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gave me the understanding of wellness and heritage tourism, it is the Ph. D. in Community Education and my involvement with places like New Harmony and the Northern Indiana Heritage trail that have led to my desire to facilitate community efforts for historical and natural preservation,” Ruth states.
She can tease strands of“ progress” apart, liking some aspects of a plan, but not others. The recent debate over just what direction the town should take to become a state-designated“ Stellar” community is one example. Speaking of The Brown County Playhouse, she notes:“ When we came, there was a tent, a stage, and chairs. It was just summer theater. The current Playhouse is the kind of change I want to live with, but not the change of the historic front. Leave the old buildings and the landscaping alone.”
Ruth adds,“ Some people have no feeling for the old Brown County …. But we do have some old timers who are waking up.” Many historic structures in the town of Nashville are already gone, but more than 70 remain.
With the help of IU graduate students, the League sponsored an inventory of Brown County resources that has recently been turned into a free e-book < www. smashwords. com / books / view / 473734 > by local publisher Dan Snow.
As a former president of the Brown County’ s League of Women Voters, she was a significant leader in the“ Vision 2020” endeavor and the community conversations about wellness that evolved from it. Now she is involved in a newly forming group, Peaceful Valley Heritage, with a distinctly historic and artistic vision for the town and county.
Ruth says she would like to see the corridor between Columbus and Bloomington— now promoted by the visitors bureaus as Arts Road 46— become Heritage Trail 46.“ It could take in nature, food, and entertainment. It wouldn’ t just be art. Each place on the trail tells a story.”
You can e-mail Ruth < reichman @ indiana. edu > to learn more about her vision. •
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