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"A Mighty Fortress is our Basement"

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AUG. 14, 2014 — Issue 27

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State Fair

ON STAGE

Q&A interview with Cary Wiger

EVENT

Yard Sale, Touch a Truck in Clarksville

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On the Cover: Kentucky State Fair visitors enjoy one of the many rides available at the Kentucky Exposition Center. This year's festival begins today. photo courtesy of the kentucky state fair

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Hoosier hog wild at Kentucky State Fair

This one was an eyeopener: Turns out Southern Indiana residents play an important part in the success of the Kentucky State Fair.

Sure, it’s just across the river —a heck of a lot closer to our own state’s fair up in Indianapolis, which is close to a two-hour drive for some.

Maybe it’s because I lived Jason Thomas, Editor in Indy for the better part of 12 years that when it comes to deep-fried fun, the Indiana State Fair and its Pepsi Coliseum hold a special place in my funnel cake-sized heart.

But as you’ll discover in Jenna Esarey’s cover story, Hoosiers have invaded Kentucky’s version of state festivals.

Of the nearly 5,500 exhibitors competing in 29 categories in general categories not including livestock,

close to 500 are from Indiana, Esarey reports, quoting Alice Hayse, manager of the entry department for the fair.

Many of the visitors to the Kentucky State Fair are schoolchildren. Kids from 26 Southern Indiana schools will learn about agriculture and other educational exhibits.

Also, this year’s fair honors the War of 1812, and many of the re-enactors hail from Southern Indiana.

Whether your allegiance lies with your home state’s fair or the one across the river, both offer entertainment, treats and educational experiences for all ages.

So go ahead Southern Indiana, dip yourself in some batter and deep-fry your pride with assurance that without Hoosiers, the Kentucky State Fair is lacking a certain spice.

— 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.

Two local events at one location

Yard Sale, Touch a Truck next Saturday

The 16th Annual Clarksville Community Yard Sale is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Clarksville Little League Complex, 500 Little League, Clarksville.

Each year, area residents are invited to join one of the largest community yard sales in Southern Indiana.

For a fee of just $15, residents can reserve a 12-foot-by-20-foot space to sell their goods. Food and commercial vendors are not allowed, and tables and chairs are not provided for this event. Participants must reserve their spot by visiting ClarksvilleParks.com, or by calling the parks office at 812-283-5313. The deadline to register is Friday, Aug. 15. There will be a $10 late fee for registrations after Aug. 15.

• The annual Touch-A-Truck children’s event will be held at the same location as the Community Yard Sale, from 10 a.m. to noon. Area children will get the chance to get up close and personal to the vehicles

 What: Clarksville Yard Sale and annual Touch A Truck

 Where: Clarksville Little League Complex

 When: Saturday, Aug.

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they see out on area roads every day.

Vehicles from previous years include Police, Fire, EMS, Construction Equipment, Limousines, Buses, Military Vehicles, UPS delivery vehicles, and much more. This event is free and open to everyone.

More vehicles are still needed for the Touch-A-Truck event. This event is a great opportunity to show your support for our community, and to promote your services. Local companies interested in having a vehicle at the event should call the Clarksville Parks & Recreation offices at 812283-5313.

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Storming the Basement What: “A Might Fortress Is Our Basement”

Where: Derby Dinner Playhouse, 525 Marriott Drive, Clarksville When: Opens Tuesday The Church Basement Ladies are back in an all-new musical comedy! It’s 1960 and the reformation is underway.

Beverly’s getting her first high heels, Mrs. Engelson’s getting her driver’s license, and through it all these ladies stand strong in their faith and friendships.

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HISTORY LESSON

When: Noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday Where: Carnegie Center for Art & History, 201 E. Spring St., New Albany Geoffrey Weiss will discuss slave narratives as a form of literature with the power to further the Abolitionist cause, in conjunction with a screening of the film “The Abolitionists.” The earliest slave narratives appeared in the late 18th century, and by the time of the Civil War the literary conventions of the slave narrative were so well-known to even the most casual reader that Harriet Beecher Stowe could call upon them in writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

But the narratives of escaped slaves are even more harrowing than Stowe’s fiction.

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What: Family Fun Day and Jamboree When: 4 p.m. Saturday Where: Woehrle Field, 4200 Charlestown Pike, Jeffersonville Come out and have some family fun with games, inflatables, coach dunking, cake walk and football jamboree games. Also, cheer on your coach in the Coaches Flag Football game.

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Fair Game Hoosiers play a vital role in success of Kentucky State Fair

By JENNA ESAREY newsroom@newsandtribune.com he Kentucky State Fair officially opens today and we’re all invited.

It’s too late to try for a blue ribbon, but there’s plenty of time to check out the exhibits and livestock, ride a few rides, and down your yearly allowance of deep-fried food-like substances.

While Hoosier visitors are always welcome, quite a few have entered into the competitions as well, showcasing their work in agriculture, hobbies, crafts or baking, among other things.

Alice Hayse is manager of the entry department for the Kentucky State Fair.

“If you’ve entered a cake or a pie, a pig or a cow, I have taken care of you,” she said.

Of the nearly 5,500 exhibitors competing in 29 categories in general categories not including livestock, “close to 500 are from Indiana,” she said.

“To my knowledge, we’ve always allowed Indiana exhibitors to participate, too,” she said. The only exceptions are competitions open only to 4-H or FFA members. “You have to be a resident of Kentucky to participate in those.”

Hayse, an Indiana resident herself — Mauckport, to be exact — has worked in the entry department for the last six years. “In the general departments this year we’ll stay pretty steady at right around 30,000 entries,” she said.

Proximity is her guess as to why so many Southern Indiana residents enter the fair.

“You’re within 15 minutes of the Kentucky State Fair, as opposed to two hours with Indianapolis,” she said. “If

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Past Kentucky State Fair attendees watch livestock compe tors competing in 29 categories, about 500 are from india

Past Kentucky State Fair goers stroll through various booths at the Kentucky exposition center. this year’s festival begins today and runs through aug. 24 FIle PhoTo they’re entering the Indiana State Fair, they may only be able to get up there once to see their stuff. If they enter over here, they can come multiple times.”

Didn’t enter your quilt or favorite cake in this year’s fair?

That’s OK. There’s always next year. Start checking out the fair’s website — kystatefair.org — around mid-April or so.

“We have very strict deadlines,” Hayse said. “The website is the best place to start.”

The fair averages 600,000 visitors each year, but how many of them come from Southern Indiana has been anybody’s guess, according to Ryne Dunkelberger, social media and

communications manager for the Kentucky State Fair Boa This year, the fair will be using the University of Louisv to create a demographic survey of attendees. “In the past did an informal survey by looking at license plates,” Dun berger said. “We always see a lot of Indiana plates.”

Given the driving time — and current construction del — between here and Indianapolis, the Kentucky fair is ju more convenient for a lot of people “just like in the south part (of Kentucky) it’s closer for a lot of people to drive to Nashville for the Tennessee State Fair,” he said.

Many of the Indiana visitors will be schoolchildren on trips according to Bryan Blair, expositions administrator f the Kentucky Exposition Center. Part of his job is to bring school groups, from pre-kindergarten through high schoo “We’re just so much closer for a lot of the Indiana schoo he said. “Some of the schools coming from Kentucky are driving three or four hours to get here.”

The self-guided school tours start in the educational exhibit, which this year honors the War of 1812 and will b

KentucKy State Fair concertS Main Stage • Lady antebellum with special guest Billy currington 8 p.m. thursday, aug. 14 ticketPrices* : $45 and $55 (includes Kentucky State Fair gate admission) $84, ViP tickets** • Styx and Foreigner 8 p.m. Friday, aug. 15, 8:00 p.m. ticket Prices: $40 and $50 (includes Kentucky State Fair gate admission) $79, ViP tickets • alabama with special guest Sunny Sweeney 8 p.m. Saturday, aug. 16 ticket Prices: $45 and $50 (includes Kentucky State Fair gate admission) $79, ViP tickets * tickets are available at the Freedom Hall and Kentucky international convention center ticket offices and all ticketmaster outlets. Purchase online at ticketmaster or charge by phone at 1-800-7453000. ** ViP tickets include: lounge seating, access to ViP lounge which includes upscale bar service and complimentary hor d’oevres, private restroom, one parking pass in a special lot the day of the show.

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As of last week, Blair said he had “about 26 schools from Southern Indiana, including quite a few homeschools. With the public schools just going back, we’re still getting bookings coming in.”

Indiana visitors to the Kentucky State Fair have been important from the beginning. The fair became an official event in 1902, and was held at Churchill Downs. It moved around the state for a few years before settling in Louisville permanently in 1906.

Going to the fair must have been a pretty big deal to Southern Indiana residents, and the fair used to offer an “Indiana Day” during the week, according to a clipping from a newsletter for the Indiana Historical Society posted on the Indiana Historical Bureau’s website.

When New Albany reached its Centennial in 1913, the celebration was moved from Sept.14 to Sept. 21 because the first date conflicted with “Indiana Day at the Kentucky State Fair.”

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The Kentucky State Fair runs today through Aug. 24. Admission is $10 for adults; $6 for children ages 3 to 12; $6 for seniors 55 and over and free for infants 2 and under. Parking is $8 per vehicle. Gates open at 2 a.m. and exhibits open at 9 a.m. The midway and tents close around midnight and exhibit halls close at 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday through Saturday. Some areas close earlier on Sunday, Aug. 24. Info: kystatefair.org BacKgrounD iLLuStration: KentucKy State Fair

Free concertS all shows are free with fair admission and begin at 8 p.m. in cardinal Stadium at the Kentucky exposition center except for the aug. 24 concert which begins at 4 p.m. aug. 14: Plain White t’s with special guest a Lion named roar aug. 15: Morris Day & the time with special guest unlimited aug. 16: america with special guest caribou aug. 17: oak ridge Boys with special guest Marty Brown aug. 18: newsboys with special guest Matthew West aug. 19: Kenny rogers with special guest Belles and Whistles aug. 20: easton corbin with special guest olivia Henken aug. 21: Happy together tour with the turtles featuring Flo and eddie, chuck negron formerly of three Dog night, gary uS Bonds, Mitch ryder & the Detroit Wheels and gary Lewis & the Playboys aug. 22: Scotty Mccreery with special guest Kelsey K aug. 23: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts with special guest Devour the Day aug. 24: MercyMe

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Q&A interview with

CARY WIGER Info: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement” opens Aug. 19 at Derby Dinner Playhouse [derbydinner.com] Hometown/Current residence/ Current role: I live in New Albany with my partner of almost 29 years, Jim Hesselman. I am currently playing the role of Pastor Gunderson in “Church Basement Ladies 4: A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement,” at Derby Dinner Playhouse.

What is your educational background? I started college at the University of Wisconsin as a music and theater major. My sophomore year I switched to biology and completed a degree in secondary education with a biology major. After graduating, I taught high school biology and junior high science for two years.

I missed music and performing too much and returned to the university to complete my music degree. In 1986, while I was playing Oscar in “Sweet Charity” at the Encore Dinner Theatre in Evansville, Bekki Jo Schneider came to see the show and asked me to audition for “Arsenic

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and Old Lace” at Derby Dinner Playhouse. She cast me and I’ve happily been employed there ever since. I quit counting when I reached 100 shows. That was in 1996, so I imagine I’ve done somewhere between 250 and 300 shows at Derby.

How did you get interested in acting? My mom had been a music teacher, so music and performing had always been a part of our family’s life. I could never decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, so I became an actor. Now I can be whatever I want to be, and it changes

every six weeks or so.

What are your favorite roles?

I enjoy playing all sorts of roles, both musical and non-musical.

Having waited tables for many years at Derby Dinner, I have gotten to know my audience on a much more personal and intimate level than most actors have the chance to. Maybe because of that, I feel a real obligation to touch the audience, to move them, possibly to just think, or to cry, but mostly to laugh.

What do you enjoy most about performing? There is nothing so fulfilling, so joyous, so therapeutic, so rewarding as to hear a theater full of people laughing uncontrollably in response to something that you have been a part of. It keeps me young; it helps keep us healthy.

What are your goals? I would like to keep entertaining people as long as the producers, directors, and audiences will allow.

And I would like to keep doing it right here, so I can tend my garden in my free time. I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life -- certainly nothing else as fun and as rewarding.

Actors never really retire, you know. We just keep moving into older and older parts.

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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

 Jeffersonville RiverStage

When: 7 p.m. Friday (free) Where: RiverStage, Spring Street and Riverside Drive, Jeffersonville Tony & the Tanlines with guest The Mad Taxpayers

Where: Huber’s Orchard, Winery and Vineyards, 19816 Huber Road, Starlight Saturday: Indiana Joe & Arrow; Sunday: Kevin Cumming

 Live music at Big Four Burgers + Beer

Where: 134 Spring St., Jeffersonville Friday: Wyndell Williams; Saturday:, Eric and Kenny [bigfourjeff.com]

 Live music at Roadhouse

When: 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday Where: New Albany Roadhouse, 1706 Graybrook Lane Friday: Keeling & Rhoads

 Twilight Cinema at RiverStage

When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday (free) Where: RiverStage, Spring Street and Riverside Drive, Jeffersonville E.T.

 Bicentennial Park Concert Series

When: 6 p.m. Friday (free) Where: Bicentennial Park, Pearl and Spring streets, New Albany Same As It Ever Was

 Concerts in the Park

When: 7 p.m. Friday (free) Where: Warder Park, Court Avenue and Spring Street, Jeffersonville Blair Carman and the Belleview Boys; in case of rain, call 812-283-0301 and the message will tell you if the concert has been canceled.

 Music at New Albany Production House

When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday Where: New Albany Production House, 1736 E. Main St., New Albany [naproductionhouse.com] Cost: $5 in advance; $7 at door Meadow Ryann, Ashley Ledrick, Approaching The Unreal, Drew Alexander, Chris Wigley, Rachel Esarey & The Sideshow

 Live music at Huber’s

When: 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

 Live on State at Wick’s

Where: Wick’s Pizza Parlor, 225 State St., New Albany When: Friday and Saturday Friday: 10 p.m., Jackson Scott & The Insane Outlaw; Saturday: 10 p.m., J.D. Shelbourne [wickspizza.com]

 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

Saturdays: 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.

CHURCH LADIES Derby Dinner stages “Mighty Fortress”

erby Dinner Playhouse will present the all new musical D comedy “A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement,” opening Aug. 19 and running through Oct. 5.

They’re cookin’ again! With new songs and more lessons reluctantly learned, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement” features the hilarious antics and down-to-earth charm of the Church Basement Ladies. Its 1960 and a Reformation is underway. Beverly’s getting her first pair of high heels for confirma-  INFO: For ticket tion, the Pastor is getting married, information please call and Mrs. Engelson is getting her 812-288-8281 or visit driver’s license. And through it all, derbydinner.com. these ladies stand strong in their faith and in their friendships.

“A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement” was inspired by the books of Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson, including the best seller “Growing Up Lutheran.” The musical was written by Greta Grosch with Music and Lyrics by Drew Jansen. Songs featured are “Growing Up, Letting Go,” “All Heaven Broke Loose,” “That’s Lutheran Love,” and more.

“A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement,” is under the direction of Bekki Jo Schneider with choreography by Barbara F. Cullen and musical direction by Scott Bradley. The cast will include Derby Dinner favorites Cary Wiger, Rita Thomas, Colette Delaney, and Tina Jo Wallace, who will be joined by newcomer Katelyn Webb.

Join the Church Basement Ladies and their Pastor as they cook up an evening of music and laughter!

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