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Pink Duct Tape A Flag of War for Westward Travelers the epiphany
Part One
As I remember it, the first shots were fired while we boys walked peaceably to McDonald’s. When we had finished our breakfast and returned to the train station, my comfy neck pillow was completely wrapped in a very unmanly, hot pink duct tape. So much for a nice peaceful vacation. Apparently the girls want war.
In numbers, our group is evenly balanced with four ladies and four gentlemen. The girls consist of my sister, Emily, Esther Lehman, her cousin Neomah Lehman and Mary Eash. Mike Lambright, Steven Miller and Calvin Miller join me in trying to keep the girls in order.
In applying sheer wit and audacity though, we boys are already behind. The luminescent tape on my pillow is sufficient evidence of that. Very well, these two-and-a-half weeks of traveling should provide some opportunity to plan offense. Lord willing, we plan to experience Ouray, Colo., San Francisco and Modesto, Calif., Yosemite National Park and St. Ignatius, Mont.
Just wait, ladies, until we get to San Francisco.
The driver has picked us all up except Calvin, who plans to join us in Chicago this afternoon. We get off the van at the Amtrak station in Elkhart.
While we wait for our train, we three gentlemen use our extra time to walk to McDonald’s for a bite to eat. We make a grand entrance returning to the station by racing through the parking lot. We come sprinting up to the crowd like a bunch of crazy country bumpkins. It’s only the first of many times on this trip that those around us will have cause to think us dim, ignorant, backwards or just plain loco. We rather enjoy it that way.
I remove the bright pink tape from my pillow, fearing it will detract from the comfort the pillow usually brings me. I tied the used tape around Calvin’s unattended bag – adding a touch of the feminine.
There are many others waiting to board the train June 29. When we finally board, the train is temporarily short on seats and we sit in the lounge car at the tables. We take to it like a rabbit to a carrot patch. Quickly we get out the games. Settlers of Catan comes out early here and it will come out often. Mike and Steven each pick up a win on the way to the Windy City. We never even leave the lounge car on the entire ride to Chicago.
Once in Union Station in Chicago, out layover is shorter than anticipated due to our train being late. Instead of exploring the city, we decide to just eat lunch from one of the restaurants in the station and be ready to board the train.
The Amish keep streaming into the station. Kansas Wayne Miller is ramrodding an entire train- car load heading from Chicago to Glenwood Springs, Colo., for a week.
Along with Wayne and his family are other travelers including Floyd and Sharon Lambright, Kenny and Jewel Bontrager and family, Glen and Wanita Chupp, Eugene and Ruth Yoder and many others.
If you are thinking it sounds like a lively bunch, then you’re thinking what I’m thinking.
Finally boarding our westward train, the eight of us are directed into a compartment on the lower level. This gives us more solitude and quiet. A couple sits behind us. She is a Quaker and helps us sing a few songs.
Through Illinois and Iowa we roll through rain and flooded areas. We see storms from the comfort of the lounge car with Settlers in front of us and friends around us. Life is rough.
Esther has an embarrassing moment during this stretch. We are sitting six at a table to play and this is a tight squeeze. A slight miscalculation in Esther’s balance and a slight roll of the train combine to deposit her into the aisle on her derriere. Ah, the way of the transgressor is hard.
I don’t know it was she who taped my pillow, but I am confident she didn’t try to stop it, either. We boys are not catching up.
Steven has the hot hand early at Settlers and he owns the lead in wins as we retire for the night. We are looking forward to some of God’s magnificent handiwork west of Denver tomorrow morning.
Loren Beachy is an auctioneer and real estate broker with Bright Star Realty and Auctions in Middlebury. He was formerly an elementary school teacher at a local parochial school teacher for eight years. Some of his stories were written a few years ago while teaching. He enjoys fast horses, hot peppers, and strong coffee.
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Franklin Pierce—the name brings no rush of memories, no thoughts of bold and blood-chilling warfare, no reminiscence of a famous and noble-hearted leader. History books dwell but shortly on this man who is generally ranked as one of the worst and least memorable U.S. presidents. Scholars almost unknowingly overlook him, their interests devoted only to the famous and daring.
But, as the old saying goes, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. Franklin Pierce, to the casual observer, appears unpopular and rather uninteresting. But surprising as it may seem, Pierce was a popular and outgoing man in his day. Ulysses S. Grant, who had observed Pierce firsthand during the capture of Mexico City, wrote that, He was a gentleman and a man of courage.
Pierce had a somewhat unfortunate family life. His wife Jane suffered from illness and depression for the better part of her life and all three of his children died young, the last one being eleven-year-old Benjamin-–or Benny, as his mother affectionately called him. While traveling from Boston via train, just weeks after Pierce’s election, their car derailed and rolled down an embankment near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and his wife survived, but little Benny was crushed to death in the wreckage. His parents suffered severe depression after this unthinkable tragedy, which likely affected Pierce’s performance as president.
Jane Pierce wondered if the train accident was punishment from God as a result of her husband’s pursuit of high office. She also wrote a long letter to her dead son Benny in apology for not being a better mother.
Pierce became president of the United States in 1853, being then the youngest man to be elected president. He was also the first president to give his inaugural address from memory, and, alluding to his own recent tragedy, told the crowd, “You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.”
As president, Pierce strove to enforce neutral standards for civil service while also endeavoring to satisfy the diverse elements of the Democratic Party with patronage, which, for the most part, was a failure and turned many in his party against him. Pierce was also a Young America expansionist, signing the Gadsden Purchase of land from Mexico and leading a failed attempt to gain Cuba from Spain.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act also took place over this same period of time. Pierce supported this Act; but by doing so he lost his popularity in the Northern states. The passage of this law resulted in such astounding violence that the territory was dubbed “Bleeding Kansas”.
In the 1856 election, Pierce fully expected unswerving loyalty from the Democrats. Thus, when balloting began on June 5 in Cincinnati, OH, he received an unpleasant surprise. On the first ballot, Pierce received a meager 122 votes, compared to Buchanan’s 135, with Douglas and Cass claiming the rest.
Fourteen ballots had been completed by the morning of June 6, but none of the three main candidates had received the required two-thirds of the vote. Realizing that his own support was slowly declining, Pierce withdrew his name and directed his supporters to break for Douglas, as a last desperate effort to defeat Buchanan.
But Douglas, being only forty-three years of age, believed that he could win the 1860 election if he let Buchanan, being older, win this one. And so, after two more deadlocked ballots, Douglas’s managers withdrew his name, thus clearly proclaiming Buchanan as the winner.
In December of 1863, Jane Pierce died, tuberculosis having completed its cruel work.
Franklin had always been a heavy drinker, despite his wife’s pleadings, and now, in his old age, his vulgar habit told on him in increasingly failing health. Never before having put much stock in religion, he was now baptized into his wife’s Episcopal faith at St. Paul’s Church in Concord. He also took up farming, farming the land himself, and more or less gave up his drinking habits. But in 1869, his health again started a downward spiral, and the enslaved man fell once more into his old habit. The heavy intake of alcohol on top of his already-delicate health condition soon led to his untimely death on Friday, October 8, 1869, at age sixty-five. Thus ended the sad life of the fourteenth president of the United States, Franklin Pierce.
Even after his death, Pierce’s reputation continues to speak loudly of his character. His uncontrolled drinking habits point to a life of little self-discipline and a careless view of God. He never bothered to stop and consider the terrible effects of alcohol on his body and how, more likely than not, it lowered himself in others’ opinions. But more importantly, it shows us the outcome of a life separated from God and proves how weak and worthless we are without His strength.
What are your actions saying about you?
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Cold.Hungry.Unlovedandunclaimed.Hewasnotevenimportantenoughtohis
motherforhertohavegivenhimarealname.
FromthesouthsideofChicago,thiswasallthe lifeWMknew.Hehadnorealhome—onlyarowof houseswhereeveryonecameandwentasthey pleased,wherethecoldseepedinandwrappedits frigidfingersaroundtheboysleepingonthefloor, wheretherewasrarelyanyfoodtobefoundbesides anoccasionalpieceofbreadandperhapsabanana.
Uponstartingschool,WMfoundanew highlight:thebreakfasttheschoolservedtoitspoor students.Meagerasitwas,itwasenoughtobeable toputupwiththetauntsandjeershereceivedfrom hisschoolmatestherestofthelongschoolday.
Beingaquicklearner,WMwassoonreading— whichopenedupawholenewworldforhim.His teacherhelpedhimsignupforalibrarycard,and almosteverydayafterthatWMcouldbefound pullingseveralbooksfromthe shelvesandreturningthemthe nextday.
Butonebookhedidnot returnrightaway.Helookedatit everynightbeforegoingtobed, wonderingatitscontentsand beautifulpictures.Thebookwas aboutafamily—afamilythatwas dressedfunny—gettingtogether onChristmasDay.
Ifthesepeoplearereal,he thought, IwishIwereoneofthem.
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“Arethesepeoplereal?”
Thelibrarianlooked up,startled.Infrontofherstood thedirtylittlestreetboy.
Shetookthebookhewas holdingouttoherandexamined itscover.“Ah,astoryaboutan
AmishChristmas.”Shelookedathim,pushingup herglasses.“Yes,theAmisharereal.Thereisalarge groupofAmishpeoplelivingeastofthecity,in northernIndiana.”Seeinghisfacelightup,she hurriedlycautioned,“Butdon’ttrytogothere.It’sat leastahundredmilesaway.”
Ashewanderedtothebackofthelibrary,the wheelsinWM’sheadwerealreadyturning.
“Call911!Quickly!Someonehungabodyonmy truck!”Theburlytruckerrushedintothe eateryhehadexitedonlyminutesearlier,hiseyes bulgingoutofhisashenface.
Minuteslaterthesnowytruckstopwas illuminatedbyflashinglights,theofficerstryingto revivetheunconscious,almost-frozenbody.“Who ishe?”oneoftheofficersasked.
“Idon’tknow,”thetruckerreplied.“Ineversaw theboybefore.”
Unbeknownsttothetrucker, WMhadclimbedaboardhistruck atatruckstopinChicagoandhad riddenwithhimtothepresent point.Afterthetruckerhadexited thecabtogetsomecoffeeatan eatery,WMhaddecidedtogetout aswell…buthisfoothadslipped ontheicystepsandhehadfallen forward.Ashefell,hisfoothad caughtonsomethingandhehad flippedover,hisfaceplunginginto thesnow.
Helplesslystuckupsidedown inthebittercold,hewasnearly unconsciousbythetimehelp arrived.
Alltheycouldgetoutofhim wasarepeated,“Amish… Amish…”
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DUCK BARN: 44’x280’ currently contracted with Culver Duck as a breeder barn, only 4 years old! Good income! Stocked pond Variety of fruit trees
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Phone bids will be accepted by Chupp Auctions until 4:00 PM on Friday, February 20, 2026. Starting bid is $950,000. For bidding updates or to place a bid, contact Chupp Auctions at 260-499-0216 or 260-499-0093.
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5% down (non-refundable) upon accepted offer on February 20, 2026 with balance due at closing. Closing approximately 45 days after the auction with possession given approximately 60 days after closing. Taxes to be pro-rated. Sellers have the right to reject any or all bids. Any announcements made by the auctioneer take precedence over printed matter.
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PROPERTY LOCATED: 3 miles west of Topeka, IN on 700S to 900W, north ¾ mile
ADDRESS: 6325 S 900 W, Topeka, IN 46571
4.65 ACRES • HOUSE • BARN • HOOP BLDG
Phone bids accepted until 4:00 PM on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.
HOUSE: 32’x44’ 2-story home with an 8’x16’ living room bumpout, 20’x20’ entrance/wash house, 8’x28’ open porch, full basement, 5 bedrooms, 2 full baths, nice open concept, LP lights throughout, natural gas EZ Glo heating stove
BARN : 24’x40’ with 23’x24’ shop area, 25’x40’ enclosed lean, 5’x8’ motor room, 3 box stalls with automatic waterers, 4 tie stalls, wash bay, tack room, 12V lights
HOOP BUILDING: 30’x72’ with cement floor, prepped for 6 box stalls
3-SIDED HORSE SHELTER: 10’x16’
Public welcome to inspect this real estate Thursdays from 3:00-5:00 PM or by appointment with the auctioneers.
Phone bids will be accepted by Chupp Auctions until 4:00 PM on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Starting bid is $600,000. For bidding updates or to place a bid, contact Chupp Auctions at 260-499-0216 or 260-499-0093.
TERMS: 5% down (non-refundable) upon accepted offer on March 3, 2026 with balance due at closing. Closing approximately 45 days after the auction with possession given August 1, 2026 or sooner. Sellers agree to pay $1000 rent from day of closing to date of possession. Taxes to be pro-rated. Sellers have the right to reject any or all bids. Any announcements made by the auctioneer take place over printed matter.
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PROPERTY LOCATED: ¾ mile east of US 33 in Goshen, IN on CR 38 to CR 31, south ¾ mile (3/4 mile south of AllPro Gas)
ADDRESS: 65818 CR 31, Goshen, IN 46528
3.38 ACRES • HOUSE • BARN • DOG KENNEL
Phone bids accepted until 4:00 PM on Thursday, March 5, 2026.
HOUSE: single-story ranch home with approx. 2,000 sq.ft., 24’x24’ attached garage, full basement, 15’x18’ hot tub and sauna room, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths both completely remodeled, newer flooring and kitchen, fully wired, natural gas Cozy Glo heating stove
BARN: 24’x36’ hip roof with 1 box stall, hay loft, Dura Fountain, pasture area with newer fencing (10) Solar panels 6000W invertor with 300 AH lithium battery
GARDEN SHED: 9’x13’
DOG KENNEL: 10’x16’ with 5 outside runs, heated and wired
Lots of mature shade trees, apple & pear tree, (2) raised garden beds
Close to Walmart and Aldi and within 2 miles of various RV factories!
Public welcome to inspect this real estate Tuesdays from 3:30-5:30 PM or by appointment with the auctioneers.
Phone bids will be accepted by Chupp Auctions until 4:00 PM on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Starting bid is $375,000. For bidding updates or to place a bid, contact Chupp Auctions at 260-499-0216 or 260-499-0093.
TERMS: 5% down (non-refundable) upon accepted offer on March 5, 2026 with balance due at closing. Closing approximately 45 days after the auction with possession given at closing. Taxes to be pro-rated. Sellers have the right to reject any or all bids. Any announcements made by the auctioneer take place over printed matter.
Owners: ANDREW & MIKAYLA YODER
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PROPERTY LOCATED: 1.2 miles east of Middlebury, IN on CR 16
ADDRESS: 11356 CR 16, Middlebury, IN 46540
3 ACRES • HOUSE • BARN/SHOP
Phone bids accepted until 4:00 PM on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
HOUSE: 26’x68’ Redman doublewide with a 12’x20’ rear covered porch that was new in 2024, 10’x16’ open front deck, full walkout basement, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, LP lights, natural gas heat, new roof in 2024 BARN/SHOP: 28’x50’ with a 6’x6’ attached motor room, barn area has 2 tie stalls and tramp shed area, new in 2005
(2) Solar panels, small battery pack 1000 gal. LP tank
Stocked pond Public welcome to inspect this real estate Thursdays from 3:30-5:30 PM beginning Feb. 12 or by appointment with the auctioneers.
Phone bids will be accepted by Chupp Auctions until 4:00 PM on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. Starting bid is $375,000. For bidding updates or to place a bid, contact Chupp Auctions at 260-499-0216 or 260-499-0093.
TERMS: 5% down (non-refundable) upon accepted offer on March 10, 2026 with balance due at closing. Closing approximately 45 days after the auction with possession given at closing. Taxes to be pro-rated. Sellers have the right to reject any or all bids. Any announcements made by the auctioneer take precedence over printed matter.
Owners: BERTHA MILLER
PHONE BID
REAL ESTATE AUCTION
PROPERTY LOCATED: 2 miles south of LaGrange, IN on SR 9 to 200S, west 1½ miles ADDRESS: 0615 W 200 S, LaGrange, IN
1.48 ACRES • HOUSE • POLE BARN
Phone bids accepted until 4:00 PM on Monday, March 16, 2026.
HOUSE: single-story with 1,728 sq.ft., 16’x46’ rear open patio with pergola and outdoor kitchen, 4’x22’ open front deck, mostly full basement, 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, bonus sitting room with cabinets & sink, central air, 10kw solar panel system, (2) 5 kw grid tied invertors, REMC electric & fiber internet, new metal roof, R/O water system, stainless steel kitchen appliances
ATTACHED GARAGE: 20’x24’
POLE BARN: 40’x60’ with workshop area
Mature shade trees & pine trees
Public welcome to inspect this real estate Tuesdays from 3:30-5:30 PM beginning Feb. 17 or by appointment with the auctioneers.
Phone bids will be accepted by Chupp Auctions until 4:00 PM on Monday, March 16, 2026. Starting bid is $375,000. For bidding updates or to place a bid, contact Chupp Auctions at 260-4990216 or 260-499-0093.
TERMS: 5% down (non-refundable) upon accepted offer on March 16, 2026 with balance due at closing. Closing approximately 45 days after the auction with possession given at closing. Taxes to be pro-rated. Sellers have the right to reject any or all bids. Any announcements made by the auctioneer take precedence over printed matter.
Owners: MRS (DENNIS) VICKY RAINSBERGER
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INDIANA
PHONE BID
REAL ESTATE AUCTION
Address: 11914 US Highway 20, Middlebury IN, 46540 Monday, March 16th • 4:00 pm
Property Location: From intersection of ST RD 13 & US HYW 20, go east approximately ½ mile, south side of road.
$425,000
3 ACRES • HOUSE • BARN
OPEN HOUSE: FEBRUARY 17TH FROM 4-6PM OR BY APPOINTMENT
HOUSE: 32’x56’ with 24’x28’ attached garage, 2 story, 6 bedroom, 2 full bath, 1 half bath, garage, sunroom and breezeway built in 2017, new furnace (energy efficient), trim on main level and upstairs finished in 2000, new well in 2002, air conditioner in 2004, new roof on house and open porch added in 2005, new cabinets/countertops in 2019, new linoleum floor/subflooring in kitchen, bathrooms and office area in 2020, Ideal coatings on garage floor in 2022. There are more updates not listed.
BARN: 896 sq. ft., built in 1990, new shingles in 2017, guttering in 2009.
NOTE: This is a very nice and well-kept property, not far from Middlebury, that is move-in ready. Northridge School District.
TERMS: 5% down day of auction. Balance due at closing, closing 45 days after auction. Possession May 15th, 2026.
SELLERS: Mary Esther Miller
