The Voice, May 2020

MAY 2020

The Thrill of the Hunt A Mother Daughter Tradition

A Virtual Awakening

Louisville’s Arts & Culture Community

Mother’s Day Gift Guide

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Work from Home

Designing the home gym of your dreams.

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Contents

Probability

How we can – or cannot – predict outcomes.

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Soothing Sweets

A special dessert for soon-to-be graduates.

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Grief and Grace

Finding meaningful moments in the midst of a pandemic.

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A Virtual Awakening How Louisville’s arts and culture community is uniting during the pandemic.

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Contemporary Class

A striking new home is incorporated into Crescent Hill.

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Country Roads, Take Me Home A serene estate with oldworld charm.

On the Cover:

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Gracie Shriner, Lydia Eifler and Tate Northrop of the Long Run Woodford Hounds

The Thrill of the Hunt

Photo: Andrea Hutchinson Makeup: Erica McDowell, SKYN Lounge

Meet the incredible young athletes of Long Run Woodford Hounds.

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Mother’s Day Gift Guide

A Welcome Sight

Local finds for the mom in your life.

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A solo fashion editorial featuring dancer Lexa Daniels from the Louisville Ballet.

The life-changing impact of Visually Impaired Preschool Services.

ESSENTIALS 14 Letter from the Publisher 83 Event Calendar – Save the Dates 84 Celebration of Life

Now a virtual event!

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Letter from the Publisher “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

– John F. Kennedy

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hange is the law of life, and it requires us to be flexible and to accept this idea of such a new reality. John F. Kennedy said it best in his quote that those who only look to the past or present are certain to miss the future. The future is something we all need to keep our eye on during this time and situation in our community and the world.

Long walks are the present-day escape that can provide a pocket of time for us to think about the future. Recently, I had the opportunity to hike a mountain trail, which was something I have never experienced (yes, it’s true, believe or not). Feeling the sunshine at the top of the mountain trail offered a ray of hope that soon, life will return to a new normalcy. A fitness routine has been a priority in my life for many years and that includes long walks. It has kept me accountable, mentally healthy and focused, which is especially important while currently working remotely.

On our cover this month, we are featuring three accomplished young ladies who are members of the Long Run Woodford Hounds club. Thankfully, the photos were taken weeks ago by one of our staff photographers, Andrea Hutchinson, before social distancing was necessary. The three of them locked arm-in-arm offers a visual symbol of closeness and solidarity that I believe our community can relate to at this time. In honor of Mother’s Day, we have included interviews with the mothers of all three ladies to learn what it’s like to support their daughters in this unique sport.

Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS) was established in 1985 by a group of concerned parents and community volunteers. Their mission was to enhance early learning opportunities to Kentucky and Indiana’s youngest children with blindness and low vision. Your heart will melt when you take a look at the story our Managing Editor Mariah Kline wrote and learn how you can help support this nonprofit agency.

Comfort food can soothe the soul and provide our palates with moments of bliss. Our food columnist Liz Gastiger bakes up a chocolate brownie treat using a recipe that will have you ordering ingredients so you can give it a go yourself. Turn on some music while you’re baking, and enjoy the time well spent at home. During the last few weeks, we have all been challenged to discover just how far our inner spiritual strength can be stretched, who and what our hearts are tethered to and how deeply compassionate we truly are. May you stay safe and healthy and offer a helping hand to someone who needs comforting (cue the brownies).

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Health

Work from Home

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uring this challenging time, many of us are missing our normal fitness routine and visits to the gym. Since we must stay indoors, now is a perfect time to begin finding space for your very own home gym, whether it’s a whole room or just a nook.

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How to design the home gym of your dreams

By JEFF HOWARD

Jeff Howard is a world-renowned fitness presenter who resides in Louisville.

He also serves as promotional director of fitness for Baptist Health/Milestone Wellness Center.

The biggest mistake people make is thinking that they’ll get in shape simply by spending money on a bunch of great equipment.

For that reason, I usually suggest that people start off a home gym project on a smaller scale, and then build upon it if and when you are actually making use of it and enjoying it.

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Here are my suggestions for planning out and buying essentials for your own family-friendly home gym:

Where to Put your Gym The first thing to decide is where you want to set up your home gym. Basements, spare bedrooms, offices and garages can all make for an excellent workout space. I want you to consider what types of things you’ll want to do as far as working out in that space. If you’ll be using weights, do you have the right type of floors?

Are the ceilings high enough for what you want to do? Is there an electric outlet in case you want to add anything that requires power?

Equipment You’ll Need There are a few pieces of equipment that can be essential to most home gyms. The key is to only add pieces that will help you get the most out of a variety of exercise routines. While some may go all out and add several types of machines, chances are that most of these will take up valuable space and go to waste. Make sure the equipment you choose fits a variety of needs.

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Like other free weights, barbells are much better than the machines at the gym because of the stabilization and coordination aspects they bring to your workouts.

Here are my suggested items to help get any home gym going: Mats, rubber flooring or carpeting: Since a lot of your workout will be floor-based exercises, consider the type of flooring you have and make sure it’s comfortable on the body. You’ll be using free weights, dumbbells, kettlebells or maybe a yoga mat so your floor is important.

Tubing or resistance bands: These are a great tool and can be utilized for several different exercises. You can strap them to a door or wrap them around a machine.

They take up little space, come in different tensions and are not too costly.

Dumbbells: The exercises you can do with dumbbells are endless, so they are worth investing in. Purchase three to five sets in a range of weights to accommodate for different exercises and for the strength you will be gaining.

Barbell and weight plates: Your home gym, of course, would not be complete without a barbell. Like other free weights,

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barbells are much better than the machines at the gym because of the stabilization and coordination aspects they bring to your workouts. Now, you need some weight to put on that bar! Buy a variety of sizes: 2.5 lb., 5 lb., 10 lb., 25 lb. and, if you are fairly strong, 45 lb. plates.

Utility bench and/or stability ball: A simple padded bench can be utilized for many upper-body and lower-body exercises and is a great complement to any free weights you might have. A Swiss Ball or stability ball is another great option as it can be used very similarly. Utilize your bench as a functional training tool for hamstring curls, glute bridges, squats, core exercises and more.

Your favorite cardio piece: If one of your priorities is weight loss or improved cardiovascular health, then you may want to consider adding an elliptical, treadmill, stationary bike or rower. Just be sure that whatever you choose is a good fit for your space. To save money, call your local gyms to find out if they have a used one they are replacing. On a tight budget, a

jump rope will do the job.

Suspension trainers (TRX): Systems that involve straps that you can attach to ceilings, doors or support beams allow your body weight to become your resistance. They are relatively inexpensive when you consider the variety and overall number of exercises you can do with them. And much like resistance bands, they take up little to no space.

Mirrors, mirrors, mirrors: They serve a couple of valuable purposes when it comes to having them in your home gym.

Mirrors are helpful in watching for any problems you might have with proper form. Doing squats, lunges, etc. in front of a mirror can help with correction and alignment. Also, they can make a space feel bigger and brighter.

Music/TV: Working out to your favorite music is key to getting you motivated!

Having a TV is great for following a workout from a fitness channel or video.

It can also be the perfect opportunity to catch up on the news or your favorite “Real Housewives” show.

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Having a gym in your house can be a perfect solution to making fitness a priority for you and your family. In the midst of this pandemic, take care of your physical and mental health. Schedule times to work out at home and stay healthy and well. V

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Science

rolling a “fair” die: i.e. one that is not biased to yield a particular outcome.

We could roll the die a large number of times and count how many times each possible outcome arises. If we get a disproportionate number of threes, we might suspect the die has been tampered with. But what counts as a “large number?” For any finite number, the odds for each outcome will be “close” to 1/6 but will not be exactly 1/6. And, it would be easy to find long stretches of rolls in which the odds are very far from

By STEVE HUMPHREY 1/6. But we can’t roll the die an infinite Illustration by ANDREA HUTCHINSON number of times. We can’t even roll it a million times (it would break, or our arm would fall off.)

There are two difpossible outcomes? In ferent ways of prothat case, we use what viding an interpretaSome now believe that a is called the frequency tion of probability. significant number of people, interpretation, and in (Philosophers love especially on the West this case, we have to to make distincdiscover rather than tions. There are two Coast, got [COVID-19] and calculate the odds. A kinds of people in either had no symptoms or good example would the world: those who recovered from what they be to calculate the divide the world into thought was a bad cold fatality rate associated two kinds of people with the COVID-19 and those who don’t.) virus. In principle, Traditionally, probawe would simply divide the number bility is seen as a reflection of ignorance. of fatalities due to the disease by the If we knew all the relevant conditions in number of cases of the virus. You have the coin flip (air density, force applied probably seen a lot of different numbers to the edge of the coin, how high it published. Why? Because we don’t know was flipped, etc.), we could predict the exactly how many people have conoutcome with certainty. If we knew tracted the disease. All we have access to how the cards were arranged before the is the number of confirmed cases, condeal, we would know what our hand firmed by testing. would be. But, unless we are cheating, But there haven’t been enough test kits we don’t know these things, so we have available, and many people are infected to rely upon probability assessments. but show no symptoms, so they are not In this case, probabilities are said to be tested. Some now believe that a signifiepistemological. cant number of people, especially on the But there are cases in which it could West Coast, got the virus and either had be argued that no amount of prior no symptoms or recovered from what knowledge would allow us to predict the they thought was a bad cold. In this outcome – that probability is a genuine case, the denominator gets much higher, feature of the physical world. This is while the numerator stays roughly the metaphysical probability, and it primarsame. (People might have died, but it ily comes up in the context of quantum was attributed to the flu.) In fact, I am mechanics and predicting the actions of fairly convinced that I had it back in late Olivia, my sweet cat. V January as a result of teaching a class at University of California, Santa Barbara, Steve Humphrey has a Ph.D in the history which included several students fresh and philosophy of science, with a specialty from China. in philosophy of physics. He teaches courses We can use the frequency interpretain these subjects at the University of tion to check our classical calculations.

California, Santa Barbara, and has taught Suppose we want to know if we are them at the University of Louisville.

PROBABILITY How we can – or cannot – predict outcomes

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he origins of probability theory can be traced back to gambling (of course).

Gamblers approached the French mathematician Blaise Pascal and asked if he could devise a way to improve their success at the card table. Pascal communicated with Pierre de Fermat (of “Fermat’s last theorem” fame) and together they began what is now a quite complex and intricate theory. But we will stay with the most basic stuff.

What they were trying to do is calculate the odds that a certain outcome will occur, given less than perfect information as input. For example, what are the odds that a coin, when flipped, will turn up heads? Or that a die will come up six when rolled? Or what are the chances of being dealt a royal flush in a poker game? In all of these cases, there are only a finite number of possible outcomes, so the calculation is fairly simple. Heads is one of only two possible outcomes, so the odds of getting heads is one over two, or .5. (Probabilities are expressed as numbers between zero and one.)

The chances of a die coming up six is one over six. The poker case is exactly the same, though complicated by the large number of possible hands. There are four ways of getting a royal flush, and there are 2,598,960 possible poker hands. So, the odds are four over that big number, which is 0.00015 – very low, indeed. This way of computing probability is called the classical theory.

But what do we do when there are a much larger, perhaps infinite, number of

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Chocolate Chip Brownies Ingredients 1 ½ cups chocolate chips 1 ½ cups sugar ¾ cup butter 2 tablespoons vanilla ¼ cup milk 4 eggs 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt

Directions Reserve one cup of chocolate chips for later. Combine remaining chips, sugar, butter, vanilla and milk and melt in a bowl over boiling water. Cool before adding eggs. Beat eggs into cooled mixture one at a time. Combine flour, baking soda and salt and add to chocolate mixture. Add reserved chips.

Pour into a greased 13 x 9 pan and bake at 300 degrees for about 30 minutes or until core temperature reaches 200 degrees. Let cool and cut into small squares.

Variations Exchange half of regular chips for white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips or butterscotch chips for a fun change.

Add one teaspoon almond extract and sliced almonds to the mixture for a nutty treat.

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hen I last wrote an article for The Voice, it was with the excitement of Derby in mind. While the date of Derby has changed, my excitement for the race has not. With faith and determination, we will see another Kentucky Derby and I’m predicting that the coming Derby events will make for one of the most heartfelt season’s that anyone has ever seen.

Obviously, the world is going through some lifestyle changes and reckoning with a monumental new health issue. Health problems and world problems in life are nothing new to us. The difference here and the good news is that in a world of high-speed, international travel, the rapid spread of a contagious health problem can become predictable in the future to implement prevention. We all know the old adage stating what “makes us stronger.” Well, many of us live by that adage, and many who have lived through something threatening know it well.

I’ve seen the need to help people, especially the young, understand that the world has gotten through big disruptions like this before and it will again. The world will come together in honest, deeply felt conversations as before. Most people embrace a constructive voice to overcome the destructive rant.

Reassurance and reality could be the key words to remember in daily life.

Reassure all folks you meet that we’ll get through this while acknowledging the reality of the lifestyle adjustments that we need to protect each other.

The reality is that contagious healthy carriers could infect the already sick who are seriously vulnerable. I try to reassure the concerned young who must delay or miss many of life’s normal events that we’ve already had.

Young people who had a graduation, wedding, new job, new relocation have their lives on hold for an indefinite time. They don’t have a perspective on this present day disruption. On the other hand, my husband Kevin and I have called our parents to make sure they aren’t doing something crazy with a cavalier attitude.

Recently, I’ve got to know a couple of fine, young yet unnerved college students who continue their courses online, heading toward this summer’s graduation ceremony that isn’t happening for them. Their belongings and memorabilia are captive at school. They’ve thought about the thrill of graduation, moving to an exciting new locale, a new job, and new friends. While the anticipation of these prospects can be stressful in good times, they are compounded in these times. However, we’ll be giving them every reassurance that these times will pass and the reality that they will have a family graduation party after that last online course and final exam is finished. So, here’s a recipe to cheer the young graduate in your life. V M AY 2 0 2 0

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hat would you save?” I remember when poet Nikky Finney posed that question to us, as we sat around the table at 1619 Flux in 2016 with the artists of Roots & Wings. In her 2013 interview with Vanderbilt’s Nashville Review, she said, “The act of saving something is not saving it like you want it to be. It’s saving it like it is.” As I ascended the ramp of the Big Four Bridge during my early morning run, headed toward Indiana, I reflected on Finney’s question – not the only one I have pondered over the past few weeks – as we seek to make sense of the coronavirus pandemic.

I’ve also thought about grace.

Grace to grieve. To re-define productive. To adapt and find new ways of working. Grace with ourselves and others.

Knowing that many life events – from graduations to anniversary celebrations, funerals, and long-standing traditions like the Kentucky Derby – have all been disrupted, postponed or evolved in different ways virtually, it’s important to save and share how our community is experiencing these facets of our lives and where we see hope.

On March 18, I found myself in the doorway of the cooler behind Butchertown Grocery with Chef/Owner Bobby Benjamin as he talked about their carry-out offerings, tears rolling down his face. The thought of letting 71 of 90 employees go, while trying to save the restaurant – overwhelming him. Walking into their Bakery on his 40th birthday, he laughed as he showed me the cake his team baked- shaped like a roll of toilet paper, with the words “The Last Roll. We Love You Chef Bobby! Sorry for the sh*tty birthday!” Humor – something we all need during times like this.

For many, being forced to slow down has required us to think about what really brings value to our

daily lives. Remi Dior, a content creator for Queer Kentucky, shared that “This time away from noise (job, some responsibilities, school, etc.) has given me the chance to engage in well-needed introspection. I’ve been given a chance to get to know myself. I feel as if we get caught up in the ‘come-up’ that we forget the things that make our souls smile.”

Having spent the last year and a half working with young people through IDEAS xLab’s Our Emotional Wellbeing (OEW), I’ve thought a lot about the impact on 12 to 20-year-olds across our community. On a recent OEW Instagram live, one of the students talked about their disappointment in a play being canceled they would have performed in. What are they up to? Reading trilogies like “The Hunger Games,” jumping on the trampoline and preparing to sing during our next IG Live.

17-year-old Ella Beames shared that, “I work alongside them [best friends/seniors at Walden — Nikkey Finney School] to run our LGBTQ+ club, and they were some of the only people in my high school experience that made me feel like I could be completely and utterly myself without hesitation... I can’t wait to sit on the hallway floor at school with somebody and no matter who I’m with, I will look over at them, hug them and say, ‘This moment is perfect,’ because it is.”

I knew what Ella meant. On a recent Zoom call, my team member Hannah Drake said, “Josh, If I’d known the last time I would see you in person (for the time being) was our March 11 meeting at Louisville Youth Group, I would have given you a huge hug.” Walking along the waterfront in Indiana, looking at the city as the sun rises, I thought back to my list of meaningful moments – sitting around our office table laughing hysterically. Like a hug from Hannah, I look forward to those moments because they fill me up and bring out the best in me.

“I’m trying to think about getting it right, because the act of saving something is not saving it like you want it to be.

It’s saving it like it is.”

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For college graduates, this is also a time of tremendous change. “Because I studied abroad in China in 2018, I’ve been watching the pandemic since it surfaced last fall,” said Molly Jett, a 2020 Kentucky Derby Festival Royal Court Princess, and newly named parttime temporary associate producer with WHAS11.

“When Bellarmine University called off school, I was not surprised. I saw it happening in China and Italy.

It was devastating as a senior, but it wasn’t about me, about college, about being a Derby Princess. It is a global disaster. Knowing Kentucky Derby Festival activities have been rescheduled to the fall is exciting.

It gave us time to rest, time to think of things we are grateful for.”

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social and political accoutrements have reeked,” Xian shared. “But when we are together... learning the foxtrot (and re-learning the gift of one another), sitting by the fire with our dogs and forgetting the constant quest for productivity, it feels just a little bit alright.”

The idea of what would you save – and where are you finding meaning – is reiterated by the Coronavirus Capsule created by Frazier History Museum. “This is going to be an experience of a lifetime, something we hope to never go through again,” said Rachel Platt, director of community engagement at the Frazier Museum. “This [capsule] is a service for generations to come.”

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Artwork by Josh Miller (Above).

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due to the outbreak,” and one by Claudia S. Geurin on the kindness of a stranger at the grocery store.

The capsule is a collaboration between the Frazier History Museum, Jefferson County Public Schools, the University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections and the public at large to document and preserve how people are seeing, feeling and coping with this pandemic. You can submit a contribution at fraziermuseum.org.

One of the things I plan to submit to the capsule is the artwork I’ve created during this time, including an acrylic ink collage featuring a horse as a nod to the Kentucky Derby – another one of my obsessions since childhood. I have many fond memories of Derby with Tonya Abeln, who now works for Churchill Downs.

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lets people participate in the spirit of Derby in May while looking forward to doing it together in person in September.”

The DerbyGives.com raffle will take place April 30-May 2. “Thurby will benefit the TEAM Kentucky Fund,” Tonya explained. “Oaks Day will go to frontline medical relief, and Derby day will be an industry relief effort. One person will win half the pot, and Churchill Downs will match the other half.”

So, whether it is making time to process grief, to reconceptualize a celebration or to recognize the moments you’re grateful for during this time, I encourage you to remember that, “We are all interconnected,” as Penny Peavler said. “I hope that we take this as an opportunity to recognize that the old ‘normal’ was not good for everybody. We can create new systems that work better for all people.” V M AY 2 0 2 0

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t a time when it feels like a dark cloud has descended upon both our country and the world, the arts and culture organizations of Louisville have found ways to be a beacon of light in our community amidst the plethora of closures and cancellations. As quickly as the COVID-19 pandemic took over our daily lives – leading us into a constant state of uncertainty and separating us from the social interactions we were accustomed to – this did not keep them from providing the content our community has come to love and rely on. After speaking with numerous leaders and individual artists in the Greater Louisville area, it became apparent that all art forms are still being shared and created, just in a different way.

Thanks to modern technology and social media, this past month has seen an outpouring of every type of self-expression imaginable: full orchestras performing in unison remotely, audible storytelling and poetry, virtual ballet lessons, streaming pre-recorded plays and musicals, virtual museum tours and interactive historical content.

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in world history and is an event that’s being compared to World War II. As a history museum, we thought it was our responsibility to capture that with a virtual museum that features things people are feeling about it, such as original artwork, writings and videos.” In addition to launching their online resource, Virtual Frazier, where visitors can access free entertainment and educational content

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that is updated daily, the Frazier also created a sharing platform for students and the public to share how this pandemic is affecting them. In partnership with Jefferson County Public Schools, the University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections and other school systems, the Frazier created the Coronavirus Capsule to document and preserve how people are seeing, feeling and coping with this pandemic. “Everyone has all these feelings and has never been through this before. This is an opportunity to allow them to express those feelings and then for us to curate and share them with the community,” said Treinen.

The Speed Art Museum also launched a similar platform upon having to close their doors. Speed Online includes three different ways the public can interact with the museum while in the comfort of their homes. The first of the three pillars is Art Sparks, a virtual place where parents can find inspiration for fun, kid-friendly activities to do at home. For those missing the carefully curated films at the Speed Cinema, they are now available via Speed Cinema Streaming along with recommendations, information and conversations with film curator, Dean Otto. The third pillar is Museum from Home, where curators and other art influencers share behind the scenes stories about works from the permanent collection. Regarding upcoming shows, the grand opening of the highly-anticipated exhibition, “Andy Warhol: Revelation,” has been put on hold until the museum doors reopen.

Speed Art Museum Director Stephen Reily commented, “We’re very mindful of the very serious human needs right now and understand that a museum and the arts in general can’t provide the food or shelter for those suffering from this pandemic. But humanity will bounce back, M AY 2 0 2 0

and when it does, the arts are going to be as important as ever. They will lighten the human spirit and give us ways to think about our culture, ourselves and our history together.” To do their part to support the staff of the museum, the entire senior leadership team and curators have all taken a 10 percent pay cut. While the institution remains closed, Reily will be donating his entire salary to the museum.

“We’re all in it together,” Reily said.

KMAC Museum also moved their experience online, generating an even stronger social media engagement than expected.

Executive Director of KMAC Museum Aldy Milliken commented, “Facebook and Instagram allow a certain level of feedback or conversation not always generated within the walls of a museum.

People are more likely to remain engaged when we’re asking them for their direct input, their interpretations and their voices to be heard, creating a running dialogue.” Milliken plans to engage the public even further by taking them inside the museum – hosting a virtual Zoom tour of the museum’s current exhibit, “Picasso: From Antibes to Louisville.”

An incredibly unique and popular annual event in Louisville, KMAC Couture, was also affected by this pandemic. After having to postpone the event only a month before its scheduled date, the entire team of KMAC Couture leaders and artists are having to rethink what it will mean to our city once we overcome this pandemic. Milliken commented, “KMAC Couture is such a special and exceptional event that now there is a hole, a longing that’s been created when we can’t see it and do it and witness it, so we feel responsible to our artists. The art is there, it’s being made, just how do we deliver it safely to our public?” KMAC Couture artist Bri Bowers, whose design themes are often a commentary on current society, shared that due to COVID19, she decided to completely change her KMAC Couture design. Her new design will reflect the isolation our society is experiencing and how this pandemic is affecting the fashion industry.

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shared experience. How do “HUMANITY WILL BOUNCE we process what we’re going BACK, AND WHEN IT DOES, through? Artists are going to help us and guide us THE ARTS ARE GOING TO through these conversations BE AS IMPORTANT AS EVER. and challenge us to think in new ways or to resolve or to THEY WILL LIGHTEN THE mourn even.”

Bowers is also a resiHUMAN SPIRIT AND GIVE US dent artist and employee at WAYS TO THINK ABOUT OUR Revelry Boutique Gallery, where she works and creates CULTURE, OURSELVES AND alongside a team of six other OUR HISTORY TOGETHER ” artists. When the doors of the gallery had to close to — Stephen Reily the public, the artists inside continued working and creating. One of Bowers’ immediate reactions was making Andy Beshear t-shirts, stickers and magnets that were available on Revelry’s website and sold out almost immediately when posted.

“Making the Beshear-themed items is what came naturally right away and was the most fulfilling because it was so relevant to the moment.” When asked if it’s challenging as an artist to find inspiration to create during this time, Bowers said, “What’s hard is when you’re still going through something, you’re not fully inspired until you can have that point of reflection on that experience. It’s hard to see what you’re going through while you’re in it.” Bowers VO I C E -T R I B U N E . C O M |

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Right: “Where the Mountain Meets the Sea” at Actors Theatre. Photo by Jonathan Roberts.

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encourages those wanting to support the arts community to commission their own piece and says, “[Art] is not essential, but it is essential. Having something creative and an outlet, the virus can’t take that away.

It can’t take away our creativity or our need to create.”

Owner of Revelry and artist Mo McKnight Howe has been working 12-14 hours a day trying to come up with new streams of income for local artists, uploading content online from her gallery and also encouraging other artists to do the same. “While all I see on my Instagram and Facebook right now are people at home ‘Netflix and chilling’ and working on their yoga poses, which is all well and good, all the artists I know and everyone in my industry are doing the opposite of that. We are all hustling – that’s the best way I know how to describe it.” She continues, “Artists often thrive under pressure or when faced with really difficult, traumatic things that happen in life. Where most people are having a hard time “WHERE MOST PEOPLE ARE HAVING isolating, artists are taking it to the canvas or to their A HARD TIME ISOLATING, ARTISTS studios.”

ARE TAKING IT TO THE CANVAS OR After having two zero-dollar days, McKnight TO THEIR STUDIOS.” — Mo McKnight Howe Howe turned to her personal Facebook to make a plea for support, and the response was overwhelming. “The generosity and the amount of orders we’ve been receiving since then has been such a testament to the culture that has been created here in Louisville.

It shows that our residents really value the arts, they value artists and they value small business.”

McKnight Howe is also on the board of Fund for the Arts, which recently launched the $10 million Cultural Lou Recovery Campaign to support local arts and culture organizations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with the Arts & Culture Alliance, the campaign is co-chaired

by David Wombwell, market president of US Bank, and Campbell Brown, president of Old Forester.

Organizers hope to subsidize the $1.3 million daily losses occurring in the arts and culture sector due to COVID-19 in comparison to the $462.5 million in total economic activity typically generated by the nonprofit arts industry in the Louisville area. In an initial interview with President and CEO of Fund for the Arts Christen Boone, she described how quickly the Fund had to respond to this need. She shared that statistically – at the national, state and local levels – the majority of arts and culture organizations have three months or less of cash on hand. Boone and others knew they had to act fast.

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pooled all partners and resources possible to make it happen quickly. When asked why it’s so necessary to support this facet of our community, Boone commented, “The arts bring hope, joy and comfort. They will be an integral part of bringing us together again to celebrate and heal after this period of uncertainty and social isolation.”

Two longtime partners of Fund for the Arts that have also been drastically affected by COVID-19 are Actors Theatre and the Louisville Ballet.

For the first time in 44 years, Actors Theatre of Louisville had to cancel the Humana Festival of New American Plays. According to Executive Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming, there was no other theater in the country that was premiering five different plays with five full companies that had to cancel performances due to the pandemic. Fleming said, “I think it’s hard for people to comprehend the impact of having such a seminal event in our season. This is the thing we live

for. There’s Derby, there’s the NCAA Championships, there are these seminal events that happen annually and this was ours.” To combat the loss of the festival and to continue delivering quality content to viewers nationwide, Fleming’s team created Actors Theatre Direct: an on-demand, multi-channel streaming platform to deliver worldclass theater directly to viewers’ home screens. Fleming commented, “We want to focus on the possibilities and what resilience looks like and what possibility looks like. Out of this national and global tragedy has come an opportunity to continue to fulfill our mission, to unlock human potential, to build community and to enrich lives through Actors Theatre Direct.”

They found that having these performances available to stream virtually for the first time has created far more accessibility globally than ever before and actually expanded their audience.

“There’s always a silver lining,” says Fleming.

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Brienne Keehner performing “Serenade.”

Choreography by George Balanchine. ©The George Balanchine Trust Photo by Sam English.

“THERE’S ALWAYS A SILVER LINING.” — Robert Barry Fleming

The Louisville Ballet had a similar experience to that of the Humana Festival with the postponement of the premier of “Kentucky! Volume One,” what was supposed to be the final performance of the Season of Imagination.

We asked Brienne Keehner, both the program manager of the Louisville Youth Ensemble and a dancer in “Kentucky! Volume One” what it felt like to not be able to perform a dance that she devoted so much time and effort into rehearsing. Keehner said, “I had a hard time at the beginning.

Rehearsing is so much of my being and my happiness, and I’m so used to that being my whole day. It was a little frightening to think about not getting to do that every day.”

In an effort to bring some normalcy back to the dancers’ daily routines, they began dancing virtually together via various methods. Artistic & Executive Director of the Louisville Ballet Robert Curran currently teaches a barre and conditioning class for the company every morning, and other dancers

offer online classes including yoga and cross-training. Keehner commented, “We at the Ballet love being together and feed off of that good energy of being in the studio together. It became apparent very quickly that that is a big hole in our lives when we can’t be in the same place. We tried to think about how we fill that gap and how we can still feel like we’re together without actually being together.” The way social media has enabled the company to stay connected, like all other arts and culture organizations have expressed, is perhaps the thread holding us all together, even while we’re apart. Keehner said, “It’s really inspiring to see the way people are finding a way to create art together around the world. It may be unconventional or in an irregular way, but creating music together, dancing together, taking classes together. To me, as an artist, I’ve always felt like my art is my life, but it’s been inspiring to see that everyone else in the world has been turning to art to get through and to have something to look forward to.” V

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he neighborhood of Crescent Hill is largely made up of older historic homes and repurposed properties. But in the last year, a modern residence has popped up on the quiet block of Caledonia Ave. Settled into 3,926 square feet, the home includes four bedrooms and three full bathrooms with one half bath. The sleek design features 10-foot ceilings, ash hardwood floors and a wrap-around covered front porch. The second level includes a 14-foot vaulted ceiling in the master bedroom and a second-floor laundry suite. A finished basement, attached garage and intricately designed mudroom round out the carefully arranged property.

“This is an exciting project that was inspired by the builder’s life in Telluride, Colorado, and his wife who is both an artist and a curator,” said Principal Broker John Stough with Kentucky Select Properties. “It is quite the collaborative effort, and we are excited to introduce a new building into such an historic neighborhood.”

To learn more about the home and its amenities, we spoke with the mastermind behind the project, T.M. Faversham of Deep Creek Builders.

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What was in this space before?

Previously, the site had a 100-year-old onestory bungalow. The home had a long life but unfortunately, it needed to be taken down.

We tried to honor the house and those who built it by constructing a well-built home that hopefully, will last another 100 years.

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“This is an exciting project that was inspired by the builder’s life in Telluride, Colorado, and his wife who is both an artist and a curator.” — John Stough What inspired the design of the home?

I learned to be a carpenter in a mountain town in Colorado, and I built a lot of homes with shed roofs and vertical siding.

I’ve always liked that simple and durable design. I am also inspired by the eclectic architecture of Crescent Hill, where you can find Victorians, bungalows and Craftsman-style homes all in the same block. The location of the property, and its large and secluded lot, made building the design of 4 Caledonia Ave. possible.

What are some exceptional features of the property?

The natural light in the home is invigorating. The back of the home – which has floor-to-ceiling windows – faces south, and this provides beautiful natural light even on cloudy days.

The home is brand new and energy-efficient. With Marvin windows and spray foam insulation, heating and cooling utility costs are substantially lower compared to older homes.

The lot is incredible. The house is tucked away on a side street that is quiet and relatively traffic-free. We got a variance to set the house back 60 feet so that there are no houses on either side. There are only three houses on the street, and they all have room to “breathe.”

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quarter acre with a large, flat lawn and old growth trees, and it adjoins a lot that is “permanent-no-build” green space.

What do you most enjoy about the neighborhood?

The walkability and community. I have lived in Crescent Hill for over a decade with my wife and two young daughters.

We love seeing people of all ages walking the sidewalks, and we frequent the neighborhood public library and other independent shops and restaurants. The librarians know my daughters by name!

I appreciate the Crescent Hill neighborhood and the city for embracing this idea and enabling our team to create something

unique in the community. I follow residential building trends across the country, and I notice that established neighborhoods in cities like Seattle, Chicago and Nashville are building new construction contemporary homes while also updating and remodeling older homes in the same neighborhoods. I see the potential for the Crescent Hill neighborhood to keep its 100-year-old charm, while also incorporating new contemporary homes. V 4 Caledonia Ave. is listed with Kentucky Select Properties. To learn more, visit kyselectproperties.com or call John Stough at 502.552.9120.

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itting on 50 bucolic acres in Oldham County lives an estate with classic elegance and modern amenities.

The home, which is currently on the market with Kentucky Select Properties, appears to be straight out of the Antebellum-era but was erected in 1968. The builders and original owners, Dr. Jerry Shaw and Martha Jane Shaw, modeled the home after the clubhouse at Harmony Landing Country Club.

The current owners purchased it in 1990 and have renovated multiple times with the help of renowned architect Timothy R. Winters.

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“I like that they built the house to look 100 years old,” the homeowner says. “That’s why we felt so good about having Tim Winters do the supplementary work – to try to keep that older look alive.”

More than 7,900 square feet make up the main house, which includes five bedrooms, four full bathrooms and one half bath. Remarkable features include a cherry-paneled library, a marble-floored solarium, a vast kitchen with fireplace and more. Hand-painted murals by local artist Sabra Crockett can be found in the living room and in what used to be the children’s bedrooms.

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Though massive in size, the main house is environmentally friendly thanks to a geothermal system installed in recent years.

“It helps in terms of the electrical and utility bills, and it’s very efficient for all of the cooling,” the homeowner says.

“You don’t have those external air conditioners running all the time, so noisewise it’s much better.”

The main house is just one part of the pastoral compound. A handicap-accessible guest house on the property includes two bedrooms and two

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bathrooms. A drive-through garage can hold up to eight vehicles and includes its own upstairs apartment.

Further out, visitors will find a fishing pond stocked with bass and bluegill and a horse barn with five stalls.

The estate stretches out far and wide, providing plenty of room for the horses to graze and gorgeous views for the people to take in.

“The setting is just beautiful,” says Nanette Tafel, broker associate with Kentucky Select Properties.

“When you look out the windows, you can see the horses running around and going over jumps.”

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Out of all the property’s spectacular features, the homeowner says his favorite place is the large covered porch, where he and his family have spent countless hours taking in the gorgeous scenery around them.

“I love the veranda,” he continues. “It’s just the most peaceful place on earth.” V The home at 10300 Covered Bridge Road in Prospect is listed with Kentucky Select Properties. For more information, contact Nanette Tafel at 502.376.1083 or visit kyselectproperties.com.

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Thrill of the Hunt Tate Northrop, Gracie Shriner and Lydia Eifler.

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Ellen Harkins, Colleen E. Walker, Lydia Eifler and Lisa Eifler.

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ast November, three exceptional young athletes represented Kentucky in the Junior North American Field Hunter Championship. In a field of 45 riders, Tate Northrop placed third and Gracie Shriner placed fourth overall.

Lydia Eifler placed seventh and was a Best Turned Out division winner.

All three are members of the Long Run Woodford Hounds, the foxhunting club located in Simpsonville that brings together hunting enthusiasts, hound owners and land conservationists. Members uphold the traditions of the club as well

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as the rules of the sport. For those who are unfamiliar with foxhunting and what it entails, the emphasis is on the riding rather than hunting. “The stated reward is to enjoy the chase and not to capture or harm,” according to the club’s mission statement.

Carrying on the joys and the traditions of the hunt are Lydia, Tate and Gracie, all nationally-recognized athletes who have been riding horses since they were toddlers. With the support of their mothers and their mentors, the girls have grown into astounding equestrians who show no signs of slowing down.

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junior at Assumption High School, Lydia comes from a long line of equestrians. Her mother Lisa has been hunting for more than 40 years. Lisa’s mother Sheila Heider bred and raised Thoroughbreds, fox hunters, draft mules and Welsh ponies on the family’s farm in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Lisa’s father Albert Heider was a fifth-generation farmer who owned and hunted with his own pack of foxhounds during the 1980s and 1990s.

Lisa introduced Lydia to riding when she was three years old.

Since she took to it immediately, Lydia started her fox hunting career at the age of five. For the last five years, Lydia has qualified for the Junior North American Field Hunter Championships (JNAFHC) and has placed in the top 10 each time.

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“I feel a huge sense of accomplishment,” Lydia says. “Being called up and given the award brings such a rush of happiness.”

While incredibly proud of her daughter’s accomplishments, Lisa maintains that the memories mean much more than the accolades.

“Ribbons and trophies are not important at the end of the day,” Lisa says. “I want Lydia to remember the time spent trotting through the woods, the thrill of flying over fields, the beauty of nature and the look of pure joy as we ride side by side.”

“My family has sacrificed so much for me to ride horses,” says Lydia. “They are always there for me and cheer me on at competitions. My mom is the reason I am the rider I am today. She has taught me so much, and I wouldn’t be able to ride without her.”

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ate attends South Oldham High School and also inherited her love of foxhunting from her mother, Megan.

“Sharing a sport you love with your child is one of the most gratifying things in the world,” Megan says. “I’ve been known to allow Tate to play ‘hooky’ from school to enjoy a day of foxhunting with me.”

Megan began riding and competing at the age of nine under the guidance of her cousin and mentor, Dr. Madelyn Jacobs. Madelyn inspired Megan’s interest in hunting when she was 16 and has continued to serve as a mentor to Tate and the other girls.

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“Ever since I could walk, Madelyn has been there for me and guided me through the hunt,” Tate says. “She and Colleen (Walker) do so much for us.

It means so much to have their guidance and support.”

“Tate has learned the importance of land conservation and has developed into a more capable and confident rider,” Megan says.

“I love that foxhunting is steeped in tradition and Tate has had to learn that it requires a great deal

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“Foxhunting isn’t just about riding,” Tate adds. “It’s a way of life. Our club is so much fun, even when we’re not hunting. I love working with the hounds, playing with the puppies and being with my friends as much as I love hunting.”

Below: Laura Hampton Wilhem, LRWH Honorary Huntsman, and Annette Adams, LRWH

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Above: A spread of food and drinks prepared by LRWH members. Most hunts end with a social hour and tailgating.

Left: Young Lydia, Gracie and Tate on their ponies.

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Left: Young Gracie riding her pony, Buddy.

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llen Harkins has been involved with LRWH for 18 years. The Eastern Kentucky native was introduced to foxhunting when she attended Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia. Today, her daughter Gracie attends the same boarding school. While she, Tate and Lydia all attend different schools, the trio maintains their lifelong connection.

“Lydia and Tate are undoubtedly my oldest friends,” Gracie says. “We’ve been hunting together since we were three and have enjoyed each other’s company since. We compete in different disciplines and train with different coaches, but we always try to make time for each other.”

Though she has her sights set on a career in medicine, Gracie has no intention of giving up riding.

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“I’ve been preparing for the possibility of competing on the IHSA (Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association) circuit,” says Gracie. “I also plan to hunt as much as possible when I’m home for breaks. I know that riding might not always be possible for me at every stage of my life due to school and work, but I am grateful to have such a wonderful sport to return to whenever I choose.”

Ellen has watched Gracie thrive as a competitor but understands that defeat is sometimes a necessity.

“Let your kid fail,” says Ellen.

“Failure is so important. Your child must fail to establish future goals and will, in turn, appreciate hard work and success. I watched my young child gain confidence, learn responsibility, time

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and equine management skills, respect for authority, history and traditions. She grew up roaming the amazing countrysides of Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.”

Having spent countless hours riding through the country, Gracie and her fellow LRWH members share a passion and appreciation for conservation.

“Kentucky has some of the most beautiful land in the country,” says Gracie. “It would be a shame if the generations after us never got to experience it.”

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r. Madelyn Jacobs, a family practitioner with Norton Healthcare, plays an integral role in the club and the lives of the young women.

As a fieldmaster, she leads riders on hunts to ensure order in the group and safety for the riders.

Off the field, Madelyn is a cousin of Megan and Tate, and she’s Gracie’s godmother.

“I showed up to Gracie’s second birthday party – without telling her parents – with a mini pony for her,” Madelyn laughs.

She has watched the girls go from toddlers on mini ponies to equestrian champions. She recalls a cold day in December when Lydia and Gracie, both five years old, took a trail ride with Madelyn and their mothers. When Lydia was ready to call it a day and return to the barn, Gracie adopted a more ambitious attitude.

“Gracie is sitting there on her pony, just as quiet as can be, and then she looks up at me all serious,” Madelyn says. “She says to me, ‘You know, it never hurts to

push yourself a little.’”

As her work ethic and passion for the sport rubbed off on the young riders, Madelyn is proud to have played a part in their success.

“I wouldn’t give up a moment of it,” she says. “I’ve been so lucky to watch them grow up and mature into who they are. It’s been a lot of fun and hopefully, it’s not over yet.”

Also providing insurmountable support is Colleen Walker, who has been a member of the club

for 12 years and is a longtime adviser to the group.

“It’s fabulous to see what strong women these ladies have grown into and the kind of focus they have – the moms and the girls,” Colleen says. “I remember when they were so little they couldn’t reach their stirrups.”

Walker emphasizes the great privilege it is to compete in a national championship, and she recognizes how rare it is to have three junior riders from the same club achieve such success.

Above: Gracie, Dr. Madelyn Jacobs, Lydia and Tate.

Below: Laura Hampton Wilhem, LRWH Honorary Huntsman, and Paul Bickel, LRWH-MFH.

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Above: Kim Schipke Morris, LRWH; Colleen E. Walker, LRWH; Annette Adams, LRWH; Mary Jo Maloney, Iroquois Hunt; Patrick McLane,LRWH; Dinwiddie Lampton, LRWH-MFH; Laura Hampton Wilhem, LRWH Honorary Huntsman; Deb Barnes, LRWH; Paul Bickel, LRWH-MFH; and Gracie Shriner, LRWH. Left: Mary Jo Maloney, Iroquois Hunt Club, and Deb Barnes, LRWH.

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“The competition is rigorous,” she says. “You have to be nominated and earn the points in order to go to the championships. I’m proud to be a part of it – to see what these kids have accomplished and their commitment to it.”

“I have known Gracie, Tate and Lydia since they were small children,” says Paul Bickel, MFH (Master of Fox Hounds) and a joint-master of the Long Run

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Woodford Hounds. “They all come from fox hunting families and it has been great fun to see them become accomplished young riders. Their enthusiasm is infectious and just being around them helps us all enjoy the sport even more.”

The ties that bind this group of people go beyond family and friendship, and their shared love of the hunt has created an everlasting bond.

“It’s a sport that commands your focus,” Colleen says. “It will build your confidence and your relationship with your horse. There’s a level of trust that you both need with each other that you can’t explain with just words. It’s a collaboration, a partnership, a team effort.

The sport is steeped in tradition, but it’s wonderful to be a part of it.

It’ll take you across the globe. It’ll give you the thrill of a lifetime.” V

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AWelcome Sight The life-changing impact of Visually Impaired Preschool Services

By MARIAH KLINE Photos by ANDREA HUTCHINSON

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ight is a gift that most of us take for granted.

For parents of blind and visually impaired children, sight is a constant concern.

“As a mom, to realize when your child is ssix ix months old that maybe he’s never seen me or heard me is a devastating thought,” says Taylor Wright.

Wright is the mom of two-year-old Wells, who was born with CVI (cortical visual impairment), a neural processing disorder that makes it difficult for him to see. He began working with the First Steps program at Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS) at the age of eight months, and his family has seen significant improvements every step of the way.

“When he started, he couldn’t see if you had lit a sparkler in the room,” Wright says. “He couldn’t eye track or follow anything. They started so small with anything that could grab his attention and then we just built on those strategies very slowly.”

VIPS has worked with parents and children in Kentucky and Indiana for 35 years. The instrucAs a mom, to realize when your tors of VIPS work to create individchild is six months old that maybe ualized plans to he’s never seen me or heard me help set children up for success as they is a devastating thought.” develop and learn.

They teach little — Taylor Wright ones how to utilize

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the remaining sight they have and navigate the world using other senses.

“They’re compassionate and they’re collaborative,” Wright says. “They don’t just say, ‘This is what I think, and this is what you should do.’ They individualize everything. They hone in on responses and reactions that may seem so subtle, but they utilize those reactions to help them improve.”

Beyond helping the children, VIPS works to connect the families they serve – creating a safe space for parents to express fears and concerns and learn from one another. Through retreats and the Parent Empowerment Program (PEP), VIPS creates a community for parents to share their child’s struggles and triumphs with those who understand the most.

With experienced professionals leading the way, Wright knows that her son is in the best possible hands.

“They’re very responsive,” Wright says of the organization. “The therapeutic strategies VIPS does on a consistent basis so early on – even before they’re able to talk and have any kind of response – is tremendous. They’re not a ‘wait and see’ organization. They are always there.

Even with the Coronavirus, they want to check-in and stay in touch.”

“We do not place children on a waiting list,” says Director of Education Kathy Mullen. “We understand the importance of beginning early intervention services as soon as possible.”

With several years of educational experience, Mullen knows what is at stake for blind and visually impaired children.

“When we look at the big picture, we know that visually impaired and blind adults are the most unemployed and underemployed group of adults with needs,” she says. “This is not acceptable and needs to be addressed as early as possible. VIPS begins addressing this issue in early intervention by teaching skills for independence, career education and self-advocacy.”

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, VIPS staff members have begun video conferencing with children to continue

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Photos provided by VIPS: Top: VIPS student Benjamin Facetimes with his instructor.

Middle: The VIPS Orange Room on a Zoom call.

Bottom: Instructor Tracy Webb works with Wells.

Wells and Taylor Wright.

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teaching and assisting them. While Mullen and her team are struggling during this difficult time, she sees the potential in remote services for families.

“I have had the blessing of serving in the field of early intervention for close to 30 years,” she says. “This is by far the scariest time and also one of the times with the greatest opportunity for growth. By providing services remotely, we will never replace face-to-face visits in a family’s home, but we will definitely be able to expand and enhance those services.

“Like all nonprofits, the VIPS bottom line is hurting during this time,” Mullen says.

“Our amazing administrative team has identified and applied for all supports available statewide and federally. Any financial support would be greatly appreciated and will be put directly into our services for Kentucky and Indiana families.” V

They’re not a ‘wait and see’ organization.

They are always there. Even with the Coronavirus, they want to check-in and stay in touch.”

— Taylor Wright

Visually Impaired Preschool Services will host the Virtual VIPS Gala beginning with a silent auction on May 25 and a live auction on May 30. Items up for bid include vacations, bottles of bourbon and other select items. To learn more, visit vips.org or call 502.636.3207.

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hile there are no events in the near future due to COVID-19 – and we all want to support social distancing – we can look forward to some of our favorites happening later this year. Check online in the coming months for more details, and continue supporting some of these local causes through monetary donations.

Gallop Gala

KMAC Couture: Art Walks the Runway

Churchill Downs, Millionaires Row Aug. 21 gallopgala.com

KMAC Museum Aug. 8 kmacmuseum.org/couture

Thunder Over Louisville

Kick off your Derby season with an evening of fun, laughter and dancing benefiting Down Syndrome Of Louisville! Meet our celebrity members who drive the mission as we celebrate their success. Funds raised support the Down Syndrome of Louisville Lifelong Learning Centers serving Kentucky and Southern Indiana.

Louisville Waterfront Park Aug. 15 kdf.org

Kentucky Derby Museum Gala

Engage with art in a rare fashion at the KMAC Museum’s wearable art runway show. A celebration of artists, designers and creativity like no other, expect a Saturday full of surprises!

The largest fireworks show in North America begins the countdown to the Kentucky Derby! Don’t forget your Pegasus Pin so you can access the Thunder Chow Wagon, Meijer Family Fun Zone and more.

Derby Divas Rodes For Him For Her 6:30 p.m. Aug. 20 nortonhealthcare.com Be a Derby Diva and take part in this special night of shopping, fun and friendship. Proceeds from Derby Divas benefit breast health programs at Norton Cancer Institute and help fund mammograms for underserved women in our community.

Careful, Neat & Decent: Arts of the Kentucky Shakers

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Don’t miss this elegant evening of dinner and dancing benefiting the Kentucky Derby Museum. Presented

by Central Bank, the 34th annual gala will support the museum’s curatorial and educational programs.

Night of a Thousand Laughs Location TBD Sept. 20 gck.org/events Join Gilda’s Club Kentuckiana for a night of comedy featuring local celebrities. Professional comedian Sean Smith will be joined by locals Anoosh Shariat, Laura McGregor, Mike Rutherford and more.

Down with Derby Fashion Show & Charity Auction

Speed Art Museum Aug. 21 – Jan. 3 speedmuseum.org

KMAC Couture Art Walks the Runway; Kentucky Museum Gala; Derby Divas.

Kentucky Derby Museum Aug. 28 derbymuseum.org

Developed in collaboration with the South Union Shaker Village and the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, this exhibition will draw together over 50 objects produced by and for the South Union and Pleasant Hill Shakers. The exhibition will also share the intersectional stories of the Shaker experience, including those of women, of African Americans and of orphans.

Churchill Downs, Starting Gate Suites, Fourth Floor 6 p.m. Oct. 8 downwithderby.com A fashion event where the styles and the smiles steal the show! As the leading inclusive fashion show for the Kentucky Derby season, Down with Derby features models with Down Syndrome alongside industry professionals, proving inclusion is the most stylish look of them all.

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Celebration of Life

Lucie Becker Blodgett

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1927– 2020

ucie Becker was born on Dec. 7, 1927 in Brookhaven, Mississippi to parents Verna Lilly (Palatire) Becker and William H. Becker Sr. Lucie Blodgett passed away peacefully in Louisville, Kentucky on April 1, 2020.

Her brothers taught her how to play golf, hunt, fish, swim and to tell a great story from a very early age. Lucie graduated from Missouri School of Journalism while helping raise her brother William H. Becker Jr.’s five children whom she adored. Surviving typhoid fever during her early career at The Jackson Daily News, she fell in love with Louisville, moving there in 1953 after covering the The Kentucky Derby.

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America has lost a trailblazing female photographer as her national coverage, publications and awards in the 1950s revealed her extraordinary talent in her early 20s while reporting for the legendary Barry Bingham Sr. at his Courier-Journal. Capturing the moment was her passion. Being with Lucie meant having your picture taken and her asking you about yourself. If you were camera shy, she would grin and say, “It only takes 1/60th of a second.” Her natural gift for storytelling, profound sense of empathy, good humor and brilliant artistic eye made her a leading light for generations of Louisvillians.

Lucie’s favorite memories include winning Photo of the Year in Look Magazine and covering the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, Pope John Paul II’s visit to the US in 1979, chronicling her niece and playwright Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize winning career and praying hand in hand with His Holiness The Dalai Lama.

Her driven curiosity and love of authors compelled her to visit William Faulkner at his home in Oxford, Mississippi, unannounced, to ask him what she should pack for the upcoming trip to Europe in 1953. While they sat on his porch with his hound dogs, he matter-of-factly gave her a list of what he would take: “four oxford shirts, two pairs of black pants, razor, razor strap and plenty of sharpened pencils and notebooks.”

Raising her children at her historic home Rosewell in Harrods Creek, Kentucky in 1979, she freelanced for The Voice-Tribune writing her column The Social Side until retirement at age 85. She promoted vital organizations, championing The Healing Place, Kentucky Harvest, The English Speaking Union, Locust Grove, The

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Thomas Merton Center and the Speed Art Museum. She was blessed to be partner and caregiver to John Y. Brown Sr., attorney and former Kentucky US House Representative, in his later years. After his death in 1985, she was drawn to Gethsemani Abbey, arranging flowers for their chapel and retreating there on a regular basis for many years. She served as a board member of the Thomas Merton Foundation and incorporated her experiences at the Abbey into her writing. She was a regular guest on Milton Metz’s radio talk show the “Off The Wall Gang” in the late 1980s with journalists Terry Meiners, Barry Bernson, Bob Hill, Byron Crawford and Richard Des Ruisseaux among others.

In her retirement, her joy was spending time with family and telling stories as only she could tell them. She has many golf trophies and even more thank you letters for her loving articles about the lives, events and her incredible photographs of the citizens of Louisville. She was preceded in death by brothers William Henry Becker Jr., Albert Lilly Becker, Thomas David Becker, Francis McGrath Becker and Keith Williamson Finley; son Dennis Long Jr., daughter Lucie Lyons Long; and grandson Christopher Long. She is survived by her son Clay Long (Lynsey), daughter Kate Blodgett (James Welch) and granddaughter Josie Welch.

The family would like to thank The Finleys (Rome,Georgia), Diane Walker, PC Coe, Ellen Timmons, Becki Masden, Anne T. Payne, James and Joyce Welch, Philip and Susie Greenberg, John Harralson, Christy Brown, Greg Chaney, John Y. Brown Jr. and family, Gethsemani Abbey, The River Valley Club, Masonic Home, Ponder Creek Estates and Landmark of Louisville. Special appreciation to the memories of Louise Cecil, Michael Weber, Anne M. Payne, and Betty Bruce “Boo” Brown, Lucie’s late dear friends.

Donations or service in lieu of flowers to The Abbey of Gethsemani and The Healing Place. A celebration of her life and work will be held at a later time to be announced.

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1928– 2020

ucille Bowling Carloftis was born on Feb. 14, 1928 in Clay County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of the late Robert Franklin Bowling and Verda Mae Marcum. She was united in marriage to Carlos Carloftis who preceded her in death. She was the mother of Carcille Carloftis Burchette and husband Clyde of Corbin; George Carlos “Buzz” Carloftis of Livingston; Koula Carloftis Shivel and husband David of London; Betsy Carloftis Overbey and her late husband Freddie of Livingston, Kentucky; Robert Dustan “Dusty” Carloftis and wife Toni of Corbin, Kentucky; and Jon Carloftis of Lexington, Kentucky; the grandmother of Laura Whitney, Koula Verda (Chris), Carly Rae (Lyle), John Zachary (Sallee Beth), Betsy Lucille (Gary), Carlo David, Emma Kate and Ellie Jane; the great-grandmother of Charlie Anna, Gatlin Jude and Bennie Belle.

Lucille was the co-owner of Fort Sequoyah Indian Village and Rockcastle River Trading Company and a member of Livingston Baptist Church.

Lucille Bowling Carloftis departed this life on March 5, 2020 being 92 years and 20 days of age.

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Celebration of Life

Ida Maney “Sissy” Nash

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1928– 2020

da Maney “Sissy” Nash of Prospect, Kentucky, died at home surrounded by family on March 10, 2020 of complications arising from a pulmonary disease. She was born on Dec. 10, 1928 in Louisville, the daughter of Col. Frank Barton Thompson and Ida Maney Webb Thompson. She is preceded in death by her husband, Robert McLean Nash; her parents; her sister, Margaret Becker; and her two younger brothers, Frank and James “Buddy” Thompson. She was an Episcopalian and a member of Calvary Episcopal Church.

Sissy graduated from Louisville Collegiate School and Hollins College, and shortly thereafter married fellow Louisvillian Bobby Nash. Sissy and Bobby shared a lifelong, loving relationship that spanned the next 56 years, building a magnificent garden and farm that was the joy of their lives. They were fortunate to share this with their three children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Sissy was always an active volunteer and advocate for many public and private causes. Over the course of her life, she served on many boards including the Louisville Ballet, St. Francis High School, and the Speed Museum. Sissy was fiercely patriotic, fair minded and appreciative of all the gifts and opportunities she was given, and she felt strongly that it was the duty of all citizens to support and to

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improve the place in which they lived.

At a time when downtown Louisville was experiencing significant urban decline, Sissy spearheaded several important preservation projects as well as fundraising events for these projects to demonstrate the usefulness and uniqueness of neglected and abandoned historic buildings in downtown Louisville.

For example, in 1974, as a member of the Junior League of Louisville, she was asked to find a new headquarters and to lead its fundraising, restoration and decoration of the new building. By selecting an abandoned warehouse at 627 West Main Street, it was Sissy’s intention to bring revitalization and preservation interest back to Downtown. For her exceptional work with this building called Stairways, Sissy received the League’s Founders Fund Award and national recognition. Her work with the Broadway Project and her collaborative adaptive reuse project of 600 West Main into a premier office building are further examples of her desire to bring people and interest out of the suburbs and back into the city.

Sissy felt that in order for the city to be a desirable place to live, it needed strong creative and performing arts. Sissy’s gift was fundraising and she put her boundless energy and style toward organizing many galas and events including the first Speed Art Museum Ball, first Bourbon Ball and

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However, it was Sissy’s love of gardening, inherited from her mother and grandfather, that really set a high bar horticulturally in Louisville. The same hard work and commitment she brought to bear in her civic undertakings contributed to her creation of what is considered one of the most important gardens in the region.

Longfield has been featured in several books and countless articles in many publications including the New York Times.

On their beautiful farm, Sissy and Bobby were gracious, welcoming hosts to friends, family and children of all ages.

Sissy’s beauty, joie de vivre, style, incredible work ethic, high standards, fierce loyalty to family and friends, and vast array of interests made her an admired and beloved woman. She truly believed the quote she kept on her desk, written by JFK: “Every person can make a difference, and every person should try.”

She is survived by her three daughters: Margaret Nash (Martin Violette), Louise Gardner (Michael), and Kathy Cary (Will); four grandchildren, Julie Evans (Matt), Charlie Farnsley (Mindy), Lilly Cary, and Will Cary; and six great granddaughters.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy can be made to Filson Historical Society, Cabbage Patch Settlement House and Hosparus Health of Louisville.

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