As Ray and I explored downtown New Harmony last Thursday afternoon, we were intrigued by this business on the corner. Was it a theater perhaps? To our surprise, it was a dulcimer shop. We went inside and saw a wire art sculpture of a trumpet-playing New Harmony High School band member ... View Post
Can I get it all in by the time they are 18?
Bob Vollmer was 45 years old when he started to work for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Since then he has tramped around state property as a land surveyor. Now he is about to retire from a career that has lasted almost six decades. Bob Vollmer is 102. As he prepares to retire, ... View Post
Merry Christmas from Gainesboro
I got all misty watching the Gainesboro Christmas parade last Saturday night. My heart swelled with love and joy. I'm so grateful for our little town and these wonderful people. It was our best Christmas parade yet. We usually watch the parade on Hull Avenue, named for Secretary of State Cordell ... View Post
Remembering John James Audubon
John James Audubon died in 1851. In the late 1800s, George Bird Grinnell and others founded the Audubon Society to protect birds and their habitats. Audubon's wife Lucy had tutored Grinnell. Grinnell chose Audubon's name to inspire the organization. In 1898 a group in Henderson, Kentucky, founded ... View Post
Celebrating the Success of Others
On Sunday morning before church, I asked our deacon who was to make announcements if he would please announce that one of our former members is to be honored in town on Saturday. He knew all about it, of course. "I'm going to be there," he told me. "My friend is coming in from Little Rock for ... View Post
Passing It Down
Sometimes writing history feels like a treasure hunt. I learned a wonderful story of faith last week while writing a lesson about Cape Cod. Several islands lie near Cape Cod. Martha’s Vineyard is the largest. English colonists settled on Martha’s Vineyard in 1641 and 1642. At first they called their ... View Post
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