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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 />
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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 />
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10 | A WALK IN THE GARDEN WITH BOB HILL<br />
The Paperback Maple<br />
20 | YOUR COMMUNITY<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 />
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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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(top, right) The 30th anniversary celebration was a festive occasion<br />
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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 />
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Bride Called Freedom) displayed and signed their books<br />
as Cheryl Collins stopped by their table.<br />
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(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 />
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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 />
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Mill Restaurant and Pub in Lanesville; the track<br />
and field complexfor the Lanesville Community<br />
schools.<br />
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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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The festival features midway rides, truck and tractor pulls, an antique farm machinery<br />
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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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Pictured: Scottsburg artist, Dorrel Harrison, with a few of his creations.<br />
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 />
the top ten based on the integrity of the original architecture, history,<br />
purpose, and overall aesthetic. •<br />
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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • 38
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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 />
and it was brought to our attention that<br />
this is not something that is taking place<br />
right now in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> and so this<br />
is really doing something just to fill the<br />
gap for the families,” Schmidt said.<br />
The idea began with Schmidt, who<br />
then brought the idea to one of his music<br />
therapy interns, Jacquelyn Davis.<br />
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 />
put on costumes. We took on new identities.<br />
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 />
just walk from house-to-house. I flew. I<br />
galloped. I zoomed across town in the<br />
Batmobile. For a night, I wasn’t just a<br />
chubby kid with homework and glasses.<br />
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 />
bucket full of candy as a consolation prize,<br />
and Christmas was just around the corner.<br />
But more than that, I knew October would<br />
eventually come around again, and the<br />
stores would restock their shelves with<br />
those costume boxes, the ones with the<br />
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gateways to another world.<br />
Once more my friends and I would<br />
ask the question, “What are you going to<br />
be?”<br />
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 />
get out of debt. I’ll never have the courage<br />
to say no. I’ll never start my own business.<br />
I’ll never escape my past. I’ll never<br />
kick this addiction. I’ll never forgive him.<br />
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 />
He wants you to be.<br />
So wherever you feel stuck, whatever<br />
seems impossible to change, turn it<br />
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Halloween to ask you that magic question.<br />
What are you going to be this year?<br />
What are you going to be? •<br />
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Jason Byerly is a writer, pastor, husband and<br />
dad who loves the quirky surprises God sends<br />
his way every day. You can catch up with Jason<br />
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Story by Jason Byerly<br />
Photo (this page) by Jason Byerly<br />
Photos (page 46) provided by Holiday World<br />
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“When we started developing<br />
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In 2015, Holiday World opened<br />
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We’re not the only parents who feels<br />
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That gives us an incredible feeling.”<br />
George’s Gluten Free Pizza not only<br />
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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 />
For a complete list of all the gluten free options<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 />
Book edited by local historians celebrates 200 people who<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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These days Henry Dunn spends<br />
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Sept/Oct <strong>2016</strong> • E8<br />
explains. “We opened our doors in April<br />
2014, and have been somewhat disappointed<br />
with the response. It is hard to<br />
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program.”<br />
“I am just waiting for people to come<br />
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coaches and we have had only five students.<br />
Sometimes people are reluctant to<br />
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“How can anything be more<br />
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That is something Henry Dunn does<br />
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people all your life that you can’t read?”<br />
he asks. “It is better to try and fail than<br />
never to try at all.”<br />
He started classes in Floyd County<br />
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Dunn says he has never tried to hide<br />
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“I left school early and went to work<br />
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It has not always been easy. An independent<br />
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“And the military wouldn’t take me.”<br />
LIFE is designed to help adults with<br />
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Dunn is pleased with his progress,<br />
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He has been in the program for about two<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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Leah.” •<br />
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