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Flashback Photo
A Bus Ride to Town
Corydon, IN
1920
// Photo courtesy of the Frederick Porter Griffin Center, Harrison County Public Library
According to library records, Lloyd Meech operated one of the first open air buses in the area. The bus,
filled with men, women, and children as well as boxes and luggage. made regular trips between Corydon
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Southern Indiana Living • July/August 2022 • 7

A Walk in the Garden with Bob Hill
Some days on our adventure
road trips we end up at Mt. Moriah
Cemetery, mostly because
that’s where we are going to
end up. It’s located in rolling Southern
Indiana hills east of Henryville,
hills that are not quite worthy of the
“knobs” description given its more,
well, knobby brethren to the south
and west, but still worthy of occasional
pursuit.
Just getting there is fun. We can
first go to Henryville and take a right
in what passes for its downtown or
go a little north of Henryville near the
Clark State Forest, take a right and follow
wonderfully winding roads apparently
laid out by a drunk cow. In
defense of the cow, those roads have
become more and more populated
with homes, so it did have the right
idea. On other wandering days you
can take a left into Clark State Forest,
established in 1903 and the oldest
state forest in Indiana, and look off
into the distance toward Louisville or
climb a fire tower.
But we had family in mind. Janet
Hill was originally a “Dieterlen,”
a farming and factory clan that settled
in the Henryville area back in the late
1800s and spread out nicely from
there. We moved to Southern Indiana
from Northern Illinois in 1975.
Full circle.
Mt. Moriah Cemetery had become
the final destination for many
of the Dieterlens, and about 15 years
ago, with plots selling for $100 each,
and our roots firmly established close
by, we signed up for two.
The plots came with a view of
scruffy trees and low hills. At the
time the plots were over by the more
barren side of the rolling, grassy cemetery,
an area that has since become
much more crowded with the dearly
departed. More proof that you can
run but you can’t hide.
For some time I have been
searching for the right words to describe
what it is like to stand up over
the very spot where I will someday
go down, and not really sure I want
to find them.
Granted, I won’t have much
memory of that precise moment,
but it still brings a strange feeling to
be standing there, reading the now
surrounding tombstone names of
people I’ve never met, wondering
what stories we might share, the final
choices we have made, even at the
bargain $100 cemetery-plot price tag.
But surely we will all have passed
through higher Pearly Gates before
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Circling Back
all that detail matters.
Given its biblical history, our
most recent trip did lead me into investigating
the number of Mt. Moriah
cemeteries there are in Indiana, or
even the country, with the best answer
being “a bunch.”
There’s good reason for that.
The Mt. Moriah name comes from
the Bible, Genesis 22:2, in which the
Lord asked Abraham to take his longwanted
son, Isaac, to Mt. Moriah and
sacrifice him as proof of Abraham’s
faith. Talk about a test. We don’t hear
much about that one. It didn’t happen,
of course. The Lord intervened
at the last minute and a ram was sacrificed
instead. Abraham’s faith was
vindicated. Isaac was spared a funeral
pyre. I’ve been mulling that one
over for a long time.
So about 4,000 years later this
Indiana Mt. Moriah has become further
proof of our faith in one another,
although some histories also suggest
it was first named the Clegg Family
Cemetery in honor of that Hoosier
family. The rest of that story is the
nearby and infamous Clegg Hill, a
truly steep climb once to be made
back when the road was dirt and the
trip by horse and wagon.
History, it seems, just can’t leave
the nearby Mt. Moriah Church that
comes with this cemetery story alone.
The best place to begin is with Col.
Harland Sanders, Mr. KFC Chicken
himself, who was born in a four-room
farmhouse several miles east of Henryville.
That’s not too far from Mt.
Moriah Cemetery where his parents,
Wilbur and Margaret Sanders, owned
an 80-acre farm. Surely they raised
chickens.
Those parents, in fact, were buried
in Mt. Moriah not too far from
several Dieterlens and eventually a
couple Hills. The Colonel, himself,
made it to Louisville’s elegant Cave
Hill Cemetery.
The original Mt. Moriah church
suffered some fire damage in the
1960s and was literally blown to
pieces in the March 2012 tornado
even as some members found shelter
in its basement. It was rebuilt across
the road in much more sturdy fashion
with Col. Sanders’ help and has
served in the past as the site of Dieterlen
family reunions.
Another full circle.
Our mostly annual trips to the
cemetery include walking past all
the tombstones, always reminders of
old stories made new. Grandparents
born in the 1870s – only a few years
after the Civil War – come alive after
once living in an old farmhouse just a
few miles down the road; their grave
markers still easily read; the mixed
tales of family gathered over chicken
dinners and home-grown vegetables,
the intimidating grandfather
who plowed with horses; the tiny,
stooped-over grandmother so adept
with a fly swatter.
One uncle had fought in World
War I, a story I shall always regret
never writing; his death coming before
I was able to get to it. Another
relative – his history all but forgotten
– died in World War II. All the veterans’
graves were recently marked
with proud American flags. So many
other family members there we had
previously met at annual reunions
funded by an auction of family-crafted
art.
It’s all there, carved in granite.
So many names. So many stories.
Sunshine, fire and tornado. The cemetery
changed but unchanged. The
always need to visit. The quiet calm
of the place. Its living, engraved stone
library of family history. The green
grass and comforting low hills. The
looking down the road at all this
thinking no hurry ... no hurry ... no
hurry … •
About the Author
Former Courier-Journal
columnist Bob Hill enjoys
gardening, good fun, good
friends and the life he and
his wife, Janet.

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A Note to Baby Boomers
Tune In and Tune Out
The world still needs saving,
doesn’t it?
I guess. I assume. I
don’t know. No news is good
news. I am increasingly comforted
by being decreasingly in touch. My
TV watching focuses on Opie being
shaken down for lunch money. Will
Sheldon get to the bottom of string
theory? Will Bonnie never again
drink? Will Charlie finally learn the
difference between love and sex?
TV comedies provide all the
drama I can manage.
This is a new-old me, determined
to floss more and to worry less. The
time to stop caring is never, of course.
I still vote, still pitch in on community
causes, still exercise, still read and
still pray our leaders will do more for
us than to us.
Then again, should ignorance
indeed be bliss, let me be as blissful
as dogs on the fifth of July.
The pursuit of healthiness, yeah,
that’s part of it. Are there meetings
of Over-reactors Anonymous? My
cardiologist would confirm my
addiction to high blood pressure.
Oh no, this purplish thing on my
forearm looks suspicious. Oh yes,
the dermatologist says it’s merely a
bruise.
Crisis averted — until I get the
bill and another real-or-imagined
mini-crisis.
Change and I get along about as
well as Veterans Parkway gets along
with Saturday night traffic. I have
no good reason to keep my landline
telephone. Yet I do. I have no good
reason to keep subscribing to the
paper version of newspapers. Yet I
do.
I have no good reason to resent
my new dentist, since my old one
retired. Yet I do. I have no good reason
to resent my new auto mechanic or
my new insurance man, since the old
ones, yes, likewise hung it up.
Yet I do.
As I led off, though, I am ready
– or more ready – to retire from life as
well as from work. Tag, somebody else
is it. My leg of life’s relay is finished,
OK? My last Amazon purchases, I
kid you not, were for doorstops and
for oatmeal bowls, not for the latest
books about some president or world
nightmare.
My favorite day, one recent
week, was the one in which a friend
chopped a beaten-up dogwood tree
that had collapsed in my front yard.
The man would not accept money.
If only Washington and
Indianapolis could come to my rescue
simply like that.
I meet childhood pals for lunch
from time to time. We wear out
Memory Lane, barely lay toes on
Future Avenue. After all, we know
what has happened, not what will
happen. Is there more still to gain
than what has been lost? None of us
wants to ask that question, much less
to answer it. Health, wealth, way too
little is assured from here on out.
One guy’s mother still lives.
Mine died last century. A couple
guys do a little of everything, a
couple others do next to nothing. I
land somewhere in the middle, an
occasional, comfortable, reasonably
busy curmudgeon.
I never will eat sushi. I never will
stay in an Airbnb. I never will prefer
a Zoom meeting to a face-to-face one.
I never will get a tattoo or believe
anyone looks better with one. I intend
to turn actual pages on every book I
read. I can’t imagine ever buying a
Whopper with digital dough.
I cannot recommend a single
podcast or show to stream. Twitter
and I have yet to meet.
Then again, I have come to enjoy
basketball played by women and girls
much more than basketball played by
men and boys.
I look forward to driving a car
powered by electricity.
I accept, begrudgingly, bills
online and airline tickets on the
cellphone. In a snap, stuff on paper
became about as cool as I was in high
school.
Plus, the next beach on which I
get sunburned will be one new to me.
This is saying goodbye to a set-insand,
decades-old tradition.
Change, take that.
It’s all still somewhat new, this
growing old. It is hard to love peeing
day and night and groaning each
Change and I get along about as well as Veterans
Parkway gets along with Saturday night traffic. I
have no good reason to keep my landline telephone.
Yet I do. I have no good reason to keep subscribing
to the paper version of newspapers. Yet I do.
time I get in and out of the car. I miss
my hair, my waistline, my virility, my
paycheck, my former co-workers and
even a boss or two.
Done decently, neither is
retirement hard to hate. It requires
reinvention. A decade into it, mine
remains a work in progress.
Control can seem as out of
control as grocery-store prices. Don’t
give up on control, though, I repeat
to myself. Do what I can, whenever
I can, whatever or what little feels
best for tomorrow, no matter how it
felt last year or last decade. So, I come
back increasingly to checking out on
staying plugged in.
TV reruns work well enough as
retreats from current events that can
give any of us Excedrin headache
No. 27. That is, if Excedrin still exists.
There I go, living in the past.
I seem better to face the future
the less of it I have. Does the world
still need saving? It’s someone else’s
turn to try. •
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that has been in his family
since the Civil War. Dale’s e-
mail is dale.moss@twc.com
Southern Indiana Living • July/August 2022 • 11

Cover Story
Sweet Success
Leaven Bakery is a hit in downtown New Albany
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Story by Darian Decker
Photos by Michelle Hockman

What started as a delivery
business out of Zach
and Kimberly Maxey’s
500-square-foot apartment
has turned into the thriving
Leaven Bakery in downtown New
Albany that celebrated its one-year
anniversary in May.
The Maxeys met in the kitchen at
a hotel in California. Kimberly was a
baker and Zach was a breakfast cook.
Zach would come downstairs to Kimberly
every morning of work and ask
for a cookie.
“One day I made this citrus
cookie, and it was awful, and he said
it was his favorite cookie and even
asked for the recipe, so I wrote it
down for him,” Kimberly said.
The next day, Zach came back
and had made the cookie for his family
and showed Kimberly his work to
prove it wasn’t as bad as she thought.
That cookie ended up on the dessert
table at their wedding.
“A couple months ago, we were
going through all of our recipe books,
and he had kept the handwritten recipe
from years ago,” Kimberly said.
Their sweet relationship translates
perfectly into their work life as
business partners. They had a catering
company in California, where
they’re from, and although they enjoyed
what they did, they didn’t feel
it was their place in the industry.
Zach’s sister had moved to Louisville
for school. His other sister soon
followed her. His parents then followed
her as well.
“We came out and visited for
a bit,” Zach said. “Kimberly and I
loved the atmosphere and felt the
vibe of the cities both on this side of
the river and in Louisville.”
One thing they liked about California
was that the area was very
culturally diverse in terms of cuisine.
Zach said he feels that is true about
this area as well and is looking forward
to adding their own flair.
When they made their move,
they both were able to work at a few
different places in the food business.
Covid led to them opening a delivery
business in order to help make ends
meet.
“We had a friend whose friend
had asked if we could make some
bread for a shindig they were having,”
Zach said. “We ended up doing
it and then word kept spreading.”
He said he and Kimberly decided
to keep it going to see where it
may lead.
“We focused our energy on our
With their small staff, they do everything
in-house. Zach makes the breads with his
assistant, Kimberly makes all of the pastries,
and their chef handles the breakfast and
lunch menus. They also partner with a local
farm, Vera Farms, for farm-fresh eggs and
soon for goat and sheep products.
Pictured: (left hand page) Bread baked in house at Leaven Bakery; a wide assortment of treats are available daily; the
salmon ???
Southern Indiana Living • July/August 2022 • 13

website and building our brand and
getting out there,” Zach said.
They caught the attention of
Louisville Business First, who did a
feature on their delivery business.
Soon after, WDRB aired an interview
with them. Right after that, their website
crashed because of the publicity
and so many people placing orders.
Zach said they were able to keep
up with everything and have steady
business, leading to them moving to
a house to increase capacity.
After Thanksgiving, when they
had baked 45 pies and had completed
nearly 1,500 deliveries since they
opened, Zach and Kimberly talked
about the game plan going forward.
“We kind of got to the point
where I looked at my wife again and
said, ‘Either we continue trying to do
this out of the house, or we try to get
big-scale with this and try to do some
really cool stuff,’” Zach said.
Because of Covid, funding was
a huge challenge for them, but with
some family and friends investing in
their business, they were able to get
the space they occupy currently on
Market Street in New Albany.
“My mom and dad and wife and
I came in here and did everything
else, from electrical to plumbing to
painting,” Zach said. “My dad and
I built the bar. … We redesigned the
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kitchen. We did it all in a month and
a half.”
They both said the area has been
so supportive over the past year.
“Usually as a cook, you’re divided
from the public,” Zach said. “Being
able to have a stressful day and
turn around and see a family really
enjoying what you made them and
see smiles – it makes it worthwhile.”
One thing they’re also trying to
accomplish in the community is redirecting
the hospitality industry in
terms of how employees are treated.
“Our job is basically servanthood
and taking care of the public
and in order for us to do that, we
have to feel taken care of,” Zach said.
“We’re very much centered around
our employees and making sure
they’re taken care of.”
Zach said there’s definitely a
learning curve, having come from
running other people’s kitchens to
now taking care of every aspect of a
business, including employees.
“In a year to be where we’re at –
it’s very humbling,” he said. “We’re
eternally grateful for that.”
With their small staff, they do
everything in-house. Zach makes the
breads with his assistant, Kimberly
makes all of the pastries, and their
chef handles the breakfast and lunch
menus. They also partner with a local
farm, Vera Farms, for farm-fresh eggs
and soon for goat and sheep products.
“I’m hoping to rent some land
on their property and maybe grow
some produce,” Zach said. “I’m a
huge gardener and we have stuff
growing here as well.”
Zach references the saying, “In
order to make good food, you have
to eat good food,” and he says that
starts with quality ingredients.
They want to have the freshest
ingredients they can at the peak of
their freshness.
“Our whole mission statement
for our business is quality over quantity,”
he said. “I would much rather
you be upset with the fact that I have
to turn you away because I ran out
of something than for me to give you
subpar quality.”
Aside from branching out into
potential produce, they’re also partnering
with another small business,
the New Albany Sugar Shoppe.
“They’re open when we’re
closed, so it extends our hours a little
bit in that respect,” Zach said.
They’re currently selling three
to four products at the Sugar Shoppe,
including macarons.
As far as goals for the future,
Zach has some big ideas, including a
bigger establishment, bed and break-

fasts, a potential hunter’s club and
more. For short-term goals, Kimberly
said they’d love to open a second location
and add a catering menu for
events.
Their favorite part of the bakery?
For Kimberly, it’s getting to work
with her husband every day.
“People always think we must
want to kill each other, but actually
it just brought us closer together and
that has been the best thing,” she
said. •
Check out the bakery website, leavenbakery.com,
for an assortment of dessert,
breakfast, lunch and bread menus along
with store hours. You can also follow
their Facebook page to keep up to date at
@LeavenbakeryKY.”
Pictured: ( from top, clockwise) A fresh baked sourdough
loaf tempts customers at the check out counter; the bakery
offers patio seating; Kimberly and Zach Maxey, owners of
Leaven Bakery
“Our whole mission statement for our business
is quality over quantity. I would much rather
you be upset with the fact that I have to
turn you away because I ran out of something
than for me to give you subpar quality.”
- Zach Maxey
Co-owner of Leaven Bakery
Southern Indiana Living • July/August 2022 • 15

Embers erupt from
the fire built from
wood still too damp
to burn properly,
sending pops and
crackles off in every direction.
He smiles to himself as he
imagines nature is putting on a
fireworks show just for him. His
wife has been asleep long
enough his arm tingles all the
way down to his fingertips, but
he won’t dare disturb her. As
his wife breathes the slow, soft
melody of sleep, her husband
watches the fire.
He notices as the embers shoot
from the heart of the blaze into
the inky sky, disappearing into
the fog settling onto the lake,
and his mind drifts back. He
looks at the elderly woman
sleeping so comfortably on his
shoulder and thinks back to the
day he met her, then on their
wedding day three years later.
He remembers how the two of
them stood side by side from
when they met during college to
when she transitioned from
young professional to retiree; as
they became parents, then
became grandparents.
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The fire, emitting less heat than
just moments before, is still
sending embers out from its
core. He smiles as he watches
tiny moments of his past become
miniature comets, momentarily
becoming the center of his
attention before disappearing
from view, or burning out just
before disappearing into the
indistinguishable grey curtain
made up of fog and the serenity
of the waveless lake.
His wife wakes up and sees her
husband lost in thought. She
decides not to interrupt his
moment. Beyond the comfort of
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The NoCo Arts and Cultural
District in downtown
Jeffersonville – named for
its location north of Court
Avenue – is a walkable and vibrant
neighborhood that showcases the
city’s commitment to imaginative
revitalization.
Once a neglected area of car
lots and auto body shops, the district
currently has two museums, an
artist supply store, an Arts Center
where nine artists have set up their
studios, a high-tech Makers’ Space,
a large variety of musical and art
programming, and a flurry of
colorful outdoor public art – from the
iconic water tank emblazoned with
fantastical shapes to Picasso Pointe,
a pocket park designed, in part, by
children. And there is still more to
come.
One of the resident artists
at the Arts Center, in Studio 3, is
Jeffersonville native Tammy Burke.
“When I was growing up,
teenagers had to cross the bridge into
Louisville to find entertainment,”
Burke said. “That is changing. The
district’s art programs and events
are now well attended by all age
groups. There are visitors here every
day taking photos of the district. The
Jeffersonville Public Art Commission
(JPAC) has also done an amazing job
of encouraging the creative endeavors
of children.”
This is important to Burke, who
said: “Children are such spontaneous
artists; they have no hesitation about
making art and using their hands.
They only need encouragement.”
She related a story about her
own childhood to illustrate how the
right encouragement can impact a
child’s interests.
“My elementary art teacher from
Riverside school in Jeffersonville,
Mrs. Skaggs, asked the class to draw
balloons. My balloons came to a
point, and were different from the
round ones of my classmates. Mrs.
Skaggs singled me out for praise that
day because I had looked at the actual
shape of a balloon. It is remarkable,
but that little moment ignited a spark,
a feeling that I was an artist.”
Burke began her formal art
education with a BFA in painting
from the Herron School of Art and
Design in Indianapolis. She now
identifies herself as a multimedia
artist who sews, dyes fabric, sculpts in
clay, produces videos and continues
to paint and draw. She is currently
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Artist Spotlight
sharing many of these talents with
her community to benefit the growing
arts scene in the NoCo Arts District.
The Paint Box Garden, a color
theory garden planted between the
district’s water tank and Arts Center,
was conceived by Burke in 2020 as a
living work of art, to be both visually
stunning and educational.
“I noticed there were paintings
of flowers on murals throughout the
district, but no real flowers,” Burke
said.
Burke had done projects with
her students at Indiana University
Southeast using color theory and
decided this could work in a garden.
She explained: “If we planted only
red, yellow, and blue flowers – the
three primary colors – the viewer’s
mind and eye would blend the
colors into a fuller range of tones.
For example, where red flowers meet
yellow ones, the viewer will also see
orange.”
Burke reached out to Bob Hill
(who needs no introduction to
readers of Southern Indiana Living),
who brought in Karen Bryant, a
gardener specializing in flowers and
Brightening Up a Neighborhood
How Jeffersonville artist Tammy Burke engages the world
Story by Judy Cato
Photos by Lorraine Hughes (except where noted)
the owner of Bloomin’ for You, to
design the garden based on the color
theory concept.
“It took months of planning,
visualizing, designing andworking,
as well as the generous support of
many, but in the spring of 2021, the
garden became a reality,” Burke said.
Some of the flowers in the garden
were chosen because they can be
used to make natural dyes: madder
(red), coreopsis (yellow), and indigo
(blue). Since Burke uses natural dyes
in many of her art projects, visitors to
the garden also have the opportunity
to learn about the dyeing process.
Since 2016, Burke has worked
on numerous projects in the
neighborhood. Most recently, she
designed and made the costumes
for a miniature horse fashion show,
part of JPAC’s community kickoff
party. Each of the miniature horses,
from Opening Gates, wore an outfit
created by Burke to represent one of
Jeffersonville’s upcoming programs.
One horse trotted down the runway
sporting a ruff, the large white collar
most associated with Shakespeare, to
represent Shakespeare in the Park.

Although Burke has recently
been swept up in the energy and
spirit of collaborative art projects in
the NoCo district, she is more wellknown
– by other artists – for her
individual artworks exhibited in
galleries.
Her work Clay Faces, exhibited
at the Cressman Center for Visual
Arts in Louisville (April 15–May 27,
2022) was made up of four sculpted
faces, each partially hidden behind
some disguise: sunglasses, long
bangs, a Covid mask and an artificial
smile.
Burke explained the piece: “We
are always choosing which of our
faces to show the world.”
Also on display at the Cressman
Center was an untitled work, a piece
of dyed silk draped over a display
stand that the viewer could see
from all sides. “The work is mostly
about the process of learning and
experimenting,” Burke said. The silk
was dyed with papery onion skins
and walnut hulls boiled into natural
dyes. She used a Japanese dyeing
technique known as itajime. This
ancient technique involves folding
the fabric like an accordion to pleat
it into a long, thin rectangle, then
clamping it with wood C-clamps
before dipping it into the dye to create
stunning patterns.
Burke explained the piece: “I
am constantly experimenting with
natural dyestuffs to yield colors that
nature intended. I enjoy collecting the
walnuts and other materials which
are my inspiration for the work.”
Burke’s installation called Body
Bags will be exhibited at the Kentucky
Museum of Art and Craft Triennial
from August to December 2022.
“This installation grew out of
the pandemic,” Burke said. The bags
are 8-feet-by-3-feet, the size of actual
body bags, and will hang from the
ceiling in the museum so the viewer
is placed face to face with them. “I
am aware that they are somewhat
disturbing,” Burke said, “but they
are my way of bearing witness to
the enormous loss of life caused by
the pandemic. The installation will
provide a space and opportunity for
viewers to process our collective loss
and to grieve, which is an important
component of moving forward.” She
elaborated further, “I didn’t want
to sugarcoat the darker side of our
times, but to use art to lift it up, to
“My elementary art teacher from Riverside school in
Jeffersonville, Mrs. Skaggs, asked the class to draw
balloons. My balloons came to a point, and were different
from the round ones of my classmates. Mrs. Skaggs singled
me out for praise that day because I had looked at the
actual shape of a balloon. It is remarkable, but that little
moment ignited a spark, a feeling that I was an artist.”
- Tammy Burke
redeem it.” • Pictured: (left hand page) The Paint Box Garden, a color theory garden planted between the district’s water tank and Arts
Center, was conceived by Burke in 2020 as a living work of art, to be both visually stunning and educational; (this page,
from top) Tammy Burke in her studio in Jeffersonville; Burke’s untitled work, dyed silk, on exhibit at Cressman Gallery.
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Southern Indiana in Pictures
Boys & Girls Club of Harrison-Crawford County
Marengo, Indiana
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison-Crawford Counties recently opened the very first free standing site in Crawford
County, Indiana. Having formerly operated in the Crawford County school buildings, the new site (pending approval
of the name: Boys & Girls Club of Crawford County) gives the opportunity to do so much more with the youth of
Crawford County! This new site offers daycare for babies and toddlers and allows the school age youth to be split out
by age group. As it was formerly the Marengo Elementary, this building has ample space to offer distinguished areas
for the daycare preschool, and the older, school-age youth. The Club will be welcoming middle and high school youth
in the fall.
With this transition, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrison-Crawford Counties now has four sites across the two counties
including the Boys & Girls Club of Harrison County located in Corydon, the Boys & Girls Club of South Central
Elementary located in Elizabeth, the Boys & Girls Club of Heth-Washington Elementary located in Central in addition
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My husband and I bought our
first home amid a hot summer
when everything was
in full bloom. By the looks
of our garden-filled backyard, I imagined
the previous owner as a Garden Master
while I stood there feeling quite inadequate.
As we started to spruce up the
yard and pare down the number of garden
beds, I read quite a bit about plants.
As it turned out, the gentleman who lived
here before us was rather clever in creating
his garden blueprints. The garden he
had established was hearty in nature and
required minimal upkeep but provided
consistent beauty throughout the year. As
we made the backyard our own, the most
surprising reward was discovering my
own love for gardening. Today our garden
has become a peaceful escape from
future worries and a positive way to stay
in the present. There’s something beautiful
and curious about tending to plants
and watching them grow.
Of course, as a dietitian, I knew what
was missing from this jungle of a backyard
and that was a vegetable garden.
Most vegetables require full sun (six to
eight hours of sun per day) to grow properly.
My yard only has a small corner that
truly gets full sun, so my vegetable garden
is quite small and simple. Sometimes it’s
the simple things in life that bring us the
biggest joys. For me, nothing is like biting
into that home-grown tomato on a summer
day. My children have come to find a
love of the garden, too, especially the fascinating
world of insects under the garden
stones.
When it comes to planning your own
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Caitlyn and her kids tending their garden
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Ionce got fired for making a birthday
cake. Actually, it wasn’t just one cake,
but a handful of cakes that did me
in. It may have been the seven layer
number that finally pushed it over the
edge, but I think it really started with the
first one, the princess cake.
There are two kinds of people in life:
those who avoid sprinklers and those who
run right through them. Normally I’m an
avoid-the-sprinkler kind of guy, but when
my youngest daughter was three, we
spent the summer looking for sprinklers
every time we went on a walk.
The first time it happened by chance.
We were out exploring the neighborhood
with Mom and big sister when they decided
to cut it short and head home. But my
preschooler would have none of it. She
wanted to keep going.
Now it was just Dad and a threeyear-old
with no adult supervision, which
meant that anything might happen.
We were wandering down a quiet
side street when suddenly the lawn in
front of us erupted like Old Faithful,
showering the sidewalk and part of the
road. Now we had a choice to make, step
around it or plunge right in.
Of course, you know what we did.
We charged into the spray, screaming and
laughing and getting soaked. Our average,
ordinary stroll turned into a spontaneous
water park adventure, all thanks
to a preschooler who wasn’t ready to go
home.
If I had been on this walk with just
my wife, playing in the sprinkler might
have looked a little strange. If I’d been
by myself? Well, that’s even weirder. But
with a three-year-old, this kind of behavior
was totally socially acceptable.
See, it matters who we walk with
each day. So much of the quality of our
lives is determined by the company we
keep.
In Proverbs 4:20 the Bible says,
“Walk with the wise and become wise, for
a companion of fools suffers harm.”
Sometimes that wise person is someone
older than you who’s been there and
done that and has a wealth of experience
they’re happy to share so you can
avoid making some of the same mistakes
they’ve made.
Other times, that wise companion is
your peer, a friend whose life is anchored
in grace and truth and can help you see
your own life and struggles from a different
perspective.
But the often overlooked wise friend
is younger than you. Much, much younger.
Take my summer walking with a
three-year-old, for instance. Not only did
I glean the wisdom of taking advantage
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Everyday Adventures
of sprinklers on a hot July day, but I also
learned how to be pokey.
I remember one Saturday morning
walk when I was in a hurry to get home
to mow or work on the house or do something
else that seemed important at the
time.
My little girl, however, was in no
hurry at all. In fact, she had stopped in
her tracks, amazed at a pretty flower
she’d spotted growing beside the road. It
was like it was the first time she had ever
seen a flower. And because she stopped,
I stopped too. There’s a lot of wisdom in
stopping.
You know what? That flower was
spectacular. I would have never seen it
without her, because I was moving way
too fast. But the wisdom of a preschooler
slowed me down long enough to see the
vibrant world around me.
That summer she showed me all
kinds of things I would have otherwise
missed, animal-shaped clouds and fireflies
and how to start a dance party any
time you heard music, even if you were in
a crowded store.
That was ten years ago, and though
I’m loving being a dad of teenagers, I’m
feeling nostalgic for the summer we
played in sprinklers.
The Wisdom of Preschoolers
I’m not just missing the cute little
girl who’s grown up way too fast, but
I’m missing having the wisdom of a preschooler
in my life to teach me what matters
most.
Who else is going to remind me to
slow down and be fully present in each
There are two kinds of people in life: those who avoid
sprinklers and those who run right through them.
moment? Who else will teach me to live
with a sense of awe and wonder for God’s
amazing creation that surrounds me every
day? Who else will show me how to
live joyfully enough to run in sprinklers
and dance for no reason at all?
The wisdom of preschoolers is a precious
gift. Guard it carefully and it may
just change the way you walk no matter
how old you are. •
Photo credit: FamVeld / shutterstock.com
Jason Byerly is a writer, pastor, husband and
dad who loves the quirky surprises God sends
his way every day. You can read more from
Jason in his books Tales from the Leaf Pile and
Holiday Road. You can catch up with Jason on
his blog at www.jasonbyerly.com.

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