Southern Indiana Living Magazine - July/August 2024

Watercolor Beauty: Local Artist Cathy Hillegas 

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Southern Indiana Living 

In Every Issue 

7 | FLASHBACK 

In the News, Mauckport, IN, 1940 

11 | A NOTE TO BABY BOOMERS 

Man’s Best Friend 

27 | REAL LIFE NUTRITION 

Go with your gut 

29 | EVERYDAY ADVENTURES 

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3rd Junior Rodeo of the Season 

July 6th | 9:00AM-1:00PM 

This is a very kid friendly environment. The events are designed for grade 

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The events are designed to prepare cowboys and cowgirls for future rodeos. 

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Pekin 194th Annual Independence Day Festival & Parade 

July 3rd & 4th | 9:00AM-1:00PM 

Pageants |Contests | Food and Craft | Youth Activities | Fireworks 

The Independence Day parade will begin at 10AM on July 4th. 

Parade Registration Deadline: June 28, 2024 at 5PM 

30th Annual Campbellsburg Country Festival 

Kick Off Event 

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216th Birthday Party at Beck’s Mill 

August 24th | 11AM 

Featuring The Corydon Dulcimer Society playing at 11:30am, birthday 

cake provided by Walmart, spinning, blacksmithing and tomahawk 

throwing. 

Parking Lot Activities: Blue River Fire Department will serve food 

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vendors will be onsite. Beck’s Mill Moonshine History by Alan Bishop. 

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A Note to Baby Boomers 

Man’s Best Friend 

I 

root through our nearest closet 

for a rawhide chew. Toby 

chomps the treat and I settle in 

at the desktop. 

Deadline looms. 

Every other month, the dog 

gnaws until his worn-out gums 

nearly bleed. While every other 

month this dog’s owner tries to 

write something readable. Journalism 

used to come easier. 

Then again, so did digesting 

food and hearing TV and everything 

else. I am old. 

Toby is older. 

I left out the part where Toby 

meets me at the closet door. He 

hears the beep of our relic coffee 

pot — only used, yes, every other 

month — and invariably recalls 

Dad is about to commit hours to 

emptying the dictionary. 

Toby just knows. He need not 

be beeped twice. I search for ideal 

adjectives and adverbs and Toby 

chews. I stop to check email and 

Toby chews. 

I get up for more coffee and 

Toby chews. 

Toby joined the family 12 

years ago, not long after I retired 

from full-time newspapering. I was 

around and he was around and 

in no time, we fell in love being 

around together. 

Mostly black, mostly herding 

dog, Toby was a rescue, a bit older 

than a puppy. He already had been 

through way too much, it seems. 

Move the wrong way, touch him at 

the wrong time, Toby might growl, 

possibly nip usually at the nearest 

foot. Not every day, not every 

month, but it happened from the 

start. It still does. Toby has his moments, 

his moods. For instance, no 

dog digs a vet visit, I figure. Then 

there’s Toby. He is on his way to being 

blacklisted at every clinic this 

side of Seymour. 

Toby is a dog who needs 

a therapy dog. Relatives think 

twice about visiting, though they 

shouldn’t. The grandkids likewise 

love Toby but love him more from 

across the room. 

To be groomed meant to be 

anesthetized. 

My last Toby mark — a thumb 

scrape — long since healed, I never 

hesitate to rub noses, to scratch ears 

or stop for a second believing this 

dog remains this man’s best friend. 

Toby is at my side not just through 

writing but through lunches and 

naps and book-club reads. His routines 

sync with mine. 

I feed him too much people 

food because he loves too much 

people food. Guess what, Toby resembles 

a beached manatee. But 

it makes me happy to make Toby 

happy. Sharing sandwiches and 

pizza and popcorn and animal 

crackers makes him happiest. 

He no longer can jump on 

our bed, which he also loved to 

share. He struggles to climb steps. 

He gave up taking neighborhood 

walks with my wife. Trimming 

nails is a dream. Hobbling even on 

his best days, the hips, the legs, they 

are not what they used to be. 

Whose are? 

I grew up an only child, officially. 

Reggie, our dog, was my 

brother, my confidant. Not all my 

friends’ families owned dogs. I did 

not understand why. 

I still do not. 

Dogs are absolutely, positively, 

always worth it — whatever it 

proves to be. Sure, they are costly 

and messy or sometimes do not 

fit every life situation or plan. And 

once in a while, a dog comes along 

that, yes, won’t always keep his 

teeth to himself. 

No matter, I can manage an occasional 

Band-Aid. Toby remains as 

loved, as welcome, as the first time 

he chewed through his leash. I hate 

that he does not have another dozen 

years to perk up when the coffeemaker 

beeps. 

I have written column by the 

thousands. Among those most 

memorable — to readers as well 

as to me — were ones honoring 

Toby’s predecessors. They, too, had 

their quirks. They also tested the 

Moss family hospitality. Suzi, Scarlett, 

Christopher, Duffy, Hershey, 

George, Friday, each became my 

favorite until the next came along. 

One after another after another, 

the family dog greeted me at the 

door, licked the dinner plates, shed 

until vacuum cleaners wore out. My 

children are not like me in a way or 

two or 37. But both likewise love 

dogs, have more than one. Neither 

kid considered the alternative. 

Like now, I wrote then about 

my dogs so readers would be reminded 

of theirs. I shared the anguish 

of that is-this-the-end decision. 

Readers, strangers, called me 

in tears to relive their own heartbreak. 

Adopt again when ready, they 

urged, I urged. For every void there 

Toby joined the family 12 years ago, not long 

after I retired from full-time newspapering. I 

was around and he was around and in no time, 

we fell in love being around together. 

is another dog — too many — every 

bit as lovable as was the last. I 

offer decades of proof. 

Toby is part of the proof. He 

is far sweeter than screwed up. He 

cares far more than he threatens. He 

leaves be the cat. I feel blessed for 

every day Toby wakes up from my 

bedside. I want that feeling to go on 

and on and, of course, it will not. 

He still eats like crazy, though. 

He still lets himself in and out of the 

dog yard’s door, still hoots and hollers 

at the barks of neighbor pets. I 

relish these signs. 

I want to grow older with Toby, 

grow grumpier and slower and 

grayer. There are more columns to 

write, after all, more bones to chew 

and more coffee to drink.• 

After 25 years, Dale Moss 

retired as Indiana columnist 

for The Courier-Journal. He 

now writes weekly for the 

News and Tribune. Dale and 

his wife Jean live in Jeffersonville 

in a house that has been 

in his family since the Civil War. Dale’s e-mail 

is dale.moss@twc.com 


Artists of Southern Indiana 

12 • July/Aug 2024 • Southern Indiana Living 

“Autumn Fire,” a watercolor by Cathy Hillegas // Photo by Cathy Hillegas 

A Magician with a Brush 

Students enrolled in Cathy 

Hillegas’ advanced watercolor 

class at Arts Alliance of 

Southern Indiana (AASI) 

on Market Street in New Albany are 

grateful to be there, learning with a 

Master. 

Advanced student and artist 

Judy Wasson summed up her experience: 

“My skills have taken a leap 

forward under Cathy’s guidance. 

She is a generous and constructive 

teacher who brings out each student’s 

unique gifts.” 

A former student and artist, 

Cathy Thorpe, saluted Hillegas’ 

talent: “She is a magician with a 

brush.” 

For Hillegas, teaching is as rewarding 

as painting. The two activities 

do not compete in her life. “In 

order to teach, I have to learn,” Hillegas 

said, “so teaching pushes me 

to grow as an artist. It is also gratifying 

to watch my students move 

forward. When a student sells a 

work or gets accepted into a show, 

I am elated, proud of their achievement.” 

The classroom space at AASI 

appeals to Hillegas, who often 

paints there after class. 

“The light is first-rate,” she 

said. “There is a monarch garden 

on the grounds that I have often 

photographed and painted, and it 

is quiet.” 

Hillegas has been teaching 

watercolor painting classes for 24 

years. She began teaching at Preston 

Arts Center in New Albany in 

2000. 

“I was invited to teach the 

same watercolor class in which I 

had been a student,” Hillegas said. 

When that business closed 12 years 

ago, she taught at the Mary Anderson 

Center for the Arts at Mount 

St. Francis and other venues before 

settling at AASI. 

Painting is not Hillegas’ first 

career. She pursed counseling, interpreting 

for the deaf and writing 

in her younger years. But painting 

and drawing were always part of 

her life. 

“Both of my parents loved to 

draw and paint and encouraged me 

to do the same,” she said. 

The story of how she turned 

back to art and became a full-time 

artist is fascinating. Her mother 

had been captivated by a watercolor 

painting of a mill, offered for 

sale at an art show at Spring Mill 

Park. Hillegas, then around 37, secretly 

purchased the painting as a 

Christmas gift for her mother. As 

she waited for Christmas to arrive, 

she studied the artwork. 

“I decided that I wanted to 

learn to paint like that; it was a powerful 

feeling,” she said. When Hillegas 

gave her mother the gift, her 

mother offered, in return, to pay for 

the two of them to take watercolor 

classes. “After those classes,” Hillegas 

said, “I was hooked.” 

Within a few years of that first 

watercolor class in 1993, Hillegas 

Watercolor artist Cathy Hillegas 

Story by Judy Cato 

Photos by Lorraine Hughes (except where noted) 

began winning contests and awards 

and was invited to exhibit her work 

in some prestigious art shows. 

In 2020, her painting “Rise 

Up” was accepted into the National 

Watercolor Society’s 100th International 

Exhibition. In 2021, her work 

“Autumn Fire” was accepted into 

the 101st exhibition, only this time 

she received the Winsor & Newton 

Award and was granted signature 

status in the National Watercolor 

Society. 

“Rise Up” is a painting of bare

white sycamore branches against 

a bright blue winter sky filled with 

light that cascades over the tree, revealing 

minute details of the bark. 

“I am particularly drawn to 

objects or scenes that are filled with 

light,” Hillegas said. “Light transforms 

the mundane, making colors 

glow, illuminating details and causing 

unexpected color to spill into 

shadow. For example, I had passed 

by that tree every day for years, without 

paying much attention, until one 

day the light was brilliant. I grabbed 

my camera and immediately began 

snapping shots.” 

Hillegas eventually spent over 

200 hours painting the complex 

composition. 

The reference photos for “Autumn 

Fire” were taken while Hillegas 

was hiking at Mount St. Francis. 

“I have loved spending time 

outdoors in nature since childhood,” 

she said. “Family time often 

included long walks in the woods 

where my father would teach me 

the names of wildflowers and trees. 

I have developed a spiritual connection 

to nature.” 

Jim Book, Owner 

Artist Cathy Hillegas 

“I am particularly drawn to objects or scenes that 

are filled with light. Light transforms the mundane, 

making colors glow, illuminating details and causing 

unexpected color to spill into shadow. 

- Cathy Hillegas 

“Sun-filled,” a watercolor by Cathy Hillegas 


This is evident in her painting 

and in her conversation. When 

asked if her paintings have more 

detail and more color than can actually 

be found in nature, she is firm 

about nature’s splendor: “If you really 

look at nature, you will see so 

much color, even in the shadows. If 

you look, you will see it,” she said. 

One of the judges for the Winsor 

& Newton Award referred to 

Hillegas’ painting as “hyperrealism,” 

a genre of painting that looks 

like a high-resolution photo. When 

Hillegas takes the reference photos 

for her paintings, she sometimes 

holds the camera just a few inches 

from the object, zooming in to capture 

the most intimate details of the 

natural world. 

The process by which Hillegas 

creates a painting is both painstaking 

and intuitive. She begins with a 

detailed drawing, very lightly penciled 

because watercolor will not 

hide pencil marks. 

“The key to creating the effect 

of light in a watercolor is to leave 

the white paper untouched,” Hillegas 

said. “White paint will not 

achieve the same effect. It makes 

the painting chalky.” 

So, she begins the painting 

by applying a masking fluid to the 

parts of the painting where she 

wants to keep the paper dry and 

free of paint — where she wants 

light. After applying the masking 

fluid, pale colors are painted first, 

and darker colors last. While each 

layer is drying, Hillegas thinks 

about the painting. 

“I am not a fast painter,” she 

said. “I spend as much time stepping 

back and thinking about the 

piece as I do applying paint.” Perhaps 

this is the point where her 

brush with magic happens. • 

The watercolors of Cathy Hillegas will 

be on display in her solo show, “Chasing 

the Light,”at Harrison County Arts in 

Corydon from July 12 to Sept. 7. There 

will be an opening reception for this 

show on Saturday, July 13, from 5:30 

to 7:30 p.m. You can also check out her 

work at cathyhillegas.com. 

Pictured: (top) “Pink Water Lillies,” a watercolor by 

Cathy Hillegas. 


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anxiety and frequent illnesses. 

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environment, age and the circumstances 

of our birth. However, it can also be 

affected by things within our control, 

such as stress, limited sleep, inactivity, 

smoking, alcohol use and antibiotic use. 

How could you improve your gut 

health? Try eating a healthy diet, including 

fibrous fruits, vegetables and legumes; 

getting exercise; reducing stress; 

getting adequate sleep; avoiding antibiotics 

as preventative care; and increasing 

water intake. (Refer to Southern 

Indiana Living magazine’s November/ 

December 2023 issue, where dietitian 

Bailey Lankster discusses ways to add 

fiber to your diet.) 

Probiotics and prebiotics are 

supplements growing in popularity to 

help improve gut health. Prebiotics are 

a nondigestible food ingredient that 

promotes the growth of beneficial microorganisms 

in the intestines and can 

be found in foods such as legumes, oats, 

bananas, berries, garlic, onions and asparagus. 

Probiotics are live microorganisms, 

such as those found in yogurt, 

kefir, sauerkraut and other fermented 

foods. Due to the wide variety of prebiotics 

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Personal Counseling Services’ annual 

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others. Why do we have concerns about 

expressing how we are feeling mentally 

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According to the Newport Institute 

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M 

y cat, Fluff, is not exactly 

a skilled hunter. In the 12 

years we’ve had him, I 

think I’ve only seen him 

catch one mole and one bird. That’s it. 

Not exactly an apex predator. 

When a groundhog or a raccoon 

turns up, he completely ignores them. If 

a chipmunk runs through our yard, he 

may stalk it for a minute, but he’s not 

ambitious enough to actually chase it 

down. That would require effort, and 

most of his effort goes into finding a 

sunny spot to take a nap. 

That’s why I was so surprised last 

week when I saw him on the prowl. I 

was working out in our living room 

early one morning, and I’d just let him 

out. A few minutes later, I glanced out 

the patio door and saw him crouched 

down, laser-focused on something 

across the yard. 

I didn’t think much of it at first. I 

figured it was a squirrel or something. 

Then I noticed he was slinking 

toward whatever had caught his attention. 

Since he was actually moving, 

I thought I’d better check it out before 

things turned ugly. I had no idea how 

right I was. 

Several years ago, I built a wooden 

clubhouse in the back corner of our 

yard for my kids. The playhouse is on 

the top level, but the first floor is open 

with three hammock chairs suspended 

from the ceiling. That’s exactly where 

Fluff was headed. 

When I looked out at the clubhouse, 

I expected to see a rodent or a 

bird, but instead I saw a coyote. It was 

just sniffing around the hammocks, 

looking for its next meal, which was 

about to be my cat. 

By the time I got outside, Fluff was 

about halfway across the yard, going in 

for the kill. I knew I only had seconds 

before the fur started flying. 

I ran out onto the patio and yelled, 

“Fluff, get back here,” which, of course, 

was dumb because that cat has never 

once come when I called him. Why did I 

think he would start now? 

Thankfully, though, it was enough 

to startle the coyote, and he bolted over 

the neighbors’ fence. 

Fluff, a cat who doesn’t even have 

his front claws, would never know 

just how close he came to meeting his 

maker. In fact, from his point of view, 

he probably thinks he scared the coyote 

away. In his little cat brain, that mangy 

mutt had invaded his yard, and, like a 

A Coyote Close Call 

marshal in the old West, he went out 

and took care of business. 

The reality, though, is that the 

coyote couldn’t have cared less about 

the foolhardy feline stalking him in the 

grass. It was the guy behind the cat who 

made the difference. 

But try telling Fluff that. Despite 

“Fluff the cat 

the fact that he was clearly outmatched, 

I will never get credit for saving the 

day. Cats aren’t exactly known for their 

gratitude, so it’s to be expected. Unfortunately, 

sometimes I see the same attitude 

operating in myself. 

How many times have I found 

myself in a jam, been bailed out by God, 

and failed to give Him credit? I’m sure 

there are far too many times when I’ve 

chalked up something going well to my 

own skill, wisdom, effort or just dumb 

luck rather than acknowledging the 

good God who is operating behind the 

scenes and helping me do things I could 

never do on my own. 

James 1:17 says, “Every good and 

perfect gift is from above” (NIV). I say 

I believe that, but do I really live like 

it? Sometimes, I don’t even stop to say, 

“Thank You, God!” Other times, even 

when I do, I don’t really take the time to 

reflect on what a big deal it was that the 

God who created the universe loved me 

enough to intervene on my behalf. 

That truth shouldn’t just change 

my circumstances, it should change my 

heart. 

Yes, in this sin-broken world, bad 

things happen that don’t make a whole 

lot of sense, but what about the good 

Everyday Adventures 

things that happen that don’t make a 

whole lot of sense either? 

Like my cat, we don’t always appreciate 

how much God has helped us, 

because we have no idea how close we 

may have come to disaster. His very intervention 

sometimes prevents us from 

seeing how He saved the day. 

If a chipmunk runs 

through our yard, 

he may stalk it 

for a minute, but 

he’s not ambitious 

enough to actually 

chase it down. 

That would require 

effort, and most of 

his effort goes into 

finding a sunny 

spot to take a nap. 

I don’t think we’ll ever know this 

side of heaven how many times God 

has protected us, provided for us and 

answered the prayers of those who have 

been praying for us from a distance. 

Why does this matter? Because not only 

does God deserve praise and gratitude, 

but this awareness of God’s activity in 

our lives helps us trust Him for the future. 

When I recognize the presence of 

the One who has helped me through so 

many struggles in the past, I really do 

begin to believe that there is nothing I 

will ever face alone. • 

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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