Contents
Contributors
Contents
12 HISTORY MYSTERY 13 SUBSCRIBE
16 Community Closet ~ by Chrissy Alspaugh
26 Rick Wilson ~ by Rachel Berenson Perry
32 Musings: The Cowboy Creed ~ by Mark Blackwell
34-35 Photos by Anne Ryan Miller * 36-37 CALENDAR
38 Blue October ~ by Ryan Stacy
40 House of the Singing Winds ~ by Julia Pearson
44 The Nashville Chop House ~ by the Sampler
48 Casey Winningham ~ by Bob Gustin
52 Field Notes: Land Ethic ~ by Jim Eagleman
58 Brown County Antique Mall ~ by Paige Langenderfer
64-66 INFO PAGES
Cover: Community Closet Joyce Snyder and Sally Sanders ~ by Chrissy Alspaugh
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Jeff Tryon is a former news editor of The Brown County Democrat, and a former region reporter for The Republic. Born and raised in Brown County, he currently lives with his wife, Sue, in a log cabin on the edge of Brown County State Park. He is a
Baptist minister.
Joe Lee is an illustrator and writer. He is the author of Forgiveness: The Eva Kor Story, The History of Clowns for Beginners, and Dante for Beginners. He is an editorial cartoonist for the Bloomington Herald Times, a graduate of Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and a veteran circus performer.
Jim Eagleman is a 40-year veteran naturalist with the IN DNR. In retirement, he is now a consultant. His program“ Nature Ramblings” can be heard on WFHB radio, the Brown County Hour. He serves on the Sycamore Land Trust board. He enjoys reading, hiking, music, and birding. Jim and his wife Kay have lived here for more than 40 years.
Contributors
Chrissy Alspaugh is a freelance writer and owner of Christina Alspaugh Photography. View her work at < ChristinaAlspaughPhotography. com >. She lives in Bartholomew County with her husband Matt and three boys.
Cindy Steele is the publisher and editor of this magazine. She sells and designs ads, sometimes writes, takes photos, and creates the layout. For fun, she likes to play the guitar or banjo and sing.
Ryan Stacy and his wife recently moved to Pennsylvania and continues to stay connected with our Brown County. He appreciates good movies, good food, and enjoys cultural events. His other interests include reading, photography, and playing music.
Mark Blackwell no longer makes his home in Brown County where“ the roadway is rough and the slopes are seamed with ravines” He now resides within sight of the sixth green of an undisclosed golf course. He was born in the middle of the last century and still spends considerable time there.
Julia Pearson wrote for a Franciscan magazine for ten years and served as its human interest editor. She now resides in Lake Woebegone Country for life’ s continuing adventures. Julia enjoys traveling and visiting museums of all types and sizes, with her children and grandchildren.
Thanks, Mom, for making it happen!
Paige Langenderfer is a freelance writer and consultant. She earned her bachelor’ s degree in journalism from Indiana University and her master’ s degree in public relations management from IUPUI. Paige lives in Columbus with her husband and daughters.
Bob Gustin worked as a reporter, photographer, managing editor, and editor for daily newspapers in Colorado, Nebraska, and Indiana before retiring in 2011. He and his wife, Chris, operate Homestead Weaving Studio. She does the weaving while he gives studio tours, builds small looms, and expands his book and record collections.
Rachel Berenson Perry is fine arts curator emerita at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. She lives in Brown County, where she hikes in the woods, makes ceramic creatures, and writes books about Indiana artists.
* Anne Ryan Miller, lives and works in Brown County. Her studio is located on the historic artist home and studio of Dale Bessire. She is known for her stained glass landscape creations, inspired by her many photographs and memories of the forests and hills of Brown County. View her work at < anneryanmillerglassstudio. com >.
10 Our Brown County March / April 2023