Cover photo by Jonathan Bolte
Artist Rosey Bolte at her Uncommon Gourd Studio. Visit her on the Studio & Garden Tour.
16 Larry Pejeau, Foundation’s CEO ~by Bill Weaver 18 Monroe Bluegrass Festival ~by Jeff Tryon 24 John Hartford Festival
~by Tom Rhea
28 The Legacy of If You Don’t Outdie Me ~by Julia Pearson
32 Sweetea’s Tea Shop
~by Karen E. Farley
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Studio and Garden Tour Quilt Show Indiana Heritage Arts Show and Sale Taste of Brown County–The Sampler Smoky Spirals Mystery
~by Jim Eagleman
54 Our Wallow Hollow Homestead ~by Henry Swain
66 Festival of Flowers Paint Out 66 Secret Garden Tour in July 10-11 11 13 34-35 40-41 43
Contributors 11 Subscribe Where Is It? Contest Note from the Editor Brown County Photography Guild Calendar of Entertainment/Events Coloring Contest
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Cindy Steele, publisher P.O. Box 157 Helmsburg, IN 47435
812-988-8807 www.ourbrowncounty.com ourbrown@bluemarble.net copyright 2013 Thanks, Mom, for making it happen!
contributors
Bill Weaver is an author and radio personality currently living in Bloomington. He’s published The College of Beer: The Story of Nick’s English Hut, and numerous zines including ER, D’KNOW, and The New York Squid. He writes for Our Brown County, IntoArt, and the Bloomington Herald-Times Homes section. He maintains a website of short stories called The Liars Bunch at <www.liarsbunch.com>. He’s known as Gus Travers, the co-host of WFHB’s The Dark End of the Street. Cindy Steele is the publisher and editor of this magazine. She works out of her home in Helmsburg, producing most of the ads and layout herself. She started a second publication in 2004 called INto Art that focuses on fine arts and crafts in this region. She consults with her son Evan Markley on photo choices and ad designs. Her friend Otis hosts a jam session every Thursday where she pretends to play the banjo or guitar and sings. Joe Lee is an illustrator and writer. He is the author of The History of Clowns for Beginners and Dante for Beginners and illustrator of six other titles, including the forthcoming Dada and Surealism for Beginners in the ongoing “for Beginners” series. He is an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Bloomington Herald Times, a graduate of Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and a veteran circus performer. Joe lives with his wife Bess, son Brandon, George the cat, and his dogs, Jack and Max. Julia Pearson is the Museum Director for the Brown County Historical Society. She and her husband, Bruce, reside in Bloomington. Julia is human interest editor and writer for a Secular Franciscan magazine, and is currently writing a column entitled “Leaves of Brown” for the Brown County Democrat. She loves traveling and visiting museums of all types and sizes worldwide, especially with her children and grandchildren. Jeff Tryon Jeff Tryon was born and raised in Brown County, but has lived in California, Florida, and Alabama, where he has worked as a newspaper reporter, a construction worker, in a plastics factory, and as a cook in various restaurants. His interests include teaching and preaching about Jesus Christ.