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THE GASLIGHT PARADE - A LONG RUNNING TRADITION

This year Jeffersontown celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Gaslight Festival. One event epitomizes the annual festival: The Gaslight Parade. Not only do more than 10,000 people come out to watch the annual parade, but hundreds of locals from the Jeffersontown community participate in it each year. They come from local businesses, companies, schools, churches, organizations, scout troops, ball teams and special groups. They drive floats and tractors, mustangs and corvettes, fire trucks, police cars, army jeeps, motorcycles, bikes and antique cars. They walk in groups and teams, march in bands, dance, skate, ride in convertibles and on horseback, lead cheers, play music and more.

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100 units and some years event more. “I think over the years we’ve had as many local people in the parade as we’ve had watching it,” says John Cosby, President of the Jeffersontown Chamber who coordinates the event every year. “We had so many entries back in 1998 that it was dark by the time we finished.” Cosby has been “behind-the-scenes” for more than 25 years making it run smooth, consistent and safely. “We’ve got a great group of volunteers and staff that make it happen, and of course the community pulls together and it comes off as a smooth, fun, family event every year,” he says. The first Gaslight Parade in 1970 began in the Town Square and ended up at the J-Town Shopping Center. The route is reversed now. In 1977, which was expected to be the biggest Gaslight Parade to date, a

CB club called the Kentucky Breakers was on hand to help direct traffic. A viewing area with stands was set up on the Floore property (where the medical center now stands). Cartoon Characters were also in the parade, along with floats, Shriners and a couple of marching bands – including, of course, the Marching Chargers. Chuck Taylor, the WHAS meteorologist, was grand marshal. The Corvair Club of Kentucky provided rides for other dignitaries, including Queenie Bee. Jack Fox was to announce the parade. The 1986 parade was dedicated to the Vietnam veterans. There were about 75,000 spectators, and that was with thunderstorms drenching them. During the early 90s, approximately 75 to 100 parade units marched the route with somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 spectators. In 1997, a huge birthday cake to celebrate the town’s Bicentennial led off the parade.

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By 2000, due to so many requests for parade unit entries, the number of entrants was limited to 100. Rev. Thurmond Coleman was grand marshal that year. He was retiring as Pastor of First Baptist Church in November. Various awards were given to the best floats: The Mayor’s Award was for the float with the best community theme, the Chamber of Commerce Award was for the best commercial/business entry, and the Sponsor’s Award to the best overall entry.

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“ M Y FAV O R I T E PA RT O F T H E W E E K- LO N G F E ST I V I T I E S I S S E E I N G T H E CO M M U N I T Y CO M E ALIVE WITH FRIENDS O F O L D TO C E L E B R AT E I N A J E F F E R S O N TOW N FA M I LY T R A D I T I O N K N OW N A S T H E G A S L I G H T F E ST I VA L .” - BILL DIERUF -

Longtime Jeffersontown resident and Chamber employee Carolyn Neal Webb has fond memories of going to the parade every year with her parents, then later on as a teenager. She started working at the Jeffersontown Chamber when her daughter was one-year-old. Her children were in Gaslight Parades with school and softball teams over the years. She’s back at the Chamber and is working on the parade, again.

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Floats were a part of the early parades. In 1972, the Mansfield Players won first prize for their entry, “Our Town.” The Rotary Club came in third with a Jail and Keystone Kops. Nowadays, River City Bank, who sponsors the parade, brings their shiny “riverboat” float each year. And who can forget Maeser Plumbing’s float with its huge floating yellow rubber duck in a bathtub of big white bubbles. They may not have as many big flashy floats as some other parades, but the community pride and spirit run strong and deep.

It’s a fun time and a great communityfocused, family-friendly annual September event. People start setting up their chairs, blankets and tarps as early as noon the day of the parade. They’ve weathered blazing heat, rain and even chilly temps, all part of Kentucky’s mid-September weather variations that don’t seem to deter the tightknit community.

Bill Dieruf proudly says. It’s not just another festival, but a celebration of community, family and friends that keeps it so strong and successful after 50 years.

The 2019 Gaslight Festival is September 13-15. The parade starts at Jeffersontown Commons at 9503 Taylorsville Road (or as the locals know it, “Taylorsville Road “My favorite part of the week-long festivities is seeing the community come at Patti Lane”), travels east to Gaslight alive with friends of old to celebrate in a Square and ends at Watterson Trail and Jeffersontown family tradition known as College Drive. For more information, visit the Gaslight Festival,” Jeffersontown Mayor jtownchamber.com/gaslight-festival.

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After Paula Miller was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in January 2017, she and her husband, Roger, began to brainstorm ways to raise funds to help researchers find the cause of the devastating disease. “Very few dollars donated to breast cancer research goes toward metastatic patients,” Miller says. “And there is no cure at this point for metastatic breast cancer.” Within months, Miller adopted the slogan, “If they can treat it I can beat it!” and designed t-shirts sporting the phrase. In just a little over two years, she’s distributed more than 1,000 of the shirts, providing hope and encouragement for others in similar situations. Then, in February 2018, Miller met Caroline Johnson at the annual Twisted Pink Masquerade ball. Johnson founded Twisted Pink, a local nonprofit with a mission of extending the lives and improving the quality of life for late stage breast cancer patients by funding metastatic breast cancer research, after her own stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis. Twisted Pink has partnered with esteemed national programs like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, as well as the James Graham Brown Cancer Center locally. The masquerade ball inspired Miller to create a fundraising event of her own, with the aim of designing a low-cost experience that would be accessible to more members of the community than a pricier, ticketed event may be.

The 2019 Beat It Music Festival is poised to be even bigger and better. “We’re anticipating even more people this year, and I’m really excited,” Miller says.

With that, Beat It Music Festival was born.

The festival takes place Saturday, September 28, from 3 pm - 8 pm at Highlands “I wanted to do something totally different, Latin School in Middletown (10901 that would still make money,” Miller says. Shelbyville Road). The free, family-friendly “We decided to do a free concert day, and event features kid-friendly games and all of the music, the location and the food entertainment, including performances by are donated.” five musical acts. The inaugural event had a great turnout last fall, with more than $6,000 raised to donate toward metastatic breast cancer research.

Dusty Bo (country) kicks things off with a 3 pm performance, followed by Andy Burch (American, folk, indie) at 4

pm. Clair Morgan’s Little Big Band, an eight-piece band that plays favorites from vintage rock, jazz, dixieland, dance and listening music genres, takes the stage at 5 pm. “Last year Clair Morgan’s Little Big Band appealed to a wide range of people, and we’re excited to have them back,” Miller adds. Douglas Hills’ own Kinsey Rose, who is now a singer and songwriter in Nashville, takes the stage at 6 pm, followed by local dance band No Expectations to round out the evening with a 7 pm performance. Throughout the evening there will be

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lot different than writing a check, putting it in Miller and her husband to feel like they’re the mail and hoping the funds end up going taking back some of the sense of control that toward what you want them to,” she says. cancer often steals from a patient. Until a cure is found, Miller is stuck in a constant cycle of three-month intervals where she gets tested for cancer, never knowing what the results will show. One clean PET scan will move the patient into remission. Then, three months later at their next scan, a new spot may be present. Taking a proactive approach has allowed

“If you met me, you’d never think I have cancer,” Miller says. “I’m very fortunate to have the energy to go out and raise funds and to be a part of something wonderful like Twisted Pink.” For more information about the event, visit the Twisted Pink Facebook page, or search Beat It Music Festival on Facebook.

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Louisville’s Seneca Park has gone to the dogs! The Animal Care Society invites the Louisville community to its 16th annual Bark in the Park fundraiser, a celebration of all things canine. This year’s event takes place on Saturday, Sept. 28. Registration is at 7 a.m. with the 5K race beginning at 8 a.m. This event is family-friendly and open to the entire Louisville community. During the event, attendees learn more about the shelter, how they can help displaced animals and get to know other animal rescue organizations and animalfriendly businesses nearby.

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5K run, cool off in the kiddie pools, run the Lure Courses by Lucky Dogs Adventures, and chow down on pizza and hotdogs. The fun starts with the traditional Bark in the Park staple: The Woof Walk/Run. Participants can at animalcaresociety.org/ bark-in-the-park-woof-walk-registration. Each walker/runner will receive a Wag Bag full of coupons, goodies and an official 2019 Bark in the Park T-Shirt. Participants with the best time and with the most money raised will receive prizes. The fun doesn’t stop after the races. The remainder of the event will be full of activities for adults, kids and dogs of all ages, including contests, silent auctions, raffles and vendor booths.

Enter the Halloween Contest with your pooch, participate in the Kissing Contest for the pooch with the best smooch, and the owner Look-A-Like Contest will all take place again this year. Catch a puppy performance by canines Lilly and Daisy, as well as LMPD K-9 Unit. Additionally, there will be several vendors in attendance to spread the word about their missions and services to the community. From Veterinary offices to rescue organizations, there are a number of vendors and sponsors at Bark in the Park. Each sponsor receives a free vendor space. If you would like to be a vendor or sponsor at Bark in the Park this year, please reach out to events@ animalcaresociety.org.

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“I’ve been a storyteller all my life. I suppose because I grew up on the front porch of my grandmother’s country grocery store,” says Bob Thompson or Colonel Bob as he’s known. “Front porch in the summertime around the pot-belly stove in the wintertime” is where Bob’s grandfather told stories. “I was always pretty good at public speaking,” he says. Thompson got an engineering degree at the University of Kentucky and immediately went to work explaining engineering and speaking at big corporations. Thompson, author, storyteller and arts producer, spins stories from the front porches of Americana on 91.1 FM Radio and online for Louisville Saturday Mornings at 8 A.M. In 1985, Thompson and his wife moved here to Louisville. Lee Pennington was one of the professors at Jefferson Community College, Lee still lives in Middletown. According to Thompson, Pennington was involved in the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN in the beginning. “Lee wanted a storytelling festival in Louisville and started it the next year,” Thompson says. Pennington and his wife, Joy started the International Order of E.A.R.S. in 1984.

The International Order of E.A.R.S., Incorporated referred to as EARS, was a membership organization. It started “around the time the mini-series ROOTS had come out,” says Bob, it was “resurgence in interest in the spoken word, oral history.”

“The first year there were 215 storytellers and about eight to 10 listeners” Thompson says. “We had it at the Water Tower. The ghost stories started getting big. It was a two-day event, big tents, 10 or 12 storytellers. We also had it at Tom Sawyer Park.”

The purpose of EARS, according to the by-laws written by Lee and Joy, “shall be to support and encourage the preservation and perpetuation of the ageold art of storytelling, to provide for the preservation and perpetuation of stories, tall tales, legends and yarns that might otherwise fall into oblivion, to provide an opportunity for the storyteller and the storytelling enthusiast to gather together for the purposes as deemed necessary and appropriate.” Thompson became involved in the organization after Lee and Joy recruited him through Jefferson Community College. In 2002 or 2003 Lee and Joy had done the Corn Island Storytelling Festival for 20 years and decided they wanted to give it up for retirement. They both thought Thompson could be the technical director since he was an engineer. He was on the board of directors. The Corn Island StoryTelling Festival started at the downtown campus, then the southwest campus.

According to Thompson, the concept was the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough. The Corn Island Storytelling Festival runs both Friday and Saturday. About 1,000 school kids would be bused in on Fridays.

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“People wanted ghost stories,” Thompson says. “My own theory is most people haven’t seen a ghost but if they ever want to they want to hear someone who has seen a ghost so they know how to conduct themselves.” Typically on Friday and Saturday about 500 to 600 people (outside of the 1,000 school kids) would come to hear stories and about three to 5,000 people would come for the ghost stories, “the most we ever had was about 8,000” at Long Run Par, Thompson adds. “We found Long Run Cemetery,” Thompson says. Long Run Cemetery is where Abraham Lincoln’s grandfather was buried. “It was overgrown, nobody knew it was there,” he adds. Lee figured out the history.”

Over two back to back Saturdays the organization got around 50 volunteers out there and cleaned a lot of it up.

the vibe,” he says. “It’s a universal thing. Storytelling at its best is a few people getting together, sharing their stories, any steps you take away from that, putting someone on the “We cleaned it all out and got permission to stage, putting lights on them, putting lights have our ghost stories out there,” Thompson on the audience, it detracts from that. Having says. “We had the place packed, traffic was 5,000 people becomes more of a Woodstock out Long Run Road.” atmosphere than interpersonal storytelling.” The storytelling festival was out there for In the 2008 to 2010 era, Thompson still two to three years according to Thompson. wrote grants for Jefferson County Schools because he had a heart for storytelling in “It got to be so popular we started having an schools, especially for kids in schools who environmental impact so we started having might not have the resources or alternative issues having the show there,” he says. programming. The storytelling festival went over to Long “We went to Boys and Girls Haven, St. Run Park and had it there for 5-7 years. Joseph’s and put storytellers in there,” he says. About that time, John Gage with the radio “One year we had it at Locust Grove in the show Kentucky Homefront 91.1 Saturday beginning,” Thompson says. mornings at 8 o’clock had taken a similar break. Thompson and Gage had been When the festival first started, the third friends for a long time. Gage had about a or fourth weekend in September and 10-year run and three or four years that he October were the driest months in didn’t do shows. He was coming back and Kentucky, so Thompson thought that Thompson and Gage decided to merge would be a good time. the organizations and the two entities would be under the International Order of “Other people started figuring it out too. E.A.R.S. and Gage would produce the show. The Jeffersontown Gaslight Festival came Thompson would be the storyteller. along, and we started having too much competition,” he says. “It’s an hour format, local musicians the first 30 minutes,” Thompson says. “I got to be That’s when Thompson says he decided to a professional storyteller. I do storytelling take a break and thought that the festival festivals around the region, Mississippi, this was starting to get away from the roots of area, Illinois, Western Kentucky.” storytelling. “Storytelling is looking at each other in Thompson increasingly became a writer and the eyes, getting the body movements and would tell his stories on the radio show,

“That’s been going on for 15 years now, long time on WFPK,” he adds. The University of Louisville’s Marketing Director had gone to the Corn Island Storytelling Festival as a kid and he said he’d like to do something like that again on U of L’s campus. “That was when I was waiting to get a sponsor,” Thompson says. “I was looking for a partner and U of L came along. We had a couple of rainouts in 2007-2008, we used to say we went 20-25 years without a single rainout. The next year 911 happened and the crowd had gone down and the cash flow didn’t cover the cost of the festival for a couple of years.” That was one reason Thompson decided not to continue to do the festival. One year after the call from U of L Bob got a call from Blackacre Conservancy’s Executive Director, Dale Josey to have Corn Island StoryTelling out there. That’s when Thompson and Josey got together to expand to Blackacre.

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“I’ve had three grandchildren and written two books,” Thompson says. “Both books have been published by the University Press of Kentucky (UPK), a scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I did so well I was asked to do another book and it will be out in the fall. I’ve also backlogged a couple hundred original stories.” “It’s amazing the people that Bob has attracted,” Josey says. Storytellers Bobby Norfolk, Roberta Brown, Bob Thompson, Them Calloway’s, and Jamie Eller will all be at the Corn Island Storytelling Festival this year. Bobby is an internationally known story performer and teaching artist, three-time Emmy Award winner, one of the most popular and dynamic story-educators in America today. Roberta, The Queen of Cold-Blooded Tales, has been a part of Corn Island Storytelling for more than 30 years. Thompson is the Chairman of the International Order of EARS and the producing director for its

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audience.’ That’s how I reached out and I found Bob. It’s been a great partnership.” The Corn Island Storytelling Festival is behind Blackacre’s Log Barn.

Corn Island Storytelling Festival. Barbara Calloway coordinated and guided the Spirits of LaGrange Ghost Tours and founded Ghost Stories on the Square in LaGrange, KY where she served as the Chair of the Historical Districts Commission.

”If you can imagine an old barn, stories, that’s an oral tradition we wanted at Blackacre,” Josey says. “We’re looking for novel ways of getting different generations together.” Early in the evening, there will be family stories and later the stories get creepier and creepier. Corn Island Storytelling Festival was a national event. Newsletters went out worldwide. Last year, there were almost 400 people who attended.

Robert Calloway is a retired art teacher who sponsored “The Tale Tell Knights of Castle Heights” in Lebanon, Tennessee, where he coached students in preparation for the National Youth Storytelling Olympics. Jamie, a native of New Albany, and veteran re-enactor with a wide variety of 1800’s characters will be the emcee. Blackacre State Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead is a 200-year old property and the Log Barn was built in 1795. “We were looking for a way to raise our visibility. People bring us ideas on what they want to do.” Josey says. “We thought, ‘what about an American Tradition that no one else is doing but we want to bring to a modern

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lighting will be provided by the Corn Island Storytelling Festival and there will be music playing as the audience walks in. Thompson explains what people like about storytelling is, “It’s the interpersonal relationships. They like to sit and listen to someone and look at their eyes, and they form an opinion if this is a true story or not. I wouldn’t say whether if the story is any good or not, whether that story has a moral or not, they take something non-verbal away. Storytelling at its best both a verbal and non-verbal experience. That’s the root of storytelling as far as I’m concerned.” The Corn Island Storytelling Festival at Blackacre starts at 7:30 pm, lasts about an hour before intermission, where kids can buy popcorn, peanuts and more. When the audience comes back, the stories get a little scarier and the festival will shut down around 10:00 pm.

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“Dave said ‘great!’ and he handed me the keys and let me go off and get real nerdy about spirits,” says Blake, who became Director of Spirits Education at Moonshine University. “I’m likely the only person in the world who has that title because I completely made it up, but it really does showcase what I do,” he says, insisting that they are more than just bourbon at Moonshine U. “We are all things spirits beyond production, including ancillary things like root-to-market and brand marketing.”

Blake says. “We’ve become a hub not only as a place where people learn how to run a distillery but also where people send their staff to learn the industry overall.” In addition to the six-day course, they also offer two and three-day workshops in a variety of topics, including gin, whiskey, root-to-market, agave spirits, nosing for faults and barrel aging classes.

Blake heads up all of the university’s programming, working with industry experts to develop classes and workshops. Blake teaches many of the lower-level introductory courses and is the primary Around the time Moonshine University instructor for the Stave and Thief Society, opened was the beginning of the craft a bourbon certification program that boom. They started with a six-day flagship launched in 2015 and is backed by the distiller course that invites more than 30 presenters to come in over the course of that Kentucky Distillers Association. week who are all experts in their field. “A stave is what the sides of a barrel is made of, and a whiskey thief is the historic “We’ve had people come from 39 different way to pull a sample out of a barrel so we countries and 48 states, and we’ve helped tried to develop it very much with the open 160 distilleries around the world,”

feeling of a secret society,” explains Blake, noting that they had planned to offer the Stave and Thief Society twice a year for local bartenders as a way to help the local community learn about spirits education. But right out of the gates, it exploded in popularity. When they saw that the second class consisted of 80% enthusiasts, they knew they had something on their hands. And it’s just kept growing. “Last year we added more people in the first six months than the previous two or three years combined,” Blake says. Now they have more than 5,000 members from all over the world. Offering two different levels, people can either study at home or, if they seek a higher level of learning, they can come to Louisville and spend a day doing hands-on bourbon making in the distillery. “We do sensory training where we take

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“It’s a fun, involved program that, beyond just getting a check-mark certification, actually trains you to be better at doing sensory as well as all aspects of bourbon,” Blake adds.

Louisville years ago — and the fact that he returned to the same area and bought a house that’s 1.5 miles away from the home he lived in as a teenager.

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SADDLE UP VETE RAN’S C LU B FOU N DE R CONTI N U E S TO G ROW EQU I N E TH E RAPY PROG RAM FOR KE NTUC KY VETE RAN S Writer / Kelsey Schneider Photographer / Thomas Shelby & Erin Harrell

Kentucky’s identity is strongly surrounded around horses and the horse industry. In fact, the equine industry is a major part of the state’s agribusiness and Kentuckians claim that because Kentucky’s hills are filled with limestone, the bluegrass that grows there is rich in calcium. The calcium supposedly builds unusually strong bones in horses.

in 2003-2004. Harrell is married to his wife Erin and they have four children, Brooklyn, Mattie, Lola and Collin. Due to his military service in Iraq he was medically retired and diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.

and in this country. When you try to build relationships with people it doesn’t happen. The odds are against you coming home.

“I truly felt like my identity was stripped from me and now I had no mission,” Harrell adds. “I felt lost, hopeless and unproductive “This in turn is what has lead me to start the while at the same time dealing with the Veteran’s Club,” Harrell explains. “Obviously issues of my service in Iraq. getting out of the Army early and becoming retired at 30 years old wasn’t the plan.” This went on for nearly a five-year period and after three divorces that didn’t last Harrell recalls not knowing about any help three years total and several other failed Equine therapy involves different treatments groups or many organizations that were relationships with family and friends, and activities with horses to promote Harrell came to a point where he knew willing to help someone like him through human physical and mental health. something had to change. After being his transition back home. Kentucky’s Veteran’s Club Founder and fired from his job, he was diagnosed with President, Jeremy Harrell, offers equine PTSD by the United States Department of “I felt like a fish out of water,” he says. “You therapy as a support to those in need. can’t relax, you have nothing to worry about Veteran’s Affairs. but you can’t relax. You don’t know how to Harrell is a Louisville, Kentucky native and react anymore and be civilized. Everyone is “You live it everyday” Harrell says. “I loved US Army Combat Veteran of the Iraq War. every minute of the military and felt like I proud of you and you get parades but then He was deployed during the initial invasion the parades stop. You feel alone in this world was making a difference.” 30 / JEFFERSONTOWN MAGAZINE / SEPTEMBER 2019 / JeffersontownMag.com

Harrell explains his experience after going to the VA. ”I was sitting in my living room thinking about what the VA had said,” he says. “I still get emotional because that was my identity. Lots of veterans have had the same experience. Now I know how important family is.” After meeting his wife, Erin, Jeremy attended an equine program in Kansas. “Erin was raised around horses most of her adult life,” Harrell says. “She thought it would help me.” According to Harrell, “I was very reluctant since I’d never touched a horse and hadn’t been any closer to a horse then at Churchill Downs. However, we’ve all heard the phrase Happy Wife, Happy Life so I went along.” Harrell remembered feeling immediately relaxed out on the beautiful farm in Kansas. He and Erin were introduced to the horses. ”Although I was very nervous at first, I became drawn to the animal,” he says. “I remember being so busy watching the horse and working with it that I was no longer thinking about all the ruminating thoughts I’ve been used to. I was too involved learning the horses and horsemanship skills.”

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share that same kind of program in Kentucky, the horse capital of the world. “This was all an idea on a napkin and the idea was to get 12-15 veterans involved,” he says. “Nearly two years later, we’ve served around 90 veterans through our equine program which is now nationally recognized. “I’ve had Vietnam veterans come up to me and say they haven’t felt that relaxed in 40 years,” he adds. “Being 38 years old, that was an overwhelming feeling to know that Vietnam vets have been struggling in silence longer than I’ve been alive and we were able to provide that kind of relief in five hours on the ranch with horses and conversation. We’ve been privileged to see marriages and relationships with children restored after a few sessions of our Equine Program.” The Veteran’s Club currently hosts the Salvation Army Homeless Vets and, according to Harrell, there have been

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called Operation Care. We have a private Facebook group we use to reach vets in between events and to share resources and information within the veteran “During the winter months when we aren’t community, too.” engaged in Equine Therapy we focus on community outreach,” Harrell says. “We’ve The private Facebook group has more raised money and food for the Coast than 1,000 members and creates a Guard members in Louisville during the platform for vets to communicate shutdown. We also donated a car to a privately and freely and has helped in a Woman and Family Shelter in Shelbyville reduction of veteran suicide.

“We are growing exponentially and look forward to serving the veterans of Louisville and the state of Kentucky,” Harrell says. “It’s my new mission and a passion that I can’t tame.” Harrell’s work with the Veteran’s Club has resulted in being named this year’s Kentucky Veteran of the Year, being commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel and nominated for the Kentucky Hall of Fame.

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A HISTORY OF THE GASLIGHT FESTIVAL Writer / Beth Wilder, Director Jeffersontown Historical Museum

The name “Jeffersontown” is practically synonymous with the words “Gaslight Festival.” This delightful event has been an annual fixture in Jeffersontown for 47 years. Many people tend to believe the festival simply sprang from the early town fairs, but it has a much more interesting history than that, and it centers around – you guessed it - gaslights. In the 1800s, Jeffersontown used coal oil lamps during the nighttime hours to provide a bit of light on the town square and a few surrounding blocks. In 1911, the Commercial Club proposed that the old oil lamps be abandoned for “a more modern electric light system.” Of course, at that time, there was no electricity in Jeffersontown, so in 1912, they held a week-long street carnival in the hopes of raising some of the $15,000 it would cost to get an electric plant and “secure a ‘great white way’ for the town.” Louisville merchants and Jeffersontown businessmen worked hand in hand to set up what they hoped would be a successful event for the entire county.

The August 10, 1912 edition of the CourierJournal noted that the fair sported plenty of entertainment, including a dog circus, waltzing mice, an educated horse, Celina the Snake Girl, theatre acts, a mystic, popcorn and lemonade stands, merry-go-rounds and a Ferris wheel, in addition to various other acts, bands, hawkers, merchants and contests. The carnival drew in multitudes of people from all over the county. In addition to those who drove to Jeffersontown throughout the week for the fair, on Friday night alone, two special Interurban cars brought in more than 200 visitors — not bad for a town that only numbered 345 in the 1910 census.

Chamber of Commerce, was working hard to influence business owners on the town square to build or remodel in this same Federal Style, reminiscent of Jeffersontown’s founding years. Two very persuasive people in the Restoration Society were chairperson Peggy Weber, a realtor, and her friend Petra Williams, who was an antique collector, author and businesswoman. They, and several other highly influential society members, managed to convince all the other merchants in town to renovate their storefronts in keeping with the new restoration plan and to help clean up the town square in general.

The fair was a great success and paved the way for replacing the old gas lamps, which were not thought to be “in keeping with the progressive spirit of the citizens” of the town. Jeffersontown got the electric lights it wanted, and the old gaslights were scrapped, save for one lone lamp and post that would reappear about 50 years later. In the mid-1960s, Jeffersontown was undergoing a renaissance on its town square, including the construction of a new City Hall building in 1966. The Jeffersontown Restoration Society, a branch of the

About this time, a local church was remodeling and happened to find one of the original gaslights under the steps of their building. The unit was salvaged by Tom Caxton, an antiques dealer, who owned a fine antique store on Chenoweth Run Road. Peggy and Petra made one of their regular trips to his shop and became enchanted with the old gaslight. They decided that the newly remodeled town square should be lined with the lovely old gaslights, and they promptly took their proposal to the Jeffersontown Mayor and City Council,

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even offering some of their own money toward the project. The City agreed, and Ozzy Oestringer was hired to make reproduction lamps to line the town square. The City funded the $2,000 to purchase a dozen gaslights (later increased to 20), and LG&E was persuaded to provide free labor to install them. The total cost of such a dramatic image change for Jeffersontown was $2,500. The project generated a great deal of publicity for the town, and the Chamber of Commerce decided to embark upon a campaign to have Jeffersontown designated an “All Kentucky City.” To qualify for such an honor, Jeffersontown had to compete against other Kentucky cities in terms of progress, growth, living conditions, opportunity, etc. Because of the newly established Bluegrass Research and Industrial Park and the beautiful new appearance of the town square, as well as meeting all the required criteria,

Jeffersontown was able to win the All Kentucky City award, not once, but twice in 1968 and 1969. In early 1970, the Jeffersontown Chamber of Commerce wanted to build upon the recognition the town had received. At a January meeting, they got their solution. As the story goes, during the meeting, Peggy Weber whispered the notion of a Gaslight Festival to Petra Williams, who

immediately jumped up and shouted, “Peggy has the most wonderful idea!” The Chamber members loved the idea and immediately named the new event “The Gaslight Festival.” Although the intent behind the festival was to showcase the newly renovated Gaslight Square and promote the businesses there, Mayor Franklin Chambers decided that the town square was a little too new, clean

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parade, which ironically began at City Hall and ended at the J-town Center, now the reverse occurs. The first Gaslight Festival was a mild success in comparison with the Community Fair that year, but by the second year, things improved, since Mayor Chambers agreed to allow the 1971 event to be held on Gaslight Square, as originally planned. The second annual Gaslight Festival reflected Petra Williams’ love of antiques and crafts, with many more display booths and a large antique show. The third annual Gaslight Festival in 1972 really got the ball rolling. Jack Durrett used the 175th anniversary of the founding of Jeffersontown as a way to promote both the city and the Gaslight Festival. The festival was moved to September 30 – October 2, many more events were scheduled, and the weather was fine. Several thousand people attended the event, and the Gaslight Festival became a firmly established event. By 1977, crowd estimates were at 150,000.

Ironically, the original purpose of the Gaslight Festival had dramatically changed in that short space of time. The businesses that were once being promoted during the festival had to close their doors during the event because of the huge number of booths placed at their storefronts. Still, that indicated the growing prosperity of Jeffersontown and its willingness to change with the times. The Gaslight Festival became inextricably linked with the City of Jeffersontown, and even today continues to grow and adapt with the city. Nothing says “Jeffersontown” more than the Gaslight Festival.

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