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In Every Issue 

7 | FLASHBACK 

Harvest Time, Corydon, IN, 1952 

9 | NOTE TO BABY BOOMERS 

Finding Joy in Simple Pleasures 

27 | REAL LIFE NUTRITION 

Older Adults: At Risk for Malnutrition 

29 | EVERYDAY ADVENTURES 

Pumpkin Paradise 



Flashback Photo 

Harvest Time 

Corydon, Indiana 

ca. 1952 

// Photo courtesy of the Frederick Porter Griffin Center, Harrison County Public Library 

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on Highway 62, operate a threshing machine in the summer of 1952. A team of two horses can be seen as well as a large 

truck. By 1952, threshing machines were not as common in Harrison County as they once were, but a few farmers 

continued to use them instead of the more modern combine. The machine in this picture was owned by Kenneth L. Brown, 

who along with Miller and others threshed approximately sixty acres of wheat on Miller’s farm. The acreage yielded 

1760 bushels for an average yield of 29.5 bushels per acre. Those helping Miller and Brown were Oscar Hauswald, Ray 

Hauswald, Roy Beard, Jimmie Miller, Ernest Miller, Charles Wright, Raymond Rhodes, and Walter Reimold.” 


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Finding Joy in Simple Pleasures 

A Note to Baby Boomers 

Our country is about to elect 

its president. I already 

have made up my mind. 

Like you have, I figure. 

We have our likes and dislikes, 

our hopes and fears. Then we will 

vote, and I will resume craving the 

next butter pecan custard day at 

Culver’s. 

Such is my life, my way, as I 

shuffle nearer its inevitable end. I 

see no reason to panic. Then again, 

I am overdue for a cataract exam. 

At least I see clearer than I 

hear. And what happened to food 

my stomach will stomach? Nothing 

works like it used to work. 

I want to accept old age. I want 

to fight old age. The struggle goes 

on and on. 

Changes in leadership do 

nothing to change if a loved one 

gets really sick or if my lawn tractor 

gets really busted. My forehead 

keeps receding, and the cable bill 

keeps increasing. The roof needed 

replacing. 

Does any candidate pledge 

shingles on every roof? 

Here is what I do know: It is 

way too late to be somebody or 

something I am not. I no longer 

pretend even on Halloween. I like 

me enough, at last, to like me like I 

should have all along. 

It matters to be friendly, to 

spend more time looking into people’s 

eyes than onto some screen. 

It matters to do more favors than 

owed. It matters to listen more than 

to talk. It matters not to obsess about 

mattering or simply being noticed. 

I could be annoyed at how young 

people look down on old people. 

My new plan is to be at peace 

with being old news. The goal is to 

stay in the sweet spot between busy 

and not-that-busy. Will I again play 

the trombone? Will I write my life 

story? Nobody stops me. I want to 

make new friends and not forget 

old ones. Why do I wait? 

I remain a regular contributor 

to the community good, though 

less so. If asked for more, I might 

do more. No one’s much asking, 

though. Batons are meant to be 

passed. 

Regrouping includes revisiting, 

in my case. 

Do not get in with a bad 

crowd. Like your parents, my parents 

warned. 

I was too nerdy to get into 

routine shenanigans, thank God. 

In college though, I lapsed. There it 

was, temptation assembled in what 

I foolishly assumed to be a study 

room. 

Fellow students hit pause on 

their higher education to catch up 

on “General Hospital” on TV. Why 

would the next generation of physicists 

and accountants succumb to 

such soapy silliness? 

Why not? 

A half-century ago, TV’s “General 

Hospital” took place primarily 

in General Hospital, pretty often in 

its cafeteria. People actually chose 

hospital food; proof alone this was 

a fantasy. 

Anyway, I confess. I have rekindled 

my illicit affair. The title is 

as dated as is its new/old fan. Little 

now happens in the hospital unless 

a character gets shot or stabbed by 

another character. 

Friends and lovers, or former 

friends and lovers, continue to 

drop in on one another to chat or to 

eavesdrop. They come and go inconveniently 

like they did in 1974, 

when only James Bond had a cell 

phone. 

I guess no one wins a Daytime 

Emmy for an email or text. 

Is that a waste of time? Is looking 

back all bad? Being thankful for 

the past is not like being stuck in it. 

I cried when Willie Mays died, remembering 

less his baseball heroics 

and more how much he meant to 

my Giants-loving father. I laughed 

telling friends how teenaged I — of 

all people — was chosen last minute 

to introduce a campaigning former 

Vice President Hubert Humphrey 

at the Green Tree Mall on a 

Saturday morning in 1972. 

These days tend to be good 

ones; work is no longer getting 

in the way. An old friend invited 

my wife and me to dinner. A new 

friend was worried when I cut short 

a gym workout. An old friend met 

me for lunch and for memories of 

a hometown changing quicker than 

we’d like. 

A new friend fired up his 

chainsaw and bailed my family out 

of a storm mess. 

A good day is when our 

granddaughters wear themselves 

out with handstands and cannonballs 

in our pool. A good day is updates 

from friends — our age twins 

— from California with whom we 

share loves for Giants baseball and 

for travel to games. 

Where’s our next reunion, 

Kansas City, Philadelphia? 

A good day is reaching the last 

50 pages of a book. Books are always 

more enjoyable to finish than 

to start. A good day is a bloodless 

shave. A good day is settling upon 

It matters to be friendly, to spend more time 

looking into people’s eyes than onto some 

screen. It matters to do more favors than owed. 

a new binge — usually food — my 

latest being Frosted Flakes. 

A good day is doing better at 

smiling at most everyone and saying 

hi. A good day is doing better at 

telling my wife that I love her. 

I need to get better at getting 

better. 

Some of you feel especially 

stoked about this election. You believe 

opponents to be enemies. You 

lose trust in common ground. You 

even may fear our precious democracy 

is at stake. 

Please do not mind if I occupy 

myself instead with sugary cereal 

and baseball scores, with meals 

with friends and with the hope that 

I did mostly good when I mostly 

could. 

Like if any president could rig 

the Culver’s custard schedule or 

convince soap opera stars to behave 

themselves. • 

After 25 years, Dale Moss 

retired as Indiana columnist 

for The Courier-Journal. He 

now writes weekly for the 

News and Tribune. Dale and 

his wife Jean live in Jeffersonville 

in a house that has been 

in his family since the Civil War. Dale’s e-mail 

is dale.moss@twc.com 


Out and About in So IN 

It might surprise you that Indiana 

is second in the entire country 

for ice cream production, 

and that the average American 

consumes approximately 20 

pounds of it each year. 

With that kind of demand, 

Sherri Nail, owner of Cave Country 

Canoes, decided to add a coffee 

and ice cream shop to her current 

business. The name she chose for it? 

Out of the Blue Coffee & Ice Cream, 

and boy, are you in for a treat. 

With her canoe business being 

located literally right along the 

banks of the Blue River in Milltown, 

and since there aren’t a whole lot of 

other things in this tiny Southern Indiana 

town, it does seem like an ice 

cream shop here is out of the blue. 

But Sherri isn’t the type to make 

decisions off the cuff or rush into 

things too quickly. She’ll tell you 

that before she does something, she 

thinks it through for a good while. 

That shows. 

When you walk into the ice 

cream shop, you’re greeted by its 

bright, cheery atmosphere and 

friendly staff — two of whom are 

Sherri’s own daughters. When the 

shop first opened, it had the capability 

to make one shake at a time. 

Now it can crank out three at a 

time. That comes in real handy on 

Saturdays when there are a couple 

thousand people there on an average 

weekend. The shop went from 

originally offering 16 flavors of ice 

cream to now giving 24 flavors to 

choose from. There are some of the 

traditional standbys like vanilla, 

butter pecan and mint chip, but 

there are lots of others with unique 

and catchy names. Sea Turtle is 

without a doubt one of the most 

popular flavors. Sherri jokingly 

said, “If Sea Turtle ever went away, 

there’d be a riot.” Another top seller 

is Jacked Up Tennessee Toffee, with 

an ever-so-slight taste of whiskey. 

The Dirty Polar Bear is also highly 

recommended. This is a little different 

concoction, made with a scoop 

of vanilla ice cream and a shot of 

espresso. The shop also offers hot 

and iced coffees, and the menus 

have changed up this year, with 

drinks like the S’mores Latte, Kentucky 

Cowboy and Oatmeal Cream 

Pie Latte. Sherri said, “Our Cookie 

Butter Coffee is very comforting. 

It’s like Thanksgiving in a cup.” She 

added, “We make a killer blackberry 

shake, too.” After you’ve been 

out on the river in a canoe or kayak 

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“Autumn Fire,” a watercolor by Cathy Hillegas // Photo by Cathy Hillegas 

for several hours, you may want 

something to eat that’s a little more 

than ice cream or coffee. With that 

in mind, Out of the Blue now offers 

wraps and other sandwiches, 

including breakfast sandwiches. 

The selections vary from day to day 

but may be something like chicken 

salad or the all-time favorite peanut 

butter and jelly. Cinnamon rolls are 

usually always on hand. 

When deciding on which 

brands of ice cream to carry in the 

store, Sherri and her crew traveled 

hundreds of miles and tasted what 

A Sweet Surprise 

Cave Country Canoe’s Ice Cream & Coffee are Out of the Blue 

Story and Photos by Michele Hardman 

seemed like hundreds of different 

ice creams before settling on two 

— Ashby’s and Kiki’s. Both have a 

high cream content, which is what 

makes them taste so amazing. Kiki’s 

was chosen in part because of 

its quality selection of allergen-conscious 

varieties, like non-dairy and 

gluten-free. 

Sunday seems to be the day 

many of the locals come by. “It’s so 

fun to see all of them sit out here 

after church,” Sherri said. “It’s not 

just canoes anymore … it’s become 

a gathering spot.” And that makes

her very happy. There’s a bar and 

tall chairs to sit and enjoy your treats 

inside, along with the gorgeous 

handmade wood and resin table that 

Sherri’s husband, Derek, made. But 

you can also find several seats outside 

on the new deck, complete with 

colorful umbrellas and a long bench 

where you can be near the river and 

watch all the activity here. 

The gift shop is next door, filled 

with all sorts of waterproof bags for 

your cell phone and other belongings 

that you take with you on the 

river, along with T-shirts and other 

practical items. 

Most of the employees here 

are area teens that Sherri enjoys 

mentoring. Any of them who work 

two seasons get to go on a trip as a 

thank you. Sixteen of them recently 

returned from whitewater rafting in 

West Virginia, and Sherri also gives 

two $250 scholarships out each year. 

Jim Book, Owner 

There’s a bar and tall chairs to sit and enjoy your treats inside, along with 

the gorgeous handmade wood and resin table that Sherri’s husband, 

Derek, made. But you can also find several seats outside on the new deck, 

complete with colorful umbrellas and a long bench where you can be near 

the river and watch all the activity here. 

. 

Pictured: (top) Zuri Beaty (in front) and Allison Bary and manager Summer Buechele (back row); (bottom) Out of the Blue offers many flavors of ice cream. 


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Artists of So IN 

Celebrating the Past and Embracing the Future 

Behind the scenes with Orleans artist Alana Judah 

Overlooking the historic 

Congress Square in Orleans 

in Orange County, 

Alana Judah’s Art Studio 

and Gallery showcases an arrangement 

of more than 300 of the artist’s 

paintings. Many of her artworks 

tell the stories of the town and surrounding 

countryside. 

As the “Dogwood Capital 

of Indiana,” Orleans hosts a Dogwood 

Festival each spring. “I have 

been painting dogwood trees and 

blossoms since I was 13 years old,” 

Judah said. 

Her paintings of the dogwood 

trees in Congress Square, with its 

iconic fountain and sculpture, are 

often used to publicize the event. 

Judah was born, raised and 


still lives in Orleans. “The beautiful 

landscapes that I see every day and 

the people around me have influenced 

much of my work,” she said. 

As a native, she knows the stories. 

Her painting “Add and Mabel” 

depicts two of Orange County’s 

most widely known and celebrated 

historical figures, Add and Mabel 

Gray. In 1922, they opened the 

Pumpkin Center General Store (aka 

Punkin Center) on backroads east 

of Paoli. The store evolved into a 

museum because of their collection 

of curiosities and antiques, which 

drew in tourists from well beyond 

Orange County. A documentary 

was produced about the Punkin 

Center in the early 1980s. After Add 

died in 1988, Mabel continued to 

Story by Judy Cato // Photos by Lorraine Hughes 

operate the store and museum until 

2006. 

“I painted their portraits after 

Mabel died in 2012, using a 

photograph as a reference,” Judah 

said. “Their store was loaded with 

unique signage, which I chose to 

use as the background for my painting. 

Many people around here have 

treasured memories of their store as 

a hub of the community.” 

Another Orange County legend 

is the subject of Judah’s painting 

“Davey.” This painting depicts 

Davey Burns, who died in 

2001 at the age of 83. “Davey was 

well known as a World War II veteran 

and beloved eccentric who regularly 

rode his bicycle from his home 

in Livonia to Paoli, carrying his

little dog Cricket — wearing bicycle 

glasses — in the bike’s basket,” 

Judah explained. Judah’s original 

portrait of Davey was purchased 

by Porky’s BBQ of Paoli, where it is 

still on display. In the background 

of the painting, Davey’s bicycle, as 

well as Cricket in his glasses, can be 

identified. 

The country roads of Orange 

County are the inspiration for 

many of Judah’s landscape paintings. 

Her work “Good Morning, Indiana” 

represents a scene near her 

home just outside of Orleans. “As 

I drive the roads around my home, 

there are many times, as I top a hill, 

I see a beautiful farm,” Judah said. 

“There may be a silo, a windmill, 

hay bales or farm animals grazing 

against the backdrop of the rising 

sun. The scenes are breathtaking. 

That is the feeling I want to share in 

this landscape.” 

In 2022, Judah’s painting “Frida 

and Dani” was chosen for display 

at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis 

in the office of Secretary 

of State Kathy Mitchell. The work 

was chosen for this recognition by 

Hoosier Women Artists. The work 

depicts Mexican artist Frida Kahlo 

with Judah’s chihuahua, Dani. Judah 

explained the impetus behind 

the painting. 

“Kahlo’s life story gives me 

encouragement. She was resilient 

in overcoming adversity. She was 

strong enough to live life on her 

own terms.” 

The bold, vibrant colors Judah 

used in the painting celebrate 

Kahlo’s own dramatic colors, both 

in her paintings and in her clothes. 

“I am drawn to Kahlo’s bright 

colors,” Judah said. “Her self-portraits 

often included one or more of 

her many pets, so I decided to include 

one of my pets in the painting.” 

Judah has been creating art 

since she was a small child. 

“My parents could not keep 

enough art supplies in the house 

because I went through them so 

fast,” she said. “My father also was 

an ardent maker of things. There 

is a miniature motorcycle he made 

out of wood and wire on display 

in my gallery. He made it while he 

waited to milk the cows.” 

At the age of 12 or 13, she took 

painting lessons from Marilyn Morgan 

in Orleans. She later took lessons 

from the late Jane Grider, who 

was a well-known artist and art 

The country 

roads of Orange 

County are the 

inspiration for 

many of Judah’s 

landscape 

paintings. Her 

work “Good 

Morning, Indiana” 

represents a 

scene near her 

home just outside 

of Orleans. 



“I am very passionate about teaching painting to young students. My 

students love being here, making art, and I want them to learn 

that it is possible to make a living doing what one loves.” 

teacher in Paoli. 

Although Judah never really 

stopped making art, she did have 

a day job as project coordinator 

in the Engineering Department 

of Cook Polymer Technology for 

many years. In 2017, she and her 

husband, 

Matt Judah, figured out a plan 

for her to pursue art full time and 

open her studio and gallery. Painting 

classes, painting parties and 

making custom portraits are part of 

her business model. 

“I am very passionate about 

teaching painting to young students,” 

Judah said. “My students 

love being here, making art, and I 

want them to learn that it is possible 

to make a living doing what 

one loves.” 

One of her students, 7-yearold 

Ben Kidd, recently sold a painting 

for $100. 

Although Judah is firmly 

rooted in the past traditions and 

history of Orleans, she readily embraces 

the future. Her studio is located 

in a historic building, once 

Shirley Bros. Hardware, which was 

partially destroyed by fire in 1914. 

Newspaper clippings about that 

fire are posted on the wall of the 

gallery as a way of honoring the 

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“I am very happy to be in this 

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past,” Judah said. 

But she also wants to stay on 

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innovations. She recently 

completed a series of artworks 

making use of AI. “I wanted to try 

it out,” she said. “I decided to create 

a series of traditional still-lifes 

with an edgy twist. I typed in the 

details of what I wanted, received 

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One of the images from this 

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budding young artists, then it is my 

duty to know what is available and 

how it works.” • 

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Pictured: (top) 

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by Alana Judah; 

(bottom) Double-stemmed 

Sunburnt 

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RD, LD is a clinical dietitian 

at Baptist Health 

Floyd in New Albany, 

Indiana. 


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Indiana Authors Day at The Depot Railroad Museum 

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Indiana Authors Awards, will be a great opportunity to hear from some 

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September 20 and 21 

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October 26th | 11AM | Beck’s Mill 

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October 6th | 6PM | John Hay Center 

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Everyday Adventures 

Pumpkin Paradise 

W 

hen my kids were little, 

every fall we drove into 

the country to visit our 

local pumpkin patch. We 

had several to choose from but usually 

picked the one closest to home because 

traveling with preschoolers is complicated. 

We had to get everyone up, fed, 

dressed and out the door, which could 

take most of the morning on a bad day. 

To make matters worse, we usually 

ended up going on the hottest day of 

the season. It doesn’t take much heat 

to melt a preschooler, so we tried to get 

an early start. And, of course, hot days 

meant sunscreen, which added another 

20 minutes of chaos before we could finally 

make it to the car. 

Oh, but wait, did we pack snacks? 

How about water bottles? You can’t 

drag kids around a sunny field without 

food and water. What about their 

orange shirts? You have to have orange 

shirts to get a cute picture. For goodness 

sake, what in the world did we do with 

the orange shirts? Has anyone seen the 

orange shirts? 

You get the idea. It was an act of 

Congress just to get on the road, and 

that was just the beginning. Going to 

the country meant winding roads and 

hills. That translated into carsick kids. 

I had to drive at a snail’s pace just to 

avoid the consequences. Trust me, you 

do not want to roll into a hot pumpkin 

patch with two nauseous preschoolers. 

Now you understand why we chose the 

one closest to home. 

Despite the hectic preparations, 

once we actually made it to the pumpkin 

patch, we always had a blast. However, 

it seemed like each year the crowds 

grew larger and the pumpkins got more 

expensive. It wasn’t exactly the simple, 

let’s-drive-to-a-farm-and-pick-pumpkins 

experience we’d had in mind. 

Then, one day it happened! We 

stumbled onto the cozy roadside pumpkin 

stand! My wife and I were just out 

for a relaxing drive one morning, minding 

our own business, when we spotted 

it perched at the edge of a farm. It was a 

huge black wagon parked at the end of 

a long driveway covered in pumpkins. 

I slammed on the brakes and 

pulled in beside it. I couldn’t believe 

my eyes. We were only 10 minutes from 

home, and this place was a harvest 

wonderland. The wagon had a bazillion 

pumpkins on it, all priced dirt cheap. 

They even had a bucket on the ground 

that let you pay on the honor system. 

No crowds, no lines, no scorching 

heat. Just the comfortable shade of 

a tree-lined driveway and a beautiful 

field beyond it. 

My wife and I couldn’t believe our 

eyes. This was perfect. It was quaint, picturesque 

and peaceful, and did I mention 

just 10 minutes from our house? 

So, needless to say, we went home and 

soon returned with our girls. It was so 

fun and so easy. We were definitely going 

to make this roadside stand our new 

annual tradition. 

We came back the next year and 

the next, and then tragedy struck. After 

that, the wagon disappeared. Someone 

told us that the owners of the farm had 

just grown the pumpkins as a 4-H project 

when their kids were young but then 

gave it up. 

To this day, though, I’m still holding 

out hope. Every year as October approaches, 

I drive down that road by the 

farm, just on the off chance that I might 

find that cozy roadside stand once 

again. 

Over the years we visited several 

different orchards and pumpkin patches 

and had a great time, but there was 

something special about that wagon 

and the memories we made there. 

It makes me think of what David 

wrote in the 23rd Psalm: “He makes 

me lie down in green pastures, he leads 

me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my 

soul” (Psalm 23:2-3 NIV). 

In a world as hectic as ours, you 

can’t overestimate the value of green 

pastures and quiet waters to renew 

your soul. Sometimes it’s literally a 

I slammed on the 

brakes and pulled in 

beside it. I couldn’t 

believe my eyes. 

We were only 10 

minutes from home, 

and this place was a 

harvest wonderland. 

The wagon had a 

bazillion pumpkins 

on it, all priced dirt 

cheap. 

place of natural beauty and stillness like 

our roadside stand, and other times it 

may just be a quiet moment we carve 

out in our living room before the kids 

wake up or five minutes we take in our 

car to pray before we go into work. 

Whatever it looks like for you and 

wherever you can find this week, make 

time for some green pastures. Look for 

the unexpected quiet places, and don’t 

be surprised if the God who created you 

and loves you meets you there. Life will 

always be busy, but making space for 

green pastures, that’s up to you.• 

Photo credit: Kyle Drobny / shutterstock.com. 

Jason Byerly is a writer, pastor, husband and 

dad who loves the quirky surprises God 

sends his way every day. You can read more 

from Jason in his books Tales from the Leaf Pile 

and Holiday Road. You can catch up with Jason 

on his blog at www.jasonbyerly.com. 


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