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Featured Stories<br />

12 | ONE OF A KIND<br />

Patoka Lake Winery<br />

16 | A HOME COOKED MEAL<br />

Two Sisters Café in Birdseye, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

30 | TURNING HARDSHIP INTO BLESSING<br />

Schwart Family Restaurant<br />

36 | SPECIAL SECTION: HOME IMPROVEMENT<br />

Local options for home improvement<br />

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44 | PURE INITIATIVES<br />

Educating students on making healthy decisions<br />

46 | PASSIONATE PARENTING<br />

Local pediatrician, Dr. Stuart Eldridge writes book<br />

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8 | A NOTE TO BABY BOOMERS<br />

The bond of a mother<br />

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

Twists and Curls: Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick<br />

18 | YOUR COMMUNITY<br />

Spotlight on Junior Achievement, the Christian Academy<br />

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20 | OUR TOWN<br />

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Hi, and welcome to another fantastic issue of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

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

Before we get into the nity-grity about this issue, let<br />

me introduce myself. I am Jenna Esarey and I am thrilled<br />

to be the new editor of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong> magazine!<br />

Many of you will recognize my name as a freelance journalist with<br />

<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong> as well as local newspapers.<br />

I grew up in <strong>Indiana</strong> – aside from two ghastly years in Daytona Beach<br />

in sixth and seventh grade that are best forgoten. Born in Brazil, <strong>Indiana</strong>, I lived in Terre Haute<br />

and the tiny town of Riley just outside of it before my family moved to Jefersonville in 1983.<br />

I graduated from Jefersonville High School, atended <strong>Indiana</strong> University Southeast for<br />

two years and <strong>Indiana</strong> University – Bloomington for two years earning a degree in… you<br />

probably guessed wrong – political science. I’m one class short of a double major with journalism,<br />

though, and I have a minor in history as well.<br />

After college graduation I married my high school sweetheart, Jef. We have two children.<br />

Curtis just recently married his high school sweetheart and is fnishing up a degree in<br />

secondary education at IUS. Rachel is fnishing her freshman year at IUS where she plans to<br />

major in music business. She still lives with me, Jef, our two dogs and two cats in our Jefersonville<br />

home.<br />

But, enough about me; let’s talk about <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong>:<br />

• <strong>Indiana</strong> celebrates her Bicentennial this year, and what beter way to start our new<br />

“Our Town” series than with a look at our frst state capital - Corydon. In future<br />

issues look for stories about Georgetown, Sellersburg, and more.<br />

• On our cover you’ll see we got a special sneak peek at the new Patoka Lake Winery<br />

in Birdseye. Unique in the state, visitors can actually stay in one of fve suites in the<br />

winery itself, turning their wine tasting into a mini vacation.<br />

• Don’t miss our special insert “Summer Fun in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>” where we talk<br />

about our state parks, local caves and more.<br />

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I love southern <strong>Indiana</strong> and I can’t wait to share some of the people and places I love with<br />

you. And I want to know about the people and places you love, as well. Have a story idea for<br />

me? Drop me a line at jenna@silivingmag.com.<br />

So, welcome to <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong>. Come on in and look around. I’m sure you’ll<br />

like what you see.<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 7


A Note to Baby Boomers<br />

A Mother’s Bond<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 8<br />

I<br />

worked with a guy who wished he<br />

could be pregnant. He actually resented<br />

going through life without<br />

morning sickness and such joys only<br />

mothers know best.<br />

Then again, this was the same man<br />

whose heart broke if you gave him Coke<br />

instead of Pepsi. Imagine the grief I took<br />

when I only could ofer Big K.<br />

I do not fnd the soft drink batle<br />

worth fghting. And I never shared his<br />

envy when my wife ballooned to the size<br />

of our refrigerator. But the price she paid<br />

-- all mothers pay -- to get into the parent<br />

game pays of like Horseshoe cannot.<br />

However cool and crucial it is to be<br />

a dad, moms mater more. They just do.<br />

They just should. The bond is not only<br />

longer, it is deeper. I gave up trying to be<br />

the more important parent about 78 seconds<br />

into being one. I could not match up.<br />

Going on 33 years later, I still do not.<br />

It’s not even close.<br />

Seen that TV commercial of a bunch<br />

of bad guys frantically chasing a good guy<br />

onto a high-rise rooftop? It is his mom<br />

who interrupts the tension, who calls just<br />

to call. That’s a mom. My mom’s timing<br />

was no beter. And she called a lot.<br />

Lord, if only she still did. In this season<br />

of Mother’s Day, I miss mine more<br />

than I miss my youth, my health, my hair,<br />

absolutely anything.<br />

Our last conversation, 18 years ago,<br />

consisted almost entirely of Mom worrying<br />

about me. There she was, hours from<br />

death -- neither of us knew it -- asking<br />

about my blood pressure, if I’d paid the<br />

car insurance. To the end, she was the<br />

boss, the conscience. She was not being a<br />

cancer patient with lungs calling it quits.<br />

She was doing what she did best. She was<br />

being my mom.<br />

Were she alive today, she would<br />

have a feld day. She could fuss about<br />

stuf going on with me that truly is worrisome.<br />

No mater how old, how successful,<br />

a child needs a mother. I suspect the pope<br />

and the president miss their moms, need<br />

their moms, as much as I do. My wife, the<br />

kids, no one keeps me on the up-and-up<br />

as Mom did.<br />

No one believed in me more than<br />

Mom did.<br />

I hope you still have a mother and<br />

must answer to her. If not, I hope you had<br />

a mother you simply had to please. Maybe<br />

the expectations carry over, the bar remains<br />

high.<br />

And maybe, like me, you get a helpful<br />

heaping of mothering from surrogates.<br />

The best teachers and preachers are motherly,<br />

the best friends and neighbors likewise.<br />

The best spouses certainly and routinely<br />

mother. Though if I ever slip up and<br />

In this season of Mother’s Day,<br />

I miss mine more than I miss<br />

my youth, my health, my hair,<br />

absolutely anything.<br />

call my wife “mother,’’ she will knock me<br />

into next Tuesday.<br />

Mothers, even fll-ins, are the people<br />

I most hate to disappoint. My list is<br />

topped by my wife’s aunt, Audrey Capper.<br />

She is the family’s fnal matriarch. I<br />

know many great people, I know no one<br />

beter than Aud. She is on my side and<br />

I am in her thoughts, no mater what.<br />

That’s motherly.<br />

Karen Hanger, who publishes this<br />

magazine, qualifes. She came to me,<br />

asked if I would join her efort right when<br />

I needed something good to join. She<br />

reached out. She trusts me with a space<br />

that is one of her babies. That’s motherly.<br />

Judy Martin is on my list. She taught<br />

me speech in college more than 40 years<br />

ago. She has kept up ever since. She encourages<br />

me without anything in it for<br />

her. That’s motherly.<br />

“Once a mother, always a mother,”<br />

Martin, a mother of two grown-ups, told<br />

me recently. Martin’s mother died more<br />

than a decade ago, but Martin thinks of<br />

her, in some way, each day.<br />

Accomplished in many senses, Martin<br />

likes being called “Mom.” She likes<br />

hearing from her children. She yearns for<br />

every next opportunity to be one. Martin<br />

and I agree that the best moms inspire<br />

more by how they act than what they<br />

say. Martin enjoys when her children refect<br />

their upbringing. Traditions and values<br />

worth enduring need not be insisted<br />

upon.<br />

Martin’s son loves to write, for instance.<br />

Mom likewise loves his love.<br />

Martin recalls how determined her<br />

mother was that Martin atend college.<br />

Such strength stands out fondly. Martin<br />

believes she built on such lessons, that she<br />

became an even beter mom. And when<br />

the mother isn’t there any longer, “there’s<br />

a hole, for sure.”<br />

As I tend to repeat, my late father<br />

was my hero. An educator, he changed<br />

lives. Our community is beter of to this<br />

day. Mom’s impact was less broad, I suppose,<br />

but arguably more profound.<br />

Mom was contented caring for me,<br />

caring for Dad, caring for our home and<br />

our dog. She too went to college, but her<br />

career was raising me and pointing me in<br />

right directions. She signed me up for typing,<br />

though I threatened to run away from<br />

home. An English major, she reminded<br />

me how nobody dies from writing.<br />

I still am alive, all right. I will never<br />

be a mother, of course, much less pregnant.<br />

But I can be more motherly. Can<br />

you? •<br />

Photo of Jean Moss provided by Dale Moss.<br />

After 25 years, Dale Moss retired<br />

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


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

Twists and Curls<br />

The delightul shrub, Harry Lauder’s Walking Stck, provides sprawling diversity<br />

There lives and twists and curls<br />

just outside our Hoosier Hidden<br />

Hill kitchen window roughly<br />

365 days a year a delightfully<br />

tall shrub called Harry Lauder’s Walking<br />

Stick – a fun, all-encompassing plant with<br />

a European background, American history<br />

and universal appeal.<br />

And, oh yeah, it also provides necessary<br />

shelter for some of the more timid<br />

birds that hover about our bird feeder. Its<br />

twisty limbs make for great indoor appeal<br />

when snipped of and placed in a vase,<br />

and its dangling “catkins” in early spring<br />

are so welcome and appealing when frst<br />

opening.<br />

All gardens need such sprawling diversity,<br />

and so much of it is available in<br />

weeping redbuds, curly willows and the<br />

twisting quince bushes that also welcome<br />

spring.<br />

There’s very little in the<br />

natural plant world that’s<br />

purely linear so why should<br />

your garden be a series of<br />

boxes and straight lines.<br />

Think about that when you plant.<br />

There’s very litle in the natural plant<br />

world that’s purely linear so why should<br />

your garden be a series of boxes and<br />

straight lines. Seek out some weeping<br />

plants; some shrubs that like to dance; perennials<br />

with minds of their own. Let the<br />

mind and the eye fow; mix your visual<br />

metaphors; think about where to place a<br />

bench for both solitude and eye appeal.<br />

The Harry Lauder is so distinctive<br />

in so many ways, and with a history to<br />

match, that it’s worth having around just<br />

for that conversation.<br />

First the nomenclature. Its common<br />

name is the European Filbert, or corylus<br />

avellana, a plant often prized for its nut<br />

production. By contrast, the American flbert,<br />

or corylus Americana, is more of a<br />

wild, understory plant.<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 9


The Harry Lauder – to keep this on<br />

a personal level – has the Latin name contorta,<br />

as in contorted. It was frst discovered<br />

in the mid-1800s growing as a sport<br />

in an English hedgerow, where its nuts<br />

were long consumed as a crunchy delicacy.<br />

Its appeal was instant; those sprawling,<br />

gnarly but somehow graceful branches<br />

arching 10 to 12 feet on a shrub that<br />

could stand alone as a specimen, or be<br />

melded together into a long row with entertaining<br />

implications.<br />

Enter a man named Harry Lauder,<br />

an early 1900s Scotish music hall, vaudeville<br />

singer and comedian who toured the<br />

world and parlayed all that into a sizable<br />

fortune and large land holdings.<br />

Or, as the ever-popular Wikipedia<br />

explained: “He was perhaps best known<br />

for his long standing hit “I Love a Lassie.”<br />

He was described by Sir Winston<br />

Churchill as “Scotland’s greatest ever<br />

ambassador. By 1911 he had become the<br />

highest-paid performer in the world – receiving<br />

as much as $1,000 a night in his<br />

American tours when few earned that<br />

much in a year –and was the frst Scotish<br />

artist to sell a million records. He raised<br />

vast amounts of money for the war efort<br />

during World War I, for which he was<br />

knighted.”<br />

So, you are now asking, what’s all<br />

this got to do with a gnarly bush?<br />

Simple. Sir Harry’s trademark was<br />

his bent, twisted and ever-present walking<br />

stick. So naming a shrub with a similar<br />

bent after him was an absolute natural.<br />

Once on your property, Harry Lauder<br />

is equally appealing. The show begins<br />

in March with those dangling, three-tofve-inch<br />

tan-green catkins that begin with<br />

bright red buds; the word “catkin” itself<br />

derived from the old Dutch word “katteken”<br />

for its resemblance to a kiten’s tail.<br />

The leaves come on dark green, their<br />

appearance slow and somewhat theatrical,<br />

but thick enough that they, almost<br />

unfortunately, hide some of that glorious<br />

twisting shape. We solved that problem<br />

with some delicate pruning that exposes<br />

the limbs all spring, summer and into fall.<br />

But as previously mentioned, that<br />

delicate pruning has its benefts; those<br />

limbs will last for years in a vase, or other<br />

decorating opportunities where dancing<br />

branches are required.<br />

This naming plants for famous people<br />

phenomena, of course, has continued<br />

to modern day; the Cary Grant, Judy Garland<br />

and Queen Elizabeth roses are a few<br />

more commercial examples.<br />

Going further back we have the<br />

“Mister Lincoln Rose” named for one of<br />

the great, albeit temporary Hoosiers of<br />

all time, although Kentucky continues to<br />

latch on to his very early years and Illinois<br />

also claims him as their own.<br />

But Harry Lauder is easy to grow;<br />

all that is required is well-drained soil<br />

in either full sun or light shade. The site<br />

is particular important; place Harry in a<br />

spot where he can be watched, like outside<br />

the kitchen window or along the<br />

drive. In many ways – and our timid birds<br />

will agree with this – his performance is<br />

more interesting in the winter when all<br />

his twisting features are on full display.<br />

Just make him feel welcome.•<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 />

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Cover Story<br />

One of a Kind<br />

Behind the scenes at Patoka Lake Winery<br />

Story by Jenna Esarey<br />

Photos by Michelle Hockman, except where noted<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 12<br />

Pictured:: Stephen Bartels and Heather Setser, VP of Operations for Patoka Lake Marina & Lodging.<br />

Not pictured: Other partners Martin Dixon, Steve Shirk and Harvey Edwards.


With shiny steel vats on one<br />

side of the workroom and<br />

handcrafted oaken barrels<br />

on the other, Patoka Lake<br />

Winery is painstakingly crafting it’s frstever<br />

batch of nine wines for the facility<br />

that is scheduled to open in May.<br />

Located in Birdseye, the winery is<br />

part of the Patoka Lake Marina & Lodging<br />

empire that leases cabins, houseboats,<br />

foating cabins, fshing and recreational<br />

boats as the concessionaire for the stateowned<br />

Patoka Lake.<br />

“We wanted a winter business,”<br />

said Stephen Bartels, CEO of Patoka<br />

Lake Marina and vintner for the winery.<br />

“We’ve got enough summer business.”<br />

He said he fell into the role of chief<br />

winemaker naturally. “I have a strong<br />

German heritage,” he said.<br />

The winery has an 8,500-gallon capacity,<br />

and Bartels has<br />

just under 6,000 gallons<br />

in production. Orders<br />

for 17,000 empty botles<br />

and 20,000 corks went<br />

out in March.<br />

The fve Patoka<br />

Lake Marina partners<br />

are Bartels, Heather<br />

Setser, Vice President<br />

of Operations, Martin<br />

Dixon, President, Stephen<br />

Shirk, Head of Legal<br />

and Vice President<br />

of Research and Development,<br />

and Harvey Edwards, Vice President<br />

of Sales and Marketing.<br />

The group planned and designed<br />

the winery together and broke ground on<br />

June 8, 2015. The frst batch of grapes and<br />

juices arrived in October 2015.<br />

Some of the oaken barrels hold a<br />

merlot, which will only pass through<br />

briefy, while others hold a vintage that<br />

will sit for over a year. In the vats sit favors<br />

such as peach, apple, cherry, moscato,<br />

and blackberry.<br />

The wines will be sold as the<br />

Classic Label. Wines will be priced from<br />

around $12 each to upwards of $27 or so.<br />

Bartels has been making wine at<br />

home for years, but for this endeavor he<br />

reached out to some of his peers – Wilbur<br />

Best of Best Vineyards in Elizabeth, and<br />

Jim Pfeifer of Turtle Run Winery in Corydon.<br />

“These two guys have been more<br />

than helpful,” he said. “We don’t see them<br />

as competitors.”<br />

The wines are just part of the $1.3<br />

million project which is slated to open in<br />

May. The winery building resembles a<br />

barn, complete with weather vanes and<br />

shiny metal silos.<br />

Even the wine labels have a rustic<br />

feel, resembling well-worn paper labels.<br />

A sepia-toned image of the winery graces<br />

the label for the chardonnay. The back<br />

label contains a sweetness meter, ranking<br />

the wine as dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet, or<br />

sweet. Food pairings and serving tips can<br />

be found there as well.<br />

Inside the winery, the tasting<br />

room will include a freplace and comfy<br />

seating. “Usually when you go to a tasting<br />

there’s nowhere to sit,” Bartels said.<br />

“Eventually there will be an outdoor patio.”<br />

The winery will serve meats and<br />

cheeses, homemade desserts, and chocolates<br />

from Chocolate Bliss in Jasper. “It<br />

won’t be a restaurant,” Bartels said. “It<br />

will be just enough so you can come drink<br />

some wine and have some food.”<br />

“We recognize the industry is getting<br />

away from free tastings,” Setser said.<br />

The Winery plans to charge $5 to $6 for a<br />

tasting, but the fee will<br />

include a wine glass to<br />

keep and wooden nickels<br />

to spend on other<br />

items.<br />

The Barrel Room<br />

will hold up to 36<br />

people and can be rented<br />

out for meetings,<br />

group tastings, birthday<br />

and anniversary<br />

parties, and more.<br />

The silos are<br />

what really set Patoka<br />

Lake Winery apart,<br />

serving as lounge and meeting space on<br />

the ground foor and housing two-story<br />

suites above.<br />

The ground foor silo spaces are,<br />

obviously, round. Finished with vertical<br />

lathes, it gives visitors the feeling of being<br />

inside a wine barrel.<br />

Five suites will allow guests to stay<br />

the night at the winery running from $198<br />

to $268 per night with a two-night minimum.<br />

All suites include a king bed, full<br />

bath, whirlpool tub, freplace, fat screen<br />

TV/DVD and a kitchenete.<br />

The two silo suites are two-story,<br />

circular structures, with the bedroom on<br />

the upper foor. Wooden ceilings with the<br />

fre suppression system metal pipes exposed<br />

add to the suite’s industrial/rustic<br />

feel.<br />

Following the barn theme, sliding<br />

‘horse stall’ doors lead to the bedrooms in<br />

the three winery suites. “I think we’ll be<br />

the frst winery in the state to have lodging<br />

in the actual winery,” said Setser.<br />

Expansion plans are already in place.<br />

In 2017 or so an events center holding up<br />

to 299 will open adjacent to the winery, expanding<br />

the party capacity.<br />

“Everyone keeps telling us we’re<br />

going to get slammed,” Setser said. “We’re<br />

The wines are just<br />

part of the $1.3 million<br />

project which is slated<br />

to open in May.<br />

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saying, “We don’t have any idea what<br />

to expect.” •<br />

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2900 North Dillard Road, Birdseye<br />

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Business Spotlight<br />

A Home Cooked Meal<br />

Story by Sara Combs<br />

Photos by Michelle Hockman<br />

Pictured: Connie Eckert Campbell and Karen Eckert Smith<br />

From homemade sausage and gravy to grandma’s chicken and dumplings,<br />

Two Sisters Café offers something for everyone<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 16<br />

Story by Jenna Esarey<br />

Photos by Michelle Hockman


Gearing up for its fourth summer<br />

season, Two Sisters Café<br />

in Birdseye ofers home cooked<br />

meals in a cozy environment.<br />

The eponymous Two Sisters are Connie<br />

Eckert Campbell and Karen Eckert Smith.<br />

“We just always talked about having<br />

a restaurant,” said Karen. “Our mom and<br />

her sister talked about opening one and<br />

never did and they regreted it.” “Now<br />

we’re living the dream,” said Connie.<br />

Both sisters live in nearby Eckerty.<br />

“This is where we grew up,” Karen said.<br />

“This is our home.” They live near their<br />

parents, Gordon and Patsy Eckert, married<br />

for 58 years. Their brother, Mat<br />

Eckert, is president and CEO of Holiday<br />

World & Splashin’ Safari.<br />

Two Sisters Café ofers daily lunch<br />

specials and Friday and Saturday dinner<br />

specials. Friday’s special usually alternates<br />

between lasagna and spagheti and<br />

meatballs.<br />

“We’re famous for our hotcakes,”<br />

said Karen. “People take pictures and<br />

post them online. They hang over the<br />

edge of the plate.”<br />

“Nobody can eat two,” Connie<br />

said. “The look on their face when you<br />

bring them to a new person is priceless.”<br />

“One of the things we pride ourselves<br />

on is that we do a lot of home<br />

cooked meals,” said Karen. She makes<br />

fresh fruit pies regularly, while Connie<br />

makes their grandmother’s recipe for<br />

chicken and dumplings on Sundays.<br />

“We pull our own pork barbecue<br />

and have homemade sausage gravy,”<br />

Karen said. Their steaks are sourced from<br />

a local farm, freshly cut and never frozen<br />

and their mashed potatoes are made by<br />

hand. “You’ll even fnd lumps in them.”<br />

In the summertime Connie makes<br />

blackberry dumplings from fresh foraged<br />

berries brought in by a longtime customer.<br />

“I cut up pie crust and dump it in the<br />

boiling blackberries,” she said. “It’s ooeygooey<br />

goodness.”<br />

Not everything is homemade, but<br />

the sisters take care to ensure that everything<br />

they serve is of the highest quality.<br />

In the summertime<br />

Connie makes blackberry<br />

dumplings from fresh<br />

foraged berries brought<br />

in by a longtime<br />

customer.<br />

The cafe – in a small strip center<br />

next to a Laundromat - has housed a few<br />

restaurants over the years. “I think it<br />

was a Mexican restaurant last,” Connie<br />

said. “The longest anyone was here was<br />

two years, so we beat the record,” added<br />

Karen.<br />

It sits right next door to the soon-toopen<br />

Patoka Lake Winery in a building<br />

owned by Patoka Lake Marina & Lodging.<br />

“I worked for them the frst year they<br />

opened the place (in 1998),” said Karen.<br />

“There was nothing here.”<br />

During the season the joint is jumping<br />

all week long, serving breakfast and<br />

lunch every day and dinner on Friday and<br />

Saturday. An experiment of staying open<br />

for breakfast on weekends during the ofseason<br />

last winter was a success and they<br />

plan to do it again.<br />

The restaurant can seat about 100<br />

when the patio is in use, “which is kind of<br />

a scary thing since our kitchen’s so small,”<br />

Karen said.<br />

“We have a lot of great regulars,”<br />

said Connie. The Wildridge RV Resort<br />

across the street from the restaurant, “is<br />

our bread and buter.”<br />

Breakfast hours start fairly late,<br />

at eight o’clock on weekends and nine<br />

through the week. “For the most part,<br />

people are vacationing and they don’t get<br />

up early. Our busy time starts around<br />

ten,” Connie said.<br />

Chating in the dining room recently,<br />

the two constantly talked over each<br />

other, interrupting each other and arguing<br />

good-naturedly as sisters do. To reduce<br />

friction, the two often alternate cooking<br />

duties. “It’s not always a good idea for<br />

us to be back there together,” said Karen.<br />

“It took us a while to get any kind<br />

of system going,” agreed Connie. “But<br />

when it comes down to it, she’s my best<br />

friend.” •<br />

Two Sisters Café<br />

2976 Dillard Road, Birdseye<br />

812-685-3663<br />

Facebook.com/twosisterspatokalake<br />

Hours through October 31:<br />

Monday – Thursday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<br />

Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.<br />

Saturday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.<br />

Sunday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.<br />

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T. C. Stallings comes ‘home’<br />

Kentuckiana gathers to benefit Christian Academy<br />

The 700 people who atended the annual gala to beneft Christian Academy<br />

Schools’ three campuses in Louisville and one in <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

heard the powerful testimony and life story of T. C. Stallings, the star of<br />

the popular Christian movie, “War Room.”<br />

A former standout on the U of L football team and coach at Christian<br />

Academy, Stallings had also appeared in “Courageous,” another Christian<br />

movie produced by the noted Kendrick brothers. The guest speaker<br />

traveled from his home in California to help raise more than $225,000 for<br />

the school system. More than 100 auction items lined the lobby outside<br />

the ballroom at the Downtown Marriot in Louisville as bidders shared<br />

their generosity to support one of the country’s largest Christian school<br />

systems.<br />

Top sponsors of the event were Norton Healthcare, Meijer, Tran Orthodontics,<br />

and L&N Federal Credit Union.<br />

Pictured: (top right) T.C. Stallings autographed his book for Christian Academy<br />

of <strong>Indiana</strong> Board Member Angela Nash and her husband, Steve, as T. C.’s wife,<br />

Levete, assisted him.<br />

(middle right) Ashley Selfridge, Brenda Snyder, Judy Stallings, and Ann Kulwicki<br />

perused the vast array of silent auction items at the gala.<br />

(botom right) Christian Academy of <strong>Indiana</strong> Development Director Phyllis<br />

Wilkins, standing, greeted Andrea Smart, Susan Smart, and Mary Hampton<br />

during the dinner hour.<br />

(botom left) Enjoying the reception were Tonya and Brian Webb; State Rep. Ed<br />

Clere and his wife, Amy; and Ronye Mears.<br />

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The Grand in downtown New Albany was abuzz with enthusiasm,<br />

pride, and anticipation of future accomplishments as the Community<br />

Foundation of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> hosted a luncheon to celebrate<br />

its 25th anniversary. Among the atendees were present and past<br />

board members, ofcers, and partners who have established more<br />

than 230 unique funds helping individuals, families, and businesses<br />

accomplish their charitable goals. The foundation has awarded<br />

more than $23 million in grants and scholarships since 1991 and<br />

continues to be the community’s partner, resource, and steward in<br />

philanthropy.<br />

Pictured: (top) Linda Speed took her place with executive<br />

directors through the foundation’s 25 years:<br />

Dale Orem, Mike Waiz, and John Hartstern.<br />

(right) Community Foundation of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

President and CEO Linda Speed and Board Chair<br />

Susie Stewart prepared to welcome guests to The<br />

Grand.<br />

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JA Inducts Hoosier into Hall of Fame<br />

The walls of the Kentucky International Convention Center in downtown Louisville are lined with plaques recognizing men<br />

and women who have made signifcant contributions to the business arena. Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana’s permanent<br />

Kentuckiana Business Hall of Fame inducted three more corporate giants recently at the awards event sponsored and televised<br />

by WDRB-TV. Crowe Horwath sponsored the gala dinner. Diane Fischer, president and owner of New Albany-based L&D Mail<br />

Masters, Inc., joined Charles Denny, regional president of Kentucky/Tennessee Banking PNC, and Dr. Mark Lynn, president of<br />

Dr. Mark Lynn & Associates, PLLC, as the newest laureates.<br />

Pictured: (right) Highlighting center<br />

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JA board member Ken Groth of<br />

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Our Town<br />

Our Town:<br />

Corydon, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 20<br />

Story by Nicholas Moore<br />

Photos by Michelle Hockman


<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> is home to an immense<br />

amount of history, culture,<br />

and entertainment for residents<br />

and visitors of all ages. Across our<br />

rolling hills lie destinations that refresh<br />

residents and entertain visitors. Corydon<br />

- our state’s frst capital - is no exception,<br />

with quaint charm and enticing adventure.<br />

The Corydon Capitol State Historic<br />

Site on East Walnut Street tells the story of<br />

Corydon and its early role in the state. In<br />

1816, 43 delegates met in Corydon to draft<br />

<strong>Indiana</strong>’s frst constitution. Much of this<br />

work was completed under the shade of<br />

a large elm tree, the “Constitutional Elm”.<br />

Visitors can visit the trunk of this<br />

historic tree today. In another nod to the<br />

town’s past, <strong>Indiana</strong>’s only Civil War battlefeld<br />

can be found on the outskirts of<br />

town, and is open from morning to dusk,<br />

featuring a restored 19th century cabin<br />

and many monuments.<br />

The town will host a number of special<br />

events this year as part of the <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Bicentennial celebration beginning on<br />

June 8th when the original Constitution<br />

of the State of <strong>Indiana</strong> returns to Corydon,<br />

where it was penned.<br />

Art at the Old Capitol, a juried fne<br />

arts and crafts festival, will follow on June<br />

18 – 19 in historic downtown Corydon.<br />

The following month you can immerse<br />

yourself into an interactive world of history<br />

during Corydon Capitol days on July<br />

9 - 10, and enjoy horse-drawn carriage<br />

rides, re-enactors, live music, side shows,<br />

high tea with Mary Lincoln, storytelling, a<br />

chuck wagon, and kids’ activities.<br />

There’s much more to historic downtown<br />

Corydon, including a lovely array of<br />

shops and restaurants. You can visit Litle<br />

Texas Consignment and Western Shop<br />

and see an array of western-style antiques<br />

and home décor. Not far away you can<br />

visit Point Blank Brewing Company and<br />

enjoy wood-fred brick oven pizza and<br />

freshly brewed beer. After dining, you<br />

can enjoy dessert at Emery’s Premium Ice<br />

Cream just a short walk away. Emery’s<br />

has a 1950’s style-fare, and does a perfect<br />

job of bringing Corydon’s small town vibe<br />

to life. Enjoy sodas from a vintage soda<br />

fountain or a malt, shake, or sundae of<br />

your own design.<br />

Make sure to also stop by But Drugs,<br />

a pharmacy and old fashioned soda fountain<br />

stop whose wity advertisements by<br />

owners and local fans alike have garnered<br />

national media atention and been featured<br />

on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.<br />

If you’re in the mood for something<br />

that will charge your adrenaline a bit<br />

more and awaken your adventurous side<br />

Corydon has you covered – covered unground<br />

that is. Corydon is home to two<br />

Pictured: (left hand page) <strong>Indiana</strong>’s frst state capitol building – dating to 1815 - still stands on the square in downtown<br />

Corydon. (this page, top left) A World War I monument on the square features a German Howitzer. (this page, top right)<br />

A statue of former <strong>Indiana</strong> Governor and Corydon native Frank O’Bannon encourages visitors to sit and visit. (this page,<br />

bottom) A historical marker for the only Civil War battle fought in <strong>Indiana</strong> also sits on the town square.<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 21


Pictured: KentJava Bar serves up a variety of hot beverages along with fresh pastries baked in-house.<br />

fantastic cave systems that ofer visitors<br />

the tours of a lifetime. Explore the <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

underworld with your family and friends<br />

and take a trip through Squire Boone<br />

and <strong>Indiana</strong> Caverns. Now, imagine for<br />

a moment, moving from the ground of<br />

the cave into the air, fying through its<br />

underground open spaces at top speeds.<br />

Between March and November, Squire<br />

Boone Zipline Adventures can make it<br />

happen.<br />

Perhaps you want to enjoy a bit more<br />

Zen and relaxation. Not to worry. In Corydon<br />

you can do it all. One of Corydon’s<br />

hidden treasures is the Hayswood Nature<br />

Reserve, which truly boasts two parks in<br />

one. The frst is 130 acres of untouched<br />

wilderness, circled by Indian Creek, which<br />

runs through the park’s center. In keeping<br />

with the wishes of the park’s donor, this<br />

area sees no lumbering, electricity, ATV’s,<br />

or the like. It contains many nature trails,<br />

birdhouses, wildlife projects, and other<br />

preserving practices. The other 181 acres<br />

of the park are dedicated to recreation areas,<br />

half of which are wooded and half of<br />

which contain quaint recreational facilities.<br />

Visitors can enjoy a small lake with a<br />

handicap-accessible fshing pier, walking<br />

trails, playgrounds, picnic areas, a basketball<br />

court, and many open felds used for<br />

any number of group recreation activities.<br />

After visiting the reserve, keep your<br />

Zen going as you enjoy one of Corydon’s<br />

fve local wineries, sipping on whatever<br />

smooth tastes suit your style.<br />

Corydon also has many seasonal<br />

atractions for visitors and residents to<br />

enjoy, including multiple farmers markets<br />

and a corn maze and pumpkin patch<br />

that’s open from May to November. The<br />

Harrison County Fair, the longest consecutively<br />

running fair in <strong>Indiana</strong> (157<br />

years), kicks of on July 17 with the annual<br />

Fair Parade which runs through the<br />

downtown square and is followed by the<br />

crowning of the Fair Queen. Light Up Corydon<br />

is also a must downtown, occurring<br />

in late November and kicking of the holiday<br />

season with live music on the bandstand,<br />

Santa Claus, and beautiful décor<br />

and open houses in the shops.<br />

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May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 29


Restaurant Feature<br />

Turning Hardship into Blessing<br />

Pictured: (above, this page) Te Schwartz Family Restaurant is located in Eckerty, <strong>Indiana</strong>. (right hand page) Edna and Joseph Schwartz<br />

The story behind one family’s journey to start a family friendly restaurant<br />

serving made from scratch meals and produce grown on the farm<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 30<br />

Story by Sara Combs<br />

Photos by John Sodrel


Mother’s Day is a happy day<br />

at Schwart Family Restaurant,<br />

near Eckerty, <strong>Indiana</strong>.<br />

Joseph and Edna Schwart,<br />

owners, say that is one of their favorite<br />

times. “It is a day we look forward to,”<br />

says Edna. “It is so much fun to see our<br />

dining room flled and people lined up for<br />

our Mother’s Day menu.”<br />

Jean Mitchell, a regular customer,<br />

says she and her family usually celebrate<br />

the day there. “The food is always good<br />

and so is the service.” Mitchell, retired<br />

administrative assistant to the dean at<br />

Vincennes University, Jasper, and Eckerty<br />

resident, says the restaurant is an asset to<br />

the community. “It is a place for people<br />

to gather as well as to have meals.” She<br />

and her husband, Gordon, eat there often.<br />

“We sit down at one of the big tables,” she<br />

says, “and it is soon flled with people we<br />

can enjoy visiting.”<br />

If only Joseph could have foreseen<br />

this as he looked over the fertile felds of<br />

his 101-acre farm a decade ago! He had<br />

learned that <strong>Indiana</strong> State Highway 37<br />

was coming through land he, his wife,<br />

Edna and their 12 children farmed.<br />

“Those were rough times for us,” Joseph<br />

remembers. “It was hard to see all<br />

our land chopped up, cut into so many little<br />

pieces. I knew I couldn’t stop it. Even<br />

the county road had to be changed. We<br />

wouldn’t be able to farm as we had. Our<br />

family had to fgure out something diferent.”<br />

The government called it collateral<br />

damage in determining compensation.<br />

The Schwart family called it a life change.<br />

“So we talked,” says Joseph.<br />

They considered several options.<br />

“Besides a restaurant, we thought about<br />

marketing our crafts, or selling fshing<br />

equipment to people going to (nearby)<br />

Patoka Lake. But we kept coming back to<br />

the restaurant idea,” Joseph says. “I told<br />

the kids, ‘if we do this, you will have to<br />

commit yourselves, be ready to make sacrifces.<br />

Your mother and I can’t do this by<br />

ourselves.’ ”<br />

They agreed, and by unanimous<br />

vote, the Schwart Family Restaurant took<br />

its frst step in becoming a reality.<br />

“The kids (whose ages range from<br />

16 to 30) have done a good job sticking to<br />

their word,” says Edna, who confesses<br />

that at frst she didn’t think the restaurant<br />

would work. “I was wrong,” she admits.<br />

The establishment observed its seventh<br />

anniversary in April.<br />

They serve an average of 1,000 meals<br />

a week and the restaurant was listed in<br />

the Top Ten Restaurants in <strong>Indiana</strong> by<br />

TripAdvisor, she says. “We are the only<br />

restaurant in the southern part of the state<br />

that was listed.”<br />

This wasn’t the frst big change for<br />

the family. Formerly Amish, they gave up<br />

the Plain life in 1990. “We just wanted to<br />

be more independent,” says Joseph. “We<br />

didn’t want to have to hire neighbors to<br />

drive us where we needed to go, or to rent<br />

modern equipment when we needed it.”<br />

Knowledge from the Plain lifestyle<br />

has served the Schwart family well, says<br />

Joseph. The restaurant features food<br />

cooked with Amish recipes and Joseph<br />

says skills learned while Amish, combined<br />

with modern tools and technology,<br />

allowed the facility to be built by family.<br />

“That helped us to cut costs drastically.<br />

If we had to pay for all the labor, we<br />

couldn’t have made it,” he says “Bankers<br />

“Opening the restaurant<br />

was a big decision for the<br />

family, but I have never<br />

regretted it.”<br />

liked this and it helped secure fnancing.<br />

Nephews and cousins pitched in to help<br />

me and my sons. We did everything but<br />

install the exhaust system.”<br />

The restaurant has about 20 employees,<br />

including seven family members.<br />

Joseph oversees the operation and<br />

often pitches in on busy Sundays. Edna<br />

does the bookwork and bakes bread and<br />

pies. “I don’t cook,” she says. That is<br />

done by daughters, Alma Riley and Meriam<br />

Kleaving. Daughters, Edna and Lena<br />

are waitresses; another daughter, Emma,<br />

covers the breakfast shift and makes icecream,<br />

a popular specialty.<br />

Although the Schwart sons don’t<br />

work in the restaurant, they are always<br />

ready to help when needed, says their<br />

mother. “They are all in construction and<br />

building trades and have added awnings,<br />

copulas, a stage and playhouse. One son<br />

is a cabinet maker and is always available<br />

to make repairs.”<br />

Growing pains<br />

The restaurant wasn’t an immediate<br />

success, Joseph says.<br />

“About the time we started the business,<br />

the economy fell of. The frst two<br />

years we couldn’t see the light at the end<br />

of the tunnel. That is where some of the<br />

sacrifcing I warned about came in; the<br />

family worked without pay until they<br />

could be paid. It was the fourth year that<br />

things picked up and we got our heads<br />

above water and knew we were going to<br />

make it.”<br />

Success factors<br />

Good food, special events, community<br />

support and location have all contributed<br />

to the restaurant’s success.<br />

Everything is cooked and baked<br />

from scratch. Seasonal fruits and vegetables<br />

are grown on the Schwart Family<br />

Farm. “We grow cabbage, tomatoes,<br />

letuce, peppers, corn – almost everything<br />

except potatoes,” says Joseph. “The kinds<br />

of potatoes that grow here don’t keep<br />

well, and besides, I would have to put<br />

the whole place in potatoes and we still<br />

wouldn’t have enough.” (They use about<br />

450 pounds a week.)<br />

“We have our own strawberries,<br />

blackberries and raspberries and I have<br />

a few apple and peach trees,” he adds.<br />

They also grow pumpkins for the annual<br />

September festival. “The festival is popular<br />

with families,” says Joseph. “They can<br />

have a great time and not spend too much<br />

money.”<br />

Edna adds that the festival has really<br />

put the restaurant on the map. They have<br />

had four three-day fall festivals and all<br />

have been very successful, she says.<br />

“We have the best entertainment,”<br />

Joseph adds. “You can’t fnd beter in<br />

Nashville. This year we had a magician/<br />

comedian who entertained for a full hour.<br />

Everybody just loved it.”<br />

Fall feld trips for area schools with<br />

lunch and a trip to the pumpkin patch to<br />

choose a jack-o-lantern are also popular.<br />

They also have successfully sponsored car<br />

shows for the last three years and a weekly<br />

music night is a major atraction.<br />

Joseph says he appreciates the restaurant’s<br />

bringing the community togeth-<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 31


er. This is evident on Thursday evenings<br />

when people from throughout the area fll<br />

the huge dining room to visit with neighbors,<br />

as well as listen to music and have<br />

dinner.<br />

“All musicians are invited,” Edna<br />

says. “A variety of groups and individuals<br />

show up. They take turns playing.”<br />

Bob McIntosh, a retired LG&E worker,<br />

who plays bass, is a weekly participant.<br />

He says he enjoys the camaraderie with<br />

other musicians and restaurant customers.<br />

“Everything is casual and everyone<br />

just has a good time. We play gospel,<br />

country, old waltes, Blue Grass and just<br />

have fun.” McIntosh, who has played in<br />

several area bands, also has taken part in a<br />

couple of the fall festivals.<br />

Joseph says many of the musicians<br />

are retirees. “They play a lot of old country<br />

music. You know, from when music<br />

had meaning…the kind that makes chills<br />

go up and down your back.”<br />

“We have received a lot of community<br />

support,” he says. “It is amazing<br />

how people root for us. A lot of them<br />

were skeptical at frst, but they didn’t tell<br />

us until they could see that we were making<br />

it. Even customers from away tell us<br />

how glad they are to see so many people<br />

coming.”<br />

Location<br />

The highway that divided the farmland<br />

has proven an asset.<br />

“We have been able to take advantage<br />

of being on a major artery from <strong>Indiana</strong>polis<br />

to <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong>,” says<br />

Joseph. ‘This brings customers. We even<br />

had former Gov. Mitch Daniels stop en<br />

route to Tell City. Also, we get people going<br />

and coming to Patoka Lake, the casino<br />

at French Lick and Holiday World.”<br />

Opening the restaurant was a big decision<br />

for the family, says Joseph. “But I<br />

have never regreted it.”<br />

And about that Mother’s Day menu:<br />

Besides a generous bufet and salad bar,<br />

there is a variety of homemade desserts -<br />

mothers get one of their choice free. “And<br />

there is always fresh strawberry pie,”<br />

Edna adds, “even if we have to go to Kentucky<br />

for the berries. That is a litle early<br />

for ours, but everyone is ready for fresh<br />

berries.” •<br />

Below: Cabbage is one of the many fruits and vegetables<br />

grown on the farm.<br />

Right hand page (clockwise): Customers have a variety<br />

of home-cooked food to choose from in the bufet line;<br />

the welcoming chalkboard sign adds to the down home<br />

atmosphere; Edna, Lena, Edna, and Emma Schwartz; a few<br />

of the many made from scratch pies ofered daily.<br />

#EatLocal: Schwartz Family Restaurant<br />

ADDRESS<br />

Schwartz Family Restaurant<br />

6738 W. Governors Trace<br />

Eckerty, <strong>Indiana</strong> 47119<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 32<br />

HOURS<br />

Monday:<br />

Closed<br />

Tuesday & Wednesday: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.<br />

Thursday:<br />

11 a.m. to 9 p.m.<br />

Friday & Saturday: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.<br />

Sunday:<br />

8 a.m. to 2 p.m.<br />

CONTACT<br />

812-338-9000<br />

<br />

www.schwartzrestaurant.com


Everything is cooked and baked<br />

from scratch. Seasonal fruits<br />

and vegetables are grown on the<br />

Schwartz Family Farm.<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 33


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<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> in Pictures<br />

Healing Hearts Banquet<br />

Survivors of Abuse Restored<br />

February 19, <strong>2016</strong><br />

Photos provided by S.O.A.R.<br />

S.O.A.R. Ministries provides Christ-centered<br />

recovery for women who have been sexually<br />

abused. This annual banquet features dinner,<br />

live and silent auctions, rafe, music, and more.<br />

Local artists in various mediums create works<br />

of art to be auctioned of at the end of the night.<br />

Pictured: (top row) Nella Schotter and Cathy Summers; Betsy Pollack,<br />

one of the local artists at the event. (second row) one of the<br />

pieces of art available at the auction. (third row, left to right) Olivia<br />

Wise, a senior at Christian Academy, was a featured artist at the<br />

event; a plaque created by a local wood burning artist; co-founder<br />

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May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 35


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Special Section: Home Improvement<br />

Pictured: Limeberry Lumber & Home Store shows of a Pinterest<br />

inspired project on a store end-cap. Te store is reaching out<br />

to more customers by utilizing social media such as Pinterest<br />

and Facebook.<br />

Building a New Reputation<br />

Corydon lumber store works to bring in more business with additional offerings<br />

Story and photos (except where noted) by Tara Schmelz<br />

Corydon resident Ginny Davis<br />

watched and chated as Limeberry<br />

Lumber & Home Center Store<br />

Manager Donna Whelan cut out<br />

flters to the exact size needed for Davis’<br />

two space heaters.<br />

“Where else would I have gone for<br />

this?” Davis rhetorically asked, following<br />

her purchase. “I think [Limeberry] is wonderful.<br />

We couldn’t do without it.”<br />

Limeberry Lumber, as it was, is now<br />

Limeberry Lumber & Home Center. In<br />

the past year, the facility has undergone<br />

an exterior facelift, including a new façade,<br />

and added more displays throughout<br />

the store, such as kitchen remodels,<br />

front doors, fooring samples and even an<br />

end-cap with a Pinterest inspired project,<br />

which is always changing to keep up with<br />

the latest trends.<br />

This 3rd generation family-owned<br />

store has grown a lot since its roots, which<br />

date back to 1959, when they were in a<br />

small warehouse. The store now flls an<br />

approximately 10,000 square-foot building,<br />

at 1991 Highway 337 in Corydon.<br />

“People think we are strictly a lumber<br />

store and we’re not. We have the home<br />

store with it too,” said Katlyn Whelan,<br />

marketing director for Limeberry.<br />

GRAND RE-OPENING IN MAY<br />

The store is hosting a grand reopening<br />

weekend in May to reintroduce<br />

the store to local residents and show of<br />

the new oferings. The events will kick of<br />

with a Ladies Night on Thursday, May 12,<br />

that will include wine tasting, appetizers<br />

and a DIY tutorial Pinterest project, which<br />

they will be able to complete and take<br />

home.<br />

The following Friday is Contractors’<br />

Day, with lots of vendors on hand<br />

to answer questions, give-a-ways and $2<br />

lunches. Saturday, May 14, will be Family<br />

Day. The frst 50 children will get a birdhouse<br />

to paint while at the store and take<br />

home to display. Local barbecue will also<br />

be available for purchase. Radio station<br />

97.5 FM will host a live remote from the<br />

store from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will be<br />

giving away Kenny Chesney concert tickets.<br />

There will also be a Traeger Grill giveaway.<br />

The grill uses wood pellets versus<br />

the traditional charcoal or gas.<br />

Katlyn said she hopes the open<br />

house will open up everyone’s eyes.<br />

“There’s a stereotype about Limeberry<br />

that we’re a lumber store. We have a<br />

lot of things here for the Pinterest followers<br />

and DIY-ers. You can make your home<br />

a dream home,” Katlyn said.<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 37


Special Section: Home Improvement<br />

Tony Mansfeld, purchasing and<br />

sales manager, has been with Limeberry<br />

for 25 years, so he has seen the progression<br />

from the small warehouse to where<br />

Limeberry is now.<br />

“It’s changed a lot … Now, it’s a lot<br />

more inviting,” he said, referring to the<br />

remodel and various displays throughout<br />

the building. “I think it’s increased<br />

our walk-in business, being able to display<br />

fooring and cabinets. [Before,] if<br />

they didn’t see it, they assumed you<br />

couldn’t get it.”<br />

SHOPPING LOCAL<br />

Pictured: (right) Joe Smith, of Depauw,<br />

discusses his hardwood fooring options with<br />

Limeberry Lumber & Home Store employee<br />

Tony Mansfeld. Mansfeld has worked at the<br />

store for 25 years. He said the new displays<br />

throughout the store showing fooring and<br />

cabinet options have increased walk-in sales.<br />

Pictured: (above) Flooring samples on display at Limeberry // Photo provided by ProMedia Group<br />

Those displays helped DePauw<br />

resident Joe Smith pick out new hardwood<br />

fooring and talk about the details<br />

of how to install it with Mansfeld during<br />

his recent visit to the store. “It’s great.<br />

We don’t have to go all the way to the<br />

city,” said Smith, who came with his wife<br />

and two children, ages 6 and 2.<br />

Morgan Tincher came with her<br />

family to fnd parts needed to install a<br />

new dishwasher. “There’s a lot of stuf<br />

and a lot of variety and it’s a lot closer,”<br />

the Palmyra resident said. “I feel like it’s<br />

smaller [than other stores], so stuf is easier<br />

to fnd and you’re not walking up and<br />

down every aisle.”<br />

Mansfeld said he has noticed a<br />

trend of people wanting to shop local<br />

for more items. “The economy, it’s coming<br />

around now. People have evolved in<br />

what they like to see in town,” he said,<br />

adding that people want to do more<br />

shopping locally and avoid having to<br />

drive to other areas. “They see stuf on<br />

Pinterest and they want to come in and<br />

see it and talk about it. I think people like<br />

to shop locally. We just had to ofer them<br />

more [selection].”<br />

Donna said other perks of shopping<br />

locally is developing relationships<br />

between customers and employees. “We<br />

know a lot of customers by name. We all<br />

live here and we’re giving back to the<br />

community by living here,” she said, referring<br />

to also keeping profts in the com-<br />

Three<br />

Days of<br />

Celebration<br />

WHAT: Grand re-opening of Limeberry Lumber & Home Center<br />

WHEN: May 12-14<br />

WHERE: 1991 Highway 337 NW, Corydon, IN 47112<br />

DETAILS: Activities vary daily, but include give-aways, crafts, cheap meals,<br />

a live DJ and more. For more information call 812-738-2249.<br />

Limeberry Lumber & Home Center<br />

Hours: Monday-Friday: 7 a.m.- 6 p.m., Saturday: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m., closed Sunday<br />

Need inspiration? Follow Limeberry at www.pinterest.com/limeberrylumber/<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 38


May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 39


Our Philosophy: Build it right. Build it to last. Keep it affordable.<br />

Home Show <strong>2016</strong><br />

Photo courtesy of Michelle Hockman Photography<br />

Schmidt Cabinet Company is located in New Salisbury, IN. Family owned and operated since 1959.<br />

Visit our showroom Monday thru Friday 8 a.m.—4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, or evenings by appointment or visit our website at www.<br />

schmidtcabinet.com and see our unmatched selection of cabinets and countertops for every room of your home and ofce. Schmidt offers<br />

a variety of styles from Traditional to Contemporary, in a wide array of woods and colors.<br />

1355 Hwy 64 NE<br />

New Salisbury, IN 47161<br />

812-347-2434<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 40


Special Section: Home Improvement<br />

munity.<br />

Mansfeld said he has been on vacation<br />

in other states and even gets recognized.<br />

“I grew up in this town. This is my<br />

hometown,” Mansfeld said. “Everywhere<br />

I go, everybody recognizes me as Limeberry<br />

Lumber.”<br />

GETTING SOCIAL<br />

Limeberry is also geting social, with<br />

its own Facebook page, Pinterest board,<br />

and Instagram and Twiter accounts. Katlyn<br />

said it is a way to connect with customers<br />

as well as share home improvement<br />

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The Heart of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Pure Initiatives<br />

Educating students on making healthy decisions and relationship choices<br />

Story by Krishana Kraft<br />

Pictures by Michelle Hockman<br />

Pictured: (above, right) Volunteer instructors Sandy Sorrells and Evelyn Houser; (above, left) Students participating in demonstrations and object lessons.<br />

Evelyn Houser, a grandmother of<br />

six, steps in front of a classroom<br />

of seventh-grade students at<br />

Charlestown Middle School for<br />

the ffth and fnal day discussing healthy<br />

choices and the topic of sexual risk avoidance.<br />

Geting students to think about making<br />

healthy choices begins with dreaming<br />

about the future. “The true reason I care<br />

about your goals is because I care about<br />

you,” she tells them.<br />

Houser is one of 19 instructors<br />

across six counties in southern <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

and northern Kentucky for Pure Initiative,<br />

an organization educating middle and<br />

high school students on making healthy<br />

choices, especially in their relationships,<br />

using a variety of creative methods including<br />

games, videos, object lessons and<br />

class interaction.<br />

As an object lesson on how failing to<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 44<br />

plan ahead can result in hopes and dreams<br />

being lost, Houser asked students to carry<br />

a cup flled with rubber balls through a<br />

gauntlet of classmates with arms and legs<br />

out to trip them up, representing the pressures<br />

in life.<br />

Students with tape over the top of<br />

their cups, representing good planning,<br />

were able to hold onto all their rubber<br />

balls, while those without, lost many or<br />

all of theirs.<br />

“We’re trying to tell them there are<br />

pressures out there. Unhealthy choices<br />

could cause them to lose their focus; peer<br />

pressure, drugs, alcohol, and even feeling<br />

unloved or not valued which could<br />

lead to unhealthy sexual choices,” Houser<br />

says. “I know they care about their hopes<br />

and dreams as much as I did.”<br />

Raised in an abusive home with divorced<br />

parents, Houser dreamed of going<br />

to college, but at age 17 life took a turn.<br />

She started dating a 21-year-old charmer<br />

who would later show an explosive temper.<br />

“I tried to break up with him right after<br />

my high school graduation, but he told<br />

me he would kill himself,” she said. She<br />

felt trapped.<br />

That summer she became pregnant.<br />

“All of my friends were going to college<br />

the same day I got married,” she said. She<br />

shares her story with her students - how<br />

her marriage ended in divorce when she<br />

was 24, but she has been happily remarried<br />

for 37 years.<br />

A diferent message<br />

Pure Initiative follows a fve-day<br />

curriculum on sexual risk avoidance for<br />

middle and high school students. It covers<br />

topics such as puberty, self-worth,<br />

boundaries, goal-seting, STD information/consequences,<br />

sexting, media safety,


pornography, love versus infatuation,<br />

self-control, and how to plan for the future.<br />

“The lie that is taught in our culture<br />

is that we could use risk reduction<br />

to avoid a risk,” said Shari McCutcheon,<br />

director of Pure Initiative. “That doesn’t<br />

make sense. Just because you’re reducing<br />

the risk (such as unplanned pregnancy,<br />

sexually transmited infections and diseases)<br />

doesn’t mean you’re avoiding it.<br />

We share the only 100 percent way to<br />

eliminate these risks is to avoid them<br />

completely.”<br />

Pure Initiative “is an opportunity to<br />

tell these kids things they don’t hear anywhere<br />

else,” says Houser. “We usually<br />

tell them that this will be counter-cultural<br />

to what you hear in your music and what<br />

you see on television or in movies.”<br />

Parents may be surprised to learn<br />

there is a greater need to go deeper into<br />

sexual risk avoidance topics with middle<br />

schoolers. Sexting - sending sexually<br />

explicit photographs via cell phone - is<br />

a rampant middle school problem. In a<br />

seventh grade classroom “I shared how it<br />

is illegal to create, possess and distribute<br />

sexts. They were stunned. You could see<br />

them thinking through the panic,” said<br />

Sandy Sorrells, Pure Initiative development<br />

director. “I was concerned this may<br />

have already happened.”<br />

It’s Pure history<br />

McCutcheon frst recognized the<br />

need to educate teens on sexual risk<br />

avoidance when she worked for Choices<br />

for Women, a non-proft resource center<br />

in New Albany. “As I met with clients,<br />

I would talk to them about their sexual<br />

decisions and would ask if they had ever<br />

thought of saving sex until marriage,”<br />

she says. “They would say, ‘No one has<br />

ever told me that before,’ or ‘I didn’t<br />

know that was even an option.’ “<br />

Eight years later she became the<br />

sexual health director for Life Choices<br />

pregnancy resource center in Madison,<br />

to continue the prevention work being<br />

taught in the public schools. This work<br />

grew into surrounding counties and<br />

Pure Initiative became its own entity and<br />

501(c)3 organization.<br />

Recognizing that our culture is<br />

over-sexualized and young people don’t<br />

know how to handle it “is what gets me<br />

going,” McCutcheon says. “I don’t want<br />

to be responsible for our next generation<br />

not knowing, when I had the opportunity<br />

to do something and be one of many<br />

going out to speak truth.”<br />

Houser, who joined McCutcheon’s<br />

team to speak truth, fnishes her class<br />

presentation by answering anonymous<br />

questions such as ‘How does herpes affect<br />

you?’ and ‘Why do people sext?’ She<br />

responds to each question with truth and<br />

gentleness, not knowing the exact need<br />

and story behind the question.<br />

“One of the most important keys<br />

I share with students is that they are so<br />

valuable. I tell them to stand up straight<br />

and put your shoulders back and know<br />

you are valuable. You can do anything;<br />

you just have to put your mind to it, have<br />

a plan and don’t lose your focus.” •<br />

For more information about Pure Initiative<br />

and how to get involved visit connect2pure.<br />

com<br />

Pictured: (below) On the last day, these seventh grade<br />

students review the fve-day curriculum and put it all<br />

together for their plan of action including drawing boundaries<br />

for themselves, media safety and how decisions<br />

made today can efect their futures.<br />

5 Tips for<br />

Addressing<br />

Sexual Topics<br />

with your Child<br />

Both Shari McCutcheon (Director)<br />

and Sandy Sorrells<br />

(Development Director) share<br />

what they’ve learned through<br />

their experience with Pure Initiative<br />

presentations and how it has impacted<br />

conversations at home:<br />

Recognize that even your home<br />

1. might not be safe. “We used to think<br />

a child was safe in their home, but now<br />

if you have the internet and especially if<br />

your child has a phone, they are being<br />

hunted,” McCutcheon says.<br />

Start and continue the conversation.<br />

“This isn’t a one-time talk to<br />

2.<br />

check of your list,” McCutcheon says.<br />

“Once you’ve opened the door for dialogue,<br />

then they will know who to talk<br />

to when they are hit with something.”<br />

Don’t delay these conversations. “If<br />

3. you open the door for these conversations<br />

before they are in puberty then<br />

you will build trust,” Sorrells says.<br />

Empower them with truth. “At frst,<br />

4. I wanted to protect my son and<br />

keep him from knowing things.” Sorrells<br />

says. “However this is impossible<br />

in the world we live in. [Kids and teens]<br />

may get a sext or a pornographic popup.<br />

We need to empower them to know<br />

what to do next and why; to know they<br />

should get help and to talk with a trusted<br />

adult.”<br />

Give them just enough and be<br />

5. confdent in what you share. “Instead<br />

of a fre-hose approach, share just<br />

enough for where they are in life. The<br />

more comfortable you are with the information,<br />

the less embarrassed your<br />

child will be,” Sorrells says. •<br />

Sign up for the Pure Initiative e-newsleter<br />

which includes tips on starting and continuing<br />

these conversations with your children:<br />

www.connect2pure.com<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 45


The People of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Pictured: Embracing the value of all children comes easily to Dr. Stuart Eldridge, who became friends with McKenzie Smith, age 4, (center) and Gracelyn Smith, age 2, as the girls’ father,<br />

Garrett Smith, held Gavyn, age 1. Te Smiths met Eldridge at a book signing in New Albany.<br />

Passionate Parenting<br />

Book by local pediatrician, Dr. Stuart Eldridge, offers insights into healthy foundations for families<br />

Story and Photo by Anne Kaye<br />

A<br />

doctor’s examining room can<br />

be an untapped haven for enriching<br />

children’s lives well<br />

beyond addressing their physical<br />

needs. It’s the opportunity for trained<br />

healthcare professionals to observe behaviors<br />

that, when addressed, contribute<br />

to a healthier lifestyle for the entire family,<br />

according to Dr. Stuart Eldridge, a 20-year<br />

pediatrician based in Floyd County.<br />

That vantage point has given birth<br />

to his book, Passionate Parenting, which is<br />

much more than just a title. It refects his<br />

fervent desire to take his message about<br />

valuable ways to alter behaviors to healthcare<br />

professionals and counselors - those<br />

on the front lines of infuence for young<br />

people and their families.<br />

The bonus is that its tenets are valuable<br />

for parents and grandparents as well.<br />

The book’s easy-to-read guides for<br />

efective parenting of infants, toddlers,<br />

and adolescents - winning the batles of<br />

sleep and mealtime dilemmas, not overprotecting<br />

the child, untangling frenetic<br />

schedules, sibling rivalry, and “we-ism”<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 46<br />

instead of “me-ism” - had been building<br />

in his heart for years, he said.<br />

“The training of healthcare professionals<br />

has an Achilles’ heel and needs a<br />

treatment plan,” he explained. “I knew<br />

that if I could instruct others to identify<br />

and discuss with parents how to alter<br />

some behavioral issues, not just physical<br />

ailments, the entire family would be<br />

stronger.”<br />

Eldridge, whose goal is to take the<br />

book’s message nationally, feels it addresses<br />

a niche not yet flled. It has been<br />

well-received by pediatric residents and<br />

physicians with whom he has met at area<br />

hospitals, as well as with parents.<br />

“We basically have 18 years to do<br />

something right with our three children,”<br />

said Garret Smith of Sellersburg, “and Dr.<br />

Eldridge’s book prompted us to refect on<br />

specifc pitfalls we want to avoid.” He and<br />

wife Melissa heartily agree with Eldridge<br />

that maintaining discipline, leading by<br />

example, and spending quality time with<br />

each other and their children are high priorities<br />

with long-lasting infuences.<br />

Passionate Parenting resounded also<br />

with New Albany-based dermatologist<br />

Dr. Duane Banet and his wife Allison.<br />

Their family experienced a complete turnaround<br />

when they moved away from<br />

child-centered parenting to one in which<br />

they “invited the kids into the family relationship,<br />

making the husband-wife<br />

relationship the priority,” Allison Banet<br />

said. “It made for a much healthier family<br />

foundation.”<br />

Noted author, speaker, and radio<br />

hostess Joyce Oglesby, who has interviewed<br />

Eldridge and promoted his book<br />

signings on her program, praised him for<br />

his insight and his mission.<br />

“You have the right words, you are<br />

inspiring, and I am sold out on this masterpiece!”<br />

she wrote.•<br />

Passionate Parenting is available at Eldridge’s<br />

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CONGRATULATIONS<br />

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The Community Foundation of Crawford County is proud to announce<br />

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Evan is salutatorian of the <strong>2016</strong> graduating class at Crawford County High<br />

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May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 48


Flashback Photo<br />

Pearl Street<br />

New Albany, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

1930s<br />

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

This photograph shows the east side of Pearl Street between Spring & Market. The businesses<br />

shown include Burd’s Confectionery (330 Pearl), Huf Furniture Co. (332-34 Pearl), Thom McAn<br />

Shoes (328 Pearl), Kaiser’s Tobacco (326 Pearl), and Mutual Trust & Deposit (322-24 Pearl).<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 49


Everyday Adventures<br />

Out<br />

on a<br />

Limb<br />

Iwas on my way to bed when I noticed<br />

something didn’t look right. I<br />

couldn’t see our patio through the<br />

glass door. Even in the dark, I can<br />

typically make out the pale, concrete slab,<br />

but tonight, nothing.<br />

I fipped on the porch light and discovered<br />

a jungle, a tangle of branches and<br />

leaves crowding against the glass. The<br />

tree that had stood watch over our house<br />

for the last two decades had fallen. It flled<br />

nearly every square inch of our lawn.<br />

Thankfully the tree had missed my<br />

neighbor’s house on one side and our shed<br />

on the other, but it took a good couple of<br />

days and several friends with chainsaws<br />

before we could see grass again.<br />

The crazy thing was we hadn’t heard<br />

a sound. Crazier still, the tree had shown<br />

no sign of weakness. In fact, we’d just<br />

had friends over for a cookout a few hours<br />

before. We ate at the patio table that was<br />

now buried under branches. Our kids<br />

played around the tree with no idea it was<br />

about to come down.<br />

All it took was a cold front blowing<br />

through town with a few strong winds,<br />

and now I had a mess on my hands. That’s<br />

the way it goes with Bradford Pears.<br />

Bradford Pears are probably the<br />

most infamous tree in America. They<br />

have a tendency to grow up tall and prety<br />

and then fall down when an ant sneezes.<br />

They appear strong but just aren’t built to<br />

May/June <strong>2016</strong> • 50<br />

handle the stress.<br />

I heard that when Bradford Pears<br />

were frst introduced everyone thought<br />

they were miracle trees, but over time,<br />

people discovered that the miracle was<br />

a sham. The trees aren’t structured for<br />

strength.<br />

All it took was a cold front<br />

blowing through town with a<br />

few strong winds, and now I<br />

had a mess on my hands.<br />

You ever know anyone like that? On<br />

the outside it looks like they have it all together,<br />

but then suddenly their life blows<br />

apart. Their marriage collapses. They<br />

throw their job away. They spiral into addiction<br />

or just do something totally out of<br />

character.<br />

Or maybe you feel like that’s where<br />

you are right now. Your life looks great to<br />

everyone else, but inside you know how<br />

fragile you are. You feel like you’re one<br />

step away from disaster.<br />

If that’s you, I have good news. You<br />

don’t have to be a Bradford Pear. You<br />

don’t have to pretend like you’re big and<br />

Photo by Cat_arch_angel / Shutterstock.com<br />

strong when you’re really not. There’s a<br />

God who loves you, who knows you inside<br />

and out, and He handles the fragile<br />

with care. The Bible says, “He will not<br />

crush the weakest reed or put out a fickering<br />

candle” (Mathew 12:20 NLT).<br />

And if your life has already fallen<br />

apart, I have more good news. God makes<br />

beautiful things out of fallen trees. He replants.<br />

He restores. He renews. That’s<br />

the way it happened it for me. It was only<br />

after I’d made a mess of my life, only after<br />

I’d gone down like a house of cards, that I<br />

was fnally ready to let God help me.<br />

But you don’t have to wait for a<br />

storm. You can reach out today and invite<br />

God to help you grow in a new direction,<br />

with an inner strength that will stand the<br />

test of time. •<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.


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• Relaxation lounge<br />

• Giveaways<br />

• Grand Prize drawing<br />

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• Wine Tasting at one of 13 Local Wineries<br />

or Hike/Bike/Swim at Patoka Lake<br />

for More Info: 812.365.2705<br />

Cave Country Canoes<br />

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SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A3


• Summer Fun Feature •<br />

<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> Caving<br />

SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A4<br />

Looking for a way to liven up your<br />

summer? Why not try spelunking?<br />

It’s an opportunity to beat the<br />

heat at a comfortable, year-round<br />

50 degrees, to celebrate nature, soak up<br />

some historical and geological information,<br />

and experience a bit of adventure.<br />

<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> is the perfect place<br />

to explore the underground with its four<br />

show caves: Marengo Cave in Crawford<br />

County; Squire Boone Caverns and <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Caverns in Harrison County and<br />

Bluespring Caverns in Lawrence County.<br />

Steve Calhoun, Marengo Cave’s<br />

general manager, points out that the <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Cave Trail which ofers special discounts<br />

for those visiting all four caves is<br />

an ideal way to experience <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

caving. Participants are advised to<br />

make it a two-day adventure and include<br />

other area experiences. For details visit<br />

indianacavetrail.com.<br />

<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> is the<br />

perfect place to explore the<br />

underground.<br />

Marcin and Kassy Lauer, of Evansville,<br />

with their children, Feliks, 4, and<br />

Kora, 3, toured Marengo Cave over<br />

Spring Break - a frst for the family. “It is<br />

perfect for a litle get-away,” said Kassy,<br />

Story by Sara Combs<br />

Photo Provided by Marengo Cave<br />

as the family browsed the gift shop. “I<br />

have two businesses – a restaurant and<br />

a retail store – and couldn’t be away too<br />

long. We looked at several options and<br />

this seemed just right, a great place for a<br />

mini-vacation. We are excited and having<br />

a great time. There are activities we can<br />

all enjoy.”<br />

Calhoun said that is what the familyfriendly<br />

facility is about. “We feature easy<br />

walking tours and adventurous crawling<br />

tours to serve guests of all ages and levels<br />

of experience,” he said. The cave has<br />

operated since 1883 and always been privately<br />

owned. “We like to think we are<br />

an anchor to the community and have a<br />

positive economic impact.”<br />

Jason Pendleton of Corydon, his


wife, Jenny, and children Eleanor, 7, and<br />

Emmet, 4, also made caving a Spring<br />

Break activity. Jason had visited Squire<br />

Boone Caverns and Marengo Cave previously.<br />

“The kids hadn’t been in a cave<br />

before. I wanted them to experience that,”<br />

he said.<br />

Marengo Cave<br />

400 East State Road 64, Marengo<br />

marengocave.com<br />

888-702-2837 or 812-365-2705<br />

More than 130 years ago, two children<br />

armed with tiny candles, lowered<br />

themselves down into a small hole and<br />

entered a large room flled with sparkling<br />

formations, the frst documented to have<br />

entered the cave. Since then it has had<br />

more than three million visitors and it has<br />

been designated a National Natural Landmark<br />

by the National Parks System.<br />

Marengo Cave ofers two walking<br />

tours. The one-mile Dripstone Trail and<br />

one-third mile Crystal Palace Trail are<br />

guided, well-lit, feature spectacular formations<br />

and are ofered year round. For<br />

the more adventurous, there is a two-hour<br />

cave exploring trip into undeveloped areas<br />

and The Crawl – a maze-like cave simulator<br />

allowing guests to wind and twist<br />

through a series of challenging wooden<br />

boxes. There is also a gift shop, gemstone<br />

mining, picnic area, hiking and camping.<br />

Squire Boone Caverns<br />

100 Squire Boone Road, Mauckport<br />

squireboonecaverns.com<br />

888-934-1804 or 812-732-4381<br />

The historic caverns were discovered<br />

in 1790 by Squire Boone and his famous<br />

frontiersman brother, Daniel. According<br />

to legend Squire found refuge in<br />

the cave while being chased by Indians<br />

and considered it holy thereafter.<br />

The caverns are flled with streams,<br />

rushing waterfalls, and fascinating formations,<br />

some estimated to be a million<br />

years old. Visitors to Squire Boone Caverns<br />

and Village can explore wonders 90<br />

miles below the earth’s surface, then soar<br />

50 feet above with its zip-line course, with<br />

a certifed safe course for children. Also<br />

featured are a rock shop, mining for gemstones,<br />

candles and lye soap made the<br />

old-time way and homemade goodies at<br />

Boone’s Kitchen.<br />

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

1267 Green Acres Dr SW, Corydon<br />

indianacaverns.com<br />

812-734-1200<br />

<strong>Indiana</strong>’s newest show cave is the<br />

state’s longest cave, ranking seventh in<br />

length in the country. Part of the Binkley<br />

Cave System, it features diverse ecosystems,<br />

ice age bones, a walking tour with<br />

boat ride, waterfall, and beautiful formations.<br />

The 80-minute tour includes a 38-<br />

foot waterfall, a boat ride and a viewing<br />

of the remains of ice age fossils and bones.<br />

Activities include a cave crawl simulator,<br />

gemstone and fossil panning, a karst<br />

interpretive trail, exhibits, picnicking and<br />

gift shop.<br />

Bluespring Caverns<br />

1459 Blue Spring Caverns Road, Bedford<br />

bluespringcaverns.com<br />

812-279-9471<br />

An hour-long boat tour through<br />

Bluespring Caverns allows visitors a<br />

taste of the thrill of early explorers. Also,<br />

guests can view one of <strong>Indiana</strong>’s largest<br />

sinkholes - covering more than 15 acres.<br />

There is also gemstone mining, a gift shop<br />

and picnic areas. •<br />

SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A5


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SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A6


terry & Heather schmelz<br />

New owners<br />

Music & Entertainment<br />

<strong>Indiana</strong>’s Country<br />

MusIC CapItal<br />

(formerly Corydon Jamboree)<br />

Hosting lIVE country music<br />

show every saturday<br />

night 7:30 pm<br />

LIVE<br />

MusIC<br />

Is BEttER<br />

ExpandIng to InCludE:<br />

• praise & Worship<br />

• gospel<br />

• Bluegrass<br />

• Classic Rock & Roll<br />

• tribute shows<br />

• theater<br />

• Comedy & More<br />

For tickets visit or call<br />

www.corydon.live<br />

812.734.6288<br />

220 Hurst lane, Corydon, In<br />

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Wines • Specialty Cheeses<br />

Gourmet Foods • Related Accessories<br />

Gifts • Gift Baskets<br />

FREE Wine Tasting<br />

Saturday, June 18th<br />

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.<br />

117 W. Walnut Street, Suite 2<br />

Corydon, IN 47112<br />

812-738-4792<br />

www. redwhiteandblushstore.com<br />

Historic Downtown Corydon, IN<br />

Like us on<br />

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Monday: CLOSED<br />

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Sunday: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.<br />

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812.685.2282<br />

SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A7


Make Historic Corydon & Harrison County part of your summer<br />

fun. Bring the family and explore <strong>Indiana</strong> history, see the best in<br />

classic cars or put a little tap in your toes at a summer concert.<br />

Festivals & Events<br />

June<br />

8 Welcome Parade for the <strong>Indiana</strong> Constitution<br />

10-29 Birth of a State: The <strong>Indiana</strong> Exhibit<br />

10-26 Bicentennial Play at Hayswood Theatre (weekends)<br />

18-19 Art at the Old Captiol<br />

18 Cruisin with Culvers Car Show<br />

July<br />

2 Firecracker Treasure Hunt in Downtown Corydon<br />

2-3 Independence Day Weekend, O’Bannon Woods State Park<br />

3 Kiwanis 4th of July Fireworks Display<br />

9-10 Corydon Capital Days<br />

17-23 157 th Harrison County Fair<br />

16 Cruisin with Culvers Car Show<br />

August<br />

6 1800’s Pioneer Farmstead and Haypress Demonstrations<br />

12-28 Hayswood Theatre presents “The Nerd”<br />

20 Cruisin with Culvers Car Show<br />

Ongoing Events<br />

Summer Concerts at the Wineries<br />

Corydon LIVE!<br />

Every Saturday<br />

Friday Night Summer Band Concerts<br />

June to August 19<br />

Downtown Corydon<br />

Bluegrass on the Square<br />

4th Saturday in June, July & Aug<br />

Downtown Corydon<br />

Harrison County Farmers Market<br />

May - October<br />

Every Saturday & Wednesday<br />

God’s Church Parking Lot<br />

Fred Cammack Corydon Farmers Market<br />

Every Friday<br />

124 S. Mulberry Street<br />

Go to www.thisisindiana.org for more details.<br />

SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A8


Get to know <strong>Indiana</strong>’s First State Capital.<br />

Te<br />

BOOKWORM<br />

Bookworm<br />

812-738-3720<br />

Broomcorn<br />

Johnny’s<br />

Broomcorn Johnny’s<br />

812-969-3333<br />

broomcornjohnnys.com<br />

Cave Country Canoes<br />

812-365-2705<br />

cavecountrycanoes.com<br />

Buy 3 books get 4th book of equal or lesser value free<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

Hampton Inn<br />

812-738-6688<br />

15% of not valid during special events (reservations<br />

required)Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents<br />

only, Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

KentJava Bar<br />

812-736-0032<br />

facebook.com/kentjavabar<br />

Buy 1 get one half price small or medium size Late<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

10% of full size colored broom (limit 1 per person)<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

Harmony &<br />

Health, Inc<br />

Harmony & Health<br />

812-738-5433<br />

harmony.mynsp.com<br />

Free Zyto Compass Scan<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

Lil Rap<br />

812-738-1403<br />

lilrap.com<br />

15% of (excludes commissioned & clearence items)<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

Purchase 1 canoe rental (2 people)<br />

get 2nd canoe rental (2 people) FREE<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

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

812-734-1200<br />

indianacaverns.com<br />

Buy 1 adult ticket at regular price get one<br />

child admission free. Only one coupon valid<br />

per family or group. Excludes Holidays.<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

Little Texas<br />

Consignments<br />

Litle Texas Consignments<br />

812-225-5273<br />

10% of total purchase<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

Marengo Cave<br />

888-702-2873<br />

marengocave.com<br />

Purchase 1 adult admission get 1<br />

FREE (walking tours only)<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county<br />

residents only, Valid May 1-31<br />

Do not copy.<br />

Squire Boone Caverns<br />

812-732-4381<br />

squireboonecaverns.com<br />

Red, White & Blush<br />

812-738-4792<br />

redwhiteandblushstore.com<br />

10% of one item<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

Squire Boone Zipline<br />

Adventures<br />

812-732-1200<br />

squireboonecavernsziplines.com<br />

ScoutMountain<br />

Corydon, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Winery<br />

Scout Mountain Winery<br />

812-738-7196<br />

scoutmountainwinery.com<br />

www.scoutmount<br />

20% of any wine purchase<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

The Town<br />

Square Gallery<br />

Town Square Gallery<br />

812-738-4147<br />

Buy 1 cavern tour get a 2nd cavern tour free of<br />

equal or lesser value<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

$20 of per person on canopy tour<br />

Use promo code HTWEEK16<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

25% of any one reglar priced item<br />

(excludes Pandora & Frequent buyer cards)<br />

Valid for Harrison/Crawford county residents only,<br />

Valid May 1-31 Do not copy.<br />

thisis<strong>Indiana</strong>.org<br />

SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A9


• Summer Fun Feature •<br />

Centennial<br />

and Bicentennial<br />

Activities<br />

1916 Price Rollback<br />

On June 4-5 visit any <strong>Indiana</strong> State<br />

Park and pay the 1916 admission fee<br />

– 10 cents per person.<br />

Summer Centennial Events<br />

During the “100 Days for 100 Years”<br />

summer season, each park will host a<br />

birthday party.<br />

<strong>2016</strong> Annual Park Passes at Library<br />

One annual pass has been placed in<br />

each of <strong>Indiana</strong>’s 240 public libraries.<br />

Got a library card? Check out a pass<br />

and visit a park for free.<br />

Centennial Fitness Challenge<br />

Parks around the state are giving<br />

back—celebrating 100 years since<br />

the <strong>Indiana</strong> State Parks system<br />

was created as well as the state’s<br />

Bicentennial.<br />

“This year is a great year to get out<br />

in the parks, because we are doing so<br />

much and it’s a monumental year. This is<br />

something that doesn’t happen very often,<br />

and we are puting a lot into it and<br />

doing things at all of <strong>Indiana</strong>’s parks to<br />

celebrate,” said Jeremy Beavin, interpretative<br />

naturalist at the Falls of the Ohio State<br />

Park in Clarksville.<br />

What started in 1916 has grown over<br />

the years to include 32 state parks spread<br />

throughout the state, making sure that every<br />

resident has a park within a one-hour<br />

drive according to the <strong>Indiana</strong> Department<br />

of Natural Resources.<br />

Parks throughout <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

ofer many recreational opportunities<br />

such as bird watching, hiking, fshing,<br />

hunting, boating and more. Some even<br />

ofer a beach, water skiing, or an 18-hole<br />

disc golf course.<br />

“Each of our state parks has [a]<br />

unique feature—either natural or historical—that<br />

makes them stand out,”<br />

said Ginger Murphy, deputy director<br />

SIL Summer <strong>2016</strong> • A10<br />

One Hundred Years of Fun<br />

Celebrating the parks of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

Story by Tara Schmelz<br />

for stewardship for <strong>Indiana</strong> State Parks.<br />

“Brown County has great vistas … Falls<br />

of the Ohio has 390 million-year-old fossil<br />

beds that are world-renowned. Spring<br />

Mill is in karst country—with sinkholes<br />

and caves—and the Pioneer Village, Grist<br />

and Mill … Charlestown State Park also<br />

has great hiking and Rose Island, where<br />

we interpret the story of the amusement<br />

park, and picnic grounds that were located<br />

there in the early 20th century.”<br />

At the Falls, a one-year $6 million<br />

renovation serves as a Centennial gift to<br />

<strong>Indiana</strong>’s residents. “We guted this entire<br />

building to just the bare walls and<br />

concrete foors and rebuilt the exhibit<br />

gallery,” Beavin said, adding that the f-<br />

nal product is very interactive and userfriendly.<br />

Beavin said another gift is the new<br />

Rose Island Interpretive Trail at Charlestown<br />

State Park which was dedicated in<br />

March.<br />

More than the recreational aspect,<br />

Beavin said there is another reason for the<br />

parks system.<br />

“We have to understand our connection<br />

to the natural world and the value<br />

of it. Without the natural world, there’s<br />

no world for the rest of us. Our goal is to<br />

Walk, bike, paddle, or swim at least<br />

25 miles inside any state park to be<br />

entered into drawings for 2017 annual<br />

passes, camping gif cards, state<br />

park inn gif cards and more. Complete<br />

100 miles and earn an <strong>Indiana</strong><br />

State Parks commemoratve centennial<br />

coin.<br />

Free Entrance for 4th Grade Students<br />

The Natonal Park Service is turning<br />

100, too. It’s Every Kid in a Park program<br />

ofers free entrance to natonal<br />

parks for every fourth grader through<br />

August. <strong>Indiana</strong> State Parks are also<br />

acceptng those passes.<br />

To learn more about the various parks<br />

and centennial celebratons, go to<br />

INStateParks100.com.<br />

teach that value to the younger people.<br />

To help them understand we have to protect<br />

these natural wonders,” Beavin said.<br />

“… We’re protecting these unique things<br />

that make our part of the world special.<br />

There’s only one Grand Canyon. There’s<br />

only one Devonian fossil bed and we’re<br />

here to protect that and tell that story.”•<br />

Pictured: Charleston State Park. Photo provided by the<br />

<strong>Indiana</strong> Department of Natural Resources.


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Sat:<br />

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