Hamiltonian September 2022 Issue by The Hamiltonian Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2022 Christian’s Corn Stand Jam is a celebration of life for music fans BY GRACE CARR JAM ON BRAND IDENTITY Founders of The Hamiltonian reminisce about its past, and discuss plans for the future BY KIEH KIRBY

7 Word Play September's Crossword Puzzler 8 Interesting People Patrick and Sarah Davis 10 Jam On Christian’s Corn Stand Jam 15 Teacher Spotlight Badin's Dirk Q. Allen 16 School Update News From Around the District 18 Things to Do September events around town our team >>>>>>>>>Publisher One Pride Publishing, LLP Photographer Bailey Osborne Graphic Design Eric Marquard Writers Kyle Boomershine, Grace Carr, Dan Clemens, Richard O Jones, Kieh Kirby, Reid Maus, Megan E. Smith, Maggie Viox Printer Hamilton Graphics A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO HELPED! SUBSCRIBE TODAY! 224 High Street Hamilton, Ohio 45011 phone: 513-499-2877 web: justhamilton.com Make checks payable to “The Hamiltonian” ($35/year) 10 22 FULL SERVICE PRINT SHOP Hamilton Graphics 513-737-1413 hamiltongraphicsprinting.com ACCOUNTANT & CPA’S Baker & Associates 513-896-1234 baker-cpa.com KrugerATTORNEYand Hodges Attorney at Law 513-894-3333 thehometownlawyers.com AUTO BODY REPAIR M&G Body Shop 513-851-9056 mgbody.com PohlmanAUTOMOTIVEAuto & Tire Service 513-867-00770 ericsauto.com Rose Automotive 513-863-7878 roseautomotivegroup.com BANKS & CREDIT UNIONS AllWealth Federal Credit Union 513-868-5881 allwealth.org Telhio Credit Union 877-221-3233 telhio.org ClementsDENTISTRYFamily Dentistry 513-887-7027 clementsfamilydentistry.com EntertainmentPohlmanENTERTAINMENTLanes&FamilyComplex 513-795-7694 pohlmanlanesfec.com SORG Opera House info@sorgopera.org sorgoperahouse.org 9258FINANCIALWealth Management 513-863-4015 9258wealth.com September 2022 Cover Illustration by Lemon Grenade Creative

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A few months after being incarcerated at the juvenile detention center to await trial, Patrick received the news his brother, Larry (only 20 years old at the time) was stabbed to death outside a nightclub in downtown Cleveland. Larry was on his way to playing professional baseball and his life was suddenly and violently cut short. This devastated Patrick and led him on what would be his journey through despair, hopelessness, solitary confinement, and eventually to faith in the One who can make all things new. PEOPLE OF and Sarah looking

IT IS SAID that every test in our life makes us bitter or better; every problem comes to break us or make us. The choice is ours whether we become a victim or a victor.

At 16 years old, after being immersed in the street culture of Cleveland, Ohio, Patrick was arrested for aggravated robbery and kidnapping after a drug deal went wrong. As a young teenager, he found himself facing up to 45 years in adult prison for his offense.

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Patrick Davis was born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in the inner-city of Cleveland, Ohio. Going back and forth as a kid from the inner city of Cleveland to the middle upper-class suburbs of Denver gave him a unique perspective where he can identify with “both sides of the tracks.”

ahead BY DAN CLEMENS

Patrick and Sarah Davis are two people who have chosen to face themselves, their choices, and their future. They have chosen to be victors and to help others make the same choice.

HAMILTON Patrick

Patrick and Sarah Davis are co-pastors of The Fringe Church. They now dedicate themselves to helping others choose to rise above past decisions and emphasize a meaningful and hope-filled life. They lead the various Fringe Ministries in Hamilton and southeast Ohio.

“It was not until after I took a long look at myself and my life and decided that I was no longer going to be the victim but instead the victor. It feels so great to be the victor. To say I did not let my problems define who I am.”

One unforeseen night in September 2007, her path was abruptly disrupted when she was the driver in a DUI collision that caused the death of the other driver and critically injured the other passenger. From there, her life would take a drastic turn. She was sentenced to six years of incarceration and found herself living on the side of the razor wire that she never thought she would be. Through that experience, her worldview and view of God were shattered and yet enlarged to the suffering that people who live on the margins are forced to endure. She began to see people the way that God does, in all of their beauty despite their messy humanity.

You can read more about their stories here: thefringecoffeehouse.com/staff. You can also read Sarah’s blog www.everythingisimportant.comhere: Support Your Local Business! SEPTEMBER 2022 WWW.JUSTHAMILTON.COM 9

Patrick is an activist, musician, poet, hip-hop artist, and speaker who has toured extensively throughout Australia, England, Ireland, Amsterdam, and the United States. His speaking and music tours reach some of the most respected universities, music venues, and platforms both in the U. S. and abroad.

Through her struggle with understanding religion versus relationship, one of the things she is most passionate about is dispelling the lies that keep people from drawing near to God. Today she is a writer and blogger; writing about life observations, universal struggles, and how everything matters. She also does work inside of the prison system with the non-profit organization, Scars, and Bars. She is driven by the desire to extend the same grace to those incarcerated that she received and to remind them they are not forgotten by God. She is passionate about advocacy for those in prison, giving them a voice, and striving to debunk societal stereotypes and fears about those incarcerated.

Patrick and Sarah are two people who have chosen to face themselves, their choices, and their future. They have chosen to be victors and to help others make the same choice.

Patrick’s heart and passion in the words of “G-Dog” to “widen the circle of compassion so much that there is no one standing outside of it.”

To create a space where all people, from all walks of life, can enter into a raw and genuine community of faith and family that transforms not only us but anyone we come in contact with. To embody extravagant and transformative hospitality and the belief that the Messiah’s table is big enough for everyone, everywhere all the time.

“To me, God is not a distant and detached deity but here right now amongst us. The Word became flesh... and moved into the neighborhood.” Sarah Davis was born in Hamilton, Ohio, and was raised in the church and a fairly normal, safe, suburban life. At the age of 27, she found herself living what some would consider the “American Dream” life, married with three boys, and working as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Room. But although her life looked picturesque on the outside, internally she sensed a restless discontent, compounded with too much religion and no real relationship with the Creator.

BY GRACE

Jam On

Christian’s younger sister Maggie sold cupcakes and donated the proceeds.

ON OCTOBER 19TH, 2019, local musicians and friends and family of James (Jimmy) Unger came together at North Second Tap and Bottle, and in the parking lot of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce next door, for a concert in memory of Jimmy’s son, Christian, who died by suicide on August 7th, 2019. As the family mourned, Jimmy’s niece Ashley McKinney reminded him that, through their grief, they could also celebrate Christian’s life.

At age twelve, Christian began selling Burwinkle Farm’s sweet corn at a stand located by Flub’s Dariette, which is owned by his cousin Brian Connaughton. Christian was well known to the Hamilton community, and maintained his stand for sixteen years. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia at eighteen, and spent the next ten years in treatment. Jimmy supported his son, attending psychiatric appointments with Christian at Community Behavioral Health. As a wrestler at Ross High School, the athletic community had been an important part of Christian’s life. His family wanted to honor his memory by providing scholarships to athletes and students at Ross and other local schools. They also wanted to support an organization that focused on mental health research. Christian’s brother Drew began looking into potential candidates, and chose the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation in New York City. The Foundation provides resources to the top 200 young researchers conducting innovative, groundbreaking research in mental health. The Unger family was impressed with their low overhead costs, and felt that their money would go farthest and do the most good with this organization. Being able to support a cause that would help others like Christian who struggled with mental health conditions was as important to the family as the scholarships. And so the idea for a fundraising concert began to flesh out. Many of those performing had known Christian personally, and offered their time without payment. Thommy Long, of Lemon Grenade Creative, designed a logo for the event, which has become a well-known symbol throughout the years of the event. In addition to music, they also had split-the-pot, and a raffle for a trip to Hilton Head to raise funds.

The next year, the concert grew, adding a stage behind North Second Tap and Bottle. Musicians continued to donate their services, and the 2020 concert 10 Corn Stand Jam is a celebration of life for music fans CARR

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RiversEdge, and Brandon Saurber, the director of neighborhoods and also a local musician, were instrumental in making Jimmy’s plans a reality. Steven Timmer, formerly of the Hamilton Parks Conservancy, and Audrey Baker, the current Office Manager, have been a great help. In 2021, an executive producer came on board. A transplant to Hamilton, Monique (Mo) Runzer began attending local concerts and events. She saw many people wearing Corn Stand Jam t-shirts and took interest, and eventually met Jimmy. At the first planning meeting she attended, her only intent was to be a volunteer. But as she learned about the mission behind the event, she saw so much potential and was inspired to play a larger role. There were about 20-25 volunteers at the meeting, and Mo was impressed with their passion and ideas. Her role became one of organizing the people and projects, giving the volunteers direction and clarifying specific roles. According to Jimmy, Mo “built the cookie cutter” for future Corn Stand Jam efforts, and took the annual event to a new level. joined the all-volunteer team, to help guide the CSJ’s non-profit efforts. Mo introduced sponsorships to raise money for the event. Many local businesses stepped up to sponsor the Corn Stand Jam at different levels, with many benefits. Brett Wolter, director of photography and video, has done video shoots for sponsors, logos are displayed at the concert, and both of these are used in social media promotion. Many sponsorships came from people or businesses who knew Christian personally. In 2022, Skyline Additionally,Chili. the 2021 concert at RiversEdge provided space for booths for local mental health resources to promote their services. This new development only strengthened the mission to support those with mental health struggles and their families. As the Corn Stand Jam grew, many ideas were generated to increase awareness and revenue streams. In October 2021, Municipal Brew Works

This year’s concert will be held again at Riveredge on September 24, from 1 to 11 p.m. The bands performing will be the Inturns, CFG & the Family, Josh Lawson & the Kokotto Comeback, will be available; everyone loves their swag. Resource booths will include Envision Partnerships and their Butler County Suicide Prevention Coalition. There will be a fireworks display by Rozzi’s Famous Fireworks at the end of the night. For four years, Jimmy Unger’s desire to honor Christian’s memory and his passion for helping people with mental health struggles has grown, impacting the local music community and the larger community in general. He is now a member of the Butler County Suicide Prevention Coalition. His vision has inspired so many and brought together others who’ve lost loved ones or have been affected by their own mental health conditions. They have become a community themselves; supporting each other and working together to bring awareness to these issues, to decrease the stigma surrounding mental illness, and to promote dialogue and create conversations that continue to make a difference in our community.

JIMMY UNGER’S SON, CHRISTIAN

12 WWW.JUSTHAMILTON.COM SEPTEMBER 2022 Support Your Local Business! continued to grow. Shawna Noble-Smith took on the role of volunteer coordinator. Volunteers set up booths at the city’s Juneteenth celebration, Alive After Five, Chalk It Up, and many other highly visible events around town. The team also planned several spin-off events. David Stark, community manager of Artspace Hamilton Lofts and Strauss Gallery, and Dean Queen organized the Corn Stand Disc Jam, a pay-to-play disc golf tournament held on July 9 at Millikin Woods, sponsored by 17 Strong, Artspace Hamilton Lofts, Hamilton Parks Conservancy, and Wraith Games. Casual Pint hosted its second annual CSJ corn hole tournament on August 13. There will be a movie in the park on September 3 at Marcum Park, made possible by a 17 Strong grant from the city of Hamilton. The Grub Pub is hosting a bike run on September 4, which will include food and bands performing throughout the day. These events bring in many community members who are hearing about the Corn Stand Jam and their mission for the first time.

Readers can follow the organization on Facebook at ChristiansCornStandJamwww.facebook.com/ , or visit their website at www.cornstandjam. com, where they can also sign up to volunteer at the event. Businesses interested in sponsoring next year’s event can email cornstandjam@ gmail.com, or call 513-805-2275. All donations are tax-deductible. The following QR code can be scanned and will take readers directly to the Corn Stand Jam website.

The volunteers find incredible value in making face-to-face connections and creating opportunities to have conversations and reduce the stigma around mental health.

Acceptance is a mainstay for the team, and welcoming all types of people has been and continues to be a priority.

The scholarship fund began inviting family members who have lost loved ones to suicide to honor their memories by giving scholarships in their names. In 2022, the Corn Stand Jam awarded seven $1,500 scholarships to local youth, who write essays about mental health when they apply. Christian’s fifteen year old sister, Olivia, helps review these essays.

Mo’s dedication to the cause and expertise in social media marketing have helped make these events successful, and social media is also used to recruit volunteers, who now number in the 60s. Many of these individuals have experienced mental health issues themselves, or had family members who struggled with mental health. They come from all backgrounds and professions and range in age from teens to over 65. They are united by a passion for decreasing stigma and normalizing conversations about mental health.

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“I’m also the ‘Voice of Badin’ sports— the P.A. announcer for football, girls’ soccer, boys’ and girls’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ volleyball, and occasionally softball. That’s been a lot of fun.”

STEPHEN T. BADIN HIGH SCHOOL / MEDIA RELATIONS BY MEGAN E. SMITH

“One thing I’m certainly proud of is that our student population has gone from about 450 to some 640 in the last dozen years,” Dirk exclaimed. “Our administration, faculty, and staff worked hard to enhance what we do at Badin, and the proof is in the enrollment numbers. Our student body has increased every year but one for the past dozen years. It’s nice to have played at least some small part in that Althoughincrease.”Dirkretired from the admissions portion of his job earlier this year, he will continue to support Badin as the media relations liaison on a part-time basis.

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Badin has experienced a tremendous amount of growth in the last 20 years, and Dirk is happy to share updates and news with Badin students and families.

When asked what advice he would give his teenage self, if, given the chance, Dirk provided a contemplative response.

“Being at Badin has been so meaningful to me,” Dirk shared. “I’m happy to continue to play a role in the opportunities for young people moving forward.”

“I would tell my teenage self to enjoy high school more and not be so tightly wound. Yes, I was good at school, and I was very involved at Princeton High, but I was way too temperamental and angsty about the high school experience. I’d do it again tomorrow— and try to do it better.” Q. Allen

THIS MONTH’S spotlight is on an individual who has worn many hats during a nearly twodecades-long career in secondary education. Dirk Q. Allen has been a member of the Badin High School family for almost 22 years. Dirk began his journey with Badin in August 2001, when he was hired as the public relations contact and the journalism teacher (see the featured Badin 2002 yearbook photo, where Dirk is pictured alongside the journalism staff, one of whom is a current Hamiltonian contributing writer). In 2008, he transitioned to admissions director, while keeping the public relations post. Dirk and his family moved to suburban Cincinnati, Ohio from Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, in October 1964. After graduating from Princeton High School, Dirk enrolled at Brown University in Providence, R.I., where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in political science and history. “My degree is in political ccience and history, but that has had very little to do with my work career,” Dirk explained. “What you learn between high school and the real world are skills to use for the rest of your life. Yes, you may have a college degree in something, but you are learning how to navigate the world around you. I’ve been fortunate to be able to do that.” Before working at Badin, Dirk was in the newspaper business for 23 years: one year at a weekly paper in Fairfield and 22 years with the Hamilton Journal-News, as a sports writer (four years), sports editor (10 years), opinion page editor (six years), and managing editor (two years). “I’ve been fortunate enough to have two memorable careers- two decades in the newspaper business and now two decades at Badin High School,” Dirk stated. “One didn’t necessarily have a lot to do with the other, but both enabled me to make a difference and to feel fulfilled by the effort I put into Beyondthem.”the walls of classrooms and administrative offices, Dirk also plays an active role in Badin athletics.

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Ms. Natalie Carley ’14 is the new director of admissions, and Mr. Jose Contreras has been named the director of diversity, inclusion and engagement.

“We’re looking forward to another great year,” said BHS Principal Mr. Patrick Keating ’07, who has stepped into the principal’s role after being the assistant principal/dean of academics the past two years. “Our students take full advantage of the opportunities offered to them. It’s always exciting to get started and begin the process of making a difference in student lives.”

• Mrs. Sara Gertz, Academic Support/ Intervention Specialist

The City of Hamilton Planning Commission and City Council have signed off on new zoning and construction plans at Badin, with new parking construction set to begin in the Badinfall.will demolish several houses fronting New London Road to the west of the high school in order to create expanded parking for the school, according to President Brian Pendergest ‘90. Once that construction is complete, plans are to move school bus traffic away from the circle drive in front of the main building. That should create safer access for visitors to the school.

“Change is constant and it’s great to get new staff in the building who will bring their energy and experience to the Badin Family,” Keating said.

“Badin’s student population has grown by some 30 percent in the past dozen years and that’s a compliment to the outstanding efforts of our faculty, staff and administration.”

• Mrs. Joyce Lewis, Spanish

Badin, now in its 57th year of operation, is one of only two high schools in the Greater Cincinnati area without its own stadium. Students interested in joining the Class of 2027 at Badin High School are encouraged to contact the Admissions Office at info@BadinHS.org or by calling (513) 869-4498, which rings directly on the desk of Natalie Carley ’14, director of admissions. Students interested in Shadow Days may sign up on the Badin website, BadinHS. org, under “Admissions.” Badin’s annual Open House is set for Sunday, November 6, from 1-5 p.m. The Open House will be a “reservations” event, also available for sign-ups on the website. Eighth-grade students will take the High School Placement Test (HSPT) on Saturday, November 19, at 8:30 a.m. Families can register online on the BHS site to take the test, which has a $30 fee.

• Ms. Mary Weinandy, Biology and Engineering

• Mrs. Christine Gates Brinkman, Health and Phys Ed.

• Ms. Brianna Foley, Mathematics

There are familiar faces in different roles and new faces on staff as well.

Mr. Brian Pendergest ’90, principal for the past dozen years, has moved into the post as president of the school, handling fundraising, finance, faith and facilities. Two new assistant principals include Mrs. Patty Gibbons as the assistant principal/dean of students, and Ms. Sara Ransom as the assistant principal/dean of academics.

This first phase of construction is intended to pave the way for a potential multi-purpose athletic stadium complex behind the school, though that will require significant fundraising of some $8 million as well as additional permitting from the city.

THE LARGEST student body in well over a decade returned to Badin High School on Monday, August 22, as more than 640 students walked through the front doors of the co-ed Catholic high school on New London Road in Hamilton.

New faculty include:

In addition, Ms. Anne Debbane is the full-time building substitute and Mrs. Karen Ray, her predecessor in that role, will be teaching Religion.

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Strong parent partnerships are critical to the mission of Cincinnati Christian Schools. CCS understands that the efforts of teachers and mentors at school coupled with the efforts of parents at home can bring about the best, most quality support and guidance for children as they navigate the current culture and prepare for a bright future ahead!

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Parents can certainly understand the sentiment behind this phrase, as supporting children in their growth and development through the formative years is not best done in isolation.

Parents and guardians need love, input, guidance, and direction from a host of other trusted individuals and resources.

MANY HAVE heard the African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”

Cincinnati Christian Schools understands the enormous, multi-faceted task of raising children to prepare them for success and influence in a very complicated world—a world much different from the one that many parents faced during their own formative years. Although there is much guidance and influence that takes place in the classroom during the school day, the most valuable impact comes when the school and the parents truly partner together as they face the challenges of raising a child in our current culture. This is why CCS has developed the Parent Partner Academy, a program to help build parent capacity for quality, meaningful conversations and involvement in their children’s lives. Each month during the school year, CCS hosts an evening gathering featuring a speaker and resources on a particular topic of interest. Parents can pick and choose the topics and meetings that they are most interested in, and attend as desired. Topics may be applicable to parents raising children of a particular age currently or perhaps in the future. include: Anxiety

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September 2022

Shaun Spurlock: “Plus the reason it works is that the magazine is ALL about Hamilton. Somebody commented, ‘Why don’t you do this for Butler County?’ Well, who in Fairfield cares about a business that’s opening up on the west side of Hamilton?”

With the first publication in January of 2018, why did the Hamiltonian Magazine begin?

BY KIEH KIRBY

What has most encouraged you since the publication started?

Right now we don’t have a good place to tell them where to go… Another encouraging thing is we send the magazine out to over 20 states.

Trace Fowler: “It started largely because I had seen this done in other communities and I’m biased but I felt like Hamilton always had a unique perspective as a community to it for being a relatively large city. You know I do think there are certain cities where everybody knows everything that’s going on and everybody knows everybody, but when there are 50,00060,000 people and it still has some of those same qualities about it and it seems like there’s a lot of caretakers for the city—I think that’s relatively special. So I thought that if it would work in these places, why wouldn’t it work here? Although I was from here, I didn’t have many connections. When I moved back, I naturally went back to Shaun who I knew for a long time and trusted. We met at Wings on Brookwood and talked about a magazine. Without quitting our jobs, we thought if we give this a shot on the side, it might work… But I always thought if you get a print publication, something that’s tangible that people can hold and feel and touch and pass to somebody else—that has much more power to it than saying, ‘Hey, you gotta go to a website to read about Hamilton news.’”

Someone just subscribed [from] the state of California, which is our fourth or fifth now in that state.”

Trace: “Sometimes randomly you’ll see somebody on social media who has 20 of The Hamiltonian reminisce about its past, and discuss plans for the future

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Shaun: “I would say the amount of good feedback we get from it. Every issue we send out, we get multiple phone calls and emails about where to get the magazine because there’s something in there they want to see.

nice things to say about what we’re doing… When you’re in the day-to-day of this, you don’t get a chance to step back and appreciate the publication as a whole. You become immune, to a certain extent, to what it looks like and what stories are in there but it is nice to see someone get excited. And it happens regularly every month. Someone’s excited that either they’re in it, or know someone who is in it… We wanted to try and change the narrative of what our community is about. That was the primary focus. The added effect that has occurred, I guess, is the personal satisfaction of other people enjoying it.”

Shaun: “We’ll work out of there in offices. It will be a place to purchase our magazine including subscriptions to it. We’ll also have t-shirts, coffee mugs, beer glasses, pillows, stickers, hats, keychains, bags, we’ll have a little bit of everything—all Hamiltonrelated merchandise.”

What’s next for The Hamiltonian?

Trace: “It was my idea to start the publication but it was Shaun’s idea to make a retail store a reality. Shaun gets a lot of credit for the sustainability of the magazine. There’s an opportunity for us shortly with the store launching, to start to do some things that we’ve always talked about doing. Outside of just merchandise, maybe some multimedia type thing in the Hamiltonian format. We started with the Hamiltonian Magazine and slowly turned it into The Hamiltonian as a brand. The store is hopefully a gateway into new opportunities.” So the Hamiltonian opened a retail store! What does your new space include?

Trace: “We’re passionate about making it look and feel like how people perceive the publication. Most people perceive it, in my opinion, as a nice, good-looking, classy publication and we’d like to think our storefront can be the same. We’re just thankful that we got the opportunity to get this space… I know what it takes to start a business and how much time, effort, and energy The Almond Sisters put into this place so if there’s some way to kind of have [a tribute] to them. Whether we sell a shirt or something to remember what they did there, that’s important to us. To continue to try to give people the opportunity to come in and check something out that they’re proud about. The opportunities are endless in the store; old photos or old publications geared towards certain eras of Hamilton…If you’re from Hamilton and you have someone from out of town or you haven’t been back in a while, you come in and just for a minute, you get lost in old photos. It’s kind of neat, a niche that we have and that’s why we exist in the first place.”

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ELIZABETH ROHRBAUGH, painter, creative educator, and founder of The Women’s Art Club of Hamilton has built a place for women to join a unique and diverse arts community. The club’s purpose is to “use art as a common denominator that connects community members, to encourage growth in artistic appreciation, craft, and conception, and artistically enrich our Lastcommunity”schoolyear

while presenting at a Miami University Hamilton class, Elizabeth met a student, Lindsey Hurst, who was like-minded in finding ways to build a community for artistic women in Hamilton. They realized there are similar clubs in nearby cities but not close enough. Elizabeth and Lindsey continued to meet to flush out details in creating a local club. The first step: invite others. They started meeting in our local coffee shop, True West Coffee to see if anyone else was interested. The response was incredibly positive from other women and local businesses, specifically the Fitton Center and the Strauss Gallery. Monthly gatherings were soon established—mosaic classes, Plein Air painting at Marcum Park, and more. If you’re not familiar with the term Plein Air like I was, here is a helpful definition by Artists Network writer, Courtney Jordan: “Plein Air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. The practice goes back for centuries but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes and the box easel—the precursor to the plein air easels of today—allowed artists the freedom to paint ‘en plein air,’ which is the French expression BY KIEH KIRBY

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The Women’s Art Club has an amazing upcoming opportunity to fill the entire gallery space at the Strauss Gallery and Fitton Center for February. A variety of pieces can be included: prints, glass, fiber art, sculpture installations, paintings, writings, etc. For those interested in being a part of the exhibit, there is an application process that must be completed by the end of the year. If you’re interested in learning more about the group or attending a monthly meeting, please email Elizabeth Rohrbaugh orwomensartclubofhamilton@gmail.comatfindtheirpageonFacebook.

Elizabeth has substantial plans for this new community: “I’m hoping this club allows for broad interaction, brings together women in the arts, and is mutually beneficial for the city. When I look out long term for our club, I could see some sort of philanthropic events that ultimately we could contribute to or even sponsor perhaps. There is a bright future, but we are so new in the formation stage, that we don’t have officers or are collecting dues at this point. Right now there is a lot of positive community involvement. Women have been saying ‘this is fantastic’ and ‘I’ve always wanted something like this nearby.’ It is a great, positive activity that we can all do Thetogether.”currentemail list includes over 40 fiber artists, writers, painters, and more. Some aren’t old enough to order a drink while others are starting new painting hobbies in their 80s. Most members live locally, however, one woman in Indiana heard about the club and decided to drive in for meetings. Elizabeth describes the club this way, “As artists, we all tend to work on our own, we spend a lot of time alone in the studio. You’re facing challenges that only other artists understand— and to have the opportunity to discuss that with other women is a really rich environment that you can’t find anywhere else.”

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for ‘in the open air” or even more simply put in Elizabeth’s own words, “creating art outside.”

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The Hamilton Evening Journal reported that Mrs. Shuler suffered a heart attack at the appearance of the officers at her front door. She had been in ill health for several months, ever since the Shuler home was bombed by (allegedly) unknown bootleggers. When Dr. Marsh arrived at the house to attend to her, the four officers were still in the midst of their search. After giving attention to his patient, Dr. Marsh ordered the four officers from the house. “A short time after their departure, her condition improved to such an extent that the physician could leave for a few minutes at a Althoughtime.

Responding to charges that the affair was a frame-up by Havens and Hall in ProsecutorProhibitionGoeson RICHARD

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all was quiet in the village of Seven Mile at two o’clock on a winter’s weekday afternoon, a commotion at the Shuler home drew out the entire village, and the people were reported: “up in arms.”They reminisce about the bomb that had been placed in the Shulers’ basement window, and about the night shots rang out when Shuler’s officers foiled a robbery of confiscated liquor from the little barn behind the house. Many of the lingerers had also been present at the raid of the Hilz dry cleaning plant in Hamilton and when Shuler’s men dumped nine barrels of moonshine into the village sewers.

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Herman Dulle and Albert Miller. The raid was coordinated by Charles Walker, a special state investigator who had been working undercover. The affidavit mentioned four occasions in which Shuler gave liquor to Butler County Luther Epperson and two other former Shuler operatives, Dolphus Bell and Lewis Bolser.

Villagers pointed to the many things that the mayor had done for Seven Mile and expressed the general option that if any liquor was found in the home, then it was certainly the remains of samples from various raids. “They pointed with pride to the more than 200 liquor cases tried in the Seven Mile court last year [1924], in which more than $40,000 in fines had been collected, and added also that Mayor Shuler was doing a wonderful thing for the village and Hamilton in the arrest of liquor law violators.”

Shuler was not at home at the time but was in Hamilton when he received a call informing him of his arrest. With an attorney in tow, Shuler immediately surrendered himself to Police Chief Frank Clements, decrying the charges as “frame-ups.” He paid $1,500 in bonds and then hastily sped home to check on the condition of his wife.

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Around 2 p.m. on Friday, January 9, 1925, four officers went to Shuler’s private residence with four warrants, charging him with possessing and giving away liquor. The agents removed four full quarts anda pint of bonded whiskey (bottled before Prohibition), one quart of “balsam whiskey” (European-style herbal schnapps), and a half-quart of moonshine. The search was conducted by Robert Havens and George Hall, two state dry agents that had formerly worked for Shuler’s court, assisted by Hamilton city detectives

SEVEN MILE MAYOR Morris Y. Shuler, whose Prohibition raiders were the scourge of bootleggers and moonshiners anywhere and everywhere in Butler County, was nearly driven to retirement from the stress of finding himself on the other side of the judge’s bench.

The village council held an impromptu meeting and demanded the resignation of one of their own, Havens, also one of the officers conducting the raid.

The crowd came to feast their eyes—and many to delight—at the unusual spectacle of one of the state’s most renowned liquortrial judges standing before a court accused of liquor law violations...

The witnesses included Hamilton Mayor Howard E. Kelly, Safety Director Joseph Meyers, the city auditor, chief of police, and clerk of council, all subpoenaed by the defense, calling into question the legitimacy of the raiders Hall and Havens, that they had no authority to enforce the warrants. The defense moved to quash the charges against Shuler and to have the confiscated liquor returned. Detective Dulle was called to the stand, but in the face of the objections from the defense, he was not able to testify as to the details of the raid. After thirty more minutes of arguing, Municipal Judge Kautz and attorneys on both sides agreed to continue the case until Thursday. When the court reconvened, the jam-packed audience enjoyed three hours of “flowery oratory and brilliant technical arguments.” Judge Kautz declared: “Havens was not an officer. He represented himself [as] a special officer in obtaining a search warrant. Mayor Shuler had the right to shoot Havens when the latter entered his home with an improper search warrant the same as every homeowner has a right to protect his home from

retribution for being fired from Shuler’s raiding squad, Hall said: “The records will show that Havens and I resigned voluntarily.” Hall said the investigation by Walker had been going on for months but was reluctant to reveal any details, saying that when the evidence is presented in court, all will be Epperson,revealed.Bolser, and Bell, the three men mentioned in the affidavit, all refused to confirm the charges when approached by reporters. Sheriff Epperson: “You can emphatically deny that I am involved in the charge in any way, and I know nothing about the case.” Bell said that he quit the raiding squad when he disagreed with Shuler, but he didn’t know anything about any affidavit. He did recall a time when the mayor had given him a drink of Old Taylor: “He asked me if I could tell good whiskey and I said I could. He then poured me a glass full from a quart bottle and I drank it.” While Shuler waited for the scandal to wend its way through the courts, Ohio Senator George Bender of Cuyahoga County introduced a bill that would modify Prohibition laws and would confine mayors, justices of the peace, and others to their jurisdictions. “Such a bill would put an end to the activities in Hamilton of the Seven Mile and Monroe Mayor’s court officers,” the Journal-News reported. “It is thought that these village courts would be eliminated if the powers were limited to the district in which the mayors were Whenelected.”Shulermade his first court appearance at an arraignment on Monday, January 20, “a mass of humanity—men, women, and youths— tangled together, struggled and jammed into the box-like courtroom one hour before the hearing. The crowd came to feast their eyes—and many to delight—at the unusual spectacle of one of the state’s most renowned liquor trial judges standing before a court accused of liquor law violations... The crowd came to get the ‘low-down’ on the liquor case which has aroused interest in all parts of the city and county.”

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motion that the liquor is returned to Shuler because it had been legally obtained, detectives Dulle and Mueller took the stand to identify the bottles confiscated. Mueller tasted from the bottles and “termed the fluids red whiskey and moonshine.” They said the bottles, three without labels, were found in closets on the second floor of the Shuler home.

invasion where a proper search warrant has not been issued.” The crowd, “composed of many whose homes had been raided by dry agents and many who had been convicted of liquor law violations,” stirred at the Regardingpronouncement.adefense

Even though the warrants were deemed invalid by Judge Kautz and the charges of giving away liquor were dropped, Shuler had a further arraignment on February 18 on the charge of possession of liquor. Interest in the case—or perhaps faith that justice would be meted out against the mayor, well-beloved by his constituency but hated by the underground—seemed to wane and only a handful of spectators were in the Shuler’scourtroom.defense was that the liquor was legally held, seized in raids by Shuler’s officers, and placed in Shuler’s home, which had already been approved as a state depository, for safekeeping. The prosecution argued that the liquor should have been destroyed. On the witness stand, Shuler testified that he believed the four quarts of red whiskey were part of the confiscation of 68 bottles from cafe owner Lyman Williams. Williams took the stand and showed a receipt indicating that everything from that raid had been returned to him. Prosecutors gave him a bottle that was in evidence. “I am positive this bottle was not part of my stuff,” Williams said. “My bottles were not Recalledlabeled.”tothe stand, Shuler maintained that the bottles had been found after Williams had been given back his whiskey and was not on that inventory list.

Koehler for the defense: “Did you ever tell anyone of this?” Shuler: “Yes. I told you about it.” Judge Kautz declared: “The court believes the liquor was legally possessed. Mayor Shuler may have been negligent in destroying or ordering to destroy the liquor... Negligence is not a crime.” Kautz again dismissed the charges against him and ordered the liquor to be returned.

Pale and haggard and nervous, Mayor Shuler smiled faintly and replied, “This is the third time I have been into a thing like this. It is a heartless job. I have never taken a dishonest penny.” He wouldn’t say more. But the rumors included that Mrs. Shuler was suffering from serious illnesses that had been exacerbated by the “constant worry and suspense” related to the mayor’s Hepredicament.hadthesupport of the people of Seven Mile. “We will not let him quit because of a thing like this,” one resident told the Evening Journal. “Everyone in Seven Mile always was solidly behind Shuler in this case.” No wonder. In addition to being lauded statewide for his work as a Prohibition enforcer, “Through his work as a liquor trial judge Seve Mile has ‘flourished’ financially,’” the Journal wrote.

Shuler’s days of authority over the entire county were numbered, due to the emerging Bender bill, but he did not resign and would still have a year to crusade for the powers of Prohibition.

Although he was exonerated, the ordeal took its toll on Shuler. “Rumor has it you are going to resign,” a reporter asked, “is it true?”

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2006 Hamilton High football alum, Luke Day, is proving his worth heading the strength program at the University of South Carolina.

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All that moving isn’t easy on a family, and Day knows that it wouldn’t be possible without his wife Trisha.

Like most strength coaches, Day has bounced around from program to program, learning along the way. The man who first piqued Day’s interest in the field was none other than Arvie Crouch—who is in his first year as the head coach of the Big Blue. “Arvie, who was my defensive line coach at Hamilton, got his first head coaching job at Mount Healthy. He said why don’t you help out in the weight room,” said Day. “That was my first coaching job ever, which turned into a graduate assistant role at the University of FromCincinnati.”therehis career blossomed. Stops at the University of South Florida, University of Central Florida, Hamilton High School, and the Cincinnati Bengals before finding his gig at Marshall.

“When you get offered a job, you don’t have a few months to get your stuff in order. You show up the next day,” said Day. “So I’ll hop on a plane or in a truck and she has to sell the house or get out of a lease, then I won’t see them till they arrive. She has done that multiple times.” Luke and Trisha have two kids; a nineyear-old son, Jaynes, and a six-year-old daughter Norah. “People ask me all the time how to get into this field, and I say ‘have you had this conversation with your wife or girlfriend?” said Day. “Is she down for uncertainty and moving? Is she down for getting hired and fired, moving across the country all in a matter of days? I’m so blessed to have the type of mother and wife that Trisha has been. Without her, it’s not possible.” This career is a grind and as Day has learned, you have to struggle well. He acknowledges all the people in his life that have put him in a position to succeed. Above the rest, he knows his hometown, Hamilton, has left the biggest Whethermark.hewas doing ministry work with his mom at Ford’s pool or working his tail off for his uncle at Day’s Sonoco, Arvie Crouch working him at football practice, or Tim Reed being his gym teacher at Garfield Junior High—all the people he met in this town have helped in succeeding in his career. Perhaps no one embodies the struggle well mentality quite like our city of Hamilton.

A FEW YEARS back Luke Day found himself in a precarious position. His career took a screeching halt. From leading the weight programs at major universities to moving home and pouring concrete, Day and his wife Trisha decided if they were going to struggle—they were going to struggle well. “Struggle is inevitable, so you as well figure out a way to do it well instead of avoiding it at all cost,” said Day. Day, a 2006 graduate of Hamilton High, decided to enter the highly competitive professional field of strength and conditioning at the collegiate level. In 2021, he was tabbed to lead the strength program for the University of South Carolina football team. Day made several stops along the way to the Southeastern Conference. Among those moves was a transition from Marshall University to the University of Colorado—which turned out to be a step backward. “I took a big ‘L’ on the chin, it was a major setback,” said Day. “From a career standpoint, if you get kicked out of this game, it’s very hard to get back in. Right, wrong or indifferent it’s about where you’ve been and how you’ve been doing it lately.” Day showing resilience like the city he grew up in, found a way to get in the game. Following a year of being back in Hamilton, Day went back to Marshall which springboarded this opportunity for the Gamecocks.

“I TOOK A BIG ‘L’ ON THE CHIN, IT WAS A MAJOR SETBACK,” SAYS DAY.

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More than a thousand people turned out, a remarkable number considering Hamilton’s population then barely topped 7,000 souls, but according to Middletown historian George Crouth in his book Hamilton-Butler County Bicentennial Briefs, the people were not impressed, perhaps because Hamilton was a Democratic stronghold at the time. “A reporter at the meeting wrote: ‘People were generally disappointed in the man and his appearance….He cannot be a great man, everyone feels it. He displays no oratory, but judging from the peculiar twinkling of his eye—he is no slouch, a twit. Ugliness predominates; rough and rugged in manners and looks, he still is conceded to possess fine talent as a debater...The outlines of his head can lay no claims to Anotherintellectuality.”reporter of the day wrote:

The bell was set to arrive at 5:25 p.m., November 22, 1915. A program was BY RICHARD O JONES

TWO OF Hamilton’s historic markers commemorate the occasions of famous visitors coming to town. On the current city hall plaza, at the corner of Martin Luther King and High Street, an Ohio Historic Marker commemorates September 17, 1859, the day a tall, lanky, some said “ugly,” up-andcoming politician from Illinois spoke from the back of a train. The station was located about 800 feet south of the marker at South Fourth and Ludlow streets. Abraham Lincoln was not yet a presidential candidate but had come at the behest of the Republican party. In 1858, Lincoln had lost a bid for the U.S. Senate to Stephen A. Douglas, but their debates on the eve of the Civil War were even then considered historically significant. So when Douglas later went on the road in support of other Democratic candidates, Lincoln did the same. His stop in Hamilton was part of a string of Ohio stump speeches. Highlights of his speech included comic remarks concerning the difference between his height and that of his host, Cincinnati congressman John A. Gurley, whom Lincoln towered over. Lincoln also noted that “this beautiful and far-famed Miami Valley is the garden spot of the world.”

In 1915, the famous bell, crack and all, had been on display at the PanamaPacific Exposition in San Francisco. When Hamilton leaders, led by the Chamber of Commerce and school Superintendent Darrell Joyce, found out that the route back to Philadephia included a passage from Cincinnati to Dayton on a train, they set out to create “The greatest patriotic celebration in the history of the city of Hamilton,” the Hamilton Evening Journal said, and somehow found a way to have the route include the Cincinnati-Hamilton and Dayton Railroad and a stop at the same station where Lincoln spoke.

“After waiting a few minutes, someone shouted ‘Lincoln,’ and out came a tall, ungainly, lank, lean sucker. Mounting a temporary platform, he made a few commonplace remarks, the substance being that our valley is filling up, that our people must soon emigrate, and the probability that we desire a territory not cursed by the ‘peculiar institution’ (of slavery). Then, politely thanking the crowd, was off.”

A few blocks west on High Street, in front of the former city hall, a historical marker stands alongside a replica of another notable visit to Hamilton from the iconic Liberty Bell.

During the program, the word was received by the committee that the train had been delayed in Cincinnati and would arrive in Hamilton about an hour late. The school children were told to go home and get their suppers and return when they heard the ringing of the fire bells, which sounded at 5:55 p.m. That was the plan, anyway.

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The commotion was so great that the train paused only 10 minutes, not 15 as planned, and left thousands of people disappointed.

Because of the threat of darkness at about 5:30 p.m. in late November, an electric searchlight was to be directed at the bell, courtesy of the West Side Motor “CrowdsCompany.surrounded the speakers’ stand and the entire street, hopelessly tying up all traffic while the celebration was in “Hundredsprogress.ofpeople were unable to get within range of the voice of “The crowd was composed of men, women, and children and with thousands of voices lifted up in singing the national anthem, the patriotism of thousands and thousands was stirred.”

He cannot be a great man, everyone feels it. He displays no oratory, but judging from the peculiar twinkling of his eye—he is no slouch, a twit.

Rough and rugged in manners and looks, he still is conceded to possess fine talent as a debater.”

to start at 3:45 p.m. at the Butler County Courthouse with 5,000 children marching from their schools to participate by singing patriotic songs. At 4:15 p.m., the children would march in two lines from the Courthouse to the railroad stop where members of the Ohio National Guard were to fire a salute of three volleys over the bell. Adults wishing to see the bell was supposed to from between Fourth and Fifth streets. Mayor Fred A. Hinkel presided at the Courthouse ceremony, which also included speeches by Judge John B. Connaughton and Judge Walter S. Harland and the reading of the Declaration of Independence by Judge Clarence MembersMurphy.ofCaptain Hunter’s Ohio National Guard unit were to fire a salute of three volleys over the bell.

There were “many children in the crowd and the women became alarmed” in the chaos, and one woman fainted with a baby in her arms. There were only two or three police officers on hand, not enough to keep the crowd under control.

“The sound of the bells sent people scurrying to Fourth and High streets from all directions and the intersection there became a mass of humanity,” the EveningJournal described the scene at the time, “each one pushing and shoving to get near the track. “Those who hurried at the first ringing of the (fire) bells were doomed to a long wait for the Liberty Bell did not arrive until exactly 6:55.”

Hamilton was a city of about 37,500 persons in 1915. Newspaper accounts did not estimate the size of the crowd which squeezed into the downtown area, but reports indicated it was large enough for the reporter to term it the city’s “greatest patriotic celebration.”

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Marie is the one who initially “found” Hamilton and bought a house on the corner of Ross and Dick Ave. She told her sister that they’ve got to move to Hamilton. “It is so artistic. And I could see the vision in it. In 2014, it was not as forward in its artistic

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Sisters Marie Pendley and Melody Doyel combined their creative talents to form Melody Elizabeth

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MARIE PENDLEY and Melody Doyel moved to the United States from Santiago, Chile when Marie was two years old and Melody was an infant. Their dad had just gotten a sponsorship through a construction company in Westland, Michigan. In 2014, Marie moved from California to her sister’s house in Fairfield, Ohio. Now living together, the sisters decided to bring their art and creativity to the rest of the country. Melody was involved with a traveling art show, Earth Angels, and convinced her sister to join her and just like that, their businesses, Derby Bloom and Melody Elizabeth were mobile.

37 much that Marie hasn’t consulted on. She has been involved with just about every type of interior design project from the pillows and drapes in hotels, set design for Dell Commercials, and even consulting for some local restaurants like Rib City and Hyde’s. What makes Marie Pendley such a great interior designer is that she takes the projects she consults on personally. “I love doing things that create a space, whether it’s for a commercial or in your home. I can incorporate that person’s needs into their space. You want that moment in time when that person or client or the people on the weekend retreat are so taken aback that they want to visit again.”

Melody is just as creative and unique as her older sister. In 2009, Melody started “Melody Elizabeth” in a space she’s made a studio inside her historic 1920s home in Hamilton. Melody learned to sew from her mother, and has been sewing since the ripe age of seven. One of the first things I noticed about Melody was her unique and eye-catching apparel. Melody enjoys using vintage textiles and findings from the 1800s to the modern day to create handbags, clothing, accessories, and jewelry for women.

“My wish is to create beautiful, well hand-crafted, tough, yet very feminine products, while accommodating modern necessities, with a loving nod to the past.” All of Melody’s designs are made by hand, allowing those who purchase her creations to have something that is “one of a kind from her heart to yours.”

You can find some of the sisters’ creations and literary works of art in a variety of places. They have some pieces at Front Room on 7th and www.melodyelizabeth.com. Whether it’s a room or an entire house or a new business venture you’re not quite sure what to do with, Marie Pendley is here to help. You can contact MCP Designs either by email, at MJCK2003@Yahoo.com or by phone at (310) 227-5613.

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