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January/February 2020

Glass ACT Churches and synagogue windows are showcases

Time to enjoy simple pleasures of winter

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t’s the middle of winter, but it doesn’t quite feel like it.

At the time of press, our area hasn’t received but a few stray snowflakes. While it’s not always enjoyable to travel in the snow or shovel the sidewalks, I’m hopeful we’ll receive a few inches before spring reappears. What says ‘winter’ more than seeing kids brave the cold, dragging their sleds behind them and climbing hills over and over, leaving tracks on the hillsides?

If we’re lucky, we’ll get to see new friends on neighborhood lawns created from gloved hands rolling snow into giant balls stacked upon each other, adorned with carrots, scarves and whatever can be found to pass as buttons.

While we wait for a few inches of pristine, white snow to blanket our region, I hope we enjoy all the other simple pleasures of winter.

If you haven’t taken the time to

SARAH SIMMONS is the general manager of Ironton Publications, Inc. She is a native of Ironton and a life-long resident of the Tri-State.

get out of the cold, snuggle up under your favorite blanket and enjoy a cup of cocoa and a good read, I hope you get to do so with this edition of Tri-State Living.

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on the cover Many of our local churches and synagouges use stunning stained glass works as unique symbols of their religious faith and teachings.

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ON DISPLAY Jimbo Valentine turns concert flyers into psychedelic works of art

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DIFFERENCE MAKERS Rachel Jobe takes mobile sensory garden on the road

shopping 22

IN THE BIZ In the age of digital music, vinyl records make a comeback

feature 30

STAINED GLASS History and religion shine in church, synagogue windows

homes 40 SHOWCASE

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up close Artist Jimbo Valentine uses manipulated art for posters, Tyler Childers album

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arts & culture | On Display

PSYCHEDELIC

APPALACHIA Story, Photography Mark Williams

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f you are a music fan in the Tri-State, you have certainly seen the work of graphic artist Jimbo Valentine. You just might not know it.

Now approaching his 11th year as the resident designer for the V Club in Huntington, Valentine’s crisp, psychedelic imagery has adorned nearly 1,800 posters for concerts around the region. His work is the informative face for local, regional and national touring acts of all genres, as well as long-running festivals like the Huntington Music and Arts Fest and Kickin’ It On The Creek.

“For the V Club, it has always been a marketing tool first,” said Valentine. “The posters serve a purpose, so that informs a lot of the design. That’s why they are laid out the way they are. They’re easy to read, easy to post online. I often start with an image and text and build from there.”

However, these aren’t simply flyers. Valentine’s other-worldly designs give concerts a visual life of

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their own, turning simple gig posters into wall-worthy pieces of functional art.

“There’s experimentation and inspiration of all sorts,” Valentine said when discussing his neopsychedelic aesthetic. “I love experimental film and music. I love the darker, more psychological side of psychedelic art. It’s kind of ingrained in me at this point. Sometimes I almost have to stop myself from making everything that way, because not everything calls for that. But for the most part, when people come to me, they’re wanting at least a little bit of it.”

While concert posters are a major part of Valentine’s body of work, he also designs countless T-shirts and logos for regional bands and businesses, publishes his own comics and illustration books and even designs album artwork and layouts. Most recently, working with renowned illustrator Tony Moore, Valentine designed the artwork for Tyler Childer’s new album Country Squire. Visually

The Cosmic Creations of Jimbo Valentine

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speaking, the album and its sprawling, three-panel foldout of Appalachian psychedelia is perhaps the most unlikely work to ever sit atop the country charts.

“Tony Moore is actually someone who really inspires me. His illustrations are out of this world,” Valentine said. “Working with someone like him really makes you bring your A game. And Tyler...his mind can go way out there. To have such a different album cover...he put out an album without his name on the front! Who does that?! No one in country music, that’s for sure.”

Using programs like Photoshop, Illustrator and Manga Studio, Valentine’s style is a combination of image Jimbo Valentine, Self-Portrait

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Album art for Tyler Childers, Country Squire

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reappropriation, photography, illustration and manipulation. The results are vividly cosmic and ripe with detailed precision. Never one to hide his process, he would often work on poster designs at the V Club amidst friends and crowds. He is also more than willing to share his experience and advice with aspiring designers.

“The single best piece of advice I ever got was ‘Go into Photoshop and delete all your effects and filters,’” Valentine said. “I thought it was crazy at the time, but it really helped me learn how to make those effects manually, and how to use them subtly. Now I can incorporate them much more effectively in my work.”

The tight-knit and growing arts community in Huntington has allowed Valentine to flourish, and is precisely what has kept him here for close to 18 years.

“People here really support each other, no matter what it is. That’s what keeps me going. We could maybe do a little better job as a city promoting smaller events. I’ve thought for a while that the city should have some sort of all-inclusive calendar of events. Like a hub-style site where anyone can upload an event. I feel pretty plugged into what’s happening in town, but there’s so much happening these days, it’s still easy for

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me to miss an event, or to not hear about it until it’s too late.”

The coming calendar year is, as always, full of artistic projects for Valentine. He plans to release more issues of his comic book series Coordinates Unknown, as well as a compiled edition of his zine Pipe (BOMB) Dreams. A book of selected gig posters

is in the works, as are anniversary art shows, more album designs, and of course, more posters for V Club and the area music scene. No matter what avenue he chooses, it will surely remain distinctly Jimbo.

“I’ve been very lucky not to have to comprise my art,” Valentine said. “When people ask me to do

something, they kind of know what they’re expecting.

I’ve had people in the past who didn’t understand it, but now, it’s funny...people want me to make it weird for them.”

For more information on Jimbo Valentine and his work, visit www.amalgamunlimited.com. a

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living | Difference Makers

Taking nature on the road Jobe got community support for dream project Story Benita Heath | Photography Mark Shaffer

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achel Jobe fingered the spiky plant set in one of the pots in the wooden red wheelbarrow parked in the lobby of Kingsbrook Lifecare Center outside Ashland, Kentucky.

“Did you ever cook with rosemary?” Rachel called out to one of the residents.

Then she pinched off a sprig, twisted it between her fingers and let the woman sniff.

Twisting the flat leaves of another plant she asked, “Tell me what this smells like?”

“That smells like that black candy,” was the disgusted reply.

But Rachel wasn’t annoyed in the least with the response. In fact, she beamed as if she had just charged down center court at Rupp Arena and slam dunked the ball.

Only she wasn’t shooting hoops for the Wildcats.

Rachel, her mother, Sandy, and her father, Paul, that October morning were showing Kingsbrook residents

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the Lawrence County, Kentucky, Master Gardeners mobile sensory garden.

That was their way of bringing to the residents’ stimulation, both sensory and cognitive.

“You go to the residents and see them amazed to be able to see the different plants,” Rachel said.

Kingsbrook was the second visit for the Jobe family to a nursing home since the creation of the garden.

Rachel got the idea for the garden after she and her parents heard a lecture at a Masters Gardeners meeting at their home base in Lawrence County. That talk was from a gardener building a stationary one in Ashland’s Central Park.

“I thought we could put one on a wheelbarrow and take it to schools,” Rachel said.

And, with a little bit of help from some friends that’s what the Jobe family did.

First, the Lawrence County High School carpentry class made the wheelbarrow.

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“The art class painted it and presented it to the public in September,” Sandy Jobe said.

“Rachel got the idea to take it to the schools.”

The plants came from the Boyd County Future Farmers of America while the Lawrence County FFA housed the plants when the garden was not in use.

Rachel thought the children would respond to the different textures of the leaves, rough to smooth, and to the fragrance of the herbs.

“There are some they like to feel more than others,” Sandy said. “They seem amazed with smelling the plants.”

Right now the garden is on hiatus until warm weather comes back. Then the Jobe trio plans to be on the road again.

“This is about memories,” Rachel said. a

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up close Once considered a dead format, records are on pace to outsell CDs

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Vinyl store gets its groove back

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Records on the Wall brings near-dead format back to life Story, Photography Mark Williams

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he crackling sound of a well-worn Johnny Cash record fills the air as collectors dig through classic vinyl albums, searching for old favorites and new discoveries. No, this isn’t a scene from a nostalgic Netflix show. This is Records on the Wall, Huntington, West Virginia’s newest destination for music lovers.

Founded five years ago as a corner booth in the Chesapeake Flea Market, owner Wilson Harrison Jr. made the move to a brick and mortar store this summer. Now located in the Seventh Avenue complex that once was Economy Foods, the new store is a spacious hunting ground for vintage music and antique enthusiasts.

“This is an opportunity that, in most cities, I would not have had,” Harrison explains. “I looked for quite a while to find the perfect spot for what we needed, and eventually ran across this place. This building in Chicago or a city like that would be way out of my price range.”

A long-time collector himself, Harrison saw a vacancy in the local business landscape.

“The community surrounding this area really had a need for a good music shop,” Harrison said. “I saw the record industry coming back, so I decided to move into Huntington to help bring back this community.”

Vinyl records and the city of Huntington itself are treading similar paths to redemption.

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shopping | In the Biz

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In the Biz | shopping

Once viewed by the masses as dying relics of yesteryear, records are now poised to outsell CDs in 2019 for the first time in 30 years. The city, once making national headlines for its problems, is now in the midst of a rebirth. New restaurants, music venues, galleries and shops open almost monthly, and movements like Open to All and MyHuntington showcase a positive community on the rise.

By transforming a long-defunct wholesale grocery complex into an active commercial space, Records on the Wall is yet another local example of the surging “repurposing� movement. From The Depot in Ironton to the West Edge Factory in west Huntington, innovative business owners and artists alike continue to breathe new life into struggling areas and dilapidated buildings.

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“As a whole, Huntington really has a great opportunity to prosper and succeed,” said Harrison. “I would love to see the city take one of the larger abandoned areas and turn it into an arts district. I think it would do really well and draw people from all over just to see and experience that.”

Being a successful business in a community also relies heavily on customer satisfaction. This is the number one priority at Records on the Wall, where Harrison keeps his small-business ethos front and center.

“I won’t stick anyone with anything they’re not happy with. That’s just bad business,” Harrison said, as he prepares to play an obscure new wave record for an interested customer.

“It’s not about the money. If you get home and it skips, or you don’t like it, or you already have it, just bring it back! I want the customer to be happy with what they get.”

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Something for every collector can be found at Records on the Wall. From vintage beer coasters to rare coins to antique glassware, the variety of inventory is almost overwhelming.

However, the calling card of the business since its early days at the flea market has always been vinyl. Thousands of quality records fill the back room of the complex, organized by genres like jazz, classic rock, hip-hop, and soul. The extensive collection of classic country is sure to be a local hit, and fans of classical, new wave, electronic music, and vintage 70s funk will find plenty of gems to peruse. Like every music collector, Harrison is quick to defend his first true love.

“Vinyl has been tested and proven. It is a better sound.

Hard stop,” said Harrison. “That little pop you hear on an old record? That adds to the artistry and character of the music.

You can try to digitize it out, but then the song sounds flat. It has no depth to it.”

Perhaps no place is better suited for a vinyl revival than Huntington; A vintage city full of artistry and character, not without its flaws and scratches, but steadily making a comeback.

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s varied as people are the ways they worship their creator. In fact, what could come in greater variety than how human beings define their creator.

But with differences come similarities. One similarity is the decoration of the houses of worship. Whether Jewish or Christian, in the Tri-State those houses use stained glass windows prominently.

“In any place of worship this is like music,” Tom Pressman of Huntington, West Virginia, said. “It is to prepare you to reach out and communicate with God.”

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B’Nai Sholom In 1981, Pressman joined the B’Nai Sholom congregation that meets at the synagogue at the corner of 10th Street and 10th Avenue in Huntington.

Built in 1925, the synagogue was first the home of the Ohev Sholom reform congregation. That congregation dates back to 1887.

Twenty-three years later the B’Nai Israel congregation built its house nearby at Ninth Avenue and Ninth Street. In 1975, the two congregations merged forming B’Nai Sholom, worshiping at the 10th Avenue synagogue.

There for many in the congregation, the stained glass windows add to the spirituality of a worship service.

“They give a beautiful presence,” said Linda Klein who joined B’Nai Sholom 12 years ago. “On one side are the forefathers and the other side are the prophets.

It makes them come alive.”

Those sanctuary windows were designed by Henry Hunt of Pittsburgh and created using hand-blown glass by Blenko of Milton, West Virginia, known for its unique ruby red and vintage blue palette.

That color scheme inspired interior designer

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Deborah Pohlman of Huntington, when water damage forced restoration of the Neo-Classical Gothic building in the early 2000s.

She toned down the colors in the windows to come up with paint for the arch around the pulpit.

For Pressman, the windows play a unique role in his worship.

“In the evening when the sun is setting, it is really spectacular,” he said.

“It makes a great deal of difference.”

Christ Episcopal Church In 1846, Ohio-born ironmaster and abolitionist John Campbell proposed the creation of Ironton. Three years later the first lots were sold. Then in 1859, 25 men met at the Lawrence County Courthouse to form Christ Episcopal Church.

For the next year the church alternated meeting at the courthouse and the Methodist Church.

The first Episcopal Church was built on the site of the recently razed parish hall in 1855, seating 125 and costing $700.

Bishop McIllvaine was to make his first visit in June 1855.

“But river traffic was delayed that year while the boat was being repaired and the bishop’s visit wasn’t until April 1856,” a church history states. “Old records tell that people poured out in droves to hear this preacher.”

Then in 1872 A.R. Kieffer was ordered by the bishop to take over the parish.

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“We have endured much persecution during the past year,” Kieffer wrote. “Only time can overcome the prejudice of these people that episcopacy is papacy. The parish has been so long without a rector. Unless the Holy Spirit soon stirs up the hearts of these people for the cause this mission will be a failure. Can these dry bones live? At present writing, I almost despair of seeing this re-animation.”

But re-animation apparently did happen for on October 1896 ground was broken for the current structure on the corner of Fifth Street and Park Avenue. A month later the cornerstone was laid in which were placed a prayer book, a hymnal, a list of all members, three Ironton newspapers and a copy of the city directory.

Cost to build the current church was $17,350. In the narthex is a four-panel approximately four-foot high mural of Jesus with small children flanked by two sentinel angels. Behind the altar is a comparable mural in size of Jesus and the woman at the well.

“Such a building today would cost a hundred thousand,” Charles Collett wrote in the Ironton Soliloquy.

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First Presbyterian The oldest church in Ashland is First Presbyterian on the corner of Winchester Avenue and 16th Street. This summer marked the church’s 200th birthday.

However, that building isn’t on the first church site. Originally the first congregation met in the home of Major James Poage, a member of the family that came from Virginia to found the settlement that became Ashland. At that meeting, they decided a church would be built near Pollard Road.

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In 1828, George Poage donated acreage from his farm near where now is the Mid-Town Shopping Center to move the church there.

Twenty-nine years later this congregation received land to build the structure where First Presbyterian stands today.

There on either side of the sanctuary massive rose windows dominate. Radiating out like wheel spokes are petals each bearing floral designs within. The color scheme is made up of dark and light browns, pale blue and magenta.

“Their beauty is inspiring,” member Amy Crookes said. “They represent the commitment given by the congregation to the mission of the church.”

Judy Fannin came to Ashland in 1962. She alternates her Sunday worship between First Presbyterian and First Christian, Disciples of Christ, a denomination church historians say evolved from the Presbyterian denomination.

A favorite of Fannin’s at First Presbyterian is the window in the music room.

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First Christian Church “There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a bride framed by the stained glass window in that room,” she said. “Or your precious loved one at rest beside the Cathedral Window of Light at First Christian Church,” Fannin said.

That window frames a mini-garden inside First Christian, whose current structure was built in 1990.

The sanctuary nearby the garden has two full glass walls made up of nine panels.

Each is 4 by 12 feet weighing 650 pounds.

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Church literature calls the etched panels teaching windows detailing the life of Jesus as told in the Book of John. Panels include “Descending Dove,” “The Shepherd’s Crook” and “The Cross with Crowns of Thorns and Royalty.”

The interim senior pastor at First Christian is Dr. Robbie Phillips, who in his career has served many churches.

“Stained glass windows not only reveal the beauty within religious icons and foster reflection, they reveal beauty within the artist (and the Child of God) as he or she creates using their giftedness.”

Rising 15 feet above the main

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floor at the sanctuary is the Window of Promise, comprised of four panels around a 16 foot Jerusalem Cross, made of bricks.

Each panel was designed by Emmanuel Stained Glass of Nashville.

This window has a special meaning for longtime member, Barbara Clark.

“Our old sanctuary holds a place in my heart because of the

memories of my baptism, singing in the choir and worshiping by candlelight at Christmas,” Clark said. “But the beauty of our current stained glass window enhances the worship experience visually and scripturally by the symbols chosen to represent the lessons from the Gospels. And when the sun shines through the vibrant colors the light of Christ is in our midst.” a

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up close The Camayo Arcade was the first mall in Kentucky ans still retains its glamorous roots

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Dreams ARCADE

Kentucky's first retail mall still thrives

Showcase | homes

Story Benita Heath | Photography Rachael Layne

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n the second day of July in 1926 the prosperity hitting Wall Street was bombing wealth onto Ashland.

“GM was selling at a fraction of its record high,” the city’s newspaper reported. “And there is the establishment of another record high for U.S. Steel.”

The closing price that day was 147 for GM and 144 for U.S. Steel. Coca Cola came in at 157.

Two new public schools were set to open in the Pollard and Normal neighborhoods in the fall.

Crabbe Elementary at the corner of 17th Street and Central Avenue was marked for an overhaul.

Sultry summer days were no worry. Too hot?

Step into the Grande Theatre where “it’s cool,

comfortable and ventilated,” its ad said.

And while there take in “The Unknown Lover,” starring Elsie Ferguson.

Nothing to wear in your closet? Stop by Faulkner’s where “chic new frocks” came with price tags ranging from $16.75 to $29.50.

Nothing there you like? Slip down to Greenup Avenue between 16th and 17th streets to step inside Edelson’s that “points the way to the most astonishing bargains,” its ad said.

Then for another shopping venue a stroll up to Winchester Avenue between 16th and 17th streets could offer a new and unique retail experience. In fact, it was downright posh.

What was it? The Camayo Arcade, “the largest and

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finest structure of its kind,” the newspaper said.

Camayo was the realized dream of Eastern Kentucky coal baron John C. C. Mayo and industrialist Alexander Cameron, who merged their resources and their names to create the arcade.

Three years later, the stock market would crash and the Great Depression suffocated this country in its

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jaws for 10 years of bread lines and heartache.

But before the crash, the Camayo Arcade was looking for tenants. And then that was a piece of cake, especially with a full-color brochure touting “Eastern Kentucky’s Rendezvous and Shopping Center: A Quarter of a Million People within a Radius of 30 miles.”

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Fast forward 60 years and the sparkle of Camayo was all but extinguished by two new shopping centers in Boyd County. Their cachet was parking lots.

But visionaries are visionaries for one simple reason. They see beyond the ordinary. One such visionary is Ashland entrepreneur, Perry Madden, who bought the arcade a few years ago.

“It was an opportunity that came up,” Madden said. “This was the first retail mall in the state of Kentucky.”

No two ways about that.

“This superb structure will have beneath its roof a thriving commercial structure,” the brochure stated. “It will be a building of character with respect to its tenants. To be included as a member of its business family places you in the advance guard of the ever progressives.”

Today, as then, the arcade takes up 15,000 square feet on the ground level from Carter to Winchester avenues. The multiple level building offers 68,190 square feet of floor space.

The terra cotta floors and marble accents matched the teeming affluence across the United States in the 1920s.

Tenants were allowed to install balconies and consultations with lighting fixture designers were available free of charge.

“The Arcade management, full realizing the importance of advertising their building, have made a yearly appropriation for this purpose,” the brochure stated.

Making sure the arcade’s current tenants know they have made the right business choice is uppermost in Madden’s mind.

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Showcase | homes “A lot of people here got their start here in small business,” he said. “It’s affordable.

I made it affordable.”

Tenants today range from an insurance agency, a realtor, a hair dresser, a barber shop to a music teacher.

Madden’s restoration work includes raising the mezzanine’s iron railing, installing LED lights in the globe fixtures and creating the Camayo Room, available for parties and meetings.

All that work is driven by Madden’s fascination with architecture and ornamentation.

“I have a personal love of beauty,” he said. “Just interested in it. They don’t build buildings like this anymore.” a

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up close Stella’s Kentucky Deli, set in an old two-story house in Lexington, makes its meals with vegetables that are locally produced

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Serving up Kentucky’s best Ashland native serves farm-focused menu Story Benita Heath | Photography Michael Caldwell

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t 1:30 p.m. one afternoon Paul Holbrook is singlemindedly focused on an activity you wouldn’t think the owner of an established restaurant would be doing, washing glasses.

“When you’re the owner of this establishment, you’re part of the staff,’ Holbrook said as he plunged his hands back into the hot soapy water.

His establishment is Stella’s Kentucky Deli at 143 Jefferson St., Lexington, a venture he joined 14 years after he was asked if he wanted to open an ice cream shop at the two-story house a few blocks from Rupp Arena.

From that invitation Stella’s morphed into a restaurant that is a magnet for diners who put the adjective “fresh” as the ultimate criterion.

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It had been a deli for 25 years and the owner was sick of cooking, Holbrook said.

“Do you want to do an ice cream place,” Holbrook said he was asked. “We went into the parlor. No discussion.”

Holbrook and his partners‚ Griffin Van Meter, Lester Miller and Aumaine Mott, shut Stella’s down for two weeks as they worked their revamping. Even family members added their elbow grease to the project.

Holbrook’s sister Megan proved ketchup can have more uses than spicing up a hamburger on a bun. It can make a brass railing sparkle. Whether that aroma drew his sibling closer to the grill afterward, he didn’t say.

The menu at Stella’s is farm to table.

“It makes for a better meal,” Holbrook said. “It is environmentally friendly. There are societal reasons for what we used to do without thinking. We have as much vegan and vegetarian as we can.”

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Stella’s opens at 9 a.m. with a breakfast menu of free-range eggs for the house burrito with Jack cheese and black beans and rice, or the burrito with chopped sausage, bacon or hickory smoked ham. Or the chorizo, potato and egg burrito. Also for breakfast are buttermilk pancakes, cheese grits and eggs, any style.

Lunch starts at 11 a.m. with a Kentucky Hot Brown featuring both turkey and ham covered in a mornay sauce. Or a fried green tomato BLT. A traditional Reuben or an all-mushroom one. A lentil burger. A lamb burger. Soups range from tomato bisque with artichoke hearts to lentil stew with sherry and thyme.

Life as a restaurateur is just one of the careers Holbrook, an Ashland native, has pursued.

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He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky in the philosophy department and an adjunct at Midway College teaching religion and ethics.

Doing graduate work at Harvard University was a major way for Holbrook to hone his culinary skills. That was in 1972.

“The old cook for the dean was leaving to go back to Ireland,” he said. “Every dean had to have a cook and entertain.”

That job as cook seemed a more pleasant way to pay for grad school than other options.

“I was the only applicant for the job,” he said. “I had always baked with both grandmothers and mother. Grandmother made bread ever so well. I like to eat and if you like to eat, you had better learn to cook.”

To get the job he had to do a trial meal. He served up an omelet souffé with a pea ring. His efforts far from fell flat.

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He got the job and spent the next seven years cooking at Harvard.

“I had a zillion recipes from mother,” Holbrook said.

“I used to make in bulk because I’d have to. I’d have 300 people for a meal.”

When he needed more than his mother’s recipes, he pulled a couple of cookbooks from the shelf: Fannie Farmer and Julia Child and Simone Beck’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”

As a true Bluegrass native, Holbrook strove to convert Child to the glories of a commonwealth delicacy.

“Julia Child lived around the corner from me,” Holbrook said. “Julie had an old ham from Virginia. I told her Kentucky old ham was better.”

To prove his point, Holbrook sent Child a ham from J.T. Mitchum in Louisville.

As he watches diners wait for tables while his staff serves bowls of watermelon gazpacho, Holbrook seems pleased he has added more than a culinary dollop to the long-ago proposal to open an ice cream shop. And that he has work to go into each day that satisfies.

“This is retirement.” a

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Harvest Fruit & Oat Energy Bites • 1/2 cup milk • 1 1/2 cups rolled oats, divided • 2 tablespoons almond nut butter • 2/3 cup dried apple rings, chopped (soft variety) • 1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice • 1 pinch salt • 1/4 cup dried cranberries or dried tart cherries • 2 tablespoons chopped pecans or almonds • 1 glass milk (8 ounces each) per serving

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In bowl of food processor or high-speed blender, combine milk, 1 cup rolled oats, nut butter, dried apple rings, apple pie spice and salt. Pulse until mixture becomes fairly smooth and holds together when rolled.

Transfer mixture to medium size bowl.

Stir in remaining oats, dried cranberries and chopped nuts. Roll mixture into tablespoon-sized balls and place on parchment paper-lined baking sheet.

Chill 1 hour, or until firm. Keep bites covered and refrigerated up to 3 days.

Pair each serving with 8-ounce glass milk.

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Rotisserie Chicken-Biscuit Casserole • 1 whole rotisserie chicken • 8 refrigerated biscuits • 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) cream of mushroom soup • 1/2 cup milk • 1/4 cup sour cream • 2 cups frozen vegetables • 1/2 teaspoon dried basil • 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Heat oven to 450˚F. Remove meat from rotisserie chicken and shred; set aside. Discard bones.

Cut biscuits into quarters; set aside.

In saucepan, stir soup, milk, sour cream, chicken, vegetables, basil and pepper. Cook until boiling.

Spoon chicken mixture into baking dish. Arrange quartered biscuits over filling.

Bake 10-12 minutes, or until biscuits are golden brown.

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Cheesy Baked Potato Casserole • 5 pounds red potatoes, cubed • 1 pound bacon, cooked and crumbled • 1 pound cheddar cheese, cubed • 16 ounces shredded cheddar cheese • 1 yellow onion, chopped • 1 cup mayonnaise • 8 ounces sour cream • 1 tablespoon minced chives • 1 teaspoon salt • 1/2 teaspoon pepper

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Heat oven to 325˚F. In large bowl, combine potatoes and bacon.

In separate large bowl, combine cheese, onion, mayonnaise, sour cream, chives, salt and pepper. Add to potato and bacon mixture until combined.

Pour into 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Bake 50-60 minutes until browned and bubbly.

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Peanut Butter Breakfast Bread Pudding with Maple Peanut Sauce • Butter • 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter, divided • 2 eggs • 1/2 cup granulated sugar • 2/3 cup milk • 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 4 cups cubed brioche or challah bread, cut into 3/4-inch cubes • 2/3 cup pure maple syrup • 1/3 cup crushed peanuts • Powdered sugar, for garnish

Heat oven to 350˚F. Butter four 4-ounce ramekins.

In bowl, mix 1/3 cup peanut butter, eggs, sugar, milk, vanilla and salt. Toss bread cubes in mixture until thoroughly coated. Divide evenly among prepared dishes. Bake until custard is set in middle and tops are golden, about 35-40 minutes. If tops of bread brown too quickly, cover ramekins loosely with aluminum foil.

In small saucepan over low heat, combine remaining peanut butter and maple syrup until thoroughly warmed.

To serve, drizzle ramekins with maple-peanut sauce and garnish with chopped peanuts and powdered sugar.

Substitution: Whole wheat rolls may be used in place of brioche or challah bread.

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food | From the Cookbook

Enchilada Casserole • Nonstick cooking spray • 1 medium yellow onion, chopped • 12 ounces ground beef • 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder • ¾ teaspoon ground cumin • 15 ounces pinto beans, drained • 20 ounces diced tomatoes and green chilies, undrained • 1 1/2 cups sour cream • 3 tablespoons flour • ½ teaspoon garlic powder • 12 corn tortillas, 6 inches • 20 ounces enchilada sauce • 8 ounces shredded cheddar cheese • ½ cup green onions, chopped

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Heat oven to 350˚F. Spray baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.

In large skillet, cook onion and ground beef until cooked through. Drain, if necessary.

Stir in chili powder and cumin. Stir in pinto beans and diced tomatoes; set aside.

In small bowl, combine sour cream, flour and garlic powder. Place six tortillas in bottom of baking dish, overlapping as needed. Top tortillas with beef mixture and sour cream mixture. Top with 10 ounces enchilada sauce. Repeat layers.

Bake 35-40 minutes. Sprinkle shredded cheese and green onion over casserole. Bake 5 minutes, or until cheese melts.

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Mini Turkey Loaves • 1 large egg • 2 pounds 93% lean ground turkey • 1 medium Dole yellow onion, finely chopped • 1/2 cup oat milk • 1/2 cup whole-wheat panko breadcrumbs • 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice • 1 teaspoon salt, divided • 1 tablespoon olive oil • 1/2 package (8 ounces) Dole mushrooms, sliced • 2 cups unsalted chicken stock • 3 tablespoons whole-wheat flour • 1/4 cup plain almond milk yogurt • 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

Heat oven to 350˚F. Line rimmed baking pan with parchment paper.

In large bowl, whisk egg; gently mix in turkey, onion, oat milk, breadcrumbs, pumpkin pie spice and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Form turkey mixture into eight (4-by-2 1/2-inch) loaves; place on prepared pan. Bake loaves 40 minutes, or until internal temperature reaches 165˚F. In large skillet over medium-high heat, heat oil; add mushrooms and cook 5 minutes, or until tender, stirring occasionally. In medium bowl, whisk chicken stock and flour; add to skillet and cook 3 minutes, or until thickened, whisking occasionally. Whisk in yogurt, pepper and remaining salt.

Serve loaves topped with gravy and sprinkled with parsley.

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Roast with Red Pepper Cranberry Sauce Roast: • Butcher’s twine • 1 Omaha Steaks chateaubriand roast (2 pounds) • 2 tablespoons, plus 2 teaspoons, canola oil, divided • Omaha Steaks Private Reserve Rub Red Pepper Cranberry Sauce: • 1 tablespoon olive oil • 2 medium red bell peppers, finely diced • 1 cup red wine • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar • 1/3 cup white sugar • 2 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds • 6 tablespoons dried cranberries • 6 tablespoons dried currants • 1/4 teaspoon salt

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To make roast: Heat oven to 250˚F. Using butcher’s twine, tie roast to maintain shape.

Coat all sides with 2 tablespoons canola oil and season with rub.

In medium skillet, heat remaining oil. Sear all sides of roast 2 minutes each.

Place roast in roasting pan and bake 1 hour, 30 minutes.

To make Red Pepper Cranberry Sauce: Heat medium skillet on medium-high heat. Add olive oil and diced red pepper; sauté 3-5 minutes.

Add red wine, red wine vinegar, sugar, mustard seeds, cranberries, currants and salt. Bring mixture to boil then turn temperature to low and simmer 20 minutes, or until liquid is mostly evaporated and thickened. Top each serving of roast with Red Pepper Cranberry Sauce.

No Bake Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake • 10 graham crackers, crumbled • 7 tablespoons butter, melted • 1/4 cup sugar • 1 tablespoon cinnamon • Caramel sauce, divided • 16 ounces cream cheese • 7 tablespoons powdered sugar • 1 cup whipping cream • Chocolate covered caramels

Place graham crackers in re-sealable plastic bag.

Using rolling pin or soup can, roll graham crackers into fine crumbs.

In medium bowl, add cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar and cinnamon; stir until combined. Press into bottom of pie plate. Drizzle caramel sauce over crust; set aside.

In medium bowl, combine cream cheese, powdered sugar and whipping cream. Pour over graham cracker crust. Refrigerate 24 hours.

Place chocolate caramel candy pieces around pie.

Drizzle with caramel sauce. Refrigerate leftovers.

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Cheese Buds • 1 cup cake flour or all-purpose flour • 1 cup grated extra-sharp white cheddar cheese • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cold and cut into chunks • 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt • 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper • 40 pecan halves • 1 egg white, whisked with 1 teaspoon cold water • Smoked paprika

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Heat oven to 350˚F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

Add flour, cheese, butter chunks, salt and cayenne pepper to food processor. Process until ingredients form into ball, about 1 minute.

Remove dough from food processor, wrap with plastic wrap and press into flat round. Place in refrigerator 1 hour.

Dust counter with flour and roll out dough to 1/4-inch thick. Using 1-inch round cookie cutter, cut out rounds and place on parchment paper-lined baking sheets.

Place one pecan on top of each round. Using pastry brush, lightly paint each cracker with egg wash. Sprinkle with smoked paprika.

Bake 12-15 minutes, or until buds just start to brown around bottom edges.

Remove from oven to cooling rack. Store in airtight container up to 1 week or freeze 1 month.

Note: Cheese buds can be made plain without pecans, or pecans can be chopped and sprinkled on after egg wash and smoked paprika.

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Kristoff Ice Box Cupcakes • 3 ripe Dole bananas • 1 container (8 ounces) fat-free whipped topping, thawed • 7 low-fat honey graham crackers, coarsely crushed • 1 pound Dole strawberries, hulled and quartered

Line 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners. In large bowl, mash bananas; fold in whipped topping.

Fill muffin cups halfway with graham cracker pieces, banana mixture and strawberries; repeat layers with remaining ingredients.

Refrigerate cupcakes 4 hours; serve in cupcake liners.

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the last word

It’s cool to be proud of your town

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fter graduating from Ohio University Southern in 2007, I was sure of two things: I would never stay in this area and I would never work in a steel mill like my father and grandfather, because I went to college.

Now, after spending the last 11 years in the steel industry and proudly living in downtown Ashland, I am so glad I was wrong. After living in a few different cities around the country, I can honestly say the TriState area is where I want to be.

I am extremely fortunate to teach a class in Supply Chain Logistics at Marshall University and one of the main points I try to make, especially to students from this area, is that if you care about where you live and put effort into everything you do, you can truly find happiness and maybe even make a difference.

Another lesson I try to share is there are opportunities here that most people never consider.

Growing up, all I knew about manufacturing was that it meant Dad worked a lot and it was sometimes dangerous. After working four years at the AK Steel Coke Plant, I learned that yes, both of those things are true, but it can also be so much more.

I learned that people in this area are not only hard working, as everyone knows, they are also incredibly resourceful and inspiring. The men and women in that plant taught me what servant leadership was about

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Josh Blanton is the plant manager at Vesuvius in Wurtland, Kentucky.

and I can never repay them for the lessons I learned.

That experience prepared me to later lead a plant of my own in Wurtland, Kentucky, for Vesuvius, a supplier to the steel industry. I truly love what I do and any success I have had is due to persistence and choosing to listen rather than speak. I am incredibly thankful for the experiences I have had and for that reason, I have chosen to be part of the solution.

We have a wonderful system of nonprofit organizations in our area, such as Build Ashland, The United Way, CARES, and many others, that make it easy to get involved. There were times along my journey when I needed a helping hand and these groups offer the same for those in need.

We have had our challenges as a community, but we have what it takes to overcome, I’ve seen it so many times. I am so proud of where I’m from and look forward to an exciting future for the Tri-State.

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