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Correction
In last issue’ s article regarding the new IU Health facility, the provider of paintings on display there was misidentified. The art is from the Hoosier Masters Collection presented by Indiana Heritage Arts.
Jeff Tryon is a former news editor of The Brown County Democrat, and a former regional 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.
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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.
Contents
13 COLORING CONTEST 14 HISTORY MYSTERY 15 SUBSCRIBE
16 Music Center Turns 5 ~ by Chrissy Alspaugh
24 Eagle Manufacturing ~ by Bob Gustin
30 Brown County Seasons ~ by Mark Blackwell
38-39 Photos by Geoff Thompson * 40-43 CALENDAR- EVENTS
46 Carolyn Dutton ~ by Boris Ladwig
50 Fourth Friday Art Walk ~ by Amy Huffman Oliver
56 Artist Thom Robinson ~ by Rachel Berenson Perry
60 Back Roads Studio Tour ~ by Paige Langenderfer
62 Rock & Mineral Show ~ by Rhonda Dunn
66 Sampler at Olde Bartley House 72-74 INFO PAGES
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.
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. He gives studio tours, builds small looms, and expands his book and record collections.
Chrissy Alspaugh is a freelance writer and photographer. View her work at < ChristinaAlspaughPhotography. com >. She lives in Bartholomew County with her husband Matt and three boys.
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.
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.
Boris Ladwig is a Columbusbased journalist who has worked in print, online and TV media in Indiana and Kentucky and has won awards for features, news, business, non-deadline news, First Amendment / community affairs and investigative reporting.
Amy Huffman Oliver has lived in and around Brown County most of her life and raised two kids here with her husband, Jim. She grew up with“ newspaper in her blood” by way of her parents, Jane and Stu Huffman, who were both journalists. She writes as a freelancer after working most of her career as an attorney and a seventh-grade teacher.
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.
Rhonda Dunn is a volunteer archivist for the Brown County Historical Society. She writes historical accounts in Brown County Journal, shared with members and others who promote our county. She is an avid rockhound of the Brown County Rock & Mineral Club.
* Geoff Thompson is a founding member of the Brown County Inn“ Foggy Geezers” bartenders. Originally from London, England, he has resided in Brown County for more than 20 years.
Cover: FallFare 2023 volunteers Donna Ormiston & Janis Shaffer ~ by Cindy Steele
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