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July / Aug <strong>2016</strong><br />
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SPECIAL SECTION: EDUCATION<br />
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32 | THE IRISH HOOSIER<br />
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34 | A MOTHER<br />
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JULY / AUGUST <strong>2016</strong><br />
In Every Issue<br />
7 | FLASHBACK PHOTO<br />
Fourth of July Picnic, 1915<br />
9 | A NOTE TO BABY BOOMERS<br />
Dale’s Tale, For What It Is Worth<br />
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10 | A WALK IN THE GARDEN WITH BOB HILL<br />
A Journey in the Sky<br />
18 | YOUR COMMUNITY<br />
Spotlight on Rauch’s Annual Imagine Awards, the<br />
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20 | OUR TOWN<br />
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A Note to Baby Boomers<br />
Dale’s Tale,<br />
For What It is Worth<br />
T<br />
ell your story. Write it. Record it.<br />
Don’t put it of. And don’t hold<br />
back.<br />
That I urged you a while<br />
back.<br />
Now I follow my own advice.<br />
Your children and grandchildren want to<br />
know, or will. So should mine, I fgure. If<br />
only my parents, and grandparents, had<br />
left more of who they were and how they<br />
were.<br />
You too, I bet, are left with way<br />
too many questions without answers. So<br />
here it goes, more of me. If any of its fatters,<br />
terrifc. But I know beter.<br />
If it beter reveals, or explains,<br />
mission accomplished. Remember, I<br />
claim only to be honest, not normal.<br />
I like to listen more than to talk.<br />
Litle wonder I leave 28 zillion cell-phone<br />
minutes on the table. Or that I chose a profession<br />
- newspapering - that is all about<br />
asking others to talk. One of the few advantages<br />
to being an only child is being<br />
comfortable with quiet. When I have<br />
something to say, I say it. Too many others<br />
talk a lot without saying much.<br />
I do not have a gun. I feel safer<br />
without one. I could be wrong, perhaps<br />
dead wrong. I just know that I can get<br />
mad or depressed without you or me or<br />
anyone else being shot. No one else can<br />
grab my gun and start shooting, purposefully<br />
or otherwise. All that seems worth it<br />
to be unarmed, even if I get crazier.<br />
I shave in the shower with a bar<br />
of soap instead of shaving cream. Works<br />
okay, saves time. I never lose enough<br />
blood to call Red Cross. I shave almost every<br />
day. I do not appreciate the scraggly<br />
look, which seems the norm these days.<br />
Besides, facial hair itches.<br />
I believe in prayer but do not<br />
pray enough. I enjoy worshipping - for<br />
me, that is at Catholic Mass - but I feel<br />
fairly litle obligation to atend each week.<br />
My faith helps me to practice right from<br />
wrong, to care about what really maters.<br />
Yet I am a prety lousy disciple. I count on<br />
God puting up with me. If He gets fed up,<br />
though, I have no one else to blame.<br />
I am like my father, hopefully in<br />
profound ways but defnitely in mundane<br />
ones. That is, I pay bills typically as soon<br />
as I get them so I will not forget. And I<br />
do not need to park next to wherever I’m<br />
headed. Too much pressure, feeling determined<br />
to land the closest possible spot. I<br />
reserve pressure for unimportant things<br />
I make important, like paying bills right<br />
away.<br />
Decades ago, I switched from<br />
wearing boxer shorts to briefs. It was a<br />
bigger decision than whether to go with<br />
mayonnaise instead of Miracle Whip.<br />
Anyway, looking recently for a deal on<br />
briefs, I discovered most of the selection<br />
to be neither briefs nor boxers, but boxer<br />
briefs. What was broken that needed<br />
fxing? I do not recall geting to vote on<br />
this. I counted on wearing briefs to my<br />
grave. Like I fgured I always could go get<br />
another VCR.<br />
Remember, I claim only to<br />
be honest, not normal.<br />
I quietly boycot businesses for<br />
reasons big and small. It is as militant as<br />
I get these days. One of the places on my<br />
list is an ice cream shop that used to give<br />
a pup cup to take home to Toby. Then<br />
the deal changed; no pup cup without a<br />
pup in tow. Not unreasonable, I suppose.<br />
Thing is, the freebie was the main reason<br />
I visited this particular shop. Toby must<br />
wish I either was less principled or more<br />
inclined to take him with me to church or<br />
the supermarket.<br />
I am not objective about law<br />
enforcement. I am the father of a police<br />
ofcer. I believe that when people<br />
behave themselves, police ofcers behave<br />
themselves. If or when the exception<br />
happens, change is imperative. I just don’t<br />
see evil when I see the police. My son is one<br />
of my heroes. So are all the other ofcers<br />
who deserve trust and appreciation and<br />
nothing but.<br />
I watch my favorite television<br />
shows and movies over and over. I have<br />
seen many of the Big Bang Theory and<br />
Modern Family episodes probably 20<br />
times, for instance. One prime exception<br />
- as much as Game of Thrones captivates<br />
me, once a week wears me out. Then<br />
again, if I watched it morning, noon and<br />
night, I actually might learn what is going<br />
on.<br />
In high school, I wanted to date an<br />
African American girl. I did not, however,<br />
only because of how people might react. I<br />
remain disappointed in myself.<br />
At 62, I am a young old person.<br />
My list of health issues grows, but so does<br />
my peace about whatever will be will be.<br />
I long worried about how long I will live.<br />
I beter now worry about how well I live.<br />
My ears began to ring a few months ago.<br />
They well may ring for the duration. I felt<br />
sorry for myself at frst. Now I am used to<br />
it and am proud of it.<br />
I look for good in people before I<br />
look for bad. I am slow to hate, except, too<br />
often whoever is driving the car in front of<br />
me.<br />
I have not been outside the<br />
United States and it looks like I never will.<br />
I cannot imagine going through<br />
life without a dog.<br />
I am more a mustard than a<br />
ketchup guy.<br />
I never have atended Thunder<br />
Over Louisville and I do not feel deprived.<br />
I am a live-and-let-live type,<br />
with the following asterisk. I have no use<br />
for bugs. I spend summers with a handy<br />
can of wasp spray. Mosquitoes, spiders,<br />
ladybugs, it is as if Insect A & M is having<br />
a reunion at our place. Then there are<br />
stinkbugs. They are on the kitchen faucet,<br />
in the bath tub, on the TV screen, along<br />
the bedroom wall, everywhere. You too<br />
have stinkbugs? Trade you your supply<br />
for mine.<br />
Well, that’s some of me. Be kind.<br />
Now what’s on your list? •<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 />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 9
A Walk in the Garden with Bob Hill<br />
A Journey in the Sky<br />
A magical balloon ride on a clear, crisp morning<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 10
So what’s not to love about a trip<br />
that began at Louisville’s Bowman<br />
Field at glorious sunrise and ended<br />
in a grassy feld managed by an<br />
elephant trainer and his wife?<br />
Been there, done that, right?<br />
Oh yeah, the trip was in a hot air<br />
balloon – one hour and 20 minutes of<br />
being at one with the sky, foating with the<br />
wind, dipping down just above a lake for<br />
a moment of quiet refection, then rising<br />
up to brush the nearby tree tops.<br />
Sure, we saw lots of plants from up<br />
there – and more on that later. But this story<br />
is mostly about our Big Environmental<br />
Picture, of taking in miles of green earth<br />
as you slide past above it, a journey that<br />
makes it ever more clear that we are all in<br />
this together; animal, vegetable, mineral<br />
and mankind.<br />
Our Kosair Charities balloon was<br />
piloted by Brian Beazly, 54, a New Albany<br />
High School graduate with 3,000 certifed<br />
hours in the air. He began fying at 14, and<br />
has participated in balloon events all over<br />
the world, including almost 30 Kentucky<br />
Derby festivals – and winning a few of<br />
them.<br />
Working with the ground crew was<br />
his father, Sam Beazly, 78, a retired pilot<br />
who frst went up with his son 40 years<br />
ago, and just can’t quite stop.<br />
Litle wonder. Balloon rides are<br />
magical – especially on a morning that is<br />
clear, crisp and painted in broad horizontal<br />
stripes of a gray, purple and pink sunrise.<br />
The passenger basket was strapped<br />
to the back of a van, our 200-pound<br />
balloon stufed into a big bag inside the<br />
vehicle. The bag – about four feet high and<br />
wide – didn’t tell the story, it hid it.<br />
The crew pulled the balloon from<br />
that bag and stretched it out 70 feet across<br />
the bright green grass – then unfurled<br />
it 60 feet wide. Its vivid colors were a<br />
kaleidoscope of red, green, blue and<br />
orange rectangles – the words “JUST FOR<br />
KIDS” spread across in giant leters meant<br />
to be read from miles away.<br />
When upright – the balloon will hold<br />
105,000 cubic feet of propane heated air –<br />
and would carry four men in the atached<br />
basket high into the sky. It didn’t seem<br />
possible: All of that lifting power tucked<br />
into a four-foot bag.<br />
The real fun began when about<br />
20 other such balloons rose into the sky<br />
around us, their propane burners roaring.<br />
When all were infated we humans were<br />
dwarfed by them, Lilliputians in a world<br />
of giant, colorful, odd-shaped creatures<br />
covered with names such as Harbor<br />
House, Zaxby’s and Norton Health Care.<br />
Like children, all we could do was stand<br />
there and look up.<br />
Pictured: (top) Brian Eazly, pilot of the Kosair Charities balloon. (bottom) Te view from the top, as the balloon passes over<br />
The looking down came next. With water.<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 11
no sense of motion, we gently lifted of<br />
into the morning, the ground falling away<br />
behind us. Beazly fred the propane torch –<br />
a periodic roar punctuated with profound<br />
silence – as we rose high enough to see<br />
downtown Louisville above the trees, and<br />
beyond that a gray smudge of the New<br />
Albany Knobs.<br />
The men who go to the moon will<br />
often send back images that remind us<br />
that we all live on the same large piece of<br />
rounded rock; the ground, air and water<br />
are all connected.<br />
A balloon ride can ofer the same<br />
vision, albeit the view that stretches from<br />
Clark County, <strong>Indiana</strong> to Bullit County,<br />
Kentucky may not have quite the same<br />
sweep or urgency. Still, there was enough<br />
tree, plant and bird identifcation going on<br />
up there to realize the need to try.<br />
There was also the litle girl dressed<br />
in red, siting in a chair in her driveway<br />
about 500 feet below, shyly waving as we<br />
passed overhead.<br />
The more defned and competitive<br />
mission of the fight was for Beazly to<br />
drop a three-ounce packet of grass seed<br />
onto a white cross on the ground planted<br />
there by the “Hare Balloon” – the frst one<br />
up and the frst to land.<br />
Beazly steered our balloon with<br />
practiced hands. We drifted for a time at<br />
only about 200 feet – a height that came<br />
with the slightly guilty pleasure of being<br />
able to peer down into hundreds of back<br />
yards, all of them devoid of people who<br />
had gone to work, but leaving their varying<br />
degrees of landscaping abilities behind.<br />
Then, watching the parade of balloons<br />
in the sky ahead of us to plot the<br />
best path to the white cross, Beazly took<br />
us up to 1,000, 1,200 and then 1,500 feet,<br />
but with almost no sense of movement.<br />
We were just up there, hitchhikers<br />
in the sky, constantly moving to catch the<br />
various wind currents. Turning the balloon<br />
more sharply east or west required<br />
opening a small overhead vent – and<br />
about 40 years of practice.<br />
We sailed over the Waterson<br />
Expressway, a tree nursery, the massive<br />
General Electric Plant and the busy Gene<br />
Snyder. Beazly, rotating his arm to warm<br />
up, hurled the seed packet and atached<br />
ribbon toward the white cross below,<br />
falling short and waxing disappointment.<br />
“I’m competitive,” he said. “I like<br />
to win.”<br />
None of us wanted to land. We<br />
drifted over an old gravel pit, where the<br />
balloon’s colors were refected in blue water.<br />
We drifted over a herd of catle made<br />
nervous by our arrival. We joked about<br />
pushing on to Tennessee, then gently<br />
landed in an open feld somewhere near<br />
Cedar Creek Road – after frst brushing so<br />
close to tree tops I could grab a few bright<br />
green leaves.<br />
The ground crew in the van somehow<br />
quickly found us. The people who<br />
work the feld in which we landed – Jane<br />
Anne Franklin, a Louisville Zoo animal<br />
trainer, and her husband, Dave Campbell,<br />
who worked with the zoo elephants<br />
– found us.<br />
We who fell from the sky – and<br />
those who train zoo animals – celebrated<br />
our safe landing with the traditional toasts<br />
of post-fight champagne. I kept the botle<br />
as a souvenir. And the leaves. •<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 />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 12
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“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb…I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” July/Aug Psalm <strong>2016</strong> 139:13-14a •
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July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 15
State Parks of <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
Avisit to the unique, natural resource<br />
known as the Falls of<br />
the Ohio State Park is an opportunity<br />
to let your imagination<br />
take fight!<br />
As you stand and survey the vast<br />
200 acres of fossil beds, envision the Ohio<br />
river trafc that once made its way along<br />
nearly 1,000 miles of waterway during the<br />
late 1700s to the late 1800s. The Falls of the<br />
Ohio, a 26-foot drop of crashing rapids<br />
that spanned the width of the river and<br />
fowed for more than two miles, was the<br />
one natural obstruction to smooth travel.<br />
Picture the communities of native Indians<br />
that controlled the fow of trafc and<br />
traded their navigational expertise for the<br />
goods early explorers and setlers moved<br />
along the river.<br />
Envision herds of bison—up to 8,000<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 16<br />
Fall in Love with the Falls of the Ohio<br />
History and afordable family fun abound at one-of-a kind state park<br />
head—splashing across the shallow waters<br />
of the Falls on their migration west<br />
to the prairies and east to the salt licks<br />
of Kentucky and beyond. Early setlers<br />
traveling the wilderness by wagon were<br />
“The Falls of the Ohio is a<br />
unique, one-of-a-kind urban<br />
oasis that ofers something<br />
for everyone,”<br />
- Dani Cummins<br />
no doubt thankful for the wide paths the<br />
huge beasts cut through the woods and<br />
prairies.<br />
Glance westward and imagine<br />
Story by Lisa Griffn<br />
Photos provided by Falls of the Ohio<br />
Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second<br />
Lieutenant William Clark shaking hands<br />
to seal the deal on leading their grueling<br />
Corps of Discovery exploration. The twoand-a-half-year<br />
expedition to map out the<br />
newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and<br />
fnd a practical route across the western<br />
half of the continent began at the Falls of<br />
the Ohio. A replica of the home of Clark’s<br />
brother, George Rogers Clark, the highest<br />
ranking American military ofcer during<br />
the Revolutionary War, can be found on<br />
the park’s grounds.<br />
Try to see your surroundings<br />
through the eyes of American author and<br />
humorist Mark Twain and American poet,<br />
essayist and journalist Walt Whitman<br />
to discover what inspired them to write<br />
about the Falls area.<br />
Drop your gaze to the limestone
foor beneath you and imagine a tropical,<br />
shallow sea that covered the area more<br />
than 30 million years ago. Look closely at<br />
the rock to see ample evidence of the ancient<br />
coral sea foor, which was exposed<br />
by the rushing meltwater of retreating<br />
glaciers during the ice age. Realize you<br />
are standing among the largest examples<br />
of exposed Devonian coral beds and wellpreserved<br />
fossils in the entire world.<br />
Find a fossil in the stone and note<br />
that it is one of more than 600 species of<br />
fossils found at the Falls, which are best<br />
exposed from August through November.<br />
Thirty percent of these marine fossils were<br />
frst identifed here. Perhaps your example<br />
is one of the 212 species of corals that<br />
have been identifed at the Falls.<br />
Picture our elephants’ early ancestors,<br />
the mammoths and mastodons,<br />
thundering past where you now stand.<br />
The frst specimens of the American mastodon<br />
known to science were collected<br />
here in 1739.<br />
Indeed, much history abounds at the<br />
Falls of the Ohio, a national wildlife conservation<br />
area, and it provides plenty for<br />
the 21st century learner to enjoy today.<br />
Interpretive Center ofers new exhibits<br />
A trip to the Falls of the Ohio is enhanced<br />
by a visit to the 16,000 square foot<br />
Interpretive Center, which reopened with<br />
new exhibits at the beginning of <strong>2016</strong>. After<br />
a stop in the auditorium to view a short<br />
flm on the history of the Falls, tour the exhibit<br />
gallery, which ofers state-of-the-art<br />
audio, video and interpretive, immersive<br />
features in four themed exhibits: An Ancient<br />
Sea (Devonian fossils); A Changing<br />
Land (Ice Age to Early Peoples); Converging<br />
Cultures (Early Europeans to Lewis<br />
and Clark); and The Falls Today (a look at<br />
the ecosystem).<br />
Up Close with Feathered Friends<br />
The center’s Wildlife Observation<br />
Room’s one-way glass lets you observe a<br />
variety of birds without them observing<br />
you. It’s easy to spend a calming hour<br />
or more listening to bird calls over the<br />
speaker system while watching feathered<br />
friends—such as sparrows, mourning<br />
doves, house fnches, goldfnches, chickadees,<br />
tufted titmouse, cardinals, blue jays,<br />
downy woodpeckers, and red-winged<br />
blackbirds—enjoy a meal at the viewing<br />
area’s many feeders.<br />
Print of the “Bird Checklist” from<br />
the Falls’ website (fallsoftheohio.org) to<br />
help you identify some of the 270 species<br />
of fowl that have been seen in the area—<br />
including an eagle pair that have given<br />
birth to eaglets.<br />
Get Some Fresh Air and Exercise<br />
It’s easy to leave the pressures of the<br />
world behind and quickly retreat into nature<br />
by slipping onto the Woodland Loop<br />
and walking the quarter-mile scenic trail<br />
at the Falls. There also is a 7-mile stretch<br />
for hiking, biking and mobility scootering<br />
(no motorbikes or motorcycles).<br />
Don’t forget to bring along a picnic<br />
lunch to enjoy after you work up an appetite<br />
from exercising and exploring.<br />
Fall for the Falls Hook, Line and Sinker<br />
Bring along a fshing pole to catch<br />
some of the 125 species of fsh that have<br />
glided beneath the waters at the Falls of<br />
the Ohio. According to Mitchell Forde in<br />
an article for the Insider Louisville website,<br />
the rushing waters beneath the lower<br />
unit of McAlpine Dam ofers a “fsh haven”<br />
where catfsh, sauger, walleye, striped<br />
bass, hybrid striped bass, smallmouth<br />
bass, carp and drum are plentiful.<br />
The avid angler said he has enjoyed<br />
many days at the Falls catching fsh after<br />
fsh, excitedly wondering which kind he<br />
will yank out next from the fowing waters.<br />
“That kind of action cannot be found<br />
elsewhere in Louisville, and in very few<br />
other places around the country,” he said.<br />
Please remember your <strong>Indiana</strong> or<br />
Kentucky fshing license and be aware<br />
that water current deserves serious respect.<br />
“The Falls of the Ohio is a unique,<br />
one-of-a-kind urban oasis that ofers<br />
something for everyone,” said Dani Cummins,<br />
executive director of the Falls of the<br />
Ohio Foundation. “They are the reason<br />
that cities and towns on both sides of the<br />
river came into existence, and today the<br />
park sits in the middle of the residential<br />
areas of more than 1 million people.”<br />
Cummins recommends that visitors<br />
become annual supporting members of<br />
the park so they can enjoy economical access<br />
year round and help sustain and expand<br />
the park’s many oferings. There are<br />
multiple membership opportunities, but<br />
membership at the $100 level provides a<br />
year of access to the park and the Interpretive<br />
Center for fve people, as well as<br />
access by the carload to any other <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
State Park. •<br />
The Falls of the Ohio State Park is located at<br />
201 West Riverside Drive, Clarksville, <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />
For more information, go to www.fallsoftheohio.org.<br />
Phone: 812.280.9970. Email<br />
park@fallsoftheohio.org.<br />
Upcoming Events<br />
Family Nature Club:<br />
How to Use a Telescope<br />
Sunday, July 10<br />
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.<br />
Picnic area **<br />
From the Devonian to the Falls<br />
Today: A Walk Through <strong>Indiana</strong>’s<br />
Deep Time<br />
Guided tour of the exhibit gallery and a walk<br />
on the fossil beds<br />
August 3<br />
6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.<br />
Family Nature Club:<br />
Exploring the Fossil Beds<br />
Sunday, August 14<br />
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.<br />
Picnic area **<br />
Falls Fossil Symposium<br />
(for serious fossil collectors)<br />
Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August<br />
21<br />
Registration: $15 in advance<br />
Details: Call 812.280.9970, ext. 403<br />
Digging the Past<br />
Day-long festival with hands-on activities<br />
and learning activities for adults and<br />
children<br />
Saturday, September 10<br />
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.<br />
Family Nature Club:<br />
Monarch Butterflies<br />
Sunday, September 11<br />
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.<br />
Picnic area **<br />
National Public Lands Day<br />
Volunteer project at the Falls and Charlestown<br />
State Park<br />
Saturday, September 24<br />
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m<br />
** A responsible adult must stay with children.<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 17
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Community Action of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> (CASI) was the seting for a lively spring afternoon as the Culture Fest drew crowds of<br />
families and individuals of all ages to experience traditions and foods from a variety of countries. The event was sponsored by The<br />
Explorer, Greater Clark County Schools, CASI, and Macaroni Kid, an on-line resource for families.<br />
Pictured: (top, left) Ivy Pompa and her uke set the tone for the Hawaiian booth at the fair. In<br />
back are Kelsey Anderson, Scyler Claridad, Ericson Claridad, and litle Riley Shaw at the table.<br />
(top, right) Brian Carlos, Miriam Saltado, Kenley Ortiz, and Kelly Juarez waited their turn to<br />
burst the festive and traditional pinata..<br />
(botom left) Parkwood Elementary School<br />
volunteers stafed a popular Mexican cuisine<br />
booth at the event. From left to right are<br />
teacher Rachel Manias, Maria Juarez, Josefna<br />
Ramirez, Oscar Carlos, and Jose Carlos.<br />
(botom, right) LaKesia Murrell, left, posed<br />
atop the hefty motorcycle with her daughter,<br />
Precious Murrell, Skylar Fulks, and the<br />
owner, Big G. He represented the 4 Horsemen<br />
Motorcycle Club to promote the Jeffersonville<br />
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Our Town<br />
Our Town:<br />
Pictured: Sherman Minton’s birthplace and boyhood home, located at 9172 State Road 64 in Georgetown.<br />
Georgetown, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 20<br />
Story by Nicholas Moore<br />
Photos by Michelle Hockman
Georgetown typifes small-town<br />
southern <strong>Indiana</strong>, with friendly<br />
people, rolling farmland, great<br />
small dining spots, and wonderful<br />
gems of culture and history that not<br />
only bring its heritage to life, but make it<br />
a dynamic, fascinating, and exciting place<br />
to be and experience.<br />
Georgetown - founded in the 1830’s<br />
by George Walt, for whom the town is<br />
named - boasts a population of just over<br />
3,000 and runs along State Road 64 ten<br />
miles east of New Albany.<br />
It’s a peaceful place. Driving through<br />
the town, it is clear many of the homes<br />
have seen their share of generations within<br />
their walls, each with a story to tell.<br />
In 2011, approximately 50 acres of<br />
central Georgetown was added to the National<br />
Register of Historic Places and is<br />
now the ofcial Georgetown Historic District.<br />
Siting unassumingly at 9150 Main<br />
Street, across from Donut Frenzy, is the<br />
Wolfe Hotel.<br />
The hotel was built in 1835 by David<br />
and Mary Wolfe and is one of the oldest<br />
buildings in Georgetown. It was the frst<br />
hotel built on the then Whiskey Run Road.<br />
The hotel was in operation until the 1950’s,<br />
when President Harry Truman was one of<br />
its guests, and is currently the subject of<br />
a redevelopment project by John Beams,<br />
Georgetown resident, owner and development<br />
manager of America First Services.<br />
His family loves historic buildings<br />
and purchased the property at auction 25<br />
years ago.<br />
Beams hopes to see the development<br />
of the property contribute to making<br />
Georgetown a tourist destination. “Our<br />
family would like the Wolfe to be a part<br />
of an Historic Town Center, including<br />
other residences and the Old Town Hall<br />
. . . a tourist atraction of artists, shops,<br />
bed and breakfasts, and senior housing,”<br />
he said, adding that developing the property<br />
would not only maintain the town’s<br />
heritage, but could add tax revenue as the<br />
town grows.<br />
The Georgetown Bank building has<br />
also been the subject of restoration eforts.<br />
It was the town’s frst bank, opening in<br />
1909. In the late 1950’s it became Union<br />
National Bank of New Albany, and eventually<br />
the building became the Town Hall.<br />
In 1992 the town council restored and expanded<br />
the building, however structural<br />
issues and other problems led the town<br />
council to move out of the building in<br />
2009.<br />
In 2014 there was discussion of demolishing<br />
the old town hall, however<br />
community members and a newly elected<br />
town council had another idea. In 2015,<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> Landmarks assisted Georgetown<br />
Main Street Development Group in securing<br />
a $10,000 grant from the <strong>Indiana</strong> Division<br />
of Historic Preservation and Archeology,<br />
which was matched with $10,000<br />
from the town, to put a new roof on the<br />
structure.<br />
Further development eforts are on<br />
pause, but will likely be aided by a $40,000<br />
grant from the <strong>Indiana</strong> Ofce of Community<br />
and Rural Afairs to forge a downtown<br />
master plan. “Options discussed are<br />
selling it to a sympathetic buyer who will<br />
restore (the building), retaining and leasing<br />
to someone who will complete rehabilitation<br />
for a commercial use, or<br />
retaining for expanded town hall<br />
use and functions,” explains Greg<br />
Sekula, southern regional director<br />
for <strong>Indiana</strong> Landmarks.<br />
In addition to its Historic<br />
District, there are many other<br />
enjoyable destinations. Polly’s<br />
Freeze is easily recognizable<br />
along S.R. 64 by its bright neon<br />
sign depicting a colorful toucan.<br />
Founded by Elmer and Pauline<br />
“Polly” Gleit in 1952, Polly’s<br />
ofers delicious, timeless eats such<br />
as its family recipe barbecue, upside<br />
down banana splits, Pollyburgers,<br />
and rotating favors of homemade soft<br />
serve ice creams and sherbets.<br />
Geofrey McNulty, a frefghter with<br />
the Georgetown Fire Department says<br />
people come from all over the region every<br />
summer. “It’s busy nearly every night,<br />
but especially on the weekends, and especially<br />
after ball games.” Polly’s has kept<br />
its classic exterior, with outdoor tables for<br />
guests as well as a covered porch. On busy<br />
nights when the parking lot flls up, fans<br />
resort to parking alongside the road just<br />
to experience it.<br />
“Polly’s Freeze is a throwback to a<br />
simpler time,” says current owner, Carol<br />
Boyle, “Where families come together to<br />
get their favorite food and ice cream treats,<br />
sit outside and spend time with each other.<br />
We are defnitely a destination, a great<br />
place for celebrating even the smallest occasion<br />
and a place out of the ordinary.”<br />
On the other end of S.R. 64 is A.J.’s<br />
Gyros, another Georgetown foodie-destination,<br />
selling the traditional Greek gyro<br />
- meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie and<br />
wrapped in a pita. At A.J.’s, you can get<br />
your gyro with lamb and beef; beef, bacon<br />
and hummus, or feta cheese and olives,<br />
along with signature Greek tatiki sauce<br />
and diced tomatoes.<br />
Owner Alison Hanover knows what<br />
Pictured: (left) Te Wolfe Hotel, built in 1935, was operated<br />
until the 1950s. (above) Te Georgetown Bank building, frst<br />
opened in 1905, and has also served as the town hall.<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 21
The Georgetown Drive-In<br />
The Georgetown Drive-In is<br />
like something out of a dream.<br />
You’ll fnd it at 8200 <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
State Road 64, the main street<br />
running through Georgetown. Its<br />
screens light up on Friday, Saturday,<br />
and Sunday nights. On summer weekends,<br />
the entrance is clearly visible because<br />
cars are lined up down the road<br />
with family and friends waiting eagerly<br />
to buy their tickets at the roadside ticket<br />
booth.<br />
The Drive-In has two separate<br />
screens that run concurrently, each<br />
usually showing two feature flms per<br />
night. The frst show starts just after<br />
9 pm and the second usually just before<br />
midnight. Each parking space has<br />
speaker-stands at its side. Movie-goers<br />
can either mount the speakers connected<br />
to the stand on their cars’ window<br />
sills or tune in to a local radio station to<br />
get movie audio.<br />
Atending this drive-in in an experience<br />
in every sense of the word. Very<br />
few drive-in movie theaters are still<br />
running in the United States – Drive-<br />
Ins.com lists only 324 in the country,<br />
and 18 in <strong>Indiana</strong>. The fact that one exists<br />
right here in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> is<br />
special.<br />
It is currently owned by Bill Powell,<br />
but he’s quick to credit his entire<br />
family with ensuring its successful<br />
operations. His wife is Co-owner and<br />
Manager of the retro-style concession<br />
stand. His son, Brad Powell, runs the<br />
digital projector and serves as Technical<br />
Manager. Bill’s daughter Andrea<br />
is Training Manager of the concession<br />
stand. The Powell family has operated<br />
the Drive-In since 1965.<br />
“Going to the drive-in brings the<br />
family together,” says Bill Powell. “The<br />
whole family comes to the drive-in. The<br />
kids like the outdoor swings and playground<br />
areas. You’re talking with other<br />
people. It’s a big social gathering event<br />
– it’s more than just movies.”<br />
Take a trip to the Georgetown<br />
Drive-In. Enjoy the top major motion<br />
pictures of today amidst a nostalgic social<br />
experience you’ll never forget. •<br />
For more information on the Georgetown<br />
Drive-In visit htp://www.georgetowndrivein.com/.<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 22
an authentic gyro is. She grew up in Liverpool,<br />
England, and met her husband, a<br />
Georgetown native, while living in Greece.<br />
They opened the business in 2004 and offer<br />
many other tasty Greek dishes as well<br />
as ice cream treats. Diners looking for traditional<br />
American favorites like hot dogs<br />
and hamburgers can fnd those there, too.<br />
Georgetown is a wonderful destination<br />
with plenty to ofer and much on the<br />
horizon. Its familiar people, historic legacy,<br />
and classic pastimes are the things for<br />
which <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> is best known. •<br />
Pictured: (top) Emma Mitchell at the Village House cofee<br />
shop. (below) Lincoln Springs Garden Center at 9305 State<br />
Road 64.<br />
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Special Section: Education<br />
The Irish Hoosier<br />
IUS Chancellor Dr. Ray Wallace traded Belfast for <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
Story by Jenna Esarey<br />
Photos by Michelle Hockman<br />
Pictured: (top, left) Monica Burnell-Wise, Police Ofcer First Class, University Police, with Dr. Wallace. (top, right) Rebecca Ochoe, taking a selfe with Dr. Wallace, Zah Wright (partially<br />
hidden), and Sarah Barger. (bottom, left) Dr. Wallace, in coversation with students. (bottom, right) Emily Webb, playing pool with Dr. Wallace.<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 32
In one of his frst addresses to a crowd<br />
at IUS in 2014, newly installed Chancellor<br />
Dr. Ray Wallace greeted “all the<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>ns”, only to be met with dead<br />
silence. “I didn’t know,” he said. “I didn’t<br />
know they were called Hoosiers.”<br />
He caught on to the proper terminology<br />
quickly and soon made himself at<br />
home at the <strong>Indiana</strong> University satellite<br />
campus in New Albany, becoming a favorite<br />
of students and staf alike.<br />
Big Man on Campus<br />
Special Section: Education<br />
Wallace, 56, is personable and witty,<br />
and enjoys spending time on campus<br />
talking with students, faculty, and staf.<br />
“People think they see me here more than<br />
they actually do,” he said. “They see me<br />
because if I’m here, if I can get out of the<br />
ofce and see what’s going on on campus<br />
that’s great, I’ll do that.”<br />
He often eats lunch in the common<br />
area food court, joining students or inviting<br />
them to join him to share a meal and<br />
chat. Sometimes he’ll challenge someone<br />
to a game of pool in the game room, talking<br />
smack the whole time.<br />
During an impromptu gabfest with<br />
a group of students in the school cofee<br />
shop, he snidely remarked, “I like the fact<br />
that you’re all wearing IUS spirit wear today.”<br />
Not an IUS logo was in sight. He<br />
turned to a woman wearing a suspicious<br />
shade of blue to ask, “That’s not Kentucky<br />
is it?”<br />
On a stroll across campus he called<br />
out to deride a student’s decision to wear<br />
a Manchester United soccer shirt. The students<br />
all take it in stride and give as good<br />
as they get, sometimes pausing to pose for<br />
quick selfes with the man<br />
“I do know that it’s unusual for a<br />
chancellor to do that,” he said.<br />
His sense of whimsy shows up in<br />
other ways, as well. In December 2015 he<br />
posted a video to YouTube titled “Happy<br />
Holidays: Chancellor Wallace Misses<br />
You”.<br />
In the approximately three minute<br />
video Wallace wanders an empty campus,<br />
plays with action fgures at his desk, stages<br />
a light saber batle on the Ogle Center<br />
stage, and spends some quality time with<br />
Gus, the school’s Grenadier mascot.<br />
The video took fve days to make.<br />
“I wore that tie and the same godawful<br />
blue shirt for fve days. I threw the shirt<br />
away,” he said. The necktie – purple with<br />
golden dragons – hangs on the back of his<br />
ofce door. “I’m never wearing it again.”<br />
Wallace is also an award-winning<br />
nature and travel photographer. His offce<br />
is flled with photos he has taken and<br />
cameras of all vintages he has collected.<br />
“My profession is education. My avocation<br />
and passion is photography,” he said.<br />
Among the photos on his ofce wall<br />
is a tin advertising sign for the Titanic<br />
ocean liner. “It was built in Belfast,” he<br />
said. “They like to say, ‘It was foating<br />
when it left here!’”<br />
Coming to America<br />
Despite 38 years spent in the states,<br />
a soft Irish brogue still colors his speech.<br />
“I left Ireland in the 70s,” he said. “There<br />
was, for want of a beter word, an ongoing<br />
political strife. It was called the Troubles.<br />
A lot of people were geting killed.”<br />
Wallace said he lived in a bad neighborhood,<br />
but atended a “good, proper<br />
British school. My options were limited.”<br />
Although he had been accepted to<br />
“I saw the willingness of the<br />
community to get behind<br />
its four-year school.”<br />
schools in Scotland, Ireland, and Britain,<br />
Wallace accepted an athletic scholarship<br />
for track at Eastern Illinois University and<br />
headed to the U.S. at age 18. “I had a suitcase<br />
and a track suit,” he said.<br />
All he knew of the U.S. he “knew just<br />
from TV. My vision of America was “Starsky<br />
and Hutch” and that sort of stuf.”<br />
He recalls his initial impression of<br />
the Charleston, Illinois school. “I was<br />
overwhelmed by how much electricity<br />
there was. The dorms were lit up. There<br />
were lighted tennis courts. In inner-city<br />
Belfast – not so many lit tennis courts.”<br />
“Europe at the time was broke.<br />
Power was rationed. Here were all these<br />
lights in the middle of nowhere,” he said.<br />
“It was just amazing.”<br />
While Wallace was earning his Master’s<br />
in English, the Troubles back home<br />
got worse. He went on to earn his Doctor<br />
of Arts degree in English at Illinois State<br />
University.<br />
“I really enjoyed studying here,”<br />
he said. “I loved the student athlete<br />
thing. My frst week on the college campus<br />
I found a book in the library that was<br />
banned in North Ireland. The whole thing<br />
was great.”<br />
His frst teaching position was as an<br />
assistant professor of English at the University<br />
of Hawaii at Hilo. Since then he<br />
has spent time at the University of Tennessee<br />
– Knoxville, Kennesaw State University,<br />
Northwestern State University of<br />
Louisiana, Troy University, Clayton State<br />
University, and the University of Arkansas<br />
– Fort Smith. In that time he served in<br />
a number of roles including provost and<br />
senior vice chancellor, dean of arts and<br />
sciences, division head, and writing center<br />
director.<br />
Wallace is a “very proud naturalized<br />
citizen,” he said. “I like the way things get<br />
done here. I don’t like the class system<br />
in Britain. Whatever you were born, you<br />
stay. Here no mater what you were before,<br />
you can remake yourself.”<br />
“Years ago I was ofered a job in<br />
Ireland,” he said. “I have become so<br />
acclimatized that I wouldn’t ft in.”<br />
Home for Good<br />
Wallace assumed the role of chancellor<br />
at IUS on July 1, 2014. He said he was<br />
atracted to IUS because of its regional<br />
outlook. “I could see the potential for<br />
growth here,” he said. “I saw the willingness<br />
of the community to get behind its<br />
four-year school. This place is going to be<br />
even more important in the future.”<br />
Under his leadership degrees, programs,<br />
and more have been added, with<br />
more to come. A Sales Institute is in the<br />
works. “We are going to be known as<br />
the institution in the area that prepares<br />
students who need a sales background,”<br />
he said. “Some of the degrees we’re going<br />
to ofer – the felds haven’t even been<br />
invented yet.”<br />
While the school is growing, it remains<br />
just small enough for Wallace’s<br />
comfort. “With a smaller school you can<br />
move a litle faster,” he said. “You can react<br />
quite a bit faster.”<br />
Wallace lives in Charlestown with<br />
his wife of 21 years, Susan, a retired college<br />
professor. Their son Reed lives in<br />
North Carolina with his wife, Jill, and the<br />
Wallace’s two grandsons, Noah and Zachary.<br />
When looking for a home Wallace<br />
said, “we had searched all over. I loved<br />
going out into Charlestown with all the<br />
stone fences because it looks like Ireland.<br />
I like southern <strong>Indiana</strong>. I like being close<br />
to Louisville. I like the photo opportunities.<br />
I also like driving home after work<br />
into the country.”<br />
“My ultimate goal was to be a chancellor<br />
and I have achieved that at IUS. We<br />
love it here,” Wallace said.<br />
Like many families who move regularly,<br />
the Wallace’s garage is full of boxes<br />
that they never got around to unpacking<br />
before the last move. Recently he said<br />
his wife asked him if this was it, the place<br />
they were going to stay. “I said yes. She<br />
said, ‘good. I’ll start unpacking’.”<br />
So, does Wallace now consider himself<br />
to be an <strong>Indiana</strong>n? Not at all. “I’m a<br />
Hoosier!” •<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 33
Special Section: Education<br />
A Mother<br />
By Breanna Reynolds<br />
Christian Academy of <strong>Indiana</strong> ‘17<br />
Matters. A mother plays an important role in life, forming how her daughter represents herself and what her son seeks in a<br />
wife. As a sixteen year old daughter, I am beginning to see my mother refected in me. My beliefs, work ethic, dreams and<br />
future are refections of what she has done while raising me. Believe me: “The actions of a mother matter.”<br />
Ofers. Mothers ofer assistance; sometimes too much, but it’s just what they do. It gets aggravating when my mother asks for<br />
the one-hundredth time if I’m comfortable with my dress’s length during the ftting, but I love her for it. A mother ofers more<br />
advice than one could ever accept and apply to life, but we will realize her advice is golden.<br />
Teaches. Teaching reminds me of my mother. A mother teaches not only what one should and should not do, but also the tiny<br />
aspects of life. Most mothers do not have a Master’s Degree in Science, yet they are the ones selected to answer the questions<br />
regarding life. May I say they do it beautifully?<br />
Heals. When I was little, my mother kissed my “boo-boos.” I believed “mommy-kisses” could mend anything. Now that I<br />
am older, I don’t need every cut kissed, but my mother still helps mend my injuries. From life’s pressures, she picks up my<br />
broken pieces. A mother still heals even when it’s more emotional than physical.<br />
Encourages. My mother encourages me to chase my dreams. When I was younger, I dreamed of being a nurse. Now, I’m considering<br />
diferent careers. She inspires me to follow new interests such as the deaf, writing, physical or speech therapy and<br />
pediatrics. Due to her consistent support and encouragement, I know I can pursue and accomplish my dreams.<br />
Raises. The idea of a mother raising children is cliché, but she does more than simply nurture infants through life. A mother’s<br />
DNA is designed to raise her child. Mothers raise children in such a beautiful nurturing aspect, to which mine has performed<br />
magnifcently.<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 34<br />
By Kaylin Clark<br />
Christian Academy of <strong>Indiana</strong> ‘17
Adult Education Opportunities<br />
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Although the high<br />
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Our transition specialists are<br />
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<strong>Indiana</strong>’s High School Equivalency Test<br />
In 2014, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
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Harrison County Lifelong<br />
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for Region 10.There are testing<br />
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The HSE is a rigorous<br />
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To be eligible for the<br />
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July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 35
CFCC... Centering around the Community<br />
The Community Foundation of<br />
Crawford County (CFCC) was<br />
created to beneft the residents of<br />
Crawford County through grants,<br />
scholarships, and community leadership.<br />
The CFCC works with donors to create<br />
funds that refect donors’ charitable goals.<br />
The principal of a fund is not utilized, but<br />
portions of the earnings return to the community<br />
through scholarships and grants.<br />
The CFCC was founded in April<br />
1998 by a volunteer Board of Directors<br />
that represented a variety of interests from<br />
Crawford County. Today, the CFCC has<br />
awarded nearly $6 million in grants for<br />
programs/projects supporting Crawford<br />
County children and youth, education,<br />
housing, health and human services, the<br />
environment, technology advancements,<br />
literacy and the arts, and has awarded<br />
over $2 million in scholarships benefting<br />
Crawford County students. The CFCC<br />
currently manages over 75 charitable endowment<br />
funds on behalf of families,<br />
individuals, corporations and non-proft<br />
organizations.<br />
Among the Organizations that have<br />
received CFCC support are:<br />
• Blue River Services<br />
• Crawford County 4-H Council<br />
• Crawford County School Corp<br />
• Crawford County Veterans Memorial<br />
Association<br />
• Crawford County Youth Baseball<br />
and Softball, Inc.<br />
• Habitat for Humanity<br />
As we move toward our 20th anniversary,<br />
the CFCC is commited to a revitalized<br />
community foundation that is<br />
focused on advancement and growth. Increased<br />
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and board members who bring diverse<br />
expertise are only a few of the steps taken<br />
to ensuring our next 20 years, and beyond.<br />
Our success depends on participation<br />
from the community.. We welcome<br />
new and returning friends to play an active<br />
role shaping the CFCC. Our Advisory<br />
Council is charged with reaching out<br />
to the community to recruit individuals<br />
with an interest in becoming involved. If<br />
your area(s) of expertise and philanthropic<br />
interests are aligned with our mission,<br />
we encourage you to contact our Advisory<br />
Council, a Board member, or staf person.<br />
We encourage you and your families<br />
to make the CFCC a part of your personal<br />
philanthropic endeavors. Money donated<br />
to the Community Foundation of Crawford<br />
County is considered an investment<br />
in the community, and for the future.<br />
Contact us at 812-739-2616 or cf-cc@cf-cc.<br />
org to schedule an appointment. •<br />
CFCC Board of Directors: Cathy Keibler, Sam<br />
Crecelius, Paul Broughton, Karen Hanger,<br />
Traci Kerns, Justin Mills, Patricia Ramsey,<br />
Paul Sanders, Rick Beaver, Bob Kelly, Jim Kaiser,<br />
Heather Minton; Wyat Jackson, Intern<br />
Congratulations<br />
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Adear Azzam, Emiley Cox, Megan DeWeese, Laken Fraime, Jenney<br />
Harris, Nicholas LaHue, Shawn Montgomery, Craig “Evan” Peabody,<br />
Ashley Neese, Caleb Oglesby, Emily Quillen, James “Bailey” Smith, Levi<br />
Schwartz, William Wright, MaKayla Young<br />
Community Foundation of Crawford County<br />
602 West Plaza Drive, PO Box 153, Leavenworth, IN 47137<br />
812-739-2616 • www.cf-cc.org • cf-cc@cf-cc.org<br />
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September 17-18, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Saturday 9:00 am - 7:00 pm; Sunday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm<br />
Attractions<br />
• 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 />
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 />
Te festival has been endorsed by the <strong>Indiana</strong> Bicentennial Commission<br />
as one of the ofcial <strong>Indiana</strong> Bicentennial Celebration Events<br />
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Photo credit: Dowling Family Photography
Don’t just read about history...<br />
Walk hand in hand with history at Salem, <strong>Indiana</strong>’s Old Settler’s Days Festival<br />
Salem <strong>Indiana</strong>’s Old Setler’s Days<br />
is a free public annual festival frst<br />
held for the community in 1875. It<br />
was established to commemorate<br />
and honor the pioneers who setled the<br />
wilderness lands of the <strong>Indiana</strong> Territory<br />
that would eventually become Washington<br />
County and since its inception has<br />
continued to grow into the hallmark festival<br />
it has become through the years.<br />
Held the 3rd Saturday and Sunday<br />
of September, the festival welcomes thousands<br />
of visitors to the grounds of The<br />
John Hay Center which includes The Steven’s<br />
Memorial Museum, a reconstructed<br />
living pioneer village, The Depot Train<br />
Museum and the birthplace of international<br />
statesman, John Milton Hay who<br />
served as private secretary to Abraham<br />
Lincoln and Secretary of State under Presidents<br />
William McKinley and Theodore<br />
Roosevelt.<br />
History truly comes alive on the<br />
grounds of the pioneer village as the<br />
various buildings are occupied with the<br />
residents of the village willing and gladly<br />
sharing their stories of pioneer life and<br />
demonstrating pioneer crafts. If the blacksmith<br />
shop seems a bit hot, visitors may<br />
choose to stop by the village general store<br />
to sample the wares or relax in the shade<br />
of the loom house as the ladies work on<br />
their weaving. Of course, there’s no telling<br />
what famous guests may be visiting<br />
the village at any given time during the<br />
festival. Word has it that Abraham Lincoln<br />
may stop by for a visit with his friend<br />
and personal secretary, John Milton Hay<br />
near the house where Hay was born. Being<br />
a political year, one can never be sure<br />
Endorsed by the <strong>Indiana</strong> Bicentennial Commission as<br />
one of the ofcial <strong>Indiana</strong> Bicentennial Celebration<br />
Events<br />
just what historical politician might show<br />
up.<br />
Of course, partaking of the hand<br />
cranked fresh apple cider and parched<br />
corn might just be the refreshment of<br />
choice as guests stroll the many artisan<br />
and craft booths set up around the<br />
grounds of the Hay House. From carvers<br />
to jewelry makers, candle makers and<br />
wood workers and much more, the artisan’s<br />
booths are always a favorite.<br />
If it’s entertainment that’s preferred,<br />
then there will be plenty found either<br />
on the village stage or on the porch of<br />
The Depot Train Museum located on the<br />
grounds. From local talent to well-known<br />
regional bands, there’s something for the<br />
entire family.<br />
During the festival, the Steven’s<br />
Memorial Museum and The Depot Train<br />
Museum will be open to view with no<br />
charge. Both museums contain thousands<br />
of items within their exhibit spaces<br />
sure to please the history buf in all. Of<br />
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vendors at the festival as well to fll everyone’s<br />
appetite.<br />
Although the John Hay Center<br />
grounds is the main area of festival, other<br />
events held throughout the community<br />
including a Voices from the Past City<br />
Cemetery Tour at Salem’s historically signifcant<br />
Crown Hill Cemetery and special<br />
events at the fully restored and operating<br />
historic Beck’s Mill will be of interest<br />
also.•<br />
For complete information regarding accommodations<br />
and other events throughout the community<br />
during the festival, visit washingtoncountytourism.com<br />
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Summer Fun in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
Faith<br />
Rocks<br />
It takes a lot of planning for Faith<br />
Rocks to happen. The faith-based retreat<br />
for teens is held annually at Sycamore<br />
Springs Park, west of English.<br />
Preparations begin months earlier. And<br />
even that does not guarantee a seamless<br />
operation.<br />
“You must always be ready for the<br />
unexpected,” said the Rev. Rodney Shelton.<br />
That was evident last summer when<br />
violent storms broke out on opening day.<br />
“We got permission to use the 4-H<br />
Building and moved activities there for<br />
the night,” said Shelton. “Then we got the<br />
kids up early the next morning, cleaned<br />
the building, returned to the park and<br />
continued as planned.”<br />
The 2 ½ day event gives teens an<br />
opportunity to grow spiritually and socially<br />
as they commune with fellow believers<br />
and God in a beautiful seting.<br />
“More of You” is the theme of the retreat<br />
set for July 22-24.<br />
Speakers will include Stephen<br />
Lynch, who – with Christ’s help – has<br />
turned his life around and shares his story<br />
to help others, and Jason Denton, of Holland,<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>. Denton, formerly addicted<br />
to alcohol and other drugs, now ministers<br />
“to reach the lost, the last and the least for<br />
His glory.”<br />
Performers include Kirby Stailey,<br />
popular local musician; Narrow Path of<br />
Jasper, and Michael Cochren and Company<br />
from Washington, <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />
Shelton, pastor at Moore’s Ridge<br />
Church, French Lick, said the Sycamore<br />
Springs retreat came about after the Ichthus<br />
Music Festival in Wilmore, Kentucky<br />
was discontinued. While he was pastor at<br />
a church in Corydon, Shelton’s congregation<br />
joined with several other churches to<br />
send youth groups to Ichthus.<br />
“So we had the necessary camping<br />
equipment and we felt it should be put to<br />
good purpose,” he said. “It has been an<br />
amazing experience. Sometimes you just<br />
have to see where God is leading and go<br />
through the door. Great things happen.”<br />
The frst year there were 64 atendees;<br />
the second, 128; the third, 145. “This<br />
year we budgeted for 250,” he said. “We<br />
don’t let numbers scare us.”<br />
“Once the idea came, God started<br />
“Sometimes you just<br />
have to see where God is<br />
leading and go through<br />
the door. Great things<br />
happen.”<br />
- Rev. Rodney Shelton<br />
opening doors,” said Shelton. Two former<br />
Ichthus atendees stepped up. Atorney<br />
Sabrina Bell did legal work; Anneta<br />
Crecelius, a graphic arts major, helped<br />
with brochures. “Other volunteers<br />
showed up as we needed them including<br />
Carolyn Ritchie, former employee of Nestle<br />
Chocolate Co. in Pennsylvania, who<br />
took charge of the food. When she could<br />
no longer help, Donna Hook, a cafeteria<br />
director in the Warrick County School<br />
District, took over,” Shelton said.<br />
For the $40 fee, participants get a<br />
T-shirt and water botle, as well as food<br />
and camping privileges. Churches donate<br />
scholarships for kids who can’t pay.<br />
“We don’t want any young person to miss<br />
out because they don’t have funds,” said<br />
Shelton. “We have kids dealing with addiction,<br />
cuting, planning suicide, family<br />
problems. We hope to make a diference.”<br />
He added, “Last year of the 145<br />
atendees, 80 were kids; an estimated 70<br />
Story by Sara Combs<br />
Photo by Rodney Shelton<br />
made commitments.”<br />
He explained how the program<br />
works. “Junior high and senior high are<br />
divided. Then campers cast lots to choose<br />
a weekend ‘family.’ There is an adult<br />
leader and young adult leader for each<br />
group which meets for discussion each<br />
evening.”<br />
Activities are planned for each day,<br />
with prety tight scheduling, Shelton said.<br />
“There is not much free time.”<br />
When a youth is registered, his or<br />
her name is given to an adult prayer partner<br />
from a local church who prays for the<br />
teen throughout. Often the prayer partners<br />
meet for the Saturday evening service.<br />
“Sometimes adult prayer partners<br />
can’t make it; sometimes a kid doesn’t<br />
show up for camp, but prayers are needed<br />
no mater the circumstances,” said Shelton.<br />
It seems that last year’s storm<br />
evacuation is not what stuck with the<br />
teens, at least not 15-year-old Nick Riddell.<br />
“What I remember most,” he said,<br />
“is climbing up a hill where we held our<br />
hands up in a way symbolizing Christ on<br />
the cross. That is something that sticks<br />
with you, impacts you spiritually.” (Nick<br />
and his brother, Dillon, were among six<br />
sets of twins atending.) “I like it that there<br />
are people from a lot of churches,” Nick<br />
added. “I met a ton of friends and formed<br />
some lasting relationships.”<br />
The event is sponsored by Faith of<br />
a Mustard Seed ministry, a non-proft organization<br />
dedicated to introducing people<br />
to a relationship with Christ through<br />
fellowship, music and ministry. •<br />
For information, to donate, or sponsor a child,<br />
visit htp://faithrocksus.org.<br />
July/Aug <strong>2016</strong> • 41
Everyday Adventures<br />
Man’s Best Friend<br />
My dog Panda will eat anything.<br />
Animal, vegetable,<br />
mineral, doesn’t mater. If<br />
she can get it in her mouth,<br />
it’s fair game.<br />
Paper towels? Delicious! Bugs?<br />
A delicacy! Liter box treasures?<br />
Scrumptious!<br />
That’s why I wasn’t surprised<br />
Friday to come home to fnd cold<br />
medicine scatered across our living<br />
room foor. It was the kind that’s<br />
packaged in plastic and foil where<br />
you have to punch each pill out individually.<br />
Or, if you’re a dog, you can<br />
just chew them all at once.<br />
As far as I knew, Panda didn’t<br />
have a cold, so I thought this might<br />
be a problem. To make maters worse,<br />
she’d mangled the package, so we<br />
couldn’t tell how many pills she’d actually<br />
eaten.<br />
Did I mention we were about to<br />
leave for vacation? That we’d packed<br />
our bags and been gone barely an<br />
hour to run some last minute errands?<br />
That it apparently takes less than an<br />
hour for a nosy dog to dig medicine<br />
out of your bag?<br />
But now I had a problem on my<br />
hands and the vacation would have<br />
to wait. I called the vet to fgure out<br />
my next move. He told me to give her<br />
peroxide to force her to vomit. In fact,<br />
I’d have to give it to her every fve to ten<br />
minutes until it worked. I started praying<br />
for early results.<br />
We took her out in the back yard,<br />
and my wife held her while I poured<br />
peroxide in her mouth. Panda just looked<br />
at me with pathetic eyes as if to say, “Why?<br />
Why would you do this to me?”<br />
Fortunately, it worked, and it<br />
worked fast. She erupted like a furry<br />
volcano, emptied her stomach and then<br />
some. Every time I tried to console her,<br />
though, she shrank away from me, a look<br />
of betrayal on her face.<br />
She thought she could trust me, the<br />
guy who slips her chicken from his dinner<br />
plate, but now I had done this terrible<br />
thing to her that she couldn’t understand.<br />
I was no longer the fun guy, but the source<br />
of her misery and pain. So she ran from<br />
But now I had a problem on<br />
my hands and the vacation<br />
would have to wait.<br />
me. She hid.<br />
I started thinking about how sometimes<br />
we go through this same process<br />
with God. We think of God as the nice<br />
guy, the kind father who slips us blessings<br />
under the table, but it’s so easy to turn on<br />
Him when something bad happens in our<br />
lives. We may think, “Why God? Why<br />
would you do this me?”<br />
Yet, the reality is that God comes<br />
near to help us, not to hurt us. He is not<br />
the source of our misery and pain. He is<br />
the one who brings healing.<br />
Sometimes, like Panda, we get into<br />
our own messes, and God may lead us to<br />
do difcult things to get us to a beter<br />
place. He may prescribe medicine we<br />
don’t like or understand. We may have<br />
to have an honest conversation we’d<br />
rather avoid or make changes in our<br />
life that won’t be easy. But God didn’t<br />
cause the problem. He’s only trying to<br />
help.<br />
Other times, another person<br />
causes the mess or we fnd ourselves<br />
dealing with tough circumstances<br />
where no one’s at fault. Bad things just<br />
happen, and we’re left trying to pick<br />
up the pieces. Again, when God draws<br />
near to help, we may blame Him for<br />
the pain.<br />
Yet that doesn’t stop God from<br />
coming. In the midst of our greatest trials,<br />
He is with us. He understands. The<br />
Bible describes Jesus as a “man of suffering<br />
and familiar with pain” (Isaiah<br />
53:3 NIV). When it comes to anguish,<br />
Jesus has been there, done that, and He<br />
did it for you. He did it for me.<br />
We may not always understand<br />
what God’s up to when life gets hard.<br />
We may not recognize His presence in<br />
our pain. But we can be assured that He<br />
is here and that He has come to help. •<br />
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 />
on his blog at www.jasonbyerly.com or on<br />
Twiter at www.twiter.com/jasondbyerly.<br />
by Jason Byerly<br />
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HELLO,<br />
SAFETY<br />
Child Safety Day<br />
Saturday, August 20 | 9 a.m. - Noon<br />
• Car seat safety checks<br />
• Law enforcement offcers<br />
• Fire safety offcials<br />
• Bike & helmet safety<br />
• Family activities<br />
• Free face painting &<br />
balloon art<br />
• Lots of vendors<br />
For more information,<br />
call 812-283-2101.<br />
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