SOUTH | Fall 2014

Health Food Stores / Food Trucks / Johnson County Museum of History

FALL 2014

Indy’s southside magazine

A Brighter Future

Colombian-born Angelica Caraballo Perez pursues her dreams in Franklin SOU T H

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Brent and Bridget Tilson

ON THE COVER

Angelica Caraballo Perez, page 104.

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Feature Stories

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Domestic Designs

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Brent Tilson remains rooted in local causes

Food Truckin’ Several southside vendors go mobile

The home of Kyle and Kelsey Kasting

Coming to America Angelica Caraballo Perez settles into her new home

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This & That

Southside news and views

21 In Style

Impeccable spectacles

25 Taste

Natural food stores

32 Authentic Indiana Craft beverages

40 Worth the Trip College town eats

46 Travel

Nashville, Tenn.

56 Home Trends Libraries

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62 Arts & Lifestyle 76 Health & Fitness Quilt artist Brian Haggard

Cancer survivors

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© D. YURMAN 2014

Men’s Collection

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True Love I’VE SPENT THE AFTERNOON reading over proofs for this issue of SOUTH magazine, and I have to admit: I’m feeling a bit like a proud mama. I don’t know if, as a valued reader, you would notice such a thing, but when I flip through the pages of this magazine, I see a publication filled, nearly every inch of it, with reasons to love the southside.

Every story, every photograph — even every advertisement — in this publication shows off all the southside has to offer. There’s so much going on around town, in fact, that we sometimes can’t even fit it all in. As a staff, we discussed adding more pages to this issue to give everything a little more room to breathe. In the end, we opted to keep the same number of pages. There’s something appealing about a publication packed with spread after spread of good stuff to read and see. At least it’s appealing to me.

And I have you to thank for that, really. Every month, I receive emails, letters and phone calls with story suggestions about people of interest in this community. Every interview I do, every story I edit, every casual conversation that I have about the southside leads me to yet another story possibility.

In this issue, you’ll find profiles of Brent Tilson, whose success has reached international levels, but who still spends much of his time supporting his community right here in Johnson County. We also dive into the ever-changing food landscape on the southside. A number of local entrepreneurs are opening mobile food businesses (see Food Truckin’ on p. 92), and I’m sure by now you’ve all stopped in to check out the newest natural food stores that have recently opened their doors here (p. 25).

This issue, you’ll also find profiles on the Johnson County Museum of History (p. 68), quilt artist Brian Haggard (p. 62) and Angelica Caraballo Perez, pictured on our cover, who traveled all the way from South America to live in Johnson County (p. 104). When Perez was offered an opportunity to pursue a higher education here, which she couldn’t get in her native Colombia, she jumped at the chance to move to Franklin. Since settling in, she has fallen in love with her new life here, she says.

And when I flip through these pages and see all that the southside of Indianapolis has to offer, I certainly don’t blame her.

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this & that Brick Street Boutique FASHIONISTAS HAVE A new destination for a runway-worthy fall wardrobe, thanks to Brick Street Boutique. Since it opened in late April, this Franklin find has attracted women from trendy teens to stylish seniors, says owner Molly Frische.

That’s because she hand-picks clothing and accessories not commonly found at other area retailers.

“As I’m searching for items, I tend Brick Street to look for what I like and find a way to Boutique carry it,” Frische explains. “I try to tailor 34 E. Jefferson, Franklin to having a little bit for everyone.”

(317) 739-0525 That approach leads to discoveries such as Woodsy sunglasses (which feature temples crafted from recycled skateboards), fair-trade jewelry and a majority of American-made items, including a line of handbags.

“If I like the company concept, I try to bring them in,” she says.

She’s also kept the antiquing culture of Franklin in mind when stocking the shelves and includes a number of vintage-inspired designs.

Frische operated solo for the first two months, but sales blossomed more quickly than she anticipated, and she added a full-time staffer in late June, which now enables her to host private shopping parties on select evenings.

farm fresh Farm Indiana and Home News Enterprises are proud to announce the November arrival of “Hoosier Harvest,” a farm-to-table cookbook that captures Indiana cuisine at its finest, just in time for the holidays. Explore the Hoosier state’s rich harvest with this collection of simple seasonal dishes, provided

by Indiana’s celebrated farmers, chefs, artisans and food writers.

This beautifully photographed hardbound cookbook showcases signature recipes from Traders Point Creamery, Stream Cliff Herb

Farm, Local Eatery and Pub and more. Try your hand at making The Apple Works Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, savor the summer’s flavors with food writer Sara Croft’s Creamy Corn Skillet and finish the year with many holiday favorites. Don’t forget to raise a glass to homegrown goodness with one of the collection’s handcrafted Indiana cocktail recipes.

Each book costs $24.99 and will be available for purchase at The Republic in Columbus, Franklin’s Daily Journal, The Tribune in Seymour, the Brown County Democrat and the Greenfield Daily Reporter newspaper offices, as well as on each of the newspapers’ websites.

To order an advance copy for $19.99, call (812) 379-5600 or (800) 876-7811.

For more information on Farm Indiana, visit farm-indiana.com.

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Ladies Night Out Southside women are invited for a night of pampering and entertainment Oct. 2 at the sixth annual Ladies Night Out, an event hosted by South magazine. The evening will include vendors, food samples, free gifts, demonstrations and a fall fashion preview. Event sponsors are American Cancer Society, Arni’s Restaurant, Chegar Facial Plastic Surgery, Edinburgh Premium Outlets, FE Moran Security Solutions, Financial Center Federal Credit Union, Franciscan Physicians Network / St. Francis, Franklin Window & Door, Oliver Winery & Vineyard, Ray Skillman Performance Ford, Southside Harley-Davidson, Transformations Salon & Day Spa, Urban Euphoria Salon & Spa, and Waddell & Reed. Free admission. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Location: Hilton Garden Inn, 5255 Noggle Way, Indianapolis, (317) 888-4814.

ULTA

Johnson County beauty gurus soon will be just a little closer to the next shipment of their favorite cosmetic and salon products, thanks to a major economic development project announced earlier this year.

ULTA, the Bolingbrook, Ill.based beauty retailer known for its extensive lineup of prestige and mass-market products in stores and online, will create up to 537 new jobs with a Greenwood-based fulfillment and distribution center over the next four years. The 670,000-squarefoot facility, which is expected to begin shipments to both ULTA retail stores and online

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customers in the summer of 2015, joins three other such centers in the U.S. Drawn by a combination of accessible interstate and air shipping methods and up to $3 million in conditional tax credits from the Indiana Economic Development Commission, ULTA plans to invest $51.6 million to lease and equip the new center.

Available jobs will include warehouse associates and clerks, material handlers, human resource professionals and managerial positions.

Those new workers will have busy workdays ahead of them: ULTA offers more than 20,000 products through its 696 U.S. retail stores and its ULTA.com website.

Chip Essig A simple phone call in 1996 to PGA master professional Chip Essig, director of golf at Hickory Stick Golf Course in Greenwood since 2004 and co-owner of golf course management company Essig Golf LLC, led to a nearly two decade devotion to the Special Olympics and an impressive honor.

Prior to the June opening of the Special Olympics Indiana Summer Games, Essig received the PGA’s 2013 Conrad Rehling Award for his contributions to Special Olympics Golf.

Named after the founder of Special Olympics Golf, the award recognizes the growth of the links segment under Essig’s leadership.

When he was asked to host the golf portion of the state’s Special Olympics back in ’96, about 50 athletes were part of the competition. Over the years, with the help of Jim Porter of Carmel (he helps coach the golf team) and longtime Special Olympics volunteer Sharon Hollowell of Greensburg, Essig has seen the program expand to include more than 450 golfers, who now play on the Hickory Stick greens.

“I’m the only PGA member (among the trio), so I got the award,” Porter says. “But to me, the award is all three of us. And it’s also the Indiana section award. I happened to be the one that was lucky enough to get the phone call when they were looking for a host. I know that if another pro had gotten the phone call and become involved, they would have been in the position to win the award.”

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“The Bees”

By Laline Paull “The Bees,” by Laline Paull, is an inspired twist on the sub-genre of dystopias.

In Flora’s hive, bees live under the looming threat of receiving “the kindness” from the police for any sign of individuality. Any resistance is tamped down until Flora 717, one of the lowliest sanitation workers, manages to break free. She is admired, feared and hated for her differences, but without her the hive would never survive. Paull presents a richly imagined portrayal of a hive of bees with fantastic world-building and welldrawn characters. The imagery was both lush and menacing. It felt very much like an accurate portrayal of how life in a hive might be.

Reviewed by Becky Preston, teen services librarian, Greenwood Public Library

“Lucky Us”

“We Were Liars”

By Amy Bloom

By E. Lockhart

Amy Bloom’s “Lucky Us” is a beautifully written coming-of-age story exploring the struggles of family and the resilience of the human species. Eva has had a rough childhood. Left by her mother at the doorstep of her father’s new family home, Eva turns to her half-sister Iris for direction in life. Iris leads the girls to 1940s Hollywood in search of a big break, which never seems to come. Broke and joined again by their father and their new friend, Francisco, this new family travels across the country to New York City, which brings new characters, heartache, strength, love and a fresh start to Eva and her family.

Cadence Sinclair loves spending time on her family’s island, a private island where they’ve built houses and memories that fortify the family name and legacy. But for all the money and material possessions, there is a truth they never let anyone see. They’re not happy. On the island, with her cousins, Cadence forgets all about trust funds and family promises.

There is an air of mystery about the island and its summer inhabitants, and author E. Lockhart does an excellent job of slowly feeding you information to intensify the tension and mood.

She interweaves a unique storytelling in Cadence’s voice that brings depth to her emotions and frustrations and adds to the false fairy tale of the life of a socialite. The teen protagonists seem genuine, and the story of heartache and angst is realistic and familiar. An allaround fun, thoughtful read.

Reviewed by Valerie Moore, reference librarian, Greenwood Public Library

Reviewed by Emily Ellis, head of reference and teen services, Greenwood Public Library

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHET STRANGE

Coach, $210, Ray Ban, $216, Warner Eyecare, Olive Branch Parke Lane, Greenwood, (317) 883-0071, warnereyecare.com

A Good Eye In search of a new pair of specs for the school year?

Look no further. We’ve scoured the southside and found these great eyeglasses, which earn high marks in both function and form.

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What’s in Store It’s true — not all grocery stores are created equal.

Much like restaurants, they each have their own flavors and followings, styles and stock. The southside is exploding with specialty natural food stores to keep in step with the consumer shift toward fresher, more local foods. Here, we’ve zeroed in on a handful of them to help you navigate the niche with ease.

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Cornucopia

This independent Franklin health food store, which opened in 1993, has been under the ownership of Donna Booth since she purchased it in 2001.

“I’m a certified nutritionist and have worked in the nutrition field for 24 years,” she says.

“Our store is approximately 1,200 square feet, and we carry an assortment of gluten-free, organic and fermented whole foods, along with body care products and vitamins, herbs and supplements.” Booth, along with her manager, Mendy Williams (who doubles as a yoga instructor), loves the opportunity to chat with customers and help them make educated choices about products. 2797 N. Morton St., Suite C, Franklin, (317) 736-8300

Audra Nicholls, Country Nutrition manager.

Country Nutrition Country Nutrition in Greenwood is well-versed and well-stocked when it comes to special diet needs. “We specialize in it, in fact,” says manager Audra Nicholls. “We have lots of products geared toward gluten-free, dairy-free and all different types of diets.” The small staff offers a wealth of knowledge when it comes to nutrition, so don’t shy away from asking health-related questions. Country Nutrition doesn’t carry fresh produce, but it does stock plenty of refrigerated, frozen and packaged foods, as well as health care products and supplements. 1480 Olive Branch Park Lane, Greenwood, (317) 889-1305, countrynutritionstore.com

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Outdoor oasis IntegrIty. QualIty. creatIvIty.

Earth Fare This health food store has locations throughout the country, landing solidly in Greenwood over the summer. Earth Fare prides itself on the variety of products that don’t line its shelves, namely anything containing high fructose corn syrup, synthetic growth hormones, trans fats, artificial colors or sweeteners and bleached or bromated flours. Claiming one of the “strictest food philosophies in the industry,” the store has an ever-evolving list of banned ingredients not allowed in stores, stocking only the healthiest fare possible for community shoppers.

The store also stresses the origin of its products. Labels point consumers to foods that have been shipped from locations 100 miles or closer and to those that have been produced at small, family-owned or artisan farms.

2110 E. County Line Road, Indianapolis, (828) 281-4800, earthfare.com

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Fresh Thyme Greenwood became the site of the first Fresh Thyme Farmers Market location in Indiana. The health food retailer, which has stores throughout the Midwest, doesn’t follow the layout of more traditional grocery stores; rather, the shopping space (no numbered aisles here) reflects how diets should be structured.

Produce, much of which is grown locally, stands in the center of the store.

Surrounding fresh produce loads of bulk foods like organic grains, hormone-free meats and dairy, organic coffee, cleaning supplies, vitamins and supplements.

Fresh Thyme stocks its shelves with fresh seafood shipped daily, organic foods, breads and other treats from local bakeries and the on-site Fresh Thyme kitchen and dairy- and gluten-free offerings. Shoppers also find a selection of organic and sulfite-free wines and craft beers.

Each Fresh Thyme location invests in the local community with in-kind donations and fundraising events, joining the fabric of the community as it seeks to change the way people eat and shop for healthy foods. 8750 U.S. 31, Indianapolis, (317) 215-5185, freshthyme.com

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Nature Pharm owner Matt Smith.

Nature’s Pharm

One of three locations, the Greenwood Nature’s Pharm promises customers one of the largest selections of health and gluten-free foods, organic produce and supplements on the southside. The store boasts a variety of fresh and frozen items, beans and grains, baby foods, herbs, spices and even wines. “We belong to the Independent Natural Food Retailers Association, which keeps our prices competitive,” says owner Matt Smith. “We really emphasize customer service here, as we have lots of regulars and a rewards program.” Despite the large selection of health food products, Smith swears by a few of his favorites — one being a relatively new addition to the store. “It’s called Fire Cider,” he shares. “It’s a health tonic made with apple cider vinegar, and you take it from a pre-marked shot glass. It’s intense!”

8215 S. U.S. 31, Greenwood, (317) 888-0557, natures-pharm.com

TRY THIS

The folks at Nature’s Pharm love this crunchy, healthy slaw as a side dish. The recipe is part of a vegan, vegetarian and macrobiotic diet and makes great use of daikon, a white radish that tastes similar to the red variety.

CARROT-DAIKON SLAW 2 large carrots, shredded 1 medium daikon radish, shredded ½ cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped 1/8 cup brown rice vinegar 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil 1 teaspoon tamari (or soy sauce) Fresh spinach leaves Mix the carrot, daikon and parsley in a serving bowl. In a small bowl, whisk the vinegar, oil and tamari and pour over the slaw. Toss well to coat, then serve over spinach leaves.

Original Italian Ice Cream Daikon

Original Italian Ice Cream

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Greenwood’s new Mashcraft Brewery brings some local flavor to craft beer lovers, who can score pints, flights and growlers at the new brewery and taproom. “Our bar was built with red oak milled in Martinsville,” says Andrew Castner, head brewer. The space includes a glass garage door that gives customers a peek at the brewing equipment, a side room for large gatherings and seats from Indy’s retired Bush Stadium. “Our beer lineup includes Mashcraft Gold, Mashcraft Red and Mashcraft IPA, in addition to season brews that change regularly. In the fall, keep an eye out for an Oktoberfest and a Pumpkin Ale.” 1140 N. State Road 135, Suite M., Greenwood.

(317) 215-4578. mashcraftbrews.com

Anyone who’s a fan of local foods, organic ingredients, original concepts and doughnuts (doughnuts!) is in for a treat this fall. Rocket 88, a Fountain Square bakery specializing in artisan doughnuts, is poised to bring sugary, fried nirvana to the masses. “We want to source locally and organically as much as possible,” says owner Patrick Burtch, “and create really unique flavor profiles in a modern space.”

What constitutes unique? Customers can expect to bite into lemon poppy seed, sweet potato, carrot cake or even whiskey cream bacon-flavored doughnuts, with a lot more ideas in the works.

“We’ll also have gluten-free and vegan options,” he adds. 874 Virginia Ave., Indianapolis. Rocket88doughnuts.com

If fall fever strikes, a trip to Greenwood’s Flying Cupcake location will satisfy those cravings in no time.

When the weather starts to cool, look for two new cupcake flavors in the display case: Pumpkin Patch and Caramel Apple Cider. Pumpkin lovers will flip for the pumpkin cupcake topped with a classic cream cheese icing, and nothing says autumn like an applesauce cupcake stuffed with apple pie filling, then decadently frosted with caramel buttercream.

789 N. U.S. 31, Suite D, Greenwood. (317) 396-2696. Theflyingcupcakebakery.com

PREP TIP

Move Over, Cucumbers

» Gone is the notion that pickles are always thinly sliced cucumber rounds. Pickling is the perfect way to preserve any number of crisp veggies, and it doesn’t have to be a long or complicated process. If you mix 2 cups of warm water, 1½ cups vinegar and 4 teaspoons of kosher salt, you have a basic brine for your own pickle creations.

Think variety: carrots, asparagus, zucchini, green beans and Brussels sprouts all pickle well.

You can vary the flavor by adding spices like coriander seeds, whole peppercorns, chopped dill or even fresh chilies. Play with different vinegars as well (cider vinegar, distilled white, even rice vinegar), and you’ll add another layer of depth. Add brine and spices to your chopped veggies and seal, leaving overnight in the refrigerator, and voila — refrigerator pickled vegetables in the easiest way possible.

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Take a Dip

COURTESY OF OAKEN BARREL BREWING CO.

Each year, fall gatherings and football parties turn us into raging dip-aholics. There’s something so addictively freeing about ditching the utensils and dipping into something delicious. Here, we’ve tracked down some irresistible recipes from local chefs that are sure to have you dipping quickly. By Caroline Mosey

Black-eyed Pea Hummus COURTESY OF THE INDIGO DUCK

4 cups canned black-eyed peas, rinsed ¼ cup tahini ½ cup olive oil 3 cloves garlic, peeled 2 tablespoons cumin 2 lemons, juiced and zested Salt and pepper, to taste Place garlic in food processor and blend.

Add black-eyed peas, olive oil, tahini, salt and pepper, and lemon juice and zest.

Pulse until smooth or desired consistency.

Serve with pretzel crisps for dipping.

2 pounds plain cream cheese, softened ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper ½ teaspoon white pepper ½ teaspoon garlic powder ¼ teaspoon cumin Mix above ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.

1 4-ounce can chopped green chilies 1 15-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 cup salsa ½ cup green peppers, diced ½ cup red peppers, diced ½ cup onion, diced ½ cup green onion or scallions, finely diced 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese Layer green chilies in the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch pan. Top with cream cheese mixture, spreading evenly. Top with black beans, spreading evenly. Sprinkle salsa over the entire mixture.

Mix together diced vegetables and sprinkle over the top. Top with shredded cheddar cheese and bake at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown.

Serve with multicolored tortilla chips for dipping.

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A raspberry bramble made with Wilks & Wilson’s elixirs.

Downhome Drinks

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It’s no secret that Indiana has a thriving local beer and wine industry. But what may not be so obvious are the many craft beverage producers creating something a little different in the local drink scene.

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Handcrafted Beverages

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In 2010, Hoosier Momma’s homemade bloody mary mix was becoming a fixture at local farmers markets, the result of the three “mommas” behind this Indiana handcrafted mixer — Erin Edds, KC Cranfill and Cat Hill — “taking on the male-dominated (beverage) industry,” explains co-owner Hill.

Eventually those farmers markets offered the trio the opportunity to move to large-scale festivals, getting their drink mixer noticed by Glazer Indiana, a drink distributor.

Marsh Supermarkets was the first grocery store to carry Hoosier Momma products — a line of finely crafted “culinary cocktails,” which, as Hill says, “taste as beautiful as they look.”

Then, it wasn’t long before Hoosier Momma products were appearing in local eateries like Flatwater Restaurant, Cafe Patachou and Traders Point Creamery.

“Today we are available at over 800 locations throughout Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana, Wisconsin and the Chicago area,” reports Hill.

Hoosier Momma also makes regular appearances at Lucas Oil Stadium and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Hoosier Momma’s Original Bloody Mary Maker was created using Indiana products. The company is dedicated, Hill explains, to offering premium beverage products made with high-quality ingredients.

In 2011, the company’s creative team introduced Spicy Bloody Mary Maker, a popular riff on the original, low-sodium mix. This new blend boasts a smoky mixture of horseradish and aged cayenne.

The makers of Hoosier Momma’s hope their line of handcrafted mixers may soon be found at many local package liquor stores across the state, along with local restaurants like St. Elmo’s and Matt the Miller’s Tavern. Hoosier Momma products can also be found on shelves at local grocery stores, such as Marsh, Kroger and Meijer. For more information, visit hoosiermomma.com.

When it comes to the soda business, Jerry Rezny, owner of Handcrafted Beverages, is no amateur. “I worked for Coca-Cola right out of college,” says Rezny, “when the sweetener was still cane sugar.”

First making waves in producing craft beer, Rezny attributes his interest in food and beer brewing to a trip he once took to Germany. “Every town of any size had at least one brewery, and everyone typically enjoyed the local beer,” he says. “It was so fresh, and only four ingredients: water, malted barley, hops and yeast.”

Upon his return to the States, Rezny’s newfound avocation for brewing grew into a refined hobby.

His successful venture into homebrewing won him several awards at the Wisconsin State Fair and carried over into the commercial trade.

“The old, major domestic brewing companies were producing a product that was thirst-quenching and cheap, but with very little character,” he explains. He sensed people wanted “something better” and opened Brewmasters Pub Restaurant and Brewery in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1987, then the 16th brewpub in the country and the first in the Midwest.

It was then that Rezny’s passion grew more focused. “We made our own root beer at the brewpubs,” he says. “After experimenting with other sodas, including colas, we shelved the idea. The ingredients were not readily available, and there was just not enough time to do it all.”

Rezny continued to run the brewpub business for over two decades, but a few years ago he obtained a

Jerry Rezny, owner of Handcrafted Beverages

part-time teaching position in the culinary arts department at the Art Institute of Indianapolis. The gig afforded him the opportunity to focus on his passion for creating craft beverages.

Handcrafted Beverages offers an impressive line of flavored sodas: cola, diet cola, root beer, cherry vanilla cream, red cream soda, ginger beer, lemon lime, citrus, green apple, caramel apple, chocolate, orange and grape.

“We are currently making all naturally sweetened soda syrups for

independent restaurants,” he says.

“The regular sodas are sweetened with cane sugar; the diet sodas are sweetened with natural Stevia.”

Rezny’s sodas (the syrups of which are presently produced at Indy’s Kitchen on the near northside) are currently featured at Broad Ripple Brew Pub, Pogue’s Run Grocer, Tow Yard Brewing Company, Three Pints Brewpub in Plainfield and Hey Café in Greenfield, along with several others. For more information visit handcraftedbeverages.com.

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Wilks & Wilson Intrinsic inspiration is just a handy byproduct of a lengthy career in the food and beverage business, and the innovative duo behind Wilks & Wilson knows exactly how to distill those flashes of libation inspiration.

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“I’ve been in food and beverage in one form or another since I was about 14,” says Zach Wilks, the Wilks portion of the company that makes classic cocktail elixirs — tonics, syrups, grenadines and bitters.

For Wilks, much of what he does is old hat.

“My family has always been in the spirits business,” he explains. “My mother was a bartender, my uncle owned United Package Liquors, which was the largest liquor store chain in (Indiana), and my grandparents used to own a grocery store at New York and Davidson streets that they actually ran a bar out of the stock room during Prohibition.”

And though Wilks has held a multitude of restaurant jobs (bus boy, cook, dishwasher, server, manager and owner among them), that aforementioned inspiration would propel him elsewhere. “Behind the bar is my real passion,” he says.

Wilks employs his culinary experience in his beverage craft. “I’ve had the opportunity to work with many great chefs through the course of my career,” he says, “and I think that’s

been a huge influence on the way I work. I believe (in) sourcing the best ingredients we can get our hands on and letting the ingredients speak for themselves. I also think there is a lot to be said in simplicity, creating cocktails and dishes with fewer high-quality ingredients to highlight the items you’re using.”

Co-owner Greg Wilson goes on to explain that the team is constantly experimenting with new flavor combinations. “It’s always fun to come up with new products for clients or for specific spirits,” he explains.

And though the duo started with elixirs, Wilks & Wilson is expanding into cocktail bitters.

“Our Storyville bitters (pays tribute) to New Orleans and the cocktail culture there,” says Wilks. “Its main flavors are chicory coffee and pecan.”

The mixologists also work with many

Triple XXX Family Restaurant

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clients on custom flavors and elixirs for their beverage programs. Wilks & Wilson products are distributed in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Washington D.C., Missouri and Kansas. For more information, visit wilksandwilson.com.

For husband and wife Greg and Carrie Ehresman, the secondgeneration owners of Triple XXX Family Restaurant in West Lafayette, owning the well-known restaurant is about more than just having a good soda recipe on tap. It’s an integral part of Greg’s family history.

Ehresman learned in a hands-on environment by working at Triple XXX, when his father and mother, Jack and Ruth Ehresman, owned the restaurant. “My aunts and grandma ran the place,” Ehresman explains, and he got his start as a dishwasher there when he was just 13.

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But Ehresman’s most notable chore took place in the basement, where he mixed the eatery’s famous root beer. The original, pure cane sugar root beer, which was initially developed in 1895, led to the creation of several Triple XXX “Thirst Stations” throughout the country in the early to mid-1900s. These small eateries featured the popular drink, along with popular drive-in–style food.

“We still have the original Triple XXX root beer,” says Ehresman, “although not made in the basement anymore.”

Today, the Triple XXX product is created just north of Lafayette at a Chicago-based facility, where it is packaged and shipped. “As the years have passed and the industry has changed,” says Ehresman, “we’ve needed to conform a little bit, and this is just the safest and most efficient way to do things.”

Ehresman’s central responsibilities are overseeing back-of-the-house operations, as well as doing general accounting, but he also enjoys dabbling in the laboratory, as he works with his wife to develop new soda flavors for the Triple XXX brand.

“We are never resting on our laurels,” he explains. “Right now we’re working on the new flavors; cream soda, orange and low-calorie root beer.” For more information, visit triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com.

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Patio dining at Feast in Bloomington.

Food for Thought These Indiana college town restaurants rank at the top of their class

By Sara Croft and CJ Woodring

SUMMER HAS DRAWN TO A CLOSE , and parents throughout the Hoosier

State have said goodbye to their teens, who headed off for one of Indiana’s colleges. When you plan a visit to check in on your offspring, share a memorable family meal at any of these eateries, located in Greencastle, Bloomington, Lafayette, South Bend and Muncie.

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Outside seating at Almost Home in Greencastle.

Almost Home Restaurant 17 W. Franklin St., Greencastle, (765) 653-5788, almosthomerestaurant.com

Greencastle is home to DePauw University and Ivy Tech Community College. In addition to offering visitors warmth and friendliness, this small, west-central Indiana town provides recreational opportunities, industrial enterprises and commercial businesses befitting a thriving city with 150 years under its belt.

The Almost Home Restaurant, launched in 1990 as a tearoom and gift shop, is located in the downtown Courthouse Square. In 2001, owner-chef Gail Smith purchased an adjacent building and expanded the small tea room into a fully functioning restaurant.

Historic architectural features of the 1836 building were preserved, leaving the original stone foundation, exposed brick walls and a massive arch with a tin ceiling to create a 70-seat dining room.

As one of the city’s few non-fast

food or chain restaurants, Smith’s restaurant does, in fact, make you feel as if you are “almost home.”

“All of our produce is purchased from local farmers when in season,” Smith says. Steaks are sourced weekly from Jasper-based Fischer Farms; other Hoosier farmers provide seasonal produce as available. Local meat and produce shape lunch and dinner menu offerings.

The restaurant’s most popular menu item is the award-winning strawberry pizza, Smith says. “I came up with it in the late 1990s, serving it at the Taste of Indiana, where it won Best Dessert, as well as the top prize at a Culinary Institute of America contest.” Families can enjoy a back-to-school slice as strawberries wrap up their growing season.

Bistro 501 501 Main St., Lafayette, (765) 423-4501, bistro501.com

Almost Home’s dessert offerings.

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Lafayette boasts more than 250 restaurants that cater to residents and students attending Purdue University. Guests get the feeling that Bistro 501 has been around nearly as long as the college.

Located next to the local farmers market in the city’s historic district, Bistro

worth the trip 501 features tables with full settings and a warm interior of bright yellows and blues, enhanced with rooster décor.

It speaks to a relaxed, yet elegant, atmosphere where “you feel comfortable dressing up or putting your elbows on a table,” says Theresa Buckley, pastry chef and front-of-house manager.

The main dining room’s large windows overlook Main Street and an outdoor patio, the city’s first al fresco dining area.

Paté, escargot and salmon tartare are just a few of the ways in which Bistro 501 chefs invite you to try something new through French cuisine-inspired dishes. Seasonally rotating lunch and dinner menus offer just a handful of options, perfect for the indecisive eater who shudders at multiple pages. Frequent rotation has not skirted the rack of lamb and steak frites, two menu items that have remained staples since the restaurant’s opening 14 years ago.

Award-winning barrel-aged cocktails and selections from an extensive 30-page wine list are even better when paired with desserts and pastries made

in-house. Selections include Sweet Corn Gelato with crumbles of Captain Crunch, traditional French crème brûlée and sticky toffee pudding, a nod to the British ancestry of the owner’s family.

Barn Brasserie 117 W. Charles St., Muncie, (765) 2166982, facebook.com/BarnBrasserie

Walk into Barn Brasserie in Muncie, home of Ball State University, and you may feel the need to order a pint of local beer, open a book and stay awhile. As the city of Muncie worked to revitalize the Village, a cultural hot spot for college students, owner-chef Matt Burns opened Barn Brasserie. The result is a college bar scene and great food offered in a family-friendly restaurant.

The comfortable setting has the feel of a country barn, boasting an exposed wooden bar and Ball jar lighting fixtures, a nod to the iconic glassware manufactured here from 1888 to 1998. But what you see on your plate will remind you less of grandma’s kitchen and more of an upscale, urban restaurant.

Burns concocts original recipes from locally sourced ingredients, ordering only one day’s supplies at a time to ensure quality product over quantity. The restaurant has no freezer or microwave.

The Barn Burger features a variety of ingredients and styles, which are listed on the daily chalkboard. The Korean burger — ground duck topped with a fried egg and kimchi — has been a recent favorite. It is paired with french fries and condiments made in-house.

Sunday brunch is always packed, with locals eyeing a unique menu of pineapple upside-down pancakes, seafood omelets and brunch burgers (loaded with gravy and topped with an egg).

Pair your meal with one of the local draft brews on tap or choose from a selection of red and white wines.

Café Navarre 101 N. Michigan St., South Bend, (574) 968-8101, cafenavarre.co

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Indiana. Owner Kurt Janowski knew just what the community was missing when he introduced upscale French cuisine.

“Meals are more than just about the food. They are about enjoying each other’s company, about laughter, stories, memories, future plans and connecting. Café Navarre’s beautiful setting is the perfect backdrop for these special meals,” he says.

Housed in the original American Trust Bank building, now carefully restored and listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings, Café Navarre merges the past with the present. Modern furnishings in black, white and marble shine in natural light that radiates through large floor-to-ceiling windows. Guests pull up a chair on the ground level or upper level seating area for a magnificent view of historic Michigan Street.

French, Italian and Spanish cuisine is simple and delectable, created with farm-to-table sources. Filet mignon is elevated with a cabernet demi-glace; the pan-roasted rack of lamb is enhanced with pickled mustard jus. The restaurant offers multiple seafood options,

Café Navarre

with multiple weekly deliveries guaranteeing a fresh catch-of-the-day.

Step outside your comfort zone and enjoy the Duck Two Ways entree: a seared breast rubbed with five spices and coupled with a confit.

Café Navarre’s luncheon menu offers lighter soups and salads for day visitors.

Other options include the Wagyu burger with Vermont cheddar and onion confit, or Basque stew with mussels, mirepoix and fish in a saffron tomato broth.

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Feast Bakery Café 581 E. Hillside Drive No. 104, Bloomington, (812) 822-0222, feastcateringonline.com

Although located a mere mile south of the Indiana University campus, Feast will make you forget how close you are to the hustle and bustle of college life. The comfortable, yet upscale, environment invites you to stop by in jeans and a T-shirt or enjoy a date night before a concert or show.

Head chef Erika Yoachum runs the 4-year-old operation with her sister, Jennifer Burt, basing the business on local and sustainable practices and supporting local food growth. Although the restaurant is small, a seasonal patio extends seating.

A Michigan native, Yoachum has been cooking since childhood. Her extensive background includes positions as chef, baker and caterer in Brown County, Zionsville and California. Personal service, outstanding ingredients and great taste are hallmarks at Feast, which offers seasonal menus — including small plates for luncheon selections — along with Sunday brunch.

Feast in Bloomington.

Try a burger, a menu mainstay that includes a new beef burger garnished with house kimchi and peach miso barbecue sauce. Or say “Ole” to nearly a dozen varieties of tamales Yoachum learned to make and perfected while living in Los Angeles.

Gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan options are available and include the tempeh burger and the tamale feast. For a sweet indulgence, select from among tasty pastries and cakes or order a signature drink from the espresso bar.

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A Grand Ol’ Time Head for bright lights and Broadway nights in Tennessee’s capital city

By CJ Woodring

Broadway in Nashville, Tenn.

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CULTURE AND HISTORY meet country and hit makers in Nashville, Tennessee, a tourist destination renowned for record stores, the Grand Ole Opry and Lower Broadway’s honky-tonks.

Despite its well-deserved title of Music City, USA, there’s much more to Nashville than meets the ear. If you go, expect to find a kaleidoscope of eateries, attractions, specialty shops and a lively nightlife, a colorful panorama offering a fun getaway for all ages.

GIRLS GETAWAY »The fun begins with shopping.

Hillsboro Village

Belle Meade Plantation

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The city’s unique neighborhoods offer a wealth of trendy shops, boutiques and emporiums, purveying items ranging from jewelry and home goods to posters and bootscootin’ ... umm ... boots.

Check out H. Audrey (4027 Hillsboro Pike, Suite 703, 615-760-5701, haudrey. com). Owned by Holly Williams, daughter of Hank Williams Jr., it’s the stars’ go-to shop for clothes, shoes and accessories. Also: Fire Finch Boutique (305 Church St., 615-3855090, welovefirefinch.com); sister boutiques Habit and I See London (2209 Bandywood Drive, Suite H, 615-292-9399, habitboutiqueclothing. blogspot.com); and Hillsboro Village (hillsborovillage.org), a four-squareblock treasure trove of specialty shops and eclectic offerings.

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The Cupcake Collection

When you’ve shopped ’til you’ve dropped, stop in the Relache Spa & Salon (2800 Opryland Drive, 615-458-1772, relacheopryland. com) at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center (2800 Opryland Drive, 615-889-1000, marriott.com) where luxurious therapeutic services are guaranteed to soothe and relax.

Not to be missed: Country Music Hall of Fame (222 Fifth Ave. S., 615416-2001, countrymusichalloffame. org); Grand Ole Opry (2804 Opryland Drive, 800-733-6779 (733-6779), opry.com); The Parthenon (2600 West End Ave., 615-862-8431), nashville.gov); and Belle Meade Plantation (5025 Harding Pike, 615-356-6164, bellemeadewinery. com), Nashville’s only winery. Be sure to tour the 1853 mansion.

Out and about? Play The Escape Game (510 E. Iris Drive, Unit D, 615878-3135, nashvilleescapegame. com), a real life adventure game guaranteed to test your team’s wits; grab a seat on the Nashville Pedal Tavern (1514 Demonbreun St., 615390-5038, nashvillepedaltavern.com) for a 2-hour pub crawl or float down Broadway on the Nashville Party

Barge (106 Fourth Ave. S., 615-4227077, nashvillepartybarge.com).

Foodies flock to Nashville’s nosh havens for brunch, lunch or munch: Deli Dave’s (234 Fifth Ave. N., 615-254-3354, deli-daves.com); Capitol Grille at the Hermitage Hotel (231 Sixth Ave. N., 615-345-7116, capitolgrillenashville. com); and Lockeland Table Community Kitchen and Bar (1520 Woodland St., 615-228-4864, lockelandtable.com).

For down-home classics, try the buffet at Arnold’s Country Kitchen (605 Eighth Ave. S., 615256-4455) and The Loveless Café (8400 Tennessee Highway 100, 615-646-9700, lovelesscafe. com), where biscuits call your name.

Also Merchant’s (401 Broadway, 615-254-1892, merchantsrestaurant. com) for fish tacos and Honky Tonk Central (329 Broadway, 615-7429095, honkytonkcentral.com).

Sweet endings include home-baked love from The Cupcake Collection (1213 Sixth Ave. N., 615-244-2900, thecupcakecollection.com); The Christie Cookie (1205 Third Ave., N., 615-242-3817, christiecookies.com), where cookies and brownies are a major food group; and Pralines by Leon (138 Second Ave. N., Suite 102, 615-254-5030, leonscandy.com).

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Johnny Cash Museum

GUYS TRIP » Begin your “mancation” at the Johnny Cash Museum (119 Third Ave. S., 615-256-1777, johnnycashmuseum. com), the world’s largest repository of the legendary showman’s artifacts and memorabilia. Get your engine runnin’ at the Lane Motor Museum

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(702 Murfreesboro Pike, 615-742-7445, lanemotormuseum.org), home of the nation’s largest European collection of unique cars and motorcycles.

Cheer on one of Nashville’s teams: the NFL Tennessee Titans (titansonline.com); NHL Nashville Predators (predators.nhl.com); and the Nashville Sounds (milb.com), a minor league Milwaukee Brewers

affiliate. And don’t miss the action at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville (625 Smith Ave., 615-254-1986, fairgroundsspeedwaynashville.com), home of the Southern Super Series.

For shopping: Head to Antique Archaeology (1300 Clinton St., Suite 130, 615-810-9906, antiquearchaeology.com), where owner Mike Wolfe, “American Pickers” star, has amassed a collection of salvaged pieces of history.

Capture the flavor of Nashville: The Pharmacy Burger Parlor & Beer Garden (731 McFerrin Ave., 615-7129517, thepharmacynashville.com) for creative burgers, bier, German wurst and a biergarten; Rumours Wine Bar (ICON Building, 1104 Division St., 615-432-2740, rumourswinebar.com) for libations, cheese/charcuterie, plates and desserts — and one of Nashville’s best patios. More than a hit song by the Eagles, the Sunset Grill (2001 Belcourt Ave., 615-3863663, sunsetgrill.com) is a dinner-only

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Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge

Marathon Village

venue offering sustainable local and regional ingredients.

Cited by Gayot’s (gayot.com) as one of the Top 10 Steakhouses in America in 2013, Kayne Prime Steakhouse (1103 McGavock St., 615-259-0050, mstreetnashville.com) is all about exceptional cuisine, award-winning steaks and a leather-and-wood setting that overlooks breathtaking city views.

What’s not to love?

Marathon Village (marathonvillage. com) harbors many unique venues, including Corsair Artisan Distillery

and Taproom (1200 Clinton St. No. 110, 615-200-0320, corsairartisan.com).

Schedule a tour and whiskey tasting.

Prefer a brew-ha-ha? Flying Saucer Draught Emporium (111 10th Ave. S., No. 310, 615-259-3039, beerknurd. com) features 80 beers on tap.

Country stars come and go, legends live on, and Legends Corner (428 Broadway, 615-248-6334, legendscorner.com) remains Lower Broadway’s quintessential watering hole. Also try Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge (422 Broadway, 615-726-0463,

tootsies.net); Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar (220 Printer’s Alley, 615-242-5837, bourbonstreetblues. com); and Tequila Cowboy Bar and Grill (305 Broadway, 615-7429078, tequilacowboynash.com), a combination bar, lounge, game room and karaoke bar.

Finally, take a break and indulge yourself at The Moose (1203 16th Ave. S., 615-321-1200, moose4men.com).

Renowned for impeccable tonsorial services, the über men’s grooming lounge offers a beverage bar, personal HDTVs and Wi-Fi. And guaranteed male bonding.

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You’ll wish it could be Nashville every night when you share a romantic experience at one of the city’s many distinctive attractions and restaurants. Pay a visit to Ryman Auditorium (116 Fifth Avenue N., 615889-3060, ryman.com), birthplace of bluegrass and former home of the Grand Ole Opry. A night at the Nashville Opera (3622 Redmon St., 615-832-5242, nashvilleopera.org) is the ticket for a romantic evening.

Try his-and-hers shopping at sister stores Hello Boys (1108 Woodland St., 615-512-8989) for vintage and contemporary designs, and Goodbuy Girls (1108 Woodland St., 615-2819447; goodbuygirlsnashville.com) for clothing, shoes and accessories.

Romance means chocolate. For a unique experience, schedule an Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Factory Tour (1628 Fatherland St., 615-2623007, oliveandsinclair.com) It’s pure Southern artisan chocolate here: No soy, milk or pesky additives.

Romance is in the air — and afloat — on the General Jackson Showboat Dinner Evening Cruise (2812 Opryland Drive, 615-458-3900, generaljackson. com). The three-hour cruise down the Cumberland River includes a seated dinner and stage show.

Or book a private horsedrawn carriage tour through Nashville Sightseeing (888-8813279, nashvillesightseeing.com) and snuggle up for a 30-minute or hour-long getaway.

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The Catbird Seat

If music is the food of love, the Cabana (1910 Belcourt Ave., Hillsboro Villages, 615-577-2262, cabananashville.com) is a slam dunk: casual Southern comfort cuisine in a semi-private, curtained booth furnished with pillows, a TV and iPod/music player hookup.

Requisite $250 minimum spending on Fridays and Saturdays.

For romantic ambience, locally sourced food and Chocolate Elvis, don’t miss The Mad Platter (1239 Sixth Ave. N., 615-2422563, madplatternashville.com).

P.S. chef/kitchen manager Brad Hughes hails from Greenfield.

The Standard at the Smith House (167 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., 615-2541277, smithhousenashville.com) serves dinner only with live entertainment Friday night. For Italian flavors, fine wine and amoré check out Caffe Nonna (4427 Murphy Road, 615-4630133, caffenonna.com); Valentino’s Ristorante (1907 West End Ave., 615327-0148, valentinosnashville.com); and Margot Café (1017 Woodland St., 615-227-4668, margotcafe.com).

Creative cuisine in an upscale, intimate setting defines The Catbird Seat (1711 Division St., thecatbirdseatrestaurant. com). Multi-course tasting dinners; online contact/reservations only.

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FAMILY FUN »

Family-friendly Nashville is filled with excitement and surprises for youngsters of all ages. The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere (3777 Nolensville Pike, 615-833-1534, nashvillezoo. org) boasts the largest communitybuilt playground in the nation, a Wild Animal Carousel, Wilderness Express Train and animals from throughout the world. Adventure Science Center (800 Fort Negley Blvd., 615-862-5160, adventuresci.com) offers hands-on, interactive activities, a planetarium and Adventure Tower among many features designed for curious young minds. Sky High (5270 Harding Place, 615-366-4252, nas.jumpskyhigh. com) is Nashville’s 50,000-squarefoot trampoline park, where visitors bounce off the walls — and floors.

Europa Go-Karts & Golf (621 Old Hickory Blvd., 615-356-0301, europafun. com), Nashville’s premier family fun park, offers go-karts, pool tables, a game room, batting cage and 18-hole

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mini golf course with exciting obstacles.

Visit the Tennessee Central Railway Museum (220 Willow St., 615-2449001, tcry.org) and take a roundtrip ride on seasonal journeys: train robberies, Day Out with Thomas, Easter Bunny Excursion and North Pole Express with Santa.

Minutes from downtown, Wave Country (2320 Two Rivers Parkway, 615885-1052, nashville.gov) provides plenty of spills and thrills with wave-action pools, speed slides and water flumes.

Maybe your babies don’t want to

grow up to be cowboys, but what about playing cowboy (or cowgirl) for a day?

A Cowboy Town (3665 Knight Drive, Whites Creek, 615-242-6201 MondayFriday, 615-876-1029 Saturday-Sunday, acowboytown.com) is just 10 minutes from downtown Nashville. Horseback riding, cookouts, Wild West gunfights and more await you at the 116-acre setting in the Ramblin’ Breeze Valley.

Cheekwood (1200 Forrest Park Drive, 615-356-8000, cheekwood. org) offers botanical gardens, an art museum, picnic site and year-round programs — including Family Night Out (June-July) — on a 55-acre site.

Youngsters will flip at the chance to make their own pancakes, French toast or grilled cheese sandwich at The Pfunky Griddle (2800 Bransford Ave., 615-298-2088, thepfunkygriddle.com).

Options — including dozens of pancake toppings — abound at the eatery.

Add sweet getaway memories at Las Paletas Gourmet Popsicles (2911 12th Ave. S., 615-386-2101). The refreshing flavors of the Mexican popsicles are the best cool treat you never tasted.

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A home library designed

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Traditional and contemporary styles merge in home library design

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WITH IPAD, KINDLE EREADER and Nook Tablet use on the rise, “the days of the traditional library in a dedicated room with tall shelves and rolling ladders is not as common” in home design, says Gerard Lehner, interior designer and owner of Lehner Designs in Greenwood. But that doesn’t mean homeowners don’t want an area where they can relax with a good book.

Residential customers still ask Lehner to design in-home libraries as unique places to display books and accessories.

“We find clients continuing to ask for furniture or custom casework to house books

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MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE The demand for the home library is still strong, according to Dale Hughes, owner of Dale Hughes Interior Design in Franklin. “They are trendy and continue to be popular, especially in homes with spacious and open floor plans,” he says.

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home trends Melanie Piper, interior decorator and owner of Interiors by Melanie in Greenwood, has noticed a definite trend in the design world toward more open concept homes, which includes the library. Piper says the open design fosters a sense of family and community in the household, rather than the isolated areas and divided rooms in older homes.

Open floor plans can create new challenges to the homeowner as to how to organize or zone space for multiple functions. “If you have, for example, a very large great room,” explains Hughes, “think about how to zone the room with furniture, creating invisible lines of space for particular functions.” An area with a pub table and chairs may sit in a corner, ultra-plush sectional furniture may occupy the center of the room, and a reading nook could be designed in the far corner of the room with a comfortable recliner, a desk and shelving for books.

The function of the area and the homeowner’s need for storage typically help determine where the library is located, says Lehner. The library can be a small, extremely compact space with built-in shelv-

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ing and a desk designed in a kitchen area, or a larger library can fit very naturally in a living room. “With more of our customers having home-based offices, the need to design an office and library combined is growing in demand,” says Lehner. “Making these spaces open and inviting with good lighting helps to delineate a place in the home to retreat and read a good book or the daily paper or to accomplish a job.”

Positioning comfortable lounge furniture, ottomans or even a nice fireplace helps to finish the design, making it functional yet aesthetically pleasing.

Home office environments and library combinations serve dual purposes. “In the last home office and library design I created, my customers wanted to incorporate a large cabinetry unit with a concealed refrigerator and a flat-screen TV built in,” says Hughes. “These customers wanted to entertain guests and conduct business in this space.” The cabinetry not only housed bookshelves for books and art, but also provided charging stations for phones and computers blended into the cabinetry. The combination home office and library created usable space and provided a perfect place to escape the rest of the house and meet with clients, he adds.

COMFORT AND STYLE “I design for functionality and comfort,” says Piper. Design your library with comfort in mind, whether it’s a large room filled from floor to ceiling with books or a simple reading nook. No one wants to come to a house that looks like a museum, she says.

She describes the comfy must-haves for the at-home library, which include a table on which to rest your favorite books, a chaise longue, a plush recliner, or a soft, relaxing leather chair with a comfortable ottoman.

“An ottoman is a great addition to a library,” she says. “It can be easily moved to any convenient location to prop your feet up. And some ottomans are specifically designed to be used as tables and storage areas, where items can be stashed.”

Other important must-haves, according to Piper, are side tables to accommodate drinks or to display a pile of decorative books; two-tiered tables to conveniently add book storage with a shelf underneath, either open or enclosed behind a cabinet door; bright floor lamps to illuminate your reading area; and a velvety afghan or throw that blends with your color scheme.

Subtle design touches can add coziness to an in-home library setting, says Piper. Older

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home trends homes often have an entire room that serves as a library. When decorating a library such as this, she suggests rich, dark woods for bookshelves and furniture to complement the Old World charm. Add a lavish throw rug or two, she adds. She recommends displaying family heirlooms, photographs and art pieces among the bookshelves.

Combine books and art pieces, Piper suggests. Solid books on every shelf create a heaviness and cluttered feel to your library.

To make a contrast between the dark wood shelving and book spines, mix it up a little and flip some of your books to reveal the creamy white of the book’s pages. For added variety, avoid placing all of your books in neat little rows on the shelves; place some of the books vertically and horizontally.

If your home sports a more contemporary motif, consider adding grid-patterned bookshelves to one wall of your library.

These cubby shelves offer considerable storage space for books and décor items. Monica Due, interior designer for Cornerstone Interiors in Greenwood, also recommends a wall shelving system with adjustable shelves.

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looks free floating, adding a nice contemporary edge to an eclectic library décor,” says Due. “Insert pops of color and texture to the back of your bookshelf with colorful wall covering or specialty paper that can be purchased from book binders. You can use just about any pattern or color to enhance your décor theme.” Remember, says Due, lighting can also add ambience and elegance to the items displayed in your bookcases. Spotlight art or specific book collections with electric sconces, small lamps or down lighting within your bookcases.

Piper suggests repurposing existing décor items to add decorative flair to your library. Consider a tall pottery vase with a flat top. Add a surface piece, such as a round glass tabletop and convert it to a side table. And if you don’t have enough books for your shelves and need fillers, Piper recommends purchasing books inexpensively at Goodwill or garage sales to help fill bookshelf space. “Remove the tattered paper covers of hardback books. The vivid colors of leather-bound book spines and covers offer extra color dimension to your bookshelves,” she says.

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Vintage Twist

Quilt artist Brian Haggard brings history to life in fabric

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JUST A FEW COBBLESTONE STEPS from the Southport Antique Mall is The Crazy Haberdasher studio, also known as The Haberdashery. Inside the studio, guests will find vintage artworks, wooden buffets and tables, and knickknacks from long ago.

Three long tables, bordered with high-back, wood-spindled chairs, sit empty, awaiting the next class of students, whom Brian Haggard will welcome to his studio to learn the art of crazy quilting.

The antique whites of the furniture and the rich brown tones of the studio’s walls reflect the neutral palette Haggard loves, and these colors influence the combinations of fabric he often chooses in his art. Crazy quilts differ from traditional quilts that have connected blocks of fabric that are finely organized and geometric. A crazy quilt, or an art quilt, as he calls it, is free flowing in design and artistically embellished with buttons, lace and beads, detailed embroidery and exotic fabrics, such as velvet, satin or silk. It is often framed and displayed or added to a cushion, pillow or lap quilt. He usually works with blocks of fabric from 12-by-14-inches to 18-by-18-inches in size.

“The quilts I make as an artist are like scrapbooks made out of fabric,” he explains. “My work is vintage style from the 1800s and often features photos from

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that time period.” The photos are copied onto fabric using a specialized aging process that recreates the sepia effect of Old World photography.

Haggard attended the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, specializing in photography, a far cry from embroidery, but his success as an interior designer and owner of the design firm Windsor House Interiors for 17 years nurtures his quilt artistry, along with memories of the hours he spent as a youngster stitching and quilting with his grandmother. He credits that special time in his youth as the first inklings of a creative instinct for decorative stitching, fabric and texture in décor.

The first art quilt Haggard created was for his mother’s birthday seven years ago.

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er and grandmother. The quilt became a beloved gift to his mother and marked the beginning of his career as a quilt artist. He later developed a unique niche in quilting circles with his creative use of photography and original embroidered designs.

His vintage artistic spirit blossomed with his submission to the “Power Suits: An Art Guild Challenge” exhibit in 2011.

His art quilt “Power Suit,” honoring his great-grandfather, combined a photograph of his grandfather in sepia-toned format in the center of the quilt surrounded by Versace and Armani vintage suit samples, a nostalgic array of material snippets from his great-grandfather’s tie collection and pieces of a watch to symbolize the passage of time. The art quilt gained national recognition as it traveled with other artist submissions in the Power Suit collection, showing in a variety of venues from art galleries and art centers to the National Quilting Associations’ 44th Annual Quilt Show.

Haggard’s maternal family roots inMarilyn Harding, long arm quilter for spired his “A Family’s Legacy” art quilt, the Back Door Inc., a local quilt shop in on which he featured photos of his Greenwood, has worked with many of great-grandmother and great-grandfather.

Haggard’s quilt designs. As a long arm Entwined in a fabric block with quilter, she uses a large frame his great-grandmother’s phoquilting machine to sew Hagtograph, Haggard’s intrigard’s creative patterns. cate stitching reveals a “Brian’s quilts are so artistic,” Harding says. lilac, her favorite flower, “He is very, very talentand a seagull commemorating her favorite ed. He will bring the 2028 E. Southport Road, novel, “Jonathan Livcompleted quilt top to Indianapolis ingston Seagull.” His me, and I stitch the top (317) 881-8955, great-grandfather was layer, the batting and thecrazyhaberdasher.com a hunter and fisherman, the back together as one which is conveyed through finished piece. He has his embroidered images of a fish vision of what he wants it to and pheasant. look like, and my job is to make “I do all of the hand stitching, emit look like that.” bellishments and binding for my quilts,” he Haggard decided several years ago to says. “I’ll send them to a machine quilter take his quilt artistry a step further, and for final quilting with explicit instructions taking a friend’s advice, he began writing books to share his expertise with the for quilt design.”

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public. He has since authored two books, with a third in the works. His first book, “Crazy Quilted Memories,” featured ideas for crazy quilt projects, which was published by C&T Publishing in 2011. The second book, “Embroidered Memories,” published in 2012 by C&T Publishing, is a pattern book introducing a collection of his embroidery designs.

Stemming from the popularity of his books, Haggard has been asked to teach his quilting techniques to interested fans.

He offers quilt classes focused on crazy quilt projects at his studio and plans three-day retreats, either on-site at his studio or off-site. Students attending studio retreats will book rooms at local hotels and spend the days learning embroidery and crazy quilt techniques.

One of Haggard’s students, Jody Baker, reminisces about her last quilting retreat at Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute in 2011. Each student ahead of time sent a personal photo to Haggard related to the quilt project they were planning. Some sent graduation photos or wedding photos. “My picture was my parents holding me on my first birthday,” says Baker. “Brian printed the photos in sepia tones on fabric and included them in individual kits for each of us with all the supplies we needed for creating our crazy quilt.” Baker now serves as his assistant, traveling with him to quilt shows abroad and around the country.

Haggard recently returned from the International Quilt Festival of Ireland in Killarney, where he was asked to teach hand-stitching classes during the festival.

He often invites those interested in quilting to join him on many of his excursions, including his recent trip to Ireland. “Once my first book was published, quilt guilds began hiring me to teach crazy quilting and embroidery techniques during their events,” he says. “I’m going to California in February to teach a quilt art class for the Road to California Quilt Guild Convention and continue to schedule bookings at various guilds into 2018.” Also in February, he will teach during a seven-day Caribbean Cruise Craft Tour.

Despite his national and international travels, Haggard is always happy to return to The Haberdashery, where he also lives. There, an old door key, unusually shaped buttons, pieces of a pocket watch, a locket, photographs and strands of antique lace are all sources of inspiration for the creator of crazy quilts.

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Johnson County Museum Keeps History Fresh And Local

By Scott Hall | Photography by Josh Marshall

IF THE WORD “HISTORY” conjures dry, dusty images in your head, you might be surprised by what’s happening in a stately neoclassical building just north of Franklin’s Courthouse Square.

At the Johnson County Museum of History, visitors can still learn about local life from prehistory through the 19th and 20th centuries. But lately, young staffers and a legion of loyal volunteers have been finding innovative ways to tell these time-honored stories while appealing to new generations of visitors — and financial supporters — with quirky

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exhibitions and hip special events designed to challenge preconceptions about the museum’s role in the community.

Take, for example, an installation on the history of the video game that opens in November. In collaboration with local retailers, the show will include four playable game stations representing stages in the evolution of the technology, dating back 30 years to the debut of Nintendo.

“One of the challenges I face is that people don’t understand that modern history is still history,” says David Pfeiffer, the museum’s curator since early 2013.

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Museum director Carrie Birge with curator David Pfeiffer

Pfeiffer reviews a slide from the archives.

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Joining him in this campaign is the museum’s even newer director, Jasper native and DePauw University grad Carrie Birge. Both are still in their 20s, but they wield master’s degrees and considerable experience in various museum and historyrelated settings. They’re geeky about the subject matter but savvy enough to know they are competing in a busy marketplace to engage the families and young professionals who represent the institution’s future.

Housed in a former Masonic Lodge on Main Street, the museum attracted 8,800 visitors last year, but organizers are shooting for 10,000 this year, with a particular eye toward attracting folks from the bustling suburbs around Greenwood, where Indianapolis-oriented residents don’t always identify with Johnson County as a community. (continues on page 72.)

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Modern History: The Evolution of Video Games, November through January, tracing the history of game technology with four playable stations.

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Carrie Birge

By Julie Cope Saetre As the recently hired executive director of the Johnson County Museum of History, Carrie Birge brings with her a valuable mix of education and experience. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history and English literature from DePauw University and a master’s degree in American history from the University of St. Louis. She’s worked at other Hoosier county museums, most recently planning public and youth programs at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. A history buff since childhood, she shares thoughts on her first few months — and the future of museums.

What sparked your love of history?

My parents would cart my sister and I around the country on vacation to places like historic homes and battlefields, and my dad would make us take tests on what we learned. So we grew up with a really immersive history experience.

What are your job responsibilities at the museum?

I have to be a jack-of-all-trades. A lot of what I do is fundraising, budget planning. I work very closely with the curator on exhibit planning and collections questions. I handle all the PR and marketing plans for the museum. And I do about half of our social media. One of the things that appealed to me about a smaller museum was getting to do so many different things.

Which of the current exhibits is your favorite?

There are a couple that I really like.

We have a small exhibit on schools in the county. I really like the way that it is set up. It looks like a classroom, and the informational panels present different aspects of school life. One talks about how schools have changed, and there weren’t iPads, and people

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had to walk to school. I also am a really big fan of our cabin. I think it’s such a great experience for visitors.

Have you learned anything interesting about Johnson County’s history?

I have learned so much. I didn’t know prior to being here anything about Camp Atterbury. It’s such a huge part of the county history but also of U.S. military history. And I think it’s great that we had a Civil War company that played significant roles in the Civil War. In the county that I’m from, I don’t think much has been done as far as researching the individuals and what their paths were.

What would you say to younger people to pique their interest in the museum?

I think it’s a really exciting time right now in the world of museums, with technology and social media and searchable, online collections.

There are even digital exhibits now. These aren’t the museums that our parents grew up with. To keep museums running, we need to start thinking about our future donors and our future friends now.

We need to start fostering better relationships with our generation.

(Continued from page 70.)

Birge, who began work in January, also wants to appeal to her own generation, the 25 to 40 demographic. One such initiative is the new Young Friends group, a $15 annual membership level in the Johnson County Historical Society, the nonprofit structure that oversees the museum.

The first Young Friends event will be Cannonballs and Cocktails on Oct. 3, featuring new additions to the museum’s Civil War display, a punch made from a 19th-century recipe and a stroll down the street to the also historic Artcraft Theatre for a screening of “Gone With the Wind.”

“I want to create a good, solid relationship with that age group,” says Birge, who isn’t shy about noting revenue, sponsorships and partnerships among her top priorities. “It’s something the generation ahead of us has been so good at doing.”

The log cabin adjacent to the museum. Below, one of the exhibits.

Alongside events, however, the staff continues to beef up the museum’s collections and standing exhibits, the ones that fit the more conventional definition of history.

There’s still an 1830s-vintage log cabin next to the parking lot, representing the early European settlers. The main floor still houses artifacts from prehistory through the Victorian era, continuing through the 20th century with items from a 1930s doctor’s office, Camp Atterbury’s World War II heyday and the post-war era of drive-ins, soda shops and gainful auto industry jobs.

Among other planned updates, the Civil War room soon will host interactive stations to appeal to younger visitors, as well as a replica cannon — pivotal in a historic battle involving local soldiers — that will provide a centerpiece for the Cannonballs event. The Victorian display is gaining a green-screen photo booth where visitors can dress up in period fashions.

Incorporating new technology is a key operating principle for the staff. “I want to make sure we’re always on the edge of that,” Birge says.

A new standing attraction under development will explore the rich history of transportation in Johnson County, including covered wagons, plank roads, freight trains, interurban commuter lines, interstate highways and airports. The interactive exhibit will open sometime in 2015 in the museum’s lower level.

The basement already is home to the Genealogy & Local History Library, one of the

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museum’s busiest attractions. Public records, city directories, maps, school yearbooks, family and church histories, microfilmed newspapers and other primary sources from a multicounty area make it a destination for folks tracking their roots, as well as an increasing number of families researching the backgrounds of their fixer-upper historic homes.

“They love seeing their house with the 1930s car in front of it,” Pfeiffer says.

Down the road, the staff hopes to build on these resources by putting photos and documents online and perhaps selling prints of the images on file. There’s already a gift shop on the main floor, stocked with museum-branded merchandise and reading selections from local authors and historians.

The museum also is making greater use of its upstairs auditorium, renovating and booking more community events into the unique space.

“It’s good for revenue, just to reach more people and keep them coming to the museum,” Birge says.

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» The Johnson County Museum of History was founded in 1931 by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It began as a room in the county courthouse and in 1989 landed at its current home on Main Street, which was built as a Masonic Lodge in the 1920s and added to the National Register of Historic Places in the 1990s. County government pays the utility bills and salaries for the two full-time and four part-time staffers.

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From left, Jan Miller, Jo Ann Hurt, Alison Spaulding, Brittany Raper.

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Courage and support are just as vital to defeating cancer as chemotherapy and radiation, according to these southside women who have beaten the odds.

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“There is a time after treatment that you expect things to get back to normal, but then you are hit by all of the emotions.”

—JO ANN HURT

Hurt with her parents, William and Norma Hurt.

Going Home to Heal

Jo Ann Hurt grew up knowing she would have a battle with breast cancer.

The 48-year-old teacher from Greenwood, who was diagnosed in February 2013, had received numerous warnings as a teen from her great-aunts to get mammograms without fail.

“My grandmother’s sisters both had breast cancer,” she says. “I know it sounds crazy, but I heard those words the first time, and I thought, ‘It’s going to be me.’”

Hurt has had several breast biopsies over the years, which came back benign.

After her last routine mammogram, however, her doctor pulled up images to show her the difference between older, harmless calcifications and a new mass that revealed itself under the bright light.

After waiting four days for test results, she was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.

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“I knew it was the bad kind,” says Hurt. “It was a total shock even though I was pretty sure of what I was going to hear. I thought, ‘Now the battle really begins.’”

Hurt had originally planned on getting a lumpectomy, but those plans changed.

“It turned out that the cancer was both invasive and ductal,” she explains.

In light of the pathologist’s findings, Hurt and her medical team moved forward with a double mastectomy.

Normally, oncologists prescribe Tamoxifen to suppress the production of estrogen in premenopausal women who have this type of cancer. Unfortunately, Hurt has a history of blood clots in her legs, and Tamoxifen increases

the risk of major blood clots. The drug was not a viable treatment option. After exhausting every other angle, physicians recommended a radical solution.

Not only did Hurt part with both breasts, she later underwent a complete hysterectomy to prevent her body’s naturally produced estrogen from feeding any undetected microscopic disease. Blocking the hormone was of paramount importance in her case, as her tumor was estrogen-fed.

“There was a time that I struggled with losing everything that defines

us as women,” she says. “There is a time after treatment that you expect things to get back to normal, but then you are hit by all of the emotions.”

Shortly after her diagnosis, Hurt moved into her mother and father’s house. Comfortable, safe and at home, she healed.

“I didn’t have to worry about anything,” she says. “It was so great to have all that time with Mom. I originally moved into my parents’ condo to make it easier on them, but it turned out to be easier for me as well.”

At Isom Elementary in Greenwood where Hurt is a teacher, co-workers and students provided emotional support and thoughtful visits to sustain their friend during her recovery. Her room at school was regularly plastered with well wishes and posters from students.

“The other teachers did something for me each day,” she recalls. “They gave me a laundry basket full of all kinds of snacks, magazines, lotions and a blanket.

When I was feeling better, they would come and get me, and we would go to lunch or on a Gigi’s cupcake run.”

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Like Jo Ann Hurt, 69-year-old Jan Miller says she knew something was wrong before her cancer diagnosis was confirmed.

“I had a regular mammogram,” she says, “So after my family doctor called and said that something had shown up, I just knew that I had cancer.”

Miller, who was treated at Community Health South, received intraoperative radiation and a lumpectomy for her breast cancer. She was one of the first to receive that type of radiation.

“I was a good candidate for this type of radiation because I had an early stage, and I was post-menopausal,” she says. “I also only had one tumor.

After a lumpectomy, the machine was brought into the waiting room and placed in position. I received 28 minutes of radiation while I was still under.”

“Over the past several decades, radical surgery for early breast cancer has been replaced by less invasive, cosmetically more acceptable operations, which allow preservation of the breast, while still curing the patient’s cancer,” explains Dr. S. Chase Lottich, Miller’s practitioner.

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The procedure worked, and Miller remains in remission.

With the help of a cancer counselor, prayer and support from her church and family, she gradually grew stronger, physically and spiritually, and she shares her story whenever she can so that other women faced with this same battle can feel empowered to make informed decisions.

“It’s like I’m being transformed again,” she says. “The first time (was) through baptism, but again this time through this cancer experience. I look at today as a new day for the rest of a journey.”

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Younger Face Of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer used to be considered an older woman’s disease by many. Today, however, the condition affects much younger women at an increasing rate. While the exact cause of this statistical blip has not been clearly identified, scientists think that a combination of environmental and genetic factors plays a role in the trend.

Brittany Raper, a southside Indianapolis resident, was 31 when she received her second cancer diagnosis within an eight-week period. The first, stage 1A melanoma, was difficult. The second — stage two breast cancer — came with a complete, life-changing shock.

“On April 23, 2013, I was awakened by a phone call from my gynecologist telling me that I had breast cancer,” says Raper.

She discovered a lump while undressing to take a shower. As she looked in the mirror, she noticed what appeared to be a dimple on her right breast. Because it did not look or feel like anything she had ever encountered, she immediately grew concerned.

Raper has survived melanoma and breast cancer.

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“I’ve always been concerned about my breasts because of the amount of cysts I had in them and the pain they caused,” she says. “So as soon as I jumped out of the shower, I called my doctor.”

Raper’s diagnostic mammogram showed no abnormalities, however.

Her doctor kept looking and finally found the tumor with an ultrasound.

They quickly scheduled a biopsy.

“Of course, my first reaction when the doctor told me the news was to cry,” she says. “But I only let myself do that for about 15 seconds. Then I sucked it up and said, ‘Now what? What’s next for me?’”

She says there are two important things other young women facing the same ordeal need to remember. “Stay positive. Your attitude is everything,” she says. “Allow yourself to cry, but don’t stay in that negative space. Second, ask questions. Don’t just nod your head and agree to everything your doctor says.”

She emphasizes how important it is to know enough about what’s happening to challenge physicians. “It’s your body, and you need to know what they are doing to it,” she explains.

During her treatment, Raper leaned heavily on her parents for support. Both her mother and father stayed by her side throughout the chemotherapy, her mastectomy and the reconstruction. “I couldn’t have made it without them,” she says.

Raper also relied on the expertise and guidance of Sharlee Arkush, a nurse navigator at Community South.

“Sharlee was a tremendous help through the entire process,” she says.

“Deciding to have a mastectomy was a very difficult decision for me. I finally sat down with her and voiced my concerns.”

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Spaulding has gained strength from her family, from left, Addie Noel, Ian Deckstead, Alison, Jack and Savanna Spaulding .

Arkush’s advice sealed the deal, she says. “I chose the mastectomy and reconstruction, and I am so happy I listened to her. It was the best decision that I have ever made.”

Always the upbeat activist, Raper currently writes a blog about her experiences to help educate other women. In April, her running team, Brittany’s Beauties, participated in Race for the Cure, and she recently traveled to Yellowstone National Park for a two-week “cancer celebration.”

REAL PEOPLE. REAL RESULTS.

Changing Gears Mid-Stream Alison Spaulding, a 53-year-old mother of three, had already undergone two separate lumpectomies for breast cancer, when she found out she was facing yet another ordeal. There was still diseased tissue left in the breast, and the second procedure — like the first — had failed to produce a clean margin.

“I just completely shut down when (my first) surgeon told me I didn’t have a clean margin for the second time,” she says, “And I was devastated when I had to struggle with deciding between a lumpectomy and a mastectomy for a third time.”

Instead of going through the same stress all over again, Spaulding asked for time and space. She also decided to get a second opinion.

“After a few days, I decided to take a step back and put some normalcy back into my life,” says Spaulding.

Within two days, three people suggested she meet with Lottich. Spaulding made an appointment. The doctor sat with her family for several hours. They discussed every possible option. “She made our heads spin,” Spaulding says, “but I left her office knowing this was my new doctor.”

With a new team of physicians, Spaulding went into the hospital for a double mastectomy with reconstruction. With this option she wouldn’t need chemotherapy, but her reconstruction process would be ongoing. She has another surgery scheduled in September.

Choosing to undergo a mastectomy was difficult for Spaulding, who is now considered cured. “Some days I certainly didn’t feel like I had control,” she says, “and I never wanted to lose a body part and all that goes along with it.”

Since her diagnosis in February, Spaulding also has grown decidedly more resolute through the support of her family and friends. Now that she is through the worst, she is determined to find a silver lining from her journey. “I feel that I need to do something to help, to make even a little impact somewhere, somehow,” she says. “I have not figured it out yet, but it is forever on my mind. If I can help even one person, then it will be worth the pain and tears and frustration that I have endured over the last five months.”

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Brent and Bridget Tilson (in white top) with daughters, from left, Blair, Brielle and Becky.

close to home While enjoying success on a national scale, Brent Tilson remains dedicated to local causes

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MANY PEOPLE WOULD PROBABLY consider themselves fortunate to create and run one successful business from the ground up throughout the course of their careers. At the age of 49, Greenwood resident Brent Tilson has not one but two under his belt, including a human resources firm that has garnered national attention and currently operates in 40 states across the country. According to Tilson, it’s all been part of a carefully executed career plan that started well before developing his business models, before acquiring initial experience working for other firms in his chosen field, even before graduating from high school.

“I was always enamored as a kid growing up from the stories my dad would tell about his parents and grandparents,” Tilson recalls. “My great-grandfather was the county clerk for Indianapolis and had his own law practice. I was always enamored with that entrepreneurial side, and in high school I knew I wanted to someday do my own thing. I didn’t know what it would be, but I did know accounting came very easy to me, and I also thought that if I knew accounting, then that would allow me to pursue other businesses.”

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After graduating from Perry Meridian High School, Tilson attended Indiana University in Bloomington and married his high school sweetheart, Bridget Wilson, during his freshman year. A bachelor of science degree in accounting quickly led to jobs at auditing company KPMG, as well as Katz, Sapper & Miller accounting company in Indianapolis, providing him with the three years of work experience required to earn a certified public accountant license.

In 1992, armed with a CPA certification and an unyielding optimism, he decided the

time was right to strike out on his own and obtained a line of credit from a local bank.

He wanted to hang out his shingle under the moniker of B.R. Tilson and Co., an accounting operation that specialized in local real estate, manufacturing and retail businesses. “The line of credit I took out was on our house equity, and I just told my wife to trust me and that I was going to start a CPA firm,” he says. “Since I always knew I wanted to start my own firm as soon as I could, I thought the longer I stayed working for someone else’s firm and made more money over time, the harder it would be to leave to do my own thing and replace my income.”

Three years later, a conversation in his accounting office sparked the idea for what would eventually become a multimillion dollar human resources firm. A client asked if Tilson could handle payroll processing for several hundred of his physical therapist clients, and the mental wheels began to turn.

“As he was leaving, I thought that maybe what he should do is let me be the employer of those physical therapist clients of his,” Tilson recalls. “He can contract with me, and I’ll make sure the payroll processing gets done, the taxes get done, and I’ll worry about benefit administration, compliance and all of that. I’ll make sure all the stuff that he’s not good at, the stuff that comes along with being an employer, gets done so he can focus on his business. I realized that could be a business in itself.”

By September of that same year, Tilson had incorporated and opened the doors of Adminiserve, his own professional employer organization (PEO).

As the late 1990s approached, Adminiserve’s expansive client list required his fulltime attention, and he sold B.R. Tilson and Co. Focusing solely on Adminiserve would prove to be a rewarding career decision, and by 2003, his PEO had been recognized for three consecutive years by Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest-growing privately held companies in the nation, including the highest ranking for an Indiana-based company at 11th in 2001. Tilson was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2000, 2001 and 2002, and made the 2000 class of “40 Under 40,” an annual award given by the Indianapolis Business Journal for Indiana’s top young executives.

In 2002, he changed his company’s name to Tilson HR to reflect its growing list of services and underscore the personal touch he still feels every business should value. “In the local market, competitors often just refer to a company by the owner’s last name,”

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he says. “So I thought, ‘Let’s not make it hard.’ We also dropped the ‘HR’ over time.

People think ‘HR’ can mean recruiting and staffing, and we don’t do that.”

In an effort to increase its national presence, Tilson acquired Amerisource, a Phoenix-based PEO, in 2012, and he hopes the company, now in its 19th year, will continue to expand into additional markets around the country. “Denver, Austin and Phoenix have some of the fastest-growing entrepreneurial markets, and we thought going into Phoenix as the first of those would be a great way to continue our overall growth strategy,” he says. Tilson’s client base now includes both smaller companies and much larger firms, some with more than 400 employees on their payroll, and the firm serves many industries including medical, nonprofit, engineering, advertising and real estate.

“Brent has the unique combination of financial understanding with his accounting background and the communication experience from being in what is really a people business,” says Derrick Christy, a Tilson client and the founder and president of Approved Mortgage Corp. in Greenwood. “He leverages those strengths in his own business and in what he does for the community.”

While juggling duties with the company, Tilson frequently speaks at conferences on subjects ranging from outsourcing to company growth to topical issues like tax updates and the Affordable Care Act. “I’ll draw on my experiences both working with businesses and running my own businesses,” he says. “It really challenges you because you have to bring your A game and go out and look at the topics of the day and deliver it in a way that’s interesting.”

Throughout continued national recognition and steady company expansion across 40 states, Tilson has kept a constant focus on improving Johnson County — the county he grew up in — and greater Indianapolis.

“Besides being a very successful entrepreneur, his knowledge of our business climate makes him a strong advocate for the community,” says Cheryl Morphew, president and CEO of the Johnson County Development Corp. (JCDC). “He understands the importance of sustaining and growing the business community and the need to build solid economic development strategies to support that growth — be it infrastructure, quality of life, tax climate, et cetera.”

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In 2013, Tilson participated in the Humana Challenge, a charity golf event focused on supporting health and wellness initiatives. A money clip, left, allowed amateur golfers the same rights and privileges as the pros on the course, who included Mark Brooks, Ben Crane and Derek Ernst. Below left, a letter from former President Bill Clinton, a supporter of the event. Below right, the Tilsons reminisce over family photos.

ness owners launched by the JCDC to develop and promote the county as a place to live, work and visit. He also serves on the Greenwood Redevelopment Commission, which is currently focused on infrastructure for citywide growth, as well as the Indianapolis Board of Tourism. This fall, Tilson will assume the role of chairman of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations and will also serve on the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors. “Luckily I have a great team of leaders at my company for the day-in and day-out operations, which helps when I’m doing the community and association work I do, which is often,” he says.

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typically prefer spending their evenings relaxing in their Greenwood home or enjoying quality time with their four daughters, Becky, Brooke, Blair and Brielle. Brent says that with Brielle, the youngest sibling, leaving home this fall to begin her undergraduate studies at Taylor University, he and Bridget will have more time for date nights in Greenwood and downtown Indianapolis on weekends. “We’re both big Colts fans, and we’ve had our season tickets for years,” he says. “We’ll probably try to discover more restaurants and things, too.”

The family has been members of the Columbia Club on Monument Circle in downtown Indy since the days of Tilson’s great-grandfather, and gatherings at the 125-year-old establishment have become a family tradition. “We celebrate all of our big events there and birthday dinners,” he

says. “My daughters are fifth-generation members, which is special. Brooke and Blair are both getting married in September and October of this year, and that’s where they’re both having their receptions.”

Tilson says his interest in the economic, physical and commercial well-being of Johnson County and its surrounding communities is the natural consequence of a lifelong presence in the area. “You can probably take where I live today and put a string around it, and I’ve lived within a 10-mile radius of where I am today compared to where I grew up,” he says. “My kids tease me because I live two miles from the house I grew up in. When I was a kid, I played at the house next door to where I live now. I suppose you feel fairly strongly about a place when you’ve been there so long.”

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FOOD Truckin’

Several southsiders have jumped into the mobile restaurant business

By Jon Shoulders

Photography by Josh Marshall

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Greater Indianapolis has acquired a collective case of the mobile munchies over the past few years. Whether because of convenience, novelty or simply the taste, food trucks are here to stay, and some of the busiest food truck entrepreneurs are proud to call themselves southsiders. “Our customers on the southside, for whatever reason, seem to be the most loyal,” says Nitin Naidu, southern Marion County resident and co-owner of Spice Box, a food truck specializing in traditional Indian cuisine. “They’re the ones that follow us to the City Market downtown or to a location elsewhere in the city and say, ‘I had your food on the southside and looked you up.’”

Some of This, Some of That » Shortly after Southport resident Jermaine “J.R.” Roseman began formulating his food truck business plan in 2011, he decided to swap his Mercedes for a 38-year-old bread truck — a move that left his friends dubious to say the least. “They thought I was crazy,” he says. “We were still coming out of a recession. I knew it could work for what I wanted to do though.”

Roseman soon met his future business partner, Roscoe Chambliss, a Greenwood resident originally from Baton Rouge, through a mutual friend and established the theme for his truck almost immediately. “Roscoe had several Cajun recipes, and he said, ‘Let’s do this,’” Roseman remembers. “I brought the equipment and the truck, and he brought something you can’t buy — knowledge and experience. You have to offer something unique to stand out in this business, and that’s what we try to do.”

What followed was an authentic Cajun menu that now includes ongoing dishes and ever-changing specials like gumbo, étouffée and jerk chicken. This spring Roseman released a second truck onto the streets, and he says the schedules for the Some of This, Some of That (“Sot Sot” for short) trucks are never the same from week to week. Visit Facebook and Twitter for ongoing location updates.

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Big Guy’s BBQ » As the popularity of portable edibles began to grow in central Indiana several years back, Chris Sullivan, whose catering business has been providing mobile barbecue feasts since 2001, knew it would work in his favor. He had previously worked for a catering company that provided food for headlining musical acts at Klipsch Music Center (known as Deer Creek Music Center back then) and eventually struck out on his own. “It was always a hobby, and back when I first started my own company the truck would be on the streets every day,” he says.

The Big Guy’s BBQ truck currently caters private events, corporate luncheons, weddings and conventions, and can occasionally

be found on the streets of Greenwood and downtown Indy.

Sullivan, a Beech Grove native, frequents Taylor’s Farm Market on Worthsville Road in Whiteland for his veggies as often as possible.

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“It’s really worthwhile to try to shop local when you can.” Check Facebook for the truck’s current locations.

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» Four years ago, before the Indy food truck craze was in full swing, Chea Carmack more than 40 years, it was a natural fit for and her husband, Rob, had formulated Mrs. Curl Ice Cream Shop and Outdoor their own mobile approach for bringing Cafe to jump into the food truck fray. Store casual Italian cuisine to local customers. manager Ashley Miller says the company “Our idea was to pull up in front of had the opportunity to acquire a 1959 churches and businesses, and people Mister Softee truck last August, and before could come and pick up long, “Mini Curl” was on their order,” Chea Carmack, the streets providing a former caterer, recalls. treats for special events in FOLLOW Carmack, who serves Johnson County and parts @IndyFoodTruck on Twitter for continually as head chef for the truck, of southern Marion County. updated information says Little Eataly goes local “The truck has a nostalgia to on food truck locations throughout for its menu ingredients it that fits in really well with Indianapolis and whenever possible, including what we do,” Miller says. “I surrounding areas. sourcing bread from the think people really like the Irvington-based Roll With It old-fashioned part of it.”

Bakery and meat from the While the truck primarily Smoking Goose. Locations serves birthday parties vary, but the truck can be found at the First and other special events, it has begun Friday Food Truck Festival at downtown to make appearances at ongoing food Indy’s Old National Centre and Food Truck truck fests. Check the Mrs. Curl Facebook Thursdays at Ellenberger Park in Irvington. page for updates on Mini Curl’s location. » As a staple of the Greenwood area for

MENU OVERVIEW: A variety of favorites from the Mrs. Curl menu, including cones, shakes, sundaes and razzles.

PRICE RANGE: $1.50-$4 CONTACT: (317) 882-1031, mrscurl.com

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MENU OVERVIEW: Italian paninis, pastas, sides and desserts, including cannolis and tiramisu.

PRICE RANGE : $4-$8 CONTACT: (317) 455-3281, littleeataly.com

» It was just a matter of time before southside Indy resident Nitin Naidu opened his own Indian-themed eatery. With recipes in hand from his mother, who worked as a caterer in India before moving to the U.S. when Naidu was a child, he dipped his toe into the food truck business in January 2012 thinking it would be less of a financial risk than starting out with a brick-and-mortar restaurant. “I’ve always been passionate about food, and bringing traditional home-style Indian food all around the city just sounded exciting,” he says.

The truck can be found in Irvington on the first Monday of every month and the Statehouse Market in downtown Indy every other Thursday, among other locations.

The Spice Box owners strive to use local ingredients to prepare their wide range of Indian dishes. “We think local is ultimately fresher and tastier, and that’s really the most important thing,” Naidu says.

MENU OVERVIEW: Casual Indian fare, including tandoori tacos, spicy shrimp, wraps and Indian sodas. Vegan options available.

PRICE RANGE: $7-$9 CONTACT: spiceboxindy.com

Tacos Without Borders » “The crux of my business is that I want people to try new things,” says Ryan Krcmarich, chef and owner of Tacos Without Borders. That’s certainly what you’ll get if you taste something from Krcmarich’s menu, which usually features 20 tacos with an extensive range of ethnic influences.

Originally from Valparaiso, he moved to the southside in February 2010 and began what he says is now the oldest food truck in the Indy area. An economics and international relations major, Krcmarich met several fellow students from different countries while in college at Xavier University and often cooked ethnic dishes for friends. “I love ethnic foods, and I thought, ‘Why not tacos?’” he says.

Krcmarich adds that his niche these days is primarily private and corporate events, but he still enjoys getting out into the community once in a while. “People are always focused on Carmel and Fishers, but there’s just as much going on on the southside as up north,” he says.

MENU OVERVIEW: Original taco creations with ingredients inspired by dishes from Thailand, Jamaica, Mexico, Korea and many other countries.

PRICE RANGE: $10 for three tacos of your choice CONTACT: tacoswithoutborders.com

Johnson’s BBQ Shack » Ten years ago, Center Grove resident

Nate Johnson and his brother, Keith, began smoking whole turkeys around Thanksgiving for family and friends. As word began to spread about the siblings’ knack for serving quality smoked meats, conversations about a mobile catering truck began. “It seemed like the next logical step,” says Nate Johnson, who grew up in Greenwood and currently teaches special education with Indianapolis Public Schools. “Eventually we were out on the street every day.”

The Shack now specializes in both private events and public appearances, and barbecue fanatics can check Twitter and the website for current locations and upcoming events.

MENU OVERVIEW: Pulled pork, pulled chicken, rib tips, hot dogs, turkey legs, brisket, wings and more.

Pulled pork, pulled chicken and brisket available by the pound.

PRICE RANGE: $3-$9 CONTACT: (317) 371-1674, johnsonsbbqshack.com

Kitchen Little » While most food trucks feature themed cuisine, Kitchen Little produces a homestyle menu that varies slightly according to its location. “We think about where we’ll be next, whether it’s a festival or other kind of event, and we might add something to the menu based off that,” says co-owner Jenny Reinacker. “One thing we have become known for, though, is our blackened mahi.”

Jenny and her husband, George, owned the Courthouse Saloon on Jefferson Street in Franklin, and several years after selling the establishment in 2006, they realized the food business was still in their blood.

“We kept watching the food shows on TV and thought that would be a good way to get back into it,” Reinacker says.

The Reinackers researched the food truck industry for a year before purchasing

and converting a Johnson County SWAT truck in Greenwood that had low mileage.

Since June of last year, Jenny, George and their daughter, Stephanie, have been making their rounds primarily in the Franklin area, and Reinacker doesn’t see that changing any time soon. Visit Facebook for updates on Kitchen Little’s location.

MENU OVERVIEW: Blackened mahi, coney dogs, double cheeseburgers, chicken salad and more.

PRICE RANGE: $6-$8 CONTACT: jennyskitchenlittle@gmail.com

Brozinni Pizzeria » The owners of Brozinni Pizzeria, a sixyear mainstay of the Greenwood area, saw distinct long-term business advantages in going mobile. “It wasn’t yet feasible to franchise, so it was kind of a way for us to franchise before we franchise, so to speak,” says Brozinni employee Molly Wallace. “We thought it would be a great supplemental way to advertise.”

The Brozinni truck set sail last September and currently makes pit stops through the week at local businesses within Johnson County. “We’ve done a lot with Whiteland High School also,” Wallace says. “We try to stay in touch with the community as much as we can.”

Weekend appearances often include special events and festivals, and updates on the truck’s whereabouts are available on the company’s Facebook and Twitter pages.

MENU OVERVIEW: A limited selection from the Brozinni restaurant menu, including pizza by the slice,

calzones, breadsticks and salads.

PRICE RANGE: $7-$8 CONTACT: (317) 865-0911, brozinni.net

Circle City Spuds » When Heather Banter was deciding on a theme for her food truck in 2011, she recalled a small tavern in her hometown of Van Buren that became a local legend for its loaded baked potatoes. “Everyone loved those, and it was the inspiration,” she says. “I feel like side dishes are not done properly in a lot of restaurants, and so I thought we’d turn that on its head.”

Before getting Circle City Spuds off the ground, Banter had begun her own kitchen remodeling business, but realized the thensagging economy might be more favorable for a food truck operation. Based at Stop 11 and Madison roads, her truck now cruises the Greenwood and south Indy areas, and Banter says she doesn’t go farther north than I-70. “We stay fairly busy around southern Indy and Greenwood, and it really changes up from week to week,” she says. Visit the website for info on weekly truck appearances.

MENU OVERVIEW: All things potato, from the “Circle City Veggie Spud,” which comes topped with broccoli, carrots, shredded cheddar and mildly spicy cheese sauce, to the “Naptown Mac & BBQ Spud,” which includes bacon, Kansas Citystyle shredded pork barbecue and homemade baked mac and cheese.

PRICE RANGE: $5-$9 CONTACT: (317) 370-2715, circlecityspuds.com

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Domestic Designs Kyle and Kelsey Kasting take full advantage of their Franklin home’s diverse characteristics

BY JON SHOULDERS Photography by Christopher Whonsetler

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Kelsey Kasting in her dining room.

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AT THE END OF A HALLWAY leading to the master bedroom in Kyle and Kelsey Kasting’s Franklin home, a large assortment of custom letter K’s adorns the painted gray wall, some large and some small, some plain and some ornate, all accumulated throughout the couple’s life together so far. One is from a recent trip to Europe, one is a wedding gift and another is made of corks from bottles of wine the couple enjoyed together. The collection’s attributes serve as a fitting analogy for the rest of the home — plenty of aesthetic variety within a consistent larger theme.

A few months before their wedding in the fall of 2012, the Kastings acquired the 5,300-square-foot home, situated adjacent to Hillview Country Club’s golf course and previously owned and built by Gary and Judy Nichols. “Gary and Judy owned several houses over the years, and this one really shows that they learned how to build and design,” Kelsey says. “We didn’t have to do much to it at all.”

As the founder and owner of C&M Cabinets, a Greenwood-based custom cabinet company, Gary brought his wood expertise to bear throughout the building process, which took place throughout 1999 and 2000. “We thought the open concept and having space downstairs really worked well, and also the separation upstairs with the bedrooms having their own bathrooms and walk-in closets,” Gary says. “We were proud of the cabinets and the way the home turned out overall.”

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Kyle and Kelsey Kasting

In addition to repainting most of the rooms, the Kastings made a few small modifications after taking possession of the three-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom home, such as expanding the basement’s bar station, adding an elevated table with a central gas fire pit to the back patio and cutting a space for a recessed television in the ground floor living area.

“We were nervous about moving into a neighborhood,” Kyle says. “I grew up on a farm, and Kelsey grew up in a house with a lot of acreage. The golf course behind us helps retain that sense of space. The neighborhood is fun and we have great neighbors, but at the same time you never really feel closed in and you never really feel like you’re in a neighborhood.”

Feeling “closed in” isn’t an issue inside the home, either, as the front dining room and adjoining living room feature vaulted ceilings and high windows for ample sunlight. Silvers, whites, grays and

golds embellish the dining space, from the hand-stenciled filigree pattern on the 18-foot painted wall to mercury glass candleholders on the hardwood dining table that served as centerpieces at Kyle and Kelsey’s wedding.

The main living area features select hickory flooring ordered by Gary from a custom wood company in Virginia. “We found out about the company at a local home show,” he explains. “It was one of the few places that had larger, 5½-inch-wide boards with longer lengths. When you want that type, you have to use a select grade. It was one of those things where you’re glad later that you went to the trouble, because it enhances the great room area.”

The kitchen, which features Corian countertops, an oak dining table and cabinetry consisting of maple and knotty pine, allows access to a screened-in porch and a short outer stairway leading down to a back patio where the Kastings enjoy

spending time with friends and family regularly. An exposed stone pattern on the base of the patio’s fire pit table matches the base of the home’s back and front exterior, creating a subtle visual consistency.

“We’ve hosted baby showers, bridal showers and engagement parties,” Kelsey says.

“The fire pit table is great for dinner or just drinks later in the evening. The longer term plan is to add a grill and kitchen area to complete the patio.”

A fireplace and flat screen television add comfort to the master bedroom, and matching vanity stations stand on either side of the roomy master bathroom’s doorway. In the middle of the spacious walk-in master closet, Gary’s woodworking savvy shows in the form of a custom cherry cabinet with shelf and drawer space for clothing and accessories. “It saves some space out in the actual bedroom because we don’t have to have a dresser out there,” Kelsey says.

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Two guest bedrooms and an office space with maple cabinets and drawers await guests venturing up the stairs and across the walkway along the home’s upper level.

“Each of the bedrooms is kind of like a little mini suite with the full double sink bathrooms and big closets,” Kelsey adds.

The basement provides an abundance of comfort both as a gathering location for parties and as a winter retreat once the weather starts to turn in late fall.

“The patio is where we try to spend a lot of time with friends and family, but in the winter it’s nice to be able to go down there,” Kelsey says. “We have Colts season tickets, and for away games we’ll have chili or something and have people over. We have a Super Bowl party usually every year and also an annual Christmas party. We like to entertain. Kyle’s parents live in Franklin and my parents live outside of Bargersville, so they’re over quite a bit.”

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To aid in their entertaining endeavors, Kyle, 33, and Kelsey, 27, added a wraparound Corian countertop, matching the kitchen countertop upstairs, and a glass subway tile backsplash to complement the original cherry cabinets installed along the back wall of the basement’s bar and kitchenette area. A pool table, a mini gumball machine and two functional vintage pinball machines contribute to the casual atmosphere, and a TV area sits secluded in a corner alcove where two of the basement’s walls would normally meet.

A full bathroom, a storage area and a staircase leading directly up to a three-car garage offer convenience and practicality to the basement level.

“If we would have built a house at this point, I don’t know if we would have thought of some of the little helpful things like the garage entry to the basement,” Kyle says. “There’s also an automatic light when you enter the pantry for when

your hands are full coming in. Gary and Judy had been through the design process so often, you can really tell they knew what they were doing going in.”

The Kastings, both born and raised in Johnson County and graduates of Purdue University, fully value their time spent relaxing at home, not least because they don’t get much of it these days.

When not at their day jobs — Kyle at Midwest Communications Group, his own political consultancy, and Kelsey at the national Future Farmers of America organization as an event planner — much of their free time is spent volunteering locally. Kelsey helps with fund development and marketing for Youth Connections, a Franklin-based group serving at-risk youths through crisis intervention, community education and mentoring, and Kyle recently completed his fifth year as an executive board member of the Johnson County Fair.

“We both showed animals at 4-H growing up, so we do whatever we can to support it,” Kyle says.

Both the Kastings are graduates of Leadership Johnson County’s nine-month networking program.

Kyle says that frequent travel, including a Mediterranean cruise in May, annual trips to Las Vegas and frequent summer jaunts to Dale Hollow Lake on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, keeps the couple busy and has led to a renewed appreciation for their lifelong Johnson County surroundings. “I spent a lot of time traveling around Indiana when I first got out of college, and even traveling to the different places we go to now makes me realize that with Franklin there’s a lot going on, from weekend festivities to activities at the college,” he says. “Not a lot of communities can say that. You’re 20 to 25 minutes away from downtown Indianapolis, so you’re close, but you’re not too close. It’s a unique type of spot in that way, and it’s a lot of fun.”

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The path that led to Angelica Caraballo Perez living in Indiana is part of the miracle that she calls life

BY SHERRI LYNN DUGGER PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSH MARSHALL

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Perez, center, with Karla and RJ McConnell.

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RJ McConnell dropped Angelica “Ika” Andrea Caraballo Perez, then 22, at the IUPUI campus in downtown Indianapolis. Without a map, Ika wasn’t sure exactly where she was or which direction she needed to walk. She was the new kid at school, in a new city, a new country, and she was lost. “I started walking in circles,” she recalls, “and for some reason I ended up standing in front of the Indiana State Museum, on the complete other side of campus.”

Global Positioning Systems, Google maps … those were all new and weird concepts to her. “I just didn’t know how to use it,” she says of the technology that was available — though foreign to her — on her smartphone. “I sat at a park bench, looking in my phone contacts,” she says.

Ika needed someone to call, but “Mama” Karla McConnell, a retired fourth-grade schoolteacher who now works part time

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at Franklin College, wasn’t answering her phone. By now, Ika reasoned, Papa RJ would be busy at Bose, McKinney & Evans LLP, a law firm where he serves as a partner downtown.

“I had no other choice than keep walking,” she says. “Finally, I stopped and prayed. I said ‘Lord, you brought me here, stay with me and take me to the freaking classroom, ’cuz it’s late!’

“I turned — I don’t know why — and there was the campus center, where I got a map and finally got to my class.”

The Perez family from left, Angelica; mother, Yomaira; brother, Angel; sister, Andrea; and father, Angel. Below, Angelica leads a song during Vacation Bible School in Cartagena, Colombia.

The Road to IUPUI It was last January when Ika made her way to that first class, in her new school, on a new continent, which she now considered her new home. The series of events that brought Colombian-born Ika to live in

“And the Lord has done so many great things in my life and in my family. I was like I can’t just be quiet with all this love.”

— IKA CARABALLO PEREZ

Indiana might be said to have begun many years prior, when RJ and Karla McConnell, whom one might call her “adoptive parents,” began taking their own children on mission trips around the world.

As Christians, the McConnells have long felt a drive to serve others. The first trip for the McConnell family, to Honduras, was in 2003. By 2005, RJ and Karla began regularly attending Emmanuel Church of Greenwood, and RJ says he felt led to step into a leadership role supporting missions at the church. “We’ve gone to the Dominican Republic, to Nicaragua, to El Salvador, to Mexico and Haiti, but in 2007 we made our first trip to Cartagena, (Colombia),” RJ says.

“Karla and I both felt like God was tugging at us there. When you’re in mission work — of course, I would go serve anywhere that God called — but God tends to call you to a certain place. You just sense it. Cartagena became something that my wife and I did together. We felt a connection to the city, to the people, to the work.”

By July of 2011, Emmanuel was officially sponsoring a church in Colombia, and RJ and Karla were back in Cartagena to serve. It was then that they first met Ika and when they first began considering the possibility of bringing her back to live with them in the States.

Ika was asked to join the McConnells’ group of missionaries as a last-minute fillin. One of the already-scheduled translators was sick, and Ika knew how to speak English. She’d taught herself the language by listening to American music as a child.

She received a phone call around midnight. When her friend asked her to work, Ika says, “I was like: ‘Are you out of your

mind? Who told you I can translate?’ It was my very first time.”

But Ika went anyway. Early the next morning, her father first drove her to catch a bus, then she took a taxi, and eventually she made her way to Bente de Julio, the neighborhood where she was asked to serve as a translator for a Vacation Bible School where Karla was working. “When I got there, I was going down the hill,” Ika says. “I saw the blue tent and all the kids running around playing games. I remember the hula hoops and balls. And I thought, what a mess. I am definitely not doing this. And I started walking back up the hill.”

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But another translator in the group recognized Ika and called to her from afar.

She had to go.

Called to Serve It was also in 2003 (the same year the McConnells took their first mission trip) when Ika celebrated her 12th birthday.

That year her father, Angel David Caraballo Gómez, offered her a bracelet as a gift. Before he presented her with the gift, however, he read a verse out loud from the Bible, as was custom for Christians in Colombia: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” – Jeremiah 1 The meaning behind the verse was “kind of clear” to Ika at the time, she says, though it wasn’t until she turned 14 that she says she understood her purpose in life: to serve as a missionary. “I (felt) like this is what the Lord has decided I have to do,” she recalls. “This is my calling. This is my way.”

Perez shows off the skyline during a Christmas trip to Chicago.

Above, Perez enjoys a Colts game with a friend, Shelby Gentry.

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Perez enjoys sitting on the roof of her Franklin home.

Ika is fearless when speaking to people, she says. She isn’t afraid to dance in front of others. “And the Lord has done so many great things in my life and in my family,” she explains. “I was like I can’t just be quiet with all this love. People need to know. I (have) really felt this since I was very little.”

By age 17, Ika was an official volunteer for Youth with a Mission (YWAM), a Christian missionary organization.

She worked with at-risk youths. She was involved in her church. She served as a leader of a dance group.

But her upbringing hadn’t always been easy. When she and her siblings (one sister and one brother, both younger) were still small, the family fought to find its way.

Ika’s father was a musician.

He and Ika’s mother, Yomaira Esther Pérez Buelvas, struggled with their marriage.

Things began to change, Ika explains, when the family started attending church.

“My parents decided to accept Christ,” she says. “My dad, he gave up his music band. We just started walking in faith.

We went through all kinds of things — oh my gosh — things like extreme poverty and very bad situations economically.”

Ika describes Christmas dinners when all the family could afford were butter sandwiches and cups of hot chocolate for their holiday meals. “Even in those times, the Lord was with us,” she recalls. “People who knew us were always like, ‘Why are you always so joyful? Why are you so happy?’ and ‘If your son can’t even go to school or you can’t even eat two times a day, why are you so happy?’ We were like, ‘The Lord is good. God is good. The Lord is faithful with us.’”

Step by step, she says, the family’s circumstances slowly improved. They moved into a new home in a better neighborhood. Eventually, they were able to afford a car. Ika and her siblings were able to go to college; her brother is still a student there. “My dad right now is a pastor, and my mom is supporting him, so they have an income from nowhere, and the Lord is keeping us there,” Ika explains. “Every month we see a miracle for how he keeps us.”

‘She Has an Ability’ That hot July morning in 2011 when Ika cautiously made her way toward a crowd of children in Bente de Julio might now

also seem like a miracle was in the making. It was then that Karla quickly began to take notice of Ika’s many talents. Faced with what she described as “chaos,” Ika found a speaker system, plugged in her phone, turned on her music and immediately engaged all of the children in dance.

What, minutes before, were approximately 300 unruly children was now a captive audience under Ika’s direction.

“Both Karla and I had commented as to how talented this young lady was,” RJ recalls.

“And then we kind of looked at each other and thought: ‘She reminds us of Mary,’” Karla adds. Mary, the couple’s youngest daughter, was about Ika’s age. Ika and Mary are similar in height and size, and similar also, the two say, in potential.

By 2012, Ika was again back with the group as a translator. This time, she took more of a lead role, and she continued to impress the McConnells. “When we needed something important translated, we would ask for Ika,” RJ recalls. “It’s about more than translation. You’ve got to understand what the person is trying to say. It’s knowing the intent behind it.”

Beyond her ability to translate, Ika had other talents, but “she had nowhere to further develop that where she was,” RJ says. “She is an awesome photographer and videographer. But she had taken all the training she could take. And — even in the social strata that they (Ika’s family) have risen to — there are not a lot of opportunities and not a lot of resources for her there.”

“She has a ‘Mary’ level of talent,” Karla explains. “That’s how we look at it.”

“What if Mary was stuck, not able to advance, despite the best intentions of her parents,” RJ says. “She (Ika) has an ability that is beyond the norm and an ability to serve God. And an ability to communicate.

And work with kids. And in photography.

And in videography. And to teach herself English. Karla and I just kept thinking we’ve got to do something.”

The last night the McConnells were in Cartagena in 2012, they invited Ika to dinner. “We said we don’t know how to do this,” RJ recalls, “but we think we need to, if you’re interested, we need to help you continue your education in the States.”

The offer, for Ika to move in with the McConnells and to pursue higher education in Indiana, was a dream come true for the young Colombian.

By December 2013, Ika’s birth parents

Perez stands outside her Franklin home in a Colombian futbol jersey.

had come to know and trust her future American “parents.” Ika’s college transcripts has been transcribed into English.

She had passed the English entrance exam at IUPUI, without ever having received any training, and she was standing outside Indianapolis International Airport, tasting, for the first time in her life, snow.

“When she walked out of the airport, she stopped and put her tongue out, to taste the snow, to touch it,” Karla recalls.

“I asked her if she had a coat. She said, ‘Well, my grandma gave me a jacket to bring.’ And I said, ‘OK, you’ll need to show that to me.’ It was a sweater. I said, ‘Oh honey, you’re going to have to have a lot warmer clothes.’”

Since moving to the U.S., Ika has enrolled in the college’s School of Infor-

matics, where she received all A’s and B’s during her first semester. She has learned to drive — she now has her driver’s license — and she has moved into a dorm room at the Shepherd Community Center in Greenwood, where she volunteers part of her time in return for her room.

“The way I see this wonderful miracle that happened in my life,” she says. “I’m super thankful for it. I love what the Lord has done for me. When I told my parents (about the offer to come to the States), we all cried together, and we all said, ‘Well, this is from the Lord,’ because this doesn’t happen in real life. My life doesn’t happen in real life.”

The possibilities for the 23-year-old are now endless. And no matter what she does with her career, she says, she will always do mission work. “It is in my heart.”

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Sara Ratty & Matthew Adams June 27, 2014. Wedding at Crowne Plaza Union Station’s Grand Ballroom

Sara and Matthew met as juniors at Center Grove High School in 2007. “We were the classic ‘football player meets cheerleader’ scenario,” says Sara.

Both were active in sports and extracurricular activities and dated throughout the remainder of high school. They continued their relationship into college, even though they attended different schools.

A 2012 cruise with Matthew’s family set the perfect scene for him to ask Sara to be his wife.

He surprised her with a proposal and a hand-picked ring from J.L. Johnson’s Jewelers.

The couple was determined to complete college before they wed and spent the next two years completing capstone projects, doing volunteer work and finishing internships, as well as planning for their big day.

“We enjoyed a roller coaster of a two-year engagement,” says Sara.

The two wed on June 27, 2014, at Union Station’s Grand Ballroom among family and friends.

Photography by 604 Studios

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Hannah Kern & Austin Smythe Aug. 9, 2014. Wedding at Valle Vista Country Club

Hannah Kern and Austin Smythe still remember the very first time they met.

“We still both remember walking through the crowd at a Brad Paisley concert and locking eyes with each other,” says Hannah.

Friends introduced the two and their adventure together was underway.

After a long year spent attending separate colleges, Matthew and Hannah finally went on their first date four years ago.

Last December Austin found the special moment — during a vacation on the Cayman Islands — to ask Hannah the big question.

As the couple posed for photographs on the beach at sunset, Austin began to fidget and act nervous. Hannah says she noticed his leg shaking uncontrollably.

“I turned around and said, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ and it all made sense,” she says.

That’s when Austin lowered himself down to one knee and asked her to be his wife.

Austin and Hannah tied the knot Aug. 9, 2014, in one of the bride’s favorite places, Valle Vista Country Club, in Greenwood. “The wedding is very special to me, not only because I get to marry the love of my life, but also because I get to have my wedding at my family’s business,” Hannah explains. “My family has owned Valle Vista for the past 36 years, which makes it seem like a second home to me.”

Photography by Meg Miller Photography

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH

Hon. Mark Loyd Youth Connections

SOLD OUT

Opening night Friday, September 26th

Friday Night $20 per person (Limited tickets available online at www.wedoauctions.net/dwtjcs or at the Artcraft ticket office)

Results announced on Saturday evening

At the Historic Artcraft Theatre vote or donate online: www.wedoauctions.net/dwtjcs or www.dancestar2.com Follow us on Facebook at DWTJCS Visit the agencies in the tent across from the Artcraft before the performance.

Since we will be serving alcohol, this has to be an “Adults Only” event (21 or older)

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1. Ian Blazer, 7, of Franklin waves to the crowd after being crowned Little Mister Johnson County.

2. Mark Colp of Bear Hollow Wood Carvers uses a chain saw to carve a sculpture.

3. Grace Ison of Greenwood comforts her goat during the goat show.

4. The 2014 Johnson County Fair Queen Allie Abney, center, and court from left, Allison Rice, Danielle Burris, Ashley Booe, Makayla Plummer and Hannah Hook.

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6. Ethan Myers, 9, of Trafalgar gives his hog a bath.

7. Macie Keith, 5, of Franklin waves to the crowd after being crowned Little Miss Johnson County.

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3. Sarah Strauss holds her daughter, Lucia.

4. Scott Wyss and Amanda Weis enjoy beers from Sun King Brewery.

5. Rebecca Brelage purchases wine from the Chateau Thomas Winery.

6. Suanne Chastain, left, and her daughter, Audrey.

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6. A’merie Neville, left, and her brother, Avery Zellars. 7. From left, Dennis and Denise Higgins and Joannie and Joe Saba. 7. From left, Anita and Gene White talk with Daily Journal sports editor Rick Morwick.

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12. Kennedy Urban, 8, of Franklin enjoys an ice cream cone.

13. Adalyn Brewer eats a slice of pizza from Brozinni Mobile Pizzeria.

14. Chuck Wells, the publisher of the Daily Journal, shows the new space to Wendy and Jerry Preilis.

15. Flatbed Twitch lead singer Brady Jacoba performs.

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SEPT. 13 Bring your lawn chairs and picnic blankets and enjoy some mobile meals on the lawn at the Food Truck Eats & Groovin’ Beats at Mallow Run. Have fun exploring new tastes and pairings with your favorite Mallow Run wines while groovin’ to great music by Pet Monkey.

Time: 5 to 8 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville.

Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com Grab your running shoes and get ready for the eighth annual 5K run/walk during the Greenwood 5K Trail Trek. Proceeds will help provide the funds necessary to ensure the trail remains a safe and environmentally friendly area that encourages a healthy lifestyle. Time: 8 a.m. Cost: $20 in advance or $25 on race day. Location: Greenwood Community Center. Information: greenwood.in.gov SEPT. 13 & 14 Bomar & Ritter perform at The Apple Works, 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar. Information: (317) 878-9317, apple-works.com SEPT. 14 Enjoy a relaxing, laidback Sunday afternoon on the patio with wine, snacks and live music by Davis & Devitt. Time: Noon to 5 p.m. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville.

Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com

Franklin College Homecoming | Oct. 9-12

THROUGH NOV. 1 The Southside Art League of Greenwood is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an art exhibit at the Johnson County Museum of History, 135 N. Main St., Franklin. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Information: (317) 346-4500 or co.johnson.in.us SEPT. 10 Find your inner Van Gogh at Wine and Canvas.

No artistic skill required. A professional artist will guide you step-by-step as you create a masterpiece while sipping your favorite Mallow Run wine. Class sizes limited. Time: 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Cost: $35; wine available for purchase. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville. Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com SEPT. 11-20 During Indy Jazz Fest, acts will perform at various

venues around Indianapolis. Performers include Maceo Parker, Rob Dixon & The Indianapolis Jazz Collective, Josh Kaufman, Tom Harrell Quartet and more. Information: indyjazzfest.net SEPT. 11-14 Your chance to celebrate during the 19th annual Indy Irish Fest featuring music, food and drink. Times vary. Tickets: $5 at the gate Thursday only; $10 per day in advance; $15 day of the event; children 4 and younger free.

Location: Military Park in downtown Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 713-7117 or indyirishfest.com SEPT. 12-14, 19-21 Our Town Players presents “Charlotte’s Web” based on the book by E.B. White. Times vary. Tickets: $10 adults; $8 students and seniors 55 and older. Location: Franklin Active Adults Center, 160 E. Adams St., Franklin. Information: (317) 600-7518 or ourtownplayers.net

SEPT. 15 Local food trucks will be at Southside HarleyDavidson for the Late Night at Southside Harley.

Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Location: Southside Harley-Davidson, 4930 Southport Crossing Place, Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 885-5180 or southsideharley.com SEPT. 20 Sweet Taters Dulcimers performs at The Apple Works, 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar.

Information: (317) 878-9317 or apple-works.com The IUPUI Regatta, a half-mile canoe race on the downtown canal, will feature 90 teams of paddlers racing from Fairbanks Hall to the USS Indianapolis basin and back. Enjoy bands, artists, vendors and a family food area. Time: 10:30 a.m. Cost: Free. Location: 801 W. Washington St., Indianapolis. Information: (317) 274-8828 or alumni.iupui.edu/regatta It’s time to celebrate Riesling and Reiberdatschi during Oktoberfest. Enjoy German-inspired foods and fun polka music by Jay Fox & The Bavarian Showtime Band. Time: 5 to 8 p.m. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville.

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events SEPT. 20 & 21 Franklin Heritage Inc. will host its bi-annual historic home tour. Tickets are good for either day. There are 12 properties in downtown Franklin and a bonus house located just east of town. A behind-the-scenes look at the Artcraft Theatre is also included. Tickets: $15 for adults (non-members), $10 for 12 and younger (non-members), $10 for adult Franklin Heritage Inc. members, $5 for 12 and younger Franklin Heritage Inc. members. Information: historicartcrafttheatre.org.

SEPT. 21 Celebrate the culture and traditions of Latin America through a variety of special afternoon activities fit for the whole family at the Hispanic Heritage Festival at the Indianapolis Zoo. Create culturally themed crafts, take a swing at a pi単ata every hour and participate in a scavenger hunt. Time: Noon to 4 p.m. Cost: Zoo admission. Location: Indianapolis Zoo, 1200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 630-2001 or indianapoliszoo.com

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Enjoy a relaxing, laidback Sunday afternoon on the patio with wine, snacks and live music by Exit 99. Time: Noon to 5 p.m. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville.

Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com SEPT. 22 UIndy presents Freddie Mendoza for an evening of jazz standards and more modern fare. Time:

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7:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3251 or uindy.edu/arts SEPT. 23 Poet Todd Davis, author of four collections of poetry, comes to the University of Indianapolis campus for a public reading and discussion.

Time: 7:30 p.m. Admission: Free. Location: Schwitzer Student Center Room 010, University of Indianapolis, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3373 or uindy.edu/arts

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SEPT. 24 Tenor saxophonist Rob Dixon, a frequent performer at UIndy and the city’s top jazz clubs, performs. Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free.

Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3251 or uindy.edu/arts SEPT. 26 Wine and dine your way through France with the Greenwood Public Library. Sample French cuisine, sip a variety of wines and experience French culture.

Registrations required and participants must be 21 and older. Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: Greenwood Public Library, 310 S. Meridian St., Greenwood.

Information: (317) 885-5036 or greenwoodlibrary.us SEPT. 26-27 The Women of Faith Conference presents Believe God Can Do Anything 2014 Tour featuring Bible teaching, music, authentic worship and more.

Tickets: $49 to $109. Location: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. Information: womenoffaith.com or bankerslifefieldhouse.com SEPT. 27 Meet the postcard expert, Harley Sheets, and find out the history of this dying art form. Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: Greenwood Public Library, 310 S. Meridian St., Greenwood. Information: (317) 885-5036 or greenwoodlibrary.us Bring your lawn chairs and picnic blankets, spread out on the lawn and enjoy great pizza by the slice during Pizza & Wine Night while listening to live local music

by HT3. Time: 5 to 8 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville.

Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com Get ready for the Mill Race Marathon in Columbus.

The event includes a full marathon, half-marathon and 5K. Information: millracemarathon.com SEPT. 27 & 28 Highland Reign returns to The Apple Works.

The weekend will feature Scottish food, including shepherd’s pie and shortbread, as well as arts and crafts. First weekend of wagon rides to the you-pick pumpkin patch. Location: The Apple Works, 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar.

Information: (317) 878-9317 or apple-works.com SEPT. 28 Enjoy a relaxing, Sunday afternoon on the patio with wine, snacks and live music by Halfstep Sisters.

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events OCT. 6-31 Celebrate the work of Ed Funk, a printmaker and painter active in the Indianapolis art scene from the 1980s until his death in 2013, in Ed Funk: Printmaker, Painter. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays. Admission: Free. Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis. Information: (317) 788-3253 or uindy.edu/arts/art OCT. 7 Learn the basics of working with wire to create your own jewelry. Participants create their own bracelets. Time: 6 p.m. Location: Greenwood Public Library, 310 S. Meridian St., Greenwood.

Information: (317) 885-5036 or greenwoodlibrary.us Fiction writer Michael Martone, director of the creative writing program and a Fort Wayne native, will participate in a public reading and discussion. Time: 7:30 p.m. Admission: Free. Location: Schwitzer Student Center Room 010, University of Indianapolis, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3373 or uindy.edu/arts

Wine at the Line | OCT. 4

Time: Noon to 5 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville.

Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com SEPT. 29 Enjoy an evening of music as the UIndy Faculty Showcase presents Kathleen Hacker, soprano; Tamara Thweatt, flute; Gregory Martin, piano; Nemanja Ostoich, guitar; Peter Hansen, double bass; Vu Nguyen and Larry Powell, trumpets; Darin Sorley, horn; Blake Schlabach, trombone; Glen Dimick, tuba. Time: 7:30 p.m.

Cost: Free. Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3251 or uindy.edu/arts OCT. 3-12 Celebrate 40 years with the Buck Creek Players and their presentation of “Things My Mother Taught Me.” Times vary. Tickets: $16 adults; $14 children, students and senior citizens (62 and older).

Location: 11150 Southeastern Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 862-2270 or buckcreekplayers.com OCT. 3 & 4 The Franklin Fall Festival.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Downtown Street Fair 1 p.m.: Fall Festival Parade 3 p.m.: Dachshund Derby 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Kids Zone 7 to 10 p.m.: Free outdoor concert featuring Lemon Wheel Location: Downtown Franklin.

Information: franklinparks.org OCT. 3-26 The Indianapolis Zoo adds a Halloween twist during ZooBoo. Enjoy Halloween decorations, photo opportunities, a Halloween-themed dolphin show and the pumpkin splattering fun of the Elephant Pumpkin Smash. Kids are encouraged to dress up in their favorite costumes.

Location: Indianapolis Zoo. Cost: Zoo admission.

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Location: Indianapolis Zoo, 1200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis. Information: indyzoo.com OCT. 4 The Harvest Bicycle Boogie Ride is sponsored

by IUPUC Alumni Association with all proceeds benefiting IUPUC student scholarships. There are three separate rides to choose from. Tour the city of Columbus and Bartholomew County to the east and to the west. Time: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost: $25. Information: (812) 375-7531 The fifth annual Wine at the Line is a 5-mile run and 5K run/walk on the winery grounds and country roads of Bargersville. Cost: $30.

Time: 4 p.m. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville. Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com OCT. 4 & 5 Davis and Devitt perform at The Apple Works, 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar. Cost: Free.

Information: (317) 878-9317 or apple-works.com OCT. 5 Enjoy a relaxing, laidback Sunday afternoon on the patio with wine, snacks and live music

by The Richmonds. Time: Noon to 5 p.m.

Cost: Free. Location: Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville. Information: (317) 422-1556 or mallowrun.com OCT. 6 Composers Andrew Mead of the IU Jacobs School of Music, Fulbright award-winner Alexis Bacon and James Aikman, composer-in-residence with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, bring a program of new chamber works with influences ranging from Hoosier folk tunes to the finely faceted patterns of modernism. Time: 7:30 p.m.

Cost: Free. Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3251 or uindy.edu/arts

OCT. 7-NOV. 21 Artist Brandon Briggs opens his exhibit with a lecture titled “On Being,” which parallels the theme of the exhibition of the same title. Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: Johnson Center for Fine Arts, Franklin College, 101 Branigin Blvd., Franklin. Information: franklincollege.edu OCT. 8 The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra celebrates its 16th season with The Versailles Revolution. Time: 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20 general admission; $15 seniors; $10 students. Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 808-2224 or indybaroquemusic.org OCT. 8-12 Franklin College presents “Metamorphoses,” a play that subtly mixes the ancient stories of pathos and tragedy with contemporary language, humor and thought. Times: 8 p.m. Oct. 8-11; 2 p.m. Oct. 12. Tickets: $12 adults; $8 students and seniors; free with valid Franklin College ID. Location: Theatre Margot, Johnson Center for Fine Arts, Franklin College, 101 Branigin Blvd., Franklin.

Information: (317) 738-8029 or franklincollege.edu OCT. 9-12 Be part of the tradition at the Franklin College homecoming. It is a weekend filled with activities, including a football game with Earlham College.

Tickets to the game are available at the gate on game day. Tailgating encouraged. Time: 1:30 p.m.

Cost $5. Information: alumni.FranklinCollege.edu OCT. 11 Grab your Halloween outfits and head to the Great Pumpkin Run at The Apple Works.

The event supports Habitat for Humanity.

Run through acres of orchard, pumpkin fields, a corn maze and woodland trails. Location: The Apple Works, 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar.

Information: (317) 878-9317 or apple-works.com

Meet with friends, share stories and reminisce during the Southside Harley-Davidson Anniversary Open House. Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Southside Harley-Davidson, 4930 Southport Crossing Place, Indianapolis. Information: (317) 885-5180 or southsideharley.com OCT. 11 & 12 Bomar & Ritter perform at The Apple Works.

Cost: Free. Location: 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar.

Information: (317) 878-9317 or apple-works.com OCT. 16 Fiction writer Karen Gettert Shoemaker, author of “The Meaning of Names,” will present a public reading. Time: 7:30 p.m. Admission: Free. Location: Schwitzer Student Center Room 010, University of Indianapolis, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3373 or uindy.edu/arts OCT. 16-25 Join other film fanatics at the 2014 Heartland Film Festival, a 10-day celebration of independent film. Offering 275 film screenings, Q & A sessions with filmmakers, panel discussions and special events. Heartland gives you the opportunity to see films from around the world and meet the filmmakers who craft them. Times vary. Information: trulymovingpictures.org OCT. 16-19 AND 23-25 The UIndy Theatre Department takes on “Urinetown: The Musical,” winner of three Tony Awards. A tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution in a Gotham-like city, a water shortage caused by a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets.

Free preview: 8 p.m. Oct. 16. Time: 8 p.m. Oct. 1718 and 23-25; 2 p.m. Oct. 19. Tickets: $12 general admission. Location: UIndy’s Ransburg Auditorium, Esch Hall, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3251 or uindy.edu/arts OCT. 18 Get an early start on your holiday shopping during the Local Author Fair. Chat with local authors and purchase some wonderful reads.

Time: 1 p.m. Location: Greenwood Public Library, 310 S. Meridian St., Greenwood. Information: (317) 885-5036 or greenwoodlibrary.us

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(ASL Interpretation available @ 6pm service)

The annual fundraising event Buckaroo Bash for the Eiteljorg Museum rides into town. Time: 6 p.m. Information: (317) 275-1333 or eiteljorg.org OCT. 18 & 19 Enjoy a weekend with Celtica at The Apple Works, 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar. Information: (317) 878-9317 or apple-works.com OCT. 20 Faculty members collaborate in compelling works of the duo repertory from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Dynamic Duos features Tamara Thweatt, flute; Gregory Martin, piano; Darin Sorley, horn; Rebecca Sorley, piano; Mack Lamont, percussion; Freddie Mendoza, trombone; and Nick Tucker, bass. Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan

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Information: (317) 788-3251 or uindy.edu/arts OCT. 25 The Greenwood library is getting into the spirit of Halloween with an after-hours screening of “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Costumes are highly encouraged, but not mandatory. Props will be provided by the library. Please do not bring your own. Must be 18 or older to attend, and IDs will be checked. Time: 8 p.m. Location: Greenwood Public Library, 310 S. Meridian St., Greenwood.

Information: (317) 885-5036 or greenwoodlibrary.us Celebrate Day of the Dead at the Eiteljorg Museum. The Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos is celebrated throughout Mexico, in communities across the United States and around the world. This festive and colorful holiday is a time to remember and honor deceased loved ones. Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Eiteljorg Museum, 500 W. Washington St., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 636-WEST or eiteljorg.org OCT. 26 Scott Strange performs at The Apple Works, 8157 S. Road 250W, Trafalgar. Information: (317) 878-9317 or apple-works.com

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OCT. 27 Classic modernism, the whimsy of George Crumb and an epic work by Franz Schubert will be featured during a lively evening of chamber music starring Austin Hartman and Sarah Page, violin; Dennis McCafferty, cello; Richard Ratliff, piano; Pamela French, oboe; Mark Ortwein, bassoon; Nemanja Ostoich, guitar; and Paul Berns, percussion. Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free. Location: UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 788-3251 or uindy.edu/arts OCT. 31 Celebrate the opening of New Art 2.0, a unique show and sale of contemporary art, by partying until the witching hour in your most haunting attire at Freiteljorg with the ICO. Enjoy grown-up trick-ortreating (sample drinks from local vendors), while grooving to a live mash-up of modern DJ sounds and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Show off in a costume contest and leave with a goodie bag.

Tickets: $30 at the door. Time: 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. Location: Eiteljorg Musem, 500 W. Washington St., Indianapolis.

Information: (317) 636-WEST or eiteljorg.org NOV. 1 The Greenwood Community Band performs a great line-up of classics. Time: 7 p.m. Location: Greenwood High School, 615 W. Smith Valley Road, Greenwood. Information: greenwoodband.com The Indianapolis Monumental Marathon features a full marathon, half marathon and 5K. Starting and finishing on the grounds of the state capitol, this flat and fast course highlights landmarks and historical neighborhoods throughout Indianapolis. Time: 8 a.m. Location: Downtown Indianapolis. Information: tuxbro.com

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Strike up the band The Lions Club Youth Band of Johnson County, directed

by Merrill Henry, posed on the steps of the county courthouse in Franklin. Circa 1945.

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