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I was probably the only kid in my elementary, middle and high school classes who was excited to get a summer reading list. On those last days of the school year, the season to come seemed like a vast chasm of forced fun. The summer meant day camp at the rec center, a great time for some to be sure, but for a sedentary introvert, it meant running around in the humid afternoons with kids who no doubt would comment on my athletic prowess (or decided lack thereof).

Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t a complete misfit with no friends at these day camps. I had plenty of folks to catch up with each summer, but there was still the edginess, the feeling that something was missing. That element was the monitored learning, the days spent at a school desk, learning school stuff. For most other kids, academics simply vaporized come June. The written word was no longer relevant to their lives.

That was not the case for me. I carried a book along wherever I went, and summer came

to be closely tied with books and reading. When forced fun at the day camp broke for lunch, out came a book. During a summer at an arts camp in Michigan, I brought books along to mixers. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t like the other kids as that I wanted to be immersed in another place.

Even if I was headed to a different place in real time, the books came along. Late summers often featured a road trip, with my father behind the wheel of whatever compact car we had, heading down or up whatever interstate would take us to where my parents wanted to go. From the back seat, I fought off touches of motion sickness brought on by the glare bouncing off the white pages of my book, which would be the latest installment of the Babysitters Club series or a young adult book involving a cat and/or the supernatural. From the front seat, my parents fought off the frustration of having a kid who wouldn’t look out the car windows to see the scenic views we were hurtling past.

At some point, I grew out of the obsessive reading, or maybe the reading just changed form. After all, I read every

day for my job. Or maybe this dramatic drop in my book consump-tion is due to the advent of the internet or smartphones or maybe it’s a sincere interest in forming human relationships. No matter how much my read-ing habits change, though, summer is still tied to books. As I write this note, on a sublime day that features the 80-degree weather I now love and blue skies filled with cotton-ball fluffy clouds, I’m sitting inside and compiling a reading list.

Summer reading is one of the reasons why I was so happy to sit down with the Strohs. They’re a family who love books even more than I do, and they will be taking ownership of Viewpoint Books. Having purchased the Washington Street shop from Susan and Terry Whittaker (who have some ad-ventures of their own planned), Beth Stroh will take over the day-to-day operations on July 1. In my mind, it’s no coinci-dence that this day is nestled deep in summertime, and I hope that you’ll take at least one of these precious summer days and head in to Viewpoint to craft your own summer reading list.

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no matter what the weather yields, this summer is guaranteed to be one of the wettest on record, thanks to the inaugural Columbus Craft Beerfest, scheduled for aug. 27.

the concept was born when elaine Wagner went to her first beerfest in Cincinnati. thrilled by the tastes and sounds, and realizing for the first time how deli-cious beer can be, she returned to her hometown with a plan: to introduce a beerfest to a Columbus audi-ence. “I’d been wanting to do a beerfest for years, but you can’t just throw an ‘elaine Wagner runs a beerfest’ kind of thing,” she says. Support came after Wagner presented the beerfest concept at the annual ide-a-sharing competition, Ignite Columbus. She needed practice in public speaking before her successful campaign for City Council. She got that practice, along with offers of help from folks who were eager to bring the beerfest concept to fruition.

Unlike Wagner, travis Perry, who came to the Columbus Craft Beerfest board through the Columbus rugby Club, says he has loved beer since before he legally should have been imbibing. Despite being a buddy of the brew, he’d never been to a beerfest. the Columbus Craft Beerfest board volunteered for Zwan-zigz, one of the event sponsors, at Indianapolis’ winter beerfest. Perry got a taste for the friendly atmosphere these events offer.

“It was a really good vibe with the people there,” he says. “there’s a vibe at some things you go to, and it’s just a really good feeling, that everybody else is there

When: 3 p.m. aug. 27Where: Mill race Park

tickets: $50 VIP, $30 general admission, $10 for designated drivers

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Beerfestfor the same reason. there was no fighting. everybody is there to have a good time.”

Columbus Craft Beerfest will feature 50 breweries from all points in Indiana (including Bartholomew County’s heavy hitters, Zwanzigz, 450 north and Powerhouse), all serving their signature brews. Booths will circle the lake at Mill race Park, with pouring beginning promptly at 2 p.m. for VIP attendees and 3 p.m. for general admission patrons. each attendee will get a souvenir cup and 4-ounce unlimited pulls. or-ganizers expect 3,000 to 4,000 people, and proceeds will go to participating brewers and the Columbus Park Foundation, with funds earmarked to benefit Mill race Park specifically.

Part of the day, Wagner says, will be about show-casing Columbus for a crowd that may not have visited before, all ready to sip beer, listen to live music, eat food and, perhaps most important of all, brew up a good atmosphere.

“everyone’s just happy and having a good time and being social,” Wagner says. “You don’t see people much on their phones. You see people inter-acting. Beerfests have a different energy than other events.”

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In a city of family friendly entertainment ideas, Donner aquatic Center still rules. according to the center’s figures, a total of 27,653 people attended public sessions last year. “It’s still a big social thing,” says Jim Lemke, Donner Park aquatic manager. “the junior high kids definitely come to hang out with their friends. and it’s also still a great place for the parents to hang out with the kids.”

the pool’s special features include a basketball goal, an 11-foot diving well with two 1-meter diving boards and a 20-foot-high water slide stretching 160 feet. there’s also a zero-depth, low-water-level area for the youngest visitors and a leisure pool with a play structure and fountains. —brian blair

After much planning, Land-mark Columbus organizers are ready to launch the group’s signature event: Exhibit Columbus. Landmark Columbus, a program of the Heritage Fund, is a local group working with the mission of caring for and cel-ebrating the design heritage of the city.

“Landmark Columbus seeks to keep the same spirit of innovation in architecture, art, design and community alive through a multiyear initiative called Exhibit Columbus, which is designed to recapture excitement

about the city and show the world the futures of design, fabrication and design education,” says Richard McCoy, Landmark Columbus director.

Exhibit Columbus will begin in the fall with a sym-posium held in the downtown area. Titled “Foundations and Futures,” the three-day symposium, set for Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1, will feature presentations by architects Deborah Berke and Robert A.M. Stern; Will Miller; former owner of The

Republic, Jeff Brown; and landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. The sym-posium will include a gallery exhibition featuring the 10 designers competing in the Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Competition, to be held at the Indiana University Center for Art and Design, as well pre-sentations at First Christian Church.

The symposium serves as a preview for the 2017

event of Exhibit Columbus. The second compo-nent is a collec-tion of mostly temporary installations, to be designed by established architects, artists and designers who hail from all around the country. In January five

designers will receive the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and the opportunity to build an installation in response to an iconic site on Fifth Street. From August to November 2017, the inaugural Exhibit Columbus event will open. In all, the exhibition will result in more than 15 temporary installations, plus accompany-ing programming.

“Architecture and design have tremendous impact on how we live,” McCoy says. “From the buildings we enter every day to the chairs we sit on, to the public spaces we enjoy, it gives expression to our identity and opens the door to daily inspiration. We are not creating a luxury, but rather we are creating examples of how to elevate the physical and social environment, because we believe this raises the bar for everything else, especially citizens’ expectations of themselves.”

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this summer, the Mill race theatre Company will present “oliver.” It’s the story of the boy who wanted more and, after a series of madcap adventures, eventually gets just what he’s looking for. the produc-tion will feature more than 120 participants ranging in age from 5 to, as the company members affectionately say, “older than dirt.”

the production has 85 school-age players participating and is directed by Julie hult, who is assisted by her sister, Dana Calfee, both of whom are longtime members of the Mill race theatre Company.

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bookNookRecommendations from Viewpoint Books

‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ by carlo rovelli

For many, the word “physics” in a book title is an immediate signal to stop reading or, perhaps, never start reading the tome in the first place. this book, however, is written for those who know noth-ing about science, is only 81 pages and explains some of the most complex theories of physics in words anyone can understand. It seems that anyone interested in the complex architecture of our universe should have at least a minimal understanding of general relativity, quantum mechanics, particle physics, black holes, gravity and more. Rovelli writes, “Here on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world, and it is breathtaking.”

‘The Nest’ by cynthia d’aPrix sWeeney

this debut novel was chosen as the no. 1 recommended book for april by independent booksellers across the country, and View-

point books employees second that opinion. the story of the dysfunctional Plumb siblings all waiting for a promised inheri-

tance, “the nest,” which is interrupted by an unfortunate acci-dent, was a story that you hope will never end.



‘Girl Waits with Gun’ by amy steWart

based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s first fe-male deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold.

She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family se-

cret sent her and her sisters into hiding 15 years earlier. one day a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets and

threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the men, Constance is forced

to confront her past and defend her family, and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared.

‘Go Set a Watchman’ by harPer lee

Harper Lee’s landmark new novel, released posthumously and now available in paperback, is set two decades after her beloved Pulit-zer Prize-winning masterpiece, “to Kill a Mockingbird.” We return to Maycomb, alabama. twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise “Finch” Scout returns home from new York City to visit her aging father, atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from “to Kill a Mockingbird,” “Go Set a Watchman” per-fectly captures a young woman and a world in painful yet neces-sary transition out of the illusions of the past on a journey that can only be guided by one’s own conscience.


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No less a source than Zooey Deschanel says, and we quote, “Nothing’s better than a picnic.” In fact, it seems that plenty of celebs, from Dolly Parton to Kate Winslet and even the lovely Kim Kardashian adore a good picnic. (Although, Kardashian would like you to note, she wants to have her picnic feast set up in bed.)

When you get down to brass tacks, all you really need for a picnic is some food, something to sit on and something to carry your food in. That, our dear friends, is your most basic picnic experience. But you know those celebrities aren’t keeping it that simple, and neither should you. Dining in the great outdoors should be fun and easy, but it should also have hints of the luxury that you find in indoor dining. Here are some ways to up your picnic game and elevate your experience when you dine in the way, way out there.

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Whether you’re seeking different food or drinks or both, flights offer a way to try bits of a new dish or experience a variety of flavors. You can consider them an entry into an en-trée you’ll really dig.

“Flights are an inexpensive way to try lots of things,” says Joshua Ratliff, Columbus-based som-melier and hospitality expert. “They also give you the opportunity to be a connoisseur, because the tastings give you the chance to decide if you prefer one item over the other.”

Flights are also an option when you just can’t commit to one flavor. Kurt Schwarze of 4th Street Bar & Grill knows that sometimes his customers struggle when faced with several great choices. That’s why he offers three types of flights, including a beer flight and two appetizer samplers. “The beer flights are great for someone who is shy with new or strong beer and does not want to commit to a full pint,” he says. The beer flights include four flavors of six ounces each.

“We have some customers who just like to drink flights for the variety,” Schwarze says.

Around the corner at 410 Washington St., The Savory Swine serves several salad options in the deli that are great for creating your own customized food flight. These include couscous salad, three-bean salad and fruit salad. “The salads range in taste from savory to sweet and allow you to build what

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serving the three-bean salad with tortilla chips or adding the couscous salad atop crack-ers for a pop of vinegar and basil, as you would bruschetta.

If you are in the mood to explore, Johnny Carino’s Italian hosts a wine tasting and five-course food pairing the fourth Tuesday of every month. “The wine tastings are a great way to try five wines and five dif-ferent courses here at the restaurant for a reasonable price,” says Michael Stroh, Johnny Carino’s assistant general manager. “It is a great marriage between food and wine. You get to try things you might not normally try and find out if you like them.”

The wine pairings explore red and white varietals. The five food pairings are a chance to try dishes not typically on the menu; the food is served small-plate style.

Small plate, or tapas-style, offerings are a trend many restaurants are focusing on, Stroh says. This format is popular in Europe, where patrons often sit down to small portions of several choices.

“The multiple choices allow for people to get a variety of food and flavors and not commit to a full dish,” he says. The restau-rant also offers mini dessert flights.

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Although we had a weird springtime cold snap, the forecast for the rest of June, July and August can be summed up in one word: hot. We all start searching for ways to beat the heat; one of the most popular is something cold in our bellies. Along those lines, ice cream is dandy, but sometimes we want something

a little lighter. Here are some options:

the flip flop ice Pops co. is heading into its second sea-son at the columbus downtown farmers Market. You’ll find the dessert cart at the market on Brown and fifth streets every saturday through sept. 19. the company was started by Nichole and derek Young, who were inspired by a similar dessert business they spied while on vacation. the elder Youngs enlisted their two elementary school-age daughters, got themselves to a commercial kitchen and began crafting their own flavor combos, including a mango-habanero pop and a sweet corn and blackberry ice pop. “we wanted to update the iconic fro-zen treat by putting an unexpected spin on something familiar,” says Nichole. they committed to using fresh, seasonal fruits and cane sugar, not corn syrup. if their less traditional ice pop flavors are out of your comfort zone, you can pick up a classic strawberry or pink lemonade; the ice pops sell for $3 each or two for $5.

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open once again, this walk-up stand will serve shaved ice desserts until Bartholomew consolidated schools go on fall break. Now in his 19th year of sno Biz own-ership, Mike Mccory says his flavored ice dessert veers from the traditional sno cone. the difference comes in the way the ice is prepared. it’s shaved with a thin blade in a practice started in the hawaiian islands.

“the old-fashioned sno cone is sort of crunchy,” Mc-cory said. “the shaved ice has a smoother texture. it just sort of melts in your mouth.” the stand boasts roughly 60 flavors; patrons can mix up to three flavors to create their own icy melange, such as the watermelon mojito, which has a lime base paired with red raspberry and spearmint. add-ons include a super tart topping that transforms any iced treat into a sour concoction and a creamy topping that’s like condensed milk.

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columbus’ original self-serve frozen yogurt shop has a family friendly atmo-sphere right off the People trail on the west side of town. Mike and Beth Miller started serving their frozen delights nearly four years ago. they offer 16 flavors and more than 50 toppings and sauces. it’s easy to get creative with the flavors and build your own cup full of sweetness. Yo MaMa also offers smoothies, frappes and french press coffee. “the smoothies are perfect after a run or walk on the nearby People trails,” Beth says.

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this franchise location of the popular frozen yogurt chain opened in 2015 in the commons across from the luckey climber. the self-serve shop features a frozen yogurt bar with about a dozen flavors listed on the orange leaf website’s current menu, including birthday cake, brownie batter, banana and coconut. add a technical component to your froyo experience with the My orange leaf app, available for iPhones and android smartphones. once downloaded, the app can show you what’s on tap at orange leaf the day you visit.

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As spring and summer arrive, most of us can’t wait to get outside and soak up some sunshine. Joe Willy’s Burger Bar, 1034 Washington St., offers the perfect opportunity for casual dining while taking in the Indiana summer. Joe Carman, owner, has decked out the patio with plenty of sun-blocking umbrellas. He’s adorned the fence with flowers and greenery, creating a homey vibe worthy of sitting, sipping, chatting and dining. “Locals can bring dogs and ride bikes and walk down,” Carman says. “It’s a place where our community gets together.” He adds, “It’s the outside version of ‘Cheers’ for Columbus.” for information and hours, visit joewillysburgers.com.

With summer in mind, Cork Liquors’ Matthew Gordon offers a casual white wine, namely Vinho Verde from Broadbent, a wine company with deep ties in Portugal, where Vinho Verde grapes are grown and the wine is bottled. These green grapes are grown in acid-rich, granite-based soils, yielding a wine with a trademark fizz that’s “perfect for outside sipping and socializing,” Gordon says. “It’s unique on the wine spectrum and not well-known. It pairs well with hors d’oeuvres or is great for bringing to a friend’s place and opening right away.” You can find Vinho Verde for $9.99 in the wine room of the Cork. visit corkliquor.com for more information.


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Las Mangonadas Ice Cream offers a plethora of desserts, including one that lies somewhere between a sundae and a parfait, with a hint of savory mixed in. So popular is the dessert that the newish shop, which you’ll find at 1456 Central Ave., named itself for this special offering. But what, if you order a mangonada, are you getting? A mangonada is mango ice cream blended with fresh mango chunks and then topped with Chamoy sauce (a savory condiment popular in Mexican cuisine), a tamarind candy stick and Tajin, a fruit-season-ing powder made of lime, salt and chili peppers. “The result is a sweet and savory punch with a little bit of spic-iness from the chilies in the Chamoy,” says Gabriel Vazquez, managing partner of Las Mangonadas Ice Cream. The shop also offers hand-dipped scoops of ice cream, including Twinkie, tequila and sweet corn flavors.

liberty grill catering owner travis Mouser has been in the catering business for 10 years. with specialties such as smoked pulled pork, grilled entrees and simple, well-crafted desserts, Mouser has learned over the years how to cater to (pun intended) brides and corporate clients alike. here he shares some tips for planning a large event and working well with a caterer:

know what you want and communicate it.“it sounds easy, but poor communication can be the root of all mistakes,” Mouser says.

keep it simple.throughout the years, he has learned it’s easier to please more people by keeping menus simple rather than trying to overdo an event.

Fewer quality options are better than many higher-scale foods. to clarify, he says, “instead of trying to have a lot of options that are fancy, opt for only a few options that are higher quality. this guarantees everyone gets a taste.”

don’t cut the food budget.the most memorable attributes of an event are the venue and food. so, if possible, cut other portions of the budget in order to have quality food.

Quality catering doesn’t have to be expensive when it’s well planned.simple as that.

Mouser offers a final thought that might be your key to party planning success: “surround yourself with people better than you,” he says. when it comes to event planning, this translates into asking for help. if you are overwhelmed or don’t know how to do something, check with the experts.

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»Dining in downtown Indianapolis is all about adventure, whether you want to try some chorizo in your poutine or

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» Chef Alan Sternberg might get some light chiding from his fellow chefs for his delicate and intricate platings, but the national dining scene is taking notice of the young chef’s skills. He was recently named as a Rising Star by the James

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which it has already become. When summer weather arrives, al fresco diners have access to the restaurant’s expansive patio space. If you’re a big fan of pasta, be aware that Bettini Pasta, the fresh pasta maker known for supplying Bluebeard with its noodles, also supplies the house pasta for Pioneer. The two chefs, however, prefer the term “Alpine” when describing their menu’s region, combining influences

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incredible bar program and wine list, and Rudisell and Salazar have tricked out the eatery’s open kitchen concept with sleek decor and a ramen shop-style bar. If that’s not enough, Rook’s big new blueprint has plenty of room for large groups.

spice Box719 Virginia Ave., Indianapolisspiceboxindy.com$» When Rook moved out of its former space on Virginia Avenue, the restaurant made room for another eatery to move in. Enter Spice Box, once a beloved food truck, now a brick-and-mortar standout. Spice Box is perhaps best known for its buttery tikka and channa, both of which come in sauces that are heavier on flavor than they are on canola. Spice Box hustled its way through the world of dining on wheels to arrive at the new location, where easy-going, modern takes on Indian classics continue to be served.

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The stories of Hoosier artists, producers, merchants and entrepreneursBy kyle hendricks | Photos submitted

Around the city and around the state, Hoosiers serve some great ice cream


Few desserts are as beloved as ice cream. This tasty frozen treat earns a place in America’s signature foods and can take a seat at the table right next to hamburgers, french fries and hot dogs.

The lactose-laden delight has a long and storied history within our culture. According to the International Dairy Foods Association, President George Washington spent approximately $200 for ice cream during the summer of 1790. The industrial revolution of the 1800s introduced the invention of ice houses, mechanical refrigeration, motorized delivery vehicles and other innovations that allowed for ice cream to be manufac-tured on a larger scale. Jacob Fussell, a milk dealer from Baltimore, is known for pioneering the first Ameri-can ice cream manufacturing business.

Today, ice cream is available in every grocery store and sold next to the counter at gas stations. Still, noth-ing beats a visit to a local ice cream shop (or “shoppe,” if you will), where you’re greeted with a smile from behind the counter and your ice cream is delivered any way you want it. Many Hoosier ice cream makers, with their imaginative flavor combinations, have cranked their way into Indiana’s history, and a few are even scooping their way into the future. Here are a few of our favorites.

In 1904, the Zaharako brothers of Columbus took a trip to the World’s Fair in St. Louis. The visit inspired the Zaharakos to add new-to-market treats such as ice cream and soda to their candy store menu in Columbus. The brothers came home from the World’s Fair with two new, liquid carbonic soda machines, state-of-the-art at the time, and began an ice cream soda business that has lasted for more than 100 years.

Stepping into Zaharakos transports you back in time to the genesis of the retail ice cream business; a renovation by local businessman Tony Moravec has restored the ice cream shop and restaurant to its original 1900 design. “The ice cream is still made in the basement of the building,” says Wilma Hare, Columbus resident and Zaharakos head soda jerk. “I used to come in here as a teenager; now I serve ice cream to all types of people five days a week,” she says. You can visit Hare at her marble bar on weekdays and enjoy Zaharakos’ homemade ice cream with a soda from the original soda machines purchased by the brothers in 1904.

The Chocolate Moose in Bloom-ington is a favorite spot for townies and Indiana University students. The shop’s current location, a small building in a Walnut Street parking lot just south of the IU campus, is the current evolution of the local ice cream business. The Chocolate Moose was started by Cletus May as May’s Café in 1933, after he lost his manufacturing job in the Depression. May’s oldest son, Doran May, moved the business to its current location on

Walnut Street in 1950 and renamed it The Penguin. After a brief closing, the business reopened as The Chocolate Moose in 1983 and has been serving ice cream cones, shakes, sundaes, parfaits, banana splits and other frozen confections ever since.

Ice cream is still at the center of the Chocolate Moose’s business, says Jordan Davis, general manager. “Our original ice cream is made with 14 percent butter fat, which makes for a creamier ice cream than what you’ll typically find in most grocery stores,” Davis says. Specialties include the best-selling grasshopper ice cream, a green treat made with mint and Oreos. Chocolate Moose ice cream is made in a building just across the parking lot from its store, but Davis says that they are currently working on a new man-ufacturing facility on the south side of Bloomington that will better meet their expanding business. “We’re currently selling our ice cream in local grocery stores in Bloomington, and we’re working on expanding into bigger grocery chains in the region. We are also opening a second location in Brown County later this summer,” Davis says. “We will definitely be increas-ing our output of ice cream in the next few years; this new manufacturing facility will help us meet our demand.” There will soon be many more ways to get your hands on Chocolate Moose ice cream, but its treats are still best enjoyed outside by the storefront on a warm summer evening, underneath the fluorescent lights of its retro signage.

The Chocolate Moose401 S. Walnut St., Bloomington(812) 333-0475, moosebtown.com

Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor328 Washington St., Columbus (812) 378-1900, zaharakos.com

If you remember Dags Ice Cream as a Nashville business, you would be correct. The shop was founded in 1982 by four co-owners; the name, in case you’re wondering, is an acronym composed of the first initials of the four original co-owners. In 1995, Tony House and his son, Charlie House, bought the shop; they’ve been making ice cream ever since. They moved their operation to the Jonathan Moore Pike location in 2006.

The two owners make small batches of specialty ice cream in-store year-round, with flavors changing with the seasons. “We’re working on a few summer flavors now,” Tony says. “Black raspberry chip, Dreamsicle and red velvet cake are popular for us right now.” The Houses collaborate with each other and the community to create new ice cream flavors, and they take requests. “We’ve made beer- and wine-flavored ice creams in the past,” Charlie says. Customer requests have enticed the Houses to add unconven-tional ingredients to their ice cream recipes. “We’ve made a bacon and brown sugar ice cream before. I have also made a chili pepper and dark chocolate flavor,” he says.

Tony and Charlie have extended their business to include lunch and catering op-tions. They frequently cater local business meetings, parties and weddings that feature ice cream made specifically for their clients. “We’ll make flavors for someone’s special day or for a company event,” Tony says. “Just let us know what you want, and we can usually make it happen.”

Dags Deli and Homemade Ice Cream4280 W. Jonathan Moore Pike, Columbus (812) 341-3130, facebook.com/DagsDeli

Sisters Meredith Kong and Kelly Ryan started Lick Ice Cream in In-dianapolis in 2010 with an ice cream maker that Kong received as a wed-ding gift. Six years and many farmers markets later, they have solidified their gourmet ice cream business in the Circle City Industrial Complex, a building just off Massachusetts Avenue. Their spot features a tasting room for customers to sample their imaginative artisan offerings (think: cedar and whiskey, tiramisu or laven-der lemon). Production happens in the back, where Kong and Ryan put as much care into their ice cream production as they do their flavor selections.

“A lot of ice cream makers will use pre-made dairy mixes. We make our dairy mixes from scratch,” Kong says. Recently, Lick partnered with Traders Point Creamery to use dairy from its 100 percent grass-fed, or-ganic farm in Zionsville. “Their dairy is top-of-the-line,” says Kong. “We’re very excited about the partnership.”The sisters spend their days exper-imenting with ingredients to create new ice cream flavors, but their business is grounded in five unique flavors: salted caramel and sage; gorgonzola candied pecan; balsamic dark chocolate; gingersnap lemon curd; and champagne and berries. These flavors are always available to customers. “People revolt if we take any of these away,” says Kong. You can usually find the sisters on weekdays at their Brookside Avenue location or showcasing their new flavors at the Broad Ripple Farmers Market on Saturday mornings.

Lick Ice Cream1125 E. Brookside Ave., C-7B, Indianapolis. (317) 979-0237, lickicecream.tumblr.com



Lic’s, an acronym for Lloyd’s Ice Cream Shoppe, was founded in 1950 when Lloyd Immel started making ice cream in the back of a retail store in Evansville. Immel kept his business going for years, until a young man named Don Smith came to him wanting to buy his ice cream store. “My dad was 27 when he bought the business from Lloyd,” says Kara Combs, Smith’s daughter and Lic’s advertising director. “He liked making ice cream and wanted his own shop, so he went to school for two weeks to get his ice cream educa-

tion. When he showed up to work, Lloyd handed him two pieces of paper with recipes for ice cream and off he went.”

Smith has grown Lic’s from a single store into eight area locations, with an ice cream factory in downtown Evansville. The family business sells quality local ice cream, deli sandwiches and burgers, and makes its own breads, cookies and pies. Stop in to Lic’s on your next trip to Evansville and enjoy its locally famous choco-cremes, bite-sized ice cream balls hand rolled in chocolate.

Lic's Deli and Ice Creamvarious locations in Evansville and Vincennes, (812) 424-3066, licsdeliandicecream.com


Personalities

When Beth Stroh was young, she lived in a full house. She had four younger sisters, all of them close

in age. When her father nailed planks in a tree trunk, she had a leg up to her own private space. “I would take my books and sit in that tree and read,” Beth says. “I would be so into my books that when they called me I wouldn’t hear my name.”

Her husband, John Stroh, grew up with books as a primary form of entertainment. The son of a Methodist preacher, John moved every three to four years with his family. A decided introvert, he found out that books and reading were the keys to good grades, as well

as entertainment. “Books have always been important in

my life,” John says. “They were important to my mother and father and therefore became important to me.”

John and Beth met when the two ended up working in the same Indianapolis school, in a program he spearheaded. The two married in November 1981. John, who attended law school at night, was offered a position at the Columbus law firm Sharpnack Bigley David & Rumple (now Sharpnack Bigley Stroh & Washburn). He took the gig.

“He decided he wanted to be someplace where he could make an immediate impact,” Beth says. “When he was interviewed here and offered a position, it seemed like a pretty per-fect match. School ended on Friday, we moved down here on Saturday and he started work on Monday. We were sitting in an apartment that we were renting on the north side of town, and it was a whole new place.”

As John embarked on his career as a lawyer,

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the family that reads together:From left, Mary, Beth and John Stroh.


Beth found a job at Southside Junior High School. She began serving on community boards, including the United Way’s allocations committee; the Columbus Museum of Art and Design’s board (she is the longest-serving member), and the Bartholomew County Public Library Board of Trustees (over the course of her 16 years and one month on the board, she would serve as president). They made them-selves at home. Children, Mary followed by Dan, came along. John and Beth bought an older house in the downtown area, and renovat-ing it would become their decades-long hobby, a family project, and a tangible manifestation of their abilities. They put in a small pool for the kids to jump into after soccer practice; they finished the home’s basement, providing the perfect space for their children to bring others.

“Our house was the place where dozens of kids on any given day would gather,” Beth says.

The Strohs could also skip over to the public library. On a weekly basis, Mary and Dan would reach their 10-book checkout limit.

John and Beth would spend hours in a recliner, reading to them.

“We’ve had an idyllic lifestyle that most people don’t get to live because of the com-munity that Columbus is and because of the opportunities that we’ve had here,” Beth says.

Of course, those days were not preserved in amber, and life for the Stroh family changed. Mary headed to college at DePauw; Dan followed. Beth, who had stopped teaching after Dan was born, found her career morphing from the classroom to work for financial groups and then for nonprofits. She returned to education, earning a doctorate in educational leadership from Indiana State University. The younger Strohs both went through law school; Mary returned to Columbus in 2009. Dan, who now lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Lauren Huff, is studying for the bar exam.

Mary’s return to Columbus post-law school further strengthened the family’s community ties. She likes the town’s accessibility and that people can explore their passions through

community service. “I think that’s what we want people to look for: ways they can become passionately engaged in whatever their project is,” Mary says. “That’s what makes it a great place to be.” She took a position alongside her father at Sharpnack Bigley Stroh & Washburn. In 2011, she and her husband, Patrick Sabo, bought a Victorian home in the downtown area. The home, which had been split up into apartments, needed a dramatic reworking. Sabo got to witness, firsthand, just how the Strohs work together.

“I think their ability to work together as a team is quite exceptional,” Sabo says. “A lot of times they don’t even have to speak to under-stand what the other is doing. They work well together. Because of the various strengths that they have, and they each have a lot of them, there aren’t many things that they can’t tackle.”

Most recently Beth worked in Indianapolis as education director for United Way of Cen-tral Indiana. Though she loved the position, the daily commute was a drain, and her house was missing something.

“Our house is much too quiet now,” Beth says. “There wasn’t any demand for me to be there. That has felt like something I wanted to change.”

a community bookstoreA few blocks away, another couple was looking to change something. Susan and Terry Whit-taker, Viewpoint Books owners since 1979, were ready to wrap up their careers as booksellers.

“When we first moved here, we signed a seven-year lease,” Susan says. “Then we rene-

—John stroh

“Books have always been important in my life. they were important to my mother and father and therefore became important to me.”


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gotiated a seven-year lease. Then we started thinking, ‘Do we want to do this for another three to five years? We started to have an itch to travel. We’re both healthy.”

Viewpoint Books was begun by Susan’s parents, who opened their first bookstore in Bloomington in 1969. When The Commons was built, developers approached the family, hoping a bookstore would occupy one of the new retail spaces. The Columbus Viewpoint Books opened in 1973. In 1979, Susan and Terry moved to Columbus from South Bend with their two little girls. “They wanted us to get involved, and the timing was right,” Susan says.

Over the years, the Whittakers weathered many changes. The bookstore moved from a small spot in The Commons to a larger spot. In time, foot traffic at the mall slowed, and by

2006, the old Commons was slated for demo-lition. As the Whittakers prepared to move to their new location, at 548 Washington St., they kept a tally of everyone who offered to help them with the move, and the Bartholomew County Public Library loaned them every book cart it had. A cavalcade of volunteers headed down Washington Street with their loaded carts; the shop entirely moved within four hours.

From their Washington Street storefront, the Whittakers and their loyal staff would face dramatic changes in book formats (going from print to digital) and the way books are sold (via online megastores that deliver books to custom-ers’ homes). By 2014, they were ready to embark upon a new course. They put feelers out in an article in The Republic. The Whittakers were looking for someone to buy their shop.

turning the pageSince the beginning of 2014, John had watched his wife leave the house at 7:15 each weekday

morning. Beth would return deep into the evening. It wasn’t just the time away from their home that bothered him; it was her time away from the community. This, John decided, would not do. One afternoon last year, he walked into Viewpoint Books. He knew the Whittakers well; he’d been their attorney for years. The entire Stroh family had spent hours perusing the shelves at Viewpoint. On that fall day, John wasn’t there to talk books; he was there to talk business.

“John came in and said, ‘Are you still look-ing for somebody?’” Susan says. “I said, ‘Yes, we sure are.’ That would be my dream.”

The couples began talking, taking a clan-destine approach and keeping developments to themselves. The Whittakers sent the Strohs to the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute, where they were recognized by an attendee with family members in Columbus. After introductions, John noticed the woman quietly tapping a text message. He stopped her.

Please, he said, we’re not ready to share this. By the end of April, though, the plans for

passing the torch were firm. Both couples were ready to share the news: On July 1, the Strohs would take over Viewpoint Books, and overseeing the day-to-day operations would become Beth’s full-time job.

As with the renovations on the Strohs’ homes, the bookstore has become a family project. Mary is exploring ways to interact with the community. From his home in Cincinnati, Dan offers opinions and advice. He shares what he sees working at popular bookstores in the Queen City. The Strohs’ collective goals are not to change the shop, but to add to it. Vinyl records and turntables are a possibility, Beth says, along with other new sidelines as well, perhaps a coffee shop in the building’s basement.

“I think it’s going to be a significant amount of work, and I’m hoping I can avoid some of that by not being in Columbus,” Dan

At left, from left: Dan, Beth, Mary and John Stroh.


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jokes. “My parents have always raised us to be a strong family. When I think about the bookstore, while I think it’s something that my parents are taking on, I know it’s going to be something we’ll all be involved in, a collabo-rative effort. You make things a team effort so that no one person is left alone.”

“I’m very, very excited for my parents,” Mary says. “I’m also very protective.”

She sees the bookstore as a particularly good fit for her mother. “She thrives being a part of the community,” Mary says. “She’s a teacher at heart, and she always will be. This is an opportunity where she can be engaged, where she can find those teaching moments.”

The business will operate under the limited liability company, “Words Matter, LLC.” After all, as each Stroh individually emphasizes, words matter. So, too, does continuing to foster a sense of community.

“We are committed to making a place where everyone feels welcome,” Beth says. “I hope no one ever walks in there feeling like there’s nothing there for them. It would be nice if it’s because they buy something, but even if they don’t, that they would find something that’s of value to them.”


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or many Hoosiers whose lives haven’t been af-fected, or even touched, by the HIV virus, AIDS is a four-letter word they don’t want to hear. But for millions of others around the globe who have lost loved ones to

AIDS and/or are HIV positive, it is a fact of life and, frequently, of death.

This is the face of Matero, a poor suburb of Lusaka, the capital and largest city in Zambia, where 80 percent of the population lives on less than $2 per day. In Matero, as in other cities in sub-Sarahan Africa, some 25.8 million people were living with HIV, according to 2014 statistics from the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS.

Matero is most often defined by the numbers of lives claimed by the insidious,

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preventable disease. It is defined through the wails of anguished, middle-age women who care for, then bury, their adult children. It is seen in the tears of children orphaned by AIDS and often HIV-positive themselves, now in their grandmothers’ care. The fabric of these women’s stories is a tapestry of love and laughter, hugs and hope, interwoven with death and despair.

Granny Connection, a Columbus-based organization, in partnership with the Power of Love Foundation, is helping to rewrite those stories into happier endings of transformation and triumph. By providing support, advocacy and funding to grand-mothers, volunteer members also provide better lives for African families and help the community at large.

‘i had to do something’ Columbus resident Ann Jones first visited Africa in 2000. With degrees in community health nursing and marriage and family therapy, she was touched by the plight of the Africans, who were disproportionately dying from AIDS in a pandemic that has claimed an estimated 34 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

“It was extremely painful,” she says. “People were dying. Whole generations were missing, and the countries were graveyards. Stephen Lewis, the United States envoy dur-ing that time, was a very zealous advocate for women.”

It was his work through his epony-mously named organization, Jones says, that inspired her. “Stephen had remarked that grandmothers were the glue holding Africa together, and I could see these tenacious women were doing all the work: caring for and then burying their own kids,” she says. “In Africa they absolutely cherish their grandchildren, just like we do.”

Jones, who has five grandchildren of her own, notes that what the African grannies might lack in material goods, they make up for with care and affection. “That’s what I think is so important to know. When I came home, my life was infused with a larger meaning,” she says. “I knew I had to do something, not just sit and know this was happening and do nothing. I also thought maybe there were other retired women, whether or not grandmothers, looking to find meaning in their lives.”

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Presbyterian Church, where she serves as an elder. Her work drew like-minded women and eventually extended beyond the church into the larger Columbus community. The result was the 2008 founding of the Granny Connection. It is an organization of women, both grandmothers and grand others, com-mitted to supporting the San Diego-based Power of Love Foundation, a nonprofit that develops innovative, cost-effective solutions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Currently numbering 35 members, Granny Connection is the only one of its kind in the United States. Partnering with the foundation, it has dispensed funds to a Malawi youth group and, closer to home, to rural Scott County, which has been devastated by the Hoosier State’s largest AIDS epidemic.

the power of love FoundationDuring one of her trips to Africa, Jones met Alka and Serash Subramanian, co-founders of the Power of Love Foundation. Alka Subramanian says when the couple turned 40, they wanted to do “something different.” Having heard about Africa’s AIDS crisis, they considered their options to see how they could help. In 2002, the Subramanians left senior industry and tenured academic positions to found POL.

“We’d heard about the numbers,” Sub-ramanian says. “And it simply didn’t make sense. Our three children were young at the time, and when the situation was confirmed, it was like we couldn’t do anything else. We had to do this. We had no choice.”

POL administers 10 programs, including Project Mosquito Net, which helps eliminate malaria by blocking disease-carrying mos-quitoes’ access to humans, and the 300-fam-ily pediatric HIV-care program. About 60 percent of families in that program are headed by grandmothers. Because Zambian women and children have been dispropor-tionately affected, POL’s primary focus is on preventing new HIV infection and caring for HIV-positive children. Subramanian now works full time for the foundation and is in touch daily with Zambians, who are trained and monitored by POL staff. She ensures funds are spent according to guide-

lines. She and her husband each make two or three trips a year to the continent.

“I’m happy working with Zambian chil-dren and families,” Subramanian says. “At this point in my life, I can’t imagine doing anything else.”

Great strides have already been made: Within the past few years, through the work of POL, 32 of 33 children born in the program to HIV-positive mothers were born HIV free. While admitting AIDS may not be eradicated in Africa, due to its complexity

and relationship to health, educational and socioeconomic issues, Subramanian says it can be managed.

developing entrepreneursThe POL microloan program enables women to start their own businesses. There currently are 322 women in the program, which provides a loan of about $150 that will be repaid with interest. A stringent

18-month process incorporates close su-pervision, business training and field visits, coupled with weekly meetings. More than 90 percent of loans have been repaid, allow-ing more women to participate.

“Our vision is not to offer a handout, but to strengthen the community by involving women and teaching them skills they need to take better care of HIV-positive children and other family members,” Subramanian says.

Jones shares the story of one grandmother who, with her first microloan, bought yarn and rented a sweater-making machine; later she bought a machine. On the third loan cycle, she had people soliciting business for her. “She would sit on her bed in a dark, hot room, six days a week, with the machine in front of her, making sweaters,” Jones says. “She had six grandchildren and was able to feed them. These women are hardworking, loving and tenacious. I have the utmost respect for the grands of Africa.”

Thus far, she says, 600 women have gone through the microloan program; 70 percent of businesses are still operative.

nuts for granniesThe grannies in Africa are not the only pro-ductive ones. Since its founding in March 2008 through April 2016, Granny Con-nection has raised $98,500 for projects in Zambia. Funds come from Granny Connec-tion fundraisers, events that have included Bubbles, Boutique & Brunch; Bubbles, Bags & Brunch; and Arts for AIDS, an awareness program held annually on World AIDS Day in collaboration with five AIDS-related global organizations. Most recently, Women Who Rock: Moms, Music and Mission was held in conjunction with Mother’s Day.

The Grannies also sell glazed pecans that members produce and package. You’ll see the Grannies at farmers markets selling their wares, and bags of fresh pecans sit ready for sale at various retail shops in and around Columbus.

In September 2013, Granny Connec-tion members Cindy Chapman and Mary Harmon traveled to Zambia with Jones. Although Chapman now resides in Minneap-olis, where she enjoys time with four grand-sons, she remains involved with the group.

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Through Chapman and her husband’s prior involvement with a Zimbabwe chil-dren’s home, she was aware of Africa’s AIDS epidemic. “I already knew how many chil-dren in Africa had been orphaned. So when I heard about Granny Connection, I needed to be a part of that,” she says.

Group involvement puts life into perspective, she says. “Granny Connection members are in their mid-50s up to 70s. And not everyone is a grandmother,” she adds. “But to realize women our age are maybe taking care of seven little children and raising them ... it makes you realize how blessed you are. It’s almost a spiritual joy in knowing you can help other people. I know that not everyone can travel to Africa, but even joining the group helps you focus on people whose lives are much needier than what’s going on in your own life. Africa’s grandmothers are so amazing,

so determined to make better lives for their grandchildren, that it’s humbling.”

thinking locally, acting globallyPeople often question the concept of reaching out to African grandmothers when many Americans are raising their own grandchildren. Subramanian says she agrees we need to assist those closer to home. “And if you can do so, that’s awesome. You should do whatever makes your heart beat faster.”

There are 1.5 million orphans in Zambia, Subramanian says, and although the world has become more connected, great inequalities continue to exist. “I don’t see how we can have pockets of children who are not safe, healthy, happy and thriving, and those who are. We need to help offer at least basic health and safety to those who seem to be floundering.”

A donation can have a greater impact in Zambia, where, for less than $5, donors

can fund mosquito netting and keep four children healthy and malaria-free. In the end, the efforts are about continuing AIDS education, says Chapman, noting there has been a resurgence in the disease in Indiana, primarily through drug and needle use.

“We need to continue building aware-ness, whether or not through Granny Con-nection,” Chapman says.

Jones says new Granny Connection mem-bers are always welcome. “The more ambas-sadors we have raising the volume of grand-mother stories, the better it is,” she says. “If you invest in a grandmother, you are investing in her grandchildren and impacting the entire community and society. Granny Connection will not rest until most people are liberated from what I think is one of the worst commu-nicable diseases to afflict humankind. I hope we can count on others to join in our efforts as we continue to take action.”

Work done locally by the Granny Connection benefits grandmothers in Africa who are raising their grandchildren.


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Local craftspeople show there’s no need to make a big production

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You can’t talk about Columbus without talking about manufacturing, and for most of us, our minds go to the big-s-cale production that’s tied into the city’s history. We think of companies making diesel engines, juvenile products and automobile parts.

“Well over 30 percent of people who work here work in the manufacturing in-dustry,” says Cindy Frey, president of the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce. “The focus on making something and making products cannot be overstated.”

There is a drive to create and to craft here in Columbus, but it would be folly to think that the thrust is exclusively large-s-cale manufacturing. There are artisans and craftspeople cranking out their goods in one-person operations. These folks strad-dle the lines between art and industry, and though we might not originally think of them when we think of items produced in Columbus, they exist nonetheless.

applying ourselvesAt the onset, it’s important to note that Columbus is not Brown County.

“I think people do come here thinking that there will be artists’ studios on every corner, and that is not the case,” Frey says. “It really has been more of a focus on the application of those skills in what you can make and what you can innovate in the manufacturing industry.” But, Frey says, people working in small foun-dries and machine shops are artisans as well. “The things they can do with metal is amazing,” she says. “And the precision that is required. That has become a much more skilled endeavor. All of that kind of work is happening every day here by very skilled technicians and artists. They are definitely creating things of beauty.”

True, in Columbus it might be harder to find the people who list “artisan” or “craftsperson” as their careers, unlike in Brown County, which is renowned as an

artists’ com-

munity. Add to that a

natural beauty that inspires craftspeople as well as tourists who will buy the items that they produce. By contrast, it is Columbus’ built environment, the archi-tectural legacy, that draws tourists.

And it’s the jobs that draw residents. “We don’t have a high percentage of entrepreneurs,” Frey says. “I wonder if maybe it’s because we have such high-paying jobs, people who might look for that may find positions elsewhere. If you have skills, there is work for you.”

away from the daily grindThough you might not find many full-time artists in Columbus, the city’s resi-dents are crafting and creating. In Decem-ber, visual artist and writer Jennifer Riley conceptualized and curated “Columbus Makes.” The exhibit, which was held in the gallery at the Indiana University Cen-ter for Art and Design, focused on locally produced pieces. Artificial flower crafts went on display next to handmade soaps, assemblages of recycled materials and other fine art pieces. “The idea of it was to sort of get a pulse of who is out here making things and to try to get them to come out of the woodwork and meet each

artist Jaime Mustaine co-owns the tri-state

artisans shop in downtown

columbus (left).


other,” Riley says. The show included works by more than 30 artisans.

A New York-based artist, Riley first came to Columbus when her husband, T. Kelly Wilson, was hired as the IUCA+D director. “We just started to dig into the town,” she says. “We kept finding more and more people making things. You go to the craft store, and it’s filled with peo-

ple shopping for projects. It’s very rich.” There are enough people producing

goods in the area to keep Washington Street’s Tri-State Artisans shop well stocked. Jaime Mustaine, herself an artist and the co-owner of Tri-State Artisans, knows that artists can’t always afford to quit their day jobs and live off the proceeds of their craft, so her store focuses on sell-ing handmade goods from more than 50

local artists. “By being on display here, they can live their

lives and still have a place to have

their work for sale,” she

says.Mus-

taine estimates that 97 percent of her

sales go directly to

local arti-sans. “It’s going

into the pocket of a family. It’s the extra

Christmas money; it’s the bicycle for the child’s birthday,” she says. “You aren’t just buying quality. You’re helping people continue to do what they are passionate about.”

Columbus boasts a lot of passion. As Riley pieced the “Columbus Makes” show together, more people came forward to be part of it. “Crafts, design and art are part of the human experience that aren’t the daily grind,” she says. She thinks this is why it’s so important for people in Columbus to create, why they’re driven to explore their artistic capacities. “It carves spaces for the mind to explore,” she says. “It opens up new places for the spirit to grow and to see and experience different things. It makes people feel more human, more alive, more engaged.”

Ben Harpring, of Ben Harpring Ceramics, knows the feeling well. His love

Ben harpring, of Ben harpring ceramics, works in his home ceramics studio.

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for the craft blossomed in his sophomore year at Columbus East High School, when he took a 3-D art class and used a potter’s wheel. “My teacher, Jim Ponsford, pushed me to try new things, and by my senior year, I was spending most of my lunch-time in the art room doing more work because I loved it so much,” he says.

After high school, Harpring began studying marketing at IUPUC. A year out of school, he had the urge to work with clay again. He studied his market, going to his first craft show in Bloomington. “I had no idea how to price things. I had no idea what people even liked,” he says. “But I started to take notes and figured things out.” He met other ceramists and saw their dedication. One artist Harpring met put in about 100 studio hours a week

to prepare for the show. “It’s definitely not the easiest thing, but if you love it, it works out,” he says.

collaboration is keyHead to a local arts event such as the Co-lumbus Indiana Architectural Archives’ Most Chaotic Tuesday Ever or Landmark Columbus’ Exhibit Columbus announce-ment, and chances are you’ll see a man set up off to the side of the main activity. He’s surrounded by screen printing equip-ment (paint, screens and squeegees). This is Matthew Rust, the visionary behind the local screen printing business Good Night, Sweet Prints. By day, he is an investment adviser; he operates his screen printing business in his spare time while balancing work and family life.

Matthew rust operates his screen printing business,

good Night, sweet Prints, outside of his

full-time job.

“You aren’t just buying quality. You’re helping people continue to do what they are passionate about.” —Jaime mustaine


“(Screen printing is)

completely dif-ferent than what I

do during the day,” Rust says. “I work

with my brain a lot of the day. The screen printing is

working with my hands, which is a nice balance.”

The Columbus native, who returned to the city after attending college in St. Louis, realized how much he missed the cultural identity with which he’d been raised. His screen printing venture started when his buddy, illustrator and fellow Co-lumbus native Andy J. Miller, had trouble finding someone to screen print his work.

Rust uses his screen printing business to bolster the arts community; he keeps his fees low. “My goal is to keep the arts

alive in a different way than what there was when I was a kid,” he says.

stitches in timeSome folks have made small-scale man-ufacturing a full-time gig. Chris Shifflett, owner of Rock Solid Sewing and Design, started sewing at a young age. “As a kid, I didn’t get bulldozers and blocks, I got a Singer,” he says. Growing up, he devel-oped his craft and would sew to make ends meet between temporary or unful-filling jobs. Eventually he realized that he wanted to pursue it as a career.

“I manufacture for companies out of Nashville, Tennessee, (such as) Tucker and Bloom and Ceri Hoover,” Shifflett says. “And in November of last year, I decided to get some of my own ideas out there.” On the night of the Ugly Holiday Sweater Stroll, he launched his designs at

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the Columbus Area Visitors Center. Shifflett’s all-leather bag designs

are named after prominent Columbus figures. His cross-body bag, the Tipton, is named after one of the founders of the city, John Tipton. The McCawley, a leather journal and sketchbook, boasts the name of the longtime associate editor of The Republic and Bartholomew County historian, Harry McCawley. “I take a lot of pride in my bags knowing that they’ll last a lifetime,” he says. “Ev-ery bag was manufactured by my hands with my care. I guarantee every one of them because of that.”

His work, he says, is art. “The arts are a very important part of the culture. It means a lot to the community,” he says. “If we can keep the younger generations involved with arts, music, craft, it will be a much brighter future for everybody.”

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Bartholomew County offers support for Alzheimer’s patients and their families

On the first Tuesday of the month a local Alzheimer’s disease support group meets in the Red Room at the Bartholomew County Public Library. At the May meeting 13 people sit around the table, all of whom are personal caregivers for their mothers, fathers, wives or husbands who are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

After introductions, a caregiver tells the group that, since the last meeting, she’s lost her hus-band to the disease. Another shares her grief; her mother passed away just last week. The gravity of the subject thickens the air around the table, but everyone here shares support and understanding of the struggles they face. Each person is working through the emotions experienced while watching a loved one move through the stages of Alzhei-mer’s; some have been doing it for years, while others are just beginning to understand.

what is alzheimer’s disease?The Alzheimer’s Association defines Alzheimer’s disease as a type of dementia that causes problems

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with memory, thinking and behavior. Dementia is a general term for any loss of memory or intellec-tual ability that is serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of all dementia cases.

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain dis-order that damages and eventually destroys brain cells. It usually develops slowly and gradually gets worse as brain function declines and brain cells wither and die. Ultimately, Alzheimer’s is fatal; nearly one in every three seniors dies with Alzhei-mer’s or another form of dementia.

According to the Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Center, 110,000 people age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease in Indiana. That number is expected to rise by 2020. With 74.9 million peo-ple between ages 51 and 69 living in America, it’s important to understand the disease as this large part of our population ages into their senior years.

The symptoms of Alzheimer’s worsen over time, and the rate at which the disease pro-gresses will vary from case to case. On average, a person with Alzheimer’s lives four to eight years after diagnosis, but can live as long as 20 years, depending on other factors. “This is that long divide,” says Mary Ellen Wyman, the Alzheimer’s support group facilitator. “You can live with this disease for a long time, but your quality of life will decline a little bit every single day. And if you’re physically healthy, you’ll live with it longer,” she says.

Changes in the brain related to Alzheimer’s begin years before any signs of the disease. This


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time period, which can last for years, is known as preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. After that, Alzheimer’s will progress in three stages: mild, moderate and severe.

During mild Alzheimer’s disease, a person may function independently. He may still drive, work and be part of social activities. Despite this, the person may feel as if he is having memory lapses, such as forgetting familiar words or the location of everyday objects. Friends, family or neighbors begin to notice difficulties. During a detailed medical interview, doctors may be able to detect problems in memory or concentration, problems coming up with the right words, trou-ble remembering names or forgetting material that the patients have just read.

During the moderate stage, the longest stage, symptoms progress. A patient in the moderate stage may confuse words, get frustrated or angry, or act in unexpected ways, such as refusing to bathe. Damage to nerve cells in the brain can make it difficult to express thoughts and perform routine tasks. Symptoms will be noticeable to others and may include moodiness or social withdrawal; confusion about location or the day; and changes in sleep pattern, along with an increased risk of wandering and becoming lost. Friends and loved ones will likely notice personality and behavioral changes, including suspiciousness and delusions, or compulsive, repetitive behavior, such as hand-wringing or tissue shredding.

In the severe stage, individuals lose the ability to respond to their environment, to carry on a conversation and, eventually, to control movement. They may still say words or phrases, but communicating pain becomes difficult. As memory and cognitive skills continue to worsen, personality changes may take place, and individ-uals need extensive help with daily activities. At this stage, people may require full-time, around-the-clock assistance with daily personal care and experience changes in physical abilities, including the ability to walk, sit and, eventually, swallow.

treatment and compassionThere is no cure for Alzheimer’s, but early detec-tion can offer more time for patients to get the maximum benefit out of available treatments. Early detection also allows for patients and family members to plan for future care, transportation and living options as the disease progresses. This is especially important for family members who are the primary caregiver for their loved one. “Typically the caregivers are husbands, wives, sons and daughters of the person suffering from Alzheimer’s,” Wyman explains. “Patients and

caregivers have little to no control over how the disease will progress, but there are resources available to help them through the process. The most important thing any person dealing with the disease can do is to learn as much as you possibly can,” she says.

The conversation at the library’s support group meeting moves through a variety of topics, such as medical consultation, legal guard-ianship, home care and personal well-being, to name a few. It becomes apparent that each caregiver’s experience is unique and influenced by a complicated network of local medical, legal and social services. Although current medications cannot stop the damage Alzheimer’s causes to brain cells, they may help lessen or stabilize symptoms for a limited time. The Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Center, part of the Indiana University hospital network, has been operating for more than 24 years in India-napolis to further research about the disease and run clinical trials for new medicines that become available. Other issues can arise in patients, behavioral changes like depression and trouble sleeping, which may be treated in conjunction with the disease.

a little helpMany Alzheimer’s patients will progress through the disease for years,


Early diagnosis of alzheimer’s and dementia can be helpful to treating the disease. the alzheimer’s association, alz.org, has identified early warning signs and symptoms:

other medical issues, such as thyroid disruption, vitamin B12 deficiency and depression, have been known to show similar signs to alzheimer’s. there is no single test that diagnoses alzheimer’s, rather a detailed medical evaluation that includes thorough research into a patient’s medical history; mental status testing; a physical and neurological exam; and other tests, like blood work and brain imaging, to rule out other dementia-like symptoms.

What are the Signs and Symptoms?

• Memory loss that disrupts daily life.

• Challenges in planning or solving problems.

• Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work or leisure.

• Confusion with time or place.

• New problems with words in speaking or writing.

• Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps.

• Decreased or poor judgment.

• Withdrawal from work and other social activities.

• Changes in mood and personality.

Above, and following pages: Once a month, students from St. Peter's Lutheran School visit clients of Just Friends Adult Day Services for an interactive

program featuring crafts, music and other presentations. Below: Clients at Just Friends Adult Day Services have lockers with their photos on them.


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which prompts caregivers to seek resources for long-term care assistance. Thrive Alliance, a local United Way certified nonprofit agency, offers free consultation to patients and caregivers through its Aging and Disability Resource Center in Columbus. “With a diagnosis like Alzheimer’s, there are a lot of unknowns, a lot of things going on, and sometimes it’s difficult to sort all of that out,” says Dawn Whaley, ADRC specialist at Thrive Alliance. “We try to connect people to the resources that serve their critical needs, to help them explore the resources they have, whether those be formal or informal resources, commu-nity resources, caregiving or health care. We do a lot of listening and guiding to help connect them to the resources they need.”

Whaley and other specialists at Thrive Alliance help patients and caregivers explore and apply for state and federal care benefits, like Medicare and Medicaid, which help to cover the financial burden of a long-term illness, and help to connect them to support groups and direct care services in the community.

Just Friends Adult Day Services is another local United Way certified agency that provides day care programs for Alzheimer’s patients. The organization’s mission is to provide activities and socialization for people suffering from the disease, as well as health care oversight, says Executive Di-rector Marilyn Clerc. Just Friends offers a variety of programs for participants, including monthly hair care, community outings and massages by a li-censed therapist. “Our day service activities help to maintain and in some cases improve the cognitive function of our participants and to provide respite for their caregivers.”

Respite for caregivers is essential because it allows them to manage their own health and re-sponsibility, Clerc adds. Several retirement com-munities in town, including Silver Oaks and Four Seasons, also offer overnight care, depending on availability, to allow caregivers more options for short-term situations.

Since Clerc joined Just Friends in 2002, the organization has grown to meet the needs of the community. It now offers full transportation service to participants. “We started with one van in 2007; now we have a small fleet for transport. About 75 percent of our participants use the ser-vice to and from our facility,” she says. Just Friends offers its own support group once a month that educates caregivers on issues related to Alzhei-mer’s. May’s meeting covered legal issues for the caregiver; attendees were treated to a dinner and free care for their loved one during the meeting.

Clerc notes that a shift in visibility and under-standing of the disease has helped to allow more people to access their resources. “People used to be almost ashamed of having it,” she says. “There’s no


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discrimination now. There’s more knowledge and understanding of the disease. But there’s still a long way to go.” She is aware of initiatives abroad, in places such as the United Kingdom, where government, health boards, local businesses and organizations work together in an effort to create a supportive community for people suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. She hopes one day that Bartholomew County will offer similar efforts.

At the library’s support group meeting, caregivers are helping each other cope with their hardships. The hour in the Red Room has highs and lows: It begins with formalities, the personal expressions of grief and frustration, tempered with a few breaks of laughter. Names of medicines, services, doctors, lawyers and other resources are shared. As the meeting wraps up, comfort is shared between the people sitting around the table. For this hour every month, these caregivers aren’t alone in their struggles and can feel supported by a community that understands.

Visibility and understanding of the disease are on the rise, Wyman notes. “When I started working for the Indiana Alzheimer’s Associ-ation 20 years ago, families used to have a hard time even getting a diagnosis from a doctor,” she says. “I think movies like ‘Still Alice’ (the 2015 film starring Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s), social media posts and many more books being written on the subject have increased the media’s knowl-edge about the disease.”

“Patients and caregivers have little to no control

over how the disease will progress, but

there are resources available to help them

through the process."—mary ellen Wyman


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Outdoor grills have come a long way


get fired upAsking more of the appli-ances that do our grilling is just one component of Americans’ overall tendency to spend more time out-doors. It follows such trends as pools and patios, which have appeared in backyards with increasing frequency over recent decades. “Up to 20 percent of a home appraisal can be for outdoor living areas and kitch-ens,” says Brian Corbin of Columbus-based lawn care, landscaping and hardscaping company Outdoor Services. Among other brands, Corbin is a dealer for the Bull brand, which has distinguished itself as a maker of units that include sinks and faucets, refrigerators, drawers and tile work surfaces, as well

as grills. The Angus model he has in his showroom has an interior light to facilitate late-night cooking, as well as a rotisserie. For some outdoors enthusiasts, that’s still not enough. They want the option of going back to basics when the mood suits them. For these customers, Corbin also sells the Breeo fire pit. It uses hardwood (as opposed to softwoods such as pine) and pulls fresh air in underneath the rim and hot oxygen through small holes that mix with smoke, keeping the wood burning. There’s also a secondary air supply through the double outer walls.

Breeo fire pit accessories include a kettle hook (so that soups and stews can be added to the menu), a

griddle and a rotisserie. “I had a customer to whom I’d already sold a big Bull unit with a bar, refrigerator and storage, but he said, ‘Some-times I want to cook over an open fire like I did in the Boy Scouts,’” says Corbin. “So I sold him a fire pit.”

No longer is grilling just about throwing meat onto flames willy-nilly.

“One key to good grilling is consistent temperature,” says Don Luecke of Luecke, a Seymour appliance store. “You need a very accurate thermometer. That’s espe-cially so, since low tem-peratures are increasingly important to today’s griller.”

One brand Luecke carries is Napoleon. Many of the brand’s models feature a searing burner to the side of

Cooking meat over fire is one of the oldest human activities, Of course, our species is never

satisfied with basic technology, and we have steadily built on the original concept. Fast forward

from prehistoric fire pits and ancient hearths to the contemporary grill and you’ll note that, in

2016, we employ a dizzying array of bells and whistles to achieve the exact effect we’re after. We

want maximum flexibility and control over the preparation of our food, but we want to exercise

it in the great outdoors, just like our primitive forebears.

It appears that grill enthusiasts are increasingly interested in the best of both worlds: breath-

ing the air of the great outdoors and preparing fresh foods in all the ways they’ve come to love,

while still being able to clean up quickly and move on to the next activity in their busy lives.

Grill manufacturers have answered this burning desire with high-tech grills that put the cook

in control from start to finish.

Grilling is not just about charcoal and hot dogs anymore.

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the main grill. “If you want to sear a steak, you can do that very effectively,” he says. “For meats that need more cooking time after that, such as chicken breasts, you just transfer them to finish the roasting process.”

hot technologyThese days, you don’t even have to be present while your food is grilling. A system called Flame Boss, made by a Florida-based company of the same name, allows you to manage your grill temper-ature remotely, through your lap-top or smartphone.

“The control cen-ter is really a mini-CPU connected to the Internet,” explains Nick Partin of Thompson Furniture, a Co-lumbus store that’s a Flame Boss dealer. “You set up an account, with a username and password, at myflame-boss.com. Then you can log in from your phone or laptop any time. Say you’re at work and you check a brisket you put on before you left home and think, man, that’s cooking awfully fast. You can reset the temperature and get back to what you were doing.”

That’s right: You could put food in the grill/smoker and waltz off to do errands, if you so desired. The

system consists of a control unit, of which there are several models for various brands of grills, with a digital readout, temperature alarm, ramp-down cool-down setting, cook timer, and jacks into which you plug the meat probe, the pit probe and the blower-style fan. These probes are coated-platinum cables, the business ends of

which are

a long needle (for

inserting into the meat) and an alligator

clip (for attaching to your grate).The fan shuts off when your grill has reached the desired temperature.

got a light?Matt Miller of Raft to Rafters is particularly enthusiastic about the Looftlighter, which he sells as an accessory to the charcoal-fired Primo grills he also carries. It’s a tubular hand-held device, with an aluminum heat shield wrapped around a heating element. You aim it at the charcoal and it gets hot, and

quickly.

“You can get it down to where you can smoke in 20 minutes, as opposed to an hour,” he says.

The story behind the in-vention of the Looftlighter is an inspiring tale of entrepre-neurship. Swedish theater and film director Richard Looft was not pleased with the lighter-fluid taste of a chicken he’d roasted on a charcoal grill and, after giving much thought to how to deal with that problem, set about making a prototype of his product. He perfected his concept, found a manufacturer and demonstrated the Looft-lighter for a buyer at a major Swedish department store, right outside the store, after repeated attempts to contact her by phone. After that, sales took off.

Miller also sells Smokin’ Brothers electronic smokers. Rather than chips, units in this line use wood pellets of various flavors, such as apple, cherry, oak, mes-quite and hickory that the Iowa-based company also makes. All models have a side unit into which one

dumps the pellets. Then it’s a matter of plugging your smoker in and setting the temperature.

smokin’ hot shapeCeramic grills, including the Primo brand, are increas-ingly popular. Primo makes them in two shapes: Ka-mado, which is a teardrop shape, and oval. The Primo rack system and the divider make possible up to 69 cooking configu-rations, including searing, smoking and baking. The divider creates two zones. “You put your charcoal on one side and your food on the grate on the other side,” Corbin says. “It rolls the heat to the side where your food is.”

The Primo story is an-other testimony to inven-tiveness and entrepreneurial zeal. George Samaras, a Greek boating enthusiast,



married a woman from the United States and moved back here with her. He had a Thanksgiving turkey roasted on a Kamado grill by his father-in-law and was in-spired to look into perfect-ing the Kamado design. The Georgia-based company has been in business since 1988.

Much of what Corbin car-ries is driven by requests from those for whom he’s installing outdoor living areas. “I have to research a lot of this for my customers,” he says. Another brand Corbin has cottoned on to is the Michigan-based Grillworks. These grills are Midwest-made but are based on an Argentine concept for wood-fired grilling and feature a cast-aluminum crank wheel for raising and lowering the cooking surface. Corbin found the brand and style through a customer, who promises to grill meat for him once the Grillworks Architectural 48 with a fire cage is installed. “My customer says people in Argentina set this type of grill up in the street and set up tables around it to watch the chefs at work,” Corbin says.

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When Jenifer and Nick Slabaugh first toured the 126-year-old downtown Columbus home in which they now reside, they had several reactions. For starters, it was clear the home featured none of the criteria they set when they began house hunting. The house didn’t have a garage, central air conditioning or a fenced-in yard for their two dogs to play in. The home, which had stood empty, would need major work: All of the windows were due for upgrades, the flooring and ceiling in one of the upstairs bedrooms were in dire need of replacement, and the electrical wiring system needed comprehensive modernization. The list went on.

Despite all of the caveats, the couple realized the house had to be theirs. “(The house) didn’t have any of the things we were looking for,” Jenifer

recalls. “But we saw the potential and fell in love with it. I think we both felt it immediately.”


The Slabaughs became the official owners of the five-bedroom, two-bath-room Victorian home in June 2015, after securing a home loan and a construction loan to help tackle the many renovation challenges that lay ahead. “We actually had two closings on the house: One when the seller got their funds from the bank for the purchase price, and again in January of this year when the six-month period of construction was completed,” says Jenifer, adding that the home’s last set of major renovations probably occurred more than

70 years ago. “When we were finished, the house actually appraised for more than the cost of the two loans put together, and the difference is equity,” she says. “We’ve really been trying to share this with people, especially those interested in fixing up a historic home, because the loan process can really work in your favor.”

Great exPeCtatIonSThe home is the second in Columbus for the Slabaughs, who moved to the city in

2010 when Nick secured a job at Cummins after finishing a master’s degree in rhetoric and composition from Purdue Univer-sity. The couple met during their college years when Nick, a 29-year-old Colum-bus native, was attending Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute for an undergraduate degree in computer engineering, and Jenifer, a 28-year-old native of southern Illinois, attended Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, also in Terre Haute, for a degree in equine studies.

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tion technology security consultant for Texas-based computer security company Edgile Inc. Jenifer’s job as an end-user com-puter engineer for Michigan-based Data Strategy allows her to work from home, which she says came in handy during the renovation process. “There were a few times where we had four sets of contractors here at once, and being here to direct them now and then helped,” she says.

the JoUrneY BeGInSThe six-month renovation journey was anything but simple. Most of the rooms in the three-level, 3,700-square-foot home (which features a cellar with cold storage space) were carpeted and wallpapered. The Slabaughs chose to uncover and refinish much of the original hardwood, as well as strip and paint the walls in the bedrooms, bathrooms and a few areas on the ground level. “The front room downstairs probably was a parlor, and the two rooms beyond would’ve been less-formal parlors,” Jenifer says. “One of those is now Nick’s office.”

Converting the home’s ground-level master bedroom into a fully functional kitchen required extensive planning, and they undertook the task without hiring an interior designer. As a hobby chef, Nick took the lead in formulating the basic kitchen layout, and the couple enlisted Dan Newell from Jonesville-based Fox

Custom Cabinets to install maple cabinetry that includes a built-in wine rack. “The floors and the ceilings don’t run true with one another, so to make the cabinets finish out at the ceiling created some challenges,” Newell says. “I improvised the wine rack to finish off one of the corners because the space was kind of funny and it was by one of the bump-outs, and it worked out well.”

The overall result is a balanced arrangement featuring brushed stainless steel fixtures and appliances, pendant lighting and granite countertops. Also in the kitchen, a window by the sink was altered. Before renovations, the window reached the floor and was bricked in. Badly crumpled masonry was rebuilt around one of the doors. “We’re really glad that we put all the work in for it,” Jenifer says. “It really feels like it should be a kitchen in that space.”

The former kitchen area, a space pre-viously detached from the house and later connected during prior renovations, now serves as a laundry room and home base for the Slabaughs’ dogs, Tucker and Bitsy, both husky mixes.

An iron bracing system was installed at the front of the home, beneath the bay win-dows in the new upstairs master bedroom. The bracing system saved the windows and their framing from falling off the front of the house. “The room was terrifying when we bought it,” Jenifer says. “Those windows were sunken pretty badly, and we also had to replace the flooring and subflooring and replace the ceiling with drywall.”


They plan to permanently seal the door to the small closet at the end of the up-stairs landing and install a new door that connects to the adjacent master bedroom for easy access. “That used to be a nursery originally, and we’ve been told by a former owner that they’ve seen pictures of a maid and a baby sleeping in there, which ex-plains why there’s a window in a room that small,” Jenifer adds. “We just made it into a nice, big closet.”

FaCe VaLUeThe lengthiest project throughout the six-month overhaul involved stripping and repainting the home’s brick exterior, which included hand-scraping multiple layers of chipped paint and reapplying fresh coats. “It took them three months to do the out-side, and there were three weeks when we didn’t get mail, and I can’t say I blame the mailman,” Jenifer says with a laugh. “The workers had to set up a containment zone 10 feet around the house with warning signs because of the lead paint and wear outfits that looked like space suits.”

Additional changes and upgrades included construction of a detached two-car garage with a concrete parking pad, removal of screens from the front porch and replacement of the home’s original knob-and-tube electrical wiring system. “I’ve wired houses that old before, but I’d

“It took them three months to

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three weeks when we didn’t get mail,

and I can’t say I blame the mailman...”

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never done one with solid brick walls,” says Wayne Meyer, owner of Columbus-based Wayne Meyer Electric. “The house’s crawl space was a little bit of a challenge with accessibility. It took a good month to get all of it done.”

In the DetaILSMaintaining the quality of the home’s original decorative detail, right down to the wood trim and patterned brass hinges and doorknob back plates on the ground level, became crucial from Day 1 of the restoration process. “They say not to fall in love with the hinges when you first look at a Victorian home, but we love them,” Jeni-fer says. “The previous owner had it for 40 years, and she was very much into preserv-ing the history, which is great because we love the original woodwork. If you look at the wood detail on the staircase at the top of the landing, it’s not all the same height, so you can tell it was hand-carved.”

The location has been as enjoyable to Nick and Jenifer as the home itself, particularly its proximity to downtown restaurants, the farmers market and 812 CrossFit, where they regularly work out. Jenifer also takes several trips per week to Fairland Farms near Shelbyville to spend time with Connor, a horse she has owned since 2011. As the renovations continue, Jenifer stays committed to her new home.

“People ask me if I would do it again, and I say probably not unless I fall in love with something like I did with this one,” Jenifer says. “That’s because we liked it enough that it made all of the pain and in-convenience, like the constant dust and not having a stove for a while and all that, worth it. It’s still a long-term project, and we’ll be working on it for a while, but it’s a long way from where it was. We’re glad we did it.”


The 49th state ranks first in adventure and fun

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AAlAskA ANswers to several nicknames: seward’s Folly. The last Frontier. The Great land. land of the Midnight sun. But those who respond to the call of the wild — Jack london’s or their own — most often refer to it as Paradise Found.

Alaska is steeped in history and museums — nearly a dozen cultural groups call the state home — that proudly showcase the state’s rich heritage and art. with just .09 percent of its land developed, it is also America’s last wilderness, defined by wide open spaces punctuated with lush green rain forests, awe-inspiring mountains, pristine glaciers and interior sandy dunes.

Teeming with wildlife and birds, Alaska is an outdoor lover’s paradise, a scenic panorama that draws nearly 2 million annual visitors.

Before making vacation plans, consider what you want to see and whether temperature will be a factor. June through early August are the best months to experience summer weather. long hours of daylight — more than 18 hours — guarantee you won’t miss anything no matter the time of day. Or night.

Overnight accommodations range from hotels and motels to wilderness lodges and resorts, and include hostels, bed-and-breakfasts, campgrounds and rV parks. summer competition for hotels can be fierce, so reserve well in advance.

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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA’S largest city with an estimated population of 285,000, was established in 1914 as a construction port for the Alaska Railroad. Anchorage remains one of the state’s most diverse cities, showcasing its many cultures through museums, native art and gatherings such as the Alaskans Institute Elders & Youth conference and the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, which returns to the city in 2017.

The city’s proximity to mountains and sea (5,000-foot peaks of Chugach State Park and the Cook Inlet) makes it an ideal location to experience the best of both worlds. And dozens of options in between. A booming population has generated a metro mindset and big-city amenities in the heart of the wilderness.

The Anchorage dining scene includes breweries, bakeries, bars and pubs. Cuisine ranges from deli to fine dining, with several ethnic eateries and, of course, a focus on the freshest seafood in the world.

Transportation in and out of Anchorage can be undertaken by road, rail or plane. Downtown lodgings are 15 to 20 minutes from the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (alaskaair.com; 5000 Old International Airport Road; Anchorage; 800-252-7522), located approximately three miles southwest of the city center.

Alaska’s official vacation information sites, Alaska (travelalaska.com), and Visit

Anchorage Alaska (anchorage.net), offer a wealth of information when selecting this super city as your vacation destination.

➣WHAT To DoVisit the Anchorage Museum (anchoragemuseum.org; 625 C St., Anchorage; 907-929-9200) and steep yourself in local history and lore. Highlights include a Polar Lab and the new Thomas Planetarium. An Alaska Culture Pass allows access to both the museum and the Alaska Native Heritage Center (alaskanative.net; 8800 Heritage Center Drive, Anchorage; 907-330-8000). Tickets include a complimentary shuttle between sites.

Ride the rails to Whittier, about an hour from Anchorage, via the Alaska Railroad (alaskarailroad.com; 327 W. Ship Creek Ave., Anchorage; 907-265-2300), and enjoy a tour through Prince William Sound (alaska.org/destination/whittier/day-cruises). Bounded by the Chugach Mountains and Kenai Peninsula, the sound is renowned for its abundance of marine mammals, birds and wildlife, and the densest concentration of tidewater glaciers in the world. Tours are hosted by Phillips Cruises and Tours (phillipscruises.com; 519 W. Fourth Ave., Anchorage; 907-276-8023), among others. New this year: the Sunset Glacier Cruise.

For great music, food and company hop aboard the railroad’s Blues Train (alaskarailroad.com/ride-a-train/event-trains/blues-train). The special round trip package from Anchorage to Seward includes overnight accommodations at the Talkeetna Alaskan lodge

(talkeetnalodge.com; 23601 Talkeetna Spur Road, Talkeetna; 907-733-9500).

Consider flightseeing or a shore excursion aboard a float plane. Regal Air (regal-air.com; 4506 Lakeshore Drive, Anchorage; 907-243-8535) will transport you round-trip from your hotel to its facility. Flightseeing tours range from a half-hour to three hours and include a Mount McKinley and Denali Park Tour and Knik & Colony Glacier Tour. Land tours offer opportunities to view Alaskan grizzly bears, raft the Alaska River and experience eco-trekking.

Anchorage’s events calendar (alaska.org/destination/anchorage/festivals) features nearly monthly celebrations. Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, with 22 hours of functional daylight, is celebrated in June as Solstice Festival & Hero Games (anchorage.net/events/summer-solstice-festival). The town also gears up for the Fourth of July Celebration. The quintessential patriotic event kicks off July 3, with food, fun and fireworks.

Annual winter festivals include the globally renowned 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race (iditarod.com), which runs from Anchorage to Nome, and the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous (furrondy.net), Alaska’s largest and oldest winter festival.

➣WHERE To STAyAnchorage Grand Hotel (anchoragegrand.com; 505 W. Second Ave., Anchorage; 907-929-8888), the city’s premier boutique “all-suite” hotel, is located downtown. The locally owned operation

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offers separate sleeping-only rooms with blackout curtains, a bonus where the sun never truly sets.

In addition to a slew of amenities, the 16-story Sheraton Anchorage Hotel & Spa (sheratonanchorage.com; 401 E. Sixth Ave., Anchorage; 907-276-8700) showcases artwork in the lobby atrium and boasts a jade staircase.

Luxury accommodations, fine dining and a historic past are hallmarks of the Hotel Captain Cook (captaincook.com; 939 W. Fifth Ave., Anchorage; 907-341-4194). The downtown hotel offers stunning views of Cook Inlet and the Chugach Mountains. Select one- and two-bedroom Crow’s Nest Suites for space and seclusion. Four on-site restaurants, including the AAA Four Diamond Crow’s Nest, add to the overall experience.

A midtown location makes Embassy Suites Anchorage (embassysuitesanchorage.com; 600 E. Benson Blvd., Anchorage; 907-332-7000) the lodging of choice for many visitors. Enjoy complimentary cooked-to-order breakfasts; Territory, a unique lunch and dinner option; a state-of-the-art fitness center; and an indoor pool and hot tub.

For a more personal, intimate, home-away-from-home lodging, visit the Alaska House of Jade Bed and Breakfast (alaskahouseofjade.com; 3800 Dellwood Place, Anchorage; 907-337-3400). Hosts Zack and Krista oversee the inn, which features five suites ranging from 350 to more than 500 square feet, along with spacious common areas.

➣WHERE To EATThink Moose’s Tooth Pub and Pizzeria (moosestooth.net; 3300 Old Seward Highway, Anchorage; 907-258-2537) for hand-tossed, stone-baked and made-from-scratch pizza. The extensive menu also features salads, sandwiches, appetizers and desserts, while Broken Tooth Brewing offers more than 20 draft beers.

Snow City Café (snowcitycafe.com; 1034 W. Fourth Ave., Anchorage; 907-272-2489) has been serving happiness with breakfast, brunch and lunch since 1998. Benedicts, eggs, egg-cetera and build-your-own omelet dictate the menu, which also features weekly, monthly and soup specials.

Indulge your passion for seafood and draft beer at F Street Station (325 F St., Anchorage; 907-272-5196). Kick back and watch the chefs employ their craft while you enjoy a halibut or crab salad sandwich.

Local seafood, wood-grilled meats, hand-crafted ales and a convivial atmosphere have drawn guests to the Glacier Brewhouse (glacierbrewhouse.com; 737 W. Fifth Ave., Anchorage; 907-274-2739) since 1996. Brunch, lunch and dinner menus are offered, with gluten-free options.

The Marx Bros. Café (marxcafecom; 627 W. 3rd Ave., Anchorage; 907-258-6279) specializes in innovative contemporary cuisine featuring fresh Alaskan seafood. Reservations are highly recommended at this small, intimate venue, which has just 14 tables.

AuG. 25 MARKS the centennial of the National Park Service. It’s an exciting time to be in Alaska, which boasts eight national parks covering approximately 54 million acres of land, more than 60 percent of all land managed by the National Park Service.

Located between Anchorage and Fairbanks, Denali National Park and Preserve (nps.gov/dena/index.htm; George Parks Highway, Denali National Park and Preserve; 907-683-9532) is home to Mount McKinley, North America’s highest peak at more than 20,000 feet. Visitors have made it one of Alaska’s most visited parks.

Terrain ranges from spruce forest to tundra and glaciers, harboring wildlife that includes grizzly bears, moose, caribou and Dall sheep. The 92-mile Denali Park Road, the park’s only road, wends through low valleys and high mountain passes. During summer, visitors may drive the first 15 miles, ending at Savage River. Beyond that, the road is unpaved, and traffic is primarily restricted to tour and shuttle buses.

Denali and nearby Healy offer a wide range of accommodations. Many have river and park views, and most offer tour packages. Backcountry activities require a permit, available at the park’s main visitor center.

If you opt not to park it at Denali, consider a visit to another Alaska national park setting. Each offers exciting features and activities not found elsewhere within the united States. Visit the National Park Service site (nps.gov/subjects/centennial/index.htm) to see what centennial festivities are planned at your preferred park destination.

➣WHAT To DoDenali National Park and Preserve offers activities from ATV and four-wheeling to zip lines. For an exciting adventure take a Denali Jeep Excursion (denalijeep.com; Mile 238.6 Parks Highway; 907-683-5337) on the Denali Highway. The five-hour, 100-mile guided round trip affords a look at snow-capped mountains, glaciers, wildlife

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A team prepares to race at the ceremonial start of the 43rd annual

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opportunity to view the Paleolithic ruminant that produces the finest wool in the world.

➣WHERE To STAyDenali overlook Inn (denalioverlookinn.com; 29198 S. Talkeetna Spur, Talkeetna; 907-733-3555) offers spectacular views inside and out, with a winter air show of the aurora borealis (northern lights).

If time is on your side, a six-hour narrated bus ride to the secluded Denali Backcountry lodge (alaskadenalitravel.com/lodging/denali-backcountry-lodge/; Mile 92 Denali Park Road) could be the ticket. Modest cabins abut Moose Creek, and rooms offer a stunning view and private decks. Not into busing? Consider chartering a plane. Reserve lodging through Alaska Denali Travel (alaskadenalitravel.com; 1301 West Parks Highway, Suite 5, Wasilla; 866-307-3145).

Camp Denali and North Face lodge (campdenali.com/alaska-lodges/north-face-lodge; Park Road; 907-683-2290) are located in the park 1.5 miles from Wonder Lake. The lodge, which overlooks eight major peaks of

the Alaska Range, specializes in guided outings and evening programs.

Located less than an hour from Anchorage, Agate Inn (agateinn.com; 4725 Begich Circle, Wasilla; 907-373-2290) offers spacious king rooms, suites and a chance to feed the reindeer.

North of Denali (a two-hour drive or four-hour train trip), Fountainhead Hotels & Resort (fountainheadhotels.com) offers four unique Fairbanks lodgings, including Sophie Station Suites (fountainheadhotels.com/sophie-station; 1717 university Ave.; 907-479-3650) located in the heart of the city. The locally owned and operated hotel features fully appointed suites, each with a balcony; dine at Zach’s Restaurant or The Express Room.

➣WHERE To EAT Denali Park Village (denaliparkvillage.com) is home to several eateries, including the Alaska Cabin Nite Dinner Theater (denaliparkvillage.com; 800-276-7234), which combines food and a show. The authentic roadhouse in Miners Plaza presents talented performers and an all-you-can-eat family-style meal (Alaskan salmon, barbecued ribs and all the trimmings). Download a park map at denaliparkvillage.com/media/1787330/denali-property-and-area-map.pdf.

Enjoy fresh seafood and all-natural steaks at the Alpenglow Restaurant located in the Grande Denali Lodge (donalialaska.com/grande-denali-lodge/dining; Denali National Park; 907-683-7000). Small and sharing plates, crafted and hot cocktails are menu staples at the restaurant and in the Peak Spirits Lounge. If you’re staying in Anchorage and love small-batch, handcrafted artisan ales and lagers, a visit to the 49th State Brewing Co. (49statebrewing.com, 717 W. Third

and stunning sights few ever see. Must be at least 25 years old and licensed to drive.

Kantishna Wilderness Trails (denaliwildlifetour.com; Doyon Tourism, 1 Doyon Place, Suite 300, Fairbanks; 800-230-7275) offers a day trip bus tour from June through mid-September. View Mount McKinley, Wonder Lake and the historic Kantishna area, and enjoy lunch at the Kantishna Roadhouse (kantishnaroadhouse.com; Mile 92 Denali Park Road; 907-374-3041).

If you love sled dogs, take time to view them up close and personal. Each summer Husky Homestead (huskyhomestead.com; Denali Park; 907-683-2904) showcases the magnificent animals that participate in the annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Your host is Jeff King, four-time race winner and born raconteur.

View the park’s beauty by air with K2 Aviation (flyk2.com; 14052 E. Second St., Talkeetna; 907-733-2291). Land on a glacier, climb on Denali or schedule an eco-tour that combines a floatplane ride with a wilderness hike.

Rent an RV and drive to the historic village of Talkeetna (talkeetnachamber.org) at the base of Mount McKinley. The quaint town offers a host of activities, ranging from mountain climbing to fishing and float trips, as well as shopping opportunities.

Denali’s scenic Nenana River provides spectacular rafting opportunities, both whitewater and calm non-whitewater sections. Raft Denali (raftdenali.com/denali-rafting-trips.html; Mile 238 Parks Highway, Healy; 800-789-7238) offers a half-dozen trips for specific ages and abilities and at several price points.

Two hours south of the park, Palmer is home to the Musk ox Farm (muskoxfarm.org; 12850 E. Archie Road, Palmer; 907-745-4151). The nonprofit 1930s era farm in the Matanuska Valley offers a unique

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St., Anchorage, 907-277-7727) is a must. A second location (248.4 Parks Highway, Healy; 907-683-2739) is located 10 miles north of the Denali Park entrance. An added attraction: the “Into the Wild” bus (49statebrewing.com/bus.html), a popular setting for selfies and photo ops.

Eight miles north of the park entrance, Black Diamond Resort Co. (blackdiamondtourco.com; One Mile Otto Lake Road, Healy; 907-683-4653) is a casual, full-service restaurant that serves gourmet breakfast, lunch and dinner. The resort offers ATV tours, a draft horse-drawn Covered Wagon Tour and package tours from all Denali Park area destinations.

lavelle’s Bistro (lavellesbistro.com; 575 First Ave.; Fairbanks, 907-450-0555) in downtown Fairbanks is one of the city’s finest restaurants. Alaska grown, certified Angus beef and gluten-free are hallmarks of the bistro, which also boasts wine selections at mid-range prices and into three figures.

KETCHIKAN IS MOST renowned for its fjords, wildlife and colorful totem poles. But this ancestral home of the Tongass Tribe of Tlingit Indians has much more going for it.

Built into steep hills, the city is located on the southwestern shore of Revillagigedo Island, south of Wrangell. Just east of Ketchikan is the Misty Fjords National Monument (alaskatrekker.com/places-go/misty-fiords-national-monument/), a 2.2 million-acre wilderness, and the 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest (fs.usda.gov/tongass/; 648 Mission St., Ketchikan; 907-225-3101).

KetchikanEstablished in 1907, the Tongass is the

largest national forest in the united States and home to an estimated 10,000 bald eagles, half the state’s eagle population and the world’s largest concentration of the huge birds.

Ketchikan’s diverse population of artisans has created a large artists’ enclave, and nearly a dozen galleries showcase their works. Nineteenth-century art, in the form of the world’s largest collection of totem poles, is showcased in climate-controlled environments and displayed in public spaces and totem parks.


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Whether you’re seeking an exciting getaway, an educational sabbatical, a family vacation or just some much needed downtime, you’ll find it here. Visit the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau (visit-ketchikan.com) for more information.

➣WHAT To DoFall in love with Ketchikan through a Saxman Native Village Tour offered by Sourdough Tours (907-225-4081). The two-hour guided and narrated tour of the area includes an hour at Saxman Totem

Village (alaska.org/detail/saxman-totem-park; 2706 S. Tongass Highway, Ketchikan; 907-225-4846) and a visit to Creek Street boardwalk, which has morphed over the years to a residential/commercial area showcasing historic homes, unique shops and museums.

Noteworthy museums and cultural centers include the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center (alaksacenters.gov; 50 Main St., Ketchikan; 907-228-6220) and Ketchikan Museum & library (ketchikanpubliclibrary.org; 1110 Copper

Ridge Lane, Ketchikan; 907-225-3331). More information at alaska.org/destination/ketchikan/museums.

Discover the blues at the city’s annual Blueberry Arts Festival (ketchikanarts.org). Scheduled for Aug. 2 to 4, the 41st annual event celebrates the southeast Alaskan blueberry with art, entertainment, the Gigglefeet Dance Festival and Lumberjack Arena’s Summer Beer Festival.

Get your rowdy on at The Great Alaskan lumberjack Show (alaskanlumberjackshow.com; 420 Spruce Mill Way, Ketchikan; 907-225-9050). The hour-long, fun show in downtown Ketchikan pits lumberjack athletes against one another, competing in sawing, tree climbing, log rolling and other manly events.

Fly over the Misty Fjords in a floatplane and experience the thrill of natural wonders. Mountain Air Services’ (mtair.biz) approximately two-hour flight takes passengers into the heart of the Misty Fjords National Monument, across alpine lakes and past the New Eddystone Rock, a 237-foot basalt pillar. Optional half-hour break to take photos.

Soar with the eagles and experience the excitement of a zip line. Alaska Canopy Adventures (spiritofalaskatours.com; 116 Wood Road, Ketchikan; 907-225-5503) offers two expeditions set in the treetops of Tongass National Forest. Each fun run is about 3½ hours long.

View history carved in wood at the oceanfront Totem Bight State Historical Park (9883 N. Tongass Highway, Ketchikan; 907-247-8574), approximately

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nine miles from downtown. There are 14 totem poles and a Clan House at the site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Travel the Inside Passage (travelalaska.com/Destinations/Regions/Inside%20Passage.aspx), known as the “Jewel of Alaska.” The coastal sea route encompasses an estimated 15,000 miles of shoreline and thousands of coves and bays, wending past cities from Ketchikan to Skagway and Haines, and includes Juneau, the state capital, where the Alaska State Museum reopened in April as the State library, Archives and Museum (SLAM) (museums.alaska.gov; 395 Whittier St., Juneau; 907-465-2901).

For information on National Geographic’s Inside Passage voyages, visit nationalgeographicexpeditions.com. Or consider an excursion via an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry (dot.state.ak.us/amhs), which covers a 3,500-mile route and provides service to more than 35 communities.

➣WHERE To STAyBlack Bear Inn (stayinalaska.com; 5528 N. Tongass Highway, Ketchikan; 907-225-4343) is Ketchikan’s only Five Star waterfront bed-and-breakfast. Covered porches, elegant bedrooms with fireplaces, a large open spa and a beautiful setting are only the beginning.

Scenic views of Deer Mountain and the downtown waterfront make Cape Fox lodge (capefoxlodge.com; 800 Venetia Way, Ketchikan; 907-225-8001) a special destination. Standard guest rooms and suites are available. Enjoy fine dining in the Heen Kahidi Dining Room, or coffee in the Numshee Jitters Café.

A full-service waterfront hotel, restaurant and marina, The Edgewater Inn (ketchikanedgewaterinn.com; 4871 N. Tongass Highway, Ketchikan; 907-247-

2600) is situated on the Tongass Narrows minutes from downtown. Select from standard rooms, junior suites and superior rooms, and enjoy an extensive dinner menu with an emphasis on fresh seafood and steak.

Historic opulence, warm hospitality and a breathtaking view of Alaska’s busiest waterfront combine to make the 1927 Gilmore Hotel (gilmorehotel.com; 326 Front St., Ketchikan; 907-225-9423) a visitor’s home away from home. Historic Creek Street, shopping and attractions are within walking distance.

An Alaskan fishing vacation for the family deserves special accommodations: Chinook Shores lodge (chinookshores.com; Potter Road, Ketchikan; 907-225-6700). Arrive by land, sea or air and stay in Craftsman-style beach houses with a private beach and dock.

➣WHAT To EATLocated in the historic Gilmore Hotel, Annabelle’s Famous Keg and Chowder House (annabellesketchikan; 326 Front St., Ketchikan; 907-225-6009) specializes in casual and fine dining. Halibut, salmon and king crab entrees, decadent desserts and beers from the Juneau-based Alaskan Brewing Co. are served.

George Inlet lodge (11728 S. Tongass Highway, Ketchikan; 907-225-6077), 15 miles south of Ketchikan, is a three-story former cannery bunkhouse relocated from more than 70 miles away. Now a sport fishing retreat, the lodge offers dining and cocktails in a rustic, casual setting.

Alaska Fish House (alaskafishhouse.com; 3 Salmon Landing, Ketchikan; 907-225-4055) serves seafood items, including fish tacos, smoked salmon chowder and Dungeness crab. For Sunday brunch, try a Longliner or Crabber omelet, filled with grilled halibut or crab.

Family friendly Bar Harbor Restaurant (barharborrestaurantketchikan.com; 55 Schoenbar Court, Ketchikan; 907-225-2813) serves lunch and dinner from an extensive menu that appeals to all ages. Reservations are recommended at the restaurant, which touts itself as “where the locals dine.”

Ketchikan eateries offer more than seafood. Go for delicious pizza and Mexican cuisine, and what may be the most affordable meal in the city at Chico’s Mexican Restaurant (435 Dock St., Ketchikan; 907-225-2833).

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Black Bear Inn

Annabelle’s Famous Keg and Chowder House


Weddings

shounak Pandit and dawn doup met on Match.com; they had their first in-person date at 4th street Bar and grill, after emailing and texting for about three months. shounak proposed a little more than a year later; he sent his fiancée-to-be on a scavenger hunt that included her family and several friends. the hunt led her to a one-year anniversary party designed, dawn says, to distract her from the fact that he was going to propose. in shounak’s culture, Marathi, there is generally no proposal.

“however, he said that he wanted it to be memorable. it most definitely was,” dawn says. the party ended with shounak proposing at dawn’s house, under the weeping willow tree that she had planted as a little girl. local friends and family witnessed the event in person; shounak’s family watched from india via skype.

as the couple began to plan their wedding, it was im-portant to them that they have both a hindu and a chris-tian ceremony. “we wanted to honor both of our faiths,” dawn says. “we also wanted to have both ceremonies on one day as we only wanted to have one anniversary date.”

Early on, a hindu priest recommended auspicious dates for their wedding. this gave them five months to or-ganize the two ceremonies and the reception. the couple chose a wedding date in late april in part so that shou-nak’s 8-year-old nephew could attend. “it was important to have as many of (shounak’s) family and friends, since many of them would be coming from far away, and i had so many family and friends who live much closer,” dawn says.

the event would play out in front of more than 300 guests. it was held at fairlawn Presbyterian church, where dawn’s father and grandparents were founding members. shounak had attended church there many times, and the couple asked to hold the hindu ceremony on the grounds outside the church. church members, friends and family from around the globe all helped craft the doup-Pandit wedding day, from finding music for the christian cere-mony; providing a horse for the hindu ceremony’s barat (the arrival of the groom); and hosting dawn’s mehndi party, during which she had henna applied to her hands and feet.

coming from india, shounak’s parents brought every-thing for the hindu ceremony, including dawn’s wedding outfit, her reception saree, her ceremonial jewelry, her sister diane’s saree and fabric for the horse.

“honestly, i think what made the day so perfect was just us being able to marry each other and to have our family and friends there and for all of them to be so sup-portive,” dawn says. “we both feel so blessed that we were able to have so many positive people helping with our wedding and helping to make it feel very personal for us.”

april 23, 2016

hindu wedding ceremony and christian wedding ceremony at fairlawn Presbyterian church and reception at factory 12 Event loft

Photos by angela Jackson of angela Jackson Photography

Dawn Doup and Shounak Pandit



Weddings

Music brought chris and Kylie together. the couple met during their freshman year at indiana university. Both were clarinet majors in the Jacobs school of Music. chris caught Kylie’s eye during the first week of the semester. “i thought he was cute the first time i saw him in our freshmen scales class,” she says. “we started dating the end of freshman year when he asked me to go to a concert with him.”

the couple moved to cincinnati while Kylie was getting her master’s degree in clarinet from the cincinnati conser-vatory of Music. on dec. 21, 2014, chris popped the ques-tion with a surprise proposal in a park across the street from cincinnati’s Music hall, a landmark the couple frequented during their time in the Queen city.

“the park was empty and quiet but illuminated with christmas lights,” Kylie recalls. “as soon as we got out of the car, i heard someone playing the saxophone in the gazebo at the center of the park. i walked up to the gazebo, and chris got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. i will never forget the feeling of walking up to the gazebo, knowing that the man of my dreams was about to propose.”

wedding planning ensued, with the couple doing all of the planning in about five months. Kylie said yes to a strap-less, champagne-colored dress with a princess silhouette that featured white lace and beaded applique at the waist; she accessorized with her mother’s wedding shoes from 1978. for location, the couple chose Kylie’s parents’ three-acre, wooded front yard.

“we spent all of the spring weekends leading up to the wedding working in the yard, mulching and planting flow-ers,” Kylie says. “My parents created a special path through their woods, lined with fallen logs. it was decorated with items we made and collected for the wedding, including a photo booth that our family cat, Blanca, loved to lounge in.” the guests, who came from california, New York, illinois, Missouri, ohio, tennessee, Michigan and indiana, arrived and entered the path in the woods that took them to the ceremony site.

the reception took place in a large 40-by-80-foot white tent; the wedding colors were blush and light gray. the tables were covered in gray tablecloths and featured wood-land-themed centerpieces made by Kylie’s father. “My mom and i planted all of the potted herbs that sat on the tables, and small votive candles lit each guest’s dinner plate,” she adds. Kylie’s aunt, a graphic designer, created the programs.

“our entire wedding was very personal and very musical,” she says. “My 79-year-old grandma made all of our wedding cakes, and we had a close friend marry us. he got ordained just for our big day. chris’ brother sang during our ceremony, and two of my best friends played pieces on their instruments (violin and clarinet). during the reception we had a jazz combo play, and my sister sang the tune, ‘all the things You are’ for our first dance.”

June 6, 2015

the stultz home in columbus

Photos by todd Voelz (Parker Portraits)

Kylie Stultz and Chris Dessent



Featuring the art, writing, poetry and photography of talented local students. If you know a young Columbus area poet, writer, artist or photographer, please send in their creations for possible inclusion in our next issue. Email high-resolution photographs or word documents to [email protected]. Don’t forget to include the student’s name, age and school.

* If you’ve recently submitted art, but haven’t seen it in

Student Views, don’t worry, it might appear

in a future issue!

Nichole Scott, Photography,Ivy Tech Community College

Hailey Burgess, Watercolor,Columbus East High School

Zoe Clulow, Watercolor,

Columbus East High School

Olivia Ortman, Pencil,

Columbus East High School

Abigail lewis, tempera and Pastel,Columbus East High School


Our Side of Town

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5. Nathan Gerth, Matt Gerth, Laura Herron, Carrol McCarty and Tony Pappano. 6. Nathan and Sarah Frasier.7. Kathy Hutsen Baumgart, Doug Pacheco, Rex Baumgart and Mary Ann Pacheco.

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CaP adult Prom

1. (from left) tony and Maggie allison with Jacob Evans and Krista Beaman arrive.

2. Photo bombs galore as chad denton and Brittany gray take a selfie.

3. crowns for the king and queen await recipients.

4. cindy and leigh finnegan

5. attendees dance.

6. Katie sweeney and Bryan Milburn

7. christi Brown, christine Miller, Jobeth Johnson, with Jason Brown and trevor Johnson (in back) in the photo booth.

8. Katrina hardwick, donna Booth, Michelle carter, tara ford with tim Emmert.

9. donna Booth, robin Maiani, vickie hildreth, holly downey, tara Board, Michelle carter, debbie Barrett and scott hildreth play with props from alan trisler's photo booth.

10. Brittany and Mike lutke

11. savannah Moore, donald hobbs, Jon and trish sanders, rodger and dawn Bunch

12. stuart davey and Jennifer combest

13. david and angie May

14. sarah abel, Morgan abel (Miss indiana usa) and lee hamlin greet attendees.

15. courtney Mccoy

16. Becky Mcroberts, Jeff gesner, dianna and Gerard McRoberts, Steffie McRoberts and rachael hudgins

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the Phil's Maine event: Lobsterfest

1. Marshall and Beth Middendorf with Fred Armstong 2. Lacey Gobert, Linda Pillar, David Bowden, Donna Bowden and Cathy King 3. Margaret Powers with Zack and Glinda Ellison 4. Columbus Indiana Children's Choir colored table decorations and wrote notes about what choir means to them.

5. Lobster decor at the check-in table 6. Therese Copeland waits to greet attendees. 7. Lloyd Brooks and Lisa Westmark.8. Roger Brinkman, Susan and Dick Miller, Nancy and Dick Nyers, Bob and Caroline North, Pete King, and Bonnie Boatwright

9. Madelyn Lego, Delaney and Travis George, Caitlin Smith, Sharon and Patrick Andrews 10. Joan and Reaugh Eaton11. Volunteer Chuck Steitz holds up a freshly cooked lobster. 12. Adam Frankhauser, Cindy and Troy Forman 13. The Columbus Indiana Children's Choir performs.

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3. tom and Miles Mcghie

4. Janet roemmel of reston, virginia, with Phyllis and charles roemmel

5. david Bowden, music director and conductorfor the columbus indiana Philharmonic

6. luis Kuae and carolina Pereira, with baby daniel Kuae

7. linda cleland, sophia crabtree and Molly crabtree

8. li he, Bing chang Zhao and fan Zhozi Zhao

9. world war ii veteran Marvin and Jacqueline sabatino, with Phyllis and Bob crase

10. Emily conti with her kitty, stan lee

11. veteran floyd watkins, with his nephew, Nickiah watkins

12. columbus Young Marine Marvin gates hands out programs and flags.

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donner aquatic center is open for the season.

Calendar of EventsMUSIC | ARTS | ENTERTAINMENT | OUTDOORS | SPECIAL INTERESTS

3780 or columbusfarmersmarket.org.every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., vendors at the Columbus City Farmers Market offer locally grown produce, flowers, plants, baked goods and unique crafts. WIC vouchers accepted. Location: Fair oaks Mall parking lot facing 25th Street. Infor-mation: (812) 378-0539.

ThROUGh JUNE 30“Art Alert … A Showcase of Fine Artists” features the work of six Columbus-based artists. Bob Burris,

a charter member of the Bloomington Watercolor Society, is a featured artist in the gift shop and has earned awards at t. C. Steele painting events. Susie Gregory’s works have graced the walls of the Indiana State Museum and the Governor’s Mansion, as well as being displayed in 27 states, Canada, Costa rica and australia. the paintings of Mary Gretsinger have earned her consecutive Best of Show awards at the hoosier Salon in 2013 and 2014. Chris newlund paints regularly with the Indiana Plein air Painters association and is a mem-

Donner Aquatic Center is open for the sum-mer. times: 1 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday; noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Location: 22nd and Sycamore streets. Informa-tion: columbus.in.gov.

every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Columbus Farmers Market offers fresh produce, flowers, home-baked goods, art, jewelry and music. Location: Cummins parking lot, between Brown and Lindsey streets. Information: (812) 371-


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ber of the hoosier Salon, Indiana heritage arts and the american Impressionist Society, among other art organizations. David Williams’ work includes watercolor and illustration, as well as published books on drawing. Yianna Young is a student artist displaying drawings, watercolor and acrylic paint-ings. Cost: Free. Location: Columbus area Visitors Center, 506 Fifth St.

JUNE 25-26Columbus is known for its collection of modern architecture and historic buildings, beautiful parks and walking trails. all of this provides a setting for painters. Don’t miss the second annual ArtFest Plein-Air Paintout, with proceeds going to the development and support of a cooperative art gallery in downtown Columbus. on June 24 and 25, artists will paint in and around Columbus. all artwork is to be submitted by 10 a.m. June 26. Information: columbusartfest.com.

Enjoy artwork from local, regional and national artists, including mixed media, ceramics, fiber, leather, furniture, glass, jewelry, printmaking, sculpture and woodwork. time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Location: Mill race Park. Information: columbusartfest.com.

JULy 1, AUG. 5Artz Daze offers no-cost, hands-on learning opportunities for people of all ages in the heart of the Columbus arts District. no experience necessary. all activities are outdoors. time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: the Commons, 300 Washington St. Information: (812) 376-2539 or artsincolumbus.org.

JULy 5, AUG. 1Many believe that meditation strengthens brain circuits associated with happiness and positive behavior. During these sessions participants will learn to meditate and experience their inner light. Sessions, presented by Pyramid Meditation Center, are for those 6 and older. time: 6 p.m. Location: Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St. Information: (812) 379-1266 or mybcpl.org.

JULy 5, AUG. 2, SEPT. 6receive emotional sup-port, practical assistance in coping with the issues you face and the latest information on research during the Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group. Meetings are confidential. time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St. Information: (812) 379-1266 or mybcpl.org.

JULy 7Jai Baker Band performs as part of JCB neighborfest. take some country and smash it into alternative rock and you find the new world of Jai Baker, who went far on “the Voice” and “american Idol.” time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: 300 block of Washington Street in front of the Commons. Information: (812) 376-2539 or artsincolumbus.org.

JULy 8-10the Mill race theatre Company presents “Oliver.” Join the adventure of the boy who wanted more and got it. “oliver” is a classic Charles Dickens’ tale brought to life on the stage. Watch oliver navigate his way with guidance and help from classic char-acters like Fagin, the artful Dodger, Mr. Brumble and Bill Sikes. time: 7 p.m. July 8 and 9; 2:30 p.m. July 10. Cost: $12 for adults; $8 for children 12 and younger. Location: Columbus north high School auditorium, 1400 25th St. Information: millraceplayers.org.

JULy 8-16Don’t miss the Bartholomew County 4-H Fair with activities ranging from tractor pulls to dem-olition derbies and so much more. Information: bartholomewcountyfair.com.

JULy 9the King’s Singers bring their “Postcards From

Around the World” program to Columbus. they will sing arrangements of some of the most beau-tiful songs from around the world. Famed for their musical excellence, the King’s Singers are a class act with a delightfully British sense of humor. time: 7:30 p.m. tickets: $25. Location: St. Bartholomew roman Catholic Parish, 1306 27th St. Information: kingssingers.com.

JULy 11-15Ivy tech Community College School of Fine arts & Design presents the Art & Design Free Summer Camp. time: 9 a.m. Location: Ivy tech Community College, 4475 Central ave. Information: (812) 374-5139 or ivytech.edu.

JULy 21the Civil War Book Discussion Group will discuss the second half of “Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and robert e. Lee – the War they Fought, the Peace they Forged,” by William C. Davis. the group meets every other month. time: 7 p.m. Loca-tion: Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St. Information: (812) 379-1266 or mybcpl.org.

JULy 14, AUG. 11, SEPT. 8Meet with other writers in the county, share ideas and learn during the Bartholomew County Writers Group. time: 6 p.m. Location: Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St. Information: (812) 379-1266 or mybcpl.org.


>> calendar of events

JULy 21Rumer Willis performs as part of the Summer Cab-aret Series, presented by Columbus Indiana Phil-harmonic. ticket holders who have reserved dinner will be served from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. a full cash bar will be available, including an option to purchase a bottle of table wine. time: show begins at 7:30 p.m. Location: the Commons, 300 Washington St. tick-ets: $55 VIP, $35 Preferred, $20 general admission. Meal reservations are $15 per person and must be made in advance. Multiple-show ticket packages available. Information: Philharmonic office at (812) 376-2638, ext. 1, or online at theCIP.org.

JULy 23Come out to the henry Breeding Farm for the Reeves pancake breakfast and silent auction. See vintage farm machinery, fill up on all-you-can-eat pancakes and bid on items in the silent auction. time: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Location: henry Breeding

Farm, 13730 W. County road 100n, edinburgh. Infor-mation: (812) 372-3541 or bartholomewhistory.org.

JULy 23the Johnson Witkemper Insurance Biggest Block Party Ever features local and regional bands. Great food from downtown restaurants, beer and wine, and kids activities round out the fun. all proceeds benefit the Columbus area arts Council. time: 5:30 p.m. to midnight. Cost: $8 adults; children 12 and younger free. Location: Downtown Columbus. Information: (812) 376-2534 or artsincolumbus.org.

JULy 27Join up with your friends and loved ones for the Family Bingo and Make-Your-Own-Sundae Night for a night of delicious memories. this event is limited

JULy 8-16Visit the bartholomew county 4-h Fair.

JULy 21rumer willis performs with the columbus indiana philhamonic


to the first 30 families, maximum of five per family. Prizes awarded to bingo winners.time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Location: Donner Center. Cost: Free. Information: columbusparksandrec.com and (812) 376-2680.

AUG. 4Groove Essential performs as part of JCB neighborfest. time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: 300 block of Washington Street in front of the Commons. Information: (812) 376-2539 or artsincolumbus.org.

AUG. 6the second annual Smart Money Family Fun Ride is a family-focused bike ride that is differ-ent from other rides. It features age-appropriate games and activities related to money and the fun and importance of saving. It begins and ends at the Columbus Municipal airport and offers two routes: a 14-mile route that follows the People trail and a 5-mile route designed for young riders and walkers. Funds raised will support financial literacy programs. time: 8 a.m. Location: Columbus Municipal airport, 4770 ray Boll Blvd. Information: centrafoundation.org.

JULy 23the annual reeves pancake breakfast is held at henry breeding Farm.

AUG. 25adam Pascal and anthony rapp perform as part of the Summer Cabaret Series, presented by Co-lumbus Indiana Philharmonic. ticket holders who have reserved dinner will be served from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. a full cash bar will be available, including

an option to purchase a bottle of table wine. time: show begins at 7:30 p.m. Location: the Commons, 300 Washington St. tickets: $55 VIP, $35 Preferred, $20 general admission. Meal reservations are $15 per person and must be made in advance. Multiple-show ticket packages available. Information: Phil-

harmonic office at (812) 376-2638, ext. 1, or online at theCIP.org.

AUG. 27the Columbus Craft Beerfest

will feature Indiana breweries and local beer. Proceeds will benefit

participating brewers and the Columbus Park Foundation. time: 3

p.m. Location: Mill race Park. Infor-mation: columbus.in.us.

SEPT. 1Hudson Hornet performs as part of

JCB neighborfest. time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: 300 block

of Washington Street in front of the Commons. Information: (812) 376-2539 or

artsincolumbus.org.

al degner, with his children, matthew and lauren, prepares for last year's smart money Family Fun ride

AUG. 9Podcasts are a great way to educate and entertain your-

self for free. Whether you want to learn more about

managing your money, sports, history or just find

out the fate of Adnan Syed in the wildly popular “Se-

rial” podcast, there’s some-thing for everyone. In this presentation, Patric Welch, aka Mr. Noobie, will tell you what you’ll need to listen to a podcast and how to find

and subscribe to your favor-ite podcasts. Time: 6 p.m. Location: Bartholomew

County Public Library, 536 Fifth St. Information: (812) 379-1266 or mybcpl.org.


A Look Back

In 1949, William L. and Joan D. Becker moved from Wisconsin to open Becker’s Drive-In,

an a&W root beer stand at 1022 25th St. the stand operated for 67 years in the same location,

with ownership eventually passing to the couple’s son, William Becker Jr.

Carhop service, which was standard for drive-ins when the restaurant opened, eventually became a throwback to

days past. Becker’s kept the tradition going with wait staff that took customers’ orders and delivered burgers,

Coney dogs, frosty root beer, fries and other fast food directly to patrons’ cars. the popular spot did not reopen

in March for the 2016 season, and the announcement soon came that, after more than six decades of serving

some of Columbus’ favorite onion rings, Becker’s Drive-In would close.

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top left: carhop ariel debusk carries an order under the awning to a customer at becker’s drive-in in 2009.

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