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June 26, 2014 — Issue 22

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June 26, 2014 Publisher Bill Hanson Editor Jason Thomas Design Claire Munn Photography Ty l e r S t e w a r t

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This year's Clark Days festival will take place this weekend at the Falls of the Ohio State Park.

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Launch your own corps of discovery

The spirit of discovery is woven into Southern Indiana’s soul.

Complex Native American communities called our rolling hills home thousands of years before European settlers paddled down the Ohio River more than 250 years ago landing Jason Thomas, Editor at the Falls of the Ohio.

One such pioneer and 120 soldiers hailing from Virginia in the late 1700s decided to establish a settlement on Corn Island, a land mass in the middle of the river just above the Falls.

George Rogers Clark would put the Falls on the map, corresponding with fellow naturalist Thomas Jefferson while documenting mastodon bones and fossils discovered on the banks of the Ohio River. Oh, and he built a fort on some land in Kentucky that would later become Louisville.

You can learn all about the vital role that the

Falls of the Ohio played in the development of the Northwest Territory — and what would become Indiana — at this weekend’s Clark Days at Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, which — guess who? — Clark founded and where a replica of his 1803 cabin can be found in the park.

But this weekend is not just about Clark. You’ll learn about the Woodland Indians and about Clark’s indentured servants who would go on to settle the first free African-American community in the Northwest Territory.

Southern Indiana is full of firsts.

Last week, SoIn featured New Albany’s crucial role in the passage of slaves on the Underground Railroad. Settle in this week to learn about our founding fathers.

You might be surprised what you discover.

— Jason Thomas is the editor of SoIn. He can be reached by phone at 812-206-2127 or email at jason. thomas@newsandtribune.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ScoopThomas.

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 What: Shop with Your

Pooch Day Sunday, fundraiser for Arrow Fund  When: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday  Where: My Magpie’s Nest, 1613 E. Market St., New Albany My Magpie’s Nest invites the public to its “Shop with Your Pooch Sunday” event, during which 20 percent of all sales will be donated to The Arrow Fund.

The Arrow Fund is a Kentucky and Southern Indiana based 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides medical treatment to animals that have been victims of extreme torture, abuse and neglect. After securing care for these animals its focus extends to holding the abuser responsible for his or her actions. It strives to educate the public regarding the ongoing problem of animal

cruelty and advocate strengthening local, state and national animal welfare laws.

As special guests for the event it will have Pet Communicator and Physic Latifa Meena and also 321 Instant Memories, Pet Photo Booth. Food samples, Autumn Leave Food truck and some special furbabies from The Arrow Fund will be on hand to greet guests. Quibble Hill Winery will be here for sampling wine and you will also be able to purchase wine by the glass or bottle.

Please call 812-736-1689 to schedule a reading with Latifa.

Vendors: • Wenning’s Tequila Lime Salsa & Pickles • Autumn Leaves Food Truck • Kimmy Sue’s Sweet Treats • Rib Tip Tony’s BBQ • Angelfish Boutique • Sarah Gerber — For Tails Only • Kim Rose — Kim’s Kreations • Kerry Carpenter -Osborne Books • Trisha Bryant — Pink Zebra • Mary Zahn — Origami Owl More vendors added will be added.

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TASTE THIS What: Taste of Southern Indiana

When: 6 to 8:30 p.m. tonight Where: Auditorium at River Valley Middle School, 2220 Veterans Pkwy., Jeffersonville Cost: $20; for tickets call 812-948-1815 Silent auction, food tasting from more than 20 local eateries; live music will be provided by the Jamey Aebersold Quartet. Proceeds benefit the Retired Senior Volunteer Program of South Central Indiana.

As part of Hope Southern Indiana, RSVP provides over 1,000 volunteers to local non-profits in addition to the in-house programs they run like building ramps for low-income seniors and Henry the Hand, which teaches young children how to prevent the spread of disease.

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FRIDAY INDULGENCE

What: FAT Friday Hop When: 6 to 10:30 p.m. Friday Where: Frankfort Avenue, Louisville Many businesses along Frankfort Avenue will host live music, offer special sales and serve refreshments. This month’s Trolley Hop is sponsored by the Louisville Water Company, so the free trolleys will run a special, extended route along Frankfort Avenue, from Cannons Lane to River Road and over to the Louisville Water Tower Festival Park. [fatfridayhop.org]

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SUPPORT THE LOCALS

What: Summer Fest ’14 When: 5 p.m. Saturday Cost: Free Where: New Albany High School, 1020 Vincennes St., New Albany The New Albany Production House and New Albany Parks Department present SummerFest ‘14. Live local music featuring Jet Black Orchid, Meadow Ryann and Drew Alexander.

Come for great music and free door prizes and support local music.

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Email SoIn Editor Jason Thomas at jason.thomas@newsandtribune.com

LIVING HISTORY Pioneer era comes alive at Falls oF the ohio clark Days

By JASON THOMAS jason.thomas@newsandtribune.com LARKSVILLE — Time to party like it’s 1799.

The setting: George Rogers Clark home site at F of the Ohio State Park. What you’ll need: An ap preciation of history. What you’ll get: An eye-openin experience into pioneer life — and how it set the sta for where you are today.

Clark Days will bring history to life this weekend Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville. Re-enact period music and trades demonstrations will highlig the two-day festival celebrating crucial historical ev from the Northwest Territory days when Indiana wa a glimmer in the country’s eyes.

Fire up the time machine.

“What would you have had to do if you were drop in the 1790s in the Northwest Territory?” said Kelley Morgan, interpretive manger at the park, setting the for a weekend of discovery. “What would you need do to survive? What are some things that you person would have done to get along?”

While George Rogers Clark is the rock FiND M star, Morgan aims to make the event For more i all-encompassing, including telling the Falls of the Native American and African-American the interp stories — all together, called “lifeways” — fallsoftheo that made the territory a pre-Ellis Island tion about education melting pot. woodland Jessica Diemer-Eaton, an historical interpreter and owner of Woodland Indian Educational Programs, will offer details on N American lifeways predating Clark’s arrival in presen day Clarksville in 1803. Morgan also has enrolled the services of the African American Heritage Museum i Louisville and Maxine Brown of the Southern Indian rican American Heritage Trail to tell the stories of Cla indentured servants — slavery was illegal in the terri “It’s not just all about George, although George is

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A re-enactor portraying Johnathon Clark takes in the view from George Rogers Clark’s home site at last year’s Clark Days. This year’s festival at the home site at Falls of the Ohio State Park will focus on Native Americans and African-Americans, as well as Clark.

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of our main thrusts,” said Morgan, who is on a first-name basis with Clark given her hours devoted to studying his impact. “It’s the lifeways and other things. We are really trying to have a well-rounded story.” pped Historical trivia: When Clark freed his indentured sery vants after moving to his sister’s Locust Grove estate in e stage Kentucky in 1809, their community — Guinea Bottoms, to not far from Clark’s home site — became the first free nally African-American settlement in the Northwest Territory.

“Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t MORe know the stories,” Morgan said. “So information about the when they come here and are able to e Ohio State Park and say, ‘Hey, we were one of the first Europretive Center, visit pean settlements, we also had the first ohio.org. For informa- free African-American settlement in the t the Woodland indian Northwest Territory, Lewis and Clark met nal Programs, visit right here,’ their eyes get really big and dindian.edu. the historical importance really does set in.

Native “It’s incredibly important for us to be able to tell the ntstory and for people to know the story and for us to be e able to protect it.” in What an amazing — and factual — tale it is. The Falls na Af- of the Ohio has been the site of human habitation for ark’s more than 13,000 years. itory. s one SEE hiSTORy, PAGE 8

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George Rogers Clark Days will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the George Rogers Clark home Site, 1102 W. harrison Ave., Clarksville. The event is free.

Visitors are encouraged to park at the Falls of the Ohio State Park interpretive Center, 201 W. Riverside Drive, Clarksville, and catch the shuttle, which runs every 30 minutes, to the cabin site.

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SATuRDAy AND SuNDAy • Woodland indian educational Programs will be presenting Woodland indian lifeways Program • Period re-enactors will be on site throughout the event demonstrating period arts, crafts, music and skills (including blacksmithing, tomahawk throwing, archery, atl-atl throwing, and military drills) • Period vendors will be selling a variety of items, including weaving by ewe and Me and Company; 18th century lighting products by illuminations Fyne lighting; period leather items by Nuthin’ Much Trading Co.; and much more • Children’s activities with make and takes that will familiarize children with the life of early pioneer children

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AbOVe: A rendering of the lewis and Clark Theater. belOW: A rendering of the immersive Devonian Sea exhibit.

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FOSSilS OF The FuTuRe

While Clark Days focuses on pioneer life this weekend, the Interpretive Center at Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville is leaping into the future.

On Nov. 24, the center will close for a $5.5 million renovation project that will upgrade its exhibits. When the facility reopens in late summer 2015, visitors will be welcomed with immersive displays using the latest technology.

Fossils are suddenly current.

Upon entering, visitors will feel like they’re underneath the Devonian Sea, paying homage to the Devonian period fossil beds that lie mere steps from the Interpretive Center’s doors.

After traveling through tunnels, visitors will enter a multimedia theater where they will feel as though they’re a fly on the wall as Lewis and Clark prepare to leave George Rogers Clark’s home site — a replica of which is also mere steps from the Interpretive Center — in what will become the Corps of Discovery. The same folks who produced the Evan Williams Experience in downtown Louisville, Solid Light, will create the Lewis and Clark experience using video vignettes.

“We’re different” than the Evan Williams Experience, said interpretive manager Kelley Morgan, “but we’ll definitely have the same immersive element.”

Long-term plans call for an immersive water exhibit in which visitors will be able to wave their hand in front of a fish and learn about its origins, according to Morgan.

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The New Albany-Floyd County Public Library is hosting "UFOs in Indiana" in July 15 at the Strassweg Auditorium.

The Mutual UFO Network investigates UFO sightings and experiences that have occurred all over the world.

The public is invited to join David Henniger, Field Investigator from Indiana’s Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, as he discusses many of the strangest cases of ongoing UFO phenomena in the Hoosier State.

Refreshments will be served.

No registration is required for

 What: UFOs in Indiana  Where: Strassweg Audi-

torium, New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, 180 W. Spring St., New Albany  When: 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 15  More information: nafclibrary.org; or call the Reference Services Desk at 812-949-3523. this free event.

Questions, visit or call the Reference Services Desk at 812949-3523.

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é “Transformers 4"”

é “Ultraviolet" by Owl City

 “Deliver Us From Evil"  “Earth to Echo"  “Tammy"

 “Every Time I Die" by From Parks Unknown

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books:

July 1

 "Seether" by Isolate and Medicate

é “The City" by Dean Koontz

 “War of the Whales: A True Story" by Joshua Horwitz

 “Friendship" by Emily Gould  “Inside Man" by Jeff Abbott

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100% Poly Online: facebook.com/pages/100-POLY Band members: (Based in New Albany) Kendra Villiger, lead vocals and guitar; Jay Scott, lead vocals and guitar; John Spitznagel, guitar, vocals and trumpet; Robert Eichenberger, keyboards; Cobi Stein, drums; Matt Jorden, bass You perform in costume. How did that come about? It is fitting that the idea for a band that wears costumes came about at a Halloween party. Before we were sporting polyester and wigs, we were a four-piece rock band called Bucko, but found it tough to get decent gigs. We were told our set list looked like everyone else’s. Jay and Matt attended a Halloween bash dressed as ’70s disco dudes and performed with acoustics guitars. It was so much fun we decided to change our format and put together a full band to play disco, funk and anything else that embodied the party spirit of the ’70s.

And of course everyone in the band had to look the part! Getting gigs got a lot easier.

Where did the name come from? The question of what to name the band was answered by the tag on our shirts ...

100% POLY. Nothing screams ’70s like polyester.

Please describe your sound/inspiration: Most of the band members were young kids in the ’70s so we have a special love for that decade. But the members of 100% Poly have been influenced by and played many types of music. Particularly, I think the fact that many of us grew up

playing hard rock — Zeppelin, KISS, Ozzy, Guns ‘n’ Roses, etc. — gives us an extra punch. We always play with a lot of energy and can somehow make KC and the Sunshine Band rock! Over the years our set list has grown to include not only the ’70s classics, but a wide array of dance/party songs from the ’80s up through today’s contemporary hits.

What are your goals? Our goal is to provide the soundtrack to many great parties. Whether it be at Harvest Home-

coming, a wedding reception, a corporate event, or a local pub ... we want people to dance and have fun. We love playing music and we love to entertain.

We have as much fun as our audience!!

What do you make of the local music scene? The Southern Indiana Music scene is great. For such a small area there are many talented musicians and bands. We have had the privilege to share the stage with many of these acts over the years.

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Local SoIn Happenings Feeling left out? Send your establishment’s and/ or organization’s upcoming events/new features/entertainment information to SoIn Editor Jason Thomas at jason.thomas@newsandtribune.com

 RiverStage

 Live music at Big Four Burgers + Beer

Where: Big Four Burgers + Beer, 134 Spring St., Jeffersonville Friday, 8 to midnight, Wyndell Williams, Saturday, 8 p.m.: Eric and Kenny

Where: Spring Street and Riverside Drive, Jeffersonville 9 p.m. Friday, Wayne Young and the New Legends with Caribou; 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Anchors-A-Weigh Yoga; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Twilight Cinema: “Monsters University”

 Bicentennial Park Concert Series

When: 6 p.m. Friday Where: Bicentennial Park, Pearl and Spring streets, New Albany Appalatin (free)

ROLL CREDITS

 Live on State at Wick’s

Where: Wick’s Pizza Parlor, 225 State St., New Albany When: Friday and Saturday Friday: 7 p.m., South 6 Five; 8 p.m.; Second Chance; 10 p.m., Killer Lips; Saturday: 8 to 9:30 p.m., Jordan Amos; 10 to 11:30 p.m., Wax Factory [wickspizza.com]

 Murder Mystery dinner

Where: Culbertson Mansion, 914 E. Main St., New Albany When: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday Tickets: $20/person; $35/couple; call 812-944-9600 The end of June marks the anniversary of Culbertson’s funeral, and guests will be treated to a murder mystery at the mansion.

 Shop with Your Pooch Day

When: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday Where: My Magpie’s Nest, 1613 E. Market St. During the “Shop with Your Pooch Day” 20 percent of all Sales at My Magpie’s Nest will be donated to The Arrow Fund. Food samples; vendors on site.

 Music at Huber Winery

When: 1 to 5 p.m. on weekends Where: Huber’s Orchard, Winery & Vineyards, 19816 Huber Road, Starlight Saturday: Josh and Holly; Sunday: Rusty Bladen [huberwinery.com]

 Live music at Hoopsters Bar and Grill

When: 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: Hoopsters, 830 E. 10th St., Jeffersonville Friday: Mutha Truckers

 Farmers Market

When: 8 a.m. Saturday (ongoing) Where: New Albany Farmers Market, 202 E. Market St. The Downtown New Albany Farmer’s market is a managed by Develop New Albany with help from volunteers in the New Albany community.

 Farmers Market

Saturday: 9 a.m. to noon (May 31 through Oct. 25) Downtown Jeffersonville at the corner of Chestnut and Locust streets (on the Wall Street United Methodist Church lot).

Tuesdays: 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (June 3 through Oct. 28) At the 10th Street entrance to Jeffersonville High School Jeffersonville Main Street, Inc., is accepting applications for the Farmers Market. Both food and art/craft applications are available online at jeffmainstreet.org.

Summer Movie Series begins at Science Center’s four-story digital theater

Now through August, the Kentucky Science Center’s four-story Digital Theater is showing an exciting array of “vintage” movies in its first ever Summer Movie Series.

The Kentucky Science Center Digital Theater re-opened earlier this year, bringing a full-fledged movie theater on line in the downtown corridor. Kentucky Science Center is also the first science center in the world and first theater in Kentucky to incorporate new Precision White Screen technology from RealD, Inc. featuring a smooth, white surface which generates a better image contrast for improved viewing quality in 2D and 3D. To showcase this new technology, the Science Center will be showing the following movies on their all new 4-story screen: • “Back to the Future” (1985) through July 3 Attend in costume as a character from the movie or in 1980s attire on opening night and receive free Science Center admission with the purchase of one ticket.

• “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) July 4 - 17 Attend in costume as a character from the movie or in safari-style attire on opening night and receive free Science Center admission with the purchase of one ticket.

• “Jurassic Park 3D” (1993) July 18 - 31 • “The Princess Bride” (1987) August 1 - 14 Attend in costume as a character from the movie or in wedding attire on opening night and receive free Science Center admission with the purchase of one ticket.

Tickets to the all new Kentucky Science Center Digital Theater range in price from $5 to $8 for members and $7 to $10 for non-members. For show times, ticketing information and pricing, call 502-561-6100, ext. 6111 or visit KY ScienceCenter.org.

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HISTORY: Event focuses on diverse pioneer lifeways CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 Clark, who regularly corresponded with fellow naturalist Thomas Jefferson, put the Falls on the map. He’s the one that recommended little brother William to Jefferson to be Meriwether Lewis’ running mate — George, in his 40s, felt he was getting up in years — in what would become the Corps of Discovery that launched with a partial corps a stone’s throw from Clark’s cabin. (Yes, we’re looking at you, St. Louis.)

It was at the Falls where the Ohio River once dropped 26 feet in a torrent of rapids that George established a settlement on Corn Island near present-day Louisville, and where he launched his successful military campaign in the Northwest Territories.

A year later he would move to a fort on the mainland — and Louisville was born. The economy grew on both sides of the river — with George comfortably settled at Clark’s Point in present-day Clarksville — from the portaging of goods around the Falls.

Despite the area’s historical significance, it fell into disrepair “and had become a dump” over the years, Morgan said. The light bulbs went off in the early 1980s when a bistate commission was formed to figure out how to save the Falls, which happen to be the best example of a single exposed layer of Devonian period fossils in the world.

“That’s what makes us really unique,” Morgan said.

After much head-scratching, 1,404 acres were set aside in 1981, becoming the first wildlife conservation area established by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Fast forward to today and the fossils still inspire blank stares from the uninitiated.

Morgan often attends meetings in downtown Louisville. At almost every one of them, someone inevitably asks about the location of the Falls of the Ohio.

“I literally just point out the window and say, ‘We’re right there.’”

Morgan also is speaking of a symbolic divide between Indiana and Kentucky brought to life by the Ohio River. But a recently opened facility has become a gamechanger in that respect: the Big Four Bridge.

The pedestrian and biking bridge spanning Jeffersonville and Louisville has done wonders for the park, which opened in 1994.

Typically, it sees about 400,000 visitors a year to its grounds, but only 30,000 of those make it into the Interpretive Center and other attractions.

Things have changed since Big Four

Re-enactors prepare to fire a cannon at last year's Clark Days at Falls of the Ohio State Park. photo courtesy of falls of the ohio state park opened on the Indiana side May 20. It just so happens the Ohio River Greenway — accessible by the Big Four — ends right at the entrance to George’s cabin.

“We’ve seen attendance increase 100 percent since the Big Four Bridge opened,” Morgan said. “People are coming down on bikes or walking and saying, ‘We didn’t know this was down here.”

Somewhere, George is smiling. Turns out the spirit of discovery — and learning about our fellow man — is alive and well in Southern Indiana.

“People in Louisville know so much about their history; Louisville is so incredibly rich with history,” Morgan said.

“Just because we have a river right in the middle of us doesn’t mean this site wasn’t as influential, if not more so, because this rock formation that is out there is the reason we’re all here.”

Event schedule CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 Saturday AND SUNDAY • Representatives from local history organizations will be available to discuss further ways to explore the many historical stories of the George Rogers Clark home site and ways to become involved in history in your area • Representatives from local boy scouts will be selling refreshments from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday • Wes and Donna Griffin will perform period music on the

hammered dulcimer and a variety of other traditional instruments throughout the day • Bear’s Den Productions will present the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through period and reproduction artifacts throughout the day • Old Fashion Square Dance will be performing and teaching old fashion square dance and clogging from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Sunday • Drewry Family Historical Productions will perform period music throughout the day • Members of the Clark family (re-enactors) will be visiting the cabin throughout the day