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Tales from the Past
ONYA LATOUR
Imagine not having a phone! Or a car! That was the predicament Onya LaTour found herself in while sick and needing a doctor back in the 1940s.
Onya was an art enthusiast back in the mid-1900s who collected abstract art that she was enchanted and inspired by during time spent in Europe and New York City. She even had some Jackson Pollock’ s in her collection.
After her time in New York she returned to the state she was born in, settling in these hills
and hollers. In Brown County then, much as now, abstract art was not popular. But Onya was not deterred and set up her own art gallery and museum of
contemporary art several miles south of the town of Nashville.
Later in her life Onya had a house built closer to town she called“ Spellbound House”( which Onya probably helped build) that sat east of Nashville on a hill overlooking the home of another artist, Charles Barnes. When Onya found herself sick and without wheels or a means of communication, her creative mind went to work on how to get help. She came up with an innovative solution. Onya wrapped herself in a
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