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The Eastwood Village Farmer’s Market celebrated its Grand Opening on May 12 at the Eastwood Recreation Center and by all accounts, it was an overwhelming success. The weather was beautiful and the turnout was impressive. Mike Kieper, owner of Kieper Farms, was ecstatic. “Wow, what a great turn out for the first day,” he said. “Just imagine when these people start telling others that we’re here, this could be huge. I’m definitely bringing more product next time.” Mike says he has been raising hogs pretty much his whole life and has chosen farmers’ markets as his main marketing tool.

“I just enjoy the whole market experience,” he says. “Especially talking with folks, it’s just a lot of fun for me.” The market had a nice variety of offerings, such as the artisan breads sold by Lisa Overton of Little Creek Farms. “We just started our farm in 2016,” Lisa says. “We grow vegetables and herbs and then I use them as ingredients in my sourdough breads and baguettes. It all started as a hobby about eight years ago and I’d give it all away as gifts. After so much chastising from my friends and family, who kept saying you have to stop just giving it away, I decided to start selling it and here I am. I’m very optimistic about this market, it’s going to grow and grow.” John Weibel is a semi-retired union ironworker who got into the egg business as atMiddletown.com / JULY 2018 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / 7

a hobby years ago. “My wife, Susan and I started Bramble and Birds together,” he says. “We raise free range chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese and they’re all fed non-GMO feed. We are very proud of our product.” The Weibels obviously offer several choices of types of eggs or you can mix and match a carton to get a variety. “We also offer Heritage Breed Turkeys,” John says. “Some prominent chefs, farmers and food critics contend that heritage turkey meat tastes better and is healthier.” One of the best surprises customers found was that they could get breakfast while shopping for their farm products. Chef Brian Schack, owner of The Block Gourmet Deli, was there serving up made to order omelets.

Brian, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, has been a chef for more than 30 years, mainly serving in the casino industry from Nevada to New Mexico, Mississippi and Indiana. Brian and his wife Kelly opened The Block in February of 2016 at 14041 Shelbyville Rd. “We are very excited to participate in the Eastwood Village Farmers’ Market,” Brian says. “Last year we bought produce from some of the vendors, which worked out fantastic for us, especially since we’re so picky about the quality of the products we bring into the deli. So now to come back this year as one of the vendors is very cool. We’re starting out offering fresh omelets, and we’ll be changing up the menu a little as the farmers start bringing in different produce as the season progresses.”

to be a part of the Grand Opening,” she says. meet with people. “Everyone has been so nice and helpful. The extra help we got in setting up from the “I am so glad I got to be here and share young people was especially appreciated.” the great success story of the Job Corps,” Sitting under the dining canopy to enjoy a she says. “We are pleased that three of our great omelet gave customers another nice The young people Saundra referenced were young men were able to volunteer their time surprise that you don’t find at most markets, three young men from the Whitney Young for such a good cause. We are proud of all of the beautiful sound of music. Entertainment Job Corps Center in Simpsonville. All of our students who are trained in numerous was brought by The Merrie Melodious them are in the Culinary Arts program there disciplines at the Center.” Dulcimers, an all-volunteer group of 24 and are volunteering their time to help members from primarily Shelby and Henry the market. Ricky, one of the young men Ms. Sweeney encourages anyone who counties who regularly get together to helping out, was introduced weeks before would like to learn more about the practice and also give free lessons at the to The Block Gourmet Deli and is now an Whitney Young Job Corps Center to Simpsonville United Methodist Church. employee of theirs. contact her at 502-722-3527. Saundra Smith says group performs about twice a week at senior centers and nursing homes. “We are a little tired but are so glad we got

“Ricky has been a great addition to the deli and we are grateful we got the opportunity to meet him,” Kelly Schack says. Janette Sweeney, the Business Community Liaison from Whitney Young, was also present to

The Eastwood Village Council, a group of volunteers that advocate for all things Eastwood and surrounding areas, had never sponsored a full-fledged farmers’ market before and wanted to be sure they did it by the book. David Bryant of Bryant’s Produce Market and one of the participating vendors suggested the Council contact Sharon Spencer with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture for help. Ms. Spencer gladly agreed to lead a one-day orientation covering all the basics of starting a farmers’ market. A core group of farmers and some Council members attended and came away energized and excited to get started. After two more organizational meetings, The Eastwood Village Farmers’ Market was launched. The market is registered with KDA and has the distinction of being a Kentucky Proud Market. “Sharon has been an invaluable resource for

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us and really helped cut our learning curve. She has always been just an email or phone call away,” says Council Chair Dennis Benzel. “And with the help of a generous donation from our corporate sponsor, Crossroads IGA, we were able to get some excellent promotion and signage. We are greatly indebted to IGA and the KDA for our great start.” Ms. Spencer was in attendance at the Grand Opening and says, “I’ve been involved with the Council from the beginning in organizing this new market and I am so pleased to be able to witness this Grand Opening. As I’ve talked with the vendors they’re telling me they may have underestimated the demand in the area. They’re selling out of a lot of their products and realize they’re going to have to double up for next week. But that’s a great sign of the potential for a great market in this community when you sell out the first day.” “The vendors seem really excited to be in this community and are really feeling

appreciated by all that came out,” adds Nancy G. Monroe, Ag Program Coordinator of KDA. Yorke and Barbara Hanna are new to the Eastwood area and came to support the new market. “We appreciate the hard work of the Council in organizing this market. We’re both originally from the country and we really like the atmosphere of Eastwood,” shares Mr. Hanna. Mrs. Hanna. “It’s nice to meet new people and have a sense of the larger community rather than what’s just on your little block. I really enjoy that part of it and just having a great thing to enjoy with your friends and family as well. We’ll definitely be back.” The market is located at the Eastwood Rec Center, 16300 Eastwood Cut Off Rd. 40245. It is open every Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and will run through October 27. On October 26, the night

before the market’s final day, the Council will sponsor a Farm to Fork event, which will be their main fundraiser for the year. To learn more about this event or how to become a vendor at the market contact Dennis Benzel at dennisbenzel@gmail.com. You can also learn more about the Council at eastwoodvillagecouncil.com. A special thanks to our generous corporate sponsor, Crossroads IGA.

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“Triangle Talent is one of the original businesses in Jeffersontown,” Snowden says. It takes a lot to put a state fair like the “It started in June of 1960 in Jeffersontown Kentucky State Fair together. The midway and has been in Jeffersontown ever since. and exhibits need to be set-up, stages must We are the country’s largest producer be erected and so on. And of course, you of major state fairs, and we also book need the entertainment to keep guests at the local entertainers to wedding receptions, fair happy. company events and so forth and so on. We do fairs from all the way in Seattle, Think it takes a talent agency in New York, Washington to Tampa, Florida, and we do Chicago or Los Angeles to bring the noise about $30M worth of entertainment a year.” and excitement to the grand stage? Not necessarily. Tucked away near Jeffersontown Before heading up Triangle Talent, City Hall is one of the oldest businesses in Snowden got involved with the Jeffersontown, Triangle Talent. For nearly Jeffersontown Chamber of Commerce and six decades, the talent agency has brought was a city councilman for six years. Away the big names to fairs around the nation, as from the agency, he’s active in many civic well as local talent to weddings, corporate organizations around Kentucky and within events and even marathons. Louisville, such as serving as the chairman of the board of Kentucky Employers Mutual Triangle Talent CEO David Snowden talked Insurance for more than 20 years, where about the agency, and some of the things he helped lead the effort to fix worker’s he’s seen and experienced since moving to compensation in Kentucky. Jeffersontown from Winchester, Kentucky 47 years ago. He says he’s proud of where the city has Writer / Cameron Aubernon

come, and has a “very strong love” for what the city is for the entirety of Jefferson County. “I’ve seen Jeffersontown grow from being a small, little country town, to — I think now — the 10th largest city in the state of Kentucky,” he says. “It’s something people don’t really understand. We probably have one of the most decorated police departments in the state and possess a low crime rate. I was very proud to serve in the city council for six years. I think we did a lot in that time on proper annexation, upgrading the police department, web system and everything else. I really love what the city has and what the city does. I can’t say enough good things.” His career in entertainment began back in Winchester, where he worked in radio before being hired by Triangle Talent to run the entire agency. He was also on the board of the Country Music Association for two terms. Snowden has worked with everyone

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from Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash, to Journey and Nickelback. Since then, his portfolio includes the fairs in Seattle (Washington State Fair) and Tampa (Florida State Fair) — as well as the Kentucky State Fair, Bluegrass Festival and Kentucky Derby Festival — plus corporate affairs for Toyota, Texas Roadhouse and Papa John’s and international gatherings in Germany and Canada. “We’re probably the oldest continually running entertainment agency in the country,” Snowden says. “One of 10 of the oldest, going back to 1960. It was founded by two people in Louisville: Hardy Martin and Ray Allen. Then I came in and started running it and subsequently purchased the business. We’re probably better known in Los Angeles, California and Nashville, Tennessee in the entertainment business than in Louisville.” A part of the reason why Triangle Talent isn’t as well-known in the Louisville Metro area is, as Snowden explains, the company is “low-key” for an entertainment agency. He also says he’s proud of being “a part of the heartbeat of Jeffersontown,” citing the agency’s proximity to city hall. While he’s seen his share of crazy stories over the years of booking and purchasing entertainment, Snowden prefers to focus more on the things he’s proud of since taking the helm of Triangle Talent. atMiddletown.com / JULY 2018 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / 11

“I think one of the things I’m most proud of is the fact that some of these clients that we have, some of these state fair clients, we’ve been working with for almost 40 years,” he says. “It is pretty amazing. Managers change, governors change, owners change, boards change, but we have been able to sustain and stay a part of these organizations.” Snowden doesn’t travel as much as he once did, focusing his attention on the handful of fairs he handles while leaving the rest to his capable staff. And as one fair happens before him, he’s already working on next year’s fair. What of the future, though? “I think Triangle Talent will grow,” Snowden says. “I am in the process of [laying out a plan where] Triangle will continue. I have worked out an arrangement with Clay Campbell, who is president of the company. He will continue to run it and will subsequently purchase the company from me, because I do want it to continue as a legacy-type thing.” Triangle Talent may be a small business, but Snowden says it will continue to thrive if it embraces “fresh and new” talent, especially within the office. According to Snowden, a lot of his staff have been with him for nearly four decades. Not too long ago, however, the agency hired a 25-year-old and a 22-yearold to bring new energy to the business. “We don’t want to get old, because we’re in a young, diversified business,” Snowden says. “We’re very quick to realize that. That’s why we will continue as a business, and we will continue to expand, because we’re picking up new business all the time. I’m very glad to have these young folks that look at things a little differently. They challenge us, and the reputation [of our agency] continues to be good.” With the new additions, Triangle Talent will continue to be a major force in the entertainment industry as far as fair and festivals go. 12 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / JULY 2018 / atMiddletown.com

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Since 2013 Dale Josey, Executive Director for the Blackacre State Nature Preserve, has run his command from a mostly austere, yet remarkably cozy office alcove attached to the original one-room house of the family that lived on the land in the mid-18th century. A multitude of windows supply him with a view of the surrounding land, a constant vista of the beautiful preserve he’s responsible for overseeing. Several framed magazine interviews and articles about the man hang from the walls, a testament to his success and accomplishments. It’s clear that being the executive director at Blackacre is a large feather in Josey’s cap, but it’s certainly far from his only one. Josey was born in North Carolina but grew up in Schenectady, New York, a place, Josey says, that shares topographical similarities with Kentucky, known for its dairy industry

and a tremendous amount of snow. From there, he went on to the University of Michigan to study law. “That was a great experience,” Josey says. “The thing I discovered when I was there was that they were teaching the ‘essence’ of law. They were teaching you how to be proficient as an advocate. But they weren’t teaching you at that time how to market your practice. So, rather than getting a degree and practicing law, I went a different way. The idea, by divine inspiration, I submit, came to me: how do you market a lawyer? Nobody was teaching that, no one knew how to do that. So that, eventually, launched me on a 15-year career.” Although there were dues to pay first. Not long after college, he found himself with a wife and young daughter and in need of a job. “I had a family to feed,” he says. “So I go into this retail store one day and find the JULY 2018

manager and ask him for a job. I started my spiel: University of Michigan graduate, top of my class, I can do this, I can do that. He says, ‘come here, I want to show you something. You see these windows over here? What you need to do is get a bucket and a squeegee and then you just wipe it clean.’ I said, ok, maybe you didn’t hear me. I’m coming out of one of the premier universities of the world. Gerald Ford, the president of the United States, was one my lecturers and I actually engaged with him in one of my classes. ‘Ok,’ he says and he looks at me. ‘So you take this squeegee, you take this sponge…’ He didn’t care!’” Fortunately, not long after Josey’s adventures in window cleaning began he realized he needed to do some good oldfashioned soul-searching. “I was mad at myself, mad at the world. I had to get it together,” he says. He asked himself what he wanted to do, where he

wanted to go. Television was the answer and he soon found himself outside a Lexington KET station, clueless as to his next step but brave enough to take the leap anyway.

nebulous promise, to join Tandy’s mayoral campaign team. And even though Tandy lost to Greg Fischer, Josey has zero regrets about sticking to his word. “It was the best, most intense 18 months of my life,” he says.

“I walked into the studio and I said to the guy, ‘hey, I want to work here,’” he recalls. “I couldn’t lie though. I had no experience.”

“But in politics, you come in second, you’re unemployed,” Josey says of this first-hand, hard-earned knowledge. “On Monday, before election night, people

Via a merciless tenacity, Josey secured an opportunity to demonstrate his skills with a studio camera, ultimately saved by the proverbial bell when the interviewer was called away. “I had a minute and a half with that camera, and I prayed to God to show me how to use this thing.” He laughs, warmly reliving the skin of his teeth gamble. “I looked at the buttons and figured it can’t be too hard. I got this.” The quick-thinking Josey passed the station manager’s interview, landed the gig, and started that very night. His foot was now firmly in the door, exactly where he’d planned for it to be. After eight years at KET, Josey migrated jobs once again, this time utilizing his marketing skills at a Louisville law firm. It was there that he met and befriended, David Tandy, a 4th District Metro Councilman and man who would set Josey on his path Blackacre. “Have you ever had any buddies in your life that say things like: ‘one day we’re gonna scale the Great Wall of China, do you wanna do it?’” Joey says, grinning. “You say sure because it’s never gonna happen. Sure, because it’s your buddy. So, two, three years later [after meeting Tandy], there’s a knock on my door and it’s David. He says: ‘Dale, today’s the day.’ For what, I asked him. He said: ‘I’m going to run for mayor and you said you’d be with me three years ago.’ And I’m thinking, ‘yeah, I said that but are you really going to do it?’” After talking to his wife and praying about it, Josey did indeed decide to follow through on his earlier, if somewhat

were saying ‘Dale, you’re a great guy, I’d love to have you come work for me if this doesn’t work out. I want a guy like you.’ And, I believed them. But we lost. So on Wednesday, I called. It was like crickets. No one was talking to me. I was pushed back and absolutely about to fall, but it’s that fundamental belief in your god, in your destiny, belief in yourself. You push back and apply yourself. You don’t give up.

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Taking the scenic route can be the most exhilarating, rewarding way to arrive at a destination. For Kevin Grangier, founder and CEO of Belle Noble Entertainment Group, the scenic route led him to a wildly successful entrepreneurship in Louisville. Grangier graduated from Western Kentucky University with a degree in public relations and journalism and an associates degree in health administration. After working locally in healthcare for years, he began his agency, Carry On Communication, Inc., in Los Angeles, California. He ran it for 12 years before selling it and returning to Louisville.

offices in Chicago, Washington D.C. and New York City within 12 years. Next, he sold the agency and returned to Louisville to relax for a while. His “break” in Louisville didn’t last long, either. He quickly opened his first restaurant, The Village Anchor, in the Anchorage community. With its wild success, Grangier opened multiple restaurants: Le Moo, on Lexington Rd., PICNIC, in Anchorage and Grassa Gramma, coming soon to Holiday Manor.

“It started when friends were visiting me from out of town,” Grangier says. “I picked them up at the airport, and we were looking for a place to have a drink near my house in Anchorage. We wound up at the Applebee’s bar. That’s when I thought, ‘This is kind of “I was on a corporate path,” Grangier says. “Being an crazy that there’s not a privately owned restaurant on the east end.’ entrepreneur was never my intention. I decided I wanted to take a That’s how The Village Anchor started.” break. I’d worked my tail off in the corporate world, and I moved to LA to enjoy it a while. That lasted about a month before I Grangier says people often question how he was able to build a began my agency.” restaurant having no prior restaurant experience. To that, he says that he applied the same principles as he would in the agency world: it’s a People began calling Grangier to do freelance work in consumer product. communications, public relations and branding. “It’s no different than toilet paper, mascara or gasoline,” Grangier says. “The minute I took the first client, it led to the agency,” Grangier “We have a product. We have to get the marketing message out and says. “It wasn’t at all part of my plan”. get clients in. The only difference is: first, the dining experience offers many more touchpoints than other products. With most consumer His agency was largely healthcare-focused, beginning as public products, you use the product many times before you really form an relations, then marketing and then brand development. He opened opinion of the product. With food, you have a total of two hours to JULY 2018

execute 200 touchpoints. The client very quickly forms an opinion to define how that experience was. So it’s the same, but you have to execute the product and define the experience so quickly with great margin for error if you don’t do it right.” Grangier says that’s where his expertise came in. Most restaurateurs don’t have that, and it’s what made The Village Anchor successful, upfront. “I knew how to get the customer to buy into the product, whether I knew anything about food or not,” Grangier says. “I approached the concept from a different perspective. We are an experience-driven restaurant, and I say that all the time. It’s the differentiator that defines a customer’s experience.” Grangier hasn’t encountered many places in Louisville where you have colorful experiences. Most restaurants in Louisville offer great food and great service, he says, but you’re sure to get that, along with a colorful experience, in his restaurants. According to Grangier, Louisville has been the perfect home for his restaurant concepts. “I think my concepts could be successful anywhere because they are very unique, but they’re very unique to Louisville, and this is where I live,” Grangier says. “I get to focus on these things where I live. Working where you call home is special. Not having to be on the road or on an airplane has been a fantastic change in my life.” Grangier is often asked to open restaurants in other cities. He has a “been there, done that” kind of attitude about the idea. “I like opening restaurants in this city, Louisville,” Grangier says. “When the company can withstand that in other cities without me having to be there, then we may do that.”

different places. For example, The Village Anchor is frequently compared to restaurants in Europe. “That’s exactly what I designed it to be,” Grangier says. “Le Moo is also supposed to be very European, and it is also compared to areas there. It is very reminiscent of old European styles. They’re unique experiences that are supposed to take you somewhere else. People say, ‘We love your restaurants because they make us feel like we’re on vacation.’ I think they give you an opportunity to show a special nuance of the city.” Grangier loves that the community has embraced his restaurants. He loves that the message they get from his restaurants is the exact message he says he wanted to send from day one. “The community has given 100 percent pure validation that they’re open to new experiences and to trying things that perhaps are non-traditional,” Grangier says. “They are open to new types of people, cultures and cuisines. They validate that because year after year, my restaurants grow in sales. The community is open to opportunities brought to them that really are different, and I like that. There are a lot of cities you could open restaurants in where that validation is not there.” At the end of the day, creating is what Grangier enjoys most in his work. He admits he has fantastic people who run his restaurants. They take his vision and run with it. He relies on their expertise to execute his vision, which allows him to create. “Ultimately, follow your heart, but know that it doesn’t come easy,” Grangier says. “It’s not free. Don’t rely on the experiences of others to make yours better. Don’t make stupid decisions, use common

Grangier says he’s been a multi-tasker ever since grade school. He doesn’t see juggling multiple opportunities as difficult, because it’s what he’s done his entire life. “It’s just what I know,” Grangier says. “If I only have one thing going on, I have to start on other things, or else I’d jump off a bridge. I’m a creative person and need to be creating. It was paper planes and art in grade school, and now I’m on to bigger things.” Grangier’s projects have progressively improved upon themselves, he says. Grassa Gramma, his latest venture, opening soon in Holiday Manor, is going to define how he wants the experience to be from top to bottom. “It’s the first one I’ve built from the ground up,” Grangier says. “Built-in experiences are inherent from top to bottom. I get to define it from the time we pour the concrete. For example, the concrete is on four different levels, meant to look like a piazza with a cobblestone piazza and 20-foot bronze fountain in it.” People often tell Grangier that his restaurants transport them to JULY 2018

sense and don’t follow ideas to the point where they’re dumb.” If there’s advice Grangier would offer other future entrepreneurs, it revolves around knowing your audience. “I find myself talking to people who aren’t necessarily interested in restaurants but are interested in starting businesses,” Grangier says. “I think it’s really important to know your environment, audience, limits, expectations and build your product around that. Define your product based on those things. Don’t take a product and throw it in somewhere saying, ‘how do we make this work?’ Where there’s a hole, there’s opportunity. Where there’s not a hole, there’s a struggle. Focus on and build around that.” Like the present, the future is busy for Grangier. “I’ve always said I want to own seven restaurants in the city,” Grangier says. “I’m completing number four now, so there you go. I have a sushi concept I want to do. I have a southern experience I want to do. I have a burger concept that I want to execute, and I have a really fine dining concept that I want to do.” The scenic route through Grangier’s career led him back to Louisville. His customers can be thrilled about what that means for the future of Louisville’s dining scene.

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“I want to focus on what we have been doing,” she says. “I think we’ve done a good job loving on our community and really being selfless and showing that anybody can join in on it and they can hide, if that was all they wanted to do, but there is so much opportunity to bring a true smile and joy to people who may really need it.” Random kindness can mean a great deal to someone who needs it and Wray knows this firsthand. It’s another reason she felt the need to create 502Rocks! As someone who struggled with postpartum depression, Wray understands how hard people in similar situations look for help wherever they can get it. “I’m kind of creative by nature and one of the suggestions to me was to find something

creative to do,” Wray says. “I painted rocks about that [the postpartum depression] and put it out there so that someone could find me and talk to me about it if they needed to. I needed all the lifelines and voices I could get in that time so if I could be that for someone else, my job is done. That was really helpful for me. To paint and get my mind on something positive and productive. Thankfully, I don’t struggle with that anymore and that was something I really did get out of it.” These painted rocks can and have been found by anyone, but Wray and her group tend to focus on areas where a little ray of hope can spread a bit more light. “We focus on cancer patients,” she says. “We paint uplifting, positive things. Like ‘hope’ and ‘unwavering’ and ‘courage.’ We focus on rehab clinics and addiction centers too, places where we can have the most impact.” Perhaps the most attractive aspect of 502Rocks! and similar groups is that anyone anywhere can do it. All it takes is a little paint, some rocks and the desire to “put something good out in the world,” as Wray puts it.

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Louisville, it turns out, is a great place to teach such a course. We have one of only four complete original systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.—Cherokee, Iroquois, Shawnee and connecting parkways — illustrating the mature artistry and urban vision of the founder of landscape architecture. We also have Waterfront Park, where George Hargreaves made his reputation, which is widely regarded as one of the early, successful uses of a large park to revive the urban core, and finally, The Parklands of Floyds Fork, the largest new, fully-funded metropolitan parks project in the nation. The class centers on the close relationship between great cities and their parks, beginning with the concept of parks as “city-shaping infrastructure.” One of Olmsted’s great insights was that park planning — often the gift of European noblesse oblige in the Old

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World — should be made intentional and that any modern city would not be livable without high-quality, maintained public parks accessible to all. Beginning with Central Park, but soon expanding all over the U.S. (similar movements were occurring in places like Paris with Baron Haussmann’s overhaul of the Parisian urban core), Olmsted created a movement, and New York and Louisville, along with many other cities, were its beneficiaries. The remarkable thing about Central and Prospect Parks, which formed the core of our trip, is that, like Louisville’s Olmsted Parks, they were designed ahead of the growth of the city, giving the designers the room, and freedom, to design large parks with many amenities. When Central Park was laid out, it was far north of the densely settled edge of Manhattan, yet they had the temerity to name it “central” park. When Olmsted came to Louisville in the early 1890s, his parks were laid out far beyond the edge of the city. Today, The Parklands offers this same opportunity for Louisville to shape both the geography of our urban edge in new ways around green infrastructure and also to shape our community’s future around health, education, environmental sustainability and quality of life, while accommodating the future growth of our city. In New York, we also looked at parks that were intended to shape already developed parts of the city. The modernist jewel of Paley

Park, located on 53rd Street between Madison and 5th Avenue, is often described as one of the “finest urban spaces in the U.S.,” despite being only 4,200 square feet in area. Designed as a quiet space in the madness of midtown, my students were amazed, as I’ve been ever since I first went there as a child, at the power of such a small space. The High Line and Brooklyn Bridge parks both take old industrial ruins — one an elevated train line to the old Meatpacking District in Manhattan, the other the remnant docks of Brooklyn’s waterfront — and create great architectural spaces that have revolutionized the neglected and disused neighborhoods around them, both of which are now flourishing again. The message of the class is that the benefits of urban parks are widespread, and often impact far beyond their borders. We like to talk about the “6 pillars” of a great urban park system: community,

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recreation, environment, quality of life and economic development, health and education. All of the parks we saw in both Louisville and New York brought home the power of parks to shape neighborhoods and cities. In New York in particular, with its intense energy and hustle, my students were stunned by the variety of parks and their ability to provide peace and relief within their borders. The last message of the course is that the 21st Century will be an urban century, and places like the favelas of Brazil, or the slums of Mumbai, are historically analogous to the tenements of the Lower East Side in Manhattan when Olmsted was designing his great parks. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel of urban planning to know that Olmsted’s lessons still apply: those emerging cities that build great park systems will be livable and prosperous. Those that don’t will regret it and will undertake the difficult and expensive work of retrofitting parks. The lessons we’ve learned in the design and building of The Parklands are lessons I hope to share, through classes like my honors seminar, through our consulting business and through partnerships with new projects around the country and around the globe. The author would like to thank the UL Honors Program for their wonderful students and the opportunity to travel to NYC.

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Music Go Round has been buying and selling instruments in Louisville for 21 years, including the last eight years at their location off Hurstbourne Parkway. Owner Doug Carlson didn’t have any professional experience in the music business before starting the Louisville franchise, but music was always his passion. “I used to manage steel plants up in Pennsylvania,” Carlson says. “We made wire, some of which is used for musical instruments like pianos, guitars, mandolins and banjos.”

Carlson wound up in Shelbyville, Kentucky, 24 years ago to manage a small wire plant and had the opportunity to make a career change after his position was downsized.

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Doug’s son Phil is also a part owner in the business. Phil operates the store on a day-today basis, manages employees and oversees all inventory. Rather than leasing the space, Doug bought the building that houses Music Go Round when the business moved in and leases it to Phil.

Instead, finding himself in Kentucky and without a job, Carlson jumped on the chance to buy a Music Go Round franchise.

Music Go Round has 35 locations across 18 states, and the Jeffersontown store is the only location in Kentucky. The friendly and

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HENRY WATTERSON AN EAST END LEGEND Writer / Beth Wilder, Jeffersontown Historical Museum Director

effersontown has had several noteworthy residents throughout its history, but none quite so renowned as Henry Watterson, the famed editor of the Courier-Journal newspaper. Watterson (Feb. 16, 1840 - Dec. 22, 1921) was a legend in his own time, rubbing elbows with society’s elite and making a name for himself by writing colorful and controversial editorials that appeared in newspapers across the country. Watterson also served as a Democratic representative in Congress from 1876-77 and became widely known as a lecturer and orator. Watterson’s Jeffersontown connection existed the last 27 years of his life. In 1894, he purchased land on the outskirts of town that was owned by Joseph Hite, a descendant of one of Jeffersontown’s pioneer families, and proceeded to transform the house and property into a grand estate. Watterson left the original 4-room log house on the property intact, but proceeded to add to it until he had created a magnificent, 28-room mansion he named “Mansfield” after his wife’s childhood home in Nashville, Tennessee. During his years at Mansfield, Watterson was visited frequently by former presidents, congressmen, statesmen, writers, actors and musicians, including one of his very best friends, vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, father of the “Seven Little Foys.” Watterson had been in the newspaper business since he was a young man, and he became known for his fiercely independent nature and caustic political writings. During the Civil War, although he served as a Confederate due to his strong belief in states’ rights and loyalty to his home, he was not a proponent of succession or slavery. He had no problem criticizing General Braxton Bragg in his articles, and the general wanted to have him arrested for treason. Still, his views during the Civil War made him a well-known figure, and he became editor of the Nashville Banner atMiddletown.com / JULY 2018 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / 41

when the war ended, bringing the paper back to respectability after being virtually closed down for four years. Not long after that, George D. Prentice, owner of the Louisville Journal, approached Watterson and offered him half ownership and a job as chief editor, in the hopes of reviving the paper’s waning popularity. Walter Halderman, owner of the Louisville Courier, also offered Watterson an editor’s job and some stock – but no ownership in the paper – so Watterson accepted Prentice’s offer instead. He did, however, suggest merging the two papers, but Halderman declined the proposal. Watterson quickly brought back the Louisville Journal to its former prominence, and his editorials were a source of great interest throughout the country. Watterson again proposed a merger with Halderman, who this time accepted, and on November 8, 1868, the Courier-Journal was born. Watterson was chief editor and had a free hand in what to write. He did not like the business side of newspapers, so gladly gave up all but 75 shares of the new Courier-Journal. Yet the value of these shares was $75,000, an enormous amount in those days, and his salary was $10,000 a year, a sum virtually unheard of, even for New York editors at the time. Watterson had just enough shares of the newly established paper to make his personal life very comfortable and his professional life free from interference with his independent nature and ideas. Watterson would remain with the Courier-Journal for more than fifty years, making it one of the most prominent and influential papers in the country. Once Mansfield was ready for habitation by the Watterson family in 1896, Henry used it as his home office, penning his articles there in the morning, then riding the interurban into the Courier-Journal’s Louisville office. The drive from Mansfield into the square in Jeffersontown where Watterson boarded the interurban became known as “Watterson Trail.” Several local residents worked for Watterson. James Wilson, Sr. was Henry

Watterson’s beloved butler, and his wife, Belle, sometimes acted as housekeeper – their son James Jr. grew up to be the founder of Skyview Park in Jeffersontown. Watterson’s cook, Hattie Harris, once owned the Leatherman cabin at 3606 College Drive. And in 1908, there were two Henry Wattersons in Jeffersontown – a man named Henry Watterson from Newark, New Jersey served as gardener for the great editor. Watterson loved living in Jeffersontown. One of his favorite quips was, “I’m a Jefferson Democrat. I live in Jeffersontown in the county of Jefferson.” Jeffersontown residents knew Watterson as

a gentle, friendly neighbor, while most of the country viewed him as a hard-hitting, no holds barred newspaper editor. At age 74, Watterson’s career reached its zenith. War broke out in Europe in 1914, and Watterson took a decidedly anti-German stance in the conflict. Other papers in town tried to remain neutral, to avoid offending the rather large German population in the area, but Watterson continued with his assertive articles in support of the United States entering the war, eventually earning the paper a Pulitzer prize. As much as World War I brought Watterson added fame, however, it also caused his career to wane. His relationship with the Haldermans became strained,

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and the paper lost subscriptions because of people protesting his editorials at the time.

attraction. Local residents did not like the idea of the noises or smells a zoo would bring to their tranquil town.

The paper was sold to Robert Worth Bingham in 1918, and Watterson was asked to stay on as “Editor Emeritus,” penning editorials whenever he wanted, on whatever subject he chose.

Several groups had differing plans for Mansfield, including residential development. Many legal entanglements ensued, keeping anything from happening to the estate, as it grew ever more dilapidated. Meanwhile, the house repeatedly fell prey to vandals, and on the evening of Thursday, October 6, 1975, Mansfield was badly burned in a fire.

Watterson retired from the paper in 1919, settling down to a happy and peaceful life at Mansfield. He passed away in 1921 while wintering in Florida. His wife, Rebecca, remained at Mansfield until her death in 1929. Other family members lived in the old mansion, but gradually moved away as the house fell into disrepair over the years. Watterson’s daughter, Mrs. Bainbridge Richardson, had hoped to see Mansfield turned into a shrine in memory of her father. While there had always been an interest in the project, something always seemed to happen to prevent it. The family received somewhat of a consolation in 1960, when an expressway was named for the great editor. His estate, however, continued to deteriorate while people argued about what to do with it. In 1963, Marion Miller, Watterson’s grandson, had hopes that Mansfield would be selected as the site for the proposed Louisville zoo and offered $25,000 to go along with James Graham Brown’s $1,500,000 donation for the

The second and third floors were gutted, and the cause was listed as arson. No one ever knew for certain exactly who set the fire, although police at the time highly suspected teens who were constantly to be found there. Eventually, Watterson Woods subdivision was established on the site of the estate of the most outstanding personality ever to reside in Jeffersontown. Although no tangible shrine to Watterson was ever created, his legacy remains strong not only in Jeffersontown, but in the whole of Jefferson County and nationwide as well. The outspoken editor of the Courier-Journal made himself a part of history, and Jeffersontown is proud to have been the place he called home.

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