pauline<br />

Elsby and remained with her until his<br />

death. Throughout the rest of his life, Elsby<br />

had two children—Dorothy and Samuel<br />

Jr.—he organized six banks, created<br />

jobs in the community, and left a lasting<br />

mark with the Elsby building.<br />

Elsby’s troubles began in 1929 when<br />

the stock market crashed, which was soon<br />

followed by the largest flood in American<br />

history in 1937. Carnighan tells a story in<br />

his book of how Elsby removed all of the<br />

money from the vault of the bank after the<br />

flood and took it to his home to hang on<br />

clotheslines.<br />

Both of these events took their toll on<br />

Elsby who suffered a stroke in 1937 and<br />

died several months later.<br />

“I haven’t come up with anything<br />

the man did that didn’t command respect<br />

and admiration for him,” Carnighan said.<br />

He added that it is astounding to<br />

think about the time period during which<br />

Elsby was born, in 1859, and all he experienced.<br />

In his lifetime Elsby lived through<br />

the Civil War, President Lincoln, the Industrial<br />

Revolution, the invention of the<br />

automobile, the photograph, the telephone,<br />

the sinking of the Titanic, two financial<br />

crises, the Great Depression, and a<br />

World War among other events.<br />

“He saw history changing right<br />

there in front of him, constantly,” Carnighan<br />

said. “It’s remarkable.”<br />

Throughout all of these changes,<br />

Elsby seemed to keep up with the times<br />

and somehow managed to be on the front<br />

lines of change.<br />

“He was always on the cutting edge<br />

of technology,” Carnighan said. “The<br />

moment the telephone was invented he<br />

embraced the telephone, the moment the<br />

automobile was invented he embraced<br />

the automobile…I mean you can see this<br />

throughout his life.”<br />

Elsby was actually the first to install<br />

a telephone in English, Ind. His inclination<br />

toward the modern could also be seen<br />

in the Elsby building.<br />

“It was the first building to have<br />

electric elevators, electric traction elevators,”<br />

Carnighan said. “The description<br />

of the building’s construction is remarkable—fireproof,<br />

marble, it’s all modern<br />

conveniences…just about anything and<br />

everything you’d expect of a modern<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 15


Pictured: (top right) A clock above the original vault from the German American Bank when the Elsby<br />

building opened. (Top left and below) The original vault from the German American Bank still sits on<br />

the first floor of the Elsby building,, which now houses Ronaldo Designer Jewelry.<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 16


uilding.”<br />

David Barksdale, Floyd County Historian,<br />

said the Elsby building also played<br />

a vital role in tornado relief efforts during<br />

the “Cyclone of 1917,” which is a tornado<br />

that killed at least 45 people in New Albany.<br />

When the relief efforts were organized,<br />

the Elsby building served as the<br />

offce for the effort.<br />

For the future of the historic building,<br />

Barksdale and Carnighan both said<br />

they would love to see the Elsby building<br />

turned into a residential area, given its<br />

prime location downtown.<br />

“With everything happening downtown,<br />

that could be a jewel,” Barksdale<br />

said.<br />

The architecture firm behind the<br />

project said they are also looking forward<br />

to the future of the building.<br />

“It’s a building we’re proud to have<br />

been a part of and excited to continue to<br />

see exciting new uses as it continues to<br />

evolve,” said Cash Moter, architect and<br />

partner at Joseph and Joseph.<br />

In his book, Carnighan describes<br />

the Elsby building as Elsby’s “crowning<br />

achievement, symbolizing his business<br />

achievements and establishing his legacy.”<br />

While the iconic building is important<br />

to New Albany’s history, Carnighan<br />

said the man behind the building is just as<br />

important.<br />

“Who built the building? Who is<br />

he?” Carnighan said. “The name’s on the<br />

building—Elsby—so who is this man?”<br />

In one of the eulogies published in<br />

the New Albany Tribune on August 24,<br />

1937, a community member sums up Elsby<br />

by saying “In all, he faithfully served<br />

the city and its citizens.” •<br />

The Silver Hills Historical Society will be hosting<br />

two events to celebrate the Elsby building’s<br />

100th anniversary. The first part of the Elsby<br />

Centennial Celebration will be the historical<br />

presentation and catered dinner, which will be<br />

held on Oct. 23 at Silver Heights Parnell Center<br />

from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.<br />

The second event will be a building tour and<br />

celebration held on Nov. 5, with the tour beginning<br />

at 10:00 a.m. and the celebration taking<br />

place at The Grand from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.<br />

For more information on these events, please<br />

visit silverhillshistoricalsociety.org.<br />

Pictured: (top) A diagram of the orginal vault door, provided by Kelly Ryan, Vice President of Ronaldo Designer Jewelry; (bottom, far left, and far right) Samuel J. Elsby’s 14 carat gold<br />

pocket watch purchased around 1880-1890. The inscription reads “S. J. Elsby, Cannelton Ind.”; (bottom, middle) A ring originally belonging to Samuel Elsby, which was then passed down<br />

from Samuel’s wife to their grandson, Harry. The engraving inside the ring says “ Lissie’s gift.” The ring was gifted to Elsby by his first wife, Melissa.<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 17


“The building’s construction is remarkable—<br />

fireproof, marble, it’s all modern conveniences…<br />

just about anything and everything you’d<br />

expect of a modern building.”<br />

- Kelly Carnighan<br />

Pictured: (From top right, clockwise) The original molding in the building is<br />

still in tact; An ornate “E” marks the lobby of the Elsby building; The original<br />

elevator system still functions from the top floor of the building; Although<br />

parts have been replaced, the original boiler still remains in the basement.<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 18


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Hundreds of people from the business and civic communities in the region were feted recently at a gala open house to mark L & D<br />

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beginnings in her garage to its sprawling buildings in New Albany’s Industrial Park, the award-winning firm has expanded to<br />

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Pictured: (top, left) Diane Fischer, right, welcomed New Albany Mayor<br />

Jeff Gahan, left, and Sherman Swanigan, regional account manager/<br />

document messaging technologies for Pitney Bowes. The event was in<br />

conjunction with One <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>’s 5 O’Clock Network.<br />

(top, right) The 30th anniversary celebration was a festive occasion<br />

for old friends like Alice Miles, community volunteer; Jerry Miles,<br />

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Author Fair Highlights<br />

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This summer the third annual Author Fair at the Jeffersonville<br />

Township Public Library welcomed the community<br />

to meet 10 Louisville and <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> writers,<br />

who autographed their books as they enjoyed meeting<br />

avid readers. The event coincided with National Library<br />

Week. Authors Ron Gambrell (Six Little Scars), Joyce<br />

Knight (Freedom Revealed), and Brett Alan Sanders (A<br />

Bride Called Freedom) displayed and signed their books<br />

as Cheryl Collins stopped by their table.<br />

German Heritage Shines<br />

at Jasper Strassenfest<br />

(top, left) Residents and visitors to Jasper will now gaze upon the 30’ X 40’ mural of the<br />

town’s rich heritage which was dedicated during the annual Strassenfest weekend recently.<br />

Art Nordhoff, Sr., attorney and Dubois County historian, shared the history of the<br />

mural during the dedication ceremony for the artwork on the side of a building at 6th and<br />

Newton St. The project was funded by community support of the Jasper German Club’s<br />

sales of bratwurst, knockwurst, wienerschnitzel, and German pastries for four years.<br />

(top, right) Soaking up local culture, music, foods, and fellowship at the Strassenfest<br />

were, from left to right, Irv and Pat Stumler of New Albany, Paul and Laura Grammer<br />

of Jasper, and Martha and John Hartstern of Sellersburg. Laura is treasurer of the Jasper<br />

German Club, which commissioned artist Michael Smith of Orange Moon Artist Studio<br />

in Chandler, Ind. to paint the mural.<br />

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(bottom, left) Reigning royalty at Jasper’s<br />

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From left to right are: Sam Shappard, 7, Little<br />

Mr. Strassenfest; Ava Collins, 13, Junior Miss<br />

Strassenfest; Kennedy Kunkle, 8, Little Miss<br />

Strassenfest; and Vanessa Hickman, 19, Miss<br />

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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 21


Our Town<br />

Our Town:<br />

Lanesville,<br />

<strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Story by Sara Combs<br />

Photos by Michelle Hockman<br />

Stroll along the mile stretch of <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Highway 62 that is Lanesville’s<br />

main street and its residents’ pride<br />

is obvious in the neatly kept homes<br />

and businesses lining the way. Wide,<br />

smooth sidewalks have comfortable<br />

benches strategically placed. “It’s a town<br />

with a real community feel,” says lifetime<br />

resident Don Hussing.<br />

Hussing compares his hometown<br />

to Andy Griffth’s Mayberry. “However, I<br />

have an Opie Taylor perspective,” he admits.<br />

“My dad was town marshal when I<br />

was growing up. Life here was a lot like<br />

the television show for me.”<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 22<br />

Hussing, vice-president and loan<br />

offcer at First Harrison Bank’s local<br />

branch, says he likes to use a quote from<br />

a friend, Bob Schickel, “We’d rather hang<br />

in Lanesville than die a natural death anywhere<br />

else.’ It is just a way of saying ‘We<br />

wouldn’t want to live any place besides<br />

here.’”<br />

Located in the heart of Franklin<br />

Township in Harrison County, Lanesville<br />

lies amid fertile farms and lush woodland.<br />

One of its advantages is location,<br />

says Betsy Blocker, town clerk-treasurer,<br />

who moved back to Lanesville eight years<br />

ago after 20 years away. “I wanted to be<br />

Pictured: The historic Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn, located on the east end of Lanesville.<br />

closer to my grandchildren. I was working<br />

in Louisville and it was easy access,”<br />

she says, “only a 20 minute drive.” Lanesville<br />

is located just off I-64, and only a few<br />

miles from Corydon, the county seat.<br />

Postmaster Mary Richardson enjoys<br />

being a part of the town. “I have been<br />

here 14 years and it is a warm, friendly<br />

place,” she says. “You know everyone.<br />

People bring us goodies at Christmas. We<br />

have a magazine exchange in the lobby<br />

and patrons sometimes leave vegetables<br />

to share. Small town stuff. Things that<br />

don’t happen in big cities.”<br />

It is a town that gets things done.


Celebration of a three-phase project resulting<br />

in bright, modern streetlights<br />

throughout the town will happen when<br />

Light Up Lanesville is held Dec. 8.<br />

“Five years ago this annual event<br />

began because of new lights on the west<br />

side of town,” clerk Blocker explains.<br />

“This year we have added streetlights on<br />

the east side of town – thanks largely to a<br />

grant from the Harrison County Community<br />

Foundation.” Included are a parade,<br />

vendors with food and crafts, Santa and<br />

Mrs. Claus, and donated toys.<br />

The town is best known for its<br />

Heritage Weekend when 50,000 or so visitors<br />

are welcomed to a massive festival<br />

celebrating its rich agricultural heritage.<br />

The event-in its 41st year- is set for Sept. 8<br />

through 11, and reflects the community’s<br />

love of its history, reaching back into the<br />

18th century.<br />

Soon after the Revolutionary<br />

War, settlers began streaming into the<br />

land west of the Appalachian Mountains,<br />

pouring into southern <strong>Indiana</strong> in the late<br />

1780s, records Tim Bridges in his “History<br />

of Lanesville and Franklin Township.” In<br />

1792 a small group settled in what would<br />

become Lanesville. The first permanent<br />

settlement was made in 1800, and the first<br />

post offce established in 1832. Named<br />

for Thomas Lane, the government offcial<br />

who surveyed the site, the town was incorporated<br />

in December 1817. Population<br />

has gradually grown from these first few<br />

settlers, reaching 564 in the 2010 census.<br />

Lifelong resident Terry Zabel, 72,<br />

has seen changes. His business is reflective<br />

of that, he says. Zabel’s Hardware,<br />

a staple in the community for 100 years<br />

or so, was owned by his grandfather, J.<br />

G. Zabel, then managed by an uncle, before<br />

Terry became owner. At its height,<br />

the business had 17 employees, sold<br />

John Deere tractors, Willys-Knight cars,<br />

gas and oil products, as well as the usual<br />

hardware items.<br />

Now, Zabel runs the store alone in<br />

a 10 ft. by 16 ft. building. He renamed the<br />

business This & That; for sale are LP gas,<br />

greeting cards, firewood, garden stones<br />

and other seasonal items.<br />

“Times change,” he says. “At one<br />

time there were nine places you could buy<br />

gasoline in Lanesville.” Now there is one.<br />

Still, it is a pretty busy place with<br />

quite a few active businesses. The Lanesville<br />

Food Mart, owned by Gary Blank, is<br />

the town’s main source for groceries and<br />

is a popular lunch spot as well as a place<br />

to greet neighbors. There are two branch<br />

banks - First Harrison and First Savings.<br />

Among other businesses are<br />

Hogg’s Tavern, Lanesville Liquors, Creekside<br />

Country Furniture and Kochert’s<br />

Insurance. The Olde Country Cupboard<br />

“I have an Opie Taylor<br />

perspective. My dad was<br />

town marshal when I was<br />

growing up. Life here was<br />

a lot like the television<br />

show for me.”<br />

- Don Hussing<br />

Pictured: (above) The Olde Country Cupboard, offering<br />

primitive and farmhouse items. (left) The Seams To Be Sewing<br />

Shop takes care of alterations and other sewing needs.<br />

(below) The Rumor Mill Restaurant & Pub.<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 23


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offers primitive and farmhouse items. Sadie<br />

Baker’s Seams to Be takes care of alternations<br />

and other sewing needs. Jenny’s<br />

General Store stocks a wide variety of<br />

goods. There are also two beauty shops.<br />

There is a well-stocked branch<br />

of the Harrison County Library and the<br />

town has active fire and police departments.<br />

Churches include St. Mary’s Catholic,<br />

United Methodist, Lanesville Christian<br />

and St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran.<br />

St. John’s has a school with preschool<br />

through eighth grade classes.<br />

Lanesville Community School<br />

System is the town’s biggest employer.<br />

Because of open enrollment there are<br />

more students in the school than in the<br />

town. “Last year’s enrollment was just<br />

over 700,” said banker Hussing, who retired<br />

from the school board in 2012, after<br />

serving 23 years.<br />

Hussing credits maintaining local<br />

schools with keeping the town united.<br />

“We have been able to fight the “bigger<br />

is better” concept,” he says. “When<br />

our baseball team went to state finals, it<br />

seemed the whole town came out to support<br />

them. School is the glue that holds<br />

the town together.” •<br />

Lanesville is on Hwy. 62, From I-64, take Exit<br />

118 or 113. For a Lanesville Heritage Weekend<br />

schedule and other information, www.<br />

lanesvilleheritageweekend.org or view its<br />

Facebook page.<br />

History of Lanesville and Franklin Township<br />

by Tim Bridges is part of the Images of<br />

America series and is available from www.<br />

arcadiapublishing.com, Books-a-Million, Corydon<br />

Walgreens Drug Store or the Lanesville<br />

Market.<br />

Pictured: (Left page) St. Mary’s Catholic Church<br />

in Lanesville, <strong>Indiana</strong> was originally built in 1856.<br />

Though the outside walls remain from the original<br />

building, the interior and the steeple were rebuilt<br />

after a fire in 1948.<br />

(Right page, from top) The top of the Rumor<br />

Mill Restaurant and Pub in Lanesville; the track<br />

and field complexfor the Lanesville Community<br />

schools.<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 25


Pictured: ( from top, clockwise) A hot air balloon sailing above the fairgrounds at the Lanesville Heritage Festival; an<br />

antique tractor on display; a 1919 Avery Under Mount 20 hp, owned and displayed by Lindaeur Farms.; a demostration on<br />

how to shell dried corn before grinding.<br />

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September 8 - 11, <strong>2016</strong><br />

The festival features midway rides, truck and tractor pulls, an antique farm machinery<br />

show, vendor and craft foods, contests, entertainment and more!<br />

Designated as an offcial <strong>Indiana</strong> bi-centennial event, this year’s parade will be held<br />

Saturday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m.


• Artisans and Craft Booths<br />

• Entertainment, including regional bands<br />

• Historical Re-enactors<br />

• A living pioneer village<br />

• Village pioneer demonstrations<br />

• Food Vendors<br />

September 17-18, <strong>2016</strong><br />

Saturday 9:00 am - 7:00 pm; Sunday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm<br />

Attractions<br />

The Stevens Memorial Museum and the Depot<br />

Train Museum are open and free to the public<br />

during the festival.<br />

Other special events at Historic Beck’s Grist Mill<br />

Voices From the Past Tour of Salem’s Crown Hill<br />

Cemetery<br />

The festival has been endorsed by the <strong>Indiana</strong> Bicentennial Commission as<br />

one of the offcial <strong>Indiana</strong> Bicentennial Celebration Events<br />

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Bicentennial Spotlight<br />

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A Story to Tell<br />

Celebrating the history of <strong>Indiana</strong> barns<br />

Story and Photos by Jenna Esarey<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 36


Get off the interstates and the <strong>Indiana</strong> landscape is dotted<br />

with barns, many of them dating back a century or<br />

more. And what better way to celebrate <strong>Indiana</strong> and its<br />

agricultural heritage during her bicentennial year than<br />

by recognizing some of the best?<br />

Well over 200 barns were submitted for consideration in the<br />

Bicentennial Barns project. All were required to have been built<br />

prior to 1950 and still be standing.<br />

Some date back to before <strong>Indiana</strong> achieved statehood in 1816.<br />

Some have been in the same family for generations. Some served<br />

as stagecoach stops; but all have a story to tell.<br />

Two-hundred received a Bicentennial Barn sign, while the<br />

top ten received plaques made from redeemed barn wood by<br />

Scottsburg artist Dorrel Harrison.<br />

“I try to give more life to barn wood that would usually<br />

be discarded,” Harrison said. “I like to call the wood I use ‘redeemed’.<br />

It’s a reminder to me that I’ve been redeemed in Christ.<br />

I was at one point not that useful for God. He helped me to utilize<br />

these talents.”<br />

Harrison, 73, retired after 33 years as a teacher in upstate<br />

New York in 2000, relocating to Scottsburg with his wife Kathleen,<br />

to be near their son, a UPS pilot.<br />

The self-taught artist ran a small photography business for<br />

15 years while he was still teaching, and started making small ornaments<br />

featuring covered bridges. “When I came here people<br />

just weren’t interested in covered bridges,” he said. “So I started<br />

making barns.”<br />

In 2008 he came up with the idea of holding a barn contest<br />

for Scott County. “That went over real well, so I started making<br />

traditional barn plaques.”<br />

He applied to be an <strong>Indiana</strong> Artisan. “They said yes,” he<br />

said. “They said, it’s unique, it’s <strong>Indiana</strong> artsy. From there it sort<br />

of snowballed.”<br />

Originally, his plaques were unframed and mounted atop a<br />

piece of barn wood. Today many of his pieces are framed as well,<br />

letting him add background and sky to the image.<br />

“Every barn has a story,” he said. “Every person has a story<br />

and everyone is different. The greatest story ever told is found<br />

within the pages of the Bible.”<br />

Each of his framed pieces features a vulture flying overhead.<br />

“I put a bird in each of my paintings as a signature,” he said. “Vultures<br />

look after dead stuff. I put them in to remind people that in<br />

the midst of this pretty world there is some bad news. We live in<br />

a world where there’s sin. There’s road kill. That’s part of life. We<br />

all have our good qualities and our not so good qualities.”<br />

Harrison’s workshop contains duplicates of each of the Top<br />

Ten designees, as he prepares a travelling exhibit to show them off<br />

around the state.<br />

The Nedelkoff Barn in Floyd County is one of the Top Ten.<br />

Visible from I-64 in the Knobs in Floyd County, the barn dates to<br />

at least the 1940s.<br />

Home over the years to horses, chickens, rabbits, barn cats,<br />

and migratory barn swallows every spring, the structure has also<br />

hosted everything from rock concerts to school field trips.<br />

The contest opened in early 2015 and ran through December.<br />

A panel of agriculturalists, artists, and preservationists selected<br />

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purpose, and overall aesthetic. •<br />

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All About Kids<br />

Jacquelyn Davis teaches a guitar lesson to participant Andy Hess.<br />

Filling a Gap<br />

Jeffersonville Arts Camp introduces kids to different types of music, instruments, dance, and crafts<br />

Story and Photos by Darian Eswine<br />

Two years ago, Ethan Schmidt<br />

formed a community choir for<br />

kindergartners to eighth graders<br />

that met once a week. Since then,<br />

the choir has grown into, most recently,<br />

a summer arts camp held at Centenary<br />

United Methodist Church.<br />

Schmidt is the director of music<br />

therapy services at Personal Counseling<br />

Services. He said the camp is filling a gap<br />

in New Albany and providing an arts activity<br />

for kids in the community.<br />

“We presented this a couple of times<br />

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The idea began with Schmidt, who<br />

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The camp took place from 8:30-5:30<br />

each day for four days, which Davis said<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 40<br />

was intentional for working parents. Erica<br />

Swinney, a mother of one of the camp attendees,<br />

said she appreciated the timing.<br />

“It was nice that it was all day and convenient<br />

for those of us that work,” she said.<br />

“That’s a big reason why we chose to participate.”<br />

After figuring out timing and choosing<br />

a week, they then decided on a cultural<br />

theme, which allowed them to do a<br />

variety of activities focused on a different<br />

continental region each day and highlight<br />

those different types of music, instruments,<br />

dance, and crafts.<br />

“We’re just trying to give everyone<br />

an option to do any and all kinds of theatrical,<br />

dancing, music in general…” Davis<br />

said.<br />

She said they drafted a sample itinerary<br />

and scheduled a variety of activities<br />

throughout the day including step dancing,<br />

group choir rehearsal, and drama.<br />

Each activity was focused on the culture<br />

theme, for instance they made balloon<br />

drums on Africa day and totem rain sticks<br />

on Native American day.<br />

“I think it’s very important to share<br />

with the children at an early age the importance<br />

of understanding, accepting,<br />

and appreciating diverse cultures and all<br />

of the beauty and wonderful things that<br />

they contribute,” Davis said.<br />

The kids also have two 15-30 minute<br />

individual applied lessons with the leaders<br />

of the camp, including voice lessons,<br />

guitar, or piano.<br />

“A lot of people don’t know about<br />

music therapy and so I feel like it really<br />

promotes our business and lets other<br />

people in the community know about us,”<br />

said Katie Saylor, music therapy intern.<br />

The music therapy interns assisting<br />

with the camp are from the University of<br />

Louisville and intern with Schmidt for 40<br />

hours a week, for six months.<br />

Saylor said she thinks music therapy


has the ability to reach some people traditional<br />

talk therapy and other therapies may not<br />

reach very well.<br />

“I asked the kids, ‘Do you think there’s<br />

anything else besides music that could bring<br />

the whole world together?’ And everyone<br />

just kind of drew a blank, because I don’t<br />

think there is anything,” Davis said.<br />

Schmidt said he has witnessed a sense<br />

of community emanating from the camp<br />

throughout the week. “Not just community<br />

that happens between the kids, but the community<br />

that’s taking place with parents coming<br />

together,” Schmidt said.<br />

For the future, the leaders want to hold<br />

the camp annually and on a large scale, somewhere<br />

with access to outdoor space to broaden<br />

the variety of activities children would be<br />

able to experience. Davis said they would<br />

also like to have live performances representing<br />

the different cultures.<br />

At the end of the week, Davis’ main goal<br />

is for the children to take something away<br />

from their time at camp.<br />

“I hope that there’s a bond formed between<br />

the children and if there’s any emotional<br />

processing or anything going on, that<br />

they’ll have the opportunity to work through<br />

that,” Davis said. •<br />

Pictured: (this page, top) Jacquelyn Davis leads step practice<br />

with campers. From left to right in front row: Rubi Barbour,<br />

Kiara Walsh, Hadley Whitham and Cassidy Stone.<br />

“I think it’s very important to share with the<br />

children at an early age the importance of<br />

understanding, accepting, and appreciating<br />

diverse cultures and all of the beauty and<br />

wonderful things that they contribute.”<br />

- Jacquelyn Davis<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 41


Everyday Adventures<br />

What are you going to be?<br />

It was never about the candy. Never.<br />

Candy was just an excuse. It gave<br />

us a reason to trick-or-treat. Never<br />

once, though, did another kid ask me,<br />

“What kind of chocolate are you going to<br />

get this year?”<br />

Instead, we asked the other question,<br />

the magic question. What are you<br />

going to be this year? Not, what are you<br />

At some point, though, I stopped<br />

believing in the magic of masks and vinyl<br />

suits. Unfortunately, it wasn’t just that I<br />

gave up the childhood fantasy of Halloween,<br />

but in the underlying truth that made<br />

it so powerful.<br />

I stopped believing in the miracle<br />

of transformation. I stopped believing I<br />

could become something other than what<br />

turned upside-down by God, explains<br />

it like this, “God can do anything, you<br />

know—far more than you could ever<br />

imagine or guess or request in your wildest<br />

dreams! He does it not by pushing<br />

us around but by working within us,<br />

His Spirit deeply and gently within us”<br />

(Ephesians 3:20 The Message).<br />

When it comes to your future, God<br />

“I didn’t just walk from house-tohouse.<br />

I flew. I galloped. I zoomed<br />

across town in the Batmobile.”<br />

going to wear? What are you going to be?<br />

When we were kids, we didn’t just<br />

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We transformed, and every October<br />

the possibilities were endless.<br />

I became Batman, Superman, Zorro<br />

and Darth Vader among others. I didn’t<br />

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Batmobile. For a night, I wasn’t just a<br />

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I was whatever I wanted to be. Heroic.<br />

Powerful. Awesome.<br />

Afterwards, it didn’t matter that I<br />

had to go back to being my normal old<br />

self for the next eleven months. I had a<br />

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and Christmas was just around the corner.<br />

But more than that, I knew October would<br />

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Once more my friends and I would<br />

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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 42<br />

I am today.<br />

How about you? Did you have big<br />

dreams as a kid, but now those dreams<br />

don’t seem possible? Are there areas of<br />

your life you wish you could change, but<br />

don’t believe you can?<br />

I’ll never lose this weight. I’ll never<br />

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to say no. I’ll never start my own business.<br />

I’ll never escape my past. I’ll never<br />

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I’ll never make this marriage work. I’ll<br />

never amount to anything. I’ll never get<br />

my act together. I’ll never be happy.<br />

The word “never” is a padlock on<br />

our future. It says I am this and not that,<br />

and nothing will ever change it. But the<br />

good news is there is a God who holds the<br />

key to that lock. He is the God of possibilities<br />

who blows away our nevers like a<br />

house of cards.<br />

Just ask David, a backwoods shepherd<br />

boy who God turned into a king. Or<br />

Zacchaeus, a crook who became the most<br />

generous man in town. Or Peter, a lying<br />

coward transformed into a hero of faith.<br />

Paul, a guy who had his own life<br />

doesn’t believe in nevers. He believes in<br />

you. He’s still young enough and playful<br />

enough to believe in the miracle of transformation<br />

and that you can become anything<br />

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So wherever you feel stuck, whatever<br />

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What are you going to be? •<br />

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Jason Byerly is a writer, pastor, husband and<br />

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Photo (this page) by Jason Byerly<br />

Photos (page 46) provided by Holiday World<br />

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started developing our allergen-friendly<br />

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That gives us an incredible feeling.”<br />

George’s Gluten Free Pizza not only<br />

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pretzels, nachos, cookies and, an amusement<br />

park classic, funnel cake. I’m not sure<br />

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Guests with gluten issues should be<br />

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bananas, available with sprinkles, coconut<br />

or nuts. •<br />

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Pictured: (top) a gluten free funnel cake from George’s Gluten Free Pizza. (bottom) Dole Whip, a cross between ice cream<br />

and sorbet, was introduced to the park this year.<br />

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<strong>Indiana</strong>’s 200<br />

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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • E6<br />

Story by Amy Clere<br />

Photo by Jenna Esarey


<strong>Indiana</strong>polis may be at the center of<br />

the state, but it’s not the focus of a<br />

new book edited by two southern <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

historians.<br />

When Linda Gugin and Jim St. Clair<br />

set out to compile essays about 200 people<br />

who shaped the Hoosier state, it was important<br />

to them that the book represent all<br />

parts of the state — not just its geographical<br />

center and present-day hub of politics<br />

and government.<br />

And southern <strong>Indiana</strong> counties certainly<br />

receive their share of attention in<br />

“<strong>Indiana</strong>’s 200: The People Who Shaped<br />

the Hoosier State,” published by the <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Historical Society Press. The book<br />

has been designated as an offcial <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Bicentennial Legacy Project.<br />

An example is Jonathan Jennings,<br />

who settled in Clark County and as <strong>Indiana</strong>’s<br />

territorial representative in Congress,<br />

led the charge for statehood. After<br />

<strong>Indiana</strong> became a state in 1816, he served<br />

as the first governor. Among his contributions,<br />

he oversaw construction of <strong>Indiana</strong>’s<br />

first state road system, established<br />

the State Bank of <strong>Indiana</strong> and fiercely opposed<br />

slavery.<br />

Work on the book began in 2011,<br />

when, at the request of the <strong>Indiana</strong> Historical<br />

Society, Gugin and St. Clair started<br />

a list of 200 people to coincide with the<br />

state’s bicentennial.<br />

The publisher “wanted people from<br />

every area, so we asked county historians.<br />

By and large, we think there’s a geographic<br />

diversity,” said Gugin.<br />

In addition to consulting county historians,<br />

they put together a more formal<br />

group of experts.<br />

“We weren’t going to be able to<br />

come up with 200 people just off the top<br />

of our heads,” said St. Clair. “So, we put<br />

together an advisory committee.”<br />

The committee had many lively discussions<br />

about who should be included in<br />

the book. The discussions, though, were<br />

the only thing lively about the proposed<br />

subjects. There was one hard-and-fast rule<br />

-- everyone had to be dead. That required<br />

a certain amount of morbid editorial planning.<br />

“There were people who belonged<br />

in the book who were still alive,” St. Clair<br />

explained. “We knew that they might<br />

pass on while we were working on the<br />

book and before it was published. So we<br />

left space. Gov. Otis Bowen is an example<br />

where this happened.”<br />

At the same time that the committee<br />

was deciding on who should be included<br />

in the volume, Gugin and St. Clair were<br />

looking for authors for each of the profiles.<br />

Some authors were obvious, explained<br />

St. Clair. They asked professors,<br />

journalists and other experts, some of<br />

whom had written for the <strong>Indiana</strong> Historical<br />

Society’s quarterly magazine, Traces<br />

of <strong>Indiana</strong> and Midwestern History. Gugin<br />

and St. Clair weren’t personally acquainted<br />

with all of the authors they were<br />

seeking, so they simply emailed or called<br />

each one.<br />

“Down to a person, they agreed,”<br />

said St. Clair. “We were so gratified that<br />

we got tremendous cooperation from people<br />

to write for us.”<br />

Gugin added that the pair asked the<br />

authors to make the essays engaging.<br />

Apparently, their pleas were heard.<br />

Each profile launches immediately into<br />

something interesting. Rather than simply<br />

reciting names, dates and places, each essay<br />

tells why its subject is important and<br />

interesting. The story of author Booth<br />

Tarkington begins with a summer night<br />

spent partying in 1925. Powel Crosley Jr.,<br />

one-time owner of the Cincinnati Reds,<br />

is introduced right away as an inventor<br />

of baby walkers and airplanes and many<br />

other things in between.<br />

The authors were given a year to<br />

work on the essays, and St. Clair said everyone<br />

on the project did an excellent job<br />

of meeting deadlines and working with<br />

the editors.<br />

“The authors are the heart and soul<br />

of this project,” said St. Clair.<br />

The 389-page book was published<br />

last November. Since then, Gugin and<br />

St. Clair have given talks on the volume<br />

and participated in book signings. They<br />

hope the book will give readers of all<br />

backgrounds and knowledge levels new<br />

insight into <strong>Indiana</strong>’s rich history.<br />

“There is a lot in the book that people<br />

can dip into, and it is our hope that<br />

readers will encounter people that they<br />

know nothing about,” said Gugin.<br />

The editors also hope readers will<br />

pursue additional exploration of the<br />

book’s subjects. At the end of each essay is<br />

a list for further reading.<br />

Readers of “<strong>Indiana</strong>’s 200” are likely<br />

to renew a number of old acquaintances<br />

– the Duesenberg Brothers, Michael Jackson,<br />

James Dean, Paul Dresser, Red Skelton<br />

and Gene Stratton-Porter, to name a<br />

few – and meet some new Hoosier friends<br />

for the very first time. •<br />

Purchase the book from the <strong>Indiana</strong> Historical<br />

Society Press at www.indianahistory.org or<br />

your favorite bookseller.<br />

SHAPING<br />

OUR<br />

STATE<br />

The following list will give you a<br />

glimpse into a few of the notable<br />

people from <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> included<br />

in this compilation of essays:<br />

• George Rogers<br />

Clark<br />

Revolutionary War militia offcer and<br />

namesake of Clark County, <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />

• Washington C. DePauw<br />

Industrialist, philanthropist, and benefactor<br />

of DePauw University.<br />

• Sherman Minton<br />

U.S. Senator, judge of the U.S. Seventh<br />

Circuit Court of Appeals, and justice of<br />

the U.S. Supreme Court.<br />

• Logan Esarey<br />

Noted <strong>Indiana</strong> historian, prolific author,<br />

and first history PhD at <strong>Indiana</strong> University.<br />

• William Alfred “Bill”<br />

Cook<br />

Nationally recognized philanthropist and<br />

preservationist, and restored the West<br />

Baden Springs Hotel and the French Lick<br />

Springs Hotel.<br />

• Sara T. Bolton<br />

Prominent poet and advocate for women’s<br />

rights and social justice.<br />

Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • E7


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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • E8<br />

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He started classes in Floyd County<br />

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Dunn says he has never tried to hide<br />

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He credits his coach, Carol Taylor,<br />

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“You get out of it what you put in<br />

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