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Flashback Photo<br />
A Bus Ride to Town<br />
Corydon, IN<br />
1920<br />
// Photo courtesy of the Frederick Porter Griffin Center, Harrison County Public Library<br />
According to library records, Lloyd Meech operated one of the first open air buses in the area. The bus,<br />
filled with men, women, and children as well as boxes and luggage. made regular trips between Corydon<br />
and New Albany, <strong>Indiana</strong>. Lloyd Meech (1873 - 1962) also owned and operated a hotel in Corydon.<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong> • <strong>July</strong>/<strong>August</strong> <strong>2022</strong> • 7
A Walk in the Garden with Bob Hill<br />
Some days on our adventure<br />
road trips we end up at Mt. Moriah<br />
Cemetery, mostly because<br />
that’s where we are going to<br />
end up. It’s located in rolling <strong>Southern</strong><br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> hills east of Henryville,<br />
hills that are not quite worthy of the<br />
“knobs” description given its more,<br />
well, knobby brethren to the south<br />
and west, but still worthy of occasional<br />
pursuit.<br />
Just getting there is fun. We can<br />
first go to Henryville and take a right<br />
in what passes for its downtown or<br />
go a little north of Henryville near the<br />
Clark State Forest, take a right and follow<br />
wonderfully winding roads apparently<br />
laid out by a drunk cow. In<br />
defense of the cow, those roads have<br />
become more and more populated<br />
with homes, so it did have the right<br />
idea. On other wandering days you<br />
can take a left into Clark State Forest,<br />
established in 1903 and the oldest<br />
state forest in <strong>Indiana</strong>, and look off<br />
into the distance toward Louisville or<br />
climb a fire tower.<br />
But we had family in mind. Janet<br />
Hill was originally a “Dieterlen,”<br />
a farming and factory clan that settled<br />
in the Henryville area back in the late<br />
1800s and spread out nicely from<br />
there. We moved to <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
from Northern Illinois in 1975.<br />
Full circle.<br />
Mt. Moriah Cemetery had become<br />
the final destination for many<br />
of the Dieterlens, and about 15 years<br />
ago, with plots selling for $100 each,<br />
and our roots firmly established close<br />
by, we signed up for two.<br />
The plots came with a view of<br />
scruffy trees and low hills. At the<br />
time the plots were over by the more<br />
barren side of the rolling, grassy cemetery,<br />
an area that has since become<br />
much more crowded with the dearly<br />
departed. More proof that you can<br />
run but you can’t hide.<br />
For some time I have been<br />
searching for the right words to describe<br />
what it is like to stand up over<br />
the very spot where I will someday<br />
go down, and not really sure I want<br />
to find them.<br />
Granted, I won’t have much<br />
memory of that precise moment,<br />
but it still brings a strange feeling to<br />
be standing there, reading the now<br />
surrounding tombstone names of<br />
people I’ve never met, wondering<br />
what stories we might share, the final<br />
choices we have made, even at the<br />
bargain $100 cemetery-plot price tag.<br />
But surely we will all have passed<br />
through higher Pearly Gates before<br />
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Circling Back<br />
all that detail matters.<br />
Given its biblical history, our<br />
most recent trip did lead me into investigating<br />
the number of Mt. Moriah<br />
cemeteries there are in <strong>Indiana</strong>, or<br />
even the country, with the best answer<br />
being “a bunch.”<br />
There’s good reason for that.<br />
The Mt. Moriah name comes from<br />
the Bible, Genesis 22:2, in which the<br />
Lord asked Abraham to take his longwanted<br />
son, Isaac, to Mt. Moriah and<br />
sacrifice him as proof of Abraham’s<br />
faith. Talk about a test. We don’t hear<br />
much about that one. It didn’t happen,<br />
of course. The Lord intervened<br />
at the last minute and a ram was sacrificed<br />
instead. Abraham’s faith was<br />
vindicated. Isaac was spared a funeral<br />
pyre. I’ve been mulling that one<br />
over for a long time.<br />
So about 4,000 years later this<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> Mt. Moriah has become further<br />
proof of our faith in one another,<br />
although some histories also suggest<br />
it was first named the Clegg Family<br />
Cemetery in honor of that Hoosier<br />
family. The rest of that story is the<br />
nearby and infamous Clegg Hill, a<br />
truly steep climb once to be made<br />
back when the road was dirt and the<br />
trip by horse and wagon.<br />
History, it seems, just can’t leave<br />
the nearby Mt. Moriah Church that<br />
comes with this cemetery story alone.<br />
The best place to begin is with Col.<br />
Harland Sanders, Mr. KFC Chicken<br />
himself, who was born in a four-room<br />
farmhouse several miles east of Henryville.<br />
That’s not too far from Mt.<br />
Moriah Cemetery where his parents,<br />
Wilbur and Margaret Sanders, owned<br />
an 80-acre farm. Surely they raised<br />
chickens.<br />
Those parents, in fact, were buried<br />
in Mt. Moriah not too far from<br />
several Dieterlens and eventually a<br />
couple Hills. The Colonel, himself,<br />
made it to Louisville’s elegant Cave<br />
Hill Cemetery.<br />
The original Mt. Moriah church<br />
suffered some fire damage in the<br />
1960s and was literally blown to<br />
pieces in the March 2012 tornado<br />
even as some members found shelter<br />
in its basement. It was rebuilt across<br />
the road in much more sturdy fashion<br />
with Col. Sanders’ help and has<br />
served in the past as the site of Dieterlen<br />
family reunions.<br />
Another full circle.<br />
Our mostly annual trips to the<br />
cemetery include walking past all<br />
the tombstones, always reminders of<br />
old stories made new. Grandparents<br />
born in the 1870s – only a few years<br />
after the Civil War – come alive after<br />
once living in an old farmhouse just a<br />
few miles down the road; their grave<br />
markers still easily read; the mixed<br />
tales of family gathered over chicken<br />
dinners and home-grown vegetables,<br />
the intimidating grandfather<br />
who plowed with horses; the tiny,<br />
stooped-over grandmother so adept<br />
with a fly swatter.<br />
One uncle had fought in World<br />
War I, a story I shall always regret<br />
never writing; his death coming before<br />
I was able to get to it. Another<br />
relative – his history all but forgotten<br />
– died in World War II. All the veterans’<br />
graves were recently marked<br />
with proud American flags. So many<br />
other family members there we had<br />
previously met at annual reunions<br />
funded by an auction of family-crafted<br />
art.<br />
It’s all there, carved in granite.<br />
So many names. So many stories.<br />
Sunshine, fire and tornado. The cemetery<br />
changed but unchanged. The<br />
always need to visit. The quiet calm<br />
of the place. Its living, engraved stone<br />
library of family history. The green<br />
grass and comforting low hills. The<br />
looking down the road at all this<br />
thinking no hurry ... no hurry ... no<br />
hurry … •<br />
About the Author<br />
Former Courier-Journal<br />
columnist Bob Hill enjoys<br />
gardening, good fun, good<br />
friends and the life he and<br />
his wife, Janet.
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A Note to Baby Boomers<br />
Tune In and Tune Out<br />
The world still needs saving,<br />
doesn’t it?<br />
I guess. I assume. I<br />
don’t know. No news is good<br />
news. I am increasingly comforted<br />
by being decreasingly in touch. My<br />
TV watching focuses on Opie being<br />
shaken down for lunch money. Will<br />
Sheldon get to the bottom of string<br />
theory? Will Bonnie never again<br />
drink? Will Charlie finally learn the<br />
difference between love and sex?<br />
TV comedies provide all the<br />
drama I can manage.<br />
This is a new-old me, determined<br />
to floss more and to worry less. The<br />
time to stop caring is never, of course.<br />
I still vote, still pitch in on community<br />
causes, still exercise, still read and<br />
still pray our leaders will do more for<br />
us than to us.<br />
Then again, should ignorance<br />
indeed be bliss, let me be as blissful<br />
as dogs on the fifth of <strong>July</strong>.<br />
The pursuit of healthiness, yeah,<br />
that’s part of it. Are there meetings<br />
of Over-reactors Anonymous? My<br />
cardiologist would confirm my<br />
addiction to high blood pressure.<br />
Oh no, this purplish thing on my<br />
forearm looks suspicious. Oh yes,<br />
the dermatologist says it’s merely a<br />
bruise.<br />
Crisis averted — until I get the<br />
bill and another real-or-imagined<br />
mini-crisis.<br />
Change and I get along about as<br />
well as Veterans Parkway gets along<br />
with Saturday night traffic. I have<br />
no good reason to keep my landline<br />
telephone. Yet I do. I have no good<br />
reason to keep subscribing to the<br />
paper version of newspapers. Yet I<br />
do.<br />
I have no good reason to resent<br />
my new dentist, since my old one<br />
retired. Yet I do. I have no good reason<br />
to resent my new auto mechanic or<br />
my new insurance man, since the old<br />
ones, yes, likewise hung it up.<br />
Yet I do.<br />
As I led off, though, I am ready<br />
– or more ready – to retire from life as<br />
well as from work. Tag, somebody else<br />
is it. My leg of life’s relay is finished,<br />
OK? My last Amazon purchases, I<br />
kid you not, were for doorstops and<br />
for oatmeal bowls, not for the latest<br />
books about some president or world<br />
nightmare.<br />
My favorite day, one recent<br />
week, was the one in which a friend<br />
chopped a beaten-up dogwood tree<br />
that had collapsed in my front yard.<br />
The man would not accept money.<br />
If only Washington and<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>polis could come to my rescue<br />
simply like that.<br />
I meet childhood pals for lunch<br />
from time to time. We wear out<br />
Memory Lane, barely lay toes on<br />
Future Avenue. After all, we know<br />
what has happened, not what will<br />
happen. Is there more still to gain<br />
than what has been lost? None of us<br />
wants to ask that question, much less<br />
to answer it. Health, wealth, way too<br />
little is assured from here on out.<br />
One guy’s mother still lives.<br />
Mine died last century. A couple<br />
guys do a little of everything, a<br />
couple others do next to nothing. I<br />
land somewhere in the middle, an<br />
occasional, comfortable, reasonably<br />
busy curmudgeon.<br />
I never will eat sushi. I never will<br />
stay in an Airbnb. I never will prefer<br />
a Zoom meeting to a face-to-face one.<br />
I never will get a tattoo or believe<br />
anyone looks better with one. I intend<br />
to turn actual pages on every book I<br />
read. I can’t imagine ever buying a<br />
Whopper with digital dough.<br />
I cannot recommend a single<br />
podcast or show to stream. Twitter<br />
and I have yet to meet.<br />
Then again, I have come to enjoy<br />
basketball played by women and girls<br />
much more than basketball played by<br />
men and boys.<br />
I look forward to driving a car<br />
powered by electricity.<br />
I accept, begrudgingly, bills<br />
online and airline tickets on the<br />
cellphone. In a snap, stuff on paper<br />
became about as cool as I was in high<br />
school.<br />
Plus, the next beach on which I<br />
get sunburned will be one new to me.<br />
This is saying goodbye to a set-insand,<br />
decades-old tradition.<br />
Change, take that.<br />
It’s all still somewhat new, this<br />
growing old. It is hard to love peeing<br />
day and night and groaning each<br />
Change and I get along about as well as Veterans<br />
Parkway gets along with Saturday night traffic. I<br />
have no good reason to keep my landline telephone.<br />
Yet I do. I have no good reason to keep subscribing<br />
to the paper version of newspapers. Yet I do.<br />
time I get in and out of the car. I miss<br />
my hair, my waistline, my virility, my<br />
paycheck, my former co-workers and<br />
even a boss or two.<br />
Done decently, neither is<br />
retirement hard to hate. It requires<br />
reinvention. A decade into it, mine<br />
remains a work in progress.<br />
Control can seem as out of<br />
control as grocery-store prices. Don’t<br />
give up on control, though, I repeat<br />
to myself. Do what I can, whenever<br />
I can, whatever or what little feels<br />
best for tomorrow, no matter how it<br />
felt last year or last decade. So, I come<br />
back increasingly to checking out on<br />
staying plugged in.<br />
TV reruns work well enough as<br />
retreats from current events that can<br />
give any of us Excedrin headache<br />
No. 27. That is, if Excedrin still exists.<br />
There I go, living in the past.<br />
I seem better to face the future<br />
the less of it I have. Does the world<br />
still need saving? It’s someone else’s<br />
turn to try. •<br />
After 25 years, Dale Moss<br />
retired as <strong>Indiana</strong> columnist for<br />
The Courier-Journal. He now<br />
writes weekly for the News and<br />
Tribune. Dale and his wife Jean<br />
live in Jeffersonville in a house<br />
that has been in his family<br />
since the Civil War. Dale’s e-<br />
mail is dale.moss@twc.com<br />
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Cover Story<br />
Sweet Success<br />
Leaven Bakery is a hit in downtown New Albany<br />
12 • <strong>July</strong>/Aug <strong>2022</strong> • <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong><br />
Story by Darian Decker<br />
Photos by Michelle Hockman
What started as a delivery<br />
business out of Zach<br />
and Kimberly Maxey’s<br />
500-square-foot apartment<br />
has turned into the thriving<br />
Leaven Bakery in downtown New<br />
Albany that celebrated its one-year<br />
anniversary in May.<br />
The Maxeys met in the kitchen at<br />
a hotel in California. Kimberly was a<br />
baker and Zach was a breakfast cook.<br />
Zach would come downstairs to Kimberly<br />
every morning of work and ask<br />
for a cookie.<br />
“One day I made this citrus<br />
cookie, and it was awful, and he said<br />
it was his favorite cookie and even<br />
asked for the recipe, so I wrote it<br />
down for him,” Kimberly said.<br />
The next day, Zach came back<br />
and had made the cookie for his family<br />
and showed Kimberly his work to<br />
prove it wasn’t as bad as she thought.<br />
That cookie ended up on the dessert<br />
table at their wedding.<br />
“A couple months ago, we were<br />
going through all of our recipe books,<br />
and he had kept the handwritten recipe<br />
from years ago,” Kimberly said.<br />
Their sweet relationship translates<br />
perfectly into their work life as<br />
business partners. They had a catering<br />
company in California, where<br />
they’re from, and although they enjoyed<br />
what they did, they didn’t feel<br />
it was their place in the industry.<br />
Zach’s sister had moved to Louisville<br />
for school. His other sister soon<br />
followed her. His parents then followed<br />
her as well.<br />
“We came out and visited for<br />
a bit,” Zach said. “Kimberly and I<br />
loved the atmosphere and felt the<br />
vibe of the cities both on this side of<br />
the river and in Louisville.”<br />
One thing they liked about California<br />
was that the area was very<br />
culturally diverse in terms of cuisine.<br />
Zach said he feels that is true about<br />
this area as well and is looking forward<br />
to adding their own flair.<br />
When they made their move,<br />
they both were able to work at a few<br />
different places in the food business.<br />
Covid led to them opening a delivery<br />
business in order to help make ends<br />
meet.<br />
“We had a friend whose friend<br />
had asked if we could make some<br />
bread for a shindig they were having,”<br />
Zach said. “We ended up doing<br />
it and then word kept spreading.”<br />
He said he and Kimberly decided<br />
to keep it going to see where it<br />
may lead.<br />
“We focused our energy on our<br />
With their small staff, they do everything<br />
in-house. Zach makes the breads with his<br />
assistant, Kimberly makes all of the pastries,<br />
and their chef handles the breakfast and<br />
lunch menus. They also partner with a local<br />
farm, Vera Farms, for farm-fresh eggs and<br />
soon for goat and sheep products.<br />
Pictured: (left hand page) Bread baked in house at Leaven Bakery; a wide assortment of treats are available daily; the<br />
salmon ???<br />
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website and building our brand and<br />
getting out there,” Zach said.<br />
They caught the attention of<br />
Louisville Business First, who did a<br />
feature on their delivery business.<br />
Soon after, WDRB aired an interview<br />
with them. Right after that, their website<br />
crashed because of the publicity<br />
and so many people placing orders.<br />
Zach said they were able to keep<br />
up with everything and have steady<br />
business, leading to them moving to<br />
a house to increase capacity.<br />
After Thanksgiving, when they<br />
had baked 45 pies and had completed<br />
nearly 1,500 deliveries since they<br />
opened, Zach and Kimberly talked<br />
about the game plan going forward.<br />
“We kind of got to the point<br />
where I looked at my wife again and<br />
said, ‘Either we continue trying to do<br />
this out of the house, or we try to get<br />
big-scale with this and try to do some<br />
really cool stuff,’” Zach said.<br />
Because of Covid, funding was<br />
a huge challenge for them, but with<br />
some family and friends investing in<br />
their business, they were able to get<br />
the space they occupy currently on<br />
Market Street in New Albany.<br />
“My mom and dad and wife and<br />
I came in here and did everything<br />
else, from electrical to plumbing to<br />
painting,” Zach said. “My dad and<br />
I built the bar. … We redesigned the<br />
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kitchen. We did it all in a month and<br />
a half.”<br />
They both said the area has been<br />
so supportive over the past year.<br />
“Usually as a cook, you’re divided<br />
from the public,” Zach said. “Being<br />
able to have a stressful day and<br />
turn around and see a family really<br />
enjoying what you made them and<br />
see smiles – it makes it worthwhile.”<br />
One thing they’re also trying to<br />
accomplish in the community is redirecting<br />
the hospitality industry in<br />
terms of how employees are treated.<br />
“Our job is basically servanthood<br />
and taking care of the public<br />
and in order for us to do that, we<br />
have to feel taken care of,” Zach said.<br />
“We’re very much centered around<br />
our employees and making sure<br />
they’re taken care of.”<br />
Zach said there’s definitely a<br />
learning curve, having come from<br />
running other people’s kitchens to<br />
now taking care of every aspect of a<br />
business, including employees.<br />
“In a year to be where we’re at –<br />
it’s very humbling,” he said. “We’re<br />
eternally grateful for that.”<br />
With their small staff, they do<br />
everything in-house. Zach makes the<br />
breads with his assistant, Kimberly<br />
makes all of the pastries, and their<br />
chef handles the breakfast and lunch<br />
menus. They also partner with a local<br />
farm, Vera Farms, for farm-fresh eggs<br />
and soon for goat and sheep products.<br />
“I’m hoping to rent some land<br />
on their property and maybe grow<br />
some produce,” Zach said. “I’m a<br />
huge gardener and we have stuff<br />
growing here as well.”<br />
Zach references the saying, “In<br />
order to make good food, you have<br />
to eat good food,” and he says that<br />
starts with quality ingredients.<br />
They want to have the freshest<br />
ingredients they can at the peak of<br />
their freshness.<br />
“Our whole mission statement<br />
for our business is quality over quantity,”<br />
he said. “I would much rather<br />
you be upset with the fact that I have<br />
to turn you away because I ran out<br />
of something than for me to give you<br />
subpar quality.”<br />
Aside from branching out into<br />
potential produce, they’re also partnering<br />
with another small business,<br />
the New Albany Sugar Shoppe.<br />
“They’re open when we’re<br />
closed, so it extends our hours a little<br />
bit in that respect,” Zach said.<br />
They’re currently selling three<br />
to four products at the Sugar Shoppe,<br />
including macarons.<br />
As far as goals for the future,<br />
Zach has some big ideas, including a<br />
bigger establishment, bed and break-
fasts, a potential hunter’s club and<br />
more. For short-term goals, Kimberly<br />
said they’d love to open a second location<br />
and add a catering menu for<br />
events.<br />
Their favorite part of the bakery?<br />
For Kimberly, it’s getting to work<br />
with her husband every day.<br />
“People always think we must<br />
want to kill each other, but actually<br />
it just brought us closer together and<br />
that has been the best thing,” she<br />
said. •<br />
Check out the bakery website, leavenbakery.com,<br />
for an assortment of dessert,<br />
breakfast, lunch and bread menus along<br />
with store hours. You can also follow<br />
their Facebook page to keep up to date at<br />
@LeavenbakeryKY.”<br />
Pictured: ( from top, clockwise) A fresh baked sourdough<br />
loaf tempts customers at the check out counter; the bakery<br />
offers patio seating; Kimberly and Zach Maxey, owners of<br />
Leaven Bakery<br />
“Our whole mission statement for our business<br />
is quality over quantity. I would much rather<br />
you be upset with the fact that I have to<br />
turn you away because I ran out of something<br />
than for me to give you subpar quality.”<br />
- Zach Maxey<br />
Co-owner of Leaven Bakery<br />
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Embers erupt from<br />
the fire built from<br />
wood still too damp<br />
to burn properly,<br />
sending pops and<br />
crackles off in every direction.<br />
He smiles to himself as he<br />
imagines nature is putting on a<br />
fireworks show just for him. His<br />
wife has been asleep long<br />
enough his arm tingles all the<br />
way down to his fingertips, but<br />
he won’t dare disturb her. As<br />
his wife breathes the slow, soft<br />
melody of sleep, her husband<br />
watches the fire.<br />
He notices as the embers shoot<br />
from the heart of the blaze into<br />
the inky sky, disappearing into<br />
the fog settling onto the lake,<br />
and his mind drifts back. He<br />
looks at the elderly woman<br />
sleeping so comfortably on his<br />
shoulder and thinks back to the<br />
day he met her, then on their<br />
wedding day three years later.<br />
He remembers how the two of<br />
them stood side by side from<br />
when they met during college to<br />
when she transitioned from<br />
young professional to retiree; as<br />
they became parents, then<br />
became grandparents.<br />
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The fire, emitting less heat than<br />
just moments before, is still<br />
sending embers out from its<br />
core. He smiles as he watches<br />
tiny moments of his past become<br />
miniature comets, momentarily<br />
becoming the center of his<br />
attention before disappearing<br />
from view, or burning out just<br />
before disappearing into the<br />
indistinguishable grey curtain<br />
made up of fog and the serenity<br />
of the waveless lake.<br />
His wife wakes up and sees her<br />
husband lost in thought. She<br />
decides not to interrupt his<br />
moment. Beyond the comfort of<br />
her husband’s shoulder, the fire<br />
pops and she notices an ember of<br />
flame and ash disappear into the<br />
water. She smiles. Here is a<br />
perfect moment, one of many,<br />
now written in the story of their<br />
lives.<br />
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The NoCo Arts and Cultural<br />
District in downtown<br />
Jeffersonville – named for<br />
its location north of Court<br />
Avenue – is a walkable and vibrant<br />
neighborhood that showcases the<br />
city’s commitment to imaginative<br />
revitalization.<br />
Once a neglected area of car<br />
lots and auto body shops, the district<br />
currently has two museums, an<br />
artist supply store, an Arts Center<br />
where nine artists have set up their<br />
studios, a high-tech Makers’ Space,<br />
a large variety of musical and art<br />
programming, and a flurry of<br />
colorful outdoor public art – from the<br />
iconic water tank emblazoned with<br />
fantastical shapes to Picasso Pointe,<br />
a pocket park designed, in part, by<br />
children. And there is still more to<br />
come.<br />
One of the resident artists<br />
at the Arts Center, in Studio 3, is<br />
Jeffersonville native Tammy Burke.<br />
“When I was growing up,<br />
teenagers had to cross the bridge into<br />
Louisville to find entertainment,”<br />
Burke said. “That is changing. The<br />
district’s art programs and events<br />
are now well attended by all age<br />
groups. There are visitors here every<br />
day taking photos of the district. The<br />
Jeffersonville Public Art Commission<br />
(JPAC) has also done an amazing job<br />
of encouraging the creative endeavors<br />
of children.”<br />
This is important to Burke, who<br />
said: “Children are such spontaneous<br />
artists; they have no hesitation about<br />
making art and using their hands.<br />
They only need encouragement.”<br />
She related a story about her<br />
own childhood to illustrate how the<br />
right encouragement can impact a<br />
child’s interests.<br />
“My elementary art teacher from<br />
Riverside school in Jeffersonville,<br />
Mrs. Skaggs, asked the class to draw<br />
balloons. My balloons came to a<br />
point, and were different from the<br />
round ones of my classmates. Mrs.<br />
Skaggs singled me out for praise that<br />
day because I had looked at the actual<br />
shape of a balloon. It is remarkable,<br />
but that little moment ignited a spark,<br />
a feeling that I was an artist.”<br />
Burke began her formal art<br />
education with a BFA in painting<br />
from the Herron School of Art and<br />
Design in <strong>Indiana</strong>polis. She now<br />
identifies herself as a multimedia<br />
artist who sews, dyes fabric, sculpts in<br />
clay, produces videos and continues<br />
to paint and draw. She is currently<br />
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Artist Spotlight<br />
sharing many of these talents with<br />
her community to benefit the growing<br />
arts scene in the NoCo Arts District.<br />
The Paint Box Garden, a color<br />
theory garden planted between the<br />
district’s water tank and Arts Center,<br />
was conceived by Burke in 2020 as a<br />
living work of art, to be both visually<br />
stunning and educational.<br />
“I noticed there were paintings<br />
of flowers on murals throughout the<br />
district, but no real flowers,” Burke<br />
said.<br />
Burke had done projects with<br />
her students at <strong>Indiana</strong> University<br />
Southeast using color theory and<br />
decided this could work in a garden.<br />
She explained: “If we planted only<br />
red, yellow, and blue flowers – the<br />
three primary colors – the viewer’s<br />
mind and eye would blend the<br />
colors into a fuller range of tones.<br />
For example, where red flowers meet<br />
yellow ones, the viewer will also see<br />
orange.”<br />
Burke reached out to Bob Hill<br />
(who needs no introduction to<br />
readers of <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong>),<br />
who brought in Karen Bryant, a<br />
gardener specializing in flowers and<br />
Brightening Up a Neighborhood<br />
How Jeffersonville artist Tammy Burke engages the world<br />
Story by Judy Cato<br />
Photos by Lorraine Hughes (except where noted)<br />
the owner of Bloomin’ for You, to<br />
design the garden based on the color<br />
theory concept.<br />
“It took months of planning,<br />
visualizing, designing andworking,<br />
as well as the generous support of<br />
many, but in the spring of 2021, the<br />
garden became a reality,” Burke said.<br />
Some of the flowers in the garden<br />
were chosen because they can be<br />
used to make natural dyes: madder<br />
(red), coreopsis (yellow), and indigo<br />
(blue). Since Burke uses natural dyes<br />
in many of her art projects, visitors to<br />
the garden also have the opportunity<br />
to learn about the dyeing process.<br />
Since 2016, Burke has worked<br />
on numerous projects in the<br />
neighborhood. Most recently, she<br />
designed and made the costumes<br />
for a miniature horse fashion show,<br />
part of JPAC’s community kickoff<br />
party. Each of the miniature horses,<br />
from Opening Gates, wore an outfit<br />
created by Burke to represent one of<br />
Jeffersonville’s upcoming programs.<br />
One horse trotted down the runway<br />
sporting a ruff, the large white collar<br />
most associated with Shakespeare, to<br />
represent Shakespeare in the Park.
Although Burke has recently<br />
been swept up in the energy and<br />
spirit of collaborative art projects in<br />
the NoCo district, she is more wellknown<br />
– by other artists – for her<br />
individual artworks exhibited in<br />
galleries.<br />
Her work Clay Faces, exhibited<br />
at the Cressman Center for Visual<br />
Arts in Louisville (April 15–May 27,<br />
<strong>2022</strong>) was made up of four sculpted<br />
faces, each partially hidden behind<br />
some disguise: sunglasses, long<br />
bangs, a Covid mask and an artificial<br />
smile.<br />
Burke explained the piece: “We<br />
are always choosing which of our<br />
faces to show the world.”<br />
Also on display at the Cressman<br />
Center was an untitled work, a piece<br />
of dyed silk draped over a display<br />
stand that the viewer could see<br />
from all sides. “The work is mostly<br />
about the process of learning and<br />
experimenting,” Burke said. The silk<br />
was dyed with papery onion skins<br />
and walnut hulls boiled into natural<br />
dyes. She used a Japanese dyeing<br />
technique known as itajime. This<br />
ancient technique involves folding<br />
the fabric like an accordion to pleat<br />
it into a long, thin rectangle, then<br />
clamping it with wood C-clamps<br />
before dipping it into the dye to create<br />
stunning patterns.<br />
Burke explained the piece: “I<br />
am constantly experimenting with<br />
natural dyestuffs to yield colors that<br />
nature intended. I enjoy collecting the<br />
walnuts and other materials which<br />
are my inspiration for the work.”<br />
Burke’s installation called Body<br />
Bags will be exhibited at the Kentucky<br />
Museum of Art and Craft Triennial<br />
from <strong>August</strong> to December <strong>2022</strong>.<br />
“This installation grew out of<br />
the pandemic,” Burke said. The bags<br />
are 8-feet-by-3-feet, the size of actual<br />
body bags, and will hang from the<br />
ceiling in the museum so the viewer<br />
is placed face to face with them. “I<br />
am aware that they are somewhat<br />
disturbing,” Burke said, “but they<br />
are my way of bearing witness to<br />
the enormous loss of life caused by<br />
the pandemic. The installation will<br />
provide a space and opportunity for<br />
viewers to process our collective loss<br />
and to grieve, which is an important<br />
component of moving forward.” She<br />
elaborated further, “I didn’t want<br />
to sugarcoat the darker side of our<br />
times, but to use art to lift it up, to<br />
“My elementary art teacher from Riverside school in<br />
Jeffersonville, Mrs. Skaggs, asked the class to draw<br />
balloons. My balloons came to a point, and were different<br />
from the round ones of my classmates. Mrs. Skaggs singled<br />
me out for praise that day because I had looked at the<br />
actual shape of a balloon. It is remarkable, but that little<br />
moment ignited a spark, a feeling that I was an artist.”<br />
- Tammy Burke<br />
redeem it.” • Pictured: (left hand page) The Paint Box Garden, a color theory garden planted between the district’s water tank and Arts<br />
Center, was conceived by Burke in 2020 as a living work of art, to be both visually stunning and educational; (this page,<br />
from top) Tammy Burke in her studio in Jeffersonville; Burke’s untitled work, dyed silk, on exhibit at Cressman Gallery.<br />
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Boys & Girls Club of Harrison-Crawford County<br />
Marengo, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison-Crawford Counties recently opened the very first free standing site in Crawford<br />
County, <strong>Indiana</strong>. Having formerly operated in the Crawford County school buildings, the new site (pending approval<br />
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With this transition, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison-Crawford Counties now has four sites across the two counties<br />
including the Boys & Girls Club of Harrison County located in Corydon, the Boys & Girls Club of South Central<br />
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office at (812) 572-8327.<br />
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My husband and I bought our<br />
first home amid a hot summer<br />
when everything was<br />
in full bloom. By the looks<br />
of our garden-filled backyard, I imagined<br />
the previous owner as a Garden Master<br />
while I stood there feeling quite inadequate.<br />
As we started to spruce up the<br />
yard and pare down the number of garden<br />
beds, I read quite a bit about plants.<br />
As it turned out, the gentleman who lived<br />
here before us was rather clever in creating<br />
his garden blueprints. The garden he<br />
had established was hearty in nature and<br />
required minimal upkeep but provided<br />
consistent beauty throughout the year. As<br />
we made the backyard our own, the most<br />
surprising reward was discovering my<br />
own love for gardening. Today our garden<br />
has become a peaceful escape from<br />
future worries and a positive way to stay<br />
in the present. There’s something beautiful<br />
and curious about tending to plants<br />
and watching them grow.<br />
Of course, as a dietitian, I knew what<br />
was missing from this jungle of a backyard<br />
and that was a vegetable garden.<br />
Most vegetables require full sun (six to<br />
eight hours of sun per day) to grow properly.<br />
My yard only has a small corner that<br />
truly gets full sun, so my vegetable garden<br />
is quite small and simple. Sometimes it’s<br />
the simple things in life that bring us the<br />
biggest joys. For me, nothing is like biting<br />
into that home-grown tomato on a summer<br />
day. My children have come to find a<br />
love of the garden, too, especially the fascinating<br />
world of insects under the garden<br />
stones.<br />
When it comes to planning your own<br />
garden, it doesn’t have to be elaborate, so<br />
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for vegetable gardens — at least 18 inches<br />
tall and 18 to 20 inches wide so the plants<br />
have enough room to grow/produce.<br />
A 5-gallon bucket with holes drilled in<br />
the bottom can make a great economical<br />
choice! Make sure all your containers<br />
drain in order to prevent root rot, and<br />
use a high-quality soil for better results.<br />
Depending on pot size, you can easily<br />
grow herbs, peppers, tomatoes, summer<br />
squash, beans and eggplant in summer,<br />
as well as broccoli, cabbage, lettuce and<br />
greens in spring and fall.<br />
It’s easy to see how starting a garden<br />
can be a healthy and fun way to eat<br />
those five-per-day recommended fruits/<br />
vegetables. All fruits and vegetables<br />
contain a variety of vitamins, minerals,<br />
fiber and antioxidants that have direct<br />
benefits on your health. These nutrients<br />
can not only prevent certain diseases<br />
but help in everyday bodily function.<br />
And there may be other benefits that lay<br />
beneath the surface when it comes to<br />
regular gardening. A recent meta-analysis<br />
from the National Library of Medicine’s<br />
National Center for Biotechnology<br />
Information was completed on the health<br />
benefits of gardening. The analysis<br />
included 22 studies mostly from the<br />
United States, along with Europe, Asia<br />
and the Middle East. “Indeed, the positive<br />
association with gardening was observed<br />
for a wide range of health outcomes, such<br />
as reductions in depression and anxiety<br />
symptoms, stress, mood disturbance, and<br />
BMI, as well as increases in quality of life,<br />
sense of community, physical activity<br />
levels and cognitive function,” the report<br />
read.<br />
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Gardening and Good Health<br />
If you’re still undecided if gardening<br />
is for you, my advice is to go for it! Starting<br />
with even one simple plant can give you<br />
an inspiring boost of confidence. Maybe<br />
the best time to plant anything was last<br />
year, but the second-best time is today. •<br />
About the Author<br />
Caitlyn and her kids tending their garden<br />
Caitlin Tennyson, RD, CD, is a regional<br />
clinical nutrition manager for the Baptist<br />
Health System. She graduated from Western<br />
Kentucky University and completed her<br />
internship in Sarasota, Florida. Although she<br />
has practiced in a variety of settings in the past<br />
10 years, she finds most joy in clinical nutrition<br />
applying evidence-based practices to improve<br />
patient care. In her spare time, she loves being<br />
creative in the kitchen, gardening and trying<br />
new foods at local restaurants.<br />
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Ionce got fired for making a birthday<br />
cake. Actually, it wasn’t just one cake,<br />
but a handful of cakes that did me<br />
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There are two kinds of people in life:<br />
those who avoid sprinklers and those who<br />
run right through them. Normally I’m an<br />
avoid-the-sprinkler kind of guy, but when<br />
my youngest daughter was three, we<br />
spent the summer looking for sprinklers<br />
every time we went on a walk.<br />
The first time it happened by chance.<br />
We were out exploring the neighborhood<br />
with Mom and big sister when they decided<br />
to cut it short and head home. But my<br />
preschooler would have none of it. She<br />
wanted to keep going.<br />
Now it was just Dad and a threeyear-old<br />
with no adult supervision, which<br />
meant that anything might happen.<br />
We were wandering down a quiet<br />
side street when suddenly the lawn in<br />
front of us erupted like Old Faithful,<br />
showering the sidewalk and part of the<br />
road. Now we had a choice to make, step<br />
around it or plunge right in.<br />
Of course, you know what we did.<br />
We charged into the spray, screaming and<br />
laughing and getting soaked. Our average,<br />
ordinary stroll turned into a spontaneous<br />
water park adventure, all thanks<br />
to a preschooler who wasn’t ready to go<br />
home.<br />
If I had been on this walk with just<br />
my wife, playing in the sprinkler might<br />
have looked a little strange. If I’d been<br />
by myself? Well, that’s even weirder. But<br />
with a three-year-old, this kind of behavior<br />
was totally socially acceptable.<br />
See, it matters who we walk with<br />
each day. So much of the quality of our<br />
lives is determined by the company we<br />
keep.<br />
In Proverbs 4:20 the Bible says,<br />
“Walk with the wise and become wise, for<br />
a companion of fools suffers harm.”<br />
Sometimes that wise person is someone<br />
older than you who’s been there and<br />
done that and has a wealth of experience<br />
they’re happy to share so you can<br />
avoid making some of the same mistakes<br />
they’ve made.<br />
Other times, that wise companion is<br />
your peer, a friend whose life is anchored<br />
in grace and truth and can help you see<br />
your own life and struggles from a different<br />
perspective.<br />
But the often overlooked wise friend<br />
is younger than you. Much, much younger.<br />
Take my summer walking with a<br />
three-year-old, for instance. Not only did<br />
I glean the wisdom of taking advantage<br />
30 • <strong>July</strong>/Aug <strong>2022</strong> • <strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong><br />
Everyday Adventures<br />
of sprinklers on a hot <strong>July</strong> day, but I also<br />
learned how to be pokey.<br />
I remember one Saturday morning<br />
walk when I was in a hurry to get home<br />
to mow or work on the house or do something<br />
else that seemed important at the<br />
time.<br />
My little girl, however, was in no<br />
hurry at all. In fact, she had stopped in<br />
her tracks, amazed at a pretty flower<br />
she’d spotted growing beside the road. It<br />
was like it was the first time she had ever<br />
seen a flower. And because she stopped,<br />
I stopped too. There’s a lot of wisdom in<br />
stopping.<br />
You know what? That flower was<br />
spectacular. I would have never seen it<br />
without her, because I was moving way<br />
too fast. But the wisdom of a preschooler<br />
slowed me down long enough to see the<br />
vibrant world around me.<br />
That summer she showed me all<br />
kinds of things I would have otherwise<br />
missed, animal-shaped clouds and fireflies<br />
and how to start a dance party any<br />
time you heard music, even if you were in<br />
a crowded store.<br />
That was ten years ago, and though<br />
I’m loving being a dad of teenagers, I’m<br />
feeling nostalgic for the summer we<br />
played in sprinklers.<br />
The Wisdom of Preschoolers<br />
I’m not just missing the cute little<br />
girl who’s grown up way too fast, but<br />
I’m missing having the wisdom of a preschooler<br />
in my life to teach me what matters<br />
most.<br />
Who else is going to remind me to<br />
slow down and be fully present in each<br />
There are two kinds of people in life: those who avoid<br />
sprinklers and those who run right through them.<br />
moment? Who else will teach me to live<br />
with a sense of awe and wonder for God’s<br />
amazing creation that surrounds me every<br />
day? Who else will show me how to<br />
live joyfully enough to run in sprinklers<br />
and dance for no reason at all?<br />
The wisdom of preschoolers is a precious<br />
gift. Guard it carefully and it may<br />
just change the way you walk no matter<br />
how old you are. •<br />
Photo credit: FamVeld / shutterstock.com<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 read more from<br />
Jason in his books Tales from the Leaf Pile and<br />
Holiday Road. You can catch up with Jason on<br />
his blog at www.jasonbyerly.com.
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