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Relax in Comfort Brown County, Indiana

This award-winning hotel offers a quiet getaway with free hot breakfast, complimentary high-speed Internet, heated indoor pool, fitness room and whirlpool suites.

Trolley available to downtown Nashville.

Call the hotel or visit our website to learn about our extensive package offerings.

Recipient of two Platinum, Ten Gold Awards, and the Lt. Governor’s Award for Service.

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37 individually appointed guest rooms with complimentary full breakfast, afternoon snacks and evening dessert.

Free on-site parking

888-383-0300 Downtown Nashville 54 E. Franklin Street

Visit our website for best deals and availability at www.CornerstoneInn.com

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BATHOLOGY Transform your home into a Spa! Come sample all of our products!

Handmade, all natural...

Made in Nashville, Indiana

Come watch our products made fresh in our store everyday.

Cold Press Soaps • Bath Bombs • Glycerin Soaps Sugar Scrubs • Lotion Bars • Bath Salts Loofah Soaps • Gift Baskets - we can create a customized basket arrangement of all your favorites!

58 W. Main • Nashville, IN • 812-988-9500

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Where Brown County Hospitality...

Just Comes Naturally

Balcony rooms, restaurant, lounge & enclosed pool.

Conference facilities for groups up to 600 people.

Finding your way

Feature stories

20 Christmas in Brown County 25 Our Christmas traditions 38 ‘A story in the snow’ 40 State park’s year-round residents 48 Couple, 93 and 95, share love story 52 Cabins for romantic getaways 58 Tales from the Liars’ Bench

800-365-7327 www.seasonslodge.com

A Brown County landmark renowned for savory home cooking, antique collectibles and gadgets and old-fashioned hospitality.

The lists 8 Shopfinder Directory 16 Entertainment & Recreation 17 Lodging 30 Art Colony of the Midwest 34 Handmade in Brown County 44 Food, Snacks & Spirits 56 Conferences, Retreats & Weddings 62 Ongoing Events 63 2016 Special Events 64 Winter Events

Maps Nashville Street Map | Page 12 Map of Brown County | Page 15 on the cover

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Brenda Young and Linda Wendling affix a handmade bow to a wreath during a “crafting session” for Christmas in Brown County. Read more on page 20. | photo by Suzannah Couch

Brown County Almanack

Visitors Guide A quarterly publication featuring local merchants and events from Nashville and Brown County, Indiana.

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ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES

4th Sister Vintage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I2 . . . . . . .

Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . .

Brown County Antique Mall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . .

Carol’s Fine Gifts & Crafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . .

Cathy’s Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6 . . . . . . .

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . .

Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Touch of Silver Gold & Old. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Toy Chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . .

Vintage Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G7 . . . . . . .

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ART

A Dreamer’s Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Brown County Art Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12 . . . . . . . 45 Brown County Art Guild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . . 65 Brown County Craft Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 54 B3 Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 23 Cathy’s Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6 . . . . . . . 61 Ferrer Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Hoosier Artist Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 . . . . . . . 69 Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 42 Totem Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 30

BATH & BODY

Be My Guest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E6 . . . . . . . 37 Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 42 Hillbilly Foot Wash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E6 . . . . . . . 37 Johanna Lee Bathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 . . . . . . . . 5

BEER, WINE AND SPIRITS

Bear Wallow Distillery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 61 Big Woods Brewing Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3 . . . . . . . 36 Big Woods Pizza Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 . . . . . . . 36 Brown County Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L5 . . . . . . . 31 Brown County Winery Tasting Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 . . . . . . . 42 Brown County Winery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 42 Casa Del Sol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J9 . . . . . . . 62 Cedar Creek Winery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6 . . . . . . . 30 Chateau Thomas Winery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J7 . . . . . . . 18 Hickory Sports Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 72 Out of the Ordinary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 72 Seasons Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K12 . . . . . . . . 6

BIKE RENTAL AND ACCESSORIES

Bear Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L9 . . . . . . . 19

BIRDHOUSES AND FEEDERS

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 42

BOOKS

Fallen Leaf Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 . . . . . . . 34 Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 42 Toy Chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 23

CANDLES

Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . .

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

Foxfire & Foxfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Ferguson House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Mercantile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . .

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Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . . 17 Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . . 43 Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 42

CANDY

Candy Dish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Candy Emporium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 . . . . . . . 65 Carmel Corn Cottage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 . . . . . . . 47 Jack and Jill Nut Shop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G5 . . . . . . . 42 Nashville BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J4 . . . . . . . 57 Nashville Fudge Kitchen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H5 . . . . . . . 70 Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . . 43

CHRISTMAS

Brown County Community FoundationStuff-A-Stocking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 . . . . . . .

Carol’s Fine Gifts & Crafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . .

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

Ferguson House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Stuff-A-Stocking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 . . . . . . .

Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

For Bare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . .

For Bare Feet, Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 . . . . . . .

Foxfire & Foxfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

K. Bellum Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Lorna’s Leather & Boutique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I6 . . . . . . .

Mercantile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . .

Moonshine Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . .

Pit Bull Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 . . . . . . .

T-Shirt Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I5 . . . . . . .

Totem Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . .

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COFFEE AND TEA

Candy Emporium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 . . . . . . . 65 Daily Grind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H4 . . . . . . . 66 Harvest Preserve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Nashville BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J4 . . . . . . . 57 Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . . 43 Sweetea’s Tea Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . 46

CONFERENCES, RETREATS & WEDDINGS

Abe Martin Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 71 Brown County Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L5 . . . . . . . 31 Comfort Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .L10 . . . . . . . . 3 Creekside Retreat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 67 eXplore Brown County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 14 Hotel Nashville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 . . . . . . . 29 Rawhide Ranch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 23 Seasons Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K12 . . . . . . . . 6

CRAFTS

4th Sister Vintage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I2 . . . . . . .

Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . .

Brown County Craft Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Carol’s Fine Gifts & Crafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . .

Clay Purl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D8 . . . . . . .

For Bare Feet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . .

For Bare Feet, Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 . . . . . . .

K. Bellum Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

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Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . .

Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Toy Chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . .

Wishful Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

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DOLLS

Jeeper’s Dollhouse Miniatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 68 Toy Chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 23 Vintage Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G7 . . . . . . . 24

ENTERTAINMENT & RECREATION

Abe Martin Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 71 Brown County Art Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12 . . . . . . . 45 Brown County Art Guild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . . 65 Brown County Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L5 . . . . . . . 31 Brown County Playhouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 . . . . . . . 51 Brown County Winery Tasting Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 . . . . . . . 42 Brown County Winery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 42 Cedar Creek Winery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6 . . . . . . . 30 Chateau Thomas Winery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J7 . . . . . . . 18 eXplore Brown County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 14 Grandpa Jeff’s Trail Rides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Hickory Sports Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 72 Kidscommons Children’s Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Out of the Ordinary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 72 Rawhide Ranch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 23 Rich Hill’s Magic and Fun Emporium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 . . . . . . . 63 Seasons Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K12 . . . . . . . . 6 Valley Branch Retreat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 14 Yesteryear Old Time Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 62

FOOD, DINING & SNACKS

Abe Martin Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 71 Big Woods Brewing Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3 . . . . . . . 36 Big Woods Pizza Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 . . . . . . . 36 Brown County Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L5 . . . . . . . 31 Brown County IGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L9 . . . . . . . 55 Brown County Winery Tasting Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 . . . . . . . 42 Brown County Winery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 42 Candy Dish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Candy Emporium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 . . . . . . . 65 Carmel Corn Cottage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 . . . . . . . 47 Casa Del Sol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J9 . . . . . . . 62 Cedar Creek Winery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6 . . . . . . . 30 Chateau Thomas Winery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J7 . . . . . . . 18 Daily Grind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H4 . . . . . . . 66 Farmhouse Cafe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . . 7 Forever Sweet Cupcakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . 32 Gyro’s Food and Art Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 60 Harvest Preserve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Hickory Sports Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 72 Hotel Nashville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 . . . . . . . 29 House of Jerky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 24 Jack and Jill Nut Shop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G5 . . . . . . . 42 McDonald’s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L11 . . . . . . . 45 Miller’s Ice Cream House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Nashville BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J4 . . . . . . . 57 Nashville Candy Store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E6 . . . . . . . 37 Nashville Fudge Kitchen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H5 . . . . . . . 70 Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . . 43 Nashville House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E5 . . . . . . . . 6 Out of the Ordinary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 72

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Rawhide Ranch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 23 Seasons Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K12 . . . . . . . . 6 Sweetea’s Tea Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . 46

FOOTWEAR

For Bare Feet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . .

For Bare Feet, Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 . . . . . . .

Harley Davidson of Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

K. Bellum Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Moonshine Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . .

GARDEN & PATIO

Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . .

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

Ferguson House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Foxfire & Foxfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . .

Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

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GIFTS

4th Sister Vintage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I2 . . . . . . . 67 Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . . 24 Bone Appetit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . 54 4th Sister Vintage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I2 . . . . . . . 67 Candy Dish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Candy Emporium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 . . . . . . . 65 Carmel Corn Cottage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 . . . . . . . 47 Carol’s Fine Gifts & Crafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 23 Cathy’s Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6 . . . . . . . 61 Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 42 Daily Grind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H4 . . . . . . . 66 Ferguson House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . . 27 For Bare Feet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . . 18 For Bare Feet, Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 . . . . . . . 18 Foxfire & Foxfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 30 Grasshopper Flats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 68 Harvest Preserve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Jack and Jill Nut Shop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G5 . . . . . . . 42 Jeeper’s Dollhouse Miniatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 68 Johanna Lee Bathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 . . . . . . . . 5 K. Bellum Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . . 69 Lorna’s Leather & Boutique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I6 . . . . . . . 61 Men’s Toy Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 . . . . . . . 63 Mercantile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . . 57 Moonshine Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . . 69 Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . . 17 Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . . 43 Pit Bull Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 . . . . . . . 33 Rich Hill’s Magic and Fun Emporium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 . . . . . . . 63 Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 42 Sweetea’s Tea Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . 46 T-Shirt Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I5 . . . . . . . 26 Totem Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . . 30 Touch of Silver Gold & Old. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 47 Toy Chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 23 Vintage Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G7 . . . . . . . 24 Wishful Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 60

HOME DÉCOR

4th Sister Vintage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I2 . . . . . . . 67 Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . . 24 Brown County Winery Tasting Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 . . . . . . . 42 Brown County Almanack Visitors Guide | WINTER 2015

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Brown County Winery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . .

Carol’s Fine Gifts & Crafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . .

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

Ferguson House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Foxfire & Foxfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . .

Olde Magnolia House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I2 . . . . . . .

Red Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Vintage Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G7 . . . . . . .

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North House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 . . . . . . . 29 Olde Magnolia House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I2 . . . . . . . 67 Rawhide Ranch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 23 Seasons Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K12 . . . . . . . . 6 Valley Branch Retreat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 14

LOG CABINS

Brown County Getaways/Cobblestone Log Homes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Hills O’ Brown Real Estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 . . . . . . . 56 Hills O’ Brown Vacation Rentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 46 Nickels Vacation Cabins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . . 7

MOTORCYCLES & ACCESSORIES

GUNS, KNIVES & ACCESSORIES

Apache Tactical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 30 Buck Shot Sporting Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H2 . . . . . . . 64 Men’s Toy Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 . . . . . . . 63

Harley Davidson of Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Pit Bull Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 . . . . . . . 33

HEALTH FOODS

Kidscommons Children’s Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Heath 4 “U”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E10 . . . . . . . 47 McDonald’s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L11 . . . . . . . 45 Miller’s Ice Cream House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 . . . . . . . . 2 Nashville Fudge Kitchen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H5 . . . . . . . 70 Nashville General Store & Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9 . . . . . . . 43 Cathy’s Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6 . . . . . . .

Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . .

Ferguson House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Foxfire & Foxfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Grasshopper Flats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . .

Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Totem Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 . . . . . . .

Touch of Silver Gold & Old. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

LEATHER

Harley Davidson of Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

K. Bellum Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . .

Lorna’s Leather & Boutique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I6 . . . . . . .

Moonshine Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 . . . . . . .

Pit Bull Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 . . . . . . .

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Apache Tactical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . .

Bear Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L9 . . . . . . .

Buck Shot Sporting Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H2 . . . . . . .

Hesitation Point Bike and Backcountry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . .

Men’s Toy Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 . . . . . . .

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PET CARE AND PET GIFTS

Bone Appetit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . 54 Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 42

POTTERY

Brown County Craft Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8 . . . . . . . 54 Carol’s Fine Gifts & Crafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 23

SCRAPBOOKING

Wishful Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7 . . . . . . . 60 44 69 61 69 33

1875 Homestead B&B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 15 Abbey Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 30 Abe Martin Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 71 Allison House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 . . . . . . . 69 Brick Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Brown County Getaways/Cobblestone Log Homes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Brown County Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L5 . . . . . . . 31 Comfort Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .L10 . . . . . . . . 3 Cornerstone Inn & Suites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G8 . . . . . . . . 4 Creekside Retreat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 67 eXplore Brown County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 14 Green Valley Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 50 Hickory Shades Motel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 34 Hidden Valley Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A5 . . . . . . . 19 Hills O’ Brown Vacation Rentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 46 Hotel Nashville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 . . . . . . . 29 Last Resort RV Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 53 Nickels Vacation Cabins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . . 7

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Music & Mayhem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E6 . . . . . . . 66

ICE CREAM

JEWELRY

MUSEUMS

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Brown County Visitors Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E5 . . . . . . . 33 Ethereal Day Spa and Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J5 . . . . . . . 43 New Song Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 33

TOYS

Mercantile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . . 57 Toy Chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6 . . . . . . . 23

WEDDINGS & RECEPTIONS

Abbey Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 30 Abe Martin Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 71 Creekside Retreat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 67 eXplore Brown County. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 14 Hotel Nashville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 . . . . . . . 29 Rawhide Ranch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16 . . . . . . . 23 Seasons Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K12 . . . . . . . . 6

WOODCRAFTS

Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8 . . . . . . . 24 Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3 . . . . . . . 17

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1875 Homestead B&B. . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 35 4th Sister Vintage. . . . . . . . . . . . . I2. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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A Dreamer’s Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . E3. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Abbey Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 30 Abe Martin Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 71 Allison House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2. . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Apache Tactical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8. . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Artist Colony Shoppes. . . . . . . . H6. . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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B3 Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6. . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Bathology, Johanna Lee. . . . . . . D3. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Be My Guest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E6. . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Bear Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L9. . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Bear Wallow Distillery. . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 61 Bearly Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Big Woods Brewing Co.. . . . . . . . C3. . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Big Woods Pizza Co.. . . . . . . . . . . D4. . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Bone Appetit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Brick Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 29 Brown County Antique Mall. . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 35 Brown County Art Gallery. . . . . F12. . . . . . . . . . . 45 Brown County Art Guild. . . . . . . E4. . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Brown County Community Foundation Stuff A Stocking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6. . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Brown County Craft Gallery. . . . E8. . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Brown County Getaways. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Brown County Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . L5. . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Brown County IGA . . . . . . . . . . . . L9. . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Brown County Playhouse. . . . . . F4…… . . . . . . . 51 Brown County Visitors Center. . E5. . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Brown County Winery Tasting Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7. . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Brown County Winery. . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 42 Buck Shot Sporting Goods . . . . H2. . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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Candy Dish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Candy Emporium. . . . . . . . . . . . . E2. . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Carmel Corn Cottage. . . . . . . . . . C4. . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Carol’s Fine Gifts & Crafts. . . . . . H6. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Casa Del Sol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J9 . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Cathy’s Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G6. . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Cedar Creek Winery. . . . . . . . . . . G6. . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Chateau Thomas Winery . . . . . . J7 . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Clay Purl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3. . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Cobblestone Log Homes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Comfort Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L10. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Cornerstone Inn & Suites. . . . . . G8. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Creekside Retreat. . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 67 Crow’s Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7. . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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Daily Grind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H4. . . . . . . . . . . . 66

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Ethereal Day Spa and Salon . . . J5 . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 eXplore Brown County. . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 14

Moonshine Leather. . . . . . . . . . . E4. . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Mother Earth Designs. . . . . . . . . G3. . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Music & Mayhem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . E6. . . . . . . . . . . . 66

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Fallen Leaf Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2. . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Farmhouse Cafe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 7 Ferguson House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G3. . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Ferrer Gallery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 For Bare Feet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 For Bare Feet, Too. . . . . . . . . . . . . F3. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Forever Sweet Cupcakes . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Foxfire & Foxfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8. . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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Nashville BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Nashville Candy Store. . . . . . . . . E6. . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Nashville Fudge Kitchen. . . . . . . H5. . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Nashville General Store & Bakery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I9. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Nashville House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E5. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 New Song Mission. . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 33 Nickels Vacation Cabins. . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 7 North House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4. . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Grandpa Jeff’s Trail Rides. . . . . . Pg.18. . . . . . . . . 69 Grasshopper Flats. . . . . . . . . . . . . H6. . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Green Valley Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 50 Gyro’s Food and Art Studio. . . . H7. . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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Pit Bull Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4. . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Harley Davidson of Bloomington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Harvest Preserve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Health 4 “U”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E10. . . . . . . . . . . 47 Hickory Shades Motel. . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 34 Hickory Sports Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . F5. . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Hidden Valley Inn. . . . . . . . . . . . . A5. . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Hillbilly Foot Wash . . . . . . . . . . . . E6. . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Hills O’ Brown Real Estate. . . . . . B2. . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Hills O’ Brown Vacation Rentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 46 Hoosier Artist Gallery . . . . . . . . . E2. . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Hotel Nashville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4. . . . . . . . . . . . 29 House of Jerky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8. . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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Jack and Jill Nut Shop. . . . . . . . . G5. . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Jeeper’s Dollhouse Miniatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Johanna Lee Bathology . . . . . . . D3. . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Olde Magnolia House. . . . . . . . . I2. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Out of the Ordinary. . . . . . . . . . . F5. . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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Rawhide Ranch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 23 Red Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E8. . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Rich Hill’s Magic and Fun Emporium . . . . . . . . . . . F2. . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Seasons Lodge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K12. . . . . . . . . . . 6 Stuff A Stocking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6. . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Sweet Cozy Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . E8. . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Sweetea’s Tea Shop . . . . . . . . . . . J6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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T-Shirt Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I5. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Totem Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5. . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Touch of Silver Gold & Old. . . . . E8. . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Toy Chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H6. . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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K. Bellum Leather. . . . . . . . . . . . . G3. . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Kidscommons Children’s Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Valley Branch Retreat. . . . . . . . . . Pg. 16. . . . . . . . . 14 Village Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vintage Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G7. . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Visitors Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E5. . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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Lorna’s Leather & Boutique. . . . I6. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Wishful Thinking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . H7. . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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Magic and Fun Emporium/Rich Hill’s. . . . . . . . . . F5. . . . . . . . . . . . 63 McDonald’s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L11. . . . . . . . . . . 45 Men’s Toy Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4. . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Mercantile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I8. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Miller’s Ice Cream House . . . . . . E3. . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Hills O’Brown Real Estate

Hotel Nashville / Darlene’s

Candy Emporium

Rich Hill’s Magic and

Hoosier Artist Gallery

Fallen Leaf Books

Visitor’s Center

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Hillbilly Footwash

Music and Mayhem

Nashville Candy Store

Be My Guest

The Nashville House

BC Courthouse Liars Bench

Ice Cream Cottage

Sweet Cozy Living

Brown Co. Playhouse

Out of the Ordinary and Hickory Sports Bar

Franklin Place

BC Winery & Tasting Room

Copperhead Creek Gem Mine

Rock and Fossil Shop

Trolly’s

Weed Patch Music Clay Purl

Taggart Building

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Pioneer Village

BC Historical Society Complex

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Apache Tactical

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Cornerstone Suites

Health For U

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Nashille Town Hall

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BC Art Gallery

ARTIST DRIVE Nashville Post Office

County Office Building

BC Public Library

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BC Democrat Newspaper

Main Street Shoppes

MAIN STREET

Stuff A Stocking

BC Community Foundation Hidden Valley Inn

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BC Art Guild

Moonshine Leather

MAIN STREET

For Bare Feet Too

Pit Bull Leather

Big Woods Village

Big Woods Pizza

MOLLY'S LANE

Big Woods Brewing Co.

Men’s Toy Shop

Carmel Corn Cottage

GOULD STREET

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BP Gas/ Noble Romans

PAT REILLY DRIVE

4th Sister Vintage

Old Magnolia House Inn

WASHINGTON STREET

Buck Shot Sporting Goods

PITTMAN HOUSE LANE

Mother Earth Designs

Franklin Square Courtyard

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K. Bellum Leather

Jack & Jill Nut Shop The Totem Post Melchior Marionettes Vintage Rose

Papertrix

Lorna’s Leather & Boutique Bearly Country

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Bear Hardware

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BC Law Enforcement Center

STATE ROADS 135 & 46

Brown County Intermediate School

SCHOOLHOUSE LANE

Sweetea’s Chateau Thomas Wine Bar Tea Shop

Casa Del Sol

Nashville General Store, Bakery & Antiques Mercantile

Cornerstone Inn

Coachlight Square

Camelot Shoppes Forever Sweet Bone Appetit Cupcakes Ethereal Village Salon and Spa

Speedway Gas

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Jot ‘Em Down Corner The T-Shirt Hunter’s Shop Electronics

Nashville Fudge Kitchen

Gyro’s Food and Arts Studio The Crow’s Nest

Possum Trot Square

The Artists Colony Inn & Restaurant Artists Colony Shoppes Soap to Seeds The Toy Chest Carol’s Fine Gifts & Collectibles B3 Gallery Yesteryear Grasshopper Flats Old Time Wishful Thinking Photos

Cedar Creek Winery Cathy’s Train Depot Corner

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Antique Alley

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BC YMCA

Comfort Inn

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McDonald’s

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The Seasons Lodge & Conference Center

BC High School Larry C. Banks Memorial Gymnasium

BCHS Track

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Brown Co. IGA

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Entertainment and Recreation Abe Martin Lodge, in Brown County State Park, has a 12,000-squarefoot indoor water park, available to hotel guests first and to the public as space allows. (812) 988-4418.

Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park & Campground, 5163 State Road 135 North, is home to the oldest, continuous running bluegrass festival in the world.

Visit the Bluegrass Hall of Fame & Country Star Museum and, on weekends, shop at the Bean Blossom Flea Market.

Brown County Playhouse Performing Arts Center, 70 S. Van Buren St., is a 426seat venue committed to bringing the best in a variety of local and national entertainment offerings. You’ll find the latest news on upcoming performances by visiting www.BrownCountyPlayhouse. org which frequently lists special offers.

Join the chat about what is happening behind the scenes by liking the venue on Facebook. (812) 988-6555.

Brown County State Park, Indiana’s largest state park, offers camping, hiking trails, mountain bike trails, horse trails, a saddle barn and nature center, picnicking, a swimming pool, fishing, tennis and playgrounds. Open year-round. (812) 988-6406, www.IN.gov/dnr/parklake.

Brown County Winery has been making award-winning wines for more than 20 years. The tasting room is at the corner of Main Street and Old School Way. Don’t forget to stop by the winery and tasting room in downtown Gnaw Bone, 4520 State Road 46 East. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, year-round. (812) 988-6144 or (888) 298-2984, www.browncountywinery.com.

Cedar Creek Winery & Brew Co., 38 E. Franklin St., features free tasting of locally made wines. The selection varies from bold dry reds to refreshing whites and sweet fruit wines. Open seven days a week from noon to 5 p.m.

Chateau Thomas Wine Bar, 225 S. Van Buren St. in Coachlight Square, provides award-winning vinifera wines, and wellknown musicians — local and otherwise

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— perform all styles of music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Friday and Saturday night.

Visitors will find gourmet foods, cheese plates and gift items, as well as a friendly, knowledgeable staff. Step upstairs to the loft and enjoy wine amid the Native American art in the John Elmore Gallery or, weather-permitting, grab a spot on the covered patio near the fireplace. Group tastings can be arranged in advance. (812) 988-8500, toll free at (888)-761-9463, www. chateauthomas.com/locations/nashville. eXplore Brown County at Valley Branch Retreat is voted the No. 1 activity in Brown County by TripAdvisor. It offers 15 zip lines over 1 mile long; a treetop canopy adventure suspended 90 feet with speeds up to 45 mph; and the tallest, fastest and longest zips in Brown County. Visitors also can experience Night Flight zip lines with tiki torches and headlamps. Enjoy 30 miles of ATV, mountain biking and hiking trails.

The events hall accommodates 250 with a stage. Camping cabins accommodate 80.

The property also offers camping, a fishing lake, canoes and paddle boats. Two-seater, four-wheel-drive hill buggy rides and an ATV training challenge tour are available, too. 2620 Valley Branch Road, (812) 9887750, www.explorebrowncounty.com.

Grandpa Jeff’s Trail Rides. Relax on a journey with Grandpa Jeff. Take in the scenery and wildlife. No two rides are ever the same. Sunny summer days, fall colors, winter snowfalls, spring blossoms.5889 S. Skinner Rd.,Morgantown, Trail Rides, Pony Rides, Hay Rides, Cattle Drives, Custom Excursions. Please give at least one hour notice. Reservations can be made using any of the following: 812-597-4630, Cell 812-272-0702. www. GrandpaJeffsTrailRides.com, info@GrandpaJeffsTrailRides.com Kidscommons, a children’s museum in downtown Columbus, 309 Washington St., offers families with toddlers to early teens a vibrant, safe setting where they can explore three floors of hands-on learning and fun. Spend time in the Childhood Garden, scamper up the 17-foot-tall climbing wall or hang out in the bubble room, where you can stand inside a body bubble. Don’t miss museum

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favorites ExploraHouse, home of the world-famous giant toilet, and Kids on the Move, a healthy lifestyles exhibit. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Open Mondays mid-June through mid-August.

(812) 378-3046, www.kidscommons.org.

Mike’s Music & Dance Barn (seasonal), 2277 State Road 46 West, offers country music and dancing. Beer, wine and food are available in this nonsmoking facility. Friday and Saturday shows are from 7 to 11 p.m. (812) 9888636, www.thedancebarn.com.

Rawhide Ranch, 1292 State Road 135 South, offers 45-minute guided horseback rides daily on 56 acres of wooded trails bordering Brown County State Park, plus team building, Holler Hoppin’ zip lining and low ropes. (812) 988-0085 or (888) 94-RANCH, www.rawhideranchusa.com.

Schooner Valley Stables (seasonal), 2282 State Road 46 West, offers more than the usual horseback ride, with the option to walk, trot or canter. With no age limit, the whole family is welcome.

Hear some brief history of Brown County while meandering through the hills and hollers of Yellowwood State Forest.

Reservations are appreciated. (812) 9882859, www.schoonervalleystables.com.

WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology, 308 W. Fourth St., Bloomington, puts visitors in touch with the wonder and excitement of science through popular experiences like the two-story grapevine maze, the kinetic contraption, the Bubble-Airium and close encounters with live animals. A special area provides science adventures for very young children. WonderLab is on the B-Line Trail in the downtown arts district.

It’s open 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

(812) 337-1337, www.wonderlab.org.

Yellowwood State Forest, 772 Yellowwood Lake Road, has a 133acre lake, primitive campgrounds, rowboat rental, hiking, hunting, fishing and bridle trails. (812) 9887945, www.in.gov/dnr/forestry.

Lodging 1875 Homestead Bed & Breakfast, 3766 State Road 46 East, is a charming country Victorian home built in the late 1800s. It invites you to step back in time and relax from the hustle-bustle and crowds of the village. Enjoy a scrumptious home-cooked country breakfast with richly brewed coffee or select teas. Complimentary soft drinks and homemade cookies are available each afternoon and evening.

(812) 988-0853, homestead1875@aol.com.

Abe Martin Lodge & Cabins, Brown County State Park, offer 160 rooms/ cabins, a 12,000-square-foot indoor aquatic center, a full-service restaurant, game room, cable, hiking trails and beautiful vistas. The lodge was built in 1932 of hand-hewn native stone and oak timbers cut in the park. The main lodge has two spacious and comfortable lobbies with two fireplaces. (812) 9884418, abemartinlodge@dnr.state.in.us.

The Allison House Inn, South Jefferson Street, is a charming bed-and-breakfast in downtown Nashville featuring five guest rooms with private baths. 812988-0814, theallisonhouseinn.com.

The Brick Lodge is just a mile north of Nashville on State Road 135. Enjoy two bedrooms with two baths, a game room with a pool table, cable TV, gas fireplace, outdoor hot tub, gas grill and a fully equipped kitchen. The lodge accommodates eight people. (812) 988-8400, (800) 848-6274, www.bricklodge.com.

Brown County Inn, 51 State Road 46 East, invites you to relax and feel a touch of Indiana’s past. The rustic inn offers 99 guest rooms and two suites, complete with queen- or king-size beds to make your stay a comfortable one. Every guest room has a walk-out covered porch or covered balcony, coffee maker, hair dryer, 25-inch TV with game ports, rockers and phone with data port. Enjoy the large, covered pool year-round. Playground, miniature golf and tennis courts are also available. (812) 988-2291, (877) 7725249, www.browncountyinn.com.

Camp Palawopec Lodge & Retreat Area, 3497 Clay Lick Road, offers a lodge that sleeps 30 guests and outdoor cabins that can accommodate 70 guests.

Enjoy 300 acres of woods, trails, a 4-acre lake, canoes, kayaks, beach, campfire areas, basketball court, ultimate frisbee, soccer field, horseshoes, volleyball area, mountain bike trails, and an indoor

meeting and dining area. Kitchen facilities are available. Open year-round. (812) 988-2689, www.camppalawopec.com.

Comfort Inn, 75 W. Chestnut St., is a quarter-mile from downtown Nashville.

A Platinum and Gold Award winner, the hotel has spacious, clean, comfortable rooms with HD flat screens in every room, complimentary hot and cold breakfast, an indoor pool, fitness room and high-speed Internet. Zip line and trail ride packages are available as well as other special package rates. (812) 988-6118, www.choicehotels.com.

and charcoal grill under the trees. Close to Brown County attractions, shops, dining and Brown County State Park.

844-473-8732, creeksideretreat.net. eXplore Brown County provides affordable yet comfortable, rustic camping cabins grouped to accommodate 80 guests. Cabins have air-conditioning and heat and are equipped with a microwave and refrigerator. Some have cold-water sinks. Fire rings and picnic tables are provided outside each cabin.

A public restroom with shower facilities is open year-round. After a full day of rigorous, exciting zip line, paintball and ATV activities, gather around the campfire to share adventure stories.

Free WiFi available on front porch of cabins and front porch of Harvest Hall.

2620 Valley Branch Road, (812) 988-7750, www.explorebrowncounty.com.

Cornerstone Inn & Suites, downtown Nashville at 54 E. Franklin St., offers a private dining area and individually appointed guest rooms. Top off your getaway with a complimentary breakfast buffet. The inn has 37 guest rooms, with balconies, whirlpool tubs, fireplaces and meeting facilities. www.CornerstoneInn.com.

Cozy Bear Log Cabin, State Road 46 West, can accommodate six guests with three bedrooms in queen beds. The upper level of this cabin has two bedrooms, a full bath with whirlpool tub and a pool table.

The living room has a gas log fireplace.

The television has a full satellite package and VCR/DVD player. The screened porch offers a relaxing hot tub. (812) 829-1186, www.cobblestoneloghomes.com.

Creekside Retreat Lodging & Gatherings, 2450 State Road 46 East, offers all the luxuries of a hotel in a quiet, country atmosphere. Rooms offer pillowtop mattresses, premium linens, a microwave, mini-fridge, coffeemaker, hairdryer and complimentary Wi-Fi. Enjoy unique Fire Boulder gas fire pits on patios along with a swing, picnic table

Fondulac Farm Cabin Rentals, 5 miles west of Nashville on Lanam Ridge Road, offers three unique, fully-equipped cabins on 47 scenic acres with views, ponds, fishing, canoeing, hiking, fireplaces, outdoor fire pits, a hot tub and Internet.

Cabins accommodate up to six people.

(812) 988-4796, www.fondulacfarm.com.

Green Valley Lodge, 692 State Road 46 West, offers individually appointed rooms and grounds in a safe, quiet setting. The lodge offers king-size beds in the Royal Spa Hot Tub Suites and two double beds or one queen in the cozy overnight rooms. Ask about weeknight discounts.

Wireless Internet is available. (812) 9880231, www.greenvalleylodge.com.

Hidden Valley Inn, 201 N. Van Buren St., is a charming hotel just a short walk to shops, restaurants, theaters, galleries and activities. Each suite

Mother Earth Designs •Handmade Jewelry •Home Décor •Sterling Silver Jewelry •Candles •Goat Milk Products •Handmade Gifts & Crafts

• Braided Rugs •Table Runners •Placemats •Wood Bowls •Apple Butter •Honey

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features a kitchen, dining area and living room. (812) 988-9000, (877) 9889099, www.hiddenvalleyinn.net.

CHATEAU THOMAS WINERY

CHATEAU THOMAS WINERY NASHVILLE WINE BAR & GIFT

Enjoy wine tasting and a glass or bottle of wine on our lovely patio.

Relax in our outdoor seating surrounded by our gallery of local art.

Live Entertainment every Friday & Saturday 7-10 pm

Located at the south end of Nashville in Coachlight Square next to Sweetea’s TEA SHOP Chateau Thomas Winery l 225 S. Van Buren St. l 812.988.8500 Open Daily l www.chateauthomas.com

Hills O’ Brown Vacation Rentals, 4118 State Road 46 East near Gnaw Bone, is one of the largest full-service rental management companies in southern Indiana, managing more than 100 vacation homes, log cabins, guest suites and cottages in Brown, Bartholomew and Monroe counties. All vacation homes are fully furnished; most offer hot tubs, seasonal fireplaces and game rooms. They can accommodate from two to 24 guests, ideal for a romantic retreat, family gathering or celebrating a special occasion. The homes are located in various areas throughout the county: on private, wooded acreage, in the heart of Nashville, near Indiana University or with a scenic view. Reservations and information about all homes is available online at www.browncountylogcabins. com. Office hours are Mondays through Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (812) 988-6429.

Hilltop Cabin & Luxury Suites, 3.5 miles from downtown Nashville, offers a range of options, from a one-bedroom cabin with fireplace to suites with full kitchens, seasonal gas log fireplaces, whirlpool tubs, pool table, big screen TV and private decks. Every suite and cabin has a VCR and DVD player, as well as VHS movies.

Charcoal grills, a picnic table and fire pit are available for use by all guests. (812) 988-0984, www.browncountycabins.com.

Hotel Nashville, 245 N. Jefferson St., offers 45 rooms with an indoor pool, sauna, whirlpool spa, restaurant and lounge. The hotel features one and two bedrooms with a kitchen, dining room, living room, two full baths, balcony and cable TV. Ask about the whirlpool suites, hot tub rooms and studios. Wedding and banquet facilities are available. (812) 988-8400, www.hotelnashville.com.

The North House, 194 N. Van Buren St., offers three bedrooms featuring two king-sized beds, one queen-sized bed and a queen sleeper sofa, as well as private parking, a privacy fence around the rear deck, a grill and hot tub. (812) 9888400, www.northhousegetaway.com.

Old Magnolia House Inn, 213 S. Jefferson St. (behind the BP gas station, above 4th Sister Vintage) has overnight rooms filled with antique and vintage chairs, dressers and tables. Each room includes the modern amenities of Smart Cable TVs, pod coffee makers and wireless Internet. Three large, private rooms offer

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big comfy beds, lots of blankets, quilts, pillows, books and board games. The porch and common areas are great places for conversation in the overstuffed chairs or an old-fashioned game at the table.

The inn accommodates up to 10 guests.

Online reservations are available via the Old Magnolia House Facebook page.

Rawhide Ranch, 1291 State Road 135 South, is bordered on two sides by Brown County State Park. Come enjoy Old West lodging at its finest in the 11-room Buck Inn Horsetel, three-bedroom Ranch House, Brouse House cabin or tipis, with nightly campfires, hayrides, and breakfast and lunch served in the Banded Rooster dining room. Horseback riding and Holler Hoppin’ zip lining are available on site. (812) 9880085, www.rawhideranchusa.com.

Red Bud Inn, State Road 46 West, offers newly decorated rooms with hardwood floors, fresh, line-dried linens and charming country décor. (812) 988-1661.

Rustic Elegance, State Road 46 West, is a newly-constructed four-bedroom log home on four acres with a panoramic view to the south and beautiful wooded views in every other direction. Decks and/or porches surround the cabin. It comes with a fully-equipped kitchen, a master bedroom with a king bed and master bath with a Jacuzzi tub large enough for two. The cabin also has a halfbath for guests, a sunroom overlooking the woods and two bedrooms with king beds upstairs. (812) 829-1186, www.cobblestoneloghomes.com.

The Seasons Lodge and Conference Center, 560 State Road 46 East, is perched on top of one of Brown County’s softly rolling hills. This full-service hotel has a dining room, lounge and enclosed pool. (812) 988-2284, (800) 365-7327, www.seasonslodge.com.

The Antique Cabin, The Garden Cabin, The Kelly Reed Cabin and The Pines Cabin, on Clay Lick Road, are individual, fully-furnished log cabins that sleep two to eight guests each. They have complete kitchens, vintage claw-foot tubs and antique décor on the inside; and secluded, woodsy settings outside. Some cabins feature fireplaces, lofts or decks. They all include access to a 4-acre lake, hiking trails, canoes and kayaks, and are 10 minutes from Nashville. (812) 988-2689, www.logcabinsofbrowncounty.com.

Your Headquarters for the Great Outdoors CAMPING SUPPLIES: Tents, Camping Lights, Sleeping Bags, Grills, Fire Starters, Coleman Heaters and Lanterns, Cooking Utensils • Huge Selection of Carhartt Clothing • Lodge Cast Iron Cookware • Fishing Tackle • Horse Tack • RV Replacement Parts • Bee Keeping & Maple Syrup Supplies

Salt Creek Plaza • Nashville (812) 988-8888 www.BearHardware.com

Mon.-Sat. 7:30am-7:00pm • Sun. 10:00am-4:00pm

We Fill Propane Tanks

Escape to Country Elegance All Suite Hotel Located in Historic Downtown Nashville Private Bedroom with King Bed Dining Area & Fully Equipped Kitchenette Living Room with Queen Sofa Sleeper Private Porch/Balcony Free WIFI Fireplaces & Whirlpool Tubs available Within walking distance

Call For Specials 201 North Van Buren St. 812.988.9000 877.988.9099 www.hiddenvalleyinn.net

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Christmas in Brown County Community group planning to revive ‘An Old-fashioned Christmas’

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By SARA CLIFFORD

hristmas makes kids out of everyone.

Especially grandmas.

And especially grandmas who grew up in Brown County and can’t wait to share the traditions they enjoyed with their grandchildren.

Brenda Young and Marilyn Rudd are all of the above.

They’re also on the Christmas in Brown County committee, which is organizing a new, communitywide celebration for visitors and locals.

The theme is “An Old-fashioned Christmas.” It’s based around the traditions they remember from the 1950s and ’60s.

They remember visiting Santa in the Community Building, the largest log cabin in what is now the Brown County History Center’s Pioneer Village.

Local women would dress up as elves and hand out home-baked cookies.

Women also would gather old dolls that neighborhood children didn’t want anymore and sew new clothes for them, making them into new gifts for other children.

It took a lot of work, Rudd remembered. But it was the community gathering together to do that work.

And that’s the kind of spirit the committee hopes this revival embodies.

Visitor or local, native or transplant, all are welcome to enjoy an authentic Brown County Christmas.

Opening activities Christmas in Brown County starts the Friday after Thanksgiving with an open house at the Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau’s Visitors Center downtown. Visitors can enjoy hot chocolate and cookies and sit with Santa from noon to 5 p.m. on the patio.

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At 6 p.m., the festivities will move a half-block north to the new Brown County History Center on East Gould Street.

Local musicians will lead the crowd in carols. More cookies and hot chocolate will be served on the long, covered porch of the History Center.

There, outside, the new Community Tree will be lit. It’ll be a living tree that “will grow with the tradition,” Young said.

On that tree will be decorations made by local volunteers. They gathered for one of their “crafting days” before Halloween, learning to make bows and turning old Christmas decorations into “new” ones, much as volunteers did decades ago with doll donations.

The town and the convention and visitors bureau already had many of the materials, Young said. The volunteers were giving them an update and a local twist.

The sleighs, bows and “snow”-embellished real pine cones that will decorate the tree, and the wreaths with nature images that will decorate lampposts downtown, were created with the help of Brown County Art Guild Board President David Nickel. He’s an artist and designer who’s worked for Neiman Marcus and Disneyland, Rudd said.

“He’s so skilled. He makes things simple,” she said.

People who attend the tree lighting will receive what Young plans as the first in a series of Christmas in Brown County ornaments: A commemorative wooden nickel with “2015” and a logo which will

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<<< Opposite page: Brown County children visit with Santa in the 1960s at the log Community Building in downtown Nashville. That building is still part of the Pioneer Village. The children are Mary Beth Moore, Euella King, Marsha Moore and Roy King. | photo from the Brown County Archives by Jack Bond.

Seven hundred fifty wooden nickels have been ordered as commemorative ornaments to mark the first annual Community Tree lighting at the Brown County History Center Friday, Nov. 27.

Photo courtesy of Brenda Young

Second row, left: These wreaths, which the town and convention bureau already had, are being reworked with the help of professional artist and designer David Nickel.

The decorating committee was adding handpainted pinecones, lights and handmade bows, and Nickel was working on adding nature scenes in the center. These are the wreaths that will decorate lampposts downtown.

Second row, right: Christmas in Brown County volunteers, from left, Marilyn Rudd, Linda Wendling, Brenda Young and Dorothy Babcock, make bows. Third row, left: Volunteer Linda Wendling inserts wires into pinecones to hang on wreaths. Third row, right: Among the old-timey ornaments being made were real apple slices.

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Christmas in Brown County change each year.

The Pioneer Women and Peaceful Valley Heritage members also will make ornaments, Young said.

And other groups are coming together, too, including the Main Street Committee, Brown County Chamber of Commerce, Brown County Community Foundation, Peaceful Valley Heritage Preservation Society and the organizers of the Children’s Auction, who raise money to help needy children at Christmas.

More to see While the kickoff is that first weekend after Thanksgiving, Christmas in Brown County lasts through the next two weekends, too.

Events the first weekend of December include the popular Santa Train stop in Helmsburg on Friday night, as well as the Children’s Auction benefit downtown.

Saturday, Dec. 5, children can walk

around the village gathering gifts during Stuff a Stocking. The Brown County Community Foundation is organizing it this year. Thirty merchants and organizations are expected to participate. Last year, tickets sold out, so the foundation encourages advance ticket purchases.

Families can redeem their tickets at the foundation office to receive a custom stocking, then venture to the Brown County Public Library to hear Christmas stories.

A map will lead participants all over the village of Nashville to collect gifts from participating merchants. The Nashville Express train will help get folks around, for free, courtesy of Hills O’Brown Realty.

Santa will be available for pictures that weekend, as well, in the Log Cabin Room of the Brown County History Center.

At 1 p.m., the Brown County Playhouse downtown will show the new Christmas classic movie “Elf ” at a dis-

count for Stuff a Stocking participants.

And at 6 p.m., the Holiday Light Parade will roll down Main and Jefferson streets, delighting viewers with colorful decorations and collecting toy donations for local children in need.

The weekend of Dec. 12, more events are scheduled, including a Christmas Music Sing-Along at the Brown County Inn and the Christmas Bird Count at Brown County State Park.

Other activities may be added, too.

Young and Rudd were reminiscing about the large, round light bulbs that used to be strung across downtown streets and talking about plans for more old-time decorations and activities next year, which also will be Indiana’s bicentennial.

“This is a community tradition we hope to build,” Rudd said.

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Christmas in Brown County Friday, Nov. 27

l Visitors Center Holiday Open House: Noon to 5 p.m., Visitors Center Patio, featuring Santa and free goodies. l Community Tree Lighting: 6 p.m., Brown County History Center. l “Believe: A Brown County Christmas”: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Brown County Playhouse, live show of holiday songs and some comedy.

Continues Dec. 4-6, 11-13 and 18-20.

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l Visit with Santa: Noon to 5 p.m., Visitors Center patio.

Friday, Dec. 4

l Children’s Auction benefit: 6 p.m., Out of the Ordinary restaurant,

auction of donated items to help local children get new clothing. l Santa Train: 8:30 p.m., Helmsburg tracks, visit with Santa and storybook characters on an Indiana Rail Road train.

Saturday, Dec. 5

l Breakfast with Santa: 8:30 to 11 a.m., Brown County Inn. Continues Sunday morning. l Stuff a Stocking: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., downtown Nashville according to map. l Steele’s Country Christmas: Noon to 4 p.m., T.C. Steele State Historic Site, Belmont, 1920s Christmas celebration at artist Steele’s home. l Visit with Santa: Noon to 5 p.m., Brown County History Center.

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l Christmas Music Sing-Along: 7:30 p.m., Brown County Inn, led by local musicians. l Christmas Open House and Weekend Exhibition: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Charlene Marsh Studio and Gallery, Lanam Ridge Road

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Sharing traditions

There’s something magical about Christmastime here.

Maybe it’s the twinkling lights and wreaths in a downtown still full of spirit.

Maybe it’s the quiet back roads where you actually do travel over the rivers and through the woods.

Maybe it’s the smell of wood smoke in the air, stirring up visions of coziness and family.

All of us who write for the Almanack have experienced it in Brown County.

Here are some of the traditions we enjoy.

Troll the ancient yuletide carol

By SUZANNAH COUCH

On Lick Creek and Oak Ridge roads, the Kelso clan throws on their hats and coats to carol each other in our “compound” on Christmas Eve. My mom lives on Lick Creek, my aunt lives down the road from her on a farm that has been in our family for generations, and my grandparents live through the woods from my mom on Oak Ridge.

Each Christmas Eve we begin our caroling at my aunt’s house. We sing a tune like “Frosty the Snowman,” or just a few lines depending on how cold it is, and hopefully with the right lyrics. Once we’re inside, we eat cookies and open presents from my aunt and her family.

Next it’s my mom’s house, which requires us to leave my aunt’s early, run home and act as if we had been waiting all evening to hear carols from the ones we love. Then, the gift exchange happens, photos are taken and my Nana and Papa leave for their house before us, because they’re the next and final stop.

Despite our inability to hit that high note toward the end of “Silent Night,” my Nana requests we sing this to her year after year. Since she is the adorable, ultimate Christmas fan and treat maker — she usually has her decorations up before Thanksgiving and her peanut butter fudge is out of this world — we happily oblige.

Once inside, the feast begins. But it’s not your usual mashed potatoes, ham and green beans kind of dinner. We have sandwiches, chips and dip, macaroni and cheese and “Polish mistakes.” If you don’t know what Polish mistakes are, you’re missing out. They are a delicious combination of ground beef, melted Velveeta cheese, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder and oregano on mini rye bread pieces.

Around 8 p.m., “A Christmas Story” marathon starts on TBS, and we all snuggle into my Nana and Papa’s living room to watch the classic and open presents.

What are in these presents? Surprise matching Christmas pajamas. Yes, at 25 years old, I still get to wear pajamas that match my mom, sister, Nana and

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The Kelso family poses for a photo in their matching sock monkey pajamas on Christmas morning: (front row) Amy Kelso, Emily Kelso-Sichting, Elizabeth Kelso; (back row): Suzannah Couch, Nancy Kelso and Eliza Couch.

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traditions two aunts on Christmas morning. Last year, Nana dressed us all as sock monkeys; a hood with a monkey face on it was included.

Nana loves Christmas so much, we happily wear footie pajamas with a hooded monkey face just for her.

When I was younger, my Papa would call us every Christmas morning to let us know that Santa had visited and we needed to get up there to see what presents he left. We would open our presents at my parents’ house, then head up to my Nana and Papa’s for a biscuit-and-gravy Christmas breakfast and more presents. That tradition still lives today. Papa calls and checks in with us every Christmas morning and organizes all of us coming up to spend the holiday together.

Following breakfast is a Christmas dinner with my grandma, my dad’s mom, and all of my aunts, uncles and cousins. Her house is always full of delicious smells and happy laughter as everyone gathers together to celebrate Christmas and exchange gifts.

My Christmas traditions are long-standing, and I look forward to when I have my own children who will tag along for caroling, present opening and enjoying lots of food surrounded by my loving, supportive, adorable family.

But until then, I will enjoy this Christmas by watching my redheaded, blue-eyed, cuddly, giggly nephew open his first presents from Santa.

Santa visits with children on his Santa Train in Helmsburg.

Brown County Democrat file photo.

Here comes Santa Claus!

Here comes Santa Claus!

By SARA CLIFFORD

I am thankful to have an 8-year-old who hasn’t wavered in his belief in Santa; whose eyes still light up when he reads the thank-you note the big guy has left for his cookies and the carrots “for Rudolph.”

I thank The Santa Train for it.

Since he was old enough to know who Santa was, we’ve taken him to meet the train in Helmsburg. It’s always the first Friday night in December.

Brown County is the last stop that evening for the crew from the Indiana Rail Road Company. It stops in Bargersville first, then Morgantown, then Helmsburg.

Everywhere, it meets giant crowds of adoring children. So it’s understandable that it’s often a little late when it reaches the end of the line.

We’re usually late getting there, anyway, preparing

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Derek Clifford and son Caleb watch the train roll into Helmsburg. | photo courtesy of Sara Clifford

for what is usually the coldest night of the season thus far. You have to dress in as many layers as you can actually move in. One of those should be pajamas if you’re 5 or younger, so you’re bedtime-ready when you finally get home. Don’t neglect your toes, either.

I suggest double layers of socks, if not triple.

Helmsburg used to be a bustling whistle-stop back in Brown County’s olden days, but there isn’t a depot anymore. Now, there’s a fire station nearly next door to the tracks, and a brick building with a lot of character that most recently was the Fig Tree Gallery.

Volunteer firefighters direct you where to park. A couple of years ago, some fire department members were also involved in a small theater troupe, and they put on a play inside the Fig Tree – “The Grinch”

– and served hot chocolate. Outside, their parents, cupping hot coffee, hold their places in line as the kids dash around the open spaces playing tag and climbing trees.

We all wait to hear the whistle. There are often a couple of false alarms. But then, the magic happens.

Used to be, they’d let everyone gather next to the tracks to watch the engine approach. You’d hear the volunteer firefighters talking back and forth on their radios, and a ripple of excitement would flow down the line as the headlights grew brighter. One of my favorite Christmas photos of all time is from when my 8-year-old was about 2½. He’s sitting on his dad’s shoulders, screaming “Choo-choo train!” with a goatee-like ring of cocoa around his mouth. You can’t illustrate happiness any clearer than that.

These days, everyone waits behind a fence, for safety. But dads still stack kids on their shoulders, trying to get the first glimpse of the decked-out train rolling in.

Santa waves from the door “Ho-Ho-Ho”-ing and yelling “Merry Christmas!” Life-sized storybook characters dance around and mingle with the crowd. They happily pose for about a million photos while the line

moves toward Santa’s car.

Kids can hardly stand still once they step up into the coach. Some carry letters that they place in a basket next to him. Some are rehearsing what they’re going to say. Others – like my kid, the first year – are so enthralled with the candy cane that’s pressed into their gloved hand that they forget to express their wishes at all. “Open this, please,” was all he had to say until his turn on the lap was over.

Every year, he does notice one thing, though: This Santa’s beard is real. And it’s always the same guy, not some too-jolly, too-soft-stuffed impostor.

We may run into others throughout the season, with the shiny, unnaturally white beard and eyebrows that don’t match it. My son’s rationale in his older, wiser years is that these are helper Santas, who communicate the wishes of children who couldn’t make it to meet the train.

And there’s more evidence, which he’s noticed in past years as well: While kids were waiting in line, volunteers delivered warm coats, mittens and hats to the little ones who needed them.

In Brown County, Santa doesn’t arrive by sleigh.

He needs a train to deliver this much joy.

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traditions

Peace on earth, goodwill to men

By BEN KIBBEY

I had only been in Brown County three months when I got to experience my first Christmas here — the first of what I hope will be many.

I applied to work at the paper on the suggestion of a friend who knows me as well as any, so I had an idea I would like it. I knew about the smells and the sights to expect, about the tempting scent of fresh-baked pastries in the winter that would waft at me, making me want to rise off my feet like a cartoon character and follow.

But nothing really prepared me for how beautiful Brown County is.

Oh sure, the pictures are pretty enough, especially of the town snuggled up under a coat of new snow, but you will never see what really makes this place beautiful until you take some time with the people who live here.

My first Christmas tradition in Brown County — at least I expect it to be a tradition — was the Christmas Light Parade.

It’s the kind of thing that happens in Brown County: Someone finds out he has neighbors in need, and his first words are, “What can I do?”

Well, that person in this story is a grizzly-looking teddy bear of a man named Ted Hayes.

Someone told Hayes of children in the county who live in poverty, and as someone who grew up in hard times in Detroit, his heart went out to them, and his hands and feet followed.

Organizer Ted Hayes unloads childrens’ bicycles from his “sleigh” attached to the back of his motorcycle after the Christmas Toy Drive and Light Parade. | photo by Ben Kibbey

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“Grinch” John Kennard hands out handshakes and lumps of coal to county residents during the 2014 Christmas Light Parade. | staff photo by Ben Kibbey

Now, every year on the first Saturday of December, people from all over the county — there are fewer than 15,000 of us altogether — fill the Brown County High School parking lot and line Schoolhouse Lane and prepare.

They pass through town in pickup trucks and muscle cars and on floats decorated to the nines. The Guffeys from Brown County Tire decked out their tow truck. There was even a bus done up as Rudolph.

They walk with dogs wrapped in Christmas lights, have puppet shows along the way, pass out candy — or coal, but I’ll come back to that — and offer some Christmas cheer while gathering toy donations for local children.

Well, my first time, it was a cold, long day.

I had just gotten back from Indianapolis in time for the parade, and it was my job to take pictures.

I walked the line of participants as they waited to begin and gathered names and associations to make my job a little easier when it came time to write captions.

No one really knew me then.

Nowadays, it’s difficult to walk very far down a Nashville street without bumping into a friendly conversation, whether I mean to or not. Back then, I was just a stranger with a camera.

Yet I was a welcome stranger.

People who had sat for hours in the cold had nothing but smiles and cheerful answers to my clumsy, inexperienced questions. If they didn’t know the answer, it was everything I could do to try to beg them not to go completely out of their way to find someone who did.

And then the parade began.

Hayes had decked out his motorcycle with a trailer made up to look like Santa’s sleigh. He already had a

child’s bike in it that he was donating.

Leading the parade, he stopped by a small girl who thought his contraption was just the neatest thing. In moments, she and her mom were in Hayes’ sidecar and part of the parade.

The parade rolled on, and I was running all around, trying to get every picture I could.

Then I saw John Kennard.

Kennard, a county commissioner at the time, is also a health department inspector. His type of work doesn’t always make him the most loved man in the county. But like so many of Brown County’s characters, he owns the legend that precedes him.

Kennard was dressed as the Grinch, and smiling a smile the Grinch would be proud of, he was happily handing out lumps of coal to the townspeople.

Too soon, the parade was over, and I took my camera and headed over to the Salvation Army, where the toys were unloaded and sorted.

And, well now, that was the sight of the night for me.

Because Hayes was there and Kennard, too. I saw Republicans and Democrats and people who don’t like either party. I saw faces I knew and faces I would

come to know, and not every one of them loved the others all the time, I suppose.

But that night, there, that didn’t matter. They stuffed into the hallway just the same and passed the toys through.

It’s an odd thing, a small community tucked away in the woods and hills.

Some people think that’s a result of time forgetting this place or maybe about looking good for the tourists. Some might even assume the people here just have a better quality of soul.

I’ve been here a year now, and so I know I am far from an expert. But I think maybe there’s just a bit of people sometimes realizing they need each other, whether they always like each other or not.

And in Brown County at Christmas, you might see it even at county meetings: sworn enemies passing candy around and laughing at their own expense. You might see the Grinch helping to unload toy donations, and you might see a smile from a stranger, for no reason other than they just want to pass that smile on to you.

And that, for me, is just about as beautiful as a thing can get.

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Barb Brooke Davis, 61 W. Main St., is in the Ferrer Gallery. Davis designs and stitches decorative home accessories, including wall art, pillows, pin-keeps and seasonal felted pins using overdyed vintage wool. The method is textile assemblage or collage with multiple layers of wool, threads and embellishments creating the original designs. Open most days, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. (812) 360-0478, www.barbbrookedavis. com, jobardavis@yahoo.com.

Brown County Art Gallery, three blocks east of the courthouse on Main Street, Brown County’s original art gallery established in 1926, offers works for sale by Gallery Association members, plus consigned old Indiana art. The remodeled exhibition space now includes the Indiana Heritage Arts Gallery, featuring many of Indiana’s professional artists. Browse the museum and enjoy works by the early art colony masters. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. There’s ample parking and free admission. (812) 9884609, www.browncountyartgallery. org, brncagal@att.net.

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Sunday; January and February, weekends only; closed Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. (812) 988-6185, www.browncounty.org.

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Cathy Haggerty at Franklin Shoppes, 39 E. Franklin St., offers a unique mix of antiques, jewelry, art and hard-tofind items. Commissions for portraits, saw blades, landscapes and still-life paintings are also accepted. Painting classes are offered. (812) 988-4091.

Chris Gustin — Homestead Weaving Studio, 6285 Hamilton Creek Road, is two miles south of Crouch’s Market near Hilltop Christian Camp. Gustin, an Indiana Artisan, offers hand-woven “recycled rugs,” shawls, throws, clothing and scarves. Also, find equipment and supplies for weaving, knitting and spinning. Commissions are accepted. Visitors are welcome, and “day weaving” classes are available. Homestead Weaving Studio is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. most days from March through December and other times by appointment. www. homesteadweaver.com, (812) 9888622, chris@homesteadweaver.com.

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Dick Ferrer, 61 W. Main St., on the second level of the Village Green Building, showcases his award-winning impressionistic paintings of local scenes, plus his popular raven and crow series and tribal art in the Ferrer Gallery. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Tuesday. (812) 988-1994, www. ferrergallery.com, dferrer@att.net.

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Dixie Ferrer, 61 W. Main St., on the second level of the Village Green Building, has a fine art and teaching studio in the Ferrer Gallery. Dixie paints in oils and is well known for her mixed-media works. She applies a combination of varied techniques to create two- and three-dimensional creations. Dixie also teaches classes to children and adults. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Tuesday. (812) 988-1994, www. ferrergallery.com, dferrer@att.net.

Faerie Hollow Studio, Cheri and Dallas Platter’s studio, is nestled between two hills just five minutes from town. Cheri specializes in precious metal clays of silver, bronze and copper by mixing these pieces with semi-precious stones into her original jewelry designs. Dallas works with flame and glass to create lamp-work beads. Cheri, a certified teacher in PMC/Silver Art Clay, teaches classes year-round. Studio hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1650 Salt Creek Road, 2.5 miles from State Road 46 East. (812) 988-8378, www.cheriplatter.com.

Ferrer Gallery, on the second level of the Historic Village Green building, is a fine art and craft gallery representing original works of local, regional and national artists. Inside you can shop the large gallery, visit a working studio and sign up for some classes Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Tuesday.

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61 W. Main, (812) 988-1994, www. ferrergallery.com, ddferreratt.net.

Hoosier Artist Gallery, 45 S. Jefferson St., features the work of more than 25 local and Indiana artists. Visit for contemporary fine art, fine crafts and gifts. Open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (812) 988-6888, www.HoosierArtist.net.

Mary Jo Limp Gallery, 1436 State Road 46 West, is the working studio of artist Mary Jo Limp, who creates plein air landscapes, town scenes and still-lifes. She works in oil, watercolor, acrylic and pen and ink.

Commissions are accepted, and visitors are welcome. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. (812) 9881948, maryjolimp@sbcglobal.net.

The work of Patricia Rhoden Bartels can be seen at the Rhoden Gallery at eXplore Brown County, 2620 Valley Branch Road. Rhoden Bartels captures the beauty of nature in oil and acrylic paintings. Her work hangs in major corporations, private collections and museums across the country.

Spears Gallery, 5110 State Road 135 South, 10 miles from downtown Nashville, is the working studio of Larry Spears. Here, find traditional pottery, finely crafted, and displays of decorative and functional pottery.

Spears Gallery also has opened a downtown location: 15 S. Van Buren next to the Nashville House. There,

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find pottery by Larry Spears, fine art photography by Kyle Spears and jewelry by Tyler Spears.

Studio gallery (812) 988-1287, downtown gallery (812) 9881286, www.spearspottery.com.

Susan Threehawks of Smashing Designs, 61 W. Main St., on the second floor of the Village Green Building, creates one-of-a-kind mosaic art furniture, gifts and treasures from broken glass, china, pottery, gems, buttons, shells and other found objects. Group and individual classes are available.

Commission work is welcome.

Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. (812) 344-5417.

T. C. Steele State Historic Site, 4220 T.C. Steele Road off State Road 46 West, is open from early spring to late fall. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday; closed Mondays and most holidays but open July 4 and Labor Day. (812) 988-2785.

Waldron Gallery of Brown County, in the Main Street Shoppes complex on Old School Way, was coined “a prize find” in the Chicago Tribune. The gallery/ studio features original paintings

by Wayne Waldron and fine art photography by Peggy Waldron, both nationally recognized artists who maintain an impressive presence in the art world.

The gallery is distinguished

by Morgan & Chase’s book, “Treasures of Indiana,” as “a true Indiana treasure, inspiring a sense of awe at the sheer beauty of creation.” See woodland oil landscapes, fine art photography, watercolors, miniature paintings and the Songbirds of Brown County Collection. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. (812) 988-1844, www.waldrongallery.com.

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Handmade in Brown County B3 Gallery is at 125 S. Van Buren St., on the second floor of the Artist Colony Shops. It sells fine art and crafts made by local artists. Stop in to see the selection of jewelry, photography, glass, pottery, wood, painting, lithophanes, fiber arts and more. The gallery is open Sunday through Thursday

from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Carol’s Crafts Fine Gifts and Collectibles is in the Artist Colony Shops.

Choose from Glass Baron hand-blown glass, Gooseberry Patch cookbooks, Jim Shore Originals, Lori Mitchell folk

art, Painted Ponies, Horse of a Different Color, Pipka Santas, Lang Graphics calendars and cards, Lenox Classics and more. Locally handcrafted items included painted ornaments by Jessi Vandenberg and pottery by Fox Run of Brown County. (812) 988-6388, (800) 345-6388, www.carolscrafts.com.

Cathy’s Corner, 39 E. Franklin St., offers a unique mix of antiques, jewelry, art and hard-to-find items. Take a look at the wide variety of items and paintings. Painting classes are available by appointment. (812) 988-4091 or email cathyscornerbc@gmail.com.

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For Bare Feet and For Bare Feet Too offer socks made at the company’s Indiana factory. Visit both shops in the Antique Alley complex and on Main Street across from the Hobnob Corner restaurant. www.fbforiginals.com.

Grasshopper Flats Jewelers, 150 S. Van Buren St., showcases the fine jewelry creations of owner/designer/ jeweler Doug Stoffer, who has been working with diamonds, opals, gemstones and Austrian lead crystal for more than 30 years. (812) 988-4037.

Johanna Lee Bathology allows you to transform your home into a spa. It offers all-natural cold press and glycerin soaps, luxury bath salts, bath bombs, candles, lotion bars, sugar scrubs, gift baskets and more, all handmade in the shop. The new location is 58 W. Main St., just a few doors down from the Visitors Center. (812) 988-6898, johannaleesoaps@yahoo.com.

K. Bellum Leather, 92 W. Franklin, in Antique Alley, features the work of several Brown County craftsmen. Find handbags, belts, hats, accessories, shoes, slippers, moccasins and more, as well as leather tools, dyes and supplies.

(812) 988-4513, www.kbellum.com.

Since 1992, Moonshine Leather Co. has offered high-quality handmade leather goods. All products are made in the U.S.A. by staff. Solid leather belts, work aprons, cellphone cases, wallets, handbags and briefcases are but a few of the items.

They use only luxurious, high-quality beautiful leathers for their goods and guarantee the workmanship. Moonshine Leather Co., 38 S. Van Buren St., is open daily, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Winter hours are 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. (812) 988-6582.

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Mother Earth Designs, in Franklin Square on West Franklin Street, offers handmade jewelry by an in-house designer as well as fine fashion jewelry, using natural stones from the earth in many pieces. It also offers a unique variety of wall decor, some local photography pieces and watercolors by in-house artist. Unframed prints are available. A nice mix of handcrafted wood signs and wood crafts are sold, as well as triple-scented Wick Wizard candles, Indiana goat milk products, hand-crocheted dish cloths, crocheted baby quilts, rag quilts and handmade fleece baby blankets. (812) 988-0390.

The Totem Post, 78 S. Van Buren St., was opened in 1952 by Bill and Marielle Jockey. At the time, they did custom leatherwork and carried handmade American Indian jewelry and foreign crafts. Today, their merchandise has expanded, but the atmosphere is much the same. Many people bring their grandchildren to visit the shop they remember from childhood.

Open daily, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. (812) 988-2511, www.thetotempost.com.

Albert Drake Jr. creates contemporary jewelry and buys and sells estate, antique silver and gold jewelry at Touch of Silver, Gold & Old. 87 E. Main St., (812) 988-6990.

Tulip Tree Jewelry is on the second floor of the Artist Colony Shops, inside B3 Gallery. Local jeweler Heather Bussert creates and sells her beaded pieces on site. Stop in and treat yourself to a local souvenir, or commission something special. Open Sunday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Vintage Rose, 36 E. Franklin St., offers fabulous treasures for decorating your home, accessorizing your wardrobe or serving tea — whether your style is cottage, romantic, shabby chic, Victorian, Paris chic or country French. The Vintage Rose also carries unique one-of-a-kind “salvaged treasures,” items that needed a little TLC and were given a new birth.

These diamonds in the rough include handpainted or distressed furniture, chandeliers, shelves and garden décor.

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‘A story in the snow’ Slower, quiet winter season may be one of the best times to see wildlife

By BEN KIBBEY

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hen winter eases over the landscape and many of the tourists head out, things quiet down in Brown County, and Brown County State Park is no exception. Yet there is still plenty going on, if you know what to look for.

People may not see many animals in the park in the winter without a great deal of patience, said Jim Eagleman, park interpretive naturalist. But that doesn’t mean they can’t see what the animals have been up to.

Going out after a fresh snowfall and looking for signs in the snow can be a good way to get an idea of what is going on around us in the winter, Eagleman said.

“I’ve always looked at that as a fun activity for seeing what’s been there before I arrived, and being like a detective: You’re piecing together the clues,” he said.

“You see where it came from, where it’s going; was there any distraction or interruption — a pausing?”

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property manager, likes to use tracks as a teaching tool for children, he said.

“They say, ‘It’s winter, what do we do?’ And I say, ‘Go read a story in the snow.’

“Follow a set of tracks and find out: What did they eat and where do they go to the bathroom and what did they encounter or see? Or did something follow them, or did they follow something else?” Snyder said, “just reading that whole story that just goes on and on.”

Attracting wildlife Though some animals are hibernating, such as woodchucks and chipmunks, others are out and active so long as the weather isn’t too cold, Eagleman said.

“As long as birds and animals can get out of the wind and stay somewhat dry, and they have food — those are the three requirements for survival: staying dry, staying out of the wind and maintaining the internal furnace —

they’ll survive,” he said.

As a result, animals are attracted to basic shelter, such as brush piles, in the winter months. On Eagleman’s own property, he purposefully maintains piles from tree trimmings and the like that then become covered in leaves in the fall.

“They really do act as refuge sites for critters to crawl in: squirrels, chipmunks, voles, shrews, mice, a lot of songbirds that overwinter,” he said. “I’ve had a possum in one of them; fox tracks are around them, so they’re looking to hunt — coyote tracks, too.

“We tend to beat back nature and mow it back and keep it clean, and then we wonder where all the animals have gone.”

The patient approach “You get people that walk trails, talking to each other and talking to the kids and the kids running around,” Snyder said. “Then they come to us and say, ‘Well, we haven’t seen any deer in this park at all.’

“Well, you’re not going to see any deer at all the way you guys go through,” he said.

Human presence acts like a pebble thrown into a pond, Snyder said. The sounds and smells of a person push out into the environment, chasing wildlife away.

But with enough time and patience, the ripples can subside, and nature will return.

“There’s an old method, it’s called ‘Seton watching,’ where you go out and sit in the woods someplace, and you try, best as you can, to become part of the environment,” he said.

But the method Snyder described was more intense than just sitting in the woods checking Facebook and waiting for something to show up.

“Modern camo and stuff really help blend in, but if you go out and sit as still as you possibly can — you don’t move, you don’t flinch, you don’t swing at a

Nature Center hours

Brown County State Park is open year-round, and its Nature Center offers a room with a glass wall made for viewing small wildlife, if you’re not a fan of being outside in the cold. Nature Center winter hours are Mondays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Sundays, 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Winter Hike

The annual Winter Hike is usually the third weekend in January. Check browncounty.com/calendar as details are announced.

bug that might be buzzing in your ear — and after a period of time, wildlife kind of forgets that you’re there,” he said.

A person has to be aware of everything, even their scent and the direction of the wind. Smoking or a strong perfume may keep wildlife away, Snyder said. They may have to sit still for an hour or more, making no noise or movement. But the result is worth it.

“I’ve done that with a few people before, where I’ve sat them down and said, ‘Just sit here, and if you can sit here an hour without moving, it’s going to be amazing,’” he said.

“And pretty soon, you’ll have squirrels come within feet of you, or chipmunks run across your foot, or birds land on your shoulder. I mean, it’s pretty cool. Doesn’t always happen like that, but sometimes it does.”

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Property managers get to enjoy, maintain Brown County State Park year-round

By BEN KIBBEY

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rown County State Park is home to a diverse population of Indiana wildlife.

It’s also home to a few people: Property Manager Doug Baird, Assistant Property Manager Kevin Snyder and their families.

“The winter is only different because of the weather,” Baird said. “When the snow flies, or a tree falls, or fire alarms go off at the lodge — or any kind of maintenance or problems come up — we’re the people on call.

“That’s the downside of it I guess, but it’s sure a great place to live otherwise,” Baird said. “No neighbors — no close neighbors to have squabbles with,” he

added with a smile.

Baird has been living at the park for 37 years. He started as assistant property manager. That’s more than a few winters dealing with the weather and the winter duties.

“I remember one time getting stuck on the hill by the Aynes House with my truck and having to walk quite a ways to get to the service area to get the truck to start spreading the sand,” he said. “Luckily, I had some of those ice cleats you put on your shoes, or I wouldn’t have even been able to get myself up the hill.”

Snyder’s home is near the campground. He said it’s likely not much different than living in any other backroad

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Property managers portion of Brown County, but with a few exceptions: “I can’t complain if the roads aren’t plowed, because it’s my job to do it,” he said.

Family men Snyder has worked for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for about 18 years and at Brown County State Park for four. Living in parks for much of his career, his wife and two daughters are used to the lifestyle.

Snyder said they appreciate the peace and quiet, though they sometimes forget how much more quiet it is until a visitor comments on the tranquility, he said.

“If you ask my kids, ‘What’s it like growing up in a park?’

They go, ‘Normal,’” he said.

“They don’t know the difference

between living outside the park versus living inside the park; that’s all they’ve ever known.

“They’ve always wanted to live in town,” he admitted.

“They kind of miss the concept of being able to have other kids nearby, or something going on and being able to walk to so-andso’s house and do something. I guess, in a way, we do miss having neighbors, but on the other hand, sometimes it’s nice not to.”

Baird and his wife raised two sons in the park. Both are in their 20s now.

“I think it helped to give them some appreciation of nature, and especially, once they get away, they see the difference. I think they kind of both came to appreciate being in the natural setting more,” he said. “They’re not city kids. They didn’t know any different. They’ve never

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The winter is no break at the park.

In addition to plowing and cleaning up fallen trees, park staff and the property managers have maintenance to catch up on from the summer, paperwork to complete, and even a few stranded hikers from time to time to be retrieved from the trails.

“We try to prepare and plan things out for the upcoming spring, like roofing jobs and that kind of thing,” Snyder said. “By the time the snow gets off the cabins and so forth, it’s not quite time to put the roof on yet, but by the time it’s time to put the roof on — right temperatures and so forth — then you start getting people in them.”

The park staff also has to maintain the water and sewer

systems that serve the park and the Abe Martin Lodge, which hosts guests and events yearround. With all that work, winter doesn’t bring the park property managers any extra free time, or nearly as much opportunity to get out in the woods as they would like.

“I always thought, come winter, I’m going to get out and walk, learn the park boundaries and check the signs,” Baird said. “One time I think I ever got to it.”

Yet even when he can’t get out and explore, Baird enjoys having Indiana’s largest park outside his front door. Asked what he enjoyed most about living there, he didn’t hesitate: “Well, obviously the quiet and then the lack of people being nearby,” he said. “The peace — I think what anybody would enjoy about it.”

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Food, Snacks & Spirits Accent Dining Room at The Seasons Lodge offers dining with spectacular views of the wooded hillside. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the restaurant offers a fried chicken buffet on Tuesday evenings and a prime rib buffet on Friday evenings. Fried biscuits and apple butter are available for each meal. Soup and salad bar are also available. Reservations are suggested but not required. For cocktails and live music, head into the Saloon Lounge.

Various musical entertainers perform from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. (812) 988-2284.

Bear Wallow Distillery, 4484 E. Old State Road 46, Gnaw Bone, is one of the first craft distilleries in Indiana.

It uses only locally grown grains to make unique Indiana spirits in an old-fashioned copper pot still. Take the Farm-to-Fifth Tour and see how they make handcrafted Indiana Corn

Whiskey. Try a Whiskey Lovers sample flight or a Moonshine Shake-up made with real fruit elixirs. Bear Wallow doesn’t just like to drink whiskey, but eat it as well, so come shop the “Eat Your Whiskey” section for a unique selection of whiskey-inspired edible creations. Open daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for tours and tastings. (812) 657-4923, www.bearwallowdistillery. com and on Facebook for updates on events and hours of operation.

Big Woods Brewing Co., 60 Molly’s Lane, one of the Midwest’s newest and most unique microbreweries, was founded by Tim O’Bryan, Ed Ryan and Jeff McCabe. Located in the heart of Brown County, the timber-frame brew house features a full-service restaurant and bar, with small-batch craft beer on tap and weekly food specials ranging from pan-seared Indiana duck to

Emily’s Yumbalaya Jumbalaya. (812) 988-6000, www.bigwoodsbeer.com.

Producing award-winning wines for 21 years, Brown County Winery offers locally made wine, wine accessories and gifts for wine people, along with local jams, salsa and jelly. The tasting room is at the corner of Main Street and Old School Way. Stop by the winery and tasting room in Gnaw Bone, 4520 State Road 46 East. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, year-round.

(812) 988-6144 or (888) 298-2984, www.browncountywinery.com.

The Candy Dish, 61 W. Main St., offers fine chocolates, fudge made right in the store, nostalgic candy and much more. Check out the Mr. Peanut collectibles display. (812) 988-7606.

One of the charms of Carmel Corn Cottage, 82 N. Van Buren St., is the size and how many products can fit inside.

It serves everything from popcorn to candies to caramel apples and drinks.

Even the signs on the walls are for sale.

Samples are always free. (812) 9886011, www.carmelcorncottage.com.

Casa Del Sol, 101 Washington St., offers authentic Mexican cuisine in the heart of Nashville. Open daily with a kids menu and a full bar. (812) 988-4535.

Cedar Creek Winery & Brew Co., 38 E. Franklin St., features free tasting of locally made wines. The selection varies from bold dry reds to refreshing whites and sweet fruit wines. Open seven days a week from noon to 5 p.m.

Chateau Thomas Wine Bar and Gift Shoppe, 225 S. Van Buren St., Coachlight Square, offers award-winning vinifera wines, plus well-known musicians — local and otherwise — performing all styles of music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Friday and Saturday. You’ll find gourmet foods, cheese plates and gift items. Step upstairs to the loft and enjoy wine amid the Native American art in the John Elmore Gallery. Weather-

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permitting, grab a spot on the covered patio. Group tastings can be arranged in advance. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. (812) 988-8500, www.chateauthomas.com.

Enjoy live music every Friday and Saturday night at Corn Crib Lounge at the Brown County Inn, junction of state roads 46 and 135. Local musicians, as well as artists from surrounding areas and states, provide the live entertainment. (812) 988-2291.

The Daily Grind, established in 1977, offers gourmet coffees and teas along with a delicious food menu. Breakfast features include Belgian waffles, yummy egg dishes, old-fashioned biscuits and gravy and a wide variety of Shapiro’s of Indianapolis bagels.

Lunch choices include jumbo deli-style sandwiches, snacks, pastries and other goodies. Four coffees are brewing at all times. The restaurant also offers smoothies, iced coffees, old-fashioned root beer floats, fresh iced teas and ice-cold sodas. Come by and let the staff take care of your coffee needs, hunger pangs and sweet tooth. Open Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 9 a.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 8 a.m. “Not just a coffee shop; a destination!” (812) 988-4808.

Take in the casual Victorian setting, while dining on top Angus beef, chicken, fresh seafood, pasta or salads, along with homemade desserts at Darlene’s at Hotel Nashville, 245 N. Jefferson St. A full bar also is available. (812) 988-8400.

The Farmhouse Cafe (seasonal), 5171 N. Upper Bean Blossom Road, offers healthy, fresh homemade meals and refreshing drinks served in an 1830s brick farmhouse. Enjoy homemade soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts, iced teas and fruit frizzes.

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5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Call for seasonal hours. (812) 988-2004.

Harvest Preserve, 61 W. Main St., makes its own apple butter, plus sauces, mixes and spices. (812) 988-7606.

Ice Cream Cottage (seasonal), 79 N. Van Buren St., was established in 1998.

It’s known for delicious taco salad, chili dogs, turkey wraps and other specialties, plus its hand-dipped flavors of ice cream and homemade custard flavors in the fall. It’s won the People’s Choice Award during the downtown Chocolate Walk five years in a row.

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Enjoy assorted fresh roasted nuts, fudge, chocolates and more at Jack and Jill Nut Shop, beside the Playhouse on South Van Buren Street. Mail order is available. (812) 988-7480.

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With its rustic charm and quaint elegance, the Little Gem Restaurant, at the Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County State Park, is the perfect place to sit back, relax and enjoy a Hoosier classic from the menu or a plate of offerings from one of the unique buffets. The outdoor patio seating offers spectacular views of the woods and park. The Little Gem Restaurant is open daily for breakfast from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and dinner from 5 to 9 p.m.

McDonald’s, Salt Creek Plaza, offers fast food, including burgers and fries, fish sandwiches, chicken sandwiches and assorted salads, plus breakfast favorites. Open daily. (812) 988-4452.

Miller’s Ice Cream House, 61 W. Main St., has been making real homemade ice cream, the old-fashioned way with rock salt and ice, since 1977. Enjoy all the basic flavors (and then some) served in dishes, cake or homemade waffle cones, as shakes, malts, sodas or floats or on warm homemade cobbler or a sundae. Hours vary by season. (812) 988-0815, www.millericecream.com.

At Nashville Fudge Kitchen, 60 S. Van Buren St., the creamy fudges are made the old-fashioned way, cooked

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in a copper kettle and hand-paddled on thick marble tables. The gourmet candy-coated popcorns are made from original recipes, and the handdipped candy, caramel apples, creamy fudge, gelato and ice cream are all favorites. Nashville Fudge Kitchen ships everywhere. (812) 988-0709, www.nashvillefudgekitchen.com.

At the Nashville General Store & Bakery, 118 E. Washington St., enjoy chicken salad with grapes and pecans served with pumpkin bread, fresh soups or other sandwiches on freshbaked bread or Kaiser rolls, plus fried biscuits with apple butter and freshbaked desserts. (812) 988-6362.

Out of the Ordinary Supper Club and Hickory Sports Bar, 61 S. Van Buren St., is a full-service restaurant and bar serving lunch and dinner daily. Now nightlife has a new address with live entertainment, dancing and sports.

Come hang out for major sporting events viewed on the gigantic-screen TV. It’s centrally located at the corner of Van Buren and Main streets in the heart of Nashville. Reservations recommended. (812) 778-9730, www.goldenticketproductions. com and on Facebook.

Specializing in looseleaf teas, Sweetea’s Tea Shop, 225 S. Van Buren St., Suite C, in Coachlight Square, also offers coffee and lemonade and a variety of cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Stop in for a relaxing getaway where you can unwind by the fireplace with a nice cup of tea, read a book, surf the Web with free Wi-Fi or chat with friends.

Sweetea’s can be a destination for a bridal shower, baby shower, birthday party or a gathering place for a book club or Bible study. (812) 988-6515.

Trolly’s (seasonal), at the corner of Van Buren and Gould streets, offers its own hickory-smoked pork barbecue, homemade sloppy Joes, Italian sausage and hot dogs with all the trimmings.

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Second marriage,

Lasting love Couple who honeymooned in Brown County living out golden years here

By SUZANNAH COUCH

W

hen asked what the secret is to a long, happy marriage, the answers are different from Ralph Grothouse, 95, and his wife Christine, 93.

Ralph said it’s marrying the right person. For both, that happened the second time around. The couple celebrated their 44th anniversary Sept. 4.

Christine said it’s important not to hold anything in.

“I would say, for me, (as far as) making this marriage happy, if I don’t like something, I unload it. I don’t keep it quiet to myself. Out it goes,” she said.

Christine was born in Germany and lived there until 1952 when she moved to the United States to be with her first husband.

She has a “German temper” and admires Ralph’s ability to listen to her quietly when she gets upset.

“Then, everything is fine,” she said.

Her advice to a newlywed couple is to express their feelings, no matter what.

“If something disturbs or gets (you) upset, just let it out,” she said.

“We did it,” Ralph adds. “We had our ups and downs. We’ve shouted a few times.”

But the best way to resolve any conflict is a hug, a kiss and an “I love you,” he adds.

Instant family Christine knew Ralph’s voice before she knew his face. She had spoken to him on the phone for work.

The couple officially met in Fort Wayne in March 1970 at a seminar put on by the Hospital Financial Management Association.

“The very first time I met him, someone said, ‘There’s Grothouse.’ I thought, ‘Oh that’s that Grothouse I talk on the phone to all the time (for business),’” Christine remembered.

Christine was the secretary of the association’s Indiana chapter, and Ralph was the guest speaker at the seminar.

Christine was married at the time, and Ralph asked her to look after his daughter, Sara, while he was seated at the speaker’s table. It was Sara’s birthday, and she did not want to be away from her father, so she tagged along to the seminar.

“We met the night before. The next day I asked Christine to take Sara at the lunch and look after her,” he said. “Then we didn’t meet again for another whole year.”

That next meeting was in Chicago. Christine was then divorced, and Ralph’s 10-year marriage had ended in divorce 10 years previously.

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lasting love He had been raising his two daughters, Susan and Sara, on his own.

They were 16 and 19 at the time their father remarried. Christine did not have children, but she adopted the girls and raised them as her own.

“One thing I admire about her is the way she took up with my daughters. She became an instant mother,” Ralph said of his wife.

It was difficult at first becoming the mother to two teenage girls who were of dating age, Christine said.

“They were not old, but they were old enough to date. There was one guy I couldn’t stand. Then there were others who were fine. I think that’s in every family, though,” she said.

“I was supposed to keep rein on them. I have to say one thing about them: They both accepted me in a great way,” she said.

Long history, long future Ralph served in the U.S. Air Corps from 1941 to 1945, ultimately earning

the rank of technical sergeant.

In 1941, Christine passed her Abitur in Germany, the college entrance requirement, and was ready to attend college when Nazi rule forced her to serve 12 months in Arbeitsdienst, serving farmers in Prussia while living in a camp.

After a year, she began studying physics and chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin. But she still had to spend a number of hours each day in the Telefunken Laboratory in Berlin as a way to “pay her duty to the war effort.”

The Nazis moved the lab to Bohemia, where Christine lived and worked behind barbed wire fences.

She was sent home in 1945 after she developed severe allergies.

As the Russian Army approached her home, her mother and stepfather went to Munich, but Christine refused to leave. She was eventually frightened into moving after hearing horrors about the Russian Army.

She made her way to a village that ended up being occupied by the U.S.

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Army. As a refugee, she obtained a job with the American commander of Schliersee.

That job eventually led to her getting a job with the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps in Munich.

Through that job, Christine met her first husband.

Ralph and his first wife were married from 1951 to 1961. He began his 33 years in health care financial management and administration the same year he was married. He was first employed as the hospital chief financial officer, then became the associate director of the Division of Hospital Administrative Services for the American Hospital Association in Chicago.

The highlight of his professional career was the development, implementation and direction of the Cost Allocation Program, which was eventually adopted by the Social Security Administration to reimburse hospitals for providing care to Medicare patients.

Once in America, Christine and her first husband lived in California, Indiana, New Jersey, Washington and Georgia. In California, she went to night school, worked in public relations and received her real estate license. In the 1960s, she worked at Putnam County Hospital in Greencastle as a credit clerk, then officer supervisor, then director of finance, then assistant administrator and then acting administrator.

She then became the secretary for the Hospital Financial Management Association Indiana chapter, and at the conference in 1970, Christine and Ralph met. When they saw each other for the second time in Chicago, Ralph was drawn to Christine because of her beauty.

“Just look at her,” he said, motioning to his wife across from him at their kitchen table.

The “dark look” in Ralph’s eyes was what captured Christine’s attention.

After that Chicago meeting, the two went out. “Somehow, we looked at each other and decided to go together,” Ralph said.

They were married six months later.

Honeymoon in Brown County They spent the first three days of their honeymoon in Brown County and a week later went to Germany where they stayed for three weeks.

After their honeymoon, Christine lived in Greencastle, while Ralph and the girls stayed in Chicago where he was working. Ralph commuted back and forth to see his wife every weekend.

On those weekends, they would visit Brown County.

Christine first discovered Brown County when she was the secretary of the Hospital Financial Management Association Indiana chapter. She picked Brown County and the Ramada Inn, now the Seasons Lodge and Conference Center, as a location for a seminar.

When they came back here to visit, they returned to the inn to see their favorite local band, Steve and Terry.

“We went down almost every Saturday night to hear them, so we became stuck on Brown County,” Ralph said.

The couple spent the next five years together in Chicago.

She became the administrator of London Memorial Hospital and then president of Charter’s Illinois Health Services Corp. and the chief executive officer of Berkley Hospital Chicago.

“One day, about five years later, I was in a meeting in Atlanta. She gave me a call from Brown County and told me she bought a place,” Ralph remembered.

The home Christine bought was two doors from where they live now.

When they retired in 1982, they bought their current place and moved to Brown County full time.

Judie Boyce now works as the couple’s caregiver. She said Christine and Ralph are meant for each other.

“The first day I walked in here, I went home and told my husband.

I couldn’t stop talking about them.

They were so sweet. They were a fit.

I’ve never seen two people fit together more perfectly than they do,” she said.

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Top 10 Cabins for a

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This Valentine’s Day, couples may choose to escape to the hills of Brown County and stay in a cabin fit for two. The winter season means lower rental rates and an excuse to light the fireplace and snuggle with your special someone. The staff at Hills O’Brown Vacation Rentals, which manages most rental cabins here, compiled a list of the top 10 cabins for a romantic getaway, based on their size, remote location and amenities fit for cozy stays.

Relaxation Station

Located in northwest Brown County outside Bean Blossom, Relaxation Station is a one-bedroom, one-bathroom cabin. It has a stocked fishing pond and is on 10 acres. Couples can lean in next to the fireplace or relax in the hot tub on a snow-covered winter night. The kitchen is equipped with everything needed to make a romantic dinner at home.

Amenities: One queen bed and a sofa sleeper; hot tub; stocked fishing pond; heat and central air; fireplace; pets prohibited; smoking prohibited.

Rates: $150 per night January and February

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Red Cedar

Perched on top of a hill, this one-bedroom, one-bathroom cabin has a large bathroom with a two-person tub and a separate glass-walled shower. It also has a fully-equipped kitchen. If you wish to warm up outside on a cool winter night under the stars, a hot tub is on the back deck. The cabin is between Nashville and Bloomington on 15 acres.

Amenities: One queen bed; hot tub; heat and central air; fireplace; pets prohibited; smoking prohibited.

Rates: $200 per night January and February

Pondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge

Pondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge is on 14 acres in northwest Brown County with a pond and panoramic views of the winter scenery. The two-story log cabin has two bedrooms and bathrooms, a hot tub, authentic Old Hickory furniture and leather sofas perfect for cuddling. The master bedroom has a king-size bed, and a game room and guest bedroom are on the same floor.

Amenities: One king bed, one queen bed; hot tub; game room; stocked fishing pond; heat and central air; fire pit; Wi-Fi; pets prohibited; smoking prohibited Rates: $200 per night January and February

Five Star Cabin

This one-bedroom cabin is near Lake Monroe in Monroe County and features a hot tub in the cathedral living room with a panoramic view. The boat ramp at Adventure Bay is a nice winter stroll away. This cabin is surrounded by protected government property that has an abundance of wildlife.

Amenities: One queen bed; hot tub; game room; heat and central air; fireplace; pets prohibited; smoking prohibited Rates: $190 per night January and February

Dogwood Point

Dogwood Point is a secluded, rustic log cabin in northeast Brown County on 15 acres. It includes two bedrooms, a large satellite HDTV in the living room, free Wi-Fi and a fireplace. The master bedroom features a comfy king bed and a window seat perfect for reading a book or looking at nature. Dogwood Point also has a covered deck and a hot tub outside.

Amenities: One king bed, one queen bed and a sofa sleeper; hot tub; heat and central air; fireplace; Wi-Fi; dog permitted; smoking prohibited Rates: $175 per night January and February

Great Escape

Great Escape is farther south in the county, just outside Nashville on 10 acres. This two-bedroom, two-bathroom cabin features an open loft game room perfect for a fun night in. Great Escape also has a wrap-around porch and a six-person hot tub outside to keep warm on those winter nights. There is also a screened in-porch that has a scenic overlook.

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Drift Away

Drift Away log cabin is on six secluded acres with a pond and is perfect for a couple who like some extra space. The cabin features three master bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms with an oversized loft that has a family area and game room. Visitors will be greeted by a two-story fireplace in the living room, which is next to a kitchen with stainless steel appliances. There’s a 40-foot-long front porch with a hot tub nearby.

Amenities: One king bed, three queen beds, daybed; hot tub; game room; stocked fishing pond; heat and central air; fireplace; Wi-Fi; pets prohibited; smoking prohibited Rates: $200 per night January and February

Southern Comfort

Located just minutes from Bean Blossom and Nashville, Southern Comfort is an authentic log cabin with three levels. Both bedrooms are decorated with a different theme and have televisions. The fully-equipped kitchen features an indoor grill and is on the same level as the cozy living room. The cabin also has a game room. Guests are provided with spa robes during their stay. The outside of Southern Comfort includes a hot tub and a large wrap-around deck perfect for taking in the winter surroundings.

Amenities: One king bed, one queen bed, sleeper sofa; hot tub; game room; heat and central air; fireplace; pets prohibited; smoking prohibited Rates: $160 per night January and February

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Cabin Fever

This two-bedroom cabin is extra spacious. It’s in northeast Brown County on five acres and features two covered decks with a hot tub. Inside there is a master suite with a jetted tub, a game room, a flat-screen TV with several different movies to watch and a modernized kitchen.

Amenities: Two queen beds and a sofa sleeper; hot tub; game room; heat and central air; fireplace; Wi-Fi; dog permitted; smoking prohibited Rates: $175 per night January and February

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Whippoorwill Woods

Whippoorwill Woods has a hot tub with a breathtaking view of the snowcovered trees and hills. The cabin is 3.8 miles from Nashville and has a winding driveway surrounded by the forest. There’s also a mile-long trail near the cabin that is perfect for a winter stroll around the pond.

Amenities: One double bed, two twins, double futon; hot tub; stocked fishing pond; heat and central air; fireplace; small dogs allowed, 30 pounds and under; smoking prohibited Rates: $125 per night January and February

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Conferences, Retreats & Weddings Abe Martin Lodge, Brown County State Park, offers meeting rooms, conference facilities and private dining areas for conferences, meetings, weddings or retreats.

Seating capacity ranges from 10 to 400. The banquet department caters private meals, snacks and breaks and can also prepare a barbecue or meal function at one of the park shelter houses for groups of 50 or more.

For smaller picnic groups, the lodge can prepare box lunches. (812) 988-4418, www. in.gov/dnr/parklake/inna/abe/index.html.

Artists Colony Inn, corner of Franklin and Van Buren streets, is a romantic, 19thcentury-style inn offering an elegant banquet room for bridal showers, rehearsal dinners or wedding receptions with 20 charming guest rooms and three executive whirlpool suites. Special menu selections are served plated or buffet-style. The inn also offers meeting space for up to 80 people. The Artists Colony specializes in small meetings with two meeting rooms that accommodate 10 to 50 people.

Complete audiovisual equipment and highspeed Internet access are available. (812) 988-0600, www.artistscolonyinn.com.

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Brown County Inn, 51 State Road 46 East, offers meeting facilities that capture the charm and atmosphere of days gone by.

Technology and equipment are provided for meetings and presentations. The Brown County Inn offers flexible meeting facilities that can accommodate up to 250 people and can be customized to the group’s requirements. Brown County Inn’s support staff can help make a dream wedding come true. The inn is also available for bridal showers, luncheons, rehearsal dinners and weddings. Guests can choose from plated or buffet menus, hors d’oeuvres, and cash or host bars. (812) 988-2291 or (877) 772-5249, www.browncountyinn.com.

Camp Palawopec Lodge & Retreat Area, 3497 Clay Lick Road, has a camp log cabin lodge that sleeps 30 guests, and outdoor cabins can accommodate 70 guests. Guests can enjoy 300 acres of woods, trails, a 4-acre lake, canoes, kayaks, beach, campfire areas, basketball court, ultimate Frisbee, soccer field, horseshoes, volleyball area, mountain bike trails, and an indoor meeting and dining area. Kitchen facilities are available.

The property is open year-round. (812) 988-2689, www.camppalawopec.com.

Comfort Inn, 75 W. Chestnut St., is perfect for retreats. Guests can enjoy the lodge-like atmosphere with a cozy lobby and spacious guest rooms, and the indoor pool and fitness center. (812) 988-6118, www.choicehotels.com.

Cornerstone Inn & Suites is in downtown Nashville at 54 E. Franklin St. Shop in Nashville, then return to the Cornerstone Inn private dining area to indulge in complimentary signature treats and desserts.

The complex consists of 37 guest rooms, with balconies, whirlpool tubs and fireplaces; and meeting facilities. View all rooms, rates and specials at www.cornerstoneinn.com.

Creekside Retreat Lodging & Gatherings, 2450 State Road 46 East, offers luxury hotel rooms in a wooded, relaxed setting.

It is also a perfect location for meetings, retreats, weddings and reunions with a 2,400-square-foot conference center and 4,800-square-foot event patio. Catering and rentals available for every occasion.

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The Harvest Hall at eXplore Brown County Retreat Center and outdoor stage offer the perfect setting for weddings, conferences or parties. Plan an outdoor ceremony on the stage, but should it rain, move into the heated or air-conditioned hall. Cater the event yourself using the prep kitchen and save big money. The hall comfortably seats 200 and is furnished with tables and chairs and a small bar area, stage and decorated with rustic antiques and original paintings. The covered porches accommodate 50 additional guests.

Restrooms with showers and changing rooms for the bride are provided. The fireplace and beautiful wooden staircase create the perfect spot for a wedding. eXplore Brown County at Valley Branch Retreat, 2620 Valley Branch Road, (812) 9887750, www.explorebrowncounty.com.

Hotel Nashville, 245 N. Jefferson St., is an all-suite hotel that overlooks Nashville and offers conference facilities and catering.

It includes an indoor swimming pool, whirlpool spa and sauna, plus an on-site dining room and lounge. It’s a perfect setting for a wedding and reception, engagement party or rehearsal dinner.

(812) 988-8400, www.hotelnashville.com.

Rawhide Ranch, 1292 State Road 135 South, excels at hosting large groups. The Old West-style inn, ranch house and 54 wooded acres are a unique environment for company meetings and retreats traditionally held at hotels, and perfect for country weddings.

Guests also can enjoy country cooking in the new Banded Rooster kitchen and dining hall.

(812) 988-0085, www.rawhideranchusa.com.

Salt Creek Golf Retreat, 2359 State Road 46 East, offers a beautiful banquet facility that can accommodate 20 to 200 people.

The facility overlooks the golf course and is great for weddings, receptions, reunions, corporate events and small meetings. On-site catering is available.

(812) 988-7888, www.saltcreekgolf.com.

The Seasons Lodge and Conference Center, 560 State Road 46 East, offers space for simple receptions or technologically enhanced conferences complete with highspeed Internet. The Seasons Lodge has 10 meeting rooms that accommodate 10 to 500 people and can accommodate up to 400 people for weddings or receptions.

Choose from served or buffet menus, hors d’oeuvres and cash or host bars.

The complex is also available for bridal teas, bridal showers, luncheons, rehearsal dinners and weddings. (812) 988-2284 or (800) 365-7327, www.seasonslodge.com.

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Jeanette Richart, Jim Kelp and Jim Milnes swap stories in the log cabin room of the Brown County History Center during Old Settlers Day, hosted by the Brown County Historical Society. | photos by Ben Kibbey

Spinnin’ yarns on the Liars’ Bench

By BEN KIBBEY

J

im Kelp leans in with a conspiratorial smile.

“While you’re here, I gotta tell you a story,” he said. “You know my greatuncle, Harry Kelp.”

“Yep,” Jim Milnes replied.

“He was a justice a’ peace and barber and went t’ the Methodist Church, but he sat on the Liars’ Bench, there with ’em,” Kelp said. “One time, stranger come into town, and he says, ‘I don’t see much work around here. How do you people make a livin’?’

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don’t know about these other people,’ but he says, ‘I cut hair through the week, preach on Sunday and steal chickens at night.’”

Those are the kinds of “true stories” visitors to the Brown County Old Settlers Reunion Celebration were treated to this fall.

And there’s more where that came from.

Justice and bootlegging Jim Milnes remembers taking trips with his uncles to pick up “home-brewed.” “Every Sunday morning, and they would pick me up — and like I say, I would’ve been, probably 8 years old — hop in the car, and we’d go over to Stoney

Lonesome,” he said.

“We’d go down and sit on Fred Snider’s porch, that lived in Stoney Lonesome there on 46,” Milnes said. “He was, my one uncle was married to his daughter, Irene.”

A few years later though, Snider found himself in trouble with the law, and federal agents brought him before Justice of the Peace Harry Kelp, Milnes said.

“So then he called the feds up and questioned them, and got ’em up and said, ‘And he handed you that bottle of liquor with his right arm?’ “‘Yes sir.’” “‘Case dismissed. He lost that arm in the Confederate War.’”

Game warden Fishel Jim Milnes’ father, John Milnes, had his own experiences with Justice of the Peace Harry Kelp.

“Well, back in our days, everybody had a coon dog for — coon was worth more than a week’s labor, so you couldn’t find a coon, but if you found one, it was a week’s labor,” Milnes said. “The first season they had on deer huntin’, they made it illegal. You couldn’t coon hunt during deer season,” Milnes said. “Well, my dad didn’t know it; nobody knew anything about it.”

One night, John Milnes was caught out on the road with two raccoons by a game warden named Dutch Fishel.

“Came out of Johnson County, and he was good,” Milnes said. “I mean, supposedly, he’d go out of town one direction and circle ’round, catch ’em on the other side, but he ventured into Brown County.”

Fishel told John Milnes to call in his dogs, which he would be taking possession of, along with the raccoons and Milnes’ gun.

John Milnes surrendered the raccoons and the gun, but refused to call the dogs.

After some time and attempts to lure them in with food, Fishel gave up and pulled out a piece of paper, telling Milnes he was being arrested and to sign the paper.

“Dad gets up and says, ‘Well, I can’t read this,’” Milnes said. “Well, it was dark, so he gets him up in front of the headlights and he said, ‘I still can’t read it.’”

Fishel gave up and left with Milnes’ raccoons and gun.

A short time later, John Milnes went before Kelp.

“He just sits there, and he’s readin’ a book, and Dad, I guess he sat there about three hours, and there’s never a word said,” Milnes said.

After a while, Kelp looked up and asked, “John, have you been here long enough?”

Richart spins a yarn for Jaydan and Jordyn Nicols. After a day of exploring the Old Settlers Day activities, the girls were looking forward to sitting down for a story, said their grandmother, Penny McGuire.

“Well, I guess that’s your decision,” John Milnes said.

With that, Kelp dismissed the case.

Walking out the door with his gun and the two raccoons, John Milnes ran into Brown County game warden Rex Kritzer, followed closely by Fishel.

When Fishel questioned the situation, Kritzer told him he had recommended to Kelp that he dismiss the case.

“This man is a respectable man,” Kritzer said. “He teaches school; he doesn’t need this kind of publicity.”

“Whadda ya mean he teaches school?” Fishel asked surprised. “Couple a’ nights ago, he couldn’t even read.”

Bootlegger’s buying Jim Milnes remembered Alex Petro, a local farmer and bootlegger, who had a soft spot for kids.

Milnes’ father rented land from him, and Milnes remembered jugs of money in the house and loaded guns always ready. In the Gatesville area, a big crop was beans, and a boy could make two cents a bushel

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Spinnin’ yarns picking, Milnes said. The boys would be transported to the fields in ton-and-ahalf trucks, which would stop in at Ruth Nolin’s Gatesville store so the boys could buy something to eat and drink.

Milnes remembers Petro riding in on his horse around noon once a week or so, and hollering out, “Hey kids, Ruth, I’ll buy all of ’em their sandwiches and pop.”

“We’d all stand around, we’re eatin’ there, and Alex would pull out, maybe a thousand-dollar bill,” Milnes said.

“Ruth: ‘Aw, Alex, you know I can’t cash that kind of a bill.’” “‘Well, what am I gonna do, Ruth?’” “‘You got anything smaller?’” “‘Well, yes.’”

“Then he’d pull out a $100 bill.” “‘Alex, I can’t cash that.’” “‘Well, let me see, what about some 20s?’”

“But he always had all this money,” Milnes said. “And this same thing went on every time he was there.”

Poachin’ with dynamite When Jim Milnes was a high school sophomore in 1949, he used his money from bean picking to buy a 30-30 rifle, he said. So, with his new gun, he went out with his father, John Milnes, and his uncle, Walter Gates, to poach a deer, Milnes said.

John Milnes drove several deer out of a field toward them, and Jim Milnes and his uncle killed six and wounded one.

After taking the deer back and butchering them, the wounded deer came up.

“Dad said, ‘Well, let’s go home, let’s get the coon dog, switch guns, and we’ll go down and see if we can find it.’”

When they pulled into the field where they had shot the deer, they heard an explosion, Jim Milnes said. Someone was using dynamite to stun fish in the nearby creek.

“So, Dad said, ‘You stay here. I’m gonna go down and check on that.’”

A little while later, Jim Milnes heard a gunshot. John Milnes had fired into the water to scare the other men.

“I decided I’m gonna run down the lane t’ make sure he’s OK,” Milnes said.

“Well, here he comes runnin’ up the lane as fast as he can.”

“I said, ‘What about the deer?’

“He said, ‘No, we’re gettin’ outta here.’

“I said, ‘Whadda ya’ mean?’

“He said, ‘Well, they could have guns.

We’ve gotta get outta here; I shot ’em in the rear end.’”

John Milnes found out later that he hadn’t hit the men, but his father’s words as they drove away struck Jim Milnes, particularly after their earlier poaching had netted them six deer.

“He said, ‘If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s somebody that dynamites fish.’”

Their adventure with the dynamite fishermen was not done yet.

“About two weeks later, Harold Raider came up to the house,” Milnes said. “He was one of ’em dynamitin’ fish.”

Raider had been trying to figure out who had shot at his group and had narrowed it down to John Milnes, Jim Milnes said. Once his father determined no one had been hurt, he acknowledged that he might have been the one who fired the shot.

“The only reason I’m up here, I just wanted you to know, I’m not a guy that would go out here and dynamite fish just to get something to eat,” Raider said. “I was gettin’ them fish for the Lions Club fish fry in Morgantown.”

Making the call Though Jim Milnes’ father, John, was against using dynamite to fish, he wasn’t opposed to other means of increasing the catch. But, as with poaching deer or raccoon, they always had to keep an eye out for Brown County game warden Rex Kritzer. One method involved the older model telephones that used a crank to generate electricity, Jim Milnes said.

They would stick the two ends of wire in the water and use the telephone set as a hand-cranked generator, stunning fish that passed by, then grabbing them and tossing them in a bag.

“Well, I’m the one that’s up on the bank, and of course you’re jus’ dialin’ this phone for all it’ll go,” Jim Milnes said.

“All at once, here comes my dad,” Milnes said. “’Quit doin’ that! Quit!’ Jus’ yellin’ his head off.”

Confused, Jim Milnes asked what was the matter.

“You just dialed Rex Kritzer!”

John Milnes yelled.

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ONGOING events The latest movies are now playing at the Brown County Playhouse. The large, 23- foot-wide screen is perfect for the digital movies, and the surround sound really brings home the impact of the movies. Relax and sit back in the upholstered chairs. Visit the website for upcoming titles and times. 70 S. Van Buren St., Nashville, (812) 9886555, www.browncountyplayhouse. org/movie-schedule.

Visit the Brown County State Park Nature Center for an array of activities. Check out the schedule online. (812) 988-5240, www.browncountystatepark.us.

music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Friday and Saturday, featuring well-known artists in all styles of music. (812) 9888500, www.chateauthomas.com.

Head out for live music at the Saloon Lounge, in the Seasons Lodge every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. (800) 365-7327, www.seasonslodge.com.

eXplore Brown County at Valley Branch Retreat offers 15 zip lines over 1 mile long; a treetop canopy adventure suspended 90 feet with speeds up to 45 mph; and the tallest, fastest and longest zips in Brown County. Visitors also can experience Night Flight zip lines. Enjoy 30 miles of ATV, mountain biking and hiking trails. The events hall accommodates 250 with a stage. Camping cabins accommodate 80.

The property also offers camping, a fishing lake, canoes and paddle boats. Two-seater four-wheel-drive hill buggy rides are now available. 2620 Valley Branch Road, (812) 988-7750, www.explorebrowncounty.com.

Chateau Thomas Wine Bar and Gift Shoppe, 225 S. Van Buren St., offers live

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Take guided horseback rides yearround and experience Holler Hoppin’ zip lines at Rawhide Ranch. 1292 State Road 135 South, (812) 988-0085, (888) 94-RANCH, www.rawhideranchusa.com.

Weaving demonstrations and dayweaving workshops are available at Homestead Weaving Studio from March to December. (812) 988-8622, www.homesteadweaver.com.

Take a tour of the Indiana Raptor Center just west of Nashville. Meet and photograph live birds of prey.

Tours by appointment only. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. (812) 988-8990.

At 2777 State Road 46 West (4 miles west of Nashville), Mike’s Dance Barn offers pool tables, food and beverages. Country line dance lessons are available every Monday, and the second Friday of each month is ballroom dancing night. Head to Mike’s on Saturdays for live music. (812) 988-8636, www.thedancebarn.com.

Visit the old log jail and learn historical facts about Brown County and Nashville and stop by the Pioneer Village downtown for old-time skill demonstrations.

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Carry Out Available

T.C. Steele State Historic Site offers trails, exhibits, poetry, art, teas and classes.

(812) 677-2003, www.tcsteele.org.

Stamping and scrapbooking classes and parties are available through Wishful Thinking. (812) 988-7005, www.wishfulthinking-in.com.

2016 SPECIAL EVENTS January

 Intro to Adventure Racing & Navigation Clinic (8)  FRIGID Race (9)  Frosty Trails 5-Mile Trail Run (16)  Warm UP From Within Winter Wellness Weekend (16-18)

February

 Valentine’s Saturday Boogie (13)  Roving Indiana Yarn Crawl (26-29)

 Hoosier Mountain Biking Association Brown County Epic  pARTake art class series  Second Saturday Village Art Walk

November

 Create It With Gingerbread Log Cabin Competition  pARTake art class series  Second Saturday Village Art Walk

 Visitors Center Holiday Open House

December

 Create It With Gingerbread Log Cabin Competition  Stuff a Stocking Visit browncounty.com to learn more specifics about these events and other events as they develop.

March

 Roving Indiana Yarn Crawl (1-13)  National Maple Syrup Festival (3-6)  Brown County Music Celebration (5)

April

 Indiana Wine Fair  pARTake art class series

May

 Dances With Dirt trail races  pARTake art class series  Second Saturday Village Art Walk  Taste of Brown County

June

 Arts Village Cinefest  Indiana Heritage Arts Exhibition and Sale  pARTake art class series  Second Saturday Village Art Walk

July

 Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Competition  pARTake art class series  Second Saturday Village Art Walk

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 Bean Blossom Blues Fest  Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Competition  pARTake art class series  Second Saturday Village Art Walk

September

 Hoosier Hops & Harvest  pARTake art class series  Second Saturday Village Art Walk

October

 Back Roads Studio Tour

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WINTER events Member Art Show and Sale Nov. 17-22 and 24-29

Check out works of art created by members of the Friends of T.C. Steele State Historic Site. The show’s theme will be taken from one of Steele’s quotes. This multimedia exhibit in Steele’s Large Studio features paintings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics and other fine crafts. Check the Friends website for updates on the 2015 theme and for information on artists’ registration. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m., closed Mondays, $7 for adults, $5 for seniors 60+, $2 for children 12 and younger, free for friends members, tcsteele.org.

Native American Heritage Month

Indiana Raptor Center’s Birds of Prey Program

The migratory Delaware Indians came to Brown County’s dense hardwood forest to hunt wild turkeys, squirrels, deer and black bears. Guides at eXplore Brown County can share the rich history of Native American life as you zip line or take tours on ATVs and Hill Climb Buggies. Visit website for full details, explorebrowncounty.com.

Spend the evening learning about birds of prey from the experts at the Indiana Raptor Center. 7:30 p.m., Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County State Park, free, donations accepted.

Nov. 18-23 and 25-30

Quaff N’ Brew Beer School Nov. 21 and 28 and Dec. 5, 12, 19 and 26

Do you love beer? Ever wonder how beer is made? Want to learn the difference between porter and stout or lager and ale? Learn from Big Woods. 11 a.m., Big Woods Village downtown, $5, bigwoodsbeer.com.

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Farm-to-Fifth Tours Nov. 21 and 28 and Dec. 5, 12, 19 and 26

Learn about the role whiskey played in the formation of America during the Revolutionary War. Find out what brought whiskey making to Indiana and learn about moonshining in Brown County before, during and after Prohibition. See the complete process used to make whiskey at Bear Wallow Distillery, starting with grains from local farmers, and enjoy the best part of the tour: tasting it. 4484 E. Old State Road 46, Gnaw Bone, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the top of each hour, $5, bearwallowdistillery.com.

Family Treasures Exhibit and Sale Nov. 18-21

This is a one-of-a-kind exhibit and sale of early Indiana art, consigned to the Brown County Art Gallery to sell, many works from former Brown County residents who are finally ready to part with their treasures. Proceeds will benefit the nonprofit Brown County Art Gallery Foundation. Paintings will go on display for preview on Wednesday, Nov. 18; the sale begins at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. 1 Artist Drive, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, free admission, browncountyartgallery.com.

Heartland Film Festival “Best of the Fest” Nov. 20 and 21

The Heartland Film Festival will offer moviegoers in Brown County a chance to experience the festival atmosphere in their own backyard.

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attend “Best of the Fest” and will be available to mingle with attendees and provide insight on the filmmaking process. Brown County Playhouse, 1 p.m., admission to be determined, browncountyplayhouse.org.

Visit with Santa Claus Nov. 21

Bring a camera to visit with Santa Claus at the Fruitdale Volunteer Department. While you’re there, enjoy some chili and get a jump start on your Christmas shopping from vendors’ booths. State Road 135 North in Bean Blossom, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., free.

Thanksgiving buffet Nov. 26

All your favorite Thanksgiving dishes will be served at the Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County State Park.

Call for reservations, 812-988-4418.

Holiday Open House and Christmas in Brown County kickoff

Brown County State Park Christmas Bird Count

Nov. 27

Join the Visitors Center staff as they welcome Santa and kick off the holiday season. Enjoy free hot chocolate and cookies on the patio at the Visitors Center at Main and Van Buren streets, then join locals for the community tree lighting and singing at the Brown County History Center on East Gould Street. Patio activities run from noon to 5 p.m., History Center activities start at 5 p.m., free, browncounty.com/holidays.

“Believe: A Brown County Christmas”

Nov. 27-29 and Dec. 4-6, 11-13, 18-20

Golden Ticket Productions presents this popular holiday variety show in its eighth year in Nashville. Directed

by Brad Zumwalt and Russell Moss and featuring Moss and Julie Powers along with other cast members, this show features Christmas songs and

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WINTER events Broadway classics plus some comedy.

7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m.

Sundays, Brown County Playhouse, $20.50 or $18.50, free for kids younger than 6 with purchase of adult ticket, browncountyplayhouse.org.

Gravel Grovel Nov. 28

A mix of gravel road, single track trail, fire road and pavement, the Gravel Grovel is a self-supported, solo riding excursion. The 60-mile course is the original gravel road race in Indiana, and the 20-mile option gives a taste of the adventure at less of a commitment. Register online or the day of the race. $45 to $75, see website for details, dinoseries.com/gravel-grovel.

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Children flock to Helmsburg the first Friday in December to visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus on the Santa Train. | photo by Megan O’Bryan

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41 South Van Buren Open 10:30am to 6pm, Mon-Sun

812-390-1946

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Guitars & Knives,Ukulele’s and fishing tackle and gifts

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Santa’s Zip N’ Sip

Nov. 28-30 and Dec. 1-25

114 S. Van Buren St.

Open Daily at 9 a.m. except Saturday & Sunday at 8 a.m.

Closed Tuesdays and When Weather Demands www.nashvilledailygrind.com

Don’t just admire the art in Brown County, pARTake in it! Every fourth Saturday of the month a local artist will lead an art lesson at Chateau Thomas Winery. No art experience is needed. All supplies are provided, along with your first glass of wine or other beverage and light snacks. 3 to 5 p.m., $40, register in advance at artalliancebrowncounty.org.

Enjoy the beauty of the winter landscape in Brown County’s forest with Santa and helpers. Soar 90 feet in the air across the frozen lake on a zip line. On weekends, take a photo with Santa, sit on his lap and tell him your wishes. Hot cocoa also will be served in Harvest Hall.

Explore Brown County, visit website for details, explorebrowncounty.com.

Santa Train Dec. 4

Kids of all ages are invited to climb aboard and visit St. Nick on his very own express train, presented by the Indiana Rail Road Company. Helmsburg Road, Helmsburg, 8:30 p.m., free.

16th Annual Reindeer Romp Dec. 5

This 8K run or a 5K run/walk is at Brown County State Park. Bring your family and

friends, grab your reindeer antlers and participate in this fun event to support the Brown County YMCA’s financial assistance program. Pre-register online or register the day of the race. 1 p.m., $20 to $25, browncountyymca.org.

Stuff a Stocking Dec. 5

Children are invited to follow a map to more than 50 local Brown County merchants to gather treats, ornaments, toys and more to stuff their Christmas stockings provided by the Brown County Community Foundation. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., downtown Nashville, browncounty.com/holidays.

4th Sister Vintage Upcycled usable art, gifts and more!

Mrs. Claus with Holiday Cookies Dec. 5

Mrs. Claus will visit Bear Hardware and pass out cookies to the children.

Everyone is welcome and pictures are free. 75 W. Chestnut St., noon to 2 p.m.

Steele’s Country Christmas Dec. 5

Go back in time to the early 1920s, when the Steeles celebrated the holidays at the House of the Singing Winds, inviting neighbors and friends into their home.

St. Nicholas will visit the Large Studio at the T.C. Steele State Historic Site, where children and families can have their photographs taken with him. Visitors will have the opportunity to make ornaments and small, hand-crafted gifts. There will be live music in the Large Studio and refreshments as well.

4220 T.C. Steele Road, Belmont, noon to 4 p.m., $7 for adults, $5 for seniors, $2 for children ages 5 to 12, tcsteele.org.

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“Elf” Dec. 5

Enjoy this holiday classic PG movie starring Will Ferrell. Part of the Stuff a Stocking event, proceeds from the movie benefit the Brown County Community Foundation. Sponsored

by Music & Mayhem and the Nashville Candy Store. 1 p.m., Brown County Playhouse, $5 for adults, $4 for children, browncountyplayhouse.org.

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Visit the Brown County Art Guild Over 50 Contemporary Artists Marie Goth Estate Collection of early 20th C Paintings

Artist Demonstrations Workshops Tours 48 South Van Buren • P.O. Box 324 • 47448 • 812-988-6185

The Historic Minor House in the Heart of Downtown Nashville Tues. - Sat. 11-5 • Sun. 12-5 • www.BrownCountyArtGuild.org

A Full-Service Dollhouse Miniature Shop Open Year Round

WINTER events Christmas Light Parade Dec. 5

The Christmas Light Parade offers a variety of unique and brightly lighted floats traveling through the Village of Nashville. Residents and visitors are encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy; donation sites will be set up throughout the village or you can give your toy to a float representative in the parade. Toys will be dropped off to the local Salvation Army for distribution to Brown County families in need. Hot chocolate and cookies will be offered at various sites throughout the village.

Downtown Nashville, 6 p.m., free.

Breakfast With Santa Dec. 5 and 6

Enjoy the Brown County Inn’s hearty breakfast buffet while the kids visit with good ol’ Saint Nick. There also will be drawings for gifts and a hot chocolate bar. 8:30 to 11 a.m., adults $10.75, children 5 to 11 $6, children younger than 5 free, browncountyinn.com.

Christmas Music Sing-Along Dec. 12

Listen to beautiful voices and guitar, but don’t be shy about singing out loud to your favorite holiday tunes. Brown County Inn, 51 State Road 46 East, 7:30 p.m.

Charlene Marsh Studio and Gallery Christmas Open House and Exhibition Dec. 12 and 13

69 West Washington St., Morgantown, IN 812-597-4346 | jeepersminiatures.com

The Charlene Marsh Studio and Gallery is hosting a Christmas Open House and Exhibition featuring original, framed oil paintings of the Brown County landscape by artist Charlene Marsh. Enjoy seasonal cheer, new paintings, organic refreshments, and the studio and gallery decked out in holiday finery. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 4013 Lanam Ridge Road, free admission.

Brown County State Park Christmas Bird Count Dec. 13

Head to the state park and join fellow birders as you canvas the park’s natural areas, trails, lakes and shores

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to estimate the numbers and kinds of birds spending their holidays in Brown County. 9 a.m., Brown County State Park Nature Center, park admission charged, browncountystatepark.us.

Christmas Day Buffet Dec. 25

Head to the Little Gem Restaurant at the Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County State Park and dig in to your favorite holiday dishes. Call for reservations, 812-988-4418.

New Year’s Eve Celebration Dec. 31

GRANDPA JEFF’S

Enjoy an evening of entertainment, food and much more at the New Year’s Eve Celebration at the Abe Martin Lodge. Call for information, 877-563-4371 or 812-988-4418.

TRAIL RIDES Family & Friends of all ages

Trail Rides • Pony Rides Hay Rides • Cattle Drive Custom Excursions

FRIGID Race Jan. 9

This orienteering race can be completed by beginners, but veterans also can earn bonus points and participate in a night event until their toes go numb.

A free Intro to Adventure Racing clinic will take place the night before. EXplore Brown County at Valley Branch Retreat, 2620 Valley Branch Road, $40 for the race, http://361adventures.com/frigid.

Frosty Trails 5 Mile

Please give us one hour notice

For reservations please contact us at

812.597.4630 • Cell 812.272.0702 www.GrandpaJeffsTrailRides.com info@GrandpaJeffsTrailRides.com 5889 S. Skinner Rd., Morgantown , Indiana

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Join the Indiana Running Company and Quaff ON! Brewing Company in Brown County State Park for the Frosty Trails 5 Mile, a challenging 5.2 mile trail run (or walk) on the scenic trails of Brown County State Park. Race starts at 10:30 a.m., $25, intimeco.com/frostytrails.

Valentine’s Saturday Boogie

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Feb. 13

Enjoy a concert by One Pulse Entertainment, producers of rock ‘n’ roll revues. Beer, wine, Valentine’s cocktails and chocolate treats will all be sold in the Brown County Playhouse auditorium; dancing encouraged. 7:30 p.m., $22.50, browncountyplayhouse.org.

See more late-breaking events at browncounty.com.

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A Great Family

Getaway Awaits

All year long!

Abe Martin Lodge and the Little Gem Restaurant offers 160 accomodations including guest rooms, two-story cabins, historic cabins and full service restaurant opened daily.

Come any time of year to enjoy our indoor aquatic center and have a splashinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; good time!

Located in Brown County where fun is all around.

Brown County State Park P.O. Box 547 | Nashville, IN 47448 Reservations: 1-877-LODGES-1 Direct Line: 812.988.4418

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