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Letter from the Mayor

Dear Jeffersonians, Thanksgiving is just ahead, and I look forward to celebrating my favorite holiday with family and friends. It brings us together to realize what is most important in life. I like how the celebration of family and friends prompts us to be grateful for our many blessings. My hope is that the spirit of Thanksgiving will spread throughout the year.

As the holiday season unfolds, the City of Jeffersontown will host its annual Christmas on the Square celebration on Sunday, November 25, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Train rides, ice carving and pictures with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus are part of the festivities. (See details on the facing page.) I hope to see you there.

The Jeffersontown City Council and I want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and/or the happiest of holidays however you choose to celebrate. Have a healthy and safe New Year!

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Veterans Memorial Plaza grand opening set for Sunday, Nov. 11 U.S. military veterans will be saluted in a special way on Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11, at 4 p.m. with the grand opening of Veterans Memorial Plaza at Veterans Memorial Park, 10707 Taylorsville Road.

A new monument, Freedom Wall, will be unveiled during a ceremony hosted by the City of Jeffersontown and the American Legion G.I. Joe Post #244.

Designed to bring about an emotion of Patriotism, the 8-by-60-foot wall honors the five U.S. military branches with patriotic quotes, poems and letters sent home from the front.

New picnic pavilions and other improvements have been made at the park, including a new all accessible playground that enables children with challenges to play alongside other children.

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Top: Crews are working seven days a week to get Veterans Memorial Plaza and Freedom Wall finished in time for the grand opening and unveiling scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 11.

Left: The all accessible playground at Veterans Memorial Park was almost ready for use when these photos were taken on Oct. 12.

JEFFERSONTOWN CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2017

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They say that one bad apple doesn’t spoil the whole bunch, but in the case of yard waste disposal, a small amount of contamination can spoil an entire load of material.

Rumpke – the City of Jeffersontown’s waste and recycling service provider – is asking for assistance cleaning up yard waste.

In recent weeks, Rumpke has seen an increase in contamination.

Yard waste contamination includes plastic ,snainbags osrefand feJ rcups, aeD garden gloves, food waste and any items that aren’t accepted.

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Aebersold, 79, a New Albany, IN native, is an His brother started playing the saxophone internationally known saxophonist and an and when his brother stopped playing, Jamey authority on jazz education and improvisation. began. And so did his journey with jazz.

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He was exposed to music early – his father played piano and banjo, his mother played piano and sang. His two brothers played

“I kind of stumbled into it,” Aebersold says.

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going to the music store and buying his first record.

“It really intrigued me, the music they were playing,” he says. “I couldn’t figure out how they did it because they played so fast. It was so consistent, and it seemed like they never made a mistake. And I didn’t realize at the time that they practiced. And they practiced a lot. That didn’t dawn on me. I thought they were born with this gift.”

He wanted to attend the Manhattan School of Music in New York, but they didn’t have a

degree in saxophone. He decided to attend Indiana University but discovered that they didn’t offer a degree in saxophone either. He improvised his education program, earning a bachelor’s degree in Woodwinds while learning to play the oboe, bassoon, flute and clarinet. He received a Masters in Saxophone from IU. During college summer breaks he worked in his father’s florist shop. After he married and graduated from college, he rented an apartment across from the florist shop. He improvised his career. He worked in the florist shop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., then gave private music lessons after school. He had about four or five students each day.

“In the back of my mind, I thought ‘next year we’ll move to New York. It never happened,” he says.

But what did happen established him as an innovative jazz teacher.

He developed the Play-A-Longs series of book and compact disc sets in 1967 to enhance music practice. Play-A-Longs recordings allow musicians to practice and improvise along with professional and well-known jazz musicians. He has produced 133 volumes of Play-A-Longs jazz records and books over the past 51 years.

“I guess you would say it was organic,” Aebersold says. “It just started. It kind of crawled along. One thing led to another.

People bought them because they could put the LP record on their turntables and practice with them.”

He also cultivated the concept of small group classes, combos which focused on jazz improvisation. He has been recognized and celebrated for his musical prowess.

Aebersold and the Summer Jazz Workshop (which he has presented for more than 40 years at the University of Louisville and in seven countries) was featured on the CBS “Sunday Morning” program with Charles

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He was inducted into the International Association for Jazz Education Hall of Fame in 1989. In 1992, he received an honorary Doctor of Music from Indiana University. In 2004, he received the Medal of Honor in jazz education from the Jazz Midwest Clinic. In 2007, he was awarded the Indiana Governor’s Art Award by Governor Mitch Daniels. He has produced a best-selling DVD entitled, Anyone Can Improvise. He was also awarded the 2014 A. B. Spellman National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy.

Aebersold has directed the annual Summer Jazz Workshops since 1977 at the University of Louisville, which draws participants from more than 20 countries. The workshops offer intensive training in jazz improvisation.

The workshops have also been presented in eight countries. The 2018 workshop was designated as the final workshop, but it is possible that the workshop may continue.

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workshops when he was experiencing some health challenges, most notably he had low energy. After various medical tests, he was diagnosed with two blocked arteries and had bypass surgery in April. Now that he has recuperated, he says he would love to do the workshop again. He says he will wait and see what happens.

Is retirement on the horizon?

“I hadn’t really thought about retiring,” Aebersold says. “I like what I am doing. I like music. It’s so creative. I can’t imagine, if I retire, what am I going to do? I don’t think I am the type of person to retire and sit back in a chair.

I guess if I felt bad or got to the point where I couldn’t walk, if I was physically unable to do what I have been doing, I guess I would stop. I did modify my schedule when I wasn’t feeling well. It’s amazing how health can change the way you think about life.”

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a Little Lamb”, “Row, Row Your Boat” or “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” without music, then they start to realize that they can do things by using their mind and ears that they can create,” Aebersold says. “Most people don’t think they can.”

His other interests include listening to jazz music, playing basketball, metaphysics and spiritual pursuits.

He noted that the highlight of his career was being awarded the NEA Jazz Master Award for Jazz Advocacy.

“That was a big deal,” he says. “I was really shocked when the guy called me and told me I had been awarded the award. I “If we could get everybody to play music when thought they had made a mistake. That was a big surprise to me.” they are about six years old and teach them to improvise on something like “Mary Had He enjoys helping people release the melodies in their heads.

He mentions the award during his school performances to inspire students to pursue their goals.

“I tell them I got this prestigious award and I am from New Albany, IN, so you can do whatever you want to do,” he says.

He says the low point was experiencing the loss of energy earlier this year associated with his blocked arteries. Now, he has a new surge of energy.

“I am feeling better now,” Aebersold says. “I am back up and going again. I am just cruising right now, just cruising along. I got various plans, playing concerts here and there. I am delighted to be alive. Life is great.”

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Whimsical wizards, slithering snakes, dramatic dragons and scaly squid statues are part of our Louisville and Kentuckiana landscape. If you’re tenacious and diligently search for them, these entertaining pieces of art can be located in many places. They may be decorating your neighbors’ backyards or possibly adorning public parks or brightening local festivals. These fun figures are courtesy of sculptor Joe Autry and his ingenious imagination, artistic ability and hard work.

Autry is an internationally-recognized sculptor who lives just across the Ohio River in New Albany. His sculpting began

22 years ago when he was only 17 and taking art classes in high school. While some of his classmates preferred working with two-dimensional art pieces, his interest was in creating three-dimensional objects.

He spent all of his free time in the art studio before school, during lunch, during study hall, which caught his teacher’s attention.

While Autry had plans of entering the military after graduation, his teacher guided him towards a future in sculpting.

“She connected me with a local bronze sculptor, David Kocka. I worked with him in a bronze sculpture foundry for several years.”

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gave me a lot of experience and I began experimenting with other metals. I also worked with another bronze sculptor, David Lind. They both were great, as they had different styles of creating. I eventually went on to work in blacksmithing with another sculptor. All of this opened my world and my ability to use tools. I eventually continued on to be a manager at a foundry in Louisville, at Quality Cast.”

Autry attended Indiana University Southeast but only stayed in school for a couple of years. His yearning to learn more about sculpting and to create pieces had a stronger pull than classroom studies.

He also worked a variety of trades while in his 20’s, doing everything from house

remodeling to working on riverboats.

The waterways carried him, and his imagination, along for a few years, traveling from Pennsylvania to Texas.

His boat excursions offered him his first inspiration to start carving wood.

“Driftwood would wash up on the boat,” he says. “I found them to be interesting pieces. I’d let them dry off and would carve them with a little chisel. During my last few trips is when I really became interested in working with wood. It became fascinating. I hadn’t really done any wood carving before that. I’d just been doing bronze.”

research about doing this type of carving and getting the right tools for the right job.

I kept doing it for myself and eventually entered art shows. Once I had a collection of pieces, more and more people began to see what I’d been doing and doors began to open up for me.”

Autry began to receive requests from local patrons to have him carve statues from the trees on their property. The first piece was for a friend’s father. The next year, he was asked to do more work for other

people, carving older trees. Keeping the old trees intact as they aged was potentially dangerous, due to limbs and branches possibly breaking off, but they didn’t want to cut them down completely. They wanted to keep part of the tree as a tribute to their family’s legacy. Most of his work is carved from ash trees, which unfortunately have been ravaged nationwide by beetles and other insects.

Autry’s woodwork has resulted in beautiful pieces ranging from abstract to fantasy

Once his life on the riverboat came to an end, the pull to carve wood became even stronger, experimenting with bigger, more powerful tools.

“My wife and I had been living in Jeffersontown and we had trees in the backyard that were dead, and I wanted to carve those trees,” Autry says. “I wanted to use a chainsaw, but I had no experience carving with a chainsaw. The first time I carved in wood it wasn’t much of anything. But it stayed with me, and I did smaller wood carvings. I started doing more

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pieces. He doesn’t carve bunnies, bears, raccoons or other woodland creatures.

to Russia, carving on an international level with some of the world’s best ice sculptors.

“There’s nothing wrong with bunnies, bears and raccoons, I just prefer not to do them,” he says.

“I didn’t do so well,” he admits, humbly. “I didn’t have the right tools, I wasn’t dressed properly, and I wasn’t prepared for the language,” he says.

Some of his pieces remain the color of the original wood, but he will often enhance them with different types of stain, to give them color. Once they are complete, they are sealed to protect them from the outdoor elements.

Over the years, Autry has expanded his reach and has sculpted using salt, ice, snow and sand. His ice sculpting began as a whim. A friend wanted to hire an ice carver for a party, so Autry gave it a try. At his next event, he carved an ice sculpture in Anchorage, Kentucky, for an AIDS fundraiser. A woman at the party suggested he participate in an ice carving competition in Perm, Russia, a Louisville sister city. After much planning, he eventually made the trip

Yet, that didn’t discourage him from becoming more proficient in working with this medium.

“I came home and carved every day,” he adds.

The next year he traveled to Siberia and competed in the frigid minus-45 degree weather. But now he had the right clothes, the right tools, and he’d studied the language for several months. His preparation and diligence paid off. He was presented with the Spirit Award for his work.

After taking on ice, Autry decided to

tackle snow sculpting. He and a Russian colleague teamed up and participated together in a snow carving competition in Japan in 2015. They collaborated for months via the Internet, working to develop their design. They finally decided on a piece that incorporated Autry’s vision, which was geometric and abstract forms, and human forms, which his partner wanted to include in the piece.

The two met up in Japan, worked on their piece, and they won first place. They were the first American and the first Russian ever to win this competition during its 18year run.

Autry’s love for sculpting has inspired him to use other materials. He’s traveled to Berezniki, Russia, where he was introduced to sculpting with salt but not the plain, white salt that we know. The salt was in colors — reds, blues, yellows, blacks and other shades. He is also fascinated with sand sculpting and is currently working with Jeffersonville to bring these pieces to

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his work in Utica at Bob Hill’s “Hidden Hill Nursery and Sculpture Garden.” He even has a statue in Riga, Latvia. He, along with eight other artists had been chosen out of 60 applicants to create their work in a public park in Riga.

Though he’s traveled the world and explored different methods of carving, Autry’s main interest still lies in wood sculpting and also creating with metal. You can find his work most anywhere, locally and abroad.

“My big vision for the future is to help create a metal sculpture as large as the Statue of Liberty and place it in the Ohio River,” he states. “It would be between Louisville and Southern Indiana, and it would represent the original indigenous people of the area or represent all of the Americas united.”

“I have several projects located throughout the Louisville Metro area,” he says.

“They’re in Oldham and Shelby Counties — in Prospect, LaGrange and Anchorage.

You can also find them in the PeWee Valley and in the Hal Warheim Park in the Highlands.”

If you were to cross the river, you will find

Autry is always searching for new opportunities to bring his art to the public.

He says it would be placed in the area where the Louisville Falls Fountain used to be.

“It was a real influence of wonder for me when I passed by it as a child,” Autry says.

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If you’ve ever listened to the BBC, you’ve likely heard about Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority, fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh. What you may not realize is that they are not the only ethnic group fleeing persecution and civil war in Myanmar. The Karen (pronounced Kahrin) are another minority people that has primarily fled to Thailand, where many live in refugee camps. For Middletown resident Hannah Ensor, the plight of Karen refugees has become a personal mission.

In 2010, Hannah was living in California and decided to travel for a few months.

During her adventure, she wound up in Thailand and fell in love with the country.

She returned home and spent the next 10 months saving money and selling everything she owned so that she could purchase a one-way ticket back to Thailand.

When she returned to Thailand in 2011, she settled in Mae Sot, a city close to the Thai-Myanmar border, and began teaching English to children in a Karen refugee camp. While she had no prior teaching experience, the job required a bachelor’s degree and being a native English speaker. She had those two qualifications plus a desire to help.

Although Hannah was the “teacher,” her experience was mostly about being a student: learning about the civil war in Myanmar and why Karen people were fleeing their villages to settle in Thai camps.

For nearly four years, Hannah lived and worked with the Karen people in Thailand. During that time she contracted dengue fever, a mosquitoacquired virus endemic to Southeast Asia that results in high fever, severe headache and joint pain. There are four strains of the virus, so while Hannah became immune to the strain she acquired in 2012 when she came down with a different strain 18 months later, the doctor who treated her said she had to return home to the US. According to researchers, someone who is reinfected with dengue fever is likely to develop extreme symptoms.

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Hannah returned to Shelbyville, Kentucky where her parents live. She reconnected with her high school sweetheart, Chad Ensor, married him and gave birth to their son, Kash. During these years, Hannah remained in contact with friends and colleagues in Thailand.

“My heart never left,” she says.

Her love of Karen refugees inspired her to create her nonprofit, Baht Babies, in 2017. Hannah works as a real estate agent with Remax Properties and says, “Most everything I make, after I pay my expenses, goes into my nonprofit.”

Any money she puts into her 501(c)(3), as well as any tax-deductible contributions from others, is used to purchase school supplies, medical supplies and water filters for refugees.

In March 2018, after a five-year absence, Hannah returned to Southeast Asia where

she worked inside Myanmar at an internally displaced person (IDP) camp. She plans to return in October 2018 where she hopes to film a documentary to bring increased awareness to Karen refugees. She maintains a website and Facebook page for Baht Babies where she lists upcoming fundraiser events.

It is difficult to imagine what life is like in a refugee camp. Hannah says there are no permanent structures, only makeshift bamboo shelters with leaves for roofs.

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and charcoal subsidies from international relief agencies to survive. IDP camps are even less functional in part because their food subsidies have been cut off. Residents can’t safely return to their villages due to the military presence and landmines.

“Myanmar has the longest civil war in the world, and no one knows about it,” she says.

The primitive conditions make water filters a necessity to prevent cholera and other water-borne diseases. Hannah takes two

types of filters with her to give to refugees and their families. Katadyne filters cost $55 and are portable, which is useful for refugees who need to travel, while Sawyer filters are for more stationary purposes.

They cost $60 and have a bucket attached.

When Hannah visits the camps, she works with a translator and conducts workshops with refugees to teach them how to properly use the filters.

She is hoping to help build a school because the need for education is so dire.

Families in Myanmar are often uprooted quickly, without access to transcripts and other documentation. Even if children receive an education in a refugee camp, Hannah says the international community often does not recognize that diploma.

Hannah says her husband has supported her visits back to Southeast Asia, and she hopes to eventually take both him and their son with her. She wants to wait until Kash is older, though, so that he can both remember and appreciate the experience.

It is difficult for Hannah to put into words how the Karen refugees make her feel.

“I feel more at home in the middle of a refugee camp than I do in a dining room here,” she says. She knows the privileges she has but says “none of that matters unless you help others.”

The refugee work Hannah began in 2011 has taken her onto paths she never anticipated. She started her nonprofit organization with only her passion and a Nonprofit for Dummies” book.

“I just jumped without looking and figured it out,” she says. “I had tons of questions.”

She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in international relations with a focus on conflict resolution at American Public University, and she volunteers once a week at Hope Center Rising Ministry Center.

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Some mother-daughter pairs love to shop with each other. They seek out the latest styles and the best bargains as well as enjoy quality time with one another.

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Cheryl has been the proud owner of Secret Garden for nearly 23 years. Over the years, she has moved locations and added inventory, but her love of gardening and her desire to give customers unique gardening products has never wavered. She is now experiencing a new kind of joy that comes from seeing her daughter, Stephanie, find NOVEMBER 2018

success as the owner of Magnolia & Fig, a clothing boutique that shares 1,000 square feet of space with Secret Garden.

Stephanie has long had an eye for color, form and line, so it makes sense that clothing and jewelry would be her niche.

“When she was three years old, she was little Cyndi Lauper,” Cheryl says. “She’s always been extremely talented, even from an early

age, at putting things together. Sometimes she’d put on all her favorite things all at the same time.”

Although Stephanie has a bachelor of fine arts in painting, she always wanted to be in retail.

“I knew I wanted to have my own store, but I didn’t know it would be clothing,” Stephanie says.

The entrepreneurial gene dates back to her grandparents, and she gained experience from a young age when she would accompany her mom to Atlanta, Georgia, where they attended the AmericasMart, a market that features gift, merchandise and apparel items.

“I started her, when she was working for me, with doing some buying. She’s very good at picking good-looking things,” Cheryl says.

Selecting products is a time-consuming endeavor that takes a lot of research. Cheryl spends time with sales representatives as well as reading gardening, retailer, garden center and landscaping magazines.

“I’m constantly feeding myself with material so I can see the new things that people are going to be decorating with,” Cheryl says.

She is thankful for her mom’s guidance over the years, which has helped her learn the discipline that is necessary to order just enough and pay bills on time.

“I have told Stephanie how important it is to stay on top of trends and try to get items before her competition does,” Cheryl says. “I’ve told her to always be honest in her business, with her employees and her customers.”

One of the most important pieces of advice her mom has given her is about being an owner who models a strong work ethic.

“Mom’s really big about, ‘Don’t ask your employees to do it, if you’re not willing to do it,’” Stephanie says. “You can’t expect your staff to work hard if you don’t work hard.”

Stephanie differs in that most of her research is done online, although she does go to market twice a year. She also has to think beyond just what individual pieces she likes and thinks her customers will “I clean the bathroom just like the rest of like. She has to think of entire outfits and combinations that will work together to give ‘em do,” Cheryl adds. her clients a range of style options.

Being back in Middletown has been a Buying for Secret Garden is much different real treat for Cheryl. She has moved a couple times over the past two decades from buying for Magnolia & Fig. and learned valuable lessons from those experiences. The realtor adage “Location, “We run a business really similarly, but location, location” is especially true for retail clothing is so different from gardening establishments. One of the things she loves and home accessories,” Stephanie says. about being back in Middletown is the high “Clothing is so seasonal. If you don’t sell visibility of the space. a dress in three months, it’s pretty much worthless. It’s not like you can sell a Derby “I also love that it’s 5,000 square feet which dress this time of year. You have to move is perfect,” she says. “I love that a lot of my it out.”

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customers that I had in 2000 when I was in old Middletown are happy I’m here.”

High visibility has been a boon for Magnolia & Fig, too, and at the beginning of 2019, it will expand into the space next door to Secret Garden. The new space is 2,700 square feet, which more than doubles the boutique’s current size.

“I knew pretty soon after opening that when a space became available I was going to want to look at it,” Stephanie says. “It was always my intent to grow the store.”

She is excited to put in fitting rooms, change the flooring and paint and make it her own.

The 1,000 square feet that has housed Magnolia & Fig will once again be Cheryl’s domain, and she has exciting plans for it.

She will create a walking path with fountains and flowers in faux beds.

“You’ll feel like you’re walking through a garden,” she says. The middle of the space will be used for Fusion Mineral Paints classes and workshops.

Magnolia & Fig’s move next door is both exciting and a little nerve-wracking, which is why planning is essential, whether the risk is expanding or selecting items for the store.

Stephanie has learned to listen to her gut instinct and modulate entrepreneurial risks.

Sometimes she takes a chance on buying a unique piece of apparel, but she takes steps

to ensure that risk is well-managed.

“When the item gets here, you merchandise it, you have a staff that’s trained to sell it, and you help people know how to wear it,” Stephanie says. “That makes it a lot less scary if it’s a piece you took a risk on.

Having a plan ahead of time makes it not as big of a risk.”

Cheryl has passed on her love of retail to her daughter, and while they focus on different merchandise, they share a passion for what they sell and how much they value their customers. Stephanie loves Magnolia & Fig’s out of all the merchandise she carries. rayon bamboo basics.

“When you buy it and pick it all out, it’s like “Our leggings are the best on the planet,” she they’re all your babies,” Stephanie says. says. “They are my number one selling item.”

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Bernson, it seemed, had found his calling.

But Bernson has long moved on, finding myriad other pies in which to place his fingers and keep him busy.

“It’s what I was put on earth to do,” he says.

For a man who seems to know exactly his purpose on this world, Bernson certainly didn’t come molded that way. The New Jersey native dropped out of college after half-heartedly pursuing a law degree at the University Of Iowa before returning home to live with his parents. His father, however, issued an ultimatum: join the Army or get a job.

He worked his way from a general assignment reporter to doing features in “sort of on-the-road, Charles Kuralt, human interest” segments. Storytelling was the aspect Bernson most enjoyed about his career and a defining feature of his that he never relinquished, even after becoming a a full-fledged WHAS anchor in 1992.

“I still like reporting better than anchoring,” he admits. “I’m most proud of that.”

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And while he admits that he never “aspired” to be a T.V. anchor, Bernson, coupled with his journalistic drive, found himself in the right place at the right time to become just that.

“I had made my career doing feature stories, and I really only got into anchoring back in the 90s,” he says. “My news director at that time said they were thinking of upgrading the morning news. He rightly saw that people were not staying up late to watch the 11 o’clock news, that people were getting up earlier. He said ‘I think you can be a morning anchor.’ And I said: ‘what?’ I had never even considered anchoring. I liked being out and telling stories. But I tried it and did it for more than 20 years.”

In 2003, Bernson became disenamored with WHAS and left for WDRB where he worked for eight years until he was unceremoniously asked to leave for reasons tantamount to ageism. The repercussions of that, he says, still haunt him.

“I was very happy doing morning news and features but around 2011 they came to me and said, ‘we don’t want you anymore.’”

Bernson laughs, something he can do now, looking back and shrugs in a ‘past-is-thepast’ kind of way. “It happens. That’s the thing about being on the air. You’re only as good as your last ratings. That’s why we call it the dangerous side of the camera because there’s nothing you can do about getting older, right? And they wanted someone younger. Of course, they can’t tell you that, can’t say it out loud. It was kind of hurtful.

Most of my dreams are still about losing my job and having to clean out my desk. To this day. And I’ve been gone from that job for seven or eight years.”

But if you learn anything about Bernson during a conversation with him, it is that setbacks are not setbacks at all but instead new avenues of life in which to explore.

There’s much more to the man than a history as a news anchor and television personality. He brandishes a storied resume

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“I signed up with an agent here in town and get called in to audition every now and then,” he says. “For this one audition [Killing Of A Sacred Deer] they called me

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back and they decided to give me a bigger part in that same movie which is not the part I read for. And so, I was in the movie.

That was a totally different experience.

When you’re on television there’s some theater involved, you have to play a role if you will, so it’s not terribly different than being in a movie. But memorizing lines and following a director is totally different. But it was fun. And it was challenging. Way out of my comfort zone. But, hey, you know, I was in a movie with Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell.”

Perhaps a lesser known fact about Bernson is his time with the American Printing House For The Blind as an audiobook narrator. He began reading there in 1971 and has been there ever since, minus a stint when he worked in Chicago during the late 70s and early 80s.

“I find that I need projects, things to keep me interested,” Bernson says. “Which is why I still read audiobooks. I think I’m up to more than 700 books read now. That’s a lot of books. I enjoy it. When you do a novel you can kind of be an actor. You have to get the character’s voices in your head. Non-fiction you can pretty much just do it as you go. But a novel you want to be able to differentiate the characters. You have to remember who’s talking where and what they sound like. It’s a challenge and it’s the kind of thing I like to do. I never thought I’d be doing it for a living but I also never thought I’d be doing news for a living either.”

It becomes apparent when talking to Bernson that he has zero desire to drop gears anytime soon. He’s always planning ahead, looking for the next gig. But he admits that he enjoys the simple pleasures in life as much as the fast-paced.

“I like to mow the grass,” he says. “I like to watch the sun go down. I like to listen to music and watch movies.”

He also enjoys spending time with his wife, Andrea, a piano teacher, and has two daughters, a step-daughter and three grandchildren in which to occupy any other spare time he might find. Which, considering Bernson’s work ethic, is probably hard to come by.

For a man who has spent a large portion of his life and career in front of the camera, Bernson prefers his anonymity to celebrityhood. Being recognizable only interferes with the storytelling, he says. Much better to remember the stories and not the storyteller himself, he says.

“Even though I was in the public eye for years and years I was happiest when I wasn’t,” Bernson says. “Some people say, ‘I want to be on television.’

That’s all they think about. All I wanted to do was tell stories and stay out of the way of the story. I don’t want people to remember me. I think that’s more successful in the long run. You have to be the vessel that contains the drink, you don’t have to be the drink.”

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are all interrelated by family ties. The Funk family, to be precise.

Anyone who regularly travels around Jeffersontown knows to be prepared for a bit of a delay at the intersection of Hurstbourne Lane and Taylorsville Road. Next time you are patiently awaiting your turn at one of those extremely busy stoplights, take a look around you — you are sitting in the middle of one of the earliest pieces of Jeffersontown’s history. Each corner of that intersection has a story to tell, yet they

It all began in 1792 when Jacob Funk received a deed of conveyance to 150 acres of land on the headwaters of the South Fork of Beargrass Creek, which was part of the Lynn Station tract originally owned by Peyton Short. Jacob Funk, his son and grandchildren had moved to Kentucky from Maryland around 1790, journeying down the Ohio River in a raft, then making the trek from Harrodsburg

to Lynn’s Station on foot. In 1794, upon the death of Jacob, the property passed into the hands of his only surviving son, John. It would appear that Jacob and John operated Lynn’s Station not only as a farm but as a wayfaring post for travelers to rest themselves and their horses when bringing pelts, whiskey, hemp, tobacco and other products to the Ohio River for transport to more distant locations.

John married a woman named Margaret (Peggy), and they had 10 children.

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A stone springhouse stands near the northeast corner of Hurstbourne Lane and Taylorsville Road — local legends relate that it was used as an early family dwelling for the Funks, or that it served as a schoolhouse. Conflicting accounts indicate that the large two-story Georgian house facing Taylorsville Road on that same corner was constructed either around 1795

by John and his son Peter Funk, or that in 1814, Peter himself built the lovely timber and brick home, a year after he married Harriet Hite, the daughter of Colonel Abraham Hite. Regardless, when Peter inherited the 150-acre tract on Beargrass Creek, he named the house “Avon.”

Peter Funk was an industrious man — he was a farmer, surveyor, horticulturalist and he (along with his brothers) owned an architecture and construction business known as Peter Funk & Co., which was later sold. He served as a Captain in the War of 1812 and was a Major of Horses at the battle of Tippecanoe. It is said that in 1825, he had

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Somewhere around 1860-1865, Peter and Harriet constructed a house on the southeast corner of what is now Taylorsville Road and Hurstbourne Lane for their son James Henry Funk, upon his marriage to Mary Yenowine. This onestory, hipped-roof house was purchased by the Bickel family about 1930, and they dubbed the property “Stony Brook.” The Bickels farmed the property until 1986 when it was sold for development and to create a portion of Hurstbourne Lane.

When the Stony Brook shopping center was under construction, it was decided to preserve the house by moving it to the southwest corner of Hurstbourne Lane and Taylorsville Road. Later additions made to the home were removed, and only the original structure now remains near the intersection, along with the circular ice house from the property.

In 1862, Peter and Harriet deeded 100 acres of land to their daughter, Harriet (Hallie) Funk, who had married Alfred Hise in 1854. Their gorgeous, one-story, hippedroof house, which sits a little beyond the northwest corner of Hurstbourne Lane and Taylorsville Road, is known by the appellation “Nunnlea,” although originally, it was called “Willowbrook.”

It is rare in Jefferson County to find so prominent a grouping of family residences so close together, and although the sprawl of progress has changed the outward appearance of most of the homes and eliminated many of the outbuildings that once dotted the vast acreage, it is still a piece of history that residents are fortunate to be able to view.

So, the next time you are bored out of your mind, stuck in traffic at the intersection of Hurstbourne Lane and Taylorsville Road, take a look around you and imagine the once peaceful farmland that was shared by the members of the Funk family who wanted to live within sight of one another and who undoubtedly were able to walk back and forth across that intersection without ever having to stop even a moment for a vehicle.

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